Chapter 205

With Choso having held his own against Kenjaku, Yuki Tsukumo takes the relay and squares off against the ancient sorcerer inside the empty barrier above the Tombs of the Star. Kenjaku, who possesses almost no intelligence on her, learns through painful experience exactly why headquarters classes her as a special grade. The chapter belongs to her mostly unknown power as she pressures him into reacting rather than dictating the fight.

Choso drops away through the floor of the barrier, and Yuki opens by teasing Kenjaku before getting serious. Wary of her unknown abilities, he keeps his distance using Ganesha, the elephantine special grade Asian divine curse he previously turned against the American military. Yuki folds her shikigami Garuda into a ball and boots it straight through the curse's skull, exorcising it instantly. She then closes in and lands a punch that smashes through his guard, shatters his arms, and launches him clear out of the barrier's edge. Yuki names her innate technique Star Rage, which lets her load virtual mass onto herself and onto Garuda, turning the shikigami into a weighted cursed tool. Kenjaku heals with reverse cursed technique and notes the mass leaves her speed untouched, suggesting it is not permanent.

The two fighters trade analysis. Yuki, having watched him bend gravity against Choso's attack, concludes the gravity power is a third innate technique beyond Cursed Spirit Manipulation and his body-transfer ability, and she prepares for the chance he holds a fourth despite the strain extra techniques would place on his brain. Kenjaku, in turn, suspects she wields an extension technique with heavy cursed energy output. Yuki intends to bait him into opening his domain so his techniques lock up afterward, confident Garuda gives her the means to win even in that scenario. Rather than wait, Kenjaku surprises her by expanding Womb Profusion at once, and Yuki immediately signals Tengen to set their plan in motion.

The installment forms part of the Culling Game arc and was collected in Volume 23. It marks the first substantial reveal of Yuki Tsukumo's combat capability, establishing the mass-manipulation mechanics of Star Rage. Locations center on the Tombs of the Star corridor beneath Tokyo Jujutsu High, and the confrontation is logged as the Yuki Tsukumo and Choso versus Kenjaku battle.