Chapter Summaries

The narrator defeated Ogi Zenin after White Qu’s destruction caused its power to merge into Black Qu and create Qu Fusion. Maki Zenin revealed where Naoya had taken a boy, sending the narrator toward the mountain while Qu Fusion drew the guards away; left beside her unconscious father, Maki wondered why the narrator had treated her with respect.

• Ogi Zenin cleaved White Qu in two, but its power merged into Black Qu and formed the larger, lightning-clawed Qu Fusion.
• Qu Fusion shattered Ogi’s sword and badly wounded him, leaving him unconscious as the estate’s defenses sounded alarms.
• Maki Zenin watched the fight from hiding and heard Ogi blame her and Mai for his failures.
• The narrator asked Maki where Naoya and a boy with a schoolbag had gone, and she pointed toward the mountain training grounds.
• The narrator sent Qu Fusion toward the main gate to distract the guards, then headed for the mountain and thanked Maki before leaving.
• Maki approached her injured father and wondered why the narrator had looked at her with equality and respect.

Naoya Zenin tried to break Megumi Fushiguro’s confidence by tormenting his Divine Dogs and mocking his Ten Shadows Technique, but Megumi’s accusation that Naoya was jealous enraged him. Just as Naoya attacked, an unseen force stopped him, and Satoru Gojo’s voice revealed that he had intervened.

• Naoya Zenin overwhelmed Megumi Fushiguro’s Divine Dog: White and Divine Dog: Black, and Megumi recalled them to keep them from being destroyed.
• Naoya taunted Megumi about his weakness and his resemblance to Toji Zenin, revealing his resentment over Megumi’s inherited technique and the attention he received.
• Megumi asked Naoya if he was jealous, making Naoya lose control and charge at him with Projection Sorcery.
• An invisible force halted Naoya’s attack and erased his momentum just before he struck Megumi.
• Satoru Gojo spoke from above, saying Naoya seemed dissatisfied with his student.

The narrator rescued Megumi from Naoya and demonstrated the overwhelming power of the Ten Shadows Technique through Qu Fusion. Though Naoya was helpless before him, the narrator chose not to kill him, refusing to become like the man who had once abused him.

• The narrator arrived at the Back Mountain training ground, suppressed Naoya’s Projection Sorcery, and comforted the exhausted Megumi.
• Naoya cursed the narrator and tried to reactivate his technique, while the narrator confronted him for insulting the Ten Shadows Technique.
• The narrator used Phantom Parade to summon Qu Fusion, which landed before Naoya and left him terrified and unable to move.
• Remembering how Naoya had once used him as a human shield, the narrator considered ordering Qu Fusion to kill him but decided against a cheap slaughter.

After finding Megumi Fushiguro, the exhausted narrator arranged for Mei Mei to take him to Satoru while they stayed behind to face the Zenin Clan’s elite. The Hei trapped Qu Fusion and restrained the narrator, but Megumi escaped by crow, and the narrator summoned Great Serpent to attack Ranta Zenin.

• The narrator called Mei Mei and asked her to use Black Bird Manipulation to escort Megumi Fushiguro to Satoru while the narrator held off the Zenin Clan.
• As the Hei approached, the narrator grabbed Naoya Zenin and told Megumi to leave with Mei Mei’s crows, promising to handle the danger.
• Chojuro Zenin raised stone hands to trap Qu Fusion, and Jinichi Zenin battered the shikigami down with Meteor Punch before Chojuro sealed it in stone.
• Ranta Zenin restrained the narrator with his cursed technique while calling for Naoya, but Mei Mei’s crows carried Megumi away from the battlefield.
• The narrator resisted Ranta’s restraint, summoned Great Serpent, and sent it straight at him.

You used the Great Serpent’s death to fuse its power with Qu Fusion, creating a Chimera that overwhelmed the Zenin Clan’s elite forces. Naobito Zenin defeated you after you ran out of cursed energy, and the chapter ended with Megumi Fushiguro arriving at the battlefield.

