All Chapters of JUJUTSU KAISEN: The Zero Cursed Energy Sorcerer: Chapter 1
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CHAPTER 1: THE THING IN THE BACKROOM
The curse's hand wrapped around Tonji's throat.He couldn't breathe. The thing's fingers felt like wet plastic bags filled with broken glass. They squeezed tighter, and Tonji's vision started turning gray at the edges."Stock room needs checking," his manager had said twenty minutes ago. "Before you clock out."Tonji should've said no. Should've told Mr. Yamada to check his own damn stock room. But he needed this job. Needed the money for Hana's school fees and Mom's... well, Mom's bottles.The lights above blinked. Once. Twice. Then they started strobing like a broken disco ball.That's when Tonji saw it.The thing hiding behind the boxes of instant ramen wasn't supposed to exist. It had too many arms. Maybe six, maybe eight, Tonji couldn't count while his brain was screaming at him to run. The arms stuck out from a body made of crumpled shopping bags and receipts. Old price tags dangled from its skin like diseased flesh.Its face was the worst part.Dozens of angry customer faces we
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CHAPTER 2: INVISIBLE BOY
The coffee in front of Tonji had gone cold.He sat across from Nanami in a small café near the convenience store. Outside, Tokyo buzzed with normal people doing normal things. Inside, Tonji's hands shook around a cup he couldn't drink from."You're sure you want to know?" Nanami asked. He had ordered tea. He actually drank his."I saw three more of those things last night," Tonji said. "Yeah, I want to know."Nanami nodded. "Very well. The world you think you know is incomplete. Curses exist alongside humans, invisible to most people. They're manifestations of negative human emotions given form and sentience.""Like... ghosts?""No. Ghosts imply dead humans. Curses are born from living humans' negative feelings. Fear. Hatred. Despair. Anger. Jealousy. All of it accumulates in places where lots of people gather. Schools, hospitals, train stations. Eventually, it becomes a curse."Tonji thought about the thing in the stock room. The angry customer faces mashed together. "So that thing a
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CHAPTER 3: HANA'S SECRET
Tonji couldn't sleep.He lay on the fold-out couch in the living room, staring at the ceiling. Water stains made weird patterns up there. They looked like faces if you stared long enough.Mom snored in her bedroom. She'd woken up around 2 AM, stumbled to the bathroom, then went back to sleep. The same routine every night.Tonji checked his phone. 3:47 AM. Great.He gave up on sleeping and went to the kitchen. Their apartment was tiny. One bedroom for Mom, one for Hana, and the living room for Tonji. The kitchen was barely big enough for one person.Empty sake bottles lined the counter. Tonji counted them. Seven. That was more than usual.He started cleaning quietly. Picked up the bottles and put them in the recycling bag. Wiped down the counter. Washed the dishes in the sink that had been sitting there for three days.This was his routine now. Had been for two years, since his stepfather died.Stepfather. The word felt wrong now that Tonji knew the truth. The kind man who married Mom
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CHAPTER 4: HEAVENLY RESTRICTION
Tonji burst into their apartment at 4:30 PM.Hana sat at the kitchen table doing homework. She looked up, startled."I'm fine," she said immediately. "I told you not to""Show me," Tonji interrupted. He was breathing hard from running. "Show me where they hurt you.""They didn't hurt me. Not physically." But Hana's hands were shaking as she held her pencil.Tonji sat down across from her. Forced himself to breathe normally. "Tell me exactly what happened."Hana sighed. She put down her pencil. "After school, in the bathroom. Akari and her friends surrounded me. They said... mean things. About Mom. About how we're poor. About how I don't belong at their school.""What else?""The curse was there. Whispering to Akari. Making her angrier. She pushed me against the sink. Said next time would be worse." Hana's voice was steady, but her eyes were wet. "I'm scared, brother. Not of the girls. Of what the curse is turning them into."Tonji wanted to punch something. "I'm gonna talk to their pa
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CHAPTER 5: BLOOD MEMORIES
Training hurt.Tonji learned this fast. Day one with Nanami started at 6 AM and ended with Tonji throwing up behind a dumpster at 8 AM."Again," Nanami said, standing over him.Tonji wiped his mouth. "I can't. I'm done.""Curses don't care if you're done. Up. Twenty more push-ups."Tonji did twenty more push-ups. His arms screamed. His lungs burned. His whole body begged him to quit."Good. Now the staff drills."More pain. More exhaustion. More failure.This continued for five days straight.By day six, Tonji could complete Nanami's morning routine without throwing up. Progress."Your body is adapting," Nanami explained during a water break. "Heavenly Restriction users have accelerated healing and conditioning. What would take a normal person months takes you weeks.""Still hurts," Tonji gasped."It should. Pain means growth."On day seven, Nanami brought actual weapons."These are cursed tools," he explained, laying out several items on a tarp. "Weapons imbued with cursed energy. No
Last Updated : 2026-02-09