Inhuman Makyo Shinjuku Showdown, Part 17

As the feverish gambler Kinji Hakari grapples with the frozen Uraume, Hiromi Higuruma and Yuji Itadori set their courtroom plan in motion. Curious about the Executioner's Sword, Sukuna gladly takes a guilty ruling, yet one missed detail wrecks the whole scheme.

Still dropping out of Hakari's domain, Uraume breathes Frost Calm to lock his right arm in ice, then smashes the block to wreck the limb. A finishing strike comes, but Hakari heals on the spot, seizes Uraume's face, and slams them down through an apartment block to street level. Wriggling free, Uraume observes that Hakari's regeneration tops even Sukuna and Satoru Gojo, and hurls a spiked icicle that rakes his side. Unfazed, Hakari keeps charging; a kick gets caught and frozen, so he snaps off the iced leg and drives a regrown foot into Uraume, sending them crashing through several buildings. Uraume decides Hakari, unlike modern sorcerers who hold back to cling to their humanity, is no longer human, and vows to crush him at full force, rupturing pipes to saturate the air.

Within Deadly Sentencing, Higuruma lays out the domain's rules to Sukuna, sure of victory because the evidence mirrors Yuji's second trial: proof Sukuna held the boy's body during the Shibuya massacre. Sukuna cuts him off, already briefed on the rules from watching that earlier trial, and confesses guilt. Judgeman hands down both Confiscation and Death Penalty. Now holding the Executioner's Sword, Higuruma figures Confiscation shut down Shrine, given the Ten Shadows Technique was already lost to Gojo. The Jujutsu High sorcerers spring to attack.

As Choso arrives alongside Takuma Ino and Atsuya Kusakabe, Higuruma recalls Yuji asking if he was ready to die, and a storm of slashes fells both him and Kusakabe. Far too late, the flaw lands: when a Confiscation target holds a cursed tool, the power takes that tool rather than the technique. What it stripped away was Kamutoke, leaving Shrine untouched and Sukuna's strength whole.

This Shinjuku Showdown Arc chapter pushes forward both Jujutsu Sorcerers versus Sukuna and Kinji Hakari versus Uraume across Shinjuku in Tokyo. Powers shown include Kamutoke, Higuruma's Deadly Sentencing, Hakari's Idle Death Gamble, the shikigami Judgeman, Sukuna's Shrine, and Uraume's Ice Formation with Frost Calm. The twist that Confiscation grabbed a cursed tool rather than the technique turns the sorcerers' seeming triumph into ruin.