Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Jujutsu High Rebirth

## The Cursed Child Arc

**Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Jujutsu High Rebirth**, also known as The **Cursed Child Arc** (呪 (のろ) いの子 (こ) 編 (へん) , *Noroi no Ko-hen*?) is the zeroth story arc and first series which covers the *Jujutsu Kaisen: The Star, The Blight, and The Rose* prequel series. It follows Yuta Okkotsu as he enrolls in Tokyo Jujutsu High and seeks to unravel the curse on his childhood friend, Rika Orimoto.

## Synopsis

### Enrolling at Jujutsu High

Yuta Okkotsu and Rika Orimoto made a promise to one another when they were young. That they would fall in love and marry one another when they got older. However, one day Rika died in a tragic traffic accident before their dream could come. Following her demise, Rika was cursed after death and became a vengeful cursed spirit that haunted Yuta all the way into high school.

After an incident in which Rika brutally mangles Yuta's bullies, he's apprehended by Tokyo Jujutsu High and the jujutsu sorcerer, Satoru Gojo. Rather than execute Yuta, Satoru presents the young man with the chance to enroll at the jujutsu school to learn to control Rika's powers and use them for good. Rather than die in total isolation, Yuta agrees to become a jujutsu sorcerer. Registered as a special grade cursed human, Yuta is permitted to attend Tokyo Jujutsu High as a first-year student.

Maki Zenin, Oboro Mu, Toge Inumaki, Death Scythe, and Panda are the only other first-years at the school. They're not so fast to accept Yuta due to the nature of his condition. In order to get Yuta experienced quickly, Satoru assigns him a mission with Maki. They're tasked with finding missing children who've disappeared from an elementary school with proven paranormal activity. After casting a curtain, Satoru leaves his students to exorcise the curses at the school.

Maki is able to make short work of the first wave of curses, but they're both ultimately caught off guard by a giant curse that swallows them both whole. In the belly of the beast, the sorcerers find the two missing kids. However, their bodies aren't resistant to curses like Yuta's. Maki is susceptible as well and she decides to ask Yuta why he became a sorcerer. Yuta looks deep within himself and states that he wants to deserve to stay alive. Determined to prove his worth, Yuta puts on Rika's ring and calls upon her power. Rika's cursed spirit form is fully manifested, allowing Yuta to escape safely with everyone and complete his mission.

Following his successful test run, Satoru has Yuta train with Maki and Oboro for several months following the mission. He gives Yuta a katana to channel his power and has Maki show him in how to use it with intense training, while having Oboro train him in cursed energy control. On his next assignment, Yuta goes with Toge to clear out a shopping center scheduled for demolition of any curses. Despite being enrolled at Jujutsu High for a while, Yuta is still unfamiliar with Toge.

During their mission, the initial wave of curses are swiftly exorcised by Toge's unique cursed speech technique. The mission appears to be over but another far more powerful cursed spirit appears to confront the boys. Toge's counterattack fails and they're forced to retreat. Only when they work together and trust in each other do the two young sorcerers manage to exorcise the curse.

Impressed, Suguru Geto watches from above. He used all the aforementioned curses as a way to test Rika's power. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't able to see it in person. Kiyotaka Ijichi meets with Satoru after the mission and the latter confirms Suguru's involvement.

Unbeknownst to them, Suguru begins planning on making his move. He plans on ending the age of non-sorcerers by crushing the pinnacle of the jujutsu world, Tokyo Jujutsu High. Special grade curse user Suguru Geto has spent the last decade under the facade of a Buddhist monk "cleansing" people of their curses. In that time he has amassed a number of cursed spirits from cursed humans, and at that time he also had been recruiting allied sorcerers who wish to see his dream of a reality without non-sorcerers and curses come true.

### Cursed Kindred

In the month preceding Yuta’s successful mission, he comes to spend more and more time with his classmates, but remains apprehensive about Oboro, who had been long acting aloof, to which Maki said he was doing it on purpose to scare Yuta, who thought that Oboro was some kind of delinquent. Upon Oboro receiving a mission request regarding a grade 1 cursed spirit, Satoru has Yuta accompany him.

