Chapter 217

Yorozu has carried a one-sided fixation on Sukuna for more than a millennium. He, by contrast, wants nothing from her but her death, a step toward crushing Megumi Fushiguro's soul. Her grim suitor's intentions do little to dampen her daydreams of a shared future.

Yorozu asks why Sukuna keeps Megumi's face when he could remake it at will, and he turns the same question back on her. Amused, she concedes both of their current forms serve a purpose. When he questions whether she will even live long enough to matter, she lashes out with two heavy ropes of black liquid metal, riding one of them in close. The pair trade strikes until Sukuna kicks her away, the blow absorbed by a square metal plate she conjures. She declares she wants to kill him and wants to die at his hand, asking what he would surrender if she won. His answer is everything. Yorozu seizes on a careless reply about marriage to forge a binding vow between them, then re-launches the fight with delight.

Sukuna calls up Divine Dogs from an unstable shadow rather than fully manifesting the shikigami. Yorozu scatters them with a wave of metal spikes, dodges a larger shadow modeled on Divine Dog: Totality, and counters with a spiked cage he also evades. She halts mid-assault to demand why he relies only on the vessel's innate technique instead of his own Shrine. Sukuna refuses because he wants Tsumiki's death to come, in a sense, by Megumi's own hand through the Ten Shadows Technique alone. Offended on multiple counts, Yorozu reveals her technique, Construction, which lets her replicate nearly any material. Her liquid metal shifts shape and volume freely thanks to semi-autonomous cursed energy, and she dons insect armor borrowing functions from many evolutionary lines. Sukuna responds by spinning Mahoraga's wheel above his head, calling it the ideal moment for a test drive.

The nineteen-page installment came out March 20, 2023 in issue 16 and sits in the Culling Game Arc, collected in Volume 24. Both Sukuna and Yorozu share the cover. The chapter establishes Yorozu's Construction as the foundation of her arsenal, with her liquid metal and insect armor as its signature applications.