Chapter 90

The plot by Pseudo-Geto to seal Satoru Gojo enters its last stage. Made to confront the dead best friend he slew himself, Gojo grasps the shocking truth as Prison Realm drags him into its grip.

Prison Realm is named as the final remnant of the Buddhist monk Genshin, a breathing barrier that can seal absolutely anything, Gojo included. In a flashback, Geto spells out its terms to his allies: for sixty seconds the target has to stay inside a radius of four meters. Jogo scoffed that no one could hold Gojo that long and threatened to incinerate Geto, who promised his notion of a minute was not meant literally. Returning to the present, Geto commands the artifact to open, and it tears free of its talisman, swelling into a single-eyed curse with flesh draped over each face of the cube. Its eye fixes on Gojo, who tries at once to bolt, only for Geto to reveal himself and hail him as though they remained friends.

Confused, Gojo cannot square the figure before him with the Suguru he killed almost a year earlier, and his Six Eyes deny every possibility. Geto explains that the minute he quoted meant a minute as measured through Gojo's enhanced Six Eyes brain, so even a fleeting instant had passed ages ago. Prison Realm binds Gojo, freezing him and severing all reach to his cursed energy; he names it checkmate yet still demands who the man is, certain deep down that the real Suguru died long ago and a fraud now stands before him. Geto pulls the stitches from his scalp to expose a brain-shaped curse lodged in Suguru's head, a being whose technique lets it inhabit sorcerers and use their innate abilities, having claimed curse manipulation to set this exact snare. When Gojo trusts that Yuta Okkotsu will succeed him, Pseudo-Geto retorts that Yuta cannot become the next Gojo unless he draws on the power born of having cursed the soul belonging to Rika Orimoto, then bids him goodbye until the new world. Far down the platform, Yuji halts, discovers a tiny Mechamaru-like device on his ear, and hears Kokichi Muta asking whether his voice carries.

This Shibuya Incident Arc chapter ran in issue 6-7 of 2020, sits in Volume 11, and was adapted across Episode 33 and Episode 34. It concludes the Satoru Gojo versus Mahito's Group battle and features the Prison Realm cursed object and Cursed Spirit Manipulation. Page 3 first omitted Geto's forehead stitches, a mistake corrected in the volume edition.