Chapter Summaries

Igarashi Amaha, an abandoned child believed to come from a noble family, grew up in Kitano Village while hiding his memories of a previous life and an unexplained power. At ten, he endured his exploitative guardians and remained unsure what kind of world he had entered.

• On February 23, 1990, villagers found a crying infant and read a note naming him Igarashi Amaha.
• The village chief decided to raise Amaha and eventually use his noble family name for profit, placing him with the Ishii couple.
• By June 18, 2000, Amaha listened quietly during a kindergarten lesson while the other children played and talked.
• Amaha recalled his previous life, his unexplained power, and the five possible anime worlds he suspected he had entered.
• Amaha walked home alone and greeted Ishii Ogawa, inwardly condemning her greed as she acted like his noble mother.
• At dinner, Amaha thanked Ishii Ogawa for the unappetizing meal and falsely assured her that he had learned everything.

Igarashi Amaha’s routine ended when he spotted a one-eyed lizard on Ishii Ichiro and was exposed as an “inauspicious one.” After escaping the villagers’ attack, he crashed when a syringe in his arm made him drowsy, then woke chained in an unfamiliar place as someone asked whether he had Cursed Energy.

• Igarashi Amaha counted the seconds during his parents’ nightly encounter and continued his bleak daily routine in the village.
• On July 2, 2000, Igarashi Amaha saw a one-eyed lizard on Ishii Ichiro and blurted out that he had seen a monster.
• Ishii Ichiro and his wife called the villagers to pursue Igarashi Amaha, who fought them with a fodder-cutting blade and seized a motorcycle.
• A syringe in Igarashi Amaha’s broken arm made him drowsy, and he crashed the motorcycle into a tree.
• Igarashi Amaha woke chained in an unfamiliar place, where a voice asked whether he had Cursed Energy.

Ten-year-old Igarashi Amaha learned from fellow prisoner Aoki Akawa that they were abnormalities who could use cursed energy and become jujutsu sorcerers. After the village chief beat Amaha unconscious, Aoki waited until the chief left, and Amaha calmly inspected his injuries.

• Igarashi Amaha met the emaciated Aoki Akawa, who said he had spent eight years imprisoned and explained that cursed energy came from human negative emotions.
• Aoki told Amaha that abnormalities could become jujutsu sorcerers, while ordinary people were called monkeys, and revealed that his cursed technique, Filth Attraction, let him draw in and exorcise cursed spirits.
• Aoki treated Amaha's injured arm but did not explain why he had not escaped.
• The village chief accused Amaha of being a monster and beat him with kicks and a belt, ordering Aoki to make sure he did not die.
• After the village chief left, Aoki woke Amaha, who calmly examined his wounds and said that anger would not solve his problems.

Imprisoned in Kitano Village, Igarashi Amaha discovered that his innate technique let him capture cursed spirits as chess pieces and absorb their power. After capturing a wounded grade 1 cursed spirit, he awakened to his strength, unaware that someone who would change his life was about to appear.

• Aoki Akawa questioned Igarashi Amaha about his cursed technique while the two were imprisoned in Kitano Village.
• A wounded grade 1 cursed spirit emerged, and Igarashi Amaha felt an urge to eat it.
• Igarashi Amaha battered the cursed spirit until he unconsciously said “Capture,” making it vanish into a glowing energy that entered his body.
• Igarashi Amaha awoke in a dark space that transformed into a pavilion over an ocean, where a chessboard showed the cursed spirit as a piece opposite a black general.
• Igarashi Amaha captured the cursed piece with the general and absorbed it, awakening his power and declaring himself the general.
• Igarashi Amaha laughed and cried as his strength grew, unaware that someone who could change his life was about to appear.

Igarashi Amaha and Aoki Akawa remained chained in a basement until Miss Sato arrived and began torturing Igarashi Amaha with a Cursed Tool that suppressed his Cursed Energy and magnified pain. The chapter ended with Sato asking Yokoyama for pliers as Igarashi stared at her through the torture.

