Recaps

Li Shunchen killed two Curse Users who attacked Riko Amanai, then rejected Satoru Gojo’s plan to complete the assimilation mission. He declared that he would fake Riko’s death in Okinawa, save her from sacrifice, and handle any crisis himself, leaving Gojo and Suguru Geto shocked by his unilateral decision.

• Li Shunchen called the Assistant Supervisor to report the two dead Curse Users, while Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto reacted with shock and Riko Amanai felt no pity for the attackers.
• Riko Amanai received a ransom call demanding that she go to Okinawa in exchange for Misato Kuroi, and the kidnappers sent a photograph showing Kuroi bound but apparently uninjured.
• Li Shunchen told the others that he had asked Window to trace the call, and Satoru Gojo proposed ambushing the kidnappers in Okinawa, rescuing Kuroi, and escorting Riko back to Jujutsu High.
• Li Shunchen rejected Gojo’s plan and said he never intended to take Riko to Lord Tengen for assimilation, because he opposed sacrificing her to address Tengen’s evolution.
• Li Shunchen explained that he would conceal his decision to prevent another innocent person from replacing Riko, then make Riko’s identity appear to die on an Okinawan beach and take responsibility for any resulting crisis.
• Li Shunchen told Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that he was informing them of his decision, not asking for their opinions.

Shunchen asked Riko Amanai whether she truly wanted assimilation, and she broke down admitting she wanted to live. Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo accepted keeping her alive, though Gojo remained frustrated by Shunchen’s overwhelming power and approach.

• Shunchen asked Riko Amanai whether assimilation was truly her choice, and Riko confessed that she wanted to keep living with her friends and experience more of the world.
• Shunchen removed his glasses and prepared to fight Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto if they opposed saving Riko.
• Suguru Geto said he had no objections to keeping Riko alive because she desperately wanted to live.
• Satoru Gojo struggled with his frustration and uncertainty about Shunchen, then insisted he had never said he disagreed with the plan.

Li Shunchen orchestrated Riko Amanai’s fake death and left Okinawa to intercept the backup Star Plasma Vessel, but found that she had already been assassinated. He realized a hidden force was ensuring Tengen’s assimilation failed and vowed to face the conflict behind the centuries-long scheme.

• Li Shunchen escorted Riko Amanai to Okinawa with Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto, rescued Misato Kuroi, and staged the group’s defenses to make Gojo appear exhausted.
• Li Shunchen arranged for Manami Suda’s disguised corpse to be mistaken for Riko Amanai after an explosion at Okinawa Airport, then left to search for a backup Star Plasma Vessel.
• Li Shunchen found the backup vessel dead in a burning car wreck outside Jujutsu High, with her guards also killed.
• Li Shunchen suspected that a hidden alliance, possibly involving the Time Vessel Association and the stitched woman or the being inhabiting Geto’s body, was working to prevent Tengen’s assimilation.
• Li Shunchen accepted responsibility for the consequences of changing fate and vowed to pursue the forces behind the centuries-long plan.

Li Shunchen told Masamichi Yaga that Riko Amanai had survived by faking her death, but refused his offer to help conceal her afterward. He then impersonated Toji Fushiguro to contact Shiu Kong and secure the bounty payment, while Shiu privately doubted Toji’s boast about using his brains to gamble.

• Li Shunchen confessed to Masamichi Yaga that Riko Amanai had faked her death and escaped her fate as the Star Plasma Vessel.
• Masamichi Yaga admitted he regretted placing the burden of the decision on his students and offered to help protect Riko, but Li Shunchen declined to keep the secret contained.
• Li Shunchen planned to use the Time Vessel Association’s bounty to fund concealed new lives for Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi.
• Li Shunchen disguised his voice as Toji Fushiguro’s and called Shiu Kong to confirm the remaining payment for the contract.
• Shiu Kong agreed to transfer the money once negotiations were complete, then privately wondered whether Toji’s gambling metaphor meant he was bound to lose.