• You let the Great Serpent die so its power could fuse with Qu Fusion and create the Chimera.
• The Chimera swept away the Kukuru Unit, struck down Jinichi Zenin, knocked Changshoulang unconscious, and subdued Ranta.
• You used Nagi Daytime Prohibition to counter Naobito Zenin’s Projection Sorcery, but he outmaneuvered you in close combat.
• You stopped the Chimera from striking you, allowing Naobito to restore Projection Sorcery’s twenty-four-frame rule and freeze you.
• Naobito kicked you through a tree and into a boulder, while the Chimera dissolved after your cursed energy was exhausted.
• Naobito noticed Megumi Fushiguro arriving with two shikigami and wondered why Toji’s son was there.

Li Shunchen recovered after his fight with the Zenin Clan and learned that Naobito had let him and Megumi leave while the clan covered up the incident. He was promoted to Grade 1 with Satoru Gojo’s protection, then returned to the Zenin estate as an honored guest.

• Li Shunchen woke in Mei Mei’s car beside the sleeping Megumi Fushiguro and healed his injuries with Reverse Cursed Technique.
• Mei Mei told Li Shunchen that Naobito Zenin had released them after an unspoken understanding and asked him to bring good liquor if he visited again.
• The Zenin Clan concealed the fight, and Jujutsu Headquarters promoted Li Shunchen to Grade 1 while Satoru Gojo helped stop the higher-ups from pursuing him.
• Satoru Gojo teased Li Shunchen for facing the Zenin Clan alone, and Li promised to tell him next time.
• A week later, Li Shunchen returned to the Zenin estate with Mei Mei’s arrangements and watched the guards greet him with fearful deference.

Li Shunchen visited Naobito Zenin at the Zenin estate, where Naobito questioned whether his restraint during the violent assault had truly been rational. The chapter ended with Li Shunchen accepting and drinking the cup of liquor Naobito offered.

• Ranta Zenin respectfully escorted Li Shunchen through the estate, where repairs were underway after the battle.
• Ogi Zenin passed Li Shunchen with visible hatred but did not challenge him.
• Naobito Zenin welcomed Li Shunchen and offered him a cup of liquor as both a courtesy and a test.
• Li Shunchen declined the drink, saying he preferred to keep his thinking rational.
• Naobito argued that Li Shunchen’s calculated violence and restraint during the assault were not rational, but showed he knew exactly what he was doing.
• Li Shunchen accepted Naobito’s next cup and drank it in one gulp.

Li Shunchen explained to Naobito Zenin why he had rescued Megumi without involving Satoru Gojo and had stayed behind to accept responsibility for the damage. After testing Li Shunchen’s strength, Naobito agreed to reconsider Megumi’s return as clan head once his teacher had prepared him to lead the Zenin Clan.

• Li Shunchen choked on the strong liquor, then told Naobito Zenin that Satoru Gojo had entrusted him with teaching Megumi Fushiguro.
• Li Shunchen explained that involving Satoru would have led to a worse confrontation, and that he had stayed behind to take responsibility for the injuries and damage he caused.
• Naobito Zenin recognized Li Shunchen’s unusually ordinary sense of responsibility and considered whether Megumi might have a better future with him than within the decaying clan.
• Naobito Zenin drank heavily and launched a surprise attack using Projection Sorcery, but Li Shunchen countered it with Nagi Daytime Prohibition and Phantom Parade.
• After confirming Li Shunchen’s power, Naobito Zenin said he would reconsider Megumi’s becoming clan head once Li Shunchen had prepared him to lead the Zenin Clan.

In his fourth year at Jujutsu High, Shunchen received a card that improved his ability to process multiple tasks and agreed to test Satoru Gojo’s newly mastered Domain Expansion, Unlimited Void. Shunchen emerged unaffected, and Gojo’s tests on Shoko Ieiri and Masamichi Yaga convinced him that Shunchen was the real monster.

