Chapter Summaries

Megumi realized Yuji Itadori had swallowed the Special Grade Cursed Object, which took control of his body and revealed a terrifying power. Megumi’s attack failed to meaningfully injure the possessed Itadori, who became intrigued by Megumi’s shadow technique and challenged him to show more.

• Megumi saw Yuji Itadori release a vast surge of cursed energy, destroy the nearby curses and wall, and transform under the Special Grade Cursed Object’s control.
• Megumi sent his Toads to restrain the possessed Itadori, but an unseen attack sliced them apart and shattered the corridor.
• Megumi charged with Playful Cloud and used his shadow technique to sink Itadori’s foot, disrupting his balance.
• Megumi struck Itadori in the neck, but the blow barely made him stagger and tore Megumi’s hands from the recoil.
• Itadori noticed Megumi’s control over shadows and urged him to reveal more surprises.

Megumi Fushiguro regretted his inability to protect Yuji Itadori and unleashed Qu Fusion against the monster possessing Yuji’s body. After a devastating thunderstorm, Megumi heard Yuji’s own voice cry out from the rubble, leaving him shocked.

• Megumi Fushiguro decided he had to attack with full force but could not leave the unconscious students exposed to the Cursed Spirits nearby.
• Blaming himself for Yuji Itadori’s desperate choice, Megumi summoned Qu Fusion and apologized before it struck the monster away from the students.
• Qu Fusion unleashed a massive lightning storm that destroyed nearby Cursed Spirits and damaged the building while shielding the unconscious students.
• Megumi collapsed from overusing his Cursed Energy and sensed the smell of scorched human flesh as the smoke cleared.
• Yuji Itadori’s voice cried out in pain from the rubble, and Megumi froze in disbelief.

Shunchen intervened when Megumi Fushiguro’s mission spiraled out of control, discovering that Yuji Itadori had swallowed the Special Grade Cursed Object and could suppress the entity inside him. He sought a way to spare Yuji, but his attempt to locate and remove the object revealed that it had merged throughout Yuji’s body and soul.

• Shunchen secretly exorcised stronger cursed spirits around Sugisawa Third High School while Megumi Fushiguro entered the building to investigate.
• After Yuji Itadori swallowed the Special Grade Cursed Object, Megumi’s Qu Fusion struck him with lightning, but Yuji rapidly healed using Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Shunchen entered the ruined corridor, restrained Yuji, and used Round Deer to heal the unconscious Sasaki and Iguchi.
• Megumi explained how Yuji had swallowed the object to protect his friends, and Shunchen accepted responsibility for leaving Megumi to handle the mission alone.
• Shunchen learned that Yuji could sense and suppress the entity inside him, but warned that the test of his control would determine his disposition under jujutsu regulations.
• Shunchen probed Yuji’s body for the Cursed Object but found that it had merged with Yuji’s blood, bones, and soul, leaving him unable to locate or remove it.

You challenged Yuji Itadori to release Sukuna so you could test the King of Curses in combat, then used a succession of copied Cursed Techniques to fight him. Sukuna’s invisible slashes badly wounded you, but your final combination shattered his guard and sent him reeling as you held him by the hair.

• You confirmed that Itadori could observe Sukuna’s actions while he controlled the body, and Itadori agreed to let Sukuna take over.
• Sukuna awakened and attacked you, but you caught his punch with Inversion and identified him as Ryomen Sukuna.
• You used Projection Sorcery to freeze Sukuna in a frame and punched him, but his invisible slash carved a deep wound across your chest.
• You slowed your perception, suppressed the pain, and immobilized Sukuna with Cursed Speech before preparing another attack.
• You combined Projection Sorcery, Extreme Overload Control, and Star Rage in a punch; Sukuna severed your fingers and wounded your arm, but your blow broke his blocking arms and struck his abdomen.
• You grabbed Sukuna by the hair as he nearly lost consciousness from the impact.