Upon their arrival, Yuta attempts to make small talk, to which Oboro jokingly responds to each of Yuta’s inquiries. When the pair come face to face with the cursed spirit, Oboro’s demeanor immediately changes, with Yuta noting his cursed energy was beginning to surge. Yuta immediately lost sight of Oboro, who had suddenly appeared behind the curse, locking it within a frame. Within seconds, Oboro exorcised the curse, with Yuta marveling at his abilities. When Yuta asked about where he learned to do those things, Oboro immediately began to complain about his old family, divulging his story to Yuta, who found it sad. Upon Oboro’s mentioning his concern for Yuta since his arrival due to their similarities, Yuta found Oboro to be a kind and caring person, which Oboro called sappy.

Upon the pairs return to Tokyo Jujutsu High, Maki found Oboro and Yuta’s newfound “bromance” to be “icky”, with Panda calling them cute.

### Suguru Geto, The Worst of All Curse Users

    Following the events of Oboro and Yuta's Suguru rides a giant bird-like curse to the Tokyo school with Larue, Mimiko, and Nanako. As soon as they land, Suguru surprises Yuta's classmates with his speed, blitzing past them to abruptly introduce himself to Yuta. He commends his power and claims it should be used to create a world with only sorcerers.

He then commends Rika's strength but is quickly confronted by Satoru and Principal Yaga among other sorcerers. He uses the opportunity and attention to announce that on December 24, 2017, the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons will commence in both Shinjuku and Kyoto. One thousand cursed spirits will be unleashed in each city and ordered to murder all non-sorcerers but Satrou Gojo says he won't let him leave because arresting or killing him is on his mind and Death Scythe grabbed his Coling dragon but scythe is sent into the ground by Larue innate technique to stop death from attacking Suguro and then Geto summoned Skeleton like curses to surround the students and his allies, Suguro Geto leaves shortly with him demanding both sides to curse each other to their heart's content.

### Night Parade of a Hundred Demons: Part 1 - Beginning of the Future

    Masamichi Yaga holds a meeting with all available sorcerers to plan a way to counter Suguru's upcoming terrorist attack. However, Suguru sees through his former mentor's plan. When the day arrives, all jujutsu sorcerers and the vast majority of students are present in either Shinjuku or Kyoto to fight. Suguru uses this to his advantage and infiltrates Tokyo Jujutsu High alone while Yuta is isolated.

On December 24th, a thousand cursed spirits appear in Shinjuku just as Suguru promised. Masamichi Yaga orders the sorcerers under his command to exorcise all the curses while keeping destruction to the city to a minimum. On the chance that civilians haven't left the area, sorcerers are ordered to evacuate them.

Yaga asks Satoru if he's listening to the orders but he doesn't reply and points out one person among the enemy who could be in trouble. That person is Miguel, who is watching Satoru and the sorcerers from atop a tall building alongside a woman. Miguel also picks out Satoru as the strongest among the opposition. The woman with Miguel, Manami Suda, reminds Miguel that Suguru warned them about only buying time. Miguel's role is to stall Satoru while Manami and the others attack the other jujutsu sorcerers. He confirms that he understands and plans on taking it slow and steady so they can at least enjoy themselves until Suguru finishes.

Satoru remains on standby and ponders why Suguru hasn't made an appearance on the front line when he's the type of person who loves to show off. There hasn't been word of his appearance in Kyoto either. Ijichi approaches Satoru while he's thinking and asks what's wrong. Satoru insists its nothing and Ijichi updates him on their investigation into Yuta's past. This news makes Satoru realize Suguru is planning to target Yuta and decides to teleport Toge Inumaki, Panda, and Death Scythe back to Tokyo Jujutsu High. He warns them that Yuta and Maki could die in the worse scenario and asks them to do their best to protect their classmates.

Miguel and Manami are surprised to see that Satoru figured out their plan already. During this Into is seen on a street fighting and killing an overwhelming amount of cursed spirits but manged to kill nearly all of them and is seen fighting a powerful cursed which he Swiftly destroyed with one attack and he complains this is why past his pay grade and wonders if the new first years are okay and is immediately distracted by a curse user who he killed fastly and wished he had didn't

After this fight it moves back to Miguel who believes they should prepare a doppleganger but Manami insists that Geto said a bad replacement would've given them away even sooner. Manami moves up the plan and relays new commands to Miminko and Nanako. The twins emerge from the mouth of a large cursed spirit and Nanako expresses her desire to cut loose. Meanwhile, Gojo stands alone and behind him, Miguel declares himself the special grade's opponent. Gojo turns over his shoulder to look back at Miguel while pulling back his bandages to reveal his left eye. As he glares at Miguel with the Six Eyes, an irritated Gojo apologizes because he's busy at the moment.