• Aoki Akawa and Igarashi Amaha discussed their imprisonment and Igarashi’s ability to recover from injuries by eating Cursed Spirits.
• The village chief brought Miss Sato to inspect Igarashi Amaha, then left to collect money and her tools.
• A man in black restrained Igarashi Amaha on the golden chair called Blood Claw, which suppressed his Cursed Energy.
• Miss Sato whipped Igarashi with the grade 3 Cursed Tool Demon's Despair, causing intense pain while minimizing physical damage.
• The man in black choked Aoki Akawa into silence as Miss Sato continued torturing Igarashi and asked Yokoyama for pliers.

Igarashi Amaha endured torture by the woman, then woke to find Aoki Akawa caring for him and offering him a Cursed Spirit to aid his recovery. Still trapped in Kitano Village, Igarashi revealed his plan to exploit the village chief’s trafficking of women to gain the cursed energy needed to escape and take revenge.

• The woman had Yokoyama pin Igarashi Amaha’s fingers open, then tore out his fingernails while Demon's Despair magnified his pain until he passed out.
• After an unknown amount of time, Igarashi woke to Aoki Akawa holding a Grade 4 Cursed Spirit and trying to feed it to him so he would recover.
• Igarashi explained that he had provoked the woman deliberately, hoping she would lose her composure and finish torturing him sooner, but Aoki warned she would return.
• Igarashi told Aoki that the village chief’s money would lead him to buy more women, whose fear and despair would create Cursed Spirits and help Igarashi reach Grade 2 strength.
• Igarashi revealed that he had stayed in Kitano Village to stop the chief’s trafficking operation and avenge the women who were imprisoned and abused.

Igarashi Amaha learned how his Cursed Technique unlocked new abilities and resolved to escape with Aoki Akawa, while the village chief prepared to abuse a group of kidnapped women. The chapter left the women trapped as the chief threatened them.

• Igarashi Amaha learned that his Cursed Technique, Way of Resentment, Free of Worry, unlocked extensions through captures, and that five pawns would grant him the Shikigami Crimson Owl.
• Igarashi Amaha, having unlocked three pawns, urged Aoki Akawa to lure more Cursed Spirits, but Aoki told him they would need to wait for new ones to appear.
• The village chief treated his wound, took two syringes, and went to inspect the kidnapped women in the dungeon.
• The village chief grabbed one woman's hair and threatened her, claiming he made every rule in the village.

A girl in uniform mutilated and dirtied her face to look frightening, hoping to avoid the village chief’s attention. He ignored her and drugged two other captives, while Igarashi Amaha asked Aoki Akawa about Jujutsu High in another basement.

• The village chief beat a captive girl until she collapsed, frightening the other women in the cages.
• The girl in uniform cut and dirtied her face to disguise her appearance.
• The village chief recoiled when he saw her face, then moved on to another cage.
• The village chief injected two girls with syringes and let them run until they collapsed, then dragged them away.
• Igarashi Amaha asked Aoki Akawa whether he knew about Jujutsu High, and Aoki said he was a Jujutsu Sorcerer.

Igarashi Amaha heard Aoki explain how guilt over his family’s deaths and abandoning a junior drove him to hide in the basement for seven years. Aoki fell asleep after confessing, leaving Igarashi to realize that human nature, rather than Kitano Village, had kept him there.

• Igarashi Amaha asked Aoki about his past, and Aoki revealed that he had lost his family and believed Jujutsu High thought him dead.
• Aoki recounted how his newly awakened Filth Attraction drew curses that killed his adoptive parents, while his little brother Aoki Tokikawa sacrificed himself to save him.
• Aoki described becoming a Grade 1 Jujutsu Sorcerer and fleeing a Ryomen Sukuna finger’s Domain Expansion after his junior was killed.
• Aoki confessed that he had spent seven years hiding in the village because he feared facing those who had died, then fell asleep.
• Igarashi Amaha looked at Aoki and concluded that human nature, not Kitano Village, had kept him captive.

Aoki offered to teach Igarashi Amaha combat techniques in exchange for being called big brother, then recommended a martial arts teacher in Hua Capital. The chapter left Aoki preparing to recommend a blade style in Malaga, Spain, while hiding his concern about how long he would last.

