Chapter Summaries

Li Shunchen explained why his own memories and thought patterns were suitable for imprinting into cursed corpse cores, and rejected Satoru Gojo’s suggestion to use Gojo’s instead. After warning that using cursed spirits could create a catastrophe after Suguru Geto’s death, Masamichi Yaga interrupted to announce a secret mission requested by Lord Tengen.

• Li Shunchen deactivated Pseudo-Body Formation, and Panda’s imprinted core fell dormant as he regained control and left the classroom.
• Li Shunchen told Satoru Gojo that he imprinted memories and thought patterns rather than a literal soul, and explained that Gojo’s abilities could not be transferred to a cursed corpse.
• Li Shunchen rejected Suguru Geto’s proposal to use cursed spirits as cores, arguing that their malice made them untrustworthy and that they could become uncontrollable after Geto died.
• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo silently respected Li Shunchen’s decision to bear the risks of his plan, while Masamichi Yaga composed himself.
• Masamichi Yaga announced that Lord Tengen had personally requested a secret mission for Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto.

Shunchen joined the Star Plasma Vessel escort mission while secretly arranging to use a black-market bounty to draw Curse Users and help shape the mission’s outcome. At the hotel, Phantom Parade detected an unknown sorcerer’s Cursed Energy, revealing a variable Shunchen had never encountered in any simulation.

• Masamichi Yaga assigned Shunchen, Shoko Ieiri, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto to escort Riko Amanai, and Shunchen asked Yaga to apply for his promotion to Grade 1.
• Shunchen secretly accepted the Time Vessel Association’s commission, then ordered Shiu Kong to post a bounty on Riko using the Association’s payment as bait.
• Shunchen volunteered to lead Riko’s protection, and Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, and Shoko Ieiri agreed to let him take charge.
• At the hotel elevator, Shunchen detected traces left by Q members Kekun and Baier, along with a third trace belonging to an unfamiliar sorcerer.
• Shunchen realized Phantom Parade’s analysis of the third trace had started at zero, proving its owner had never appeared in his simulations.

The narrator reached the hotel floor where Riko Amanai was staying and encountered two members of Q alongside an unknown paper-wrapped man emitting unfamiliar cursed energy. After Baier attacked, the narrator copied and combined cursed techniques to kill Baier and Kekun in an instant, then questioned the survivor.

• The narrator noticed Kekun and Baier approaching Riko Amanai’s room with an unfamiliar man wrapped in paper who radiated unknown cursed energy.
• Baier attacked the narrator with knives controlled by his Blade Manipulation technique.
• The narrator copied Blade Manipulation and used Nagi Daytime Prohibition to strip the knives of their controlling cursed energy, then deflected them.
• The narrator switched to Projection Sorcery, strengthened their arm, and threw two knives that killed Baier and Kekun with precise headshots.
• The paper-wrapped man froze in terror as the narrator approached and asked whether he belonged to Q or was an unknown curse user.

The narrator interrogated Reggie Star after recognizing that he had allied with the Q Organization and killed a modern sorcerer for information. When Reggie attacked with his receipt-based Cursed Technique, the narrator evaded him, immobilized him with Cursed Speech, and began cutting him apart.

• The narrator killed two Q Organization members and confronted the paper-clad sorcerer who had been traveling with them.
• Reggie Star revealed that he was a sorcerer from the distant past who had been revived in the modern era.
• Reggie admitted that he had allied with the Q members by helping them kill a modern sorcerer, prompting the narrator to turn hostile.
• Reggie manifested a metal safe from a receipt and hurled it at the narrator, who escaped through a shadow using the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Reggie unleashed a torrent of objects from receipts, but the narrator appeared beside him and immobilized him with Cursed Speech.
• The narrator severed Reggie's arm and slashed open his torso, then told him they could now have a proper talk.

You overpowered Reiji and kept him alive with Reverse Cursed Technique while torturing him to force him to answer questions. After analyzing and suppressing Reiji’s cursed technique, you left him with no way to escape or die, demanding his cooperation.

• You confirmed Reiji could not use Reverse Cursed Technique, then healed his wounds enough to keep him alive.
• You dismissed Reiji’s accusations and summoned Rabbit Escape rabbits to devour his organs while your healing repeatedly restored them.
• Reiji tried to activate Recontract Manifestation to kill himself, but you had analyzed his technique and used Nagi Daytime Prohibition to block it.
• You failed to use Reiji’s receipt yourself, then cut his face with it and healed the wound to show him that he could neither escape nor die.

Li Shunchen interrogated Reggie Star about Kenjaku’s resurrection plan, then dissected him to study whether incarnation could be reversed. The chapter ended with Li Shunchen preparing to test the Inverted Spear of Heaven on Reggie’s exposed brain.

