Chapter 219

Yorozu first crossed paths with Sukuna during Heian times, and for her the attraction struck instantly. A thousand years on, she is still resolved to reveal to him the true shape of her affection, convinced that she alone can answer the loneliness that real power breeds.

The flashback returns to a Heian-era Harvest Festival where Sukuna was paraded as an idol. Word of his deeds had spread, including the massacre of the Squad of the Sun, Moon and Stars, plus the destruction of the Five Empty Generals. Having beaten those same generals, Yorozu had earned standing in the Fujiwara clan. She came only for a dish her servant warned would be absent. Sukuna's sight left her spellbound; sensing his isolation, she rushed over, embraced him, and scolded everyone for letting him stand alone. Uraume wrenched her off and Sukuna slashed her, yet bleeding she stayed set on keeping his solitude for herself.

That hunger persists in the present, where Yorozu means to be his killer. At the height of her Construction she forms a True Sphere, a contactless shape held untouchable by boundless surface pressure, then opens Domain Expansion: Threefold Affliction to assure the hit. Sukuna answers with no domain. Instead Mahoraga's wheel completes its rotation, adaptation finished, and he sinks it into his shadow so the shikigami trades places with him. A lone thrust of the Sword of Extermination breaks the True Sphere, and the divine general strikes Yorozu down, crumbling her domain. Sukuna reveals his adaptation to the liquid metal behind both her insect armor and the flawless sphere. Moved to tears that he grasped her so well, Yorozu leaves one final gift of Construction as she dies. Her death claims Tsumiki Fushiguro too, and deep in the dark within Sukuna, Megumi's spirit weeps, wholly submerged.

This nineteen-page chapter ran on April 10, 2023 in issue 19, belonging to the Culling Game Arc and gathered into Volume 25, with Sukuna pictured on the cover. The match settles here, and both the True Sphere and the Threefold Affliction domain arrive as the peak of Yorozu's Construction technique.