Ijichi separates from Satoru and finds three managers hung from the Shinjuku Ballpen Town sign. The twins, Mimiko and Nanako are responsible. Ijichi asks how old they are and tells them it's not too late to turn back. This only serves to irritate the sisters. Nanako explains that people within the city can't imagine what it's like for sorcerers on the outskirts when people believe they're cursed. They only believe in Suguru's vision and swear to hang anyone who gets in his way. Nanako aims her smartphone at Ijichi and her cursed energy focuses on the camera lens. Before she can activate her cursed technique, Miguel is sent flying through the air behind her and crashes into the roof of a building.

Miguel is sent flying through the air behind her and crashes into the roof of a building.

The girls turn around to see that Miguel has been knocked down Nanako asks him what he's doing. Miguel responds sarcastically asking if she can see what's happening when Satoru appears standing behind him. Satoru admits that Miguel is tough and the latter quickly gets up and whips Satoru with his cursed tool. Satoru blocks it with his arm but the whip has an unusual curse woven into it that's able to even disturb the Infinity. However, Miguel came with enough rope to wrap around his waist several times, and now less than half remains. Miguel asks Satoru how many decades he thinks it took the sorcerers of his country to weave the Black Rope but Satoru insists he doesn't care.

A massive furry cursed spirit walks on the street near Satoru but the special grade sorcerer is out of patience. Satoru goes overboard and uses Cursed Technique Reversal: Red to obliterate the curse while damaging several buildings in the process. Nervous, Ijichi notes to himself that Satoru has snapped. This also surprises Miguel and the girls. Miguel is impressed with the Limitless that Suguru warned him about. He knows manipulates space at an atomic level with precise cursed energy manipulation granted to Satoru by his unique eyes.

With just under twelve minutes until his quota, Miguel intends to keep up diversions while running for his life. He uses the Black Rope to rip a cooling unit off the roof of the building and throws it at Satoru. Is crushed by Satoru's Infinity and Miguel uses the distraction to get behind his opponent. Miguel throws a punch and then follows up with several swings of his whip propelled by swift, skillful, spinning motions that Satoru narrowly avoids with graceful speed. Satoru backs off to gain some distance before instantly rushing back in to blitz Miguel with a combination of punches to the gut and head. Satoru finishes his attack with a spinning kick that knocks Miguel into the street. The curse user quickly recovers and gets back to his feet before using his whip to break several power lines that transform into snake-like curses.

Satoru destroys them and sets his sights back on Miguel, who is riding on top of the shoulder of another large curse. The curse swings at Satoru but he avoids it with high-speed movement and then strikes both of them while they're falling through the air. Miguel narrowly escapes damage and swings back into the air. However, Satoru impedes his trajectory, and Miguel slams into the Infinity. Satoru grabs Miguel and throws him back into the building where they re-engage each other at close range. This time Satoru heavily overwhelms Miguel.

Satoru knocks Miguel away with several blows and starts building a combo of direct hits. He lands numerous consecutive punches in rapid succession that brutally pummel Miguel, whose completely at the mercy of the world's strongest sorcerer. The last punch in Satoru's combination of strikes knocks Miguel into another maintenance unit on the roof. He tries to follow up but Miguel avoids it while Satoru destroys the unit. Satoru turns around to pursue Miguel but he quickly disappears and hides behind more cursed spirits. Miguel recognizes that things got dangerous and decides to focus on hit-and-run tactics from now on. He plans on giving his all to survive the last ten minutes before his quota is up and swears to curse Geto if he dies in that time.

Then Miguel would counter Gojo's next attack on him when Gojo found him through the simple domain but Gojo noticed he is able to move while its active and both entered round two as Miguel uses the rope to break through infinity and grappled gojo pulling him in to attack but gets countered by punches and then both are able to tap into their fullest unhinged sides like a bloody match of boxing and both pushed and pushed with their attacks until the rope was almost gone at this point and his simple domain was his only option to continue fighting so he placed the barrier technique over himself like a massive armour that can't be seen and he even covered what's left of the rope.

Gojo and Miguel pushed each other past a point fighting even more and more that they are on the opposite side of Shinjuku after a long clash of wits and the rope is completely gone and Miguel nearly worn out noticed Gojo is barely tired and both stopped as they became surrounded by powerful curses and this is when Miguel said "Guess my Quota is up" and both called it good, both recognizing their potential's and both would face the curses until they were dead or fleed from their terrifying match up and both would join each other to find Suguro Geto together.

