Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 31

   

 Summary:

After the battle against Mahita, the cursed spirit escapes and Yuji's injuries are treated. Nanami talks to him about what it means to die of natural causes after Yuji is upset by his previous actions. Elsewhere, the consequences of Junpei's downfall are being felt in his own school.

Plot:

Mahito falls to his knees injured and bleeding. A chain of related thoughts immediately run through Yuji's head and he realizes that this is his best chance to finish off Mahita. He rushes to the wounded curse with the intention of killing him. Mahito knows that expanding the domain was his last option and despite that, Sukuna was able to fend him off. To avoid death, Mahito mutates his body into a tall, bloated form.

With a larger target, Yuji confidently strikes Mahita's body with a Divergent Fist filled with pure murderous intent. However, this form of Mahita bursts like a balloon made of air. Realizing that Mahito is running away, Nanami chases after him until she finds the curse leaking into the sewers.

Nanami immediately calls Ino and asks him to hold Mahito in the sewers. He intends to join him, but Yuji falls unconscious after being injured, angry at himself as he passes out. Meanwhile, underground, Mahito realizes how powerful the presence of Sukun's soul is. He is certain that no matter what happens to him, the return of Sukuna will be the signal of arrival for all cursed spirits.

Mahito is consumed with thoughts of revenge on Yuji, but suppresses them for now. He decides to torture Yuji's soul in the future. Some time later, Yuji is recovering from his injuries and recuperating in a remote house with Nanami. Instead of lecturing Yuji, Nanami decides to say thank you. Yuji does not believe that he saved Nanami and claims that it was an accident because of Sukuna.

Yuji is still angry because he killed those former people and now he's not sure how he can help people die of natural causes. Nanami believes that most people are neither good nor bad and each death comes to all people differently. Trying to prevent people from unholy deaths is tiring and Nanami doesn't recommend it. Even so, Nanami knows that Yuji will keep trying and asks that he not die along the way. There will be people who will have to rely on Yuji just like Nanami today.

Nanami says that Yuji is now a jujutsu wizard and Yuji realizes that Nanami has accepted him. At Junpei's school, Sotomura meets Shota Ito. He believes that Ito gave Junpei his scar, but the student tries to remove it. Sotomura tells Ito that this is his punishment and the student replies that the teacher deserves the same for ignoring it all along. Sotomura agrees, admitting that they both deserve to be punished for destroying Junpei's heart.

Meanwhile, Yuji meets up with Gojo and Nanami. He still doesn't know what it means to die naturally, but he decides not to lose again until he kills Mahita.