In Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 54, the story flashes back to June, when Taichi Kanada from Morioka complains over the phone about his apartment’s broken auto-lock door. Mid-call, a cursed spirit suddenly appears and kills him. Over the following months, similar mysterious deaths occur in Yokohama and Nagoya, all victims connected by a shared past — they attended the same junior high school.
Akari Nitta, assistant manager at Jujutsu High, briefs the students on the pattern while they travel to investigate the latest incident. She reveals that the victims were all cursed years ago, and those curses have now manifested lethally over time, linking each death to a single lingering curse.