### Parade of a Hundred Demons: Part 2 - Demons Failing Down

    Inside the curtain around Shinjuku, sorcerers all across the battlefield engage curses released from cursed spirit manipulated. Takuma Ino destroys several at close range before dispatching a larger bipedal curse with Kaichi. He expresses how he wishes Nanami could see him do well but Kusakabe yells at him to stop whining and continue fighting.

Takuma Ino then starts to fight more curses able to use every advantage of his own technique as possible to destroy these cursed spirits and he eventually fought many large and small curses tearing them all up within seconds here ino sensed a mass spike of cursed energy behind him and this information he then manged to dodge dozen of massive heart shaped blasts from Larua who compliment ino for dodging that sneak attack and this resulted in ino using his Auspicious Beast Summon technique Reiki and flowed it around his body and began to attack the curse user and both entered a clash of fists but ino was extremely fast and was able to land even more hits than his opponent who they admitted was getting very little advantage in this failed sneak attack,

Despite his efforts Laura would face more beat downs and he would eventually forced to dodge a giant attack of water blasts from ino and Laura had nearly drowned in the process after breaking through the gaps in the water, he would then finally activate his technique named "Love Struck" to create massive heart shaped blasts to then counter the next stream of attacks by ino and these attacks of Laura evaporated massive portions of these water sprouts and this would later cause a chain of reactions that happen causing it to rain overall negating ino usage of Reiki.

Staring at each other and claiming stances of martial artist they both are ready to attack he then he activated his cursed energy and slipped it inside his body specifically his veins inside his body and this triggered a reaction in his body creating markings on his face similar to that of Flowing Red Scale and he taught himself after he witnessed said abilities and immediately Ino new trick had made him faster than the technique used by his opponents and ino started to best Laura until the curse user had past out and ino would pass out himself due to this cursed energy application taking all his physical stamina and he was rescued following this fight .

At the same time, Mei Mei engages numerous masked curses that she slashes apart with her axe. She's exorcised at least fifty cursed spirits, clearing the number needed for an incentive payout. Motivated to make more money, Mei Mei sets out to work harder to earn a full bonus. As she effortlessly dispatches of the remaining masked curses, she notes the presence of a curse user, and turns to face him. The curse user, known as Toshihisa Negi, tells Mei Mei to surrender, to which she calls his abilities fodder, quickly closing the distance between them, immediately cutting out his right eye with her battle axe.

As Toshihisa backs up, he attempts to activate his technique, only to be kicked by Mei Mei, but quickly recovers, throwing pieces of rubble imbued with cursed energy at Mei Mei, which she easily dodges. She acknowledges Toshihisa as a sorcerers on par with a grade 2, but calls his cursed energy usage sloppy. Toshihisa then activates his technique, Recusance Compass, which Mei Mei is immediately effected by, becoming forced to her knees, but counters him with her cursed energy reinforcement, calling Toshihisa’s technique “not half bad”, before sending multiple crows at him, knocking him off balance and distracting him long enough for her to strike him with the blunt side of her axe, sending him flying through a building, as Mei Mei comments on the “service potential” he had.

During this time, in a makeshift medical station somewhere within the city of Shinjuku where sorcerers and managers are being treated, Akari Nitta tries to help Shoko Ieiri sort the wounded. She ensures the wounded that Shoko will help them and Geto's former classmate feels annoyed towards him for forcing a heap of trouble upon them with this incident.

Meanwhile, in Kyoto, several jujutsu sorcerers are killed by a large curse with muscular arms and a large shell. Young sorcerers watch in horror as they prepare to step up and fight next. Kento Nanami stops them and calmly tells them that he'll take care of it. He runs into battle and leaps off the top of a car into the air above his target. Nanami slashes down the curse's neck with his blunt sword and then circles its arms so that it collapses to the ground. A group of crawling curses confronts Nanami next and he responds by wrapping his tie around his right fist before charging it with cursed energy. Nanami slashes the first of the curses away before throwing a fierce right hook that obliterates the rest of the group with a Black Flash. Two more groups of those types of cursed spirits attack Nanami and he destroys them with two more Black Flashes using his fist. The large curse Nanami injured attacks him from behind and the grade 1 sorcerer slices it in half with a fourth consecutive Black Flash combined with his Ratio Technique.

