Hiromi Higuruma

Of average height with a slim frame and lightly tanned skin, Higuruma keeps his short dark-brown hair neat, its stringy strands swept rearward across his scalp. He has a prominent nose and brown eyes whose pupils are unusually small, and a tired, bored look rarely leaves his face, a product of overwork and the grind of his profession.

On the job he dresses in standard legal garb: a black suit and tie, dress trousers, and shoes, with the sunflower badge that identifies him as an attorney pinned to his left shoulder.

Behind a calm, aloof, and perpetually weary exterior lies an uncompromising commitment to justice. Brilliant and modest, Higuruma repeatedly shouldered cases with almost no chance of acquittal, a habit peers half-jokingly branded masochistic, driven less by ambition than by an inability to look past wrongs he could not ignore. Though Japan's courts almost always return guilty verdicts, he kept defending those he believed innocent, reasoning that while the law wears a blindfold for impartiality and society averts its gaze from hard truths, he alone refused to shut his eyes, accepting solitude as the price. The weight of unjust outcomes, and the hollow resentment of clients he failed to clear, eroded his mental state until a final wrongful conviction, coinciding with his cursed technique awakening, broke him. He demanded a retrial in open court and killed both the judge and the prosecutor.

Afterward he grew profoundly detached, admitting he cared for little and chasing novelty through small idle experiments such as lying clothed in a bathtub, all while keeping a dry wit and likening his state to a midlife crisis. He first saw the Culling Game as a cleaner brand of justice, free of drawn-out trials, and even relished killing people who annoyed him, attacking Yuji with deadly intent. Yuji's false confession to a crime he never committed made him hesitate, forcing him to confront why he became a lawyer at all, and he chose not to look away again, lending his points to others in the game. Lasting guilt over the murders he committed led him to part ways with Yuji, feeling unworthy to walk beside him until he took responsibility for his actions.

Hailed as a prodigy long before sorcery entered his life, Higuruma proved still more gifted as a jujutsu user. After awakening his innate technique, he studied the domain that came with it and reverse-engineered the fundamentals of barrier construction, building an advanced grasp of cursed energy control. Within twelve days he fought at a grade 1 level, having already exorcised many curses and slain no fewer than twenty players who came after him, becoming the first modern sorcerer to reach 100 points. His legal mind fused seamlessly with his power: inside his domain he prosecutes opponents through Judgeman, securing guilty verdicts that strip away an enemy's cursed technique or cursed energy, after which his physical strength and weapon skill finish the job. He convinced Judgeman of Yuji's guilt, drained his cursed energy, and nearly killed him, foiled only when Yuji invoked his right to a retrial. Inside of two months from his awakening, his growth impressed even Sukuna, picking up Reverse Cursed Technique and Domain Amplification in live combat and displaying the rare control to resume his technique after amplifying, a feat Sukuna likened to his own.

In direct combat he relies on a shape-shifting gavel cursed tool, smashing foes and reshaping it into a hammer, staff, hook, or giant mallet, and he can summon it to either hand or recall it after throwing it. His superior intellect let him breeze through law school exams and the bar by simply applying the effort to learn what was required, the same reasoning he turned on sorcery to offset his lack of experience. He deduced that Judgeman could not confiscate Yuji's energy because Yuji has no innate technique, and he refused to underestimate the boy's raw physical talent. His shikigami, Judgeman, is a large black-bodied figure holding scales, its stitched-shut eyes evoking blind justice; it speaks, grows impatient, and knows everything about everyone within the domain. Through Reverse Cursed Technique he regenerated an arm and healed legs severed by Sukuna's Dismantle, and his Domain Amplification cloaks him like an aura that nullifies techniques on contact, though it suspends his innate ability while active. His Domain Expansion, Deadly Sentencing, conjures a small courtroom ringed by guillotines where he prosecutes and Judgeman judges; rather than a guaranteed-hit attack, it forbids violence and forces a trial in which the defendant chooses silence, confession, or denial before Higuruma rebuts with submitted evidence, a guilty verdict able to confiscate cursed energy control, with up to three retrials each adding a new charge. In a Death Penalty the gavel becomes the Executioner's Sword, a cruciform blade of golden light whose every cut means certain death.