Shunchen used several copied cursed techniques to restrain Sukuna, test his abilities, and force reverse cursed energy to heal Itadori’s body. After Sukuna refused to leave Itadori willingly, Shunchen called for Itadori to switch back, and Sukuna was sealed away as Yuji regained control.

• Shunchen blocked Sukuna’s close-range slash with Limitless and healed his own chest wound with reverse cursed technique.
• Sukuna restored his shattered arms and tried to use Cleave by grabbing Shunchen, but Limitless prevented him from making real contact.
• Shunchen ordered Sukuna to leave Itadori’s body, but Sukuna refused and vowed to kill him.
• Shunchen noticed that Sukuna’s healing had also repaired much of Itadori’s damaged body, then told Itadori it was time to switch.
• Yuji Itadori forced Sukuna’s consciousness back into its sealed state and asked Shunchen if he was okay.

Shunchen questioned Yuji Itadori about how he suppressed Sukuna, then knocked him unconscious to test whether Sukuna could take control without Yuji’s consent. After confirming Sukuna remained contained, Shunchen warned Megumi Fushiguro that deciding what to do with Yuji would be the real challenge.

• Shunchen carefully checked that Yuji Itadori was himself and asked whether Sukuna could take control while Yuji was unconscious.
• Yuji said he had not consciously suppressed Sukuna and believed the suppression would persist even if he lost consciousness.
• Shunchen struck Yuji unconscious and watched for Sukuna to emerge, while Megumi Fushiguro arrived carrying Sasaki and Iguchi.
• Yuji remained asleep without showing signs of Sukuna’s control, leading Shunchen to suspect the suppression was an instinctive physical ability.
• Megumi Fushiguro noticed Shunchen’s injuries, and Shunchen said his own wounds were minor compared with the difficult decision of what to do with Yuji.

After Shunchen asked Satoru Gojo to take responsibility for the fight with Sukuna, the two discussed how to keep Itadori alive despite the higher-ups’ likely orders. Gojo rejected Shunchen’s cautious proposal and revealed a harsher plan: let Itadori consume all of Sukuna’s fingers before executing him.

• Shunchen called Satoru Gojo and asked him to take credit for defeating Sukuna so the higher-ups would not target Shunchen.
• Satoru Gojo arrived, recognized that Shunchen wanted to save Itadori, and warned that the higher-ups would still demand the boy’s death.
• Shunchen argued that Itadori had acted without malice and could control Sukuna, then proposed using evidence to postpone his execution while seeking a way to separate them.
• Satoru Gojo rejected Shunchen’s measured plan, explaining that it did not fit his usual defiant approach and could raise suspicion.
• Satoru Gojo proposed letting Itadori consume every remaining Sukuna finger before executing him.

Shunchen accepted Gojo’s plan to delay Yuji Itadori’s execution until he had consumed all of Sukuna’s Fingers, while worrying about the danger of Sukuna taking control. After Yuji woke in a sealed chamber, Shunchen and Gojo explained his reprieve and Shunchen promised to seek a way to save his life.

• Shunchen warned Gojo that Yuji might not be able to withstand more of Sukuna’s Fingers and that Sukuna could cause a catastrophe if he escaped control.
• Gojo reassured Shunchen that he would serve as a safeguard, and Shunchen accepted the plan to make Yuji’s execution wait until he had consumed all the Fingers.
• The higher-ups granted Yuji a stay of execution, and Yuji woke the next day bound in a talisman-covered chamber with Shunchen and Gojo beside him.
• Gojo explained that Yuji had been sentenced to die after consuming Sukuna’s Finger and demonstrated that another Finger could not be destroyed, then described the plan to have Yuji consume them all before execution.
• Shunchen told Yuji that he hoped to find a way to extract Sukuna from him and overturn his death sentence, and Gojo revealed that Shunchen had asked him to intervene.
• Yuji looked at Shunchen with shock and gratitude and addressed him as Mr. Shunchen.