• Shunchen received Three Hearts, Two Minds, improving his multitasking efficiency while slightly reducing his concentration.
• Satoru Gojo asked Shunchen to test Unlimited Void, and Shunchen agreed to help him and analyze the technique.
• Satoru Gojo opened Unlimited Void on Shunchen, who remained calm and described the information overload while appearing completely unharmed.
• Satoru Gojo tested a controlled version of Unlimited Void on Shoko Ieiri, who suffered nausea and vertigo for most of the day.
• Satoru Gojo persuaded Masamichi Yaga to try the domain, and Yaga became severely ill, leading Gojo to conclude that Shunchen was the unusual one.

Shunchen discovered that Masamichi Yaga had created a panda-like cursed corpse whose two cores were destabilizing it, and he tried to save it by adding Great Sage’s core as a stabilizer. After Shunchen used Limitless to balance the three cores, the panda stopped moving, but it began breathing again just as they accepted the apparent failure.

• Shunchen mistook Yaga’s panda-like creation for a real cub and urged his teacher to turn himself in before learning it was a cursed corpse.
• Yaga explained that the cursed corpse’s two cores were rejecting each other, and Shunchen proposed using Great Sage’s core to stabilize them.
• Yaga agreed to let Shunchen intervene, and Shunchen used Limitless to isolate the cores while connecting them into a three-core energy cycle.
• The panda cursed corpse went still, and Shunchen and Yaga assumed the experiment had failed.
• As Yaga moved to comfort Shunchen, the panda’s chest began to rise and fall, and one paw rubbed its eye patch.

Shunchen helped Masamichi Yaga protect Panda by presenting his creation as an uncontrollable experiment, earning Panda official recognition. At graduation, Satoru Gojo asked Shunchen to join him in changing Jujutsu Society by teaching the next generation, and Shunchen agreed to trust him.

• Shunchen convinced Masamichi Yaga to claim Panda had resulted from Shunchen’s accidental experiment, then deceived the higher-ups during their investigation until they accepted Panda as an irreproducible mutation.
• Panda received official recognition, and the outside world regarded Shunchen as his father, though Shunchen knew Masamichi Yaga was Panda’s true father.
• Shunchen received the Corporate Slave [N] talent card and graduated with Satoru Gojo and Shoko Ieiri; their ceremony and group photo were marked by Suguru Geto’s absence.
• Satoru Gojo stopped Shunchen from blaming himself for Geto’s departure, then asked what Shunchen planned to do after graduation.
• Satoru Gojo revealed his plan to become a teacher and reform Jujutsu Society by raising strong, intelligent allies, and asked Shunchen to help him.
• Shunchen did not take Satoru Gojo’s offered hand, but agreed to trust him.

After Atsuya Kusakabe begged Shunchen to create a cursed corpse resembling his dead nephew Xiaowu to help his suicidal sister keep living, Shunchen and Masamichi Yaga agreed and made the imitation. Xiaowu’s reunion with his mother gave her a reason to recover, and Kusakabe later joined Tokyo Jujutsu High.

• Atsuya Kusakabe begged Shunchen to recreate his dead nephew Xiaowu, explaining that his sister had attempted suicide twice since the child’s death.
• Shunchen took Kusakabe to Masamichi Yaga, who verified the sister’s condition and made Kusakabe swear to keep the cursed corpse technique secret.
• Kusakabe agreed that the result would only be an imitation, and Masamichi Yaga taught Shunchen to build Xiaowu as a cursed corpse requiring regular outside cursed energy.
• After a week of work, Shunchen completed Xiaowu, whose familiar mannerisms and words stirred Kusakabe’s sister from her despair and prompted her to embrace him.
• Masamichi Yaga limited the visits so Xiaowu could not live with Kusakabe’s sister, who nevertheless began taking care of herself so she could see him again.
• A month later, Kusakabe’s sister returned looking healthier, and Kusakabe applied to join Tokyo Jujutsu High as a teacher or resident sorcerer.

Shunchen supported Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami when they left Jujutsu Society, then kept Nanami’s Cleaver until Nanami returned in 2014. As the years passed, Shunchen trained students and developed his abilities, and in 2016 Masamichi Yaga told him someone from the Zenin Clan was asking for him.

