Following the Kyoto Goodwill Event, it becomes clear that several cursed objects were stolen during Hanami’s infiltration. Among them are special-grade cursed wombs known as the Death Paintings.
These objects were created through inhumane experimentation over 150 years ago by the infamous sorcerer Noritoshi Kamo — remembered as the most evil sorcerer in history. He forcibly impregnated a woman capable of bearing cursed spirit offspring, resulting in nine hybrid fetuses: half-human, half-curse.
These fetuses were preserved as cursed objects.
Mahito’s faction now possesses them.
The alliance’s goal is escalation — increasing chaos, increasing suffering, accelerating evolution.
Reports emerge of a curse-related phenomenon near Yasohachi Bridge. Individuals connected to a specific school begin dying after encountering a curse there.
Yuji Itadori, Nobara Kugisaki, and Megumi Fushiguro are assigned to investigate.
The environment carries residual cursed energy linked to one of Sukuna’s fingers.
This ensures high-level danger.
The curse alliance dispatches two incarnated Death Paintings:
Eso
Kechizu
These brothers are special-grade curse-human hybrids with the inherited technique:
Decay-type Blood Manipulation
Their technique, “Rot Technique,” infects targets through blood contact, causing accelerated cellular decomposition.
They seek vengeance for their “younger brother,” who remains a dormant womb.
Before direct confrontation with the Death Paintings, Megumi encounters a powerful curse linked to the bridge.
He is pushed to near death.
In this moment of desperation, Megumi abandons caution.
He embraces risk.
He expands his Domain for the first time:
Chimera Shadow Garden
Unlike perfected domains, it is incomplete and lacks a guaranteed-hit barrier.
However, it dramatically enhances his shikigami and shadow manipulation.
Megumi exorcises the curse alone.
This marks a turning point:
He chooses to fight to win — not merely survive.
Meanwhile, Yuji and Nobara confront Eso and Kechizu directly.
The battle becomes brutal and personal.
Eso infects Nobara with Rot Technique.
Her body begins decaying.
Yuji is also infected.
The technique spreads through cursed blood contact.
Rather than retreat, Nobara makes a decision.
She uses her Straw Doll Technique in reverse.
By driving nails into her own infected arm, she transmits damage back to Eso via resonance.
She accepts pain as a weapon.
Yuji and Nobara coordinate instinctively.
Both enter the zone.
They land simultaneous Black Flash strikes.
The synchronized impact exorcises both Eso and Kechizu.
For the first time, Yuji kills beings who were partially human.
Afterward, he stands in silence.
He realizes:
He has taken lives that once had names.
The line between curse and human blurs.
Elsewhere, the final active Death Painting brother, Choso, senses the death of Eso and Kechizu.
Unlike curses, the Death Paintings share a blood connection.
He feels their deaths as if they were family.
Choso swears revenge against Yuji Itadori.
The conflict deepens beyond ideology.
It becomes personal.
The higher-ups continue to pressure for Yuji’s execution.
The curse alliance regroups.
Mahito continues refining Idle Transfiguration.
The man in Geto’s body continues orchestrating events from behind the scenes.
The existence of hybrid curse-humans demonstrates a terrifying possibility:
Human evolution through cursed energy.
The Death Painting Arc accomplishes three crucial shifts:
Yuji accepts the burden of killing.
Megumi embraces lethal resolve.
Choso becomes emotionally bound to the coming war.
The emotional innocence of early arcs begins fading.
The world is no longer about training.
It is about survival and ideology.
And in the background, preparations accelerate.
Because the strongest sorcerer still exists.
And as long as he stands—
None of their plans can succeed.