Yuji Itadori accepted enrollment at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High and swallowed another of Sukuna’s Fingers without losing control. After seeing Yuji suppress Sukuna, Satoru Gojo insisted that Yuji let Sukuna out for ten minutes so he could fight him, alarming Shunchen.

• Yuji accepted Shunchen’s plan to live and study at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High, and asked whether he could learn to handle curses there.
• Satoru Gojo warned Yuji about the dangers of curses and explained that Shunchen and Megumi Fushiguro had helped save him from Sukuna.
• Yuji resolved to help others by swallowing Sukuna’s remaining Fingers, and Satoru Gojo freed him from his bindings to test whether he could contain another one.
• Yuji swallowed the Finger, briefly manifested Sukuna’s markings and cursed energy, then regained control and complained about its awful taste.
• Satoru Gojo asked Yuji to let Sukuna take over for ten minutes, and Shunchen grabbed Gojo’s shoulder and challenged his reckless plan.

Itadori released Ryomen Sukuna, who attacked the protagonist before Satoru Gojo blocked the slash and challenged him. Sukuna broke free of Gojo’s restraint and opened Malevolent Shrine, and the chapter ended as the protagonist deployed Simple Domain and Gojo began Unlimited Void.

• Itadori surrendered control to Ryomen Sukuna, who emerged and immediately launched an invisible slash at the protagonist.
• Satoru Gojo intercepted the slash with his spatial defense and taunted Sukuna, while Sukuna recognized Gojo’s technique as an innate ability.
• The protagonist noticed Sukuna’s increased cursed energy after he swallowed a second finger and considered whether cursed energy limits could be surpassed by unconventional means.
• Satoru Gojo pinned Sukuna to a chair with Blue, but Sukuna broke free and shattered the chair.
• Sukuna activated Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine; the protagonist used New Shadow Style: Simple Domain, and Satoru Gojo answered with Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void.

Satoru Gojo defeated Sukuna in a clash of domains, while you realized Sukuna’s barrierless domain might connect him to the mysterious stitched figure and a centuries-spanning plan involving Tengen’s Assimilation. Gojo left Sukuna incapacitated and smugly dismissed the King of Curses as weak.

• You used Time Perception Expansion to study Sukuna and Gojo’s domain clash, noticing that Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine had no enclosing barrier.
• You connected Sukuna’s open domain to the stitched figure’s domain and hypothesized that the figure might be an ancient being controlling a long-running plan to prevent Tengen’s Assimilation.
• Satoru Gojo amplified Blue until its gravity tore apart Sukuna’s unstable Malevolent Shrine.
• Unlimited Void flooded Sukuna’s mind with information, leaving him motionless on the floor.
• Gojo turned to you, claimed he might have gone overboard, and boasted that the King of Curses was weak.

After Unlimited Void knocked Sukuna unconscious, Yuji Itadori recovered without lasting mental damage, and Shunchen discovered that Yuji’s body was healing on its own. Shunchen suspected Yuji’s unusual body and the events that led him to swallow Sukuna’s Finger were part of a deliberate scheme, while Satoru Gojo dismissed the danger and urged him to find a way to remove the Finger intact.

• Yuji Itadori regained consciousness after Unlimited Void, and Shunchen worried that the attack had affected Sukuna’s mind but not Yuji’s.
• Shunchen examined Yuji and found that his injuries were healing rapidly without Sukuna’s Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Shunchen realized Yuji had shown extraordinary physical abilities before swallowing Sukuna’s Finger and questioned whether he had been an unusually suitable vessel from the start.
• Shunchen traced the coincidences that led Yuji to swallow the Finger and suspected someone had deliberately gathered cursed spirits at Sugisawa Third High School.
• Shunchen shared his suspicions with Satoru Gojo, who acknowledged his reasoning but dismissed the threat and asked him to focus on removing Sukuna’s Finger intact.

