Tengen welcomes everyone except Yuki in the Tombs of the Star Corridor in Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 episode 3. Yuki isn’t happy with it. The people are shocked after they saw Tengen. They wonder if the guy is a human. Tengen reminds Yuki that it’s not their first meeting. He speaks out her name. She questions him the reason why he closed the Tombs of the Star Corridor. He worried that he will be in sync with Kenjaku. After all, he cannot understand human hearts. Yuki hears Kenjaku’s name the first time. She asks Tengen about the person.
Tengen reveals Kenjaku’s previous name is Noritoshi Kamo. He’s in Suguru Geto’s body. Yuki mentions Kenjaku’s name symbolizes compassion and redemption. She thinks it’s an irony. Yuji is interested in Tengen’s look. Tengen reveals he doesn’t die but he’s not immortal. He thinks Yuji will look like him if he lives for five hundred years. Twelve years ago, Tengen failed to merge with the Star Plasma Vessel. His aging accelerated. His self gradually faded away. Heaven and earth became his self.
Yuki learns that there’s no another Star Plasma Vessel. She figures out the reason why Tengen’s voice doesn’t increase. Megumi interrupts Yuki. He tells Tengen that they came to ask the goal of Kenjaku. They also want to break the seal of Prison Realm. Tengen agrees to help those guys. But he has one condition. He tells Yuta, Yuki and Choso that two of the three need to stay in the Tombs of the Star Corridor for being his guards. Yuta wonders why Tengen needs guards since he doesn’t die. Maki guesses Tengen worries that he will be sealed. Yuki thinks it’s unfair. She asks Tengen to explain it to them why he needs guards and how long it takes.
Tengen reveals Kenjaku plans to evolve the entire Japanese populace. Megumi has heard it. He wonders why Kenjaku didn’t use Tengen’s barrier. The barrier Non-action Transformation can turns everyone into sorcerer. Tengen reveals Kenjaku lacked cursed power. The cursed power that’s refined by swirl cannot be returned to sorcerer. It’s inefficient that evolves humans one by one. The method Kenjaku chose makes humans assimilate with Tengen.
Megumi points out that only Star Plasma Vessel can achieve it. Tengen admits it that it used to be like that. But Star Plasma Vessel was dead. So he can assimilate with others. Choso mentions Tengen is single. He wonders how Tengen will assimilate with a few people. Tengen reveals the one who stands in front of the people isn’t the real him. His soul is everywhere after he evolved. The one who assimilates with him can surpass sorcerer. It’s a new form of existence. Because he owns barrier technique so he keeps body and reason. But the world will be over as long as there’s one person goes berserk. Because there’re no boundaries between individuals. Malice will spread in an instant. The filth of a hundred million people will flood the entire world. The previous tragedy in Tokyo will happen worldwide.
Yuji wonders why Kenjaku wants to do that. Tengen doesn’t know it. He mentions what he said that he cannot understand human hearts. Mai believes that Kenjaku won’t make it as long as Tengen rejects. Tengen thinks it’s the problem. He reveals he’s close to cursed spirit after he evolved. That means that he can be absorbed by curse users. Everyone is shocked after getting the message. So Tengen’s true self Tombs of the Star Corridor rejects everything.
Yuta learns the reason why Tengen needs guards. Tengen reveals Kenjaku is the barrier technique expert who’s second only to him. The seal in Tombs of the Star Corridor will be broken anytime. Yuki wonders why Kenjaku takes action now. Tengen explains it to her that he, Star Plasma Vessel and Six Eyes are bound by karmic ties. Kenjaku was defeated by Six Eyes sorcerer twice. He killed Six Eyes and Star Plasma Vessel after the two were born. But they appeared on the merging day. He didn’t seal them since then. He sealed them instead. He began to look for Prison Realm. Because there’s only one person owning Six Eyes. But an unexpected event happened twelve years ago.
