Three years later.
New World, Tokyo, Zone B.
Yuji Itadori emerged from the shadows of an abandoned shopping mall, covered in cursed residue, dark red liquid still dripping from his right fist.
He shook his hand. A small Golden Tortoise floated over beside him, and his companion pet's projection screen suddenly lit up, displaying a line of data.
[Kill: Grade 1 cursed spirit · Tongue Resentment, points +941. Current total: 328000 points]
"941 points, huh... Looks like that cursed spirit was only half a step away from special grade."
Itadori slipped both hands into his pockets and spoke casually.
He stuffed Golden Tortoise, who was happily flying around in the air, back into his pocket, then looked up at the sky.
There were no blue skies or white clouds overhead. In their place was a crystal-clear, translucent dome.
Like a giant porcelain bowl turned upside down, it enclosed all twenty-three wards of Tokyo.
The pale blue ripples unique to cursed energy flowed across the dome, rising and falling like ocean tides. It was the new barrier formed by merging the Ten Colonies.
It had remained unchanged since that day three years ago.
Beyond the dome lay the normal world.
People had built new homes among the ruins of the cities, and thanks to the efforts of Lu You and countless jujutsu sorcerers during the Culling Game, the Ten Colonies had been cleared very quickly.
As a result, casualties among ordinary people in this disaster had not been particularly high.
But however low they were, they still numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
Grief permeated this land, and even after three years, the people had not forgotten.
Inside the dome, meanwhile, lay the new Tokyo that Lu You had built with his own hands. It could also be called