Shunchen abandoned his plan to infiltrate the Time Vessel Association in person and concluded that the Kamo Clan might be behind the centuries-long scheme. Meanwhile, Satoru Gojo kept challenging him to a fight, and Shunchen's usual refusal no longer convinced him.

• Shunchen reconsidered infiltrating the Time Vessel Association after the car crash and decided to gather information indirectly, including hiring Mei Mei and private detectives.
• Shunchen suspected the mastermind belonged to a long-established jujutsu family and ruled out the Gojo and Zenin Clans before focusing on the Kamo Clan.
• Shunchen set goals to investigate the Time Vessel Association and Kamo Clan, review Jujutsu Society's history, master Domain Expansion, and uncover why Tengen's failed assimilation mattered to the plan.
• Shunchen learned that Jujutsu Society's attention remained fixed on Satoru Gojo's failed escort mission, leaving his killing of curse users unnoticed.
• Satoru Gojo repeatedly pressed Shunchen to fight at full strength, but Shunchen refused, saying he could not win; Gojo was no longer persuaded by the excuse.

The narrator used copied Limitless and a Red-fueled explosion to show Satoru Gojo that their spar could easily have killed him. After warning him to master Domain Expansion before challenging them again, the narrator reflected on Gojo’s gifted abilities and left their own past unexplained.

• Satoru Gojo attacked the narrator with Blue, but the narrator stopped his punch with copied Limitless without turning around.
• Gojo demanded a proper fight, and the narrator met his next Blue attack with Red, triggering a small-scale explosion that left them both unharmed.
• The narrator asked what would have happened if they had sealed Gojo’s Limitless during the explosion, making him realize he could have died from his own increased cursed energy.
• The narrator reminded Gojo that they could copy other Cursed Techniques, and Gojo understood that the narrator had held back and that their full strength involved fighting alongside Panda.
• The narrator advised Gojo to master Domain Expansion before seeking another spar, then said they envied his gifts; when Gojo questioned them, the narrator quietly wondered whether it had been easy.

After securing Riko Amanai’s cover and hiring Mei Mei to investigate the Time Vessel Association, Shunchen provided for Megumi Fushiguro and trained him to master his shikigami. He revealed that Megumi’s father had sold him to the Zenin Clan and said he was training Megumi so he could refuse them and choose his own future.

• Satoru Gojo took Shunchen’s warning seriously and resolved to study Domain Expansion after reflecting on the cost behind Shunchen’s strength.
• Shunchen hired Mei Mei to trace the Time Vessel Association’s finances and key figures, citing his desire to avenge Riko Amanai.
• Shunchen supported Megumi Fushiguro and Tsumiki, while training Megumi to subdue seven shikigami and withstand extreme-speed attacks.
• Megumi asked Shunchen why combat training was so important, and Shunchen revealed that Megumi’s father had sold him to the Zenin Clan for his Ten Shadows Technique.
• Shunchen told Megumi he wanted him strong enough to reject the Zenin Clan and choose his own life when they came to claim him.

You explained to Megumi Fushiguro that he deserved to choose his own fate, while privately acknowledging that you had trained him to use his Ten Shadows Technique as leverage to seize control of the Zenin Clan. You had prepared combat scripts to help him overcome his youth and planned to take over the clan regardless of whether you found the mastermind with stitches on his forehead.

• Megumi Fushiguro understood your emphasis on choice and solemnly agreed, trusting you despite grasping little of the clan’s politics.
• You recognized that your training served your plan to use Megumi Fushiguro’s power to dismantle the Zenin Clan’s current hierarchy and control its future.
• You had trained Megumi Fushiguro’s Shikigami through brutal drills, giving them automatic combat routines so he could summon the right counter without managing complex tactics.
• Megumi Fushiguro rapidly subjugated Shikigami with your custom guides, gaining a frightening advantage over other young sorcerers.
• You watched Megumi Fushiguro with the Divine Dogs and resolved that taking control of the Zenin Clan was necessary, even if you could not find the hidden mastermind.

