Cursed Tools

Wielding Playful Cloud, a cursed tool of special grade, Maki throws herself into the battle with the special grade cursed spirit Hanami. Although Megumi lends his support, their opponent keeps counters in reserve to answer them. Just before the danger turns desperate, a surprising duo charges in to pull off a rescue.

The narration sets out that cursed tools are weapons inhabited by curses, rated on the very scale used for sorcerers and cursed spirits, where a loftier rank means a greater edge in combat. Before the Goodwill Event, Maki had handed Megumi a remarkable specimen carrying a price tag of five hundred million yen or more. Now, swinging Playful Cloud, she breaks Hanami's guard with one strike and lands on the branch across his face, hurling him off the building, though he steadies himself in the forest and, mending his arm, concedes the blow was decent. Out of the forest's shadows, Megumi calls Divine Dog: Totality, the black hound having taken in the energy of its fallen white twin to assume a far mightier shape, and its speed lets it rake at Hanami's guarding arm.

Charging from behind, Maki is blocked before she can reach the branch in his eye, and Hanami is startled to find she now carries Megumi's sword, then Megumi himself strikes with Playful Cloud. Trading weapons, the pair attack as one and cut Hanami's weak spot, though a Cursed Sprout infects Megumi's torso. A wooden spear pierces Maki's arm, and Hanami notes only her reflexes spared her heart, observing that sorcerers leave themselves open when comrades are wounded. The Sprout banishes Divine Dog: Totality, and Hanami coils a branch from the water around Maki, hoisting her up by the neck.

Just as Megumi braces to use jujutsu at any price to save her, Maki tells him to halt because it is time to tag out. Hanami narrowly slips past two arriving sorcerers who burst in, free Maki, and drive him back; the rescuers, primed for combat, turn out to be Aoi Todo alongside Yuji Itadori. Set at Tokyo Jujutsu High within the Kyoto Goodwill Event Arc, this chapter concludes Megumi Fushiguro and Maki Zenin vs. Hanami and adapts into Episode 19.