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

Blue hydrangea after rain.

Shiga, Japan.

every time i see someone say toji wasn’t a deadbeat or that he was a good father bc he “loved megumi” a new bandage gets ripped off a childhood wound

Forgot I took photos with this cursed spirit in Choso cosplay.

Choso cosplay with his beautiful eyebrows here, I just could not be bothered this day.

Ok it's time to post about Megumi lmao this was in my drafts for a month

I feel like he connects w Yuuji and Nobara so well bc everyone else expects things of him. Yuuji is quick to praise his peers, and Nobara will throw out judgement. Neither of which is based on his cursed technique.

It's kind of ironic how Toji was punished for having no cursed energy, and his son is doomed by having the ten shadows. Megumi seems to exist for leisure like Sukuna or Nanami - he doesn't look forward to becoming a sorcerer. He couldn't care less. He just wants to be left alone, and he really has no other choice. With no parents, all that remains is the choice between the Zenin clan or Gojo.

I think that their relationship never became a father-son closeness, because Megumi dreaded and resented that Gojo expected Megumi to catch up to him, to be strong. He never asked to be strong, but everyone expects that of Megumi without rly getting to know him. "my precious student" and Megumi threatening to punch Gojo is kind of funny, but kind of sad. Idk. (to be fair I have not read the light novels, I know that Gojo would take Megumi to theme parks or something like that, so he was maybe like an annoying but caring older brother.) I think that Gojo's loneliness drove him to tell his students to catch up, to become stronger than him. Of course he also wanted a strong, understanding generation, capable of restructuring jujutsu society into something that wasn't so destructive toward them.

I think that Sukuna and Megumi can relate to each other a good bit. Abandoned by their parents, deified and put into a separate category from something beyond their control or desires. Despite all their strength, being placed into powerless positions, forced to work for a system that doesn't give a damn about them. They both value personal space, literature, and are constantly challenged and thrust into battle when they aren't in the mood to fight.

You remember when Megumi curled up w Sukuna's finger after defeating the special grade? And Sukuna was like, 'Good, that's very good.' why?

I think Sukuna was glad to see Megumi's domain. Sukuna knows how uncomfortable it feels to be repressed in Yuuji's body, and he gets through it by retreating to his innate domain most of the time, unaware of whatever is happening outside of it.

I might have posted before about how someone like Megumi could have been a symbiotic vessel for sukuna, like angel and Hana, so that's why it was so important for Yuuji to have a carefree life.

ch.265 rly confirmed this - we see that even when Yuuji tries to connect with Sukuna, he has no idea how. He doesn't recognize the signs of emotional scarring from Sukuna's past. Kenjaku made sure of this, I wonder at times if he told Wasuke to give Yuuji a carefree life - when he said "tch, you've had it too easy" that struck me as weird bc bro, you raised him!

I can't think of any time kenjaku thanked someone except for the occult club student, for being kind to his son... It was important for kenjaku's mission. Yuuji was carefully crafted into a perfect cage for sukuna - not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.

I wonder if he had an idea that Kenjaku would step in, when he passed away.