Chapter 86

With yet another curtain barring sorcerers from Shibuya's lower floors, the Mei Mei Team descends into Meiji-Jingumae Station to root out whoever is casting it. Mei Mei and Yuji decide to separate to cut down on civilian deaths, and the young sorcerer ends up face to face with a cursed spirit that prides itself on its intelligence.

Mei Mei deploys crows through her cursed technique to scout the station, sharing their vision as she scans the interior before committing her team. While Yuji frets, Ui Ui explains his sister needs focus. Mei Mei then offers Yuji a choice between mopping up weak curses or facing one strong opponent, knowing he will pick the latter, and lays out the layout. The station has five basement floors, the curtain sits above the first, and transfigured humans on the fourth are driving civilians down to the Fukutoshin platform on the fifth. The barrier blocks sorcerers from that lowest level, and some of her crows were destroyed between the first and second floors, marking where the caster likely waits. Yuji asks whether Mahito is at the bottom, and Mei Mei thinks it probable given the transfigured humans.

Reluctant to split up but needing to in order to save the people on the fourth floor, Mei Mei takes exit seven to descend for the rescue while Yuji enters at exit two to find the caster. At 9:03 pm on the second basement floor, Yuji discovers a grasshopper curse, Ko-Guy, feeding on a corpse's head. The curse, calling itself smart, recognizes Yuji as a sorcerer and reveals Mahito is below. Noticing Ko-Guy guards a strange stake jutting from the ground and recalling its claim that it must protect the curtain, Yuji marks the stake as his target. After Ko-Guy boasts that transfigured humans taste worse than normal ones, an irritated Yuji kicks it into the wall and follows with a straight punch, telling curses to stop looking down on humanity. When the grasshopper baits Yuji into guessing what kind of curse it is, Yuji lands on the obvious answer, leaving Ko-Guy convinced he is genuinely smart.

This Shibuya Incident Arc chapter ran in issue 1 of 2020, introduced Ko-Guy, and adapts to Episode 32. Satoru Gojo appears in flashback. The Yuji Itadori versus Ko-Guy battle begins, and the chapter features Black Bird Manipulation and the Commissioned Curtain cursed object.