Perfect Preparation

Maki enters the Zenin estate trading insults with Naoya and pushing past her mother to reach the forbidden vault, armed with the head's permission after persuading Megumi to accept the clan leadership. Inside, she finds the vault emptied and her father Ogi waiting with a gravely wounded Mai. Ogi reveals he was passed over for the clan headship not for lacking Naobito's technique but because of his failure of a daughters, and he means to kill them both under the pretext of stopping a plot to free Gojo.

After cutting Maki down and dumping the twins into a pit of curses, Ogi leaves them to be devoured. Mai, dying, walks her sister through a final vision on a beach, explaining how identical twins are seen as one being in jujutsu, and gives Maki her cursed energy as a parting gift. The reed in Maki's hand becomes a replica of the Split Soul Katana, and with her promise to destroy everything, Maki emerges and beheads Ogi.

Maki cuts through the Kukuru unit in a sequence styled after a famous revenge film, then faces the elite Hei. She kills Nobuaki, Chojuro, Ranta, and Jinichi in turn, breaking free of paralysis through brute strength. The final clash pits her against Naoya, who uses Projection Sorcery to batter her at twenty-four frames a second, but with her Heavenly Restriction fully unlocked she perceives his technique completely and shatters his skull with a single punch. Maki then kills her own mother, and a fatally wounded Naoya is later stabbed in the back by the dying woman. Outside, Maki hands Mai's body to a weeping Momo, while the Gojo and Kamo clans move to strip the Zenin of their standing.

The episode adapts chapters 148 through 152 and introduces Ranta Zenin, Nobuaki Zenin, and Chojuro Zenin. It is the first installment to run twenty-eight minutes rather than the usual twenty-three. The massacre of the Kukuru is an explicit homage to the Crazy 88 sequence from Kill Bill, with Maki paralleling the Bride.