Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 77

CHAPTER 77a PREMATURE DEATH, PART 2

… ARE YOU INTO? WHO ARE YOU? I LIKE GIRLS WITH HEALTHY APPETITES! WHAT KIND OF GIRLS… HM?

IT’S FINE. SHE’S NOT A BAD PERSON. HAIBARA… I’M A PRETTY GOOD JUDGE OF CHARACTER. PRESENT COMPANY INCLUDED? HA HA HA! HE WAS BEING SARCASTIC, KID. OF COURSE!!

AS A JUJUTSU SORCERER, HE SHOULDN’T BE SO TRUSTING. IS HE YOUR JUNIOR? SUCH AN HONEST AND CUTE KID. GOTTA GO. HOW ABOUT YOU ANSWER FIRST? WHO ARE YOU? AND YOU, GETO? AREN’T YOU GOING TO ANSWER MY QUESTION? SPECIAL- GRADE SORCERER YUKI TSUKUMO. RING A BELL?

YOU’RE THE… ?! NICE! THE WHAT? SHE’S SULKING I HATE JUJUTSU HIGH! BUT I’M NOT LYING WHEN I SAY WE DON’T SEE EYE TO EYE. WHAT THEY DO HERE IS TREAT SYMPTOMS. WHAT I WANT IS TO GET AT THE ROOT CAUSE. ….AND JUST BUMS AROUND OVERSEAS? THE NO- GOOD SPECIAL GRADE WHO DOESN’T TAKE ON ANY MISSIONS… JUST KIDDING.

I WANT A WORLD WHERE CURSES DON’T EVEN EXIST. I DON’T WANT TO EXORCISE CURSES AFTER THEY APPEAR, TELL ME, WHAT ARE CURSES ANYWAY? HOW ABOUT … A LITTLE LESSON? EXCELLENT. HUMANS IF THAT’S THE CASE, THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO CREATE A WORLD WHERE CURSES NO LONGER EXIST… THE ROOT CAUSE? CURSES ARE CREATED WHEN CURSED ENERGY LEAKS FROM HUMANS. IT THEN GATHERS LIKE SEDIMENT AND TAKES FORM.

OTEACH HUMANS HOW TO CONTROL THEIR CURSED ENERGY. SOME- ONE YOU’RE FAMILIAR WITH… MODEL CASE? THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL CASES WHERE HEAVENLY RESTRICTION HAS REDUCED A PERSONS CURSED ENERGY TO NORMAL LEVELS. BUT TO ERADICATE ONE’S CURSED ENERGY COMPLETELY…. I’VE SEARCHED ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND HE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO’S EVER DONE IT. DERADICATE CURSED ENERGY FROM ALL OF HUMANITY. THERE WAS A MODEL CASE FOR IT AFTER ALL. THE FIRST ONE’S NOT A BAD IDEA. TOJI ZEN’IN.

BY ELIM- INATING ALL CURSED ENERGY, HIS BODY BECAME SHARPENED TO THE POINT WHERE HE DEVELOPED A RESISTANCE TO CURSES. DESPITE NOT HAVING CURSED ENERGY, TOJI ZEN’IN WAS ABLE TO SENSE CURSES USING HIS FIVE SENSES. VLP LPLR- I WANTED TO RESEARCH HIM, BUT HE BLEW ME OFF IT’S TOO BAD HE DIED. … JUJUTSU SORCERERS DON’T GIVE BIRTH TO CURSES? DID YOU KNOW… ？！ OF COURSE, THAT’S EXCLUDING CASES WHERE SORCERERS BECOME CURSES AFTER DEATH. BUT THAT’S NOT THE ONLY THING THAT’S INTERESTING ABOUT HIM. HE WAS TRULY SUPER- HUMAN. DON’T FEEL BAD ABOUT LOSING TO HIM. … SO MY FOCUS IS ON D. CASES OF HEAVENLY RESTRICTION ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN… 134

SORCERER BUT THE REAL REASON LIES IN HOW IT FLOWS THROUGH US. FOR SORCERERS, IT FLOWS HEAVILY WITHIN US. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN HOW MUCH WE CONSUME AND USE CURSED ENERGY BECAUSE OF OUR PROFESSION. THE AMOUNT OF CURSED ENERGY THAT LEAKS FROM SORCERERS, COMPARED TO FROM NON- SORCERERS, IS EXTREMELY LOW. … NO CURSE WOULD EVER BE BORN AGAIN. …١F EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BECAME A JUJUTSU SORCER- ER… IF WE’RE TALKING IN GENERAL TERMS…

… WHY NOT JUST KILL EVERY NON- JUJUTSU SORCERER? THAT IS AN OPTION. THEN… GETO… 136

WEED OUT NON-JUJUTSU SORCERERS AND MAKE THEM ADAPT TO A JUJUTSU SORCERER- BASED SOCIETY. USING FEAR AND DANGER AS A CATALYST. …GETO? I DON’T KNOW. UM KINDA LIKE HOW BIRDS GREW WINGS. DO YOU HATE NON- JUJUTSU SORCER- ERS… I AIN’T THAT CRAZY. IN FACT, THAT MIGHT BE THE EASIEST ROUTE. IN OTHER WORDS, FORCED EVOLUTION. BUT…