The narrator trained Megumi Fushiguro to subjugate and use his Shikigami, while Mei Mei’s investigation found no financial link between the Time Vessel Association and the Kamo Clan. Entering his third year at Tokyo Jujutsu High, the narrator received an SSR card that would keep his body in peak seventeen-year-old condition, then stored it for later.

• The narrator taught Megumi Fushiguro to use Cursed Tools with his Shikigami and helped him subjugate every Ten Shadows Shikigami except Mahoraga.
• The narrator put Megumi’s Shikigami through harsh one-on-one training and taught Megumi to use shadows for storage, concealment, and short-range movement.
• Mei Mei delivered records showing that wealthy Non-Sorcerers, politicians, and celebrities funded the Time Vessel Association, but the Kamo Clan had no traceable connection to it.
• The narrator realized the financial trail had gone cold and, as spring arrived, entered his third year at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
• The system awarded the narrator his first SSR card, Forever Seventeen, which would preserve his body’s peak condition at seventeen without extending his lifespan.
• The narrator stored the card in his collection rather than equipping it immediately.

Li Shunchen advised Suguru Geto on developing Cursed Spirit Manipulation and let Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami prepare for a dangerous Akita mission, confident they could handle it. Yuki Tsukumo appeared at Jujutsu High, detected Li’s covert analysis of her, and asked what type of woman he liked.

• Li Shunchen discussed with Suguru Geto whether to focus on powerful Cursed Spirits or use large numbers of weaker ones, and proposed using strong curses to guard regions.
• Yu Haibara told Li Shunchen and Suguru Geto that he and Kento Nanami were leaving for Akita Prefecture to investigate a Spirited Away incident and asked what souvenirs they wanted.
• Suguru Geto and Li Shunchen both asked Yu Haibara to bring something sweet, and Li Shunchen silently judged that they could handle the Grade 1 curse behind the mission.
• Yuki Tsukumo arrived looking for Satoru Gojo, noticed Li Shunchen using a Cursed Technique to analyze her, and asked whether he was Li Shunchen and what type of woman he liked.

Li Shunchen secretly analyzed Yuki Tsukumo’s Cursed Technique while she questioned him at Jujutsu High. After learning she had come specifically to see him and discovering her technique was Star Rage, he calmly rejected her by saying he liked 2D women.

• Yuki Tsukumo noticed Li Shunchen using his Cursed Technique, while Suguru Geto guarded Yu Haibara and demanded to know who she was.
• Yu Haibara loudly declared that he liked girls with a good appetite, and Yuki Tsukumo asked Suguru Geto what kind of woman he liked.
• Yuki Tsukumo introduced herself as a Special Grade Sorcerer, stunning Suguru Geto and Yu Haibara.
• Li Shunchen said he was used to Special Grades because Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto were around him every day, while he secretly completed his analysis of Yuki Tsukumo’s Star Rage.
• Li Shunchen stopped using Phantom Parade and told Yuki Tsukumo he liked 2D women, leaving her bewildered.

Yuki Tsukumo confronted Li Shunchen about secretly caring for Toji Fushiguro’s child and suspected Toji was dead. When she attacked to test Li’s strength, his Limitless stopped her fist just short of his face, prompting Suguru Geto and Yu Haibara to prepare for a fight.

• Yuki Tsukumo accused Li Shunchen of lying about his tastes, and Suguru Geto challenged her aggressive questioning.
• Yuki revealed that she had traced Li to the person caring for Toji Fushiguro’s child, and Li admitted it while claiming Toji had paid him to help.
• Yuki questioned why Li would aid Toji, then deduced that Toji had left the world forever, but Li denied knowing what she meant.
• Yuki Tsukumo attacked Li with Star Rage, and his Limitless stopped her fist one centimeter from his forehead.
• Suguru Geto summoned Cursed Spirits and Yu Haibara readied his sword as Li calmly rebuked Yuki for her dangerous test.

