Umeno Sone

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**Umeno Sone** 曽根梅野 (ソネ ウメノ) is a supporting character of the *Jujutsu Kaisen* series, and the prequel series *Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Jujutsu High.* She is a semi-grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer and a second-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High, alongside Maki Zenin, Toge Inumaki, Yuta Okkotsu, and Panda. Umeno is the younger sister of Hiroshi Sone.

## Professional Status

### Relatives

Asahi Sone (Mother)
To Sone (Father)
Hiroshi Sone(Brother)

### Grade

Grade 3 (Nov. 2016)Grade 2 (Apr. 2017)
 Semi-Grade 1 (Jul. 2018)

## Appearance

Umeno is a relatively short girl, with a slim figure, with fair skin and golden eyes. She has mid-length cream-colored hair that reaches down to her neck styled in layers on her left side, and bangs that cover a small part of the right side of her face. She has short eyelashes and thin eyebrows, both of the same color.

Umeno typically wears a standard Jujutsu High uniform, which consists of a dark blue jacket over a long-sleeved white shirt. Her athletic skirt is of the same color, matches the jacket, and reach just below the thigh. Umeno wears long black stockings that cover up the rest of her legs. To finish off the outfit, she usually wears black, easy-fit sneakers, or dark brown boots while in more weathering elements.

The outfit she wore prior to enrolling into Jujutsu High was more intricate, consisting of a long, red and brown button-down jacket, with a pair of belted buckles that rested above each elbow. She has a long, upward-pointing collar at the top of her jacket. She had short, black shorts that reached above the upper thigh (covered almost completely by her jacket), and black stockings to cover a large portion of her legs. She wore the same kind of shoes as she does now.

During the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, Umeno was fatally wounded after being attacked by special grade curse user Suguru Geto, only being saved by a combination of willpower and aid from a reverse cursed technique. Since then, she has four sets of puncture wounds along the left side of her stomach (which were the result of a compound fracture in her ribs), as well as small slash scars that run across the left side of her face (minor damage from crashing into rubble).

## Personality

Umeno is a very outwardly calm, aloof, and concise individual. She often has a neutral expression along her face, which rarely changes, and she rarely speaks to those that do not address her first. She assesses practically every situation in two different perspectives, which quickly determine a basis on how she will begin to act in said scenario. She often slowly and subconsciously adopts certain aspects from her fellow classmates, such as Maki's harshness during training, Panda's sarcasm and good temper, and at one point, an early Yuta's excitability (this trait quickly fell off as Yuta became more confident in himself, whilst the other two became more permanent aspects of Umeno's personality).

As a child (and more rarely, with those she deems friends), Umeno has a far more impulsive, upbeat, and goofy personality. She would regularly get herself into trouble, and devise elaborate plots to twist her way out of the situations she ended up in. As such, she was widely regarded a "rather entertaining" troublemaker within her community. Satoru Gojo has taken a liking to Umeno, both for who she truly past her surface-level serious attitude, and for her rather interesting innate technique. Upon first meeting Satoru, and to this day, the plots and pranks she performs have only since grown, in both scale, and in intensity. Still yet, neither her community, nor their possessions, received any lasting harm. In Jujutsu High, she has earned a mixture of laughter and ire amongst her fellow students. Additionally, her fellow second years were taken by surprise from the tricks she has performed, to a point that her fellow second years, for a time, refused to believe it was the same person that they had met before.

Unlike the rest of her community, including Umeno's father, her mother, Asahi thought of her as a nuisance that couldn't fit in line with the rest of the children. She was initially set with extremely high standards by her mother, despite struggling to meet them, especially as she grew. Hidden behind an endearing shell to all besides her daughter, Asahi publicly humiliated Umeno on multiple occasions, and relentlessly gaslighted her into believing that she would achieve little if she never met her mother's exceedingly high expectations, and that she could barely do anything right without their direction. Over time, this has chipped away at Umeno's formerly positive demeanor, and has been replaced with a more polite, yet stern and aloof demeanor. Despite this, she still continued to love her mother for the good she had brought her, no matter how little. Umeno has also kept close the select few valuable lessons her mother had taught her through her life. She has managed to overcome most of the feelings of shame and guilt that came along with slaying her own mother, but sometimes still feels as if things could have gone differently.

Umeno despises sycophants, who manipulate and bond with other people only to take from them, or control their lives, akin to a puppet on strings. Due to the influence in her life prior, she is a hasty, and accurate judge of character, and will shift her attitude and reasonability accordingly between those she deems genuine, and those that are not.

