# E23 - The Origin of Blind Obedience - 2 -
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**[00:37] Curse**
Got you!
**[00:48] Yuji**
*What was that blood he spat out?*
**[00:51] Yuji**
*Poison?*
**[00:53] Curse**
What's this?
**[00:55] Curse**
You're strong.
**[00:57] Curse**
That's no fun.
**[01:02] Kugisaki**
Straw Doll Technique:
**[01:04] Kugisaki**
Resonance!
**[01:25] Fushiguro**
How many of them are there?
**[01:27] Kugisaki**
We should just keep going
like it's whack-a-mole, huh?
**[01:30] Fushiguro**
Yeah.
**[01:31] Fushiguro**
Keep going.
**[01:32] Fushiguro**
Keep exorcising them for me.
**[01:34] Fushiguro**
We'll crush every last one of them.
**[01:37] Fushiguro**
It likely won't retaliate.
**[01:40] Kugisaki**
You mean its main body
doesn't have much offense
**[01:43] ---**
since its technique covers a
wide area, even limited as it is?
**[01:47] Fushiguro**
I'm only saying it's likely.
**[01:50] Fushiguro**
* All the things we were worried about—*
* its technique's range,*
**[01:52] Fushiguro**
*the number of victims, the barrier—*
**[01:54] Fushiguro**
* All of those are subtracting*
* from its main body.*
**[01:58] Fushiguro**
*We're lucky.*
**[02:00] Fushiguro**
*We'll be able to exorcise it quickly, then.*
**[02:04] Fushiguro**
* Which means... the real*
* problem comes afterward.*
**[02:16] Fushiguro**
Kugisaki!
**[02:17] Kugisaki**
I'll be fine.
**[02:20] Kugisaki**
You just whack the mole.
**[02:25] Fushiguro**
Damn it!
**[02:26] Fushiguro**
She gets sucked away so often!
**[02:29] Fushiguro**
*But what was that just now?*
**[02:32] Fushiguro**
*The mole?*
**[02:34] Fushiguro**
*That earlier one?*
**[02:36] Fushiguro**
*It's neither!*
**[02:39] Yuji**
Kugisaki?
**[02:40] Curse**
Oh, hey, it's my older brother!
**[02:44] Curse**
Me, too!
**[02:50] Yuji**
It fled?!
**[02:52] Yuji**
Should I let it go?
**[02:53] Fushiguro**
Chase after it!
**[02:54] Fushiguro**
Kugisaki and that thing both
went outside the barrier!
**[02:59] Fushiguro**
She might be battling against something
more troublesome than we expected!
**[03:02] Fushiguro**
In contrast, things are far
easier here than anticipated!
**[03:05] Fushiguro**
I can handle this by myself!
**[03:07] Fushiguro**
Prioritize Kugisaki! Go after it!
**[03:10] Yuji**
If things get bad in here,
**[03:12] Yuji**
then you come out, too.
**[03:23] Kugisaki**
Why, you...
**[03:24] Kugisaki**
Don't touch me!
**[03:31] Eso**
You're a woman?
**[03:34] Eso**
Well, pardon me.
**[03:38] Eso**
We brothers were tasked with an errand.
**[03:44] Eso**
But killing jujutsu sorcerers
isn't part of that.
**[03:49] Eso**
If you withdraw, we'll let you escape,
**[03:54] Eso**
young lady.
**[03:56] Kugisaki**
An errand?
**[03:57] Eso**
Hm? I presumed you were
on the same errand.
**[04:01] Kugisaki**
*A cursed spirit? A curse user?*
**[04:03] Kugisaki**
*Which is he?*
**[04:05] Kugisaki**
*And what is that smell?*
**[04:21] Fushiguro**
Last one!
**[04:25] Fushiguro**
Your sneak attack's too simple.
**[04:32] Fushiguro**
I told you, it's too simple.
**[04:41] Fushiguro**
Did I exorcise them all?
**[04:44] Fushiguro**
*That takes care of Tsumiki for now.*
**[04:49] Fushiguro**
*Now to...*
**[04:59] Fushiguro**
*One survived?*
**[05:01] Fushiguro**
*That wasn't its main body just now?*
**[05:04] Fushiguro**
*The barrier hasn't collapsed, either.*
**[05:06] Fushiguro**
*What?*
**[05:11] Fushiguro**
* I shouldn't try too hard to find logic*
* in a cursed spirit's behavioral patterns,*
**[05:17] Fushiguro**
* but that fact had been*
* nagging me this whole time.*
**[05:20] Fushiguro**
* Why did it just start killing*
* humans it had marked now?*
**[05:28] Fushiguro**
*The first one was killed in June.*
**[05:32] Fushiguro**
*And in June...*
**[05:38] Eso**
Our objective here...
**[05:41] Eso**
is to retrieve Sukuna's finger.
***SIGN*** JUJUTSU KAISEN
***SIGN*** Episode 23: The Origin of Blind Obedience - 2 -
***SIGN*** Episode 23: The Origin of Blind Obedience - 2 -
**[07:19] Fushiguro**
Some have a presence
that's too overwhelming.
**[07:22] Fushiguro**
*Some keep very quiet.*
**[07:24] Fushiguro**
*Some have already been
absorbed by a cursed spirit.*
**[07:28] Fushiguro**
*This is resonance.*
**[07:31] Fushiguro**
*Sukuna's finger kept its power repressed*
**[07:33] Fushiguro**
* within the cursed spirit*
* that had absorbed it,*
**[07:36] Fushiguro**
*but back in June,*
**[07:38] Fushiguro**
* when Sukuna manifested in Itadori,*
* it released its cursed energy.*
**[07:43] Fushiguro**
*It looks the same*
**[07:46] Fushiguro**
* as the one from the juvenile detention center,*
* but it's probably several degrees...*
**[07:56] Fushiguro**
*stronger!*
**[08:07] Fushiguro**
Nue!
**[08:14] (Flashback) Gojo**
Okay, I win again.
**[08:18] (Flashback) Gojo**
This is unusual.
**[08:20] (Flashback) Gojo**
You rarely ask me to train you, Megumi.
**[08:23] (Flashback) Gojo**
Are you in a rush after Yuji surpassed you?
**[08:26] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
Well, beggars can't be choosers.
**[08:30] (Flashback) Gojo**
It bothers you that much to rely on me?
**[08:34] (Flashback) Gojo**
Megumi, listen.
**[08:35] (Flashback) Gojo**
I think you have just as much ability
and potential as Yuji does.
**[08:40] (Flashback) Gojo**
The problem is just your mindset.
**[08:44] (Flashback) Gojo**
Megumi,
**[08:45] (Flashback) Gojo**
you don't know how to
bring out your best, do you?
**[08:48] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
Huh?
**[08:50] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
Are you saying I haven't
been giving it my best?
**[08:53] (Flashback) Gojo**
I'm not saying you haven't.
I'm saying you can't.
**[08:56] (Flashback) Gojo**
For example, in the baseball game the other day...
**[08:59] (Flashback) Gojo**
Why did you go for a sacrifice bunt?
**[09:06] (Flashback) Gojo**
Did you want Nobara to advance the bases,
**[09:07] (Flashback) ---**
even if it meant you'd be out?
**[09:10] (Flashback) Gojo**
That's a splendid attitude,
**[09:12] (Flashback) Gojo**
but Yuji and I would
always go for a home