Shunchen grew suspicious of the gaps in Itadori’s family history and launched an investigation before taking him to visit his injured schoolmates. After reassuring Sasaki and warning her about curses, Itadori left the hospital to keep his promise and go to Jujutsu High.

• Shunchen found that Itadori’s parents were missing and his grandfather had died the previous evening, so he ordered Ijichi and Mei Mei to investigate Itadori’s past.
• Itadori asked to visit Iguchi and Sasaki, and Shunchen took him to Sugisawa Hospital, where they found Megumi Fushiguro recovering.
• Itadori visited Sasaki and learned that Iguchi was out of danger but remained unconscious.
• Itadori told Sasaki that curses were real and warned her not to pursue dangerous paranormal mysteries again.
• Itadori reassured Sasaki that she and Iguchi would recover, then said goodbye and left to keep his promise.

Shunchen questioned Itadori and Megumi about whether anyone had interfered in the events that led to Itadori’s enrollment. When Itadori described a mysterious woman who prompted him to go to the school, Shunchen recognized the possibility that she had stitches on her forehead, and Itadori confirmed his suspicion.

• Shunchen told Megumi about the higher-ups’ suspended death sentence for Itadori and his plan to protect him.
• Shunchen asked Itadori and Megumi whether they had noticed an outsider or unusual presence during the previous night’s incident.
• Itadori explained that a short-haired woman at the hospital had urged him to help his friends, leading him to follow Megumi to the school.
• Megumi confirmed that they had passed a woman while running from the hospital, and Itadori said she felt strangely familiar despite being a stranger.
• Shunchen asked whether the woman had a conspicuous stitched mark on her forehead, and Itadori was stunned that he knew.

After Yuji Itadori mentioned the woman with stitches, Shunchen secretly ordered Ijichi to obtain hospital surveillance footage while considering the dangers of alerting the hidden enemy. He concluded that Itadori needed close supervision, concealed his suspicions from the boy, and let the group continue packing for Jujutsu High.

• Shunchen discreetly ordered Assistant Supervisor Kiyotaka Ijichi to secure surveillance footage from Sugisawa Hospital without revealing what he was investigating.
• At Itadori's home, Shunchen worried that the woman with stitches might be behind Itadori's unusual body and considered whether Itadori had been planted as a pawn.
• Shunchen decided that Itadori must remain under close supervision so the woman would have to approach him again if he mattered to her plans.
• Shunchen used Life Is Like a Play to hide his suspicion and told Itadori that he had only been thinking about future arrangements at Jujutsu High.

Shunchen brought Yuji Itadori to Principal Masamichi Yaga for his admission assessment and questioned Sukuna about his plans. After concluding Sukuna was not the conspiracy’s mastermind, they reached the field, where Yaga had assembled an army of Cursed Corpses to test Yuji.

• Shunchen led Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro toward Masamichi Yaga for Yuji’s required admission assessment.
• Sukuna emerged on Yuji’s cheek, and Yuji apologized as Shunchen wondered whether Sukuna’s growing power could eventually overcome Yuji’s soul.
• Sukuna threatened to kill Shunchen once he seized Yuji’s body, but Shunchen stopped Yuji from covering the mouth and questioned Sukuna about his intentions.
• Sukuna called Shunchen an idiot and disappeared, leading Shunchen to conclude that Sukuna was a participant in the conspiracy, not its ultimate mastermind.
• Shunchen and Megumi found dozens of Yaga’s Cursed Corpses waiting on the field, while Yuji mistook them for amusement park mascots or a welcome ceremony.

Masamichi Yaga tested Yuji Itadori’s reasons for becoming a sorcerer and rejected his answer before unleashing his cursed corpses on him. Yuji was left enduring their attack as Yaga demanded a more personal resolve.

