Chapter Summaries

The protagonist explained to Masamichi Yaga, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto why he had visited Tengen, revealing that Tengen’s barriers had created Japan’s curse crisis and that he had persuaded Tengen to cancel the assimilation. He then went alone to protect Riko Amanai, intending to use the coming confrontation to test a plan of his own.

• The protagonist calmly left Tengen’s chamber with Masamichi Yaga, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto, explaining that he had come to stop the Star Plasma Vessel’s assimilation.
• The protagonist revealed that Tengen’s barrier network had trapped and accumulated Cursed Energy in Japan, creating the conditions for powerful curses and sorcerers.
• The protagonist told the others that he had persuaded Tengen to cancel the assimilation, but that Riko Amanai still faced assassination attempts from outside groups.
• The protagonist refused Masamichi Yaga’s offer to send Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto with him, saying he would protect Riko alone.
• The next day, the protagonist arrived at Riko Amanai’s hotel and instructed an Assistant Supervisor to arrange a cordon, cleanup crew, and deletion of surveillance footage.
• The protagonist entered the hotel alone, intending not only to protect Riko but also to test a plan by confronting enough opponents.

The narrator confronted Q Organization members Kekun and Baier outside Riko Amanai’s suite, killing Baier and overpowering Kekun. After Baier rose as a Vengeful Cursed Spirit, the narrator confirmed that physically killing sorcerers could turn them into spirits, advancing a plan to harvest cursed energy twice from expendable sorcerers in the Culling Game.

• The narrator reached Riko Amanai’s hotel floor and found Kekun and Baier trying to break into her suite.
• Baier attacked with throwing knives, but the narrator copied Unobservable, appeared behind him, and snapped his neck with physical strength.
• Kekun unleashed Directional Blast Boundary, but the narrator copied and redirected the explosion, then disarmed and pinned him.
• Baier’s corpse rose as a Vengeful Cursed Spirit after the narrator had killed him without cursed energy.
• The narrator confirmed the transformation and planned to make physically killed sorcerers provide cursed energy both before and after death during the Culling Game.

The protagonist tested whether killing sorcerers physically could turn them into cursed spirits, then told Riko Amanai that Tengen had canceled their assimilation. Although Riko was relieved to learn she could live, the protagonist was left feeling guilty because his future plan still threatened her and everyone else.

• The protagonist held Kekun down while Baier transformed into a cursed spirit, and concluded that stronger fear and despair might improve cursed spiritification and cursed energy extraction.
• Baier's cursed spirit manifested bone knives resembling his former technique and attacked, but the protagonist deflected them using enhanced perception and physical skill.
• Kekun fainted before his fear could reach the protagonist's desired intensity, so the protagonist destroyed Baier's cursed spirit and ordered the assistant supervisor to keep Kekun alive under guard.
• The protagonist entered Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi's room, identified himself as a Tokyo Jujutsu High student, and told them Tengen had abandoned assimilation with Riko.
• Riko eagerly asked whether she could keep living, and the protagonist confirmed Tengen's decision while reflecting that his future Culling Game plan would still sacrifice her and others, leaving him with guilt.

Li Shunchen protected Riko Amanai after canceling her assimilation with Tengen and arranged for her to remain at Jujutsu High until the danger passed. He then discussed with Kenjaku whether incarnated ancient sorcerers—and even Ryomen Sukuna—could be killed physically and turned into powerful cursed spirits.

• Riko Amanai refused Li Shunchen’s suggestion that she leave Japan because she wanted to stay with her friends and classmates.
• Li Shunchen refused Riko Amanai’s request to attend school, warning that curse users could endanger her classmates, and Misato Kuroi persuaded her to accept his plan.
• Li Shunchen handed Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi over to Jujutsu High personnel and ordered them taken to the underground facilities while Kekun was kept under guard.
• Li Shunchen asked Kenjaku whether physically killing incarnated ancient sorcerers would turn them into cursed spirits, and Kenjaku confirmed that it would.
• Li Shunchen asked whether Ryomen Sukuna would undergo the same transformation, prompting Kenjaku to imagine the power and vengeance of Sukuna as a cursed spirit.

The narrator continued preparing for the future by pushing Satoru Gojo to develop his skills and considering how to stop the catastrophic result of humanity’s assimilation. He asked Megumi Fushiguro to promise that, if ordered, Megumi would kill him, and the chapter ended as Megumi answered.

