Following the confrontation with Mahito, tension within jujutsu society intensifies. Yuji Itadori remains officially sentenced to death, his survival concealed from the Kyoto branch of Jujutsu High.
The conservative higher-ups distrust Gojo’s influence over Tokyo students. They view Yuji as an abomination — Sukuna’s vessel — and fear Gojo’s growing ideological defiance.
The annual Kyoto Goodwill Event approaches.
Traditionally, it is a training competition between Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu High. In reality, it is a political instrument — a demonstration of strength, ideology, and lineage.
Kyoto represents tradition and obedience.
Tokyo increasingly represents Gojo’s reformist philosophy.
Before the event begins, the Kyoto principal receives quiet approval from the higher-ups:
If an opportunity arises, Yuji Itadori is to be killed during the event.
The plan is simple:
Disguise execution as an accident.
Kyoto students — particularly Aoi Todo and Noritoshi Kamo — are informed of Yuji’s status as Sukuna’s vessel. They prepare to eliminate him.
Tokyo students remain unaware.
The event consists of two phases:
Team Battle
Individual Matches
The first phase: a forest-based team battle to exorcise a Grade 2 curse while competing against the opposing school.
The true objective for Kyoto:
Kill Yuji.
Aoi Todo intercepts Yuji early in the forest.
Todo is Grade 1-level, immensely powerful, and obsessed with determining a person’s taste in women as a measure of character.
He demands Yuji answer his question.
Yuji responds honestly.
Todo declares him his “best friend.”
This irrational compatibility alters the course of the assassination attempt.
Instead of killing Yuji, Todo decides to mentor him mid-battle.
As internal conflict unfolds, the curse alliance launches a coordinated assault.
Hanami — the special-grade cursed spirit embodying fear of forests — breaches the barrier protecting the event.
The objective is not mass slaughter.
It is strategic evaluation and the acquisition of Sukuna’s fingers stored on campus.
Mahito and the curse-user faction deploy curtains to separate sorcerers and restrict Gojo’s immediate interference.
Hanami proves overwhelmingly durable and powerful.
Multiple students combine efforts:
Megumi Fushiguro
Noritoshi Kamo
Maki Zenin
Toge Inumaki
Panda
They coordinate tactically but cannot inflict decisive damage.
Hanami refrains from lethal output initially, testing the next generation of sorcerers.
Todo forces Yuji into accelerated combat growth.
He teaches Yuji:
Cursed energy is not brute force.
It is rhythm.
Flow.
Control.
Under extreme pressure, Yuji lands Black Flash.
Black Flash occurs when cursed energy impacts within 0.000001 seconds of physical contact.
It multiplies damage exponentially.
Yuji enters the “zone.”
He lands multiple consecutive Black Flashes.
This places him among elite sorcerers.
Todo supports him using his technique:
Boogie Woogie — instant position swapping with a clap.
Together they overwhelm Hanami momentarily.
As the battle escalates, Gojo enters the battlefield.
He effortlessly dominates Hanami, nearly exorcising it.
Hanami escapes only through emergency retreat coordinated by the curse alliance.
Gojo’s presence once again proves absolute.
The curses confirm their fear:
Direct confrontation is meaningless.
During the chaos, Mahito’s faction steals several Sukuna fingers and Death Painting Wombs from Jujutsu High’s storage.
This theft will later trigger the Death Painting Arc.
The Kyoto assassination attempt collapses due to:
Todo’s defection from the plan.
The curse invasion.
Gojo’s interference.
Yuji survives.
But the political hostility remains unresolved.
After the event, suspicion arises around a traitor within Jujutsu High providing information to the curses.
It is later revealed that Kokichi Muta (Mechamaru) of Kyoto High has been communicating with Mahito in exchange for healing his Heavenly Restriction-afflicted body.
This revelation exposes internal rot.
The enemy is not only external.
The Goodwill Event marks several critical developments:
Yuji achieves Black Flash.
Todo becomes his combat mentor.
The curse alliance demonstrates coordinated strategy.
Sukuna’s fingers are mobilized.
The concept of sealing Gojo becomes more plausible.
For the first time, the curses operate not as monsters — but as revolutionaries.
The conflict escalates beyond school rivalries.
The board is being set.