Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 77

   

 Summary:

Suguru meets Yuki Tsukuma, a wizard of the third special class. They teach Suguru even more about how they can fight curses. However, he allows this to warp his morals and must decide how he feels about non-wizards.

Plot:

A woman walks into the room with Suguru and Haibara to ask them what kind of girl they are. Suguru questions her identity while Haibara responds by claiming that she can tell that she is not a bad person. Shortly after, he leaves Suguru and the woman alone. He introduces himself as a special class wizard, Yuki Tsukumo. Suguru learned about her as a special class that doesn't go on missions or go overseas.

Yuki explains that while Jujutsu High treats the symptoms, she wants to get to the root cause of the curses. This results in a bit of tension between the two sides as they don't see eye to eye. Confused by what she thinks is the root cause, Suguru explains that she longs for a world where curses don't exist. She asks him what curses are and Suguru is able to explain that curses are born from negative energy that escapes from people. Because this is the case, there are only two ways to create a world where humans don't exist.

He must completely eradicate the cursed energy from all humans or teach humans to control it. Toji Zenin was a model case for the former. He was the only person Yuki had found in the entire world who didn't have any cursed energy at all. His celestial restriction granted him enhanced senses as well as the ability to resist curses. He was truly superhuman, and Yuki tells Suguru that there is no shame in losing to someone as powerful as him. Yuki wanted to examine him, but he refused her.

Cases of celestial restriction are rare, so Yuki decides to focus on the second option to eradicate the curses. Yuki informs Suguru that except when wizards die and become curses, wizards cannot cause curses. Cursed energy doesn't drain from wizards at nearly the same rate as non-wizards. This is due to the difference in the amount of cursed energy that wizards use and how it flows while contained within their bodies. In a general sense, if every person became a wizard, it would be impossible for curses to exist.

Shocked and still being chased by the star's followers, Suguru asks Yuki why they shouldn't just kill every non-magical person. Right after that, he snaps out of it and Yuki gives him a serious answer. Weeding out non-magicians to force evolution might be the easiest, but also the craziest route. She asks Suguru if he hates non-magicians and he is unable to answer.

Suguru used to believe that wizards exist to protect non-magicians, but now he doesn't know if humanity is worth fighting for. Yuki confirms that Suguru has to choose between looking down and the non-magicians and resists the feeling before getting on his bike and riding off. Before leaving on the motorbike, Yuki says that she would like the three special classes to descend and reveals that Master Tengen has stabilized.

Sometime later, Suguru and Kento are at the morgue mourning Haibara's death. Kento believed that it was supposed to be a simple mission to remove the 2nd rank cursed spirit. However, in the remote area they were traveling to, the curse was the subject of a guardian deity religion. As the deity of the area, it became more powerful and was supposed to be rank 1. Suguru tells Kento to rest and assures him that Satoru will complete the mission. Kento says that Satoru should take on every mission alone from now on.

This makes Suguru think about how starting a wizard is like running a marathon. The finish line is too unclear and at the end of the journey there is nothing but a mountain of dead corpses of fellow wizards. The next month in September, Suguru is sent on a mission to investigate a village where a cursed spirit has been abducting people and causing abnormal deaths. Suguru is able to exorcise the curse, but ends up finding two young girls who have been beaten and locked in a cage.

Suguru tries to tell them that they are not the cause of this incident, but the non-wizards call them monsters like their parents who should have died at birth. When Suguru heard enough, he unleashed his cursed spirits on the people and accepted his true feelings. Suguru murders one hundred and twelve non-wizards and then flees.

The original target of this mission, a cursed spirit that was plaguing the village, was found to be the culprit after all the people found the head. However, further investigation revealed remnants of Suguru's curse manipulation technique.