One More Time

With both Yuji and Choso put down, Yuta lays an offer in front of Naoya that he cannot refuse. Though Yuji is supposedly dead, his mind drifts to a vision of the mother he never knew, her forehead scarred in the very way Kenjaku's is, before he wakes shocked to be breathing and stunned to see Yuta close by.

Coughing up blood, Naoya worries Choso's Blood Manipulation has poisoned him, then decides his system simply cannot accept the curse's inhuman blood. The deal Yuta puts to him is straightforward: report to the higher-ups that Yuji has died, and in exchange Naoya gets healed by reverse cursed technique. A flashback shows Jin Itadori cradling infant Yuji while arguing with his father Wasuke over a woman named Kaori, until Kaori, her forehead now marked with stitches, cuts in as Yuji's apparent mother.

Yuji wakes beside a fire to find Yuta unhurt and relieved. Yuta recounts that Gojo came to him in September asking him to watch over the underclassmen, flagging Yuji above all since the boy too was slated for a secret execution. To take charge of the case, Yuta entered a binding vow to kill Yuji, yet the instant the boy's heart stopped he revived him with reverse cursed technique, a skill few know he has. With the death staged a second time, the higher-ups will eventually catch on but will count the sentence as carried out for now.

Megumi steps out of the dark and urges Yuji back to Jujutsu High. Yuji explodes, insisting he has killed people and that many are dead on his account. Megumi answers that sorcerers are not justice-driven heroes but people who must keep earning the right to exist by saving others, and pleads with Yuji to begin by saving him. He reveals that Noritoshi Kamo has begun a Culling Game holding Tsumiki captive, then lists its eight rules, including a 19-day window to declare, scoring by kills, spending 100 points to add a rule, and technique removal for those who opt out or fail to score.

The chapter launches the Culling Game and is set in Shibuya within the Culling Game Arc. Its cover gathers Yuta, Naoya, Choso, and Yuji, and the events surface in Episode 49. Jin Itadori and Hiromi Higuruma make their first appearances by flashback and cameo. Wasuke Itadori and Gojo also feature in flashback, while Hakari, Miguel, Noritoshi Kamo, and Tsumiki are referenced. Yuta wields Reverse Cursed Technique.