Umeno spent most of her time outside of her mother's home, in the care of others in her tight-knit community. She would offer help whenever needed, even if it was just to clean up messes made by her own elaborate pranks. This has earned the smiles of those in around her, as they all knew well that she meant no harm in anything she had done, or will do. As such, they often welcomed her into their homes, treated her hospitably, and allowed her to play with their own children, if they had any.

At age 7, she experienced her first encounter with a cursed spirit, while exploring the fields around her community. Umeno, initially panicked, sought to run away. Fearful for her life, she successfully escaped the curse, ran back home, and immediately went to tell and take people to what she saw, in those fields. Although they felt the weighing pressure of cursed energy from the spirit, no one else within the area was able to see it, unlike herself. The curse, sensing the presence of several, then went to attack. While unaware of why only she could see the curse, she quickly came to the realization that the spirit was dangerous. Feeling extreme guilt that she brought them into danger in the first place, she decided she had to intervene. Whilst filled with her combination of regret, fear, and self-pity, she hit the creature with a running tackle, which surged with cursed energy. While not enough to exorcise it, this injured the spirit and caused it to run away, fading from her sight. Umeno, however, unknowingly infected the curse with her cursed technique.

With the powerful presence fading from their bodies, the witnesses to the event went back and placed Umeno in high regard. Since then, she was revered as some kind of magical figure in her community. However, this only made Asahi raise her expectations even higher. Additionally, to reverse the confidence boost she might gain from the admiration of her community, she began to resort to physical violence against her daughter. When Umeno's father, To, first attempted to intervene for the first time, Asahi kicked him out of the house for the rest of the night. From that night, Umeno began to question more than ever, what she and her father may have done to invoke her mother's continuous wrath.

The first night Umeno was beaten, was also when her cursed technique first manifested. Whenever Umeno would feel a surge of anger, fear, or otherwise negative emotion -- a tiny, black figure would appear to her. The figure performed silly acts, and took her into the open fields, to play games, and bring her back to high spirits. This figure was her first shikigami, and the key component of her cursed technique -- Rogue Fungi. Despite Umeno lacking control of cursed energy at the time, Rogue Fungi was able to stay manifested for hours on end due to its infinitesimally small cursed energy requirement. Umeno found a sense of peace and joy within the shikigami, considering that it was always there for her when she needed it, without fail.

During the winter of 2012, the second component to Umeno's cursed technique was realized. When To intervened once more to prevent Umeno from getting hurt again, Asahi lashed out. In a fit of rage, she threw him to the ground, before smashing a wine bottle over his head, knocking him unconscious, and simultaneously cutting his face with the broken glass. Umeno watched in horror, before abruptly exploding with rage, the overpowering presence of cursed energy forcing her mother to her knees. Her mother shed tears, berating Umeno and claiming that, instead of herself, Umeno was what caused her father's wounded state. Rogue Fungi was summoned again, and under a command to protect To and Umeno, attempted to rush at Asahi, who was unable to see the shikigami. This prompted Asahi to rush at Umeno, attempting to knock her to the ground. Umeno avoided her attempt at a grapple, gripping a shard from the broken bottle before stabbing her mother in the gut. Asahi, now blinded by rage, took out the glass shard and attempted to stab down Umeno. Umeno once again avoided, causing Asahi to tumble through the row of glass shards she had created, accidentally ending her own life in the process.

Through the rubble, however, Asahi once again rose. Umeno unknowingly cursed Asahi, and due to this, she twisted and contorted into a powerful vengeful cursed spirit. As the tensions of the situation quickly rose, the spirit of Asahi became visible to all. Umeno's emotions quickly shifted from anger, to fear, as she understood what was going to happen next.

The vengeful spirit almost immediately rushed to attack Umeno and To, both only protected by the durable shell of butterfly skull, who was summoned just before the scythe bisected both Umeno and her father. This assault continued on for minutes on end, before two piercing bullets flew through the shoulder of the vengeful spirit, diverting it's attention temporarily. This gave both Umeno, and To a chance to disengage, which they promptly did with the help of Butterfly Skull. However, Umeno cried out as the curse went to fly, proclaiming that she couldn't stand by and let these people die while only she escaped. This prompted the curse to land Umeno and To at in a safe area, before rushing in to fight against the cursed Asahi. The insect-like spirit was able to weaken the vengeful Asahi with it's flying maneuvers, but was ultimately overpowered and exorcised in it's fight. Right as Asahi turned back to the ruins of their destroyed village, the curse was abruptly hit along it's neck, by an attack charged with cursed energy, sending it flying back against the house it arose from. The vengeful spirit stood back upright, but was quickly destroyed by Cursed Technique Reversal: Red, before it could act again.

