Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 26

   

 Summary:

Ignoring Nanami and Ijichi's orders, Yuji rushes in to stop Junpei before he throws his life away. After their battle, Yuji lends a helping hand and tries to bring Junpei back to the light. However, Mahito continues to lurk in the background.

Plot:

On the phone, Yuji tells Nanami that he is going to stop Junpei. Nanami tells Yuji not to move and reminds him of their earlier conversation where he told Yuji that he was still a child. Nanami believes that the curtain will still be up when Yuji arrives. She asks Yuji to stay on standby until they can regroup.

Inside Mahito's old lair, Nanami and 2nd-level wizard Takuma Ino are surrounded by cursed spirits. Nanami tells Takum to deal with them and gets him referral 1. Yuji ignores Nanami's orders and tries to leave on his own. Guilty over the incident that resulted in Yuji's death, Ijichi refuses to let him go. Despite his pleas, Yuji leaves alone.

Back in the present, Yuji lands a direct hit on one of Junpei's "Moon Dregs", a jellyfish-like shikigami. Junpei tells the jujutsu wizard to leave immediately, claiming it has nothing to do with Yuji. Yuji replies that it's not up to Junpei to decide, and Junpei states that mindlessly saving people's lives doesn't work.

Yuji appears to be swallowed up in the Moon Orbit while Junpei is enraged. User shikigami claims that compassion is a lie and people who deserve to die should not be spared. He starts to leave but stops and remembers his conversation with Mahit. The cursed spirit taught Junpei how to create a poison from his cursed energy and shape it into a shikigami. Even Junpei said that these were skills that would take a normal wizard years to learn and claimed that Junpei was truly talented.

Suddenly, Yuji reaches out from the pile of Moon Dregs and grabs Junpei by the shirt. He throws Junpei out the window, leaving the shikigami user confused as to why his poison isn't working. Junpei uses the soft body of one of his jellyfish to cushion the landing. Yuji follows close behind and Junpei tries to take advantage by attacking while his opponent is in the air.

Junpei tries to use his shikigami to hit Yuji just as he lands, but the wizard smashes the ground with his Divergent Fist. Yuji reveals that he has no idea what Junpei was talking about and claims it's all nonsense to make himself feel better. Yuji remembers Gojo sensei telling him that the best way to defeat a shikigami is to go after the user. With a powerful strike charged with cursed energy, Yuji slams Junpei back into the school through the window.

Yuji says he doesn't understand why Junpei is doing this and doesn't want to throw his life away. Junpei claims that humans don't have hearts, but Yuji says that he would never tell his mother that. Crying, Junpei says that it's not fair that he and his mother were cursed by people with hearts. Junpei, no longer understanding what is right and wrong, uses his jellyfish stinger to attack. However, Yuji decides not to budge and gets a stinger impaled on his shoulder, confusing Junpei.

Yuji tries to calm Junpei down and says they can talk as friends. He wants Junpei to come to Intermediate Jujutsu so they can find out together who cursed his mom. As Yuji tries to convince Junpei to fight him, Mahito walks down the stairs and joins the scene.