• Reggie Star told Li Shunchen that Kenjaku had made him an Incarnation Cursed Object and promised him a second life in exchange for joining a future plan.
• Reggie confirmed that Kenjaku had stitches across his forehead and said Kenjaku had recruited powerful sorcerers from multiple eras.
• Li Shunchen deduced that Kenjaku’s death had prematurely triggered the resurrection of ancient sorcerers and made hunting them his next objective.
• Li Shunchen dissected Reggie to investigate incarnation, discovering that Reggie’s soul had completely overwritten the modern host’s body.
• As Reggie cursed him with his final breath, Li Shunchen drew the Inverted Spear of Heaven and asked which time Reggie meant when he predicted Li Shunchen would die miserably.

Li Shunchen killed Reggie Star, concealed the body, and persuaded Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi to leave their room. At the elevator, he swiftly killed the arriving Jiro Awasaka, leaving the car empty as the group prepared to descend.

• Li Shunchen discovered that the Inverted Spear of Heaven only slightly affected Reggie Star's incarnated body, then stored Reggie's corpse and the blood in Shadow Space.
• Li Shunchen used Life Is Like a Play to convince Misato Kuroi that he was a Jujutsu High student sent to protect them, and she opened the door despite Riko Amanai's doubts.
• Li Shunchen led Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi through the bloodstained corridor toward an elevator, concealing the bodies and debris from their view.
• Jiro Awasaka appeared in the elevator and prepared to attack Li Shunchen, assuming he could steal the bounty after Li had exhausted himself.
• Li Shunchen used Projection Sorcery to strike Jiro Awasaka and suppressed Jiro's Inversion with Cursed Technique Reversal: Nagi Daytime Prohibition, then swallowed his head and body into Shadow Space.
• Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi reached the elevator and found it empty, unaware of Jiro Awasaka's death.

Li Shunchen reported that ancient sorcerers were being resurrected and revealed that he had killed Reiji and two Q Organization curse users while protecting Riko Amanai. Masamichi Yaga approved his actions, then told him that the Zenin Clan wanted to see him.

• Li Shunchen warned Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that resurrected ancient sorcerers might target Riko Amanai for the bounty.
• Li Shunchen revealed that he had tortured Reiji for information and killed him alongside two Q Organization curse users.
• Suguru Geto confronted Li Shunchen over killing three people, while Li Shunchen calmly defended his actions as necessary to protect Riko Amanai.
• Masamichi Yaga told Li Shunchen that killing the attackers was no problem and that he had done the right thing.
• Masamichi Yaga changed the subject and told Li Shunchen that the Zenin Clan wanted to see him.

Shunchen told Masamichi Yaga that he would deal with the Zenin Clan after the Star Plasma Vessel escort mission, then received Master Tengen’s order to fulfill Riko Amanai’s every request. Riko took the order as a guarantee of authority and boldly demanded that the students obey her.

• Shunchen considered why the Zenin Clan was seeking him after he openly summoned Mahoraga during the Million-Demon Night Parade.
• Shunchen told Masamichi Yaga he would postpone dealing with the Zenin Clan until the escort mission was over.
• Masamichi Yaga relayed Master Tengen’s order to Shunchen, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto to fulfill every request Riko Amanai made.
• Satoru Gojo suppressed his complaints after hearing the order came from Master Tengen, and Shunchen ended the call.
• Riko Amanai stepped out from behind Misato Kuroi and announced that the students had to obey her as though she were a god.

Li Shunchen, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto guarded Riko Amanai at Renchoku Girls' Academy while debating whether to protect her wishes or use her as bait. The chapter ended with Li Shunchen confronting a powerful, likely incarnated ancient sorcerer who asked him for a light.

• Shoko Ieiri disguised herself as a transfer student to stay close to Riko Amanai, while Suguru Geto spread cursed spirits throughout the school for surveillance and defense.
• Satoru Gojo complained that they should take Riko to Jujutsu High, while Suguru Geto reminded him that assimilation with Master Tengen would erase her sense of self.
• Li Shunchen proposed using Riko as bait to lure out and eliminate the curse users, unsettling Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto with his cold, calculating attitude.
• Li Shunchen sensed a man with a pompadour outside the school and used Phantom Parade to analyze his immense cursed energy and unknown technique.
• Li Shunchen suspected the stranger was a powerful ancient sorcerer revived through incarnation, and the man casually asked him, "Got a light?"

