Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 46

   

 Summary:

Jujutsu students face the unprecedented threat that is Hanami. As their strategy to contain the curse slowly crumbles, Megumi and the others must face a cursed spirit of a special grade head-on.

Plot:

Utahime and Headmaster Gakuganji walk through the curtain around the school. The first notices the presence of curses of a special degree. Juzo surprises her as he walks down the stairs to greet them. He demands to know where Satoru Gojo is and Gakuganji notes that Juzo is a very skilled curse user.

Juzo realizes that he has been tricked by the other curse users and the Gakuganji volunteer to deal with him. He asks Utahime to continue, but Juzo protests because he'd rather do something with a woman's corpse than an old man's. Offended, Gakuganji pulls out his electric guitar and prepares for battle. Undeterred, Juzo demands that the rotting bastard return after fixing his hollow bones.

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Elsewhere, Megumi, Noritoshi and Toge are fleeing from a mass of wooden branches created by Hana. Toge is drinking cough syrup to soothe his throat when Hanami emerges from the branches and attacks with wooden balls that suddenly project sharp wooden spears. Toge is able to stop them in time with his cursed speech, and Noritoshi follows up with Convergence: Piercing Blood, which fires a quick blood bullet into Hanami's face. This time, Noritoshi is able to injure Hanami and surprise Megumi.

Toge continues to use cough syrup to heal his throat while Noritoshi considers their strategy. Toge is able to stop Hanami and his attacks, allowing Megumi and Noritoshi to gain distance before attacking. However, they cannot maintain this strategy for long as his cursed speech becomes less and less effective. The priority is to find Toda or another jujutsu wizard to help them.

Nue circles the building as Megumi's group runs across the roof. He promises Nue that Toge will stop Hanami and send Nue into battle. Unfortunately, Toge's throat suddenly loosens due to Hanami's superiority at that moment. Hanami stabs Nue and immediately slams Noritoshi into the ground. Another trio of wooden balls threaten to slice Noritoshi, but Megumi grabs him out of the way in time.

As Hanami approaches Megumi, she prepares to summon another shikigami while Nue disappears. Toge stops Megumi and takes charge as his senpai. Facing Hanami directly and without fear, he orders Hanami to Blast Away! The power of Toge's cursed speech pushes him past his limit and he collapses, but successfully hits Hanami with enough concussive force to blast him through the roof.

As Hanami recovers from the impact, he notices the presence of Maki behind him and claims that he cannot be cut with such a sword. Maki slashes Hanami with Miwa's sword, but it breaks. Megumi quickly follows up by slashing the left branch in Nanami's eye socket, which Megumi deduces as his weakness. Hanami claims that Megumi's sword is powerful, but the jujutsu student responds by revealing something even better. He gives Maki a powerful cursed tool, which he claims doesn't feel quite right.