• The narrator relentlessly defeated Satoru Gojo in sparring, driving him to advance his research into Domain Expansion.
• Suguru Geto abandoned sparring after losing valuable cursed spirits and began taking dangerous missions to capture stronger ones.
• The narrator considered using Mahoraga’s Sword of Extermination against the future assimilated humanity, which he expected to possess cursed-spirit properties.
• The narrator asked Megumi Fushiguro whether he would still trust him after learning he was a mass murderer, and Megumi said he did not know what he would do.
• The narrator asked Megumi to promise that he would obey any order, including killing the narrator, and Megumi immediately agreed.
• The narrator told Megumi to promise that he would kill the narrator with his own hands if the narrator ordered him to do so.

The narrator and Kenjaku discussed Yuji Itadori’s creation and how he and Sukuna might serve as weapons against Satoru Gojo. Kenjaku accused the narrator of protecting Suguru Geto because he could not bring himself to let his Jujutsu High friends die, leaving the narrator silent.

• The narrator watched Yuji Itadori and Wasuke Itadori outside a convenience store and questioned Kenjaku about why she had not stayed with Yuji’s family.
• Kenjaku admitted that the narrator’s binding vow requiring her to exclude him from her plans had delayed the start of her ultimate plan.
• The narrator reasoned that Kenjaku had prepared Yuji and Sukuna as potential counters to Satoru Gojo, though Sukuna and Gojo had never fought in this reality.
• Kenjaku said she had once considered joining forces with Sukuna to eliminate the narrator, but no longer planned to do so because the narrator seemed intent on fighting Sukuna himself.
• Kenjaku confronted the narrator for stopping her from killing Suguru Geto and taking his body, and he claimed Geto’s future value made it too early to use him.
• Kenjaku dismissed the narrator’s explanation and accused him of sparing Geto because he did not want his friends from Jujutsu High to die; the narrator offered no rebuttal.

Li Shunchen trained the students at Tokyo Jujutsu High while preparing Panda to carry memories of a previous simulation and the consequences of his plan to assimilate humanity. The chapter ended with Yuki Tsukumo arriving at Jujutsu High earlier than expected and asking Li Shunchen what kind of woman he liked.

• Li Shunchen pushed Satoru Gojo, Suguru Geto, Kento Nanami, and Yu Haibara through intense combat training, and Satoru Gojo learned Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void.
• Li Shunchen received the N-Rank Staying Up Late to Cultivate Immortality card in his annual draw and recognized that another year had passed.
• Li Shunchen implanted memories from the sixth simulation into Panda’s Primary Core and rebuilt his Great Sage Core to hold all of Li Shunchen’s memories.
• Panda asked whether Satoru and the others would die, and Li Shunchen told him he could choose whether to oppose Li Shunchen or leave if he and Masamichi Yaga became enemies.
• Yuki Tsukumo arrived at Jujutsu High earlier than in previous simulations and asked Li Shunchen what kind of woman he liked.

Li Shunchen confirmed to Yuki Tsukumo that he had killed Toji Fushiguro and admitted he could predict possible futures. He exposed the failure of Yuki’s plan to eliminate cursed spirits by removing humanity’s cursed energy, then declared that he had found another way to end the curse.

• Yuki Tsukumo confronted Li Shunchen, and he confirmed that he had secretly contacted her and told her the tumor must be cut out.
• Yuki revealed to Satoru Gojo that Li Shunchen had killed Toji Fushiguro and had played a role in the Star Plasma Vessel incident and Tengen’s suppression of the Higher-Ups.
• Li Shunchen claimed he could predict the future and said he had tested many ways to end the world’s curse, including Yuki’s plan to turn humanity into beings without cursed energy.
• Li Shunchen touched Yuki’s soul with Idle Transfiguration, proving he could alter a person’s cursed-energy foundation.
• Li Shunchen explained that Yuki’s plan would fail because it could not be applied to all humanity at once, could not change descendants, and could be reversed by the environment.
• Li Shunchen declared that he had found another way to end the curse.

You told Yuki Tsukumo and Satoru Gojo about failed past attempts to eliminate curses, including cursed-corpse armies and destroying Japan’s barrier, and explained the disasters those methods caused. After leaving them shaken, you spotted Suguru Geto returning from a mission and asked him to come with you.

