Summon

Four overlapping curtains blanket Shibuya, one of which keeps sorcerers from moving freely. Yuji's hardest punch cannot dent it, so Ino reasons through how commissioned barriers work and the trio fixes on Shibuya Central Tower as the likely anchor. Three curse users wait atop it, confident the transfigured humans below will slow any pursuers. Instead, Yuji and Ino ride Nue up the building and snare all three on a single wire pulled from Maki. Yuji clears them away while Ino races for the talisman stakes that power the curtain, destroying one before realizing two are missing.

Awasaka holds both remaining talismans, so Yuji wraps him in wire and drops him off the skyscraper. Ino lowers his mask and faces Ogami and her grandson, determined to earn his promotion to grade 1. On the street, Megumi notices Awasaka's body is suspiciously clean for such a fall, and the curse user rises unharmed. Meanwhile, Ino summons his auspicious beasts against the two seance practitioners.

Ino conjures Kaichi and Reiki to press Ogami's grandson, but the old woman completes her ritual. Her grandson swallows a capsule of DNA, and she seances the soul of Toji Fushiguro into his body, granting his fearsome physical abilities. The transformed grandson catches Ino's beast and brutally beats the sorcerer down, taking off his mask in a flash and pummeling him senseless. A flashback explains why these hitmen serve Pseudo-Geto: Gojo's mere existence robbed them of the freedom to kill and profit, which they resent.

Yuji and Megumi struggle against Awasaka, whose body shrugs off every blow. Megumi deduces the curse user's innate technique is Inverse, which weakens strong attacks and strengthens weak ones. He summons Rabbit Escape as a screen, then he and Yuji bait Awasaka into activating his technique before striking with deliberately feeble blows. Yuji even checks a max-power swing mid-motion, softening it into a light punch that knocks Awasaka out with his own ability turned against him.

The episode adapts chapters covering the curtain assault and Toji's revival. The flashback frames Satoru Gojo's birth in December 1989 as the turning point that ended the golden era for assassins like Ogami and Awasaka. Ino's motivation is tied to his admiration for Nanami, whose recommendation he wants for grade 1. Minor anime changes include where Yuji dives after snapping the wire and where Megumi stands after dispelling Max Elephant.