Chapter Summaries

After an unseen monster killed his parents, Li Shunchen awakened memories of his past life and a system that revealed his meager abilities. Facing certain death, he drew a unique fate trait that let him simulate future outcomes and began his first deduction.

• An invisible force gruesomely killed Li Shunchen’s parents while he remained frozen in terror.
• Li Shunchen awakened his past-life memories and discovered his dormant Fate Gacha system and its mostly worthless traits.
• The monster crept upstairs toward Li Shunchen, who clutched the Cursed Tool Asagirimaru his father had given him.
• The Fate Gacha system forced an upgrade and granted Li Shunchen the unique UR-grade Causal Deduction Simulator.
• Li Shunchen activated his first free deduction to explore possible outcomes in his desperate predicament.

Li Shunchen woke to find a monster in the house and met Sato, an Assistant Supervisor who pretended to help while coveting the cursed tool Asagirimaru. Realizing Sato was steering him toward certain death, Li Shunchen pretended to obey and headed for the basement with a plan to turn the situation against him.

• Li Shunchen regained consciousness and sensed the monster moving across the ceiling through his Cursed Energy Allergy.
• Sato arrived, noticed Asagirimaru, and falsely introduced himself as a professional there to deal with the monster.
• Sato gave Li Shunchen a talisman with no cursed energy and urged him to hide in the basement so he could steal the blade after Li Shunchen died.
• Li Shunchen realized Sato was unaware of the monster above him and intended to let him die for Asagirimaru.
• Li Shunchen pretended to be terrified and walked toward the basement, then resolved to give Sato what he wanted.

Li Shunchen tricked Sato into taking Asagirimaru, leaving him to be killed by the Blade-Eater, then escaped with his father’s bloodstained phone. A call from the Zenin Clan demanded the blade, and Li Shunchen decided to go there for answers.

• Li Shunchen revealed Asagirimaru and tossed it to Sato, pretending its cursed energy had burned him.
• Sato discarded his defensive talisman and rushed to catch the blade, whereupon the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit Blade-Eater smashed through the wall and devoured him.
• Li Shunchen escaped through a kitchen window while the monster attacked Sato.
• Li Shunchen answered his father’s phone and heard a Zenin Clan member demand the blade and threaten him with payment.
• Li Shunchen resolved to go to the Zenin Clan to find out what had happened.

After learning the Zenin Clan had treated his parents as expendable, the protagonist humiliated himself to gain entry and become Naoya Zenin’s servant, intending to uncover the truth and seek revenge. He secretly studied the clan’s workings and witnessed its abuse of Maki and Mai, resolving to destroy the system one day.

• The protagonist overheard guards reveal that the Zenin Clan had used his parents as expendable workers to gather cursed tools, leading to their deaths.
• Naoya Zenin stopped guards from beating the protagonist, then let him enter the estate after he licked mud from Naoya’s sandal.
• The protagonist became Naoya’s personal possession and secretly studied the clan, its guard rotations, and Naoya’s Projection Sorcery.
• The protagonist witnessed the Zenin Clan’s misogyny and watched Naoya and his followers torment Maki and Mai.
• Unable to intervene, the protagonist memorized the clan’s cruelty and vowed to destroy its corrupt system.

At sixteen, Li Shunchen was abused by Naoya Zenin, who used him as a shield and a weapon against a cursed spirit, killing him without remorse. After the simulation, Li Shunchen gained cursed energy and a new fragment, and vowed to use Asagirimaru to avenge himself on the Zenin Clan.

• Li Shunchen obtained the R-rank fragment "Endure Humiliation and Bear Burdens," which increased his recovery and reduced pain feedback.
• Naoya Zenin threw Li Shunchen at a Semi-Grade 1 Cursed Spirit to block its acid attack, then used his body as cover to destroy the spirit's core.
• Naoya's punch shattered Li Shunchen's body and killed him, while Naoya complained that Li Shunchen's blood had stained his kimono.
• The Hei and Kukuru Unit members rushed to Naoya's side and ignored Li Shunchen's corpse, which one member kicked aside.
• Li Shunchen received two years of simulated experience, ten points of cursed energy, and the fragments "Cursed Energy Allergy" and "Endure Humiliation and Bear Burdens."
• Li Shunchen vowed to use Asagirimaru to settle the blood debt owed by the Zenin Clan.

Li Shunchen used a cursed spirit to kill Sato, then covered up his role and joined Tokyo Jujutsu High as a trainee assistant supervisor. He met Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri, and began considering his next move.

