Chapter 252

is the two hundred and fifty-second chapter of Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen.
==Summary==
They may have failed to rescue Megumi, but Yuji and Yuta still have a backup plan. They give Maki the opening to strike and her attack continues the downward spiral of Sukuna's power. Despite this disadvantage, the King of Curses still has yet to go all out.
==Plot Details==
While Yuta and Yuji battled Sukuna within the Authentic Mutual Love, Atsuya Kusakabe and Takuma Ino stood outside of the domain. Kusakabe commended Yuta for shifting the domain's coordinates before he informed Ino of the plan: every sorcerer available will scatter into various positions to prevent blind spots, while Maki Zenin will rush in to attack Sukuna once Yuta takes down part of the barrier as the signal. Ino wondered if more people should enter the domain and assist in the battle, but Kusakabe rejected the idea, as any additional fighters will alert Sukuna and spoil Maki's sneak attack. Meanwhile, the female sorcerer in question prepared herself as she awaited the signal.
In the present, Yuta shatters his domain's barrier as the signal for Sukuna letting his guard down. Having expected this, Kusakabe notes how this is the jujutsu sorcerers' best and worst case scenario. With Sukuna distracted by Maki, a crying Rika carries Yuta's body to Ui Ui, who teleports him out of the battlefield. After gaining some distance from Maki, Sukuna realizes that Yuta destroyed his domain's barrier as a signal and distraction for the woman with Heavenly Restriction, and speculates that having no cursed energy allowed her to pass through the barrier while the cursed tool was placed inside the domain beforehand. 
Sukuna then notices that the wound inflicted by the Split Soul Katana was healing slower than his other wounds. As it turns out, a wound inflicted by the Split Soul Katana from an individual capable of perceiving the soul usually cannot be healed with reverse cursed technique, as repairing the soul requires the ability to comprehend a soul's contours. While Sukuna is aware of the shape of his own soul as a result of inhabiting a body with two souls, the aftereffects from his battle against Satoru Gojo prevent him from effectively healing his wound with reverse cursed technique.
Yuji rushes to fight Sukuna and save Megumi, only to suddenly collapse and spit out blood. Panicking, Yuji quickly realizes that he didn't fully heal some part of his body after receiving four fatal injuries and tries to find it. Choso appears to comfort his younger brother and instructs him on how to heal himself by imagining he is shaping his body with his blood veins. Meanwhile, Maki and Sukuna battle through the streets of Shinjuku, with Maki eventually throwing Sukuna into a bridge. Cutting apart the bridge with his cursed technique, Sukuna drops the debris onto Maki to distract her as he whispers the incantations for Dismantle. While avoiding the rubble, Maki hears the cursed chant and dodges the augmented flying slash at the last second. 
Sukuna notes that Maki can see his technique better than other sorcerers, similar to Mahoraga during their battle in Shibuya. Maki notices that Sukuna is using cursed energy to force his injured heart to beat while healing himself. Maki taunts Sukuna by asking if he plans on fighting her in his current condition, but the King of Curses finds it hardly troublesome.
Meanwhile in a frost-covered part of Shinjuku, Kinji Hakari and Uraume continue their fight. Hakari believes that his allies will win against Sukuna, having noticed that Sukuna's cursed energy is plummeting. Uraume finds Hakari's optimism absurd, remarking that Sukuna's cursed energy wavers only if he is uninterested in his opponents. They tell Hakari to feel ashamed for not offering a better fighter than Gojo, as the King of Curses has yet to go all-out.
==Character in Order of Appearances==
==Battles & Events==
*Jujutsu Sorcerers vs. Sukuna
==Locations==
*Tokyo
**Shinjuku
==Jujutsu==
==Navigation==