• Aoki proposed a deal: he would share combat techniques if Igarashi Amaha called him big brother.
• Igarashi Amaha agreed, then chose to learn techniques focused on speed, concentrated explosive power, and blade use.
• Aoki directed him to find Ye Qingtian in Fochuan, Yang City, Hua Capital, for martial arts training.
• Igarashi Amaha asked Aoki to accompany him, but Aoki muttered that he might not last long and quickly changed the subject.
• Aoki considered blade styles and settled on recommending one in Malaga, Spain.

Igarashi Amaha endured another torture session at Sato's hands, ending unconscious after Yokoyama struck him with a powerful technique. As rain fell over the basement, a voice called his name, but he thought his name was He Liangchuan.

• Sato returned to the basement and resumed torturing Igarashi Amaha while Yokoyama watched.
• Sato ordered Yokoyama to punch Igarashi Amaha in the forehead with all his strength, and Yokoyama reluctantly obeyed.
• Yokoyama's Rock Breaker sent Igarashi Amaha and the Blood Claw crashing into a wall, leaving him unconscious and close to death.
• Sato left the Blood Claw attached to Igarashi Amaha and drove away with Yokoyama as rain began to fall.
• An unknown voice called Igarashi Amaha's name, but he thought he was He Liangchuan.

Igarashi Amaha awakens in his inner world and confronts the conscious shadow formed from his negative emotions. The shadow proposes a game to decide which of them survives, and Igarashi Amaha accepts, determined to reclaim what was taken from him.

• Igarashi Amaha recognizes He Liangchuan in his inner world, but He Liangchuan reveals he is Igarashi Amaha’s shadow.
• The shadow proposes they play a game to decide Igarashi Amaha’s fate, and Igarashi Amaha mocks his excuse before accepting.
• The shadow explains that shadows absorb and suffer their humans’ negative emotions, and that Igarashi Amaha’s imbalance created an unusually powerful shadow.
• The shadow says he intends to strip away Igarashi Amaha’s consciousness and explains that one of them will vanish depending on who wins.
• Igarashi Amaha realizes the shadow stole something from him and declares that He Liangchuan’s story is over and his own begins.

Igarashi Amaha defeated the shadow in their inner chess match and regained full consciousness, but his injuries left him near death. Aoki Akawa offered to give everything he had to save him.

• Igarashi Amaha checkmated the shadow, who vanished after warning that the mental shock would kill him.
• Igarashi Amaha woke outside, realized his mind had become fully active, and told Aoki Akawa he might die without a cursed spirit.
• Aoki Akawa approached with heavy chains and said there was a way to keep Igarashi Amaha alive even without a cursed spirit.
• Igarashi Amaha guessed that the solution was to kill Aoki Akawa and eat him, but said he was too weak to act.
• Aoki Akawa asked what Igarashi Amaha would say if he were willing to give everything he had in exchange for his life.

Aoki Akawa gave his life so Igarashi Amaha could escape, and Amaha entered the game with Aoki’s pawn, triggering a painful transformation by Crimson Owl. The chapter left Amaha unconscious beside Aoki’s body as a purple barrier began healing his wounds.

• Aoki Akawa persuaded Igarashi Amaha to take his life and told him to carry on and fight the cruel world.
• Igarashi Amaha bit Aoki’s throat, and Aoki died after naming him his little brother.
• After waking in his inner world, Igarashi Amaha placed Aoki’s pawn on the chessboard, causing Crimson Owl to transform him.
• As the transformation left him weak, Igarashi Amaha burned a rat that was gnawing on Aoki’s body.
• Igarashi Amaha collapsed beside Aoki, and an expanding purple barrier began healing his wounds.

On the morning of August 15, 2000, Igarashi Amaha escaped the village with Aoki and slaughtered the villagers who tried to stop him. He left the village after telling one fleeing man that his family would soon join him.

• Igarashi Amaha blasted open the village gate while carrying Aoki, drawing the villagers’ attention.
• The village chief ordered the villagers to seize Igarashi Amaha, then disappeared as the crowd charged him.
• Igarashi Amaha killed the first villager who attacked him and warned the others to take their turn.
• When the villagers fled, Igarashi Amaha pursued and killed them, including a burly man who thought he had escaped.
• Igarashi Amaha stepped over the burly man’s corpse and walked away, promising that the man’s family would soon join him.