With the battle put to a quick end, Satoru Gojo emerged alongside the rubble, who appeared with one goal in mind: to try the village's specialty dessert of Dorayaki. To kill two birds with one stone, he also decided to take part in collecting the cursed tools, collectively known as "Haughty Trigger", for the school. After devising a reasonable way to acquire the cursed tools, he noticed the shivering Umeno, barely able to move from the cold, covering her father's body with any remnants of cloth she could find. As Satoru approached her, Umeno quickly pleaded for Satoru to help her father and the innocents, before collapsing at his feet. Satoru followed through with her request, sheltering the unconscious in their own homes, before going on his way. Upon awakening, Umeno felt immense guilt for the transformation of her mother, and wonders what she could have done to prevent everything that had occurred up until that point.

Since the day of Asahi's death, Satoru has periodically come to visit Umeno, and came to appreciate her childlike attitude beneath the once-apathetic shell, especially in spite of the event she went through. Umeno has also deemed Satoru as a good friend of hers, whether or not Satoru thought the same. He mentioned the idea of becoming a jujutsu sorcerer to her multiple times, but with the realization that she may have to fight curses stronger than the vengeful spirit of Asahi one day, she hesitantly declined each time. When he eventually asked why, Umeno replied with the idea that she never could get everything right, and as such would likely lead to unnecessary deaths from her own careless mistakes. Upon further discussion (which was essentially Satoru nagging her with the idea of becoming a jujutsu sorcerer every 2 minutes, because he knew it would work), and the promise that Satoru would aid in training her to become a sorcerer, she reluctantly accepted. Upon becoming of age to enroll, Umeno already had a grip on her innate technique and the fundamentals of cursed energy. She said goodbyes to her father, and then was taken to Tokyo Jujutsu High.

When confronted with Masamichi Yaga's question of why she wanted to enroll into Jujutsu High, she initially was unable to give an answer besides what was essentially defending the innocent. After some time, however, she divulged that she just wants to be content with herself. All her life, she had just been trying to please her mother, to no avail, and while these past few years with Satoru and her father helped her cope with the trauma of the events, and her own shame, she lacks a genuine ideal of her own. Besides the fact that she will do anything in her power to prevent people from being pulled like a puppet like herself prior, her only aim in mind was to become someone that, both her past and future self, would be pleased with.

Upon first meeting the other second years, her polite yet aloof manner earned the ire of Maki Zenin, who was stuck to the ideal that Umeno felt she was better than her fellow students. Upon first meeting Yuta Okkotsu, Umeno felt a great amount of pity for him. She had little part in building his confidence, due to his initial fear of other people, which in turn instigated her own fears for a time. Eventually, she was essentially forced by her fellow second years (quite literally by Toge Inumaki), to introduce herself to him. From then on, she has patiently and proudly seen Yuta grow into the sorcerer that he is today. She admires his newfound resolve, and has started to develop a stronger friendship with him now that he is more open and amiable. Umeno has since then regularly trained with Yuta and Maki, learning how to properly utilize cursed tools from them, and eventually fixating on Haughty Trigger, using that as her main tool to exorcise curses, aside from her innate technique.

For her first field test, Satoru assigned Maki and Umeno to exorcise a few curses in an abandoned temple within Shinjuku. For the purpose of learning to more effectively wield cursed tools, Umeno was also leant Slaughter Demon for the duration of the test. Despite prior experience, Umeno was initially still terrified of the prospect of purposefully encountering the cursed beings. She was over-observant, looking through all corners even if her senses have displayed a lack of cursed energy. Upon first confrontation with a curse, Umeno would initially fall into a state of panic as it approached, before recklessly charging to confront the curse at close range. Maki pulls her back, before scolding her mid-battle, telling her to stop letting her fear get in the way of her mission, before exorcising the curse herself in one strike. Before they continued, Maki made it clear that Umeno's hesitance would only hinder them, and that if it continued, it could eventually lead to the deaths of her, and her classmates. Not wanting to be responsible for such a fate, Umeno toughened up. Relying mainly on the cursed tool she was given by Satoru and followed through with the rest of the field test with little issue, even managing to dispatch a grade 2 curse with the help of Maki. She later admitted to forcefully keeping herself from hyperventilating for the remaining duration of the test.

During the Goodwill Event of 2017, Umeno did not wish to engage with the other Kyoto students, and as such rushed off in search of a curse that was released for the event. She instead, found herself in a direct clash against grade 1 sorcerer Daichi Nakano. Despite fighting an uphill battle, Umeno only seemed aggravated by the fact Daichi was trying to show off to her, the entire duration of the fight. When the spirit Umeno was searching for intervened in the battle, she would not hesitate to work alongside the person she was fighting moments prior, in order to dispatch the far larger threat. Daichi was hesitant, but complied after witnessing the might of the curse they were up against, and together, managed to take the curse down. Despite knowing she would be unable to control it until much later in her life, Umeno infected and recalled the curse before Daichi could finish exorcising it.