• Yuki Tsukumo and Satoru Gojo pressed you to reveal your plan, but you said it was still being prepared and confirmed that Gojo and Geto’s training supported it.
• You described a past attempt to replace sorcerers with powerful independent cursed corpses, then explained that foreign governments’ efforts to militarize cursed energy led to horrific human experiments.
• You told Yuki Tsukumo that destroying Tengen’s barrier would not quickly clear Japan’s accumulated cursed energy and curses, leaving her and Gojo stunned.
• Suguru Geto returned from an exorcism mission, and you asked him to come with you before he went back to the dorm.

Shunchen told Suguru Geto about a possible future in which Geto became a Curse User, then rescued Nanako and Mimiko before their abuse could push him toward that fate. After arranging legal and police action against the village, Geto thanked Shunchen for pulling him back from the brink.

• Shunchen took Suguru Geto away from Jujutsu High and explained Yuki Tsukumo's visit, the plan to end curses, and the threat of foreign experiments.
• Shunchen described a possible timeline in which Suguru Geto turned against Non-Sorcerers after a series of tragedies and ultimately died following the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.
• Shunchen hired Hiromi Higuruma to pursue the case against the village and paid Mei Mei to arrange police intervention.
• Shunchen secretly entered the village, rescued the injured Nanako and Mimiko, and treated them before police surrounded the village.
• On the drive back to Tokyo, Suguru Geto reflected on the other timeline and thanked Shunchen for pulling him away from that path.

After a year of training at Jujutsu High, the narrator met Kenjaku to inspect her preparations for the Culling Game and discuss the possibility of creating Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirits. He decided to let Yuta Okkotsu and Rika's tragedy unfold, then agreed to help Kenjaku approach three Special Grade Cursed Spirits.

• The narrator finished teaching Satoru Gojo what he could and turned his attention to Kenjaku's preparations.
• In an abandoned air-raid shelter, Kenjaku implanted an ancient sorcerer's Cursed Object into a vessel and explained why she had scattered suitable vessels across Japan.
• The narrator told Kenjaku how Yuta Okkotsu had turned Rika Orimoto into a Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirit and described a failed Simulation in which he redirected Yuta's curse into a Cursed Corpse.
• Kenjaku said such spirits could not be mass-produced but suggested that Yuta and Rika could serve as valuable materials; the narrator resolved not to interfere with their tragedy.
• Kenjaku revealed she had found Jogo, Hanami, and Dagon, and the narrator agreed to go with her to persuade them.

The narrator secretly accompanies Kenjaku to negotiate with Jogo, Hanami, and Dagon, then announces a decision to leave Jujutsu High and work independently. Suguru Geto and Satoru Gojo choose to stay as teachers, while the narrator’s still-developing plan remains years from action.

• The narrator disguises their face and cursed-energy residue with Idle Transfiguration before accompanying Kenjaku to meet the special grade cursed spirits.
• Kenjaku persuades Jogo, Hanami, and Dagon to support her plan against Satoru Gojo and humanity, while the narrator stays silent.
• Kenjaku suggests the narrator could copy Cursed Spirit Manipulation or let her take over Suguru Geto’s body, but the narrator rejects her proposals.
• The narrator tells Suguru Geto, Shoko Ieiri, and Masamichi Yaga that they will leave Jujutsu High and work independently, explaining that staying as a teacher has failed to prevent tragedies in other futures.
• Suguru Geto decides to stay at Jujutsu High and teach Nanako and Mimiko when they are old enough to enroll, so they can grow up with guidance and care.
• After learning the narrator’s final plan needs several more years of preparation, Satoru Gojo decides to stay at Jujutsu High as a teacher, claiming he wants to avoid the Gojo Clan’s demands.

The narrator joined Kenjaku to prepare the Culling Game, using copied Idle Transfiguration to mark potential players across Japan and learning how barriers could amplify techniques. After a year of preparation, the narrator returned to Tokyo Jujutsu High for Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami’s graduation, where both chose to continue as sorcerers.

