The End Of Ch. 265

The end of ch. 265

-sukuna has a moment of vulnerability w Yuuji (and verbally communicates this gently)

-Yuuji immediately threatens Sukuna. Give up all your autonomy (return to me, the perfect cage that kenjaku made specifically to contain you) or I'll kill you.

Of course Sukuna lashes out. He feels betrayed, probably even by himself for showing a moment of honesty and weakness, and being proven right after that he needs to keep his guard up always and forever.

Ch. 266

Sukuna is the traumatized kid turned edgelord.

We see over and over again he is not in touch with his emotions, afraid of looking inward, not aware that he feels anything.

This page of Megumi and Yuuji looks just like the time when Gojo dragged him into the world of jujutsu. He didn't really have a choice - it was to be sold to his family, where Tsumiki would suffer. Or become a sorcerer (which he still resented at the end of middle school). Now Yuuji is trying to do the same thing - but he's offering all he can to understand, to let it be Fushiguro's choice. He's saying I miss you, but I won't guilt you into coming back.

2 other interesting things in this chapter: the last panel sounds just like Nobara. We've long suspected that the last finger was still hidden (Gojo hid the last finger to suspend Yuuji's execution forever), and that Nobara could return and use her resonance technique on it (she was the last person still recovering who Shoko mentioned, and Yuuji isn't allowed to know because Sukuna might pick up on that. Also why Yuuta lied to Sukuna about eating it).

This post goes more into that, with a foreshadowing image and how i believed Yuuji's domain would be snowy (and there was a lot of snow this chapter). The rest of my predictions for his domain's ability are still unseen, but with Megumi coming back, I have to wonder if it's related (maybe it isn't but I'm too Naruto Influenced).

Maybe Yuuji's way of bringing Megumi back is more like a baptism, as I gathered from the flowers mentioned in ch.265.

This was my prediction for ch. 266 btw

I’m always pushing you away from me / but you come back with gravity / and when I call, you come home

Sukuna is Peak Gap Moe. I’ll never be over this. This bastard talks tough, eats people, and kills like a woodchipper and yet…he is a poetic little sap. Getting mad over an improper haikus, the misidentification of flowers…and confessing his feelings to Gojo Satoru under several layers of wordplay no one except those well-versed in ancient Japanese would catch.

I've been over this in greater detail in Sukuna's Negative Rizz, but @tangsakura added more context in the replies to that post, making Sukuna's use of 凡夫 (bonpu) for Gojo even gayer.

In summary, 凡夫 (bonpu) can be translated as painfully ordinary or unenlightened. But in the individual kanji readings, 凡 is mediocre and 夫 is husband. You could read this as Sukuna calling Gojo his mediocre husband. And that's just the modern readings! The ancient readings...

So you can read this line from Sukuna as the following:

“You were born in an era without me and hailed as 'The Strongest'

1) And yet you turned out to be…painfully ordinary.”

2) And yet you turned out to be…unenlightened.”

3) And yet you turned out to be…a mediocre husband/wife/spouse.”

4) And yet you turned out to be…the ordinary one who could stand by my side.”

Sukuna seems to be saying these things all at once. (It’s no different than the Megumi Activities wordplay he uses with Enchain.) Gojo apparently makes him feel very conflicted. He’s boring, he can do better, he shouldn’t even call himself the Honored One, he’s his equal, they’re married. The irony here is that no one except Sukuna can understand this.

(anime-only friendly post)

Now that we know Gojo's schedule only gave him 3 hours to sleep... (I doubt this is canonically true but ohhhhhhhh I want it to be)

Gojo was often sent out on missions that only he could take care of. The other special grade sorcerers (Yuuta wasn't there yet, Yuki bummed around overseas so hard that her salary got frozen, and Geto left jujutsu high (but arguably was more proactive against curses in his own way))

Gojo is overworked, he cannot possibly keep up with everything, but no one else can be assigned his mission - so he tells Geto where the curse is, and he takes care of it. (and if Gojo gets lucky enough to miss a meeting or something for this mission, then they could meet up)

(which could also be a reason that Gojo didn't doubt Geto's bluff about his number of curses, and their strength... Some that Gojo supposedly exorcised were absorbed by Geto. Could also explain the way he snapped and took out that giant one along w the buildings in JJK0)

Lately I've been appreciating Mai's playlist and it's long enough to color a manga panel for but I don't have one picked out and I'm still on the hidden inventory arc