• Li Shunchen lured Sato to the basement, where a cursed spirit killed him, and gained the fate fragment “Life Is Like a Play.”
• Li Shunchen returned to the scene disguised as a frightened survivor and gave investigators Sato’s ledger as evidence of his abuses and dealings with the Zenin Clan.
• An investigator recruited Li Shunchen as a trainee assistant supervisor at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
• At the school, Satoru Gojo ordered Li Shunchen to write his mission report while Suguru Geto apologized and helped him gather the scattered papers.
• Li Shunchen watched Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri leave and silently planned his next move.

Li Shunchen watched Suguru Geto’s beliefs collapse after Riko Amanai’s death and Yu Haibara’s death, while Satoru Gojo became the strongest sorcerer. After drawing and equipping the Parting Gift card, Li Shunchen was assigned to accompany Suguru Geto on a mission to a remote village.

• Li Shunchen handled the aftermath of Gojo and Geto’s missions, improving his Curtain technique before drawing an inconsequential N card.
• Gojo returned from the Time Vessel Association base having mastered reverse cursed technique, while Geto grew increasingly silent and disgusted with non-sorcerers.
• Li Shunchen learned that Toji Fushiguro had killed Riko Amanai and nearly killed Gojo, then drew and equipped the Parting Gift [SR] card.
• Yu Haibara died during a mission with Kento Nanami, leaving Nanami devastated and deepening Geto’s despair.
• Li Shunchen received an assignment to assist Special Grade Sorcerer Suguru Geto in investigating deaths and disappearances in a remote village.

Li Shunchen found two abused girls with cursed energy locked in a cage and endured a villagers’ attack rather than break Jujutsu Society’s rules. Suguru Geto massacred the villagers, declared his plan for a world without non-sorcerers, and turned his cursed spirit on Li.

• Li Shunchen discovered that the village’s supposed curse-related deaths concealed the abuse of two gifted girls.
• When Li demanded that the villagers open the girls’ cage, they attacked him, and he endured their blows rather than harm non-sorcerers.
• Suguru Geto arrived, saw Li and the girls being abused, and slaughtered the villagers with a cursed spirit.
• Suguru freed the girls and told Li he had chosen to pursue a paradise for sorcerers without non-sorcerers.
• Suguru thanked Li for his service, condemned him as part of the old system, and aimed a cursed spirit at his heart.

After dying at Suguru Geto’s hands in the simulation, Li Shunchen awakened with increased Cursed Energy and the innate Cursed Technique “Phantom Parade,” which could read and reproduce other techniques. He decided to pursue life as a Jujutsu Sorcerer rather than an Assistant Supervisor and headed toward the room containing a Cursed Spirit.

• Li Shunchen awoke from the simulation with memories of his death and received its inheritances, including more Cursed Energy and “Phantom Parade.”
• Li Shunchen read the technique’s rules and learned it could reveal and reproduce Cursed Techniques under certain conditions.
• Li Shunchen remembered Suguru Geto but reconsidered his anger, recognizing that Geto’s actions challenged the existing order.
• Li Shunchen decided to join Tokyo Jujutsu High as a Jujutsu Sorcerer instead of an Assistant Supervisor.
• Li Shunchen equipped “Low Presence,” gripped Asagirimaru, and approached the iron door behind which the Cursed Spirit waited.

Li Shunchen tested his newly awakened Phantom Parade by reproducing Sato’s Puppet Manipulation technique and using a paper figure to lure a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit into a fatal ambush. After confirming his combat ability, he staged the basement to make his survival look convincing before Window’s cleanup crew arrived.

• Li Shunchen secretly read Sato’s Cursed Residue and discovered that Sato’s Innate Cursed Technique was Puppet Manipulation, not Shikigami summoning.
• Li Shunchen used Phantom Parade to create a crude paper puppet from Sato’s bloodstained talisman and sent it toward a blind corner to draw the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit away.
• Li Shunchen used Low Presence to approach the distracted Cursed Spirit and cut off its head with Asagirimaru, killing it.
• Li Shunchen took Sato’s illicit-account notebook and placed it conspicuously, then smeared grime and blood over himself to prepare to act terrified when Window’s cleanup personnel arrived.

Window investigators found Li Shunchen alive beside Sato’s remains and learned he had awakened a cursed technique and killed a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit. Masamichi Yaga ordered the captain to bring him to Tokyo Jujutsu High, while Li Shunchen concealed his amusement at the investigators’ assumptions.