• The narrator explained to Kenjaku that they would replace Mahito and use copied Idle Transfiguration to support his plan while keeping Suguru Geto safe.
• Kenjaku described how Tengen’s barriers could amplify Idle Transfiguration to awaken modern sorcerers and incarnate ancient sorcerers as Culling Game players.
• The narrator traveled across Japan with Kenjaku, marking potential players, checking incarnated vessels, and capturing Cursed Spirits for future use.
• The narrator studied barrier techniques under Kenjaku while continuing to accept Jujutsu High missions and secretly binding the captured Cursed Spirits to Kenjaku.
• The system awarded the narrator the High-Pressure Blood Spear Card as another year passed.
• The narrator attended Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami’s graduation, where both thanked the narrator for their training and affirmed their choice to remain Jujutsu Sorcerers.

Li Shunchen watched Rika Orimoto die and become a Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirit, then struggled with guilt over allowing the tragedy to serve the Culling Game plan. Over the next five years, he and Kenjaku prepared the ritual across Japan, and he refused to consume Sukuna's Finger, insisting he would kill Sukuna at full strength himself.

• Li Shunchen watched Rika Orimoto die and saw Yuta Okkotsu's curse transform her into a Special Grade Vengeful Cursed Spirit.
• Kenjaku mocked Li Shunchen for letting the tragedy happen to make Yuta and Rika useful to the Culling Game, and he admitted he could not escape his guilt or his human nature.
• Over the following five years, Li Shunchen and Kenjaku traveled Japan, marked people with latent cursed technique talent, and tested remote Idle Transfiguration on a subject.
• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku collected Sukuna's Fingers that were outside Jujutsu High's possession.
• Kenjaku offered Li Shunchen a Sukuna's Finger to strengthen himself, but he declined, saying he would let Sukuna revive at full power and then kill him.

The narrator tested whether Kinji Hakari’s jackpot could power the Culling Game, but learned that Hakari’s human limits made the plan impractical and demonstrated the gap between them in battle. As the countdown advanced, the narrator gathered Sukuna’s Fingers, learned that Yuta Okkotsu had joined Jujutsu High, and traveled with Kenjaku to America to draw the U.S. into the coming ritual.

• The narrator tested Kinji Hakari’s jackpot and found his cursed-energy output too limited to fuel the Culling Game’s required surge; turning him into a cursed spirit would make his automatic Reverse Cursed Technique lethal.
• The narrator fought Hakari in the Underground Training Room, defeating his attacks and stopping a lethal strike just short of his forehead, breaking Hakari’s confidence in his jackpot’s protection.
• A year passed, and the narrator drew the low-value “Stub out cigarettes in your palm” card and set it aside.
• The narrator and Kenjaku collected twelve of the remaining Sukuna’s Fingers, while Yuji Itadori still held one and other Fingers remained sealed or stored.
• The narrator learned that Rika Orimoto had attacked Yuta Okkotsu’s classmates, after which Satoru Gojo protected Yuta and enrolled him at Tokyo Jujutsu High; Suguru Geto remained a teacher in this timeline.
• The narrator traveled to America with Kenjaku, who planned to lure U.S. soldiers into Japan as fuel for the Culling Game and use international fear of cursed spirits to strengthen the ritual.

Li Shunchen and Kenjaku convinced the U.S. government to join their plan to hunt Japanese jujutsu sorcerers by demonstrating the overwhelming power of cursed techniques. After securing American cooperation, they traveled through nearby Asian countries to spread panic and prepare the world for the Culling Game.

• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku explained cursed energy to the U.S. president and his advisers, and Li Shunchen summoned Nue to prove that cursed spirits were real.
• Kenjaku showed footage of Satoru Gojo and persuaded the Americans that cursed energy was a limitless strategic resource, prompting Cyrus Vale to urge the capture of Japanese sorcerers.
• After Lieutenant General Gary K. Johnson challenged them, Li Shunchen used Malevolent Shrine and Idle Transfiguration to grotesquely transform the fifteen guards sent to attack them.
• The president approved Kenjaku's plan to deploy American troops to hunt jujutsu sorcerers in Japan, while Johnson and the other officials recoiled from Li Shunchen's power.
• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku visited nearby Asian countries and spread panic among their leaders, drawing negative emotions through the Tengen Barrier to fuel preparations for the Culling Game.