Yuki Tsukumo became convinced that Li was the mysterious person who had eliminated Toji Fushiguro after seeing him use Limitless without the Six Eyes. When she refused to leave and pushed for a fight, Li attacked with Projection Sorcery and Star Rage, leaving her horrified as her own technique turned against her.

• Yuki Tsukumo recognized that Li had effortlessly used Limitless and concluded he might be the person who had eliminated Toji Fushiguro.
• Li stopped Suguru Geto and Yu Haibara from attacking and asked Yuki Tsukumo what she wanted.
• Yuki Tsukumo said she had come to confirm Li's identity and insisted that they shared ideals, while Li denied knowing who she meant and told her to leave.
• Yuki Tsukumo refused to leave, so Li switched to Projection Sorcery and rushed at her with superhuman speed.
• Yuki Tsukumo tried to use Star Rage, but Li had copied her technique and struck her with a punch carrying its mass.

Li struck Yuki Tsukumo with a copied version of her own Star Rage, then trapped her charge in an endlessly looping corridor when she refused to stop fighting. As the confrontation threatened to escalate, Satoru Gojo arrived in a dangerously tense state.

• Li punched Yuki Tsukumo with Star Rage, blasting her down the corridor while Suguru Geto and Yu Haibara watched in shock.
• Yuki Tsukumo healed her injuries with Reverse Cursed Technique and charged Li again, determined to draw out more of his strength.
• Li used Circulating Corridor to make the space between them extend endlessly and warned Yuki Tsukumo to stop her test.
• Suguru Geto summoned several powerful Cursed Spirits, including Slit-Mouthed Woman, as Yuki Tsukumo continued to focus on Li.
• Satoru Gojo appeared at the corridor window, his cursed energy and cold gaze revealing that he was in a dangerous emotional state.

After Yuki Tsukumo ended her fight and left Jujutsu High, Li learned that Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami had survived a misclassified Grade 1 curse mission thanks to the combat training he had given them. The chapter ended with Li crediting the two juniors’ own effort for saving their lives.

• Yuki Tsukumo stopped fighting when Satoru Gojo arrived, and Li released his technique as she departed Jujutsu High.
• Masamichi Yaga arrived and threatened to protest Yuki Tsukumo’s attack, but Li asked him not to escalate the matter.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo questioned Li about Yuki Tsukumo’s Star Rage, and Gojo noted that Li had encountered the techniques of every Special Grade sorcerer.
• Three days later, Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami returned from a mission injured and laden with gifts, then thanked Li for his training.
• Yu Haibara explained that their supposed Grade 2 mission was actually a Grade 1 Ubusunagami Faith case, and Li’s instruction had helped them survive and defeat the curse.
• Li told Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami that their own practice and effort, not his instruction alone, had saved them.

Shunchen accompanied Suguru Geto to investigate a remote village where people had vanished and died, intent on preventing the tragedy that would shatter Geto’s belief in protecting non-sorcerers. After they arrived, Geto sensed no sign of the reported Grade 1 cursed spirit and sent out reconnaissance spirits while the investigation began.

• Shunchen volunteered to accompany Suguru Geto, arguing that his ability to analyze cursed techniques and use Reverse Cursed Technique would support the dangerous mission.
• Shunchen asked the Assistant Supervisor to join them inside the village so an adult could help question the hostile villagers.
• Suguru Geto sensed almost no cursed residue and found the quiet village inconsistent with reports of a rampaging Grade 1 cursed spirit.
• Suguru Geto sent out small reconnaissance cursed spirits to search the village while Shunchen teased him about collecting a rare spirit.
• Suguru Geto insisted they investigate the disappearances and deaths, and Shunchen agreed that they first needed to learn what had happened before deciding how to respond.