• Window’s investigation team followed cursed residue to the basement and found Li Shunchen clutching Asagirimaru beside Sato’s remains.
• Li Shunchen claimed he had used Sato’s talisman to lure the Grade 2 Cursed Spirit and cut its neck with the blade.
• The captain deduced that Li Shunchen had awakened a rare technique, praised his combat instincts, and condemned Sato after finding his illicit ledger.
• The captain contacted Masamichi Yaga, who ordered him to take Li Shunchen to Tokyo Jujutsu High for an interview.
• The captain reassured Li Shunchen that he was safe, while Li Shunchen privately concealed his amusement.

Li Shunchen passed Masamichi Yaga’s test by briefly taking control of a cursed corpse, then met Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri. The chapter left him analyzing Gojo’s technique after Gojo challenged him to copy it.

• Li Shunchen arrived at Tokyo Jujutsu High as a specially recruited student and reflected on how his simulated memories had once made him a low-ranking assistant.
• Masamichi Yaga tested Li by sending a cursed corpse to attack him, and Li dodged before using Phantom Parade to analyze Yaga’s Puppet Manipulation.
• Li explained that the weak had no right to choose how they died, then seized control of the cursed corpse and turned its punch toward Yaga before Yaga reclaimed it.
• Yaga praised Li’s ambition and accepted him as a student after recognizing how he had analyzed and attempted to usurp the cursed corpse.
• Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri entered, and Gojo challenged Li to copy his Limitless technique.
• Li met Gojo’s gaze and activated Phantom Parade to analyze him.

Li Shunchen failed to analyze Satoru Gojo’s cursed technique, then joined the first-year class at Tokyo Jujutsu High. He earned Shoko Ieiri’s approval by sharing her favorite cigarettes, gaining an additional simulation attempt and a promise of medical help.

• Li Shunchen tried to analyze Satoru Gojo’s cursed technique, suffered a nosebleed, and failed.
• Satoru Gojo welcomed Li Shunchen as a first-year transfer, and Masamichi Yaga assigned him to the first-year class.
• Shoko Ieiri escorted Li Shunchen to the dorms, where he learned that approval from key characters could grant extra causal observation opportunities.
• Li Shunchen offered Shoko her preferred cigarettes, and the two smoked together as new smoking buddies.
• Shoko’s approval earned Li Shunchen one additional simulation attempt, and she offered to treat him if he was injured.

Li Shunchen began a new simulation at Jujutsu High and faced a classroom demonstration of his classmates’ cursed techniques. He revealed that his technique, Phantom Parade, could analyze other techniques, and left Satoru Gojo stunned by his accurate explanation of Limitless.

• Li Shunchen started a simulation in which Masamichi Yaga asked the students to demonstrate their cursed techniques.
• Satoru Gojo demonstrated Limitless and boasted that he was the strongest.
• Suguru Geto demonstrated Cursed Spirit Manipulation, while Shoko Ieiri explained her Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Li Shunchen waited until the class focused on him, then announced that his demonstration had begun when he entered the room.
• Li Shunchen explained that Phantom Parade analyzed cursed techniques through contact with or sensing cursed energy.
• Li Shunchen described how Limitless screened approaching objects and placed a heavy computational load on Satoru Gojo, leaving Gojo shocked.

Li Shunchen demonstrated that Phantom Parade could analyze and imitate cursed techniques, though his explanations concealed how slowly it gathered complete information. Over the following year, he managed crude imitations of his classmates’ abilities, but Gojo and Geto still had little need for his help.

• Li Shunchen explained Geto’s Cursed Spirit Manipulation and asked how Geto endured the taste of swallowing cursed spirits, startling Yaga, Shoko, Geto, and Gojo.
• Li Shunchen told Yaga that Phantom Parade could read cursed spirits while they were alive, and Yaga judged him capable of reaching Grade 1.
• During missions, Gojo and Geto took over the fighting and left Li Shunchen with little chance to contribute despite his versatile technique.
• Li Shunchen spent the year analyzing Gojo’s, Geto’s, and Shoko’s cursed techniques, then practiced reproducing them with limited success.
• Li Shunchen’s imitation of Limitless lasted less than half a second, while his imitation of Cursed Spirit Manipulation could temporarily subjugate low-level spirits for reconnaissance but lost them when Phantom Parade stopped.
• Li Shunchen reproduced Reverse Cursed Technique most smoothly and became the second person at Tokyo Jujutsu High able to use it on others.