Following the first encounter with Suguru, Umeno quickly began to drop her more formal mannerisms, in favor of a more open and silly personality. After brushing against death in sorcerer form, Umeno came to the realization that she should open up more to her fellow classmates. After all, if she did not do so now, she might never get a second chance. Initially, this confused her fellow first years immensely, to the point Maki believed that Umeno was replaced with a doppleganger. They luckily grew out of this idea after about a week, however. From then on, as well, Umeno became very protective of her classmates, regardless of whether or not she knew them well.

On December 24, 2017, Umeno would not hesitate to aid in the defense of Yuta. Partaking in a defensive measure alongside Maki, Toge, and Panda, Umeno drew a majority of the curse user's attacks to her, attempting to mitigate damage for her teammates and curses whilst they went on the attack. Partway through the fight, Umeno used up a majority of her cursed energy in a singular action to summon Goristro. The curse, being far stronger than Umeno was at the time, which disallowed her to get a grasp on commanding it. Fortunately, however, it mindlessly attacked the intended target. The demonic spirit proved mildly troubling for the special-grade curse user, but the first-years were quickly overpowered nonetheless. After fortunately being recovered and healed by Yuta, she was simply glad she and her classmates were alive to see another day.

Umeno later got confirmation that, it not been for Goristro's conjuring, each of the first-years would have likely been killed before Yuta had been able to heal them with his newfound reverse cursed technique. Umeno took this revelation into deep consideration, realizing that what truly gave her purpose, was the people that freed her from her former one. Taking into consideration both the prior events, and what Maki had told to her during her first field test, Umeno swore from that day on that she would do anything in her power to assist her classmates and allies with their own goals, as they had helped free her from what she thought was her own (her original "goal" was making her mother proud). Whether it costed Umeno her life, or her cursed spirits, she would pay the debt to those that pulled her from the shell of a life she had before.

Umeno hadn't particularly gotten to know the first-years of 2018 until the Goodwill Event, though the rumor that one of them was vessel of Sukuna put her into a state of curiosity. While she did not exactly know who Sukuna was, at the time, the reactions her fellow classmates would give in response to such a name piqued her interest. Upon receiving an answer from Yuji Itadori that the rumors were true, she almost immediately questioned the what might happen if he switched with the cursed spirit on the spot. This would later have turned out to be a joke, but at the time received several words of disapproval from her classmates, and teachers (with exception to Satoru, who found it hilariously stupid).

Also prior to the event, as Aoi Todo relentlessly beat up Megumi Fushiguro, Umeno was nearly crushed in the rubble of one of the structures. She attempted to call out to the both of them to quit their fighting, but was promptly ignored by Aoi, who continued to pummel the young first-year until being intercepted by Toge, and Panda. This irritated Umeno immensely, and despite the fact she knew very little about the Tokyo first-year, she felt obligated to defend him. She moved up to Aoi and reprimanded the Kyoto third-year. Both impressed and amused at her confrontation, Aoi would ask what kind of guys Umeno liked, to which Umeno would respond she would like a hard-working and protective guy or girl, who wouldn't hesitate in getting their hands dirty, whether that be in their own work, or defending her and her allies. This answer brought a grin to Aoi's face, who replied with the fact she reminded him of his former teacher. Umeno questioned how that could be so, before coming to the realization that Aoi saw through her surface-level apathy the moment she walked up to him.

During the Goodwill Event of 2018, Umeno focused mainly on hunting down the curses let loose in the Spirit Bash Race, as opposed to engaging in battles with other sorcerers. Umeno believes in a strict sense of fighting fair and that unless the Kyoto Team went on their own offensive against her and her classmates, there would be no reason to fight back. She contemplated fighting Aoi at a further distance whilst Yuji handled closer quarters, but ultimately followed through with the original plan and scattered away. Umeno periodically sent Butterfly Skull to scout from above the trees, making sure the safety of her classmates were ensured, and that no curses were in the vicinity. As each Tokyo student ended up in a clash with a student from their sister school, Umeno found herself caught in the middle of an uphill battle, between Nobara Kugisaki, and Momo Nishimiya. Umeno would attempt to aid Nobara in the encounter, but was suddenly interrupted as a rubber bullet hit the side of her head. Umeno, disoriented, then saw an irritated Mai Zenin, who was aiming to shoot down Nobara alongside her. Realizing her spirits would take too long to summon, Umeno quickly engaged Mai in physical combat. She managed to distract and hold off the Kyoto second-year for a time, but Mai managed to push away for long enough to knock Nobara unconscious, regardless. Before Umeno would be able to engage Mai once more, Maki interrupted before the battle started. After evaluating the scenario, Umeno left Mai to fight Maki, and chased after Momo to finish what Nobara had started. Using Butterfly Skull, Umeno nearly caught up to the Kyoto third-year, but the event was suddenly interrupted by the intrusion of several outside invaders, which abruptly put an end to her chase. Near the end of Yuji and Aoi's battle with Hanami, Umeno attempted to forcefully infect the special grade cursed spirit, but was quickly thrown out of the way by Aoi just as Gojo unleashed his Hollow Purple technique.

