Boredom

Two students from rival Kyoto Jujutsu High, Aoi Todo and Mai Zenin, travel to Tokyo to study their opponents. Aoi finds Megumi's response about his taste in women so flat that he decides to gauge the boy's strength through sheer force, which sets off a fight while Mai goes after Nobara. Only the arrival of the Tokyo second-years finally brings the inter-school clash to a halt.

The third-year Aoi opens by asking what sort of women Megumi prefers, and Megumi recoils at the idea of handing a stranger something so personal. According to Aoi, what a person likes lays bare who they really are, and since he loathes anyone dull, he hopes his last Kyoto Goodwill Event will pit him against someone with spark. Megumi, picturing Tsumiki, says he holds no real preference so long as the person shows compassion. Nobara and Mai find that funny, yet to Aoi it merely settles the matter: the boy is dull. Megumi catches the rising bloodlust and reaches to call a shikigami, but Aoi hurls him through a doorway first. As Nobara steps in to help, Mai pins her, produces a gun, and guns her down after Nobara jabs that Mai falls well short of her sister Maki in looks.

The brawl spills outdoors, where Aoi keeps pressing and accuses Megumi of stomping on the courtesy he extended by even bothering to ask. Megumi places the name: this is the celebrated grade 1 sorcerer who put down the curses the night a hundred demons paraded from Shinjuku to Kyoto. Aoi corrects the talk that he never relies on his cursed technique, clarifying he saved it for the special grade alone. To negate Aoi's edge and stay at range, Megumi fuses Nue and Toad together into The Well's Unknown Abyss, conjuring a pack of winged toads. Aoi simply tears through the guard at blinding speed, suplexes him, drives his head against a wall, and flings him up through a platform overhead, only for the toads' tongues to snare him as Megumi climbs back up, resolved to land a real blow.

Toge Inumaki ends the duel by ordering both of them to freeze through his cursed speech, after which Panda lands a hard right on Aoi and tells him to wait for the Kyoto Goodwill Event. Aoi relents, musing that the event may not bore him this year, and asks his rivals to ensure Okkotsu attends. Close by, Nobara lies bleeding from Mai's gunfire until a hurled polearm bats the weapon away and Maki Zenin demands to know what her sister is doing to the errand girl. This installment falls within the Fearsome Womb Arc and maps to anime Episode 8.