English Translation:

Yuta stands calmly, looking at Naoya.

“Looks like you’re hurt.”

Naoya glares at him immediately.

“Do not underestimate me, child.”

But the moment he says that, his body betrays him. Blood suddenly pours from his mouth. He coughs violently, trying to understand what is happening.

Poison?

No.

A cursed technique?

Also no.

Then he realizes the truth.

Choso’s blood was already inside his body. And Naoya’s body… still human… is rejecting it.

The foreign blood is destroying him from within.

Naoya stares down at the blood in disbelief.

“That man… he isn’t human.”

Yuta watches the situation quietly.

Then he speaks.

“If you want, I can heal you.”

Naoya looks up.

“My Reverse Cursed Technique can restore your body.”

But Yuta pauses for a moment.

“In return… you will report that Itadori Yuji is dead.”

The battlefield fades into silence.

Then the scene shifts.

A memory surfaces.

A young man named Jin stands in a house, speaking to his father.

“Yes, father,” Jin says quietly.

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But before he can finish, the old man interrupts him.

“If you are going to talk about that woman again, I’m leaving.”

The old man steps forward. This is Yuji’s grandfather.

He looks at Jin with serious eyes.

“You can live your life however you want. But leave that woman.”

His voice grows heavier.

“If you stay with her… you will die.”

Jin tries to stop him.

“Please don’t say things like that in front of Yuji.”

But the old man shakes his head.

“Children remember more than we think.”

He sighs deeply.

“I know you wanted a child. But things didn’t work out with Kaori… and she died.”

Then suddenly—

A voice appears from behind them.

“Father-in-law… what are you talking about?”

A woman enters the room.

Yuji’s mother.

But something about her presence feels wrong.

The truth is quietly revealed.

That woman… is actually Noritoshi Kamo.

The scene breaks.

Yuji suddenly opens his eyes.

He is alive.

And the first thing he sees is Yuta sitting beside him.

Yuji stares in shock.

Yuta smiles slightly.

“That’s good. You woke up.”

Yuji struggles to understand.

“How… am I alive?”

Yuta begins explaining.

“It happened around September.”

He remembers the day Gojo came to meet him.

Gojo had a strange feeling that day.

“If something happens to me,” Gojo said calmly, “I want you to protect the first-year and second-year students.”

Yuta tried to laugh it off.

“What do you mean ‘something happens’? Are you expecting to find a girlfriend or something?”

Gojo gave him a strange look.

“Are you trying to be a comedian?”

But Yuta could tell.

Gojo was serious.

“I’m worried about the first-years,” Gojo continued.

Especially Yuji Itadori.

Just like Yuta once did, Yuji was supposed to be executed.

“If you can look after him… I would appreciate it.”

Yuta asked about Miguel.

But Gojo replied simply.

“He doesn’t want to see me right now.”

The memory fades.

Yuta looks back at Yuji.

“That’s why I didn’t want anyone else to become your executioner.”

So he made a decision.

The higher-ups forced a binding vow on him. He had to carry out Yuji’s execution.

So he did.

“I killed you.”

Yuta lowers his head slightly.

“I’m sorry.”

Yuji still cannot understand.

“Then how am I alive?”

Yuta explains calmly.

“The moment your heart stopped, I used Reverse Cursed Technique to restore it.”

It was a gamble.

But from everything he had heard about Yuji’s body… he believed it would work.

And it did.

“This is the second time your death has been staged,” Yuta says.

“The higher-ups might eventually find out.”

But for now… Yuji’s death sentence has technically been fulfilled.

Yuji stares at him.

“But why would you do all of this?”

Yuta answers quietly.

“Because you are important to people who are important to me.”

Yuta understands Yuji’s struggle.

Once, he also carried a power he could not control.

He believed it was unfair.

He wondered why such a burden had been placed on him.

But eventually, he realized something.

That power came from him.

Yuji’s case is different.

“The power inside you… isn’t yours.”

“So none of this is your fault.”

Yuji shakes his head.

“You don’t understand.”

“This isn’t about whether it’s my fault or not.”

He begins remembering the countless people who died during Sukuna’s rampage.

“I killed them.”

But before he can continue—

A familiar voice interrupts.

“Itadori.”

Megumi Fushiguro has arrived.

Yuji turns around.

Megumi walks forward calmly.

“What are you doing here?”

“Come on.”

“We’re going back to Jujutsu High.”

The barrier around the area is starting to weaken.

“For now, it’s better if nobody sees your face.”

Megumi plans to regroup with the other students.

But Yuji stops him.

“Don’t act like everything is normal.”

“Don’t pretend nothing happened.”

Yuta remembers something Yuji once said during their fight.

“I’m sorry… but I can’t die yet.”

Now Yuta finally understands something.

Yuji still does not believe he deserves to live.

That is why he hesitated during their battle.

Yuji lowers his head.

“How many people died because of me?”

Megumi responds immediately.

“That’s our fault.”

“Don’t be selfish.”

“Don’t give up alone.”

His voice is firm.

“We’re not heroes fighting for justice.”

“We’re jujutsu sorcerers.”

“And no one has the right to judge us.”

The only thing they can do… is prove their worth through their actions.

“And we don’t have time to sit around thinking about ourselves.”

“People need to be saved.”

Megumi believed that was Yuji’s motivation.

Yuji hesitates.

“Fushiguro…”

Megumi continues.

“As long as you stay around me, you’ll keep facing situations like this.”

“So start by saving me.”

Then he reveals something important.

Noritoshi Kamo has begun a massive plan.

The Culling Game.

And Tsumiki Fushiguro has already become part of it.

Megumi looks directly at Yuji.

“That’s why I’m asking you, Itadori.”

“I need your strength.”

Then the rules of the Culling Game are revealed.

Once a person’s cursed technique awakens, they must declare their participation in the game within nineteen days.

If they refuse, their cursed technique will be removed.

Any non-sorcerer who enters the barrier automatically becomes a player.

Players gain points by ending the lives of other players.

Normally, defeating a sorcerer grants five points. Defeating a non-sorcerer grants one point.

If a player collects one hundred points, they can create a new rule for the game.

However, the Game Master will only accept rules that do not disrupt the long-term structure of the game.

And there is one final condition.

If a player’s points do not change for nineteen days… their cursed technique will also be removed.

The stage is set.

Yuji stands silently.

Because now the real battle is about to begin.