Shunchen and Suguru Geto discovered that the village’s supposed Grade 1 Cursed Spirit was actually two abused young sorcerers, Nanako and Mimiko, whom the villagers had imprisoned. Shunchen freed the girls and stopped Nanako from attacking the villagers, leaving them with the promise that he would take them away.

• The village chief led Shunchen and Suguru Geto to a chained hut, claiming that two monsters were locked inside.
• Shunchen and Suguru Geto found Nanako and Mimiko imprisoned in a filthy cage, and Suguru realized the girls were sorcerers rather than Cursed Spirits.
• Shunchen crushed the cage’s lock and offered Nanako and Mimiko his hand, while the villagers shouted abuse and accused the girls of attacking them.
• Nanako defended herself against the villagers, and Shunchen sensed her Cursed Energy gathering as she prepared to strike back.
• Shunchen warned Nanako and Mimiko not to attack, overwhelmed them with his pressure, and told them he would take them away.

The sorcerer took Nanako and Mimiko into custody and arranged to document their abuse, while Suguru Geto went to hunt the cursed spirit behind the village disappearances. When a villager attacked, the sorcerer caught his hoe and called the police, leaving the villagers facing both a curse investigation and legal consequences.

• Suguru Geto recognized Nanako and Mimiko as Jujutsu Sorcerers and struggled to contain his anger at their injuries.
• The sorcerer handed the girls to the Assistant Supervisor and warned the Village Chief that the police could investigate their abuse and confinement.
• The sorcerer recited Japanese laws against unlawful confinement, injury, assault, and child abuse, then urged Suguru Geto to find the real culprit.
• Suguru Geto accepted the plan and left to hunt the cursed spirit, while the Assistant Supervisor photographed the girls’ wounds as evidence.
• A villager attacked the sorcerer with a hoe, but the sorcerer caught it and called the police to report the armed villagers.

After Suguru Geto discovered that a weak cursed spirit had caused the village’s deaths, the police began investigating the villagers who had abused Nanako and Mimiko. On the drive away, you told the girls that their suffering did not give them the right to kill, and Suguru Geto reconsidered the line between justice and revenge.

• Suguru Geto found that a low-grade cursed spirit had disoriented villagers near cliffs, then absorbed it into a Cursed Spirit Orb.
• The Assistant Supervisor and you helped the police secure the villagers and begin investigating the abuse of Nanako and Mimiko.
• You used Reverse Cursed Technique to ease Nanako’s and Mimiko’s injuries but left the visible evidence intact for the police.
• Nanako asked whether the villagers would die, and you explained that the law would punish them rather than permit the girls to take revenge.
• You told Nanako and Mimiko that being victims did not give them permission to kill, and Suguru Geto listened as you insisted that power should uphold rules rather than stand above them.

After rescuing Nanako and Mimiko, you persuaded Masamichi Yaga to make you their day-to-day caregiver, with Yaga serving as their legal guardian. You then found rookie lawyer Hiromi Higuruma to pursue the villagers’ prosecution and secure the girls’ legal protection.

• You reported the mountain village crimes to Masamichi Yaga, who approved your decision to let secular authorities handle the perpetrators.
• You argued that Nanako and Mimiko could not safely be placed in ordinary care and offered to adopt them.
• Masamichi Yaga agreed to become the girls’ legal guardian while you cared for them, and you rented them an apartment beside Megumi Fushiguro and Tsumiki.
• You delayed the girls’ schooling while they recovered and began arranging their legal representation and change of guardianship.
• You met Hiromi Higuruma, whose anger at the girls’ abuse led him to volunteer comprehensive legal aid for their case.

You analyzed Nanako and Mimiko’s cursed techniques and chose to let them live ordinary lives unless they later decided otherwise. After Hiromi Higuruma secured justice for the twins, you looked ahead to the Zenin Clan’s approaching interest in Megumi and prepared for the coming confrontation.

