Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 96

   

 Summary:

In the recent past cursed users were free to curse whomever they wanted. However, everything changed when a boy with six eyes was born into the Gojo family. Jiro Awasaka resents having his freedom stolen and fights the Jujutsu High School students to ensure that Gojo's freedom is also taken away.

Plot:

Satoru Gojo was born in 1989 and his presence changed everything. Around that time, Ogami and Awasaka could commit as many heinous murders as they saw fit.

Ogami killed the man's daughter, used her séance technique to assume the form of a young girl, and then used the appearance to trick the man into stabbing him in the back of the neck. Awasaka cruelly ripped off the faces of his victims and tortured them to understand the human body. They were both free to live selfishly and earn as much money as they wanted by cursing people.

A reward was posted for a child born with Six Eyes sometime after its birth. Awasaka and Ogami tried to collect but never got close. Even young Satoru could easily pick them out of the crowd and intimidate them with his gaze. After that, young Gojo just walked away, thinking that weaklings shouldn't dare to look at him.

This small action was enough to make Awasaka and Ogami stop living the way they wanted. With his presence in the world, the balance of the jujutsu community was completely changed. The users of the curse were deprived of their freedom, and that feeling of dissatisfaction has stuck with Awasaka and Ogami ever since.

In the present, Awasaka continues to fight Yuji and Megumi on the Metropolitan Expressway. Awasaka uses his desire for revenge against Gojo to fuel his anger in battle and defeat the two first years. This surprises students because they don't understand how it undoes all their damage.

Megumi figures out that it might be related to his innate technique and decides to call out a boldface lie. He says Satoru Gojo is in Shibuya and Awasaka obviously knows that's not true. Yuji is confused, but this helps Megumi confirm that the Curse User's technique is nothing like the damage nullification that could counter Gojo sensei's Unlimited technique.

Awasaka declares that he is ready to finish their battle and Megumi responds by unleashing his new shikigami Rabbit Escape. He creates a wave of countless little rabbits to serve as a distraction. However, Awasaka reacts strangely to them as he is hit harder than he should be. This catches Megumi's attention and she immediately takes Yuji, revealing that he has figured out their enemy's cursed technique.