BUT RECENTLY, I’VE BEEN DOUBTING WHETHER NON- SORCERERS ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR. THE PART OF ME THAT LOOKS DOWN ON NON- SORCERERS… THE PART OF ME THAT TRIES TO RESIST THAT FEELING… YOU’RE NOT AT THAT STAGE УЕТ. I CAN NO LONGER TELL THE DIFFERENCE. ME NEITHER. I DON’T KNOW HOW I REALLY FEEL. I USED TO THINK JUJUTSU SORCERERS EXISTED TO PROTECT NON- SORCERERS. THE PRECIOUSNESS OF THE WEAK. THE UGLINESS OF THE WEAK. IF BEING A JUJUTSU SORCERER IS LIKE RUNNING A MARATHON, THEN THE FINISH LINE IS TOO UNCLEAR, 138

RESISTING THAT FEELING… LOOKING DOWN ON NON- SORCER- ERS… … YOU STILL HAVE TO DECIDE. WHATEVER YOUR TRUE FEELING 1S… THOSE ARE JUST POS- SIBILITIES YOU’VE THOUGHT OF BAD TIMING, I GUESS. ILL SEE YA. I WAS HOPING TO SAY HI TO GOJO AS WELL. VUM VUM VIN

LET’S ALL THREE OF US GET ALONG, ОКАУ? OH, RIGHT. ONE LAST THING. WHETHER THERE WAS ANOTHER VESS타L… …OR ANOTHER VESSEL WAS BORN… WHATEVER HAPPENED, TENGEN IS STABILIZED. AS FELLOW SPECIAL- GRADE SOR- CERERS… I’LL SEND YOUR REGARDS TO GOJO. DON’T WORRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE STAR PLASMA VESSEL.

I FIGURED. ACK! I FORGOT TO GET HIS ANSWER! A GUARDIAN DAMMIT! DEITY’S RELIGION… IT WAS A DEITY OF THAT AREA, SO IT ACTUALLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN A GRADE 1! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SIMPLE MISSION TO TAKE OUT A GRADE 2 CURSE!!

GOJO TOOK THE MISSION. IF BEING A JUJUTSU SORCERER IS LIKE RUNNING A MARATHON… GET SOME REST FOR NOW, NANAMI. WHY NOT JUST LET HIM TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING BY HIMSELF FROM NOW ON? 142

…IS A MOUNTAIN OF OUR FELLOW SORCERERS’ CORPSES? WHAT IF ALL THAT’S AT THE END OF THAT ROAD… REPORT: SEPTEMBER 2007 •PREFECTURE OCTY (FORMERLY VILLAGE) MISSION SUMMARY SPIRIT KIDNAPPINGS AND ABNORMAL DEATHS WITHIN SAID VILLAGE. THE CURSE THOUGHT TO BE RESPONSIBLEIS TOBEEXORCISED. 143

보시드들 를.!! CMY GRAND- CHILD NEARLY DIED BE- CAUSE OF THESE TWO. WHAT IS THIS? !! THESE TWO POSSESS STRANGE POWERS AND OFTEN ATTACK THE VILLAGERS. I ALREADY DEALT WITH THE CAUSE FOR THE INCIDENT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? THESE TWO ARE RES- PONSIBLE FOR THE INCIDENT, RIGHT?) NO, THEY ARE NOT. 144

CYOUR PARENTS WERE THE SAME. .!! (SHUT UP, YOU MON- STERS! THAT WAS BECAUSE THEY… CI KNEW WE SHOULD’VE KILLED YOU WHEN YOU WERE BORN.) VWN VWN… …BE OKAY I- IT’LL … LET’S… THE PART OF YOU THAT LOOKS DOWN ON NON- SORCERERS… … STEP OUTSIDE FOR A MOMENT, SHALL WE? THE PART OF YOU THAT TRIES RESIST THAT FEELING… WHATEVER YOUR TRUE FEELING IS…

OFIVE DAYS AFTER DISPATCHING THE PERSONIN CHARGEJUJUTSU HIGH THIRD-YEAR SUGURU GETO), I 2 RESIDENTS OF THEFORMER VILLAGE •WERE FOUND DEAD. INITIALLY THOUGHT TO BE CAUSED BY THB CURSE. FURTHER INSPECTION DISCOVERED RESIDUAES BELONGING TO SUGURU GETO’S CURSE MANIPULATION TECHNIQUE. OSUGURU GETO FLED. INACCORDANCE TOARTICLE 9 OF THE JUJUTSU REGULATIONS, HEIS NOW CONSIDEREDA CURSBUSER/AND SUBJECT-TO EXECUTION. 147

YU HAIBARA • He doesn’t come from a family of jujutsu sorcerers, but he does have a younger sister who can see curses. • He sternly forbid his sister from going to Jujutsu High. • He likes rice. He likes people.