Chapter 33

The two sides gather to ready themselves for the Goodwill Event. The Tokyo Team works out how to fit Yuji into their strategy, while the Kyoto Team makes plans to take his life. At the same time, Gojo meets privately with Utahime to discuss the possibility of a mole hidden inside Jujutsu High.

While locking Gojo in a wrestling hold, Principal Yaga lays out the rules for the year's event, beginning with the Team Battle Spirit Bash Race in which both teams must exorcise a grade 2 spirit and every lower-grade curse in a sealed area. At the Tokyo meeting, Nobara punishes Yuji for hiding that he survived, and Panda and Toge defend him, baffling the first-year with their quirks. Megumi and Panda explain that Toge keeps his vocabulary limited so he won't curse anyone by accident. Maki then demands Slaughter Demon back, but since Yuji broke it fighting a curse, he nervously lies that Gojo still has it. Asked about his abilities, Megumi reveals that in a no-cursed-energy brawl Yuji would win, which startles the others and which Maki accepts because Megumi has fought Aoi.

At the Kyoto meeting, Gakuganji orders his students to kill Sukuna's vessel using cursed energy so he cannot be resurrected. Bored, Aoi tries to leave, ignores Noritoshi's protest, insults the others' taste in women, and warns the whole room, principal included, that he will kill anyone who orders him around before walking out. Momo, Mai, and Kasumi want to use Todo against the Tokyo Team, but Noritoshi insists the entire team attack Yuji at full strength. Momo cautions that this is dangerous if Toge is present, since his cursed speech could wipe them all out at once, and Noritoshi claims to have a counter, while Mai's eagerness to face Maki and Nobara draws a comparison to Aoi.

Gojo meets Utahime to raise the idea of a traitor at Jujutsu High and asks her to look into the Kyoto campus; when she questions how he knows she isn't the mole, he says she is too weak to be one, prompting her to hurl her tea at him. Afterward, Megumi sees through Yuji's cheerful front and senses he has been through something. Yuji admits to the weight of Junpei's death but insists he is fine because he refuses to keep losing, and Megumi agrees he feels the same. Nobara needles Megumi for his recent beating and vows to handle the other team, drawing rebukes from Maki, Panda, and Toge, and when an inspired Yuji urges everyone to win, Maki bristles at his attempt to take charge. The chapter opens the Kyoto Sister-School Goodwill Event and ran in issue 48 of 2018.