Chapter 30

Trapped in Mahito's Domain Expansion and staring down certain death, Nanami reflects on the path he took after he walked away from Jujutsu High. He had become a private banker minding the fortunes of the wealthy without ever truly helping a soul, until a modest kindness toward a young woman revealed where he belonged. The gratitude of that moment has anchored his spirit ever since, and now he readies himself to die with nothing to regret.

While Yuji waits outside, Nanami is sealed beside Mahito within an enormous black sphere. He deduces that the curse's technique ordinarily demands a touch while in base form, yet inside the Domain he already lies wholly at his foe's mercy. The flashback recounts how Nanami once abandoned the sorcerer's life because the idea of accepting a comrade's sacrifice seemed absurd to him. In those days he bought his favorite bread from a friendly young woman at a bakery and once noticed a faint curse on her shoulders, deciding it was too minor to be worth exposing himself over.

Four years removed from the school, money had become his sole concern, no different from the colleagues whose fixation on profit he resented. Visiting the bakery again, he discovered the woman could not sleep under a burden much like his own, and judging that his job helped no one, he chose to exorcise the curse weighing on her. He advised her to see a doctor should anything return, and her wholehearted thanks moved him to phone Gojo and come back to Jujutsu High, having at last known real gratitude.

In the present, Mahito offers his thanks for being pushed into his new strength, but Nanami curtly tells him to keep his appreciation, having had his fill for one lifetime. Taking off his sunglasses, he resigns himself to death, only for Yuji to come crashing into the Domain. Entering is far simpler than leaving, though Yuji stands as the exception, and when Mahito instinctively reaches for Yuji's soul on the way in, Sukuna erupts in rage. Warning that there would be no second chance, Sukuna slices two deep wounds across the curse's torso and collapses the Domain. Caring for no one but himself save his curiosity about Megumi, and indifferent to whether Mahito or Nanami survives, Sukuna leaves the curse broken on his knees. Set at Satozakura High School in Kawasaki City, the chapter ends the Yuji and Nanami versus Mahito battle and ran in 2018.