Chapter 32

Following his bout with Yuji and Nanami, Mahito heads back to his fellow curses and starts hatching a fresh route toward reviving Sukuna. At the same time, the jujutsu students from both Kyoto and Tokyo get ready for the coming Goodwill Event, and a stunt Gojo and Yuji dream up to startle the others falls apart badly.

At a mountain hot spring, Jogo is savoring a smoke from his pipe when a naked Mahito cannonballs in and splashes him. Geto remarks on Mahito's depleted cursed energy, which Mahito chalks up to his encounter with a fresh plaything and Sukuna's vessel. Telling Jogo he now understands what Sukuna is worth to their cause, both agree to revive him whatever the cost, and Geto sketches a plan to let Jujutsu High collect all the fingers so the group can later seize them. In the staff room, Nanami suggests to Gojo that Yuji could stand to lighten up after their grueling mission, admitting he kept the Yoshino-house finger from the boy. An eager Yuji shows up, Gojo pitches surprising everyone with his comeback, and the two scheme while Nanami quietly figures Yuji being alive is shock enough on its own.

On the Tokyo campus, Nobara arrives hauling luggage on the assumption the event is in Kyoto, but Maki, Megumi, Panda, and Toge carry nothing, and Panda explains the contest with Kyoto is being staged in Tokyo. Nobara bristles that the second-years already secured a win, and Maki clarifies that Yuta alone competed and crushed the field. The Kyoto students appear, Aoi is disappointed Yuta is absent, Nobara needles them over souvenirs, and Mechamaru calms a jittery Momo by noting the Tokyo side is hobbled by two first-years. Noritoshi cautions his teammates against writing off Megumi the Zenin.

Utahime steps in to hush the squabbling and faults the late Gojo, who turns up right on time, distributes the souvenirs among the Kyoto students before unveiling Yuji's comeback to the Tokyo group. So thoroughly stunned are Megumi and Nobara that they look anything but glad, and the Kyoto team fixates on the gifts, deflating the whole reveal. The horrified Principal Gakuganji recoils at the sight of Yuji, prompting gleeful needling from Gojo, while a flustered Nobara orders Yuji to defend himself and he apologizes for not announcing he was alive sooner. The chapter debuts Utahime Iori, Noritoshi Kamo, Momo Nishimiya, and Kokichi Muta in his Mechamaru guise, launches the Kyoto Goodwill Event Arc, and ran in 2018.