During the Shibuya Incident, Umeno was visibly uncomfortable when she was alerted that several non-sorcerers were trapped in the city, alongside the sorcerers opposing special grade curses. Despite performing several missions up until this point in time, Umeno was anything but confident that she could aid in performing the task at hand successfully. She was extremely cautious wherever she went, and summoned several cursed spirits in an attempt to assist the other active sorcerers. When told by Maki to place her faith in the others, and to save her own energy, Umeno hesitated, before reluctantly recalling the spirits and pursuing onwards.

During the fight against Dagon, Umeno makes the first move against Dagon's evolved state, summoning Feral Naga to concentrate on distracting the special grade while the other sorcerers go on the offensive, but is only met with shock when Dagon blitzes the fellow curse and exorcises it in a single blow, not even affected by the curse's poisonous spines. Umeno realizes she underestimated Dagon, not initially believing their differences in speed to be that massive, despite Dagon being a special grade. The fact is, while watching the fight against Hanami, Umeno seemingly underestimated the powers of such curses. Soon after, while trapped in Dagon's domain expansion, Umeno is not afraid of exhausting her resources, including both her curses and her cursed energy, in order to survive and push back against Dagon's endless swarm of shikigami. Umeno's technique, and the idea of her beginning to control Dagon, threatened the curse. However, he also realizes that she is not the one directly in control of the technique, as is her shikigami-- Rogue Fungi. This causes him to focus ten percent of his death swarm at not Umeno, but her shikigami, to which Umeno keeps in her pockets. Umeno immediately focuses on the defensive, surrounding herself with her own infected curses, protecting herself and her shikigami intermediary from the swarm, using Haughty Trigger to rid of them while they were busy biting down on her own summons. This subsides when, after attacking Naobito Zenin and Maki, Dagon appears next to her, sending a right hook aimed at her center mass. Dagon effortlessly crushes through the curses between her and himself, and sends Umeno crashing through the sand into a palm tree. Weakened, desperate, and vision blurry, Umeno contemplated summoning Goristro, but on second thought, forced herself to exhaust the rest of her cursed energy in an attempt to use a last-ditch tactic, something that could turn the tides of this battle if it worked. Umeno raises her hands, conjuring several giant mushrooms that blanket an area around her. Her own domain expansion activates, which she dubs "Ethereal Forest Grove". Umeno's own domain is barely able to operate beneath the special grade's own, and Umeno struggles to hold it. However, only after Umeno's expansion is formed, liquid shadows pool from the ground, marking the arrival of Megumi Fushiguro. Naobito remarks on how he's never seen a three-way domain clash before, and Dagon is enraged at the combination attempting to oppose him. Dagon focuses on crushing Megumi first, seeing as his domain can more easily counter his own. Umeno takes this time to send forth Guardian Golem, which began rapidly firing blasts of cursed energy at Dagon. The sorcerers quickly gaining an opportunity to escape, with Umeno attempting to escape through her own side of her domain, and the other sorcerers leaving through Megumi's. All is only halted when Toji Fushiguro makes his entrance, climbing through a hole within the clashes of domains. Umeno is exhausted to a point she misses her chance to infect Dagon, as he is overpowered by the non-sorcerer. Umeno grows weary, her own domain falling down as Umeno collapsed to the ground, unconscious. Jogo arrives, quickly dispatching each of the sorcerers without mercy or relent. Seeing as Umeno was already unconscious, he saw to killing her last. Aiming his flames at both Umeno and the severely burnt Naobito, only does the presence of Sukuna, prevent him from ending them both on the spot. Umeno wakes, only to see Nanami's body is nowhere to be found. Staring down at the corpses of Naobito and Maki Zenin, Umeno fails to look away as tears fall from her face. She attempts to infect Naobito, refusing to defile Maki's body, only to find that her cursed technique failed, and that Rogue Fungi was gone for the time being. Exhausted, distraught, and running on mere shavings of the cursed energy she possessed before the fight against Dagon, Umeno ultimately collapses again, unconscious for the remainder of the Shibuya Incident.