Toji Fushiguro stepped in the case. He owned Heavenly Restriction. He got rid of the restriction of cursed power. The human who broke free from the cycle of cause and effect. He broke the fate of Tengen, Star Plasma Vessel and Six Eyes in the end. He killed Star Plasma Vessel. Six years ago, Kenjaku got Prison Realm.
Megumi wonders what’s the Culling Game. Tengen reveals it’s the preparation of merging. Human can merge with Tengen. But it might turn into an incomplete form now. The Culling Game uses the cursed powers of the players and the realm between the barriers, conducting a ritual. It takes the people in the nation to the other shore. They will merge with Tengen later. But Kenjaku needs to have a restriction to hold the ritual. One of the conditions is that Kenjaku shouldn’t be the manager of the Culling Game. But the game won’t end even if Kenjaku is killed.
Yuta thinks they should take part in the Culling Game. They need to help Tsumiki and other players quit the game. Megumi adds that they need to save Gojo. He believes that Gojo can resolve all problems as long as Gojo comes back.
Choso and Yuki volunteer to stay in the Tombs of the Star Corridor. He mentions Yuji needs Yuki or Yuta’s help. Yuki reveals she needs to talk about something with Tengen. She asks Yuta if he can do it alone. He makes the decision. He doesn’t want to part ways with everyone. Tengen thanks those guys. He takes out Prison Realm Inside that can save Gojo. He reveals Gojo is sealed in Prison Realm Inside. Yuji mistakes that they can save Gojo once they open the black box. But he’s told that only Kenjaku has the authority. It requires to remove all cursed techniques for opening the gate. But Gojo broke two key items. Yuta went to look for one of the key items ever. But he got nothing. There was a sorcerer who took part in the Culling Game one thousand years ago. She named himself Angel. Her technique can remove any technique. The gate of Prison Realm Inside will be opened with Angel’s technique. Angel is in the barrier east of Tokyo. Tengen cannot get more intelligence because the barrier can reject him.
Tengen shows the map to Yuji and his friends. There’re ten barriers in the nation. All barriers can send the people in Japan to the other side of the nation. Yuki wonders if Hokkaido isn’t covered because of the sorcerer’s land. Tengen admits it. He reveals the land was renovated into a huge spirit ground. Megumi wonders when the ritual will be completed. Tengen thinks two months are enough. Megumi remembers Tsumiki needs to take part in the game after ten days. She will die if she rejects it. Maki thinks she won’t be safe even if she doesn’t have any cursed technique, according to Shouko’s theory. She wonders what will happen to Panda.
Yuji wonders what will happen to the ordinary people in the barriers. They have one chance to leave. Yuki finds out that they cannot delete the existing rules. Megumi guesses they can deny the rules. The players who reach 100 points can add new rules. Maki thinks it’s too vague. Tengen disagrees. He thinks it’s fair. He mentions the players are forced to be limited by the rules. Kenjaku won’t get more benefits from the angle of cursed techniques.
Maki decides to go to Zenin family to take back the cursed items since Megumi is the master of Zenin family. She wants Tengen to prepare the workshop. She reveals she’s going to help resolve the Culling Game with Panda. She asks Yuta about his plan. He claims that he will get into the barrier and join the game. He will try his best to collect the intelligence before Megumi and Tsumiki join. He promises Megumi that he will avoid the nearby barriers if something happens to Tsumiki. He thinks the barrier might cut off the signal. So he cannot contact the people during the period. But Yuji needs Yuta’s help. He worries about it. Megumi hits Yuji. He comforts him that everything will be fine. He asks him to complete the task if he dies.
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Maki asks Megumi and Yuji to go to look for Kinji. She thinks they need to use the people that they can use even if Kinji is terrible. Yuta reveals Kinji is stronger than him once the guy gets into the state. But Maki exposes Yuta’s lie.
Yuji thanks Choso before he leaves the Tombs of the Star Corridor. Choso asks Yuji not to die. He cries. The player Fumihiko doesn’t know how to make people laugh. His boss persuades him to resign. Fumihiko is a bit mentally unstable after he suffered a setback.