Right and Wrong, Part 3

Numb with grief over Nobara's collapse, Yuji can barely speak as Mahito savors the despair he engineered. The curse lands a cursed-energy punch that erupts into Black Flash, then beats the boy down both in body and resolve, arguing that a killer and a savior are simply mirror images locked in a war over which species endures. Just as Mahito shapes his arm into a blade to finish the kill, a clap rings out and Yuji vanishes from his reach.

Aoi Todo, having reached the Fukutoshin Line platform with Arata Nitta only to find Gojo and the Prison Realm already gone, used Boogie Woogie to yank his "brother" clear. Reciting a line from an old war epic, he refuses to accept that the mighty must inevitably fall. Arata treats Nobara and Yuji with his stabilizing technique while Todo reminds the despairing student that fallen sorcerers are never truly beaten so long as the living keep fighting.

A flashback recalls the three first-years scrambling to clean a coffee stain off one of Gojo's expensive shirts, hiding the evidence inside Megumi's jacket. In the present, Todo's position-swapping outmaneuvers Mahito repeatedly, kicking him aside and keeping the battle away from the injured Yuji. Spurred by Nanami's final words, Yuji rises and lands his own Black Flash on the curse's arm, rejoining the brawl. On a train toward Shibuya, Mechamaru delivers a parting message to Kasumi Miwa, confessing the person he hoped to protect before his consciousness fades for good, leaving her in tears.

The chapter adapts material from chapters 126 through 128 and part of 133, and introduces Arata Nitta. Several anime-original additions extend the clash, including a lengthy stretch of Todo dueling Mahito alone and a dramatic imaginary sequence before Todo's Black Flash kick, which launches the curse far in the adaptation rather than merely nudging him as in the manga. All three combatants reach 120 percent of their potential after each unleashes Black Flash.