Li Shunchen refused Satoru Gojo’s request to mentor Yuta Okkotsu, burdened by guilt over the tragedy he had allowed and his plan to sacrifice Yuta in the Culling Game. He revealed that the plan was nearly ready, while Panda remained torn over whether to warn the others about the impending catastrophe.

• Satoru Gojo called Li Shunchen to praise Yuta Okkotsu’s talents and ask him to return to Jujutsu High to teach Yuta about copying Cursed Techniques.
• Li Shunchen refused, haunted by his role in Rika Orimoto’s tragedy and the knowledge that he intended to kill Yuta and use him in the Culling Game.
• Li Shunchen told Satoru Gojo that his plan’s preparations were nearly complete, but he declined to explain its details before ending the call.
• Satoru Gojo told Yuta Okkotsu that Li Shunchen had refused to mentor him out of jealousy, then encouraged Yuta to surpass him.
• Panda, who knew Li Shunchen’s plan could destroy Japan, watched the others celebrate and struggled over whether to reveal the truth.

Li Shunchen and Kenjaku reviewed the final preparations for the Culling Game, including the ancient sorcerers’ vessels, the marked population, and their plans for Tengen and Satoru Gojo. Li Shunchen chose not to interfere with Yuji Itadori’s fate and told Kenjaku to proceed at her original pace, while she quietly guarded against his possible betrayal.

• Li Shunchen drew the Blood-and-Sweat Grease / Weapon Slip card and set it aside as a minor contingency.
• Li Shunchen confirmed that Kenjaku had located vessels for ancient sorcerers and marked most people in Japan, while privately keeping Tsumiki Fushiguro off the list.
• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku identified Tengen, Satoru Gojo, and Yuji Itadori as key concerns, and agreed that sealing Gojo had to come first.
• Kenjaku explained how she planned to use Yuji Itadori and Jujutsu High’s willingness to spare him to collect Sukuna’s Fingers and prepare her scheme.
• Li Shunchen told Kenjaku not to rush Yuji Itadori’s involvement and to continue with her original plan without relying on his power.
• Kenjaku agreed, while privately worrying that Li Shunchen might turn against the plan and keeping contingencies to counter him.

Li Shunchen and Kenjaku set the events leading to Yuji Itadori’s incarnation as Sukuna in motion, manipulating the school incident while secretly watching Megumi Fushiguro. After Yuji swallowed Sukuna’s Finger, Li Shunchen withdrew and ordered Kenjaku to begin preparations for the Culling Game and contact foreign powers.

• Li Shunchen secretly damaged the seal on Sukuna’s Finger at Sugisawa Third High School, then impersonated a Jujutsu Society official to alert Jujutsu High to the danger.
• Kenjaku suggested visiting Wasuke Itadori in the hospital and turning him into a cursed spirit, but Li Shunchen rejected the idea and warned her not to test his limits.
• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku watched Megumi Fushiguro arrive to retrieve the finger, while Li Shunchen controlled cursed spirits to hinder Megumi and endanger Yuji Itadori’s companions.
• Yuji swallowed Sukuna’s Finger to save his companions, allowing Sukuna to incarnate within him.
• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku left before Satoru Gojo could arrive, and Li Shunchen ordered her to prepare the Culling Game and contact countries overseas about sending troops to Japan.

Li Shunchen and Kenjaku met with Jogo and the other special grade cursed spirits to discuss sealing Satoru Gojo and recruiting Ryomen Sukuna, while concealing Li Shunchen’s true plans. After Jogo challenged Li Shunchen and attacked him, Li Shunchen blocked the flames with a copy of Limitless, but Jogo followed with a surprise attack from behind.

• Li Shunchen and Kenjaku met Jogo, Mahito, and the other special grade cursed spirits in an abandoned underground flood channel and outlined their plan.
• Kenjaku said they needed to seal Satoru Gojo with the Prison Realm and recruit Ryomen Sukuna, and he estimated Jogo’s strength at eight or nine of Sukuna’s fingers.
• Jogo demanded the Prison Realm and boasted that he would kill Gojo, but Li Shunchen rebuked him and warned that he could kill him himself.
• Jogo attacked Li Shunchen at close range, but Li Shunchen used Phantom Parade to replicate Limitless and stopped the flames without injury.
• Jogo calmed down, then caused two small volcanoes to erupt behind Li Shunchen and fired lava at his unguarded back.