Accomplices

The first-years' duel with Kechizu and Eso, the Death Painting Wombs, reaches its peak. Triumph notwithstanding, the students reckon with the burden of ending a life, a price they had never genuinely met before. Off in the distance, Choso feels the loss as Geto and Mahito catch word of the outcome.

Hauling Nobara into his arms, Yuji outpaces Eso's blood-line attack by threading through the trees, only for Kechizu to head them off and drench Yuji in corrosive blood. Eso lays out how the brothers' blood seeps in through wounds and skin, leaving Yuji about fifteen minutes and Nobara roughly ten before daybreak. A flashback unfolds the wombs' origin: the ancestor Noritoshi Kamo subjected a woman capable of bearing human-spirit hybrids to experiments, yielding nine paintings over nine pregnancies, after which the siblings endured a century and a half with no company but each other. Hovering over a board game, Choso presses his brothers to throw in with the cursed spirits.

Nobara flips the contest by turning Resonance on herself, baiting the brothers into a game of chicken since every wound rebounds onto them. Untouched as Sukuna's vessel, Yuji hammers Kechizu without consequence. The instant Yuji and Eso each time their cursed energy down to a fraction of a second, both fire Black Flash, driving an empowered nail straight through Kechizu's skull and tearing off Eso's arm. Nobara sets off the nail with Hairpin to finish Kechizu, and Yuji ends Eso after one last exchange. Both grasp that the Death Paintings were flesh and blood rather than simple spirits, and the killing sits heavily on Yuji even while Nobara shrugs it off.

The installment adapts four chapters, sixty through sixty-three, the heaviest manga load handled in any single entry to that point, and premiered in Japan on March 27, 2021. Megumi is discovered alive beneath the bridge clutching the sealed finger. Afterward, Gojo boasts to Utahime about his students and wires Mei Mei ten million yen, while Aoi Todo and Mei Mei put Yuji, Megumi, Nobara, Maki, and Panda forward for grade 1. The season signs off with the trio called to Gojo for a covert assignment. Not since Episode 2 had an installment skipped the Juju Stroll, and this one carries two insert songs, give it back among them serving as an insert theme.