• You used Phantom Parade to identify Nanako’s Image-Projection Cursed Technique and Mimiko’s Strangulation Cursed Technique, recognizing their danger to ordinary people.
• You decided not to teach the twins how to use their powers unless they later chose the path of a jujutsu sorcerer, and asked Tsumiki and Megumi to help watch over them.
• You met Hiromi Higuruma in Tokyo, where he reported that the villagers had been sentenced and Masamichi Yaga had become the twins’ legal guardian.
• Higuruma refused the extra payment, insisting he had handled the case as part of his duty as a lawyer.
• You resolved to reform Jujutsu Society yourself and anticipated the Zenin Clan coming for Megumi and his Ten Shadows Technique.

Megumi Fushiguro encountered Naoya Zenin, who came to take him to the Zenin Clan and tried to provoke him by claiming Toji had sold him. Megumi calmly accepted that they were leaving, following Li Shunchen’s instructions, and ended the chapter by suspecting Naoya might be a kidnapper when he froze.

• Megumi Fushiguro left school alone to escape the noisy walk home with Tsumiki, Nanako, and Mimiko.
• Naoya Zenin arrived in a black sedan and judged Megumi to be weak, unaware that he had awakened the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Naoya introduced himself as a relative from Megumi’s father’s side and asked where Toji was; Megumi replied that he did not know.
• Naoya claimed that Toji had sold Megumi to the Zenin Clan because he was weak and said he had come to take him away.
• Megumi calmly agreed to go, remembering Li Shunchen’s instructions to return to the clan and refuse its offer in person.
• Naoya froze at Megumi’s reaction, and Megumi asked whether he was a scammer trying to kidnap children.

Megumi Fushiguro was brought to the Zenin Clan estate, where he rejected Naobito Zenin’s order to return to the family. When Naoya tried to stop him, Megumi summoned a Divine Dog and declared that he was going home.

• Naoya Zenin escorted Megumi to the Zenin Clan estate, where Megumi met the clan head, Naobito Zenin.
• Naobito recognized Megumi as Toji’s son and told him he would stay with the Zenin Clan and change his name back.
• Megumi slapped Naobito’s hand away and refused to return, saying Toji could not decide his life for him.
• Naoya angrily tried to grab Megumi, but Megumi’s Divine Dog sprang from his shadow and scratched Naoya’s arm.
• Megumi faced the injured Naoya and declared, “I’m going home.”

Megumi Fushiguro revealed his powerful Divine Dog: Totality, and Naobito Zenin recognized that Megumi had awakened the Zenin Clan's Ten Shadows Technique. After Naoya attacked him and was badly wounded by Megumi's shadow trap and Shikigami, Megumi escaped the Zenin estate on Totality.

• Naobito recognized Megumi's shadows, Shikigami, and hand sign as signs of the Ten Shadows Technique, while Naoya realized Megumi posed a threat to his inheritance.
• Naoya ignored Naobito's warning and used Projection Sorcery to rush past Totality toward Megumi.
• Naoya's foot sank into Megumi's shadow, interrupting his prescribed movement and trapping him in a frozen two-dimensional frame.
• Totality shattered the frame and struck Naoya, sending him crashing through the room and into the courtyard with severe injuries.
• Megumi climbed onto Totality and ordered it to leave, and the Shikigami leaped over the Zenin Clan's courtyard wall.

Ogi Zenin learned that a lone child had seriously injured Naoya and was fleeing through the Zenin estate. When he discovered the child had summoned shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique, he reacted with shock and bitter resentment.

• Ogi Zenin stopped a Kukuru Unit member during the estate’s emergency and learned that one person had injured Naoya and escaped into the grounds.
• Ogi Zenin questioned the member and discovered the culprit was Toji Zenin’s child, whom Naobito Zenin had ordered the clan to capture without harming.
• The member told Ogi Zenin that the child had used shikigami, leading Ogi Zenin to think a powerful summon could explain Naoya’s defeat.
• The member added that the summoned shikigami appeared to belong to the Ten Shadows Technique, and Ogi Zenin froze and demanded to hear the report again.