Hidden Inventory, Part 2

The girl meant to merge with Tengen, Riko Amanai, identifies herself to the two teenage sorcerers and is granted one last visit with her classmates. That goodwill detour turns dangerous once a hefty reward for her capture circulates among curse users, who close in fast.

Tea in hand, Geto keeps Kokun trapped under a spirit and then flashes a photo proving Bayer fell to Gojo, which collapses Q outright. Over at the racetrack, Shiu Kong catches Toji burning the association's advance on losing bets rather than tracking the vessel. Toji's stated plan is attrition, not a direct clash, and his own son Megumi has slipped his memory entirely. When Riko regains consciousness she swings at the boys, distrustful, until Misato walks in and defuses things. Stung by a remark about having no friends, the girl requests a stop at Renchoku Girls' Junior High, a wish Yaga confirms aligns with what Tengen wants.

Posting the bounty on a hidden web board, Toji floods the campus with attackers. Geto bides his time against an old shikigami user, drawing him into close quarters and battering him with raw combat skill before pressing him for his employer. Gojo, meanwhile, hauls Riko out of her music room just as a sack-faced enemy locks on; Misato cripples that foe with a low strike, and Geto surfaces with word that the reward expires at 11 the next morning. Gojo himself then untangles a cloning ability that spawns five interchangeable bodies, scatters them with Blue, whiffs his debut Red, and ends it with a fist. Floating beside him, Riko opens a phone alert that Misato has been taken.

Airing in Japan on July 13, 2023, this second chapter of the Gojo's Past Arc draws from chapters sixty-seven through sixty-nine alongside one page of seventy-four. New dialogue has Geto longing to wield reverse cursed technique the way Shoko does, complete with a flashback of her botched explanation, and the cafe sequence with Toji runs longer. Proud of what she represents, Riko leans fully into being Tengen's vessel, while Geto pays Misato the compliment of calling her the girl's family. Because no one in centuries has carried both Limitless and the Six Eyes the way Gojo does, Toji stays certain no rival reaches the target.