During this time in Kyoto, Utahime is dancing, aiding her allies with her cursed technique, before quickly dispatching of a nearby cursed spirit, expressing her relief that the waves of curses is finally dying down. As she deactivates her cursed technique, she decides to regroup with her students, she turns a corner around a building, where a man dressed in black with a fisherman hat is waiting on the far end, staring out at the carnage. Utahime comes to a sudden stop as she is confronted by the man, who turns to look at her. Utahime then noticed a weapon had dropped from his black coat, guided by his hand also obscured by his outfit, she takes a closer look at the weapon as it looked like a Three-Section Staff with a blade.

Immediately, Utahime senses his sinister cursed energy, immediately taking a step back. The man asks her about the whereabouts of “Death”, to Utahime doesn’t respond, planning possible escape routes in her head. As the man begins to walk towards her, she immediately bolts into a nearby ally. But upon entering it, she feels a gust of wind on her face, which is accompanied almost instantaneously by a large gash sweeping across her face, scarring her. The man appears in front of Utahime again, asking about “Death”, to which she attempts to strike him, only to be stabbed 6 times simultaneously in the stomach, collapsing onto the ground. As she begins to black out, the man simply walks away, rambling about how “Death can’t elude me forever” and he then vanishes as she fully passed out.

### Parade of a Hundred Demons: Part 3 - the Ending of the Demons

Maki and Oboro attempt to stop him and Satoru becomes wise to Suguru's plan, sending back Toge, Death, and Panda to stop him. Suguru defeats four of all five of Yuta's friends, grievously injuring them. After finding the curse user standing over his dying friends, Yuta loses control of his emotions and calls Rika out in a rage. Together alongside Oboro they fight against Suguru and reveal their ability to copy cursed techniques. Using a reverse cursed technique, Yuta heals his friends and even copies Toge's cursed speech to repel Suguru's curses, leaving Oboro to face Suguru in close quarters. However, in the seconds after Oboro copied Suguru’s Cursed Spirit Manipulation, he was knocked unconscious from a close proximity semi-Uzumaki, further angering Yuta after Suguru harmed his “best friend”.

In the climax of their battle, Suguru puts all his curses into one attack: Maximum: Uzumaki. As a last resort, Yuta gives his heart to Rika and promises to spend his life with her no matter what. This removes the limits from Rika's power, giving them the power generated by the strongest curse of all: love. With this strength, Yuta defeats Suguru and forces him to retreat. The curse user doesn't get far, and meets with his ex-best friend, Satoru Gojo one last time.

    Yuta prepares to devote his spirit to Rika in the afterlife, but suddenly her vengeful spirit form comes apart. Satoru arrives to reveal that the curse has been untangled and his role in cursing her in the first place. Yuta is a descendant of Michikaze Sugawara, a big-time sorcerer who became one of the Big Three Vengeful Spirits, meaning he's distantly related to the Gojo Family. When Yuta rejected and cursed Rika's death, his cursed energy caused her to manifest as a vengeful spirit.

Yuta expresses remorse for what happened but Rika assures him that her time as a curse was better than her time alive was. She says her final goodbye to Yuta, who decides to continue on as a special grade jujutsu sorcerer and remains by the side of all his new friends at Tokyo Jujutsu High.

## Terminology Introduced

* Jujutsu Sorcerer
* Cursed Spirit
* Curse User
* Cursed Human
* Grade

**Jujutsu**

* Cursed Energy
	+ Maximum Output
* Cursed Technique
* Cursed Tool
	+ Black Rope
	+ Playful Cloud
	+ The Coiling Dragon
* Barrier Technique
	+ Curtain
	+ New Shadow Style: Simple Domain
	+ Batto Sword Drawing
	+ Evening Moon Drawing
* Cursed Corpse
	+ **Panda**
* Reverse Cursed Technique

**Jujutsu Terrorism**

* Night Parade of a Hundred Demons

**Toge Inumaki's Techniques**

* Cursed Speech

**Yuta Okkotsu's Techniques**

* Rika
	+ Cursed Speech

**Oboro Mu's Techniques**

* Mimic
	+ Cursed Spirit Manipulation (Failed to Use)

**Death Scythe's Techniques**

* Cursed Tool Empowerment

**Suguru Geto's Techniques**

* Cursed Spirit Manipulation
	+ Maximum: Uzumaki

**Satoru Gojo's Techniques**

* Limitless
	+ Cursed Technique Reversal: Red