Upon hearing the news of Satoru Gojo being sealed after waking, Umeno shed tears, weeping in the middle of the ruins of Shibuya. Later, Umeno was confronted, and asked to be a participant of the Culling Game, as her cursed technique would be extremely useful in the context of how it worked. Umeno initially agreed without hesitation, but after learning the true rules of the ritual, was stuck in a dilemma after realizing that participation in the ritual mainly involved killing other people, sorcerers and not. Furthermore, there was no guarantee that Umeno would not be signing her own death upon participation. After Maki's death, Satoru being sealed, and the destruction at Shibuya makes her wonder if this would really be worth it. Surprisingly, Umeno declares participation in Tokyo Colony No. 1 on November 12th, 2018.

Umeno is unwilling to slay people at first, searching about with the idea of infecting and exorcising as many curses as she can. This, unfortunately, does not happen to go the way she would like. Umeno notices Megumi from afar, discussing with an unfamiliar Remi, and decides to follow them at a distance. After finding that Megumi has been lead into an ambush, she moves in, attempting to summon Guardian Golem, only to stagger as an explosion blows through the scene. Umeno is unaffected, but sees the sorcerers pursuing Megumi, and follows through in an attempt to allow Megumi's escape. Megumi notes the familiar presence for a moment, but loses attention quickly as a Kogane announces the new tenth rule Yuji added into the game. Losing sight of Remi quickly, Umeno summons Guardian Golem to fire at the explosive Iori Hazenoki. Iori is hit by the cursed energy and collapses to the ground, but Iori continues to focus on Megumi, once more throwing explosive projectiles his way. With the intervention of yet another modern sorcerer, Fumihiko Takaba, Umeno fades away from the scene, attempting to pursue Remi. After finding Megumi's shikigami, Umeno follows it, eventually managing to track Remi with the help of the shikigami. After all the trouble Remi had caused, and the likelihood that Megumi would have died if it were not for the intervention of Fumihiko, Umeno was surprised that the shikigami didn't kill her. Remi, cornered, attacks Umeno out of desperation. Umeno, already agitated by their former actions, perceived this as them going on the offensive. Not able to get a clear shot with Haughty Trigger, Remi quickly meets the receiving end of Guardian Golem's cannon barrel. With little effort, Remi is killed. Umeno, unsure if that was the right decision, and not able to control the corpse of Remi due to her being little more than mush on the pavement, leaves the immediate vicinity to check in on those remaining. She ends up observing the end of Fumihiko and Iori's battle, with Iori withdrawing after realizing that Reggie has been eliminated. Umeno is relieved, realizing this meant Megumi was not only alive, but eliminated Reggie Star. As Iori withdraws, when Fumihiko's begging does little good, Umeno asks Fumihiko to step aside. He obliges, and Umeno points Guardian Golem's barrel at his head, threatening to kill him if he didn't give his points to Fumihiko. She hoped that Iori wouldn't call her bluff, as she had already began contemplating the weight of her actions prior to this interaction. Iori knows she isn't planning to end his life, so he tells Umeno to piss off, and continues walking. Both out of spite, and so Fumihiko could still get Iori's points, Umeno gets Guardian Golem to shoot Iori in the head non-lethally, knocking him unconscious in a single shot. She tells Fumihiko do to what he will with them, calling him by the nickname "comedian". While meant as more of substitute since Umeno didn't know his actual name, Fumihiko is overjoyed, and thanks her before happily sending her off on her way. Umeno is content with the results of the battle between groups, aside from the fact she had slain a fellow sorcerer, who likely didn't deserve the fate they had met. Having little time to contemplate on this however, she realizes that she has no idea where Megumi is. While she would initially try to find Megumi, she would have no luck. She is left on her own once again, and while fearful, decides to stay true to the goal she had when first entering the Culling Game.

## Abilities and Powers

### Overview

**Overall Skill Level:** Umeno is placed as one of Tokyo Jujutsu High's more talented students. In merely two years of being at Jujutsu High, Umeno has quickly become a semi-grade 1 sorcerer, and has even been shown to be able to contend with spirits and sorcerers above her rank. Umeno possesses one of, if not the most powerful cursed technique currently held in Tokyo Jujutsu High, and is favored well by the strongest sorcerer himself. Satoru believes that, alongside many of the other talented students at Tokyo Jujutsu High, Umeno could one day surpass himself. Daichi Nakano shares a sentiment that Umeno could rather easily surpass himself if she continues through the path she is taking.