Li Shunchen learned Puppet Manipulation and Cursed Corpse techniques from Masamichi Yaga, whose research seemed to involve a secret purpose beyond combat. In his second year, Li Shunchen joined a mission to find Utahime and wondered whether he would witness the Star Plasma Vessel protection mission firsthand.

• Li Shunchen studied Puppet Manipulation and Cursed Corpse creation with Masamichi Yaga, then asked whether Yaga sought to make Cursed Corpses that could fight independently.
• Masamichi Yaga questioned whether Cursed Corpses were only for fighting, then ended their lesson without explaining his motives.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto defeated Kyoto Jujutsu High's students in half an hour at the Goodwill Event.
• Li Shunchen replaced Endure Humiliation and Bear Burdens [R] with Overachiever [R] before Kento Nanami and Yu Haibara enrolled as first-years.
• After Utahime lost contact during a mission, Li Shunchen traveled with Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko to Hamamatsu to find her and provide reinforcements.
• Li Shunchen assured the Assistant Supervisor that he would handle the Curtain and wondered if he would experience the Star Plasma Vessel protection mission firsthand.

Shunchen helped rescue Utahime from a barriered house, using his Cursed Corpse to stop a Cursed Spirit before Suguru Geto could absorb it. After Shunchen arranged to pay Mei Mei for instruction, Utahime reunited with Shoko and warned her not to become like Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto.

• Shunchen raised a Curtain before Satoru Gojo destroyed the house with Blue, and Utahime tumbled out of the wreckage.
• Mei Mei teased Shunchen about comforting her, while Shunchen recognized that she was interested in money.
• Shunchen noticed a Cursed Spirit attacking Utahime and used his Great Sage Cursed Corpse to strike it before a second spirit restrained it.
• Shunchen asked Suguru Geto to wait until he analyzed the Cursed Spirit's Cursed Technique, and Geto agreed.
• Mei Mei warned Shunchen not to analyze her Cursed Technique, then offered to teach him for a fee, which Shunchen accepted.
• Shoko comforted Utahime, who urged her not to become like Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto; Gojo then asked if Shunchen was scum too.

During a basketball game, Shunchen listened as Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto argued over sorcerers’ duties toward non-sorcerers, and felt disgust toward both their attitudes. Masamichi Yaga interrupted them with a mission and asked Shunchen to come along.

• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto argued about whether sorcerers should protect non-sorcerers, while Shunchen recalled Sato and Naoya and rejected both men’s attitudes.
• Suguru Geto summoned a cursed spirit and asked Satoru Gojo to continue their argument outside, but Shunchen chose not to intervene.
• Suguru Geto asked Shunchen what he thought, but Satoru Gojo objected to involving him in their dispute.
• Masamichi Yaga entered the gym, ended the confrontation, and announced a mission for Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto.
• Masamichi Yaga asked Shunchen to accompany them on the mission.

Masamichi Yaga briefed Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and the narrator on protecting the Star Plasma Vessel until her merger with Master Tengen, explaining the threats and the stakes. After Gojo and Geto left, Yaga admitted Tengen had not requested the narrator; he had assigned them because he trusted them to watch over the other two.

• Masamichi Yaga explained that the Star Plasma Vessel had to merge with Master Tengen to prevent Tengen from evolving and losing her personality.
• Suguru Geto and the narrator explained the risks of Tengen's evolution, while Satoru Gojo compared the process to a Digimon evolution and reset.
• Masamichi Yaga identified the Curse User group Q and the Time Vessel Association as threats seeking to kill the Star Plasma Vessel.
• Masamichi Yaga ordered the group to protect the girl and deliver her to Tengen before the merger in two days.
• After Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto left, Masamichi Yaga told the narrator that Tengen had not requested them and that he had assigned them because he trusted their abilities.

Li Shunchen joined Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto before they went to retrieve the Star Plasma Vessel, while he questioned the Time Vessel Association’s motives. At the hotel, an explosion struck the Vessel’s room, and Li Shunchen confronted a Q member in the corridor.

• Li Shunchen told Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that Masamichi Yaga had assigned him to provide support in Shoko’s place.
• Li Shunchen questioned why the Time Vessel Association wanted to kill the Star Plasma Vessel, and Suguru Geto offered possible explanations.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto argued over Gojo’s arrogant way of speaking while they prepared to collect the Vessel.
• Li Shunchen and Suguru Geto reached the Vessel’s hotel room, where a cursed-energy explosion erupted after someone answered the door.
• Suguru Geto rushed into the damaged room as Li Shunchen faced a Q member who was dragging an unconscious maid.
• Li Shunchen launched his blade, Asagirimaru, at the Q member.