Igarashi Amaha killed the abducted woman and everyone in Kitano Village, then waited on the road for someone from Shibuya. Three days later, Sato arrived, and Amaha greeted her.

• Igarashi Amaha questioned the caged woman, then killed her and burned her to ashes.
• Igarashi Amaha slaughtered the village residents, including an infant he found hidden under rubble, and left Kitano Village in ruins.
• Igarashi Amaha sat by a grave marker and vowed to find the cursed spirit and kill it using the person buried there.
• Igarashi Amaha waited along the only road to Kitano Village for three days, then stopped Sato’s car by throwing an apple core at its windshield.
• Sato got out of the car, recognized Igarashi Amaha, and stared at him in shock as he greeted her.

Igarashi Amaha fought Yokoyama, a Grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer who served as Sato’s bodyguard, and learned the rules of his rock-manipulating cursed technique. As Yokoyama launched his Piercing Kill, Igarashi Amaha transformed with Crimson Owl and prepared to counterattack.

• Igarashi Amaha hurled an apple to make Yokoyama expose himself, then struck and taunted him.
• Yokoyama charged Igarashi Amaha, who dodged his sweeping kick and countered by grabbing his leg.
• Yokoyama revealed that his cursed technique, Lawless Manipulation Array, let him control nearby rocks and required him to touch the ground.
• Yokoyama sent stone spikes at Igarashi Amaha, who formed purple-white flames into blades and burned them away.
• Yokoyama shattered the stone pillar beneath Igarashi Amaha and drew the fragments together, but Igarashi Amaha escaped with a chain of flame.
• Yokoyama attacked with First form: Piercing Kill, and Igarashi Amaha answered with Crimson Owl, his flames consuming his shirt and forming a fiery half-mask.

Igarashi Amaha defeated Yokoyama in their first clash and stopped Sato from calling for help, but Yokoyama counterattacked with a mass-manipulating stone technique. Amaha endured the assault, restrained Yokoyama with shackles, and declared himself a genius.

• Igarashi Amaha charged Yokoyama with flame-enhanced strength and kicked him into a crater.
• Sato tried to call for reinforcements, but Igarashi Amaha stopped her, took her phone, and taunted her.
• Yokoyama hurled a massive stone pillar at Igarashi Amaha, who split it with flame blades.
• Yokoyama used a rock fist to catch Igarashi Amaha off guard and battered him against a tree.
• Igarashi Amaha analyzed Yokoyama's attacks, seized his fists, and bound his arms with shackles.

Igarashi Amaha defeated and killed Yokoyama with the newly unlocked Knight ability, then revived Sato after making her believe she had watched Yokoyama die. Sato begged for forgiveness, but Igarashi told her she had only feared her own death.

• Igarashi Amaha tore off Yokoyama's arm and taunted him, provoking him to attack with a barrage of rock spikes.
• Igarashi Amaha used the Knight's Piece Summons to swap positions and unleash a maximum-output flame attack that annihilated Yokoyama and the forest behind him.
• Igarashi Amaha knocked out Sato, collapsed from exhaustion, and recovered for half an hour.
• Igarashi Amaha placed a compressed flame sphere against Sato's forehead, and she woke with memories of Yokoyama being burned to ash.
• Sato begged Igarashi Amaha to forgive her, and he told her she had only known she was going to die.

Igarashi Amaha took Sato to the village chief and extorted 500,000 yen for her, then left with the money. That evening, Igarashi Amayo rode through Shibuya and began whatever plan he had at 8:00 p.m. Tokyo time.

• Igarashi Amaha bound the unconscious Sato and carried her to the village chief’s home.
• The village chief recognized Igarashi Amaha, begged for his life, and agreed to buy Sato.
• Igarashi Amaha forced the village chief to pay 500,000 yen and ordered him to make Sato as “happy” as possible.
• That evening, Igarashi Amayo rode in a taxi through Shibuya as his watch announced it was 8:00 p.m. Tokyo time.
• Igarashi Amayo snapped his fingers toward the back of the taxi.