Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 22

   

Summary:

Kento Nanami and Mahito were their battle under Kawasaki City. Above ground, Yuji contacts Junpei for the first time.

 

Plot:

Nanami compares Mahito to Satoru Gojo in terms of their superficial attitudes and deep dark power. She wraps her hands in cursed energy and attacks, but Nanami deflects both hands and kicks Mahito back. Nanami pulls out her blunt sword and exposes Mahito's weak spots. Mahito tries to guard Nanami's blade with cursed energy, but his arm is split most of the way.

Mahito examines his hand hanging by a thread and asks if it is Nanami's cursed technique. Seeing that this is obvious, Nanami expresses her displeasure with open-ended questions. Curse says he's glad his opponent is willing to talk, and Nanami decides to talk to him to get more information about his intelligence level. Nanami has reason to believe that Mahito is directly connected to another unregistered special class that Gojo encountered.

Suddenly, Mahito asks Nanami if the human body or soul came first. Nanami teases him and says the body came first, but Mahito disagrees. He believes that the soul should always exist first and the body should be modeled from the shape of the soul. Mahito fixes his arm, but claims that he is not healing it with the normal method that a curse would use. Instead, Mahito reveals his cursed technique: Idle Transfiguration, an ability that allows one to transfigure one's soul. By enhancing the shape of his own soul, he is able to reform his own body as well as others.

Mahito pulls out several small people that he disfigures and uses Idle Transfiguration to transform one of them into a full-sized curse-like being. He wants to experiment on a powerful jujutsu wizard and see if they survive the process. Nanami ignores Mahita and checks the time on her watch. He calculates the time he has been working and realizes that he has to leave in the next half hour to avoid overtime.

Jinpe Junpei meets one of his teachers named Sotomura. He asks Junpei why he wasn't at his friend's funerals, which upsets Junpei. Junpei asks Sotomura how people in their profession can continue to live in ignorance of the real world. He prepares to use the cursed technique, but Yuji interrupts him to stop the cursed spirit that Ijichi released to test Junpei's consciousness. Five minutes before, Ijichi had messed up the mission by releasing the curses too early while Junpei was talking to Sotomura.

Yuji interrupts their conversation, angering Sotomura, who asks Yuji not to be rude. To get rid of the annoying man, Yuji takes his pants and runs away with them. Once Sotomura leaves the area, Yuji returns to talk to Junpei alone. Junpei comments that Yuji could have dragged him away instead, but Yuji replies that he noticed that Junpei doesn't like the guy anyway.

Meanwhile, Mahito is taunting the Level 1 wizard underground, who was slightly injured. Nanami ignores Mahita and notices the time on her watch. Mahito realizes that Nanami's cursed energy has suddenly increased. Namami focuses on Mahita and reveals that he is now working overtime.