The protagonist tried to learn why the pompadoured ancient sorcerer had come to Renchoku Girls' Academy, then discovered he wanted to provoke powerful opponents rather than pursue the Star Plasma Vessel bounty. After the man annihilated Suguru Geto's Cursed Spirits with a blast from his hair and revealed his appetite for slaughter, the protagonist abandoned hopes of reforming him and prepared to kill him.

• The protagonist lit cigarettes and questioned the pompadoured man, pretending to be an ancient sorcerer to find out what he knew about the bounty and Kenjaku.
• The man showed no interest in the bounty and explained that he had fired his Cursed Technique to draw strong opponents to him.
• The pompadoured man blasted Suguru Geto's Cursed Spirits from the sky with a devastating beam fired from his hair.
• The man described his desire for a more satisfying life filled with battle, and the protagonist concluded he posed an intolerable danger.
• The protagonist dropped his disguise, pointed the Soul Liberation Blade at the man, and used Cursed Speech to command, "Don't move."

The narrator used Cursed Speech, Projection Sorcery, and Circulating Corridor in a calculated sequence to kill the pompadoured ancient sorcerer before he could unleash a devastating attack. Satoru Gojo arrived in time to witness the bloody aftermath and was shaken by how much the narrator seemed to have changed.

• The narrator immobilized the pompadoured man with Cursed Speech, then used Projection Sorcery and the Soul Liberation Blade to sever his arms and destroy his eyes.
• The narrator trapped the man’s cursed energy inside his pompadour with Circulating Corridor, then decapitated him with a second slash.
• The narrator released the looping barrier as the severed head pointed skyward, causing its blast to drive it into the body’s neck stump and spray blood across the street.
• Satoru Gojo arrived as the narrator stood in the blood and calmly told him he had not needed to come.
• Satoru Gojo stared at the narrator’s detached demeanor and wondered when his cautious, considerate classmate had become a cold executioner.

After killing an ancient sorcerer and securing Renchoku Girls' Academy from attackers, Shunchen argued that Riko Amanai should leave school to protect her friends. He then revealed that he intended to stop her assimilation and personally persuade Lord Tengen, leaving everyone stunned.

• Shunchen analyzed the ancient sorcerer's corpse, copied his Cursed Energy Discharge technique, and stored the remains in his shadows.
• Suguru Geto's cursed spirits stopped most attackers at Renchoku Girls' Academy, while Shoko Ieiri exposed and captured an assassin disguised as a schoolgirl.
• Shunchen urged Riko Amanai to leave school because her presence endangered her friends, and Riko struggled with the choice.
• Shunchen told Riko that leaving school would only be temporary and revealed he never intended to let her assimilation proceed.
• Shunchen explained that he believed Riko could be spared without causing a disastrous future, then declared that he would personally persuade Lord Tengen.

Shunchen insisted on entering the Tombs of the Star Corridor alone to meet Tengen, while entrusting Riko Amanai’s protection to Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. Geto and Gojo feared Shunchen might do something irreversible, but he vowed that he only intended to speak with Tengen and confirm his suspicions.

• Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo objected to Shunchen leaving them out of his plan and promised to protect Riko Amanai if she refused assimilation.
• Shunchen explained that the ancient incarnated sorcerer’s appearance meant Riko could face further threats, so he trusted Geto and Gojo to guard her while he went to Tengen.
• Shunchen resolved to enter the Tombs of the Star Corridor to learn Tengen’s true condition and role in Kenjaku’s thousand-year plan.
• When Shunchen said he would leave immediately and had no intention of seeking permission, Suguru Geto grabbed his wrist and demanded that he promise not to do anything irreversible.
• Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto realized Shunchen might be planning to assassinate Tengen, but Shunchen freed himself and promised he was going only to talk and confirm a few things.

Li Shunchen infiltrated Jujutsu High’s Restricted Storehouse and confronted Tengen, urging her to abandon the Star Plasma Vessel assimilation. After Tengen questioned his age and hinted at his long-worn soul, Li Shunchen revealed that he had killed Kenjaku.

• Li Shunchen sent Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto to Okinawa with Riko Amanai and told them to keep his departure secret from Masamichi Yaga.
• Li Shunchen used stealth abilities and the Ten Shadows Technique to infiltrate Jujutsu High and reach the Tombs of the Star Corridor.
• Tengen appeared before Li Shunchen in a projected form and greeted him by name.
• Li Shunchen asked Tengen to abandon the assimilation with the Star Plasma Vessel, and Tengen said she had observed him since he enrolled.
• Tengen asked how old Li Shunchen was, and he answered that he had lived for perhaps several decades.
• Li Shunchen ended their small talk by telling Tengen that he had killed Kenjaku.