• Yu Haibara and Kento Nanami submitted applications to leave Jujutsu Society, explaining their fear and disillusionment with the sorcerer world.
• Satoru Gojo tried to persuade them to stay, but Shunchen supported their decision to leave.
• Nanami gave Shunchen his Cleaver to keep until he was ready to return, and Shunchen promised to safeguard it.
• After Nanami and Haibara left, Shunchen trained students and assistant supervisors while new system draws granted him practical abilities over the following years.
• In 2014, Nanami returned to Jujutsu High, and Shunchen handed back the Cleaver he had carefully maintained.
• In 2016, Masamichi Yaga told Shunchen that someone from the Zenin Clan was asking for him.

Li Shunchen agreed to let Maki Zenin stay at Jujutsu High and train, though the higher-ups and the Zenin Clan kept her off the official student roster. He evaluated new students Kinji Hakari and Kirara Hoshi, whose modern cursed techniques provoked the elders, and began wondering what domain expansion Phantom Parade might have.

• Li Shunchen recognized Maki Zenin and heard her ask him to teach her how to become stronger.
• Li Shunchen warned Maki that his instruction might not substantially improve her combat ability, but she insisted on staying at Jujutsu High to learn.
• Masamichi Yaga let Maki study at Jujutsu High, but opposition from the higher-ups and the Zenin Clan kept her off the official roster.
• Kinji Hakari and Kirara Hoshi enrolled as official students, and Li Shunchen evaluated their cursed techniques, Pachinko Manifestation and Love Rendezvous.
• Satoru Gojo rebuffed the higher-ups' objections to the students' techniques, and Li Shunchen later learned Hakari could use the domain expansion Idle Death Gamble.
• Li Shunchen compared Idle Death Gamble with Unlimited Void and wondered what kind of domain expansion Phantom Parade might have.

Shunchen welcomed Maki Zenin, Panda, and Toge Inumaki as Jujutsu High first-years and continued training them. When Satoru Gojo proposed enrolling Special Grade Yuta Okkotsu, Shunchen condemned the harm Okkotsu had caused, and Gojo invited him to see the boy for himself.

• Kinji Hakari and Kirara Hoshi advanced to their second year as the calendar turned to 2017.
• Shunchen helped Maki Zenin begin training with Cursed Tool glasses, and Panda and Toge Inumaki joined Jujutsu High as first-years.
• Satoru Gojo asked Shunchen and Masamichi Yaga about Yuta Okkotsu, whose curse had severely injured four classmates.
• Shunchen challenged Gojo’s description of the injuries as merely serious and objected to excusing Okkotsu because the curse was outside his control.
• Gojo said he intended to enroll Okkotsu so he could control his power or break the curse, then asked Shunchen to come see him firsthand.

Li Shunchen analyzed Yuta Okkotsu and discovered that his innate cursed technique was Copy, suggesting that Rika was not created by that technique and that Yuta might be a victim of possession. Shunchen still held Yuta responsible for the danger and warned that he would kill him if he knowingly let Rika harm innocents, then left after invoking Suguru Geto and his own failure to stop him.

• Li Shunchen used Phantom Parade to analyze Yuta Okkotsu and identified his innate cursed technique as Copy.
• Yuta told Satoru Gojo that Rika had stopped him from taking his own life, while Satoru found the twisted knife Yuta had tried to use.
• Li Shunchen told Satoru that Yuta's Copy technique could not explain Rika, prompting them to consider that Yuta might be possessed rather than acting deliberately.
• Satoru offered Yuta a place at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School, but Li Shunchen refused to take responsibility for teaching him.
• Li Shunchen warned Yuta he would kill him if he knowingly let Rika hurt innocent people, and said that even special grades were not exempt from punishment.
• Li Shunchen reminded Satoru Gojo that he had failed to stop Suguru Geto from falling, then left the confinement cell.

After Yuta Okkotsu deliberately summoned Rika during a mission, Li Shunchen secretly met with the jujutsu higher-ups to discuss his status and ask for authority to carry out his secret death sentence if he became irredeemably dangerous. The higher-ups were stunned by Li’s request, and their response remained unresolved.

