Hidden Inventory, Part 4

Disaster swallows the escort job once the assassin fells both Gojo and Riko. Geto charges in to avenge them and is cut apart all the same. Defeat is not the whole story, though, because the Honored One abruptly returns from death.

Geto hurls Rainbow Dragon into Toji, who is dragged through buildings yet keeps firing his pistol and outrunning every projectile. The killer details how a wrapped spirit and cursed tools carry him past barriers, and admits he located the group the old-fashioned way, following scent and footprints with senses sharpened by heavenly restriction. When Geto moves in to swallow Toji's cursed spirit, the thing spits him out, and a katana slash and a kick lay him low; Toji leaves him breathing only because he is unsure what becomes of absorbed spirits if their host dies. Hearing the word blessings jogs Toji's memory of his boy, whose name, Megumi, finally surfaces. He delivers Riko's body to Shigeru Sonoda of the Time Vessel Association and walks out with Shiu Kong.

Outside, Gojo blocks his path, alive again and reeling on freshly awakened power, and answers a charge with his first clean Cursed Technique Reversal: Red. Recalling all he knows of Limitless, Toji fastens his hundred-mile chain onto the heavenly spear and lashes out, but every thrust misses the Six Eyes user. Looking down, Gojo declares that across all of heaven and earth, none stands above him. A single Hollow Technique: Purple erases close to half of Toji's frame. Dying, Toji grasps that his hope of rejecting jujutsu by slaying the strongest had only warped him into affirming it, and his parting words hand Gojo the fact that his son will be sold off to the Zenin clan within a couple of years.

This fourth Gojo's Past Arc installment draws on chapters seventy-three through seventy-five plus the first pages of seventy-six, and aired in Japan on July 27, 2023. Kuchisake-Onna's simple domain forces a truce until Toji answers whether she is pretty. Afterward a healed Geto absorbs Toji's inventory spirit and finds Gojo recovering Riko's corpse, refusing to massacre the celebrating non-sorcerers because, as he quietly maintains, there has to be a point, above all for a sorcerer. Per Gege Akutami's notes, the staff took his light direction for the Geto-Toji clash and ran with it.