Li Shunchen confronted Tengen about Kenjaku’s thousand-year conspiracy and demanded to know why she had allowed it to continue. Tengen defended the deaths as necessary sacrifices to prevent a greater catastrophe, leaving Li Shunchen disgusted by her indifference toward ordinary lives.

• Li Shunchen told Tengen that he had killed Kenjaku and explained her plan to possess Suguru Geto and force humanity to assimilate.
• Li Shunchen asked Tengen to abandon the assimilation, but Tengen revealed that Kenjaku had pursued humanity’s evolution for centuries and explained the bond linking Tengen, the Star Plasma Vessel, and the Six Eyes.
• Tengen explained that Kenjaku had tried to break that bond, planned to use Toji Zenin’s lack of Cursed Energy, and had sought the Prison Realm to seal the Six Eyes.
• Tengen said Li Shunchen had disrupted the thousand-year plan by taking Toji’s place and severing the assimilation’s causality.
• Li Shunchen demanded to know why Tengen had ignored Kenjaku’s crimes, and Tengen said the deaths had served as expendable sacrifices that prevented a greater catastrophe.
• Li Shunchen felt nauseated by Tengen’s cold justification and recognized the arrogance he had seen throughout Jujutsu Society.

You confronted Tengen over the human cost of her barrier, and she explained that it trapped Japan’s cursed energy to strengthen sorcerers while making cursed spirits far more dangerous. You realized the system could no longer be dismantled without unleashing catastrophe, leaving you furious but unable to kill her.

• You accused Tengen of treating innocent people as expendable and demanded to know what her barrier was meant to protect.
• Tengen showed you a barrier enclosing Japan and explained that it trapped the country’s cursed energy, concentrating it and strengthening sorcerers while suppressing cursed spirits elsewhere.
• You pointed out that trapping cursed energy would make Japan’s cursed spirits far stronger, and Tengen confirmed that this was the price.
• You concluded that Tengen’s barrier had created the lethal curses and the Jujutsu Society that claimed to manage them.
• You recognized that destroying the thousand-year-old barrier would unleash its accumulated curses and plunge Japan into disaster, so you restrained your urge to kill Tengen.

After learning that Tengen had knowingly maintained a flawed barrier system despite gentler alternatives, the protagonist confronted her over the deaths it caused. He left furious but resolved not to kill her today, since her death could collapse the barriers and endanger more people.

• The protagonist accused Tengen of relying on an idiotic barrier system and asked why she had not pursued less harmful solutions.
• Tengen admitted that gentler solutions might exist but said the current system was stable and the sacrifices were insignificant.
• The protagonist recalled his own repeated deaths and the thousands of civilians killed each year, and came to despise Tengen’s indifference.
• The protagonist crushed his glasses, exposed his eyes, and told Tengen he wanted to kill her but would not risk the consequences of her death.
• The protagonist rejected Tengen’s logic and declared that he would not kill her today.

The narrator confronted Tengen over the cursed ecosystem her barriers had created, but realized killing her would endanger countless innocents. Determined not to become like Tengen by accepting stagnation, the narrator demanded that she yield, and Tengen agreed to give up Assimilation with the Star Plasma Vessel.

• Tengen recognized that the narrator could nullify her Immortality and kill her, but remained curious about the narrator’s rise as a singularity.
• The narrator recalled Kenjaku’s dying curse and realized that Tengen’s barriers kept Japan’s cursed ecosystem cycling, making the Cursed Corpse Plan inadequate to solve it.
• The narrator resolved to pursue a complete solution regardless of the methods or personal cost, rather than become another Tengen.
• The narrator ordered Tengen to answer and yield in their causal deadlock.
• Tengen conceded and agreed to give up Assimilation with the Star Plasma Vessel.

The narrator persuaded Tengen to reject assimilation and kept watch over Jujutsu High while Riko Amanai remained safe in Okinawa. The deadline passed without incident, but the narrator still feared Tengen might change her mind and resolved to pursue a permanent solution if she did.

• The narrator watched Jujutsu High overnight, then told Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto that Tengen had agreed to abandon assimilation.
• Riko Amanai cried with relief when she heard the news, while Suguru Geto described the strengthened defenses protecting her in Okinawa.
• The bounty deadline and Tengen's assimilation deadline passed peacefully, with only weak curse users troubling the group in Okinawa.
• The narrator deduced that ancient sorcerers had not found the bounty because they lacked access to modern information networks and were scattered across Japan.
• Masamichi Yaga later confirmed that Tengen had told Jujutsu Society she would reject assimilation and that the barriers would remain stable.
• The narrator resolved to consider killing Tengen and having Suguru Geto subjugate her with Cursed Spirit Manipulation if she secretly pursued assimilation again.