Inhuman Makyo Shinjuku Showdown, Part 13

This is the high point of the duel between the strongest. As Gojo's voltage surges, the King of Curses, for the first time across a thousand years, is rattled. Everything hinges on whether Unlimited Hollow rips through Shinjuku a second time.

A repeat Black Flash sends his reverse cursed technique surging back to full output, flooding Gojo with elation as his severed arm reforms, while Sukuna, after a millennium, finally tastes unease. With another Black Flash Gojo knocks Mahoraga aside, trades close blows with Sukuna, then flings him into the shikigami and adds a third before beginning a chant. Reading the spark of cursed energy and the words, Sukuna expects Red and readies Mahoraga to absorb and adapt, only for Gojo to fire Red skyward instead. The Blue orb that earlier consumed Agito still hangs overhead, and when Sukuna orders Mahoraga to shatter it, the field of attraction accelerates Gojo, who cuts the shikigami off before it reaches the orb, its very adaptation now leaving it immune to the pull.

Gojo uppercuts Mahoraga while Sukuna looses an imitation Piercing Blood to detonate Red early. Though Gojo strikes Sukuna, the water has already fired, so he hastily chants Blue to boost its attraction, bending the torrent away from Red and into the orb. Suspended in midair, all three watch Gojo chant Hollow Technique: Purple into being, and in the observation room Yuta tells Kusakabe he was wrong, realizing his presence would only have held Gojo back. An imaginary mass surges out and flattens a vast swath of Shinjuku, erasing Mahoraga and its wheel. Sukuna barely survives, badly broken and short one hand, while Gojo, hurt far less because the energy was his own, praises his makeshift remote Purple. Kusakabe confirms that with his output back and Sukuna crippled, Gojo has won.

Gege Akutami wrote this as the two hundred thirty-fifth chapter of Jujutsu Kaisen, falling inside the Shinjuku Showdown Arc. It ran in Weekly Shonen Jump issue 41 of 2023 on September 11, was later gathered into Volume 26, and covers nineteen pages. The installment finally pays off the second Hollow Purple and appears to seal Gojo's triumph.