Summary:
Nanami and Mahita’s clash comes to a messy conclusion as Yuji befriends Junpei in movies and even meets his mother. However, after her mysterious death, Junpei’s heart falls on a dark path. Will Yuji be able to save him?
Plot:
As Nanami goes into overtime, Mahito realizes that he used the time promise to limit himself to gain more power once he goes into overtime. Nanami reveals her technique, further increasing his power and forcing Mahito to take him seriously. The wizard runs at great speed, considering two options as the curse continues to haunt him. He can either try to wear Mahita down until he runs out of cursed energy, which isn’t practical. Or he can try to wipe him out with full power in one blow.
Nanami jumps and hits one of the walls with Ratio Technique: Collapse, an extended cursed technique, causing Nanami’s powerful blow to shatter the wall with a shock wave of streaks of his cursed energy. Mahito decides to avoid this attack, but Nanami suddenly cuts off his leg and announces that she is retreating. Shortly after, falling debris from the wall hits the curse and appears to crush him.
Meanwhile, Yuji and Junpei are still together in front of some stairs near the river. Yuji tries to get in touch with Ijichi, but is busy trying to catch the other fly’s head. While thinking about what to do, Junpei recognizes an intricate button on his uniform and realizes that Yuji is a wizard. Yuji decides to be blunt and asks about what happened at the movie theater, but Junpei denies seeing anything, claiming that he only saw the curses recently.
Yuji believes him and decides to sit with Junpei while Geto watches them from above, happy that they have bonded with Yuji. The two boys discuss movies until Junpei’s mother, Nagi Yoshino, accidentally meets them and invites Junpei’s new friend to dinner. Geto travels underground to find Mahito, amazed at the state in which Nanami left things. Mahito is happy that he learned a lot more about himself from the battle.
Ijichi grabs the fly’s head and calls Yuji back, worried that Nanami will find out how irresponsible he was. Before he can pick him up, Nanami calls and asks him to take him to Jujutsu High. This is so that Nanami can receive treatment from Shoko. While Ijichi is on his way, Nanami thinks about the potential danger Mahito poses to such a young cursed spirit.
At Nagi Yoshino’s house, the three of them manage to get along well over dinner. They talk, eat and laugh until Nagi falls asleep. This reminds Junpei of how much he likes his mother and also brings him closer to Yuji. They want to watch a movie, but Ijichi comes to pick it. Before Yuji leaves, Junpei asks him what he would do if he was forced to kill someone. Yuji replies that he would try not to, as the value of life would become even more unclear.
After Yuji leaves, Junpei thinks about how people don’t have hearts. However, there are good people like Yuji and his mother, so he could never kill anyone. That night, Nagi wakes up at her dining table to find one of Suku’s fingers drawing a curse on her and ending her life.
Nanami and Yuji prepare to attack Mahito, but Nanami doesn’t want Yuji to be forced to kill the transformed people. He asks him to continue watching Junpei, which Mahito misleads. The curse pours into Junpei’s broken heart and shows his anger towards Shoto Ito, the same student who kicked him out of the film club.
Junpei returns to school after wearing his mother’s black clothes. Mahito and Geto watch from a distance, with the former throwing a curtain over the entire place. They plan to use Yuji to make a binding promise with Sukuna using Junpei. They were also the ones who placed Sukun’s finger on Junpei’s house.
All the students in the school hall faint when Junpei enters the room. Only Shota and teacher Sotomura remain conscious. Junpei asks Shota if he’s the one who put the finger in his house, but the student has no idea what he’s talking about. The newly awakened wizard uses jujutsu to poison Shoto’s skin and beats him up before picking up his battered body.
Just before Junpei can kill him, Yuji enters the gym and yells at his friend what is going on. Junpei simply tells the jujutsu wizard to stay out of it.