The Blackout Arc

**The Blackout Arc** (ブラックアウトアーク の 間奏曲 (あいんそうきょく), *Burakkuautoāku no kanzō kyoku*?) is the interlude arc in JUSTARANDOMONE's *Jujutsu Kaise*n. In the anime adaptation, the arc is referred to as **Eulogy to the End** (最後まで追悼の言葉 (さいごまでついとうのことば),  *Saigo made tsuitō no kotoba*?). It follows Suguru Geto in his misguided path in cleansing the world of evil, beginning from the higher-ups who run the jujutsu world behind the shadows. Bereft of the people in control, the facade of jujutsu sorcerers is put to a test and a dark period known as the ''Blackout' would soon follow.

### Suguru Geto, the Strongest Corpse User

A year later after Sae's death, Suguru finds himself isolated as Satoru continues to make great strides as a sorcerer. Unable to stand next to his best friend as the strongest, Suguru is left on his own quagmire all alone, a cycle of never-ending exorcism and consumption of cursed spirit as he struggles to find purpose to his ideals. Although he tries to remain steadfast and faithful to his duties, Suguru couldn't help but think what was the point to all the sacrifices if one bad apple were going to ruin the entire basket. When he finally musters the courage to open the letter that Sae left behind, it unfortunately had the opposite effect to his mentality, one idea took root and became reinforced in his mind: "The world was much too unfair to those who do good," he chuckled.

One day while trying to clear his head with fellow student Yu Haibara, a special grade sorcerer passes by, Yuki Tsukumo. Yu makes room for the two as Yuki talks about her conflicting ideology with the school. While Jujutsu High fights the symptoms, Yuki declares she wants to do a causal treatment. In order to create a world benign of cursed spirits, she begins by highlighting two ways to achieve this: one, by eliminating cursed energy; two, teaching everyone to control said energy. Suguru seemingly nods in acknowledgement but brings up another point to discuss. He asks what comes afterward when every person acquires the same power as them, be it good or evil.

Yuki professes that she hasn't thought that far ahead yet claims it doesn't matter for now. She adds that the notion of good and evil wasn't just based on morality, and that it can be subjected to the whims of those in top. Before she leaves, Yuki also reveals that Master Tengen has stablized despite Suguru absconding Riko Amanai away a year prior. Shocked, he asks to himself what was the point to **her** sacrifice.

Another tragedy struck with news of Yu Haibara's death while on a mission with Kento Nanami, pushing Suguru deeper into the abyss. He concludes that no matter how much good is there in the world, the goalpost will forever be away from arm's reach as long as evil stays ahead. Following a mission to stop a cursed spirit haunting a village, Suguru finally reaches the tipping point when he sees two little girls trapped inside a cage due to their cursed ability. He asks one last time what was the point to it all before proceeding to murder all one hundred and twelve villagers and freeing the girls.

With a bouquet of flowers, Suguru visits an unmarked grave on a cemetery sometime later.

### Time-Displaced Altar

Sae's cursed spirit unleashes Time-Displaced Altar on a city-scale, rapidly expanding the Domain Expansion using the dispensed "time" from civilians affected by Golden Hour, then repeating the same process in a perpetual loop. Exhilarated by the sight, Suguru postulates that Sae's Domain Expansion were neither meant for offense nor defense measures, rather it was a terminal where she could off-load the burden of activating her Innate Technique. He states that it would also explain why Sae was unable to learn new cursed techniques, her Time Manipulation predominantly taking the entire space inside her prefrontal cortex, and it probably required tremendous processing capacity without in possession of something akin to the Six Eyes.

After a bout of his manic glee, Suguru immediately breaks down crying, realizing that if it weren't for Sae's kind nature limiting her own ability, she would have easily survived the fight back then. Suguru wipes his face shortly after, whispering ruefully that he would've been glad to give up his own time for it to happen.

A moment later, Gojo arrives at the scene and confronts Suguru about the numerous lives that were lost in his genocidal act.

## Chapters

* Chapter 79.1
* Chapter 79.2
* Chapter 79.3
* Chapter 79.5
* Chapter 79.6
* Chapter 79.7
* Chapter 79.8
* Chapter 79.9

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Suguru Geto
* Manami Suda
* Mimiko Hasaba
* Nanako Hasaba
* Miguel
* Larue
* Toshihisa Negi
* Yuta Okkotsu
* Panda
* Maki Zenin
* Toge Inumaki
* Satoru Gojo
* Masamichi Yaga
* Kiyotaka Ijichi
* Mei Mei
* Takuma Ino
* Rika Orimoto
* Akari Nitta
* Shoko Ieri
* Kento Nanami
* Noritoshi Kamo
* Kasumi Miwa
* Mechamaru
* Mai Zenin
* Aoi Todo
* Masaharu Fujiwara
* Naobito Zenin
* Tougo Kamo
* Sumiyoshi Munetaka

## Terminology Introduced

**Jujutsu**

* **Cursed Techniques**
	+ Curse Manipulation
		- Uzumaki
* **Cursed Tools**
	+ Playful Cloud

## See Also

Sae
Sumiyoshi Munetaka