Chapter 106

Yuji lies defeated by Choso, yet before the curse can settle the score for his brothers, his mind is overrun by the recollection of an event that never took place. Across the station, Nanami joins forces with the Zenin Team and runs into Dagon.

Standing over his fallen foe, Choso tells Yuji to beg Eso and Kechizu for forgiveness on the other side. From within his innate domain, Sukuna scorns the showing, branding Yuji worthless for falling to so inferior an enemy. Then Choso's skull throbs and he reels back, gripped by a headache as a false memory takes hold. In it he eats peacefully at a picnic table among all his brothers, Yuji somehow seated there too alongside Eso, Kechizu, and the six still bound as Death Paintings. Yuji even hands him food and calls him big bro. As the vision dissolves, sweat pouring off him, Choso cannot fathom why Yuji belonged in it and staggers away bewildered. Right then Mimiko and Nanako step in, and the two girls slip one of Sukuna's fingers into the mouth of the senseless vessel.

At 10:20 P.M. along Shibuya Station's Inokashira Line, Nanami and the Zenins press down toward B5F. Nanami fills them in on Gojo's sealing and the involvement of the Geto impostor. Naobito Zenin shrugs that the Gojo Clan's decline would not trouble him, which prompts Maki to snap that he should head out if helping is beneath him. The clan head retorts that Maki is the one who ought to head home, and Nanami admits he agrees, having left Nobara behind because of the danger. When Nanami questions whether Naobito has been drinking, the special grade sorcerer flatly denies it.

Maki catches sight of the octopus-like curse Dagon lurking behind a pillar, and as Nanami unsheathes his sword, Naobito materializes at the curse's back. With his cursed technique he locks Dagon inside a frame and delivers a right straight so swift that neither Nanami nor Maki can track it, hurling the curse into another pillar. The impact forces Dagon to spew out skeletal remnants left by the people he had consumed. Crying out for Hanami, Dagon grasps that his ally has died, and the fury triggers an evolution, shedding his slight frame for a bulkier, muscular one. Naobito notes the curse had been so feeble only because it remained a cursed womb. The chapter falls within the Shibuya Incident Arc and was adapted across Episode 37 and Episode 38.