Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 86

   

 Summary:

With another curtain preventing other wizards from entering the lower levels of Shibuya, Team Mei Mei heads to Meiji-Jinguemae Station to find the barrier caster. Mei Mei and Yuji decide to split up to reduce casualties, and the jujutsu student comes face to face with a very "smart" cursed spirit.

Plot:

Mei Mei manipulates the crows with her cursed technique and orders them to investigate Meiji-Jingumae Station. She can share a vision with them and sends in some crows to search the interior before her team moves in.

Yuji wants to move in, but Ui Ui explains that his sister needs to focus. Mei Mei finishes and asks Yuji if he would like to cast a bunch of weak or strong curses. She knows he would like the latter and explains the situation to him.

There are five underground levels in the station and the curtain is above BF1. The transformed humans attack the civilians in B4F and force them down to B5F on the Fukutoshin Line platform. A curtain prohibits wizards from entering B5F, and some of the Mei Mei crows were brought out between B1F and B2F. The curtain caster will be there as it is an ideal position given the barrier conditions and the enemy's plan to prevent civilians from escaping to the upper floors. Yuji asks if Mahito is down in B5F, the ward's main point, but Mei Mei isn't sure, though she says it's very likely considering the transformed people inside.

Mei Mei doesn't want to break up with them, but she has to if they want to save anyone at B4F. Mei Mei enters exit seven on the opposite side of the station and heads down to save the civilians. At the same time, he instructs Yuji to enter here at exit 2 and find the curtain caster. Their best case scenario is when they regroup, the curtain goes up and they discover the enemy's target in B5F. Yuji assures Mei Mei that it will be as he is done losing.

At 21:03 in the B2F of Meiji-Jingueme Station, Yuji discovered a Grasshopper curse eating the head of a deceased man. Yuji is revolted by the scene and the curse, who claims to be smart, recognizes that Yuji is a jujutsu wizard because he is smart. Yuji asks about the "curse of the patches" and Grasshopper reveals that Mahito is downstairs. Gojo sensei told Yuji that barrier techniques can be difficult even for strong wizards with innate techniques. Yuji doubts that Grasshopper can do both like Gojo, and realizes that the curse seems to be guarding a mysterious stake sticking out of the ground. He realizes that Grasshopper claimed he needed to "protect" the curtain and decides that the thing sticking out of the ground is his target.

The Curse of the Grasshopper tells Yuji that transformed people don't taste as good as normal and that he knows because he's smart. Annoyed, Yuji kicks the curse into the wall, cracking the surface with the impact. He quickly follows up with a direct punch to the grasshopper's torso, saying that curses need to stop looking down on people. The grasshopper says that Yuji is not smart and those who are not smart die. He asks what kind of curse Yuji thinks it is, and Yuji is able to understand the obvious answer. This makes the Grasshopper curse realize that Yuji is actually smart.