By the time of her first year at Jujutsu High, Umeno already had a firm grasp on cursed energy, with the only thing holding her back being her mindset. Umeno, once an unsure and reckless fighter, has now become a highly driven and cooperative combatant. While she fails to keep her fears beneath her, she is able to suppress them to a point that, in times of need, she is able to keep a cool head and think clearly. By the middle of her first year, Umeno displayed immense growth and strategy potential through the combination of tactical intellect and her versatile technique. Satoru prompts and encourages Umeno's elaborate pranks, as they hold key factor in her strategical development, due to their nature and how much thought is put into them.

During the battle against Goristro, Umeno nearly immediately recognized that the curse was far above the level it was said to be, and that, even with Daichi's Binding Vow in place, they would need a fine level of coordination to win. Thinking quickly, Umeno summons several low-level curses to disorient Goristro, before focusing all of her cursed energy between two different points near the edges of her body (one part at her fingertip, and one part at her toe). Not explain to explain in the moment, she commands Daichi to do the same, which he reluctantly follows, only for Goristro to begin wildly swinging near Daichi's toes. While still a powerful attack, it being directed so far from Daichi's vital areas made it far easier for him and Umeno to evade the shockwaves that came after. With Goristro's arms extended, Umeno and Daichi focused coordinated counterattacks towards the exposed limbs and vital areas. This continued for a while, until Goristro exhausting enough cursed energy to be dealt a finishing blow. Daichi backs up, preparing to use his Maximum: Salt Serpent, whilst Umeno returns her summons and concentrates her cursed energy throughout her body, aiming to become the target for Goristro's wrath. This proved ineffective, and to her disappointment, the curse charged for Daichi. This lead to Umeno being forced to cut the curse off, combining her assault with the especially fast curse Feral Naga, in order to overwhelm Goristro momentarily for Daichi to land the Maximum Technique.

Against Dagon in the Shibuya Incident, Umeno was quick to realize, and adapt to Dagon's fighting style within his domain expansion, exhausting her resources with the knowledge that she could restock easily in this area, even if she lacked most of her cursed energy. Furthermore, her relentless drive to control Dagon allowed her to tap into a newfound power, that being her Domain Expansion, combatting Dagon's sure-hit and giving the special grade multiple targets to slay before his domain's power returned, the other target being Megumi Fushiguro.

During the Shibuya Incident, Umeno was able to summon multiple cursed spirits without any sign of fatigue, displaying more precise control of cursed energy and technique. Also during the Shibuya Incident, near the end of the battle versus special grade cursed spirit Dagon, Umeno activated Domain Expansion, a technique that only the most skilled of sorcerers are able to realize.

At merely 11 years old, Umeno's presence was powerful enough to alert even non-sorcerers, her cursed energy so great that it forced her mother, the target of her rage, to her knees. With more control over cursed energy over the coming years, she quickly gained the interest of her instructor -- Satoru Gojo.

The amount of curses that Umeno can infect and control, is unlimited. The amount she can summon, however, is limited by her cursed energy. Umeno has great volumes of cursed energy, however, so this is usually not much of an issue for her. Umeno can also recall a cursed spirit, which will then form into a mushroom growing on Rogue Fungi's head, not unlike the fungi she must use to infect them in the first place.

Controlling a sorcerer's corpse is a far different procedure. After a corpse is infected, the corpse will use up the remaining cursed energy that it possessed at the time of it's death. Once it's own cursed energy reserves are emptied, Umeno must imbue the corpse with a constant flow of cursed energy, or else it will drop to the ground once again. A sorcerer's corpse cannot be infected twice. Umeno can revoke a corpse's infection at any time, unless the corpse is stronger than she is. Umeno can willingly invoke the personality the sorcerer had in life, into their corpse.

When an infected curse is about to be exorcised, or an infected sorcerer's corpse is about to be slain using jujutsu, the infected vessel will rapidly drain a portion of Umeno's cursed energy in a final act of aggression. The vessel will also attempt to infect the one who had slain it, if able. Every time this part of Umeno's technique has been used, it failed.

