JUJUTSU KAISEN (呪術廻戦)

JUJUTSU KAISEN

JUJUTSU KAISEN The Culling Game Part 1

Nice to meet you.

Child of Zen'in, Descendant of Michizane, Cursed Womb Death Painting,

and Vessel of Sukuna.

No greeting for me, Tengen?

So this...

So this thing...

So this person...

Person?

...is Tengen?!

It's not our first time meeting,

Yuki Tsukumo.

Why did you close the Tombs of the Star?

I was wary of you being aligned with Kenjaku.

I can't tell what's going on in people's hearts, after all.

Kenjaku?

What was once Noritoshi Kamo.

The sorcerer currently inhabiting Suguru Geto's body.

A net of compassion and a rope of salvation, huh?

He didn't even try for sarcasm with that name.

Why are you like that, Tengen-sama?

Ballsy of him to insert himself into the conversation there...

I'm immortal, but not ageless.

You'd look like this, too, if you were 500 years old.

Seriously?

Seriously?

Since I failed to assimilate

with the Star Plasma Vessel twelve years ago, my aging has accelerated,

and my identity as an individual has vanished,

so the world itself is who I am now.

So there wasn't actually another Star Plasma Vessel back then?

That explains why there isn't a new voice.

Excuse me.

We came here to learn Kenjaku's goal and how to open the Prison Realm.

Could you tell us what you know?

Of course.

Or so I'd like to say, but I must impose one condition.

Yuta Okkotsu.

Yuki Tsukumo.

Cursed Womb Death Painting.

I'll need two of you three to remain here

and guard me.

Guard you? But you're immortal, right?

Are you afraid of being sealed or something?

That isn't fair.

You won't tell us why or how long we're guarding you?

In that case,

let me speak of Kenjaku.

Kenjaku's Objective

That man's objective

is to force the evolution of mankind throughout all of Japan.

The Evolution of Mankind Throughout All Japan

I heard about that.

But how does he actually intend to do it?

Why didn't Kenjaku use your barriers

to turn everyone in Japan into jujutsu sorcerers

Idle Transfiguration

with Idle Transfiguration back then?

Idle Transfiguration

The Evolution of Mankind Throughout All Japan

Because he simply lacked the cursed energy to do that.

The cursed energy refined through Maelstrom can't return to the sorcerer.

Insufficient Cursed Energy

Also, evolving people one person at a time with a cursed technique is far too inefficient.

Kenjaku's Objective

The Evolution of Mankind Throughout All Japan

How?

Assimilate Mankind With Tengen

Why?

Unknown

So the method of evolution that Kenjaku has chosen

is to assimilate mankind with me.

How?

Assimilate Mankind With Tengen

Huh? But your assimilation...

...should only be possible with the Star Plasma Vessel.

Tengen

Star Plasma Vessel

Ordinary Person

Assimilation Possible

Assimilation Impossible

Previously, that was true.

Star Plasma Vessel's Death

Assimilation With the Star Plasma Vessel Prevented

But since I started evolving twelve years ago,

Tengen

Tengen's Evolution

Tengen's Evolution

assimilation with someone other than the Star Plasma Vessel is possible.

Assimilate Mankind With Tengen

But you're just one person, right?

How would you assimilate with multiple people?

What you see before you right now isn't my real self.

Now that I've evolved, my soul is everywhere.

I told you, didn't I?

The world itself is who I am now.

People who assimilated with me now would become something more than a sorcerer.

They would become a new being that's both there and not there.

I'm able to retain my shape and reason

after evolving because of my barrier techniques.

However, if mankind were to evolve,

then if even one of them went out of control,

the world would end.

Why?

Out of Control

There would be no boundaries between individuals,

so evil would spread to all instantly.

Out of Control

The impurities of a hundred million people would flood the world.

What happened in Tokyo would be recreated on a worldwide scale.

Why would he do such a thing?

Kenjaku's Objective

The Evolution of Mankind Throughout All Japan

How?

Why?

Assimilate Mankind With Tengen

Unknown

I don't know.

I told you that, too.

I can't tell what's going on in people's hearts.

Kenjaku's Objective

The Evolution of Mankind Throughout All Japan

How?

Why?

Assimilate Mankind With Tengen

Unknown

Why?

Unknown

But wouldn't everything be fine as long as you rejected the assimilation?

That's the issue.

Now that I've evolved, my nature is closer to that of a Cursed Spirit than a human.

Suguru Geto's Death

Obtained Cursed Spirit Manipulation

Obtained Idle Transfiguration

Star Plasma Vessel's Death

Tengen's Evolution

Obtain Tengen

So I can be

targeted by Cursed Spirit Manipulation.

Considering Kenjaku's strength as a sorcerer,

I would likely be absorbed the moment he made contact.

That's why my main body is rejecting

everything in the Tombs of the Star right now.

That's why you want us to guard you?

Yes.

Kenjaku is second only to me in his skill with barrier techniques.

I don't know when he'll manage to break the seal on the Tombs of the Star.

Why now?

You were stopped from assimilating with the Star Plasma Vessel.

Assimilation With Star Plasma Vessel Prevented

Now you've been forced to evolve,

Tengen's Evolution

and he seeks to absorb you with Cursed Energy Manipulation.

Obtain Tengen

Assimilation With Star Plasma Vessel Prevented

Tengen's Evolution

Obtain Tengen

Kenjaku also seems to have connections to Sukuna.

So he's been a sorcerer for at least 1,000 years.

So why now?!

Tengen

Because I, the Star Plasma Vessel, and the Six Eyes

Star Plasma Vessel

Six Eyes

are all connected by fate.

Kenjaku's Objective

Stop Tengen's Assimilation

Twice in the past, Kenjaku was stopped by the sorcerer with the Six Eyes.

The second time, Kenjaku was thorough.

Kenjaku's Objective

Stop Tengen's Assimilation

He killed both the Star Plasma Vessel and the bearer

of the Six Eyes within a month of their birth.

Despite that, the Six Eyes and the Star Plasma Vessel

still appeared by the day of my assimilation.

After that, Kenjaku altered his strategy to focus on sealing

the Six Eyes instead of killing him,

and he began searching for the Prison Realm,

because there can't be two people with the Six Eyes at the same time.

Kenjaku's Objective

However, twelve years ago, something unpredictable happened.

Toji Zen'in intervened.

Unpredicted Event

Toji Zen'in Intervenes

He was physically gifted through a Heavenly Pact.

And he was unique among them

for being completely free from cursed energy.

Kenjaku's Objective

Since his Heavenly Pact placed him outside of fate,

Zen'in Toji Intervenes

he destroyed the fate connecting us.

Star Plasma Vessel's Death

Then a young man with power of Cursed Spirit Manipulation appeared.

Star Plasma Vessel's Death

Cursed Spirit Manipulation

Without even trying,

he now had all the necessary pieces other than the Prison Realm.

Then, six years ago,

the Prison Realm made its way into Kenjaku's hands, as well.