Hidden Inventory, Part 2

Masamichi Yaga charges Satoru and Suguru with delivering the Star Plasma Vessel to Master Tengen, framing it as an erasure. The boys joke that the impending principalship has gone to Yaga's head before Suguru asks whether the mission is meant to reset Tengen's cursed technique, a detail Satoru does not even recognize. Yaga explains that Tengen is immortal, yet the technique does not halt aging, and once a certain point is reached an evolution occurs that turns Tengen into someone else entirely. Because Tengen reinforces every barrier across both Jujutsu High schools and the assistant managers' techniques, this matters enormously, so once every five centuries Tengen must merge with a compatible vessel to rewrite their bodily information and stave off that change.

Satoru likens the process to Digimon, which Yaga lets pass. The vessel's whereabouts have leaked, drawing two factions. The curse user group Q wants Tengen to lose all reason so they can seize the jujutsu world, while the Time Vessel Association, a star religious sect, reveres Tengen as a god. The merger must happen in two days under the full moon, and Yaga trusts the pair to safeguard jujutsu society until then. On the road Suguru explains the sect opposes the union because they consider it a defilement of their pure Tengen, but since they are not curse users he doubts they will matter much, so he urges focusing on repelling Q. Satoru, predictably, figures they will be fine either way as the strongest around.

As Suguru advises his friend to show superiors more respect, an explosion erupts at the meeting site and Q Soldier Kokun hurls the vessel from the building. Suguru catches her midair with a flying curse and asks the assailant not to add to the day's trouble, but Kokun demands the girl and is refused. Watching from below, Satoru halts five thrown daggers with Infinity, drawing out Q Soldier Bayer, who recognizes the Gojo name. Satoru taunts him with an offer to spare the beating if Bayer cries and apologizes. Meanwhile, Time Vessel Association representative Shiu Kong meets a former Zenin clansman who now calls himself Toji Fushiguro to arrange the vessel's assassination, and Toji takes the job. The chapter introduces Kokun, Bayer, Shiu Kong, and Toji Fushiguro, and aligns with the anime's twenty-fifth episode.