Rogue Fungi takes very little cursed energy to summon initially, and next to zero to continue keeping around. As such, Umeno almost always keeps it summoned.
Feral Naga was purposefully released in Honmyoji Temple, the location of Umeno's first field test, as Satoru was confident that the combined efforts of Umeno and Maki would be able to take it down. He was correct, as their combined efforts managed to subdue the curse, which then allowed Umeno to infect it. Feral Naga did not consistently listen to Umeno's commands until about three months after she had first infected it. Two months later, she was rightfully promoted to a grade 2 sorcerer.
Feral Naga is the first spirit above grade 3, that Umeno successfully infected. It was exorcised in the fight against the special grade Dagon.
After the initial encounter with Butterfly Skull in the plains, Rogue Fungi managed to infect it while it was escaping. It was exorcised in it's fight against the vengeful spirit of Asahi Sone.
During the Goodwill Event of 2017, this curse (who was initially released under the assumption it was around semi-grade 1 level) interrupted the battle between Umeno and Daichi Nakano. Goristro dominated the fight against the sorcerers for a majority of it's duration, but the tables turned after it was nearly exorcised when hit with Daichi's Maximum: Salt Serpent. Umeno infected Goristro and recalled it, before Daichi could get the finishing blow.
It later turned out that Goristro was released as a plot to kill Yuta Okkotsu, and the curse being estimated at the semi-grade 1 level, was a complete lie.
Umeno contemplated summoning Goristro against the special grade Dagon, but ultimately refrained after believing it'd do more harm than good.

While doing her first solo mission, Umeno was sent to deal with a few curses that emerged from the earthquake at Osaka, on June 17th. After dealing with several lower-level curses, the presence of Guardian Golem made her still. Umeno contemplated using her trump card immediately, but refrained. After confrontation, and a long struggle between forces, she managed to subdue the curse without resorting to using Goristro. Umeno then promptly infected it.
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During Umeno's return to her village for a visit, she encountered a group of 11 curses near a river about a mile away from the place she once called home. Hesitating at first, Umeno went down to the river and easily dispatched them all, managing to infect 8, and exorcising the other 3.
While the name is "a little on the nose", neither Umeno, nor her classmates, had a better name for them.

Gashadokuro was found by Satoru Gojo, after not wanting to waste both his and Umeno's time after coming all the way out to Umeno's home village, only to realize the curse she fought as a child was infected that day, and exorcised during their first interaction. Umeno, with her new training, was able to beat the curse within an inch of exorcising it. She then infected it.
Umeno first wanted to name the curse "Electric Skeleton" like the enemy from Castlevania, but ultimately changed it after her classmates mocked her for the name being "a little on the nose".

### Equipment

1 - Heart, 2 - Knee, 3 - Elbow, 4 - None, 5 - Stomach, 6 - Throat, 7 - Eye, 8 - Brainstem, 9 - Liver, 10 - Lung, 11 - Randomized

## Trivia

* According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:
	+ Enrollment method: Scouted.
	+ Her hobbies mainly include reading (she likes fantasy series), playing D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) and designing elaborate pranks.
	+ Favorite Food: Junk food.
	+ Least Favorite Food: Tofu.
	+ Cause of Stress: Anything doll-like in nature (Umeno has pediophobia).
* Umeno's surname contains the kanji for "once" (曾 *so*?) and "root" (根 *ne*?), and her first name contains "plum" (梅 *ume*?) and "wilderness" (野 *no*?)
* Satoru and Maki taught Umeno Hand-to-Hand Combat, and how to use weapons.
* Umeno rarely watches TV, only doing so when either her favorite shows and movies are on (often fantasy-related or survival-related), or when she is watching TV with classmates.
* Satoru secretly has a hard time watching Umeno use her cursed technique, as it has stark similarity to the technique of an old friend.
* Umeno joined only one mission before enrolling into Jujutsu High. It was a mission assigned by Satoru, to exorcise that curse she fought in the fields as a child. She went to the fields, only to realize that it was the same curse that was infected, and exorcised by her vengeful mother. Satoru noted that they wouldn't come all the way out here for nothing, grabbed the first curse he could find, and brought it to Umeno to infect. At first naming it "Electric Skeleton" like the Castlevania enemy, Umeno only changed the name after it was solemnly judged by each of her fellow second-years, take away Panda. It is now known as Gashadokuro.
* Umeno can sing very well, but she is secretly self-conscious about her voice, which is why she usually never sings unless alone. The one time she was caught, she was offered a spot as the opposing team leader in the student-ran karaoke competition amongst the Tokyo students (Yuji was the organizer of the event, and leader of the first team). Umeno won the competition.
* Umeno has well-defined sewing experience from her father, To, and as a result, often helps in creating uniforms for new students.
* Umeno is allergic to mangoes. The one time she tried them, she almost died. It was not a fun day.
* Umeno named Goristro after the monster from D&D, due to the similarities between them.
* Umeno took Haughty Trigger as a remembrance of her home. Up until about halfway through her first year, she never realized she could still go back to visit after becoming a sorcerer.