• Masamichi Yaga privately confirmed with Shunchen that Sukuna was suppressed inside Yuji and asked how much force Yuji could withstand.
• Shunchen assured Yaga that Yuji had exceptional physical strength and that he would handle any danger to the school.
• Yaga asked Yuji why he wanted to study jujutsu, but rejected his first answer about following his grandfather’s last words and Shunchen’s plan.
• Yuji explained that he wanted to protect people from curses, but Yaga declared that reason insufficient and said he had failed.
• Yaga activated his cursed corpses, which restrained Yuji and had Casey punch him in the abdomen.
• Yaga ordered the cursed corpses to keep attacking Yuji until he gave an answer that truly satisfied him.

Yuji Itadori endured Masamichi Yaga’s brutal entrance test and found his own reason for becoming a jujutsu sorcerer: he refused to flee the responsibility of suppressing Sukuna. After Yaga welcomed him to Tokyo Jujutsu High, the narrator remained wary of Itadori’s unknown connection to the stitched woman and contacted Satoru Gojo and Geto to arrange an urgent meeting.

• Megumi Fushiguro watched Yuji Itadori take a beating from Masamichi Yaga’s cursed corpses and felt guilty, while the narrator recognized that the attacks were testing Itadori’s endurance and resolve.
• Masamichi Yaga challenged Itadori’s motivation, arguing that his grandfather’s last words would not sustain him through the suffering and regrets of a sorcerer’s life.
• Itadori realized that he alone could suppress Sukuna and declared that he would not run from the responsibility or regret his choice.
• Masamichi Yaga stopped the cursed corpses and welcomed Itadori to Tokyo Jujutsu High after deciding he had passed.
• The narrator worried that Itadori’s origins were connected to the stitched woman’s conspiracy and messaged Satoru Gojo and Geto to request an urgent meeting.

Li Shunchen secretly met Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto in Okinawa and revealed that the woman with stitched scars who masterminded the Star Plasma Vessel bounty might be tied to older attempts against Lord Tengen. He explained that he had kept investigating alone because the enemy could be deeply embedded in Jujutsu Society, then disclosed a prophetic dream from thirteen years earlier: Geto had killed him while wearing stitches on his head.

• Li Shunchen met Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto in secret on the Okinawa beach where they had once protected Riko Amanai.
• Li Shunchen said his investigation into the Time Vessel Association suggested its ordinary leader had been a front for a mysterious woman with stitched scars on her forehead.
• Li Shunchen revealed that earlier attempts to disrupt Lord Tengen’s assimilation had occurred and might be connected to the same woman.
• Suguru Geto realized Li Shunchen had avoided using the Gojo Clan’s resources because the enemy might have infiltrated Jujutsu Society and its major families.
• Li Shunchen told Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that, thirteen years earlier, he had dreamed of being killed by Geto with stitches on his head.

Li Shunchen told Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto about the stitched entity that killed him in a dream, its open domain, and its apparent connection to the woman behind the Time Vessel Association. After they believed him and shared responsibility for Riko’s fate, Geto and Gojo confronted Shunchen for carrying guilt and trying to protect them alone.

• Li Shunchen described how an entity possessing Suguru Geto’s corpse killed him with an open domain, and Satoru Gojo explained why such a domain was extraordinary.
• Li Shunchen revealed that the entity had three cursed techniques and was likely connected to the stitched woman involved in the Time Vessel Association.
• Li Shunchen showed Gojo and Geto surveillance footage of the stitched woman near Sugisawa Third Hospital and blamed himself for the failed assimilation of Riko.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto insisted that refusing Riko’s assimilation had been a choice they all made, not Shunchen’s burden alone.
• Li Shunchen admitted he had investigated the woman cautiously and feared she would possess Geto, while the recent Sukuna incident convinced him he could no longer handle the danger alone.
• Suguru Geto seized Li Shunchen by the collar and told him to stop treating Geto as fragile or blaming himself for Geto’s possible death, while Gojo added that two Special Grade Sorcerers could protect themselves.