Chapter 271

Sent to stop a curse user who has been preying on ordinary people, Yuji, Megumi, and Nobara see the job through. Finishing it nudges Yuji into recalling a final exchange with his teacher. By the end, the dream Gojo carried has been fulfilled, his clever and powerful students now standing as the jujutsu world's guardians.

Examining Fukuzawa's fiancee, Nobara turns up no cursed seals or technique marks, which leaves a nearby culprit as the likeliest answer unless a spirit or a remote technique is responsible. After hearing the man's face only reverts, if ever, while the woman sleeps, Megumi sets the technique's reach at about fifty meters and pads it to a hundred. Yuji floats several ideas, baiting the user into the open, carrying the victim clear of the range, driving the couple off by car, and Megumi rejects each one in turn before laying out his own. He sends the pair up a forty-floor tower over one hundred fifty meters tall, riding the elevator beyond the technique's zone while Ijichi minds the entrance and the students take lookout posts.

The instant the couple reaches the fortieth floor and reports the man's face restored, the students feel the technique fire, and Nobara catches a masked figure on a neighboring rooftop. She and Yuji rush him, only for their eyes to bulge comically and freeze them just long enough for the user to bolt, before Megumi cuts him off with Divine Dog: Totality and seizes him. The captive proves to be a cabaret-club customer who soured on the woman after she forgot him despite the costly bag he gave her. Yuji reassures the remorseful man that execution awaits no one here.

Recalling how Gojo had urged his students to outgrow him in their own way rather than copy him, Yuji tells the former curse user that, once amends are made, the prospect of someday standing beside him is one he welcomes. Yuji then admits he tossed away Sukuna's final finger, sure it is now a harmless charm against curses. In an imagined coda at the passage of circulating souls, Mahito greets a dead Sukuna who, granted a second chance, conceding he had lost, walks a quieter road with a weeping young Uraume while a pouting Mahito stews alone. The story ends with Tokyo Jujutsu High students cheerfully off to their missions, and far away in a thermometer shed, Ryomen Sukuna's last finger lies in its open box, the curse no longer contained. The issue ran in 2024 and capped the Shinjuku Showdown Arc.