• Li Shunchen kept his distance from Yuta Okkotsu after Yuta enrolled at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High.
• Maki told Li that Yuta had deliberately summoned Rika during their elementary-school mission to save the missing children.
• Li contacted Mei Mei and arranged a secret meeting with the jujutsu higher-ups about Yuta Okkotsu.
• Li asked whether Yuta was classified as a curse user and learned that the Jujutsu Sorcerer Obligations Treaty applied to him as a sorcerer.
• Li requested authority to determine whether Yuta posed a danger and to carry out his secret death sentence if necessary.
• Li told the higher-ups that he would kill Yuta if he became irredeemable, leaving them stunned and silent.

After securing the higher-ups’ permission to judge and execute Yuta Okkotsu, Shunchen learned Suguru Geto had targeted Yuta and Rika Orimoto. Geto invaded Jujutsu High to recruit Yuta, but after Geto admitted his group had killed non-sorcerers, Shunchen attacked Larue with a lethal thrown blade.

• The higher-ups compromised and granted Shunchen authority to judge and execute Yuta Okkotsu, while he considered future plans involving Megumi Fushiguro and the Kamo Clan.
• Kiyotaka Ijichi reported that a hidden Curtain and an unexpected Grade 1 Cursed Spirit had disrupted Yuta Okkotsu and Toge Inumaki’s mission, leading Shunchen and Satoru Gojo to identify Suguru Geto as the likely culprit.
• On December 24, Suguru Geto arrived at Jujutsu High with Nanako Hasaba, Mimiko Hasaba, and Larue, then approached Yuta and urged him to help create a world inhabited only by Jujutsu Sorcerers.
• Yuta rejected Geto after he insulted Maki, and Geto’s group clashed verbally with Satoru Gojo and Shunchen as they arrived.
• Shunchen asked whether Geto’s companions were murderers and Curse Users, and Geto confirmed that they had killed ordinary people.
• Shunchen used Projection Sorcery and his other abilities to throw Asagirimaru at Larue, whose head exploded in front of Nanako and Mimiko.

Li Shunchen killed Larue and explained to Suguru Geto that he acted because he believed Geto’s claim that the curse users had murdered innocent people. He then attacked Geto, using a copied cursed speech command to freeze him at the fatal moment before their weapons collided.

• Li Shunchen’s sudden strike killed Larue, leaving the curse users and Jujutsu High witnesses stunned.
• Nanami, Maki, Panda, and Yuta reacted to Li Shunchen’s ruthless attack, while Satoru Gojo saw that it had badly torn the muscles in Li’s right arm.
• Suguru Geto confronted Li Shunchen over his killing, recalling their past missions together.
• Li Shunchen said he had killed Larue because he believed Geto’s confirmation that the curse users had innocent blood on their hands.
• Li Shunchen used Phantom Parade to take Nanami’s sword and charged Suguru Geto, then commanded him, “Don’t move!”

Li Shunchen severely wounded Suguru Geto in a desperate attack, but Satoru Gojo stopped him from fighting on. Geto escaped after declaring the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons for December 24, leaving Li Shunchen and the others facing the coming battle.

• Li Shunchen used Cursed Speech, Projection Sorcery, Limitless, and Black Flash to slash through Geto’s cursed spirits, breaking his own right arm and severing Geto’s left arm.
• Panda caught Li Shunchen, and Yuta Okkotsu began healing his arm while Maki and the others fought the rampaging cursed spirits.
• Li Shunchen tried to charge Geto again, but Satoru Gojo stood in his way and told him to stop.
• Geto declared that the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons would begin at sunset on December 24 in Shinjuku and Kyoto, with over a thousand cursed spirits sent to each location.
• Geto left with Nanako Hasaba and Mimiko aboard a Pelican Cursed Spirit, warning that Li Shunchen and the others would meet him on the battlefield.
• Li Shunchen vowed to kill Geto, then explained that he protected people because he was a person first and a Jujutsu Sorcerer second.