Chapter 55

Back in June, a Morioka man called Taichi Kanada phones his building's managers, furious that the auto-lock entrance doors are stuck open; mid-complaint, a cursed spirit forms at his back and runs him through. The pattern repeats, claiming a victim in Yokohama that August and another in Nagoya come September. Jujutsu High's assistant manager, Akari Nitta, lays all this out for the three first-years while driving them to the scene. Megumi doubts one spirit could cover such ground, but Akari names the real common thread: every victim had spent two years at the very same junior high, which hints at a curse seeded long ago that has only just surfaced.

Akari steers them to a funeral so they can question a classmate who knew the dead, only to discover a fourth man perished the same way, found at a front door that refused to open. Next they survey Saitama Urami East Junior High; Nobara spots loitering punks and floats beating answers out of them, yet the boys bow and apologize, reacting to Megumi rather than to any aura from Yuji and Nobara. As it turns out, Megumi once flattened half the local delinquents. A teacher named Takeda confronts the visitors, Megumi presses him for facts, and the punks raise Yasohachi Bridge, a suicide and ghost hotspot, where bungee jumping might tie the deaths together.

Long ago, four students who never came home were found unconscious under that bridge; Megumi turned up nothing on an earlier trip, but the group resolves to look again anyway. Before they go, Takeda inquires after Tsumiki, and Megumi reveals she is his sister, which exasperates Nobara over how little he says about himself. Elsewhere Mahito and Pseudo-Geto talk over the wombs numbered one through three; Geto notes special grade objects can only be stalled rather than destroyed, and that the wombs, unlike Sukuna's fingers, can be born inside any person. Mahito jams a womb down a chosen human's throat, warping him into a spirit, exactly as the first-years arrive at the bridge. The chapter launches the Death Painting Arc, debuts Akari Nitta, Taichi Kanada, Takeda, and Kechizu, and adapts as Episode 22.