That Day

Just before the final exchange, Yuji attempts to stir any shred of humanity left in the King of Curses by guiding him on an unhurried tour of his old hometown. The pair drift through streets, a park, and farmland as Yuji reminisces. Sukuna plays along, yet the boy's kindness gradually exposes a purpose the curse finds unbearable.

Stepping out of the station, Sukuna remarks that ferocious duels can occasionally conjure a shared imaginary scene born from cursed energy, then begins to suspect this place is really Yuji's domain. Yuji owns up to his own uncertainty and asks only for a chance to talk. He recounts living in the town until age six or seven on account of his grandfather Wasuke's job, then coming back roughly a decade later for a friend's funeral to find the place decayed. In a park, he mislabels hydrangeas as morning glories, and Sukuna corrects him, saying the name came from Megumi's memories while insisting he never dug deeper into them. They scoop crayfish from a pond, pass a department store, drop by a farm Wasuke once brought him to, and attempt archery, where Sukuna's Heian-era prowess shows. Pressed at last for his real aim, Yuji lays out a changed outlook: a person's worth rests in the small memories left in others, and he cannot pardon anyone who treats people as disposable tools, the very ideology Sukuna lives by. Catching on that Yuji is extending pity and mercy, the curse erupts in fury and swears to butcher everyone the boy holds dear.

Numbered 265 in the series, this chapter falls under the Shinjuku Showdown Arc and was gathered into Volume 30, carrying the Japanese title Ano Hi. Its domain reconstructs genuine spots across Kitakami and Shizukuishi in Iwate Prefecture, among them Koiwai Farm and Kitakami Station. No formal fighting takes place; the installment instead works as a character study of the connection and divide separating Yuji and Sukuna.