Chapter 77

Suguru encounters Yuki Tsukumo, the third of the special grade sorcerers, who deepens his grasp of how curses can be confronted. Their talk warps his moral compass, leaving him to decide for himself how he really feels about non-sorcerers.

The woman from earlier names herself as Yuki Tsukumo, the special grade who avoids missions and wanders abroad. She sets Jujutsu High's habit of treating symptoms against her own hunt for the source of curses, dreaming of a world without them. After Suguru explains that curses spring from the negative energy people leak, Yuki lays out two possible cures: drain cursed energy from all of humanity, or train everyone to control it. As proof of the first, she names Toji Zenin, the only person she ever located anywhere carrying zero cursed energy, whose heavenly restriction gave him sharpened senses and immunity to curses, though he turned down her study. Because such cases barely exist, she leans toward the second route, observing that sorcerers, who hold and channel their energy, almost never birth curses, so a humanity made entirely of sorcerers would leave none possible.

The followers of the star still haunting his mind, Suguru lets slip the thought of wiping out every non-sorcerer, then recoils. Yuki answers that culling them to force evolution would be the simplest yet most deranged path, and asks whether he hates non-sorcerers, a question he cannot face. She rides off on her motorcycle, wishing the three special grades could get along and noting that Tengen has stabilized. Sometime after, Suguru and Kento grieve over Haibara in the morgue, his routine grade 2 job having gone fatal once a curse worshipped as a local deity grew far beyond its rank. Kento says Satoru should take every mission solo from then on. The following month, sent to a village plagued by strange deaths, Suguru exorcises the curse and uncovers two beaten, caged girls. When the villagers call the children monsters who should never have been born, he sets his curses loose and slaughters one hundred twelve of the non-sorcerers before fleeing, his lingering manipulation residue later marking him as the real culprit.

The chapter introduces the young sorcerers Mimiko and Nanako Hasaba, with Toji shown in flashback. It marks the pivot in Suguru's descent into becoming a curse user. Its events were adapted into the twenty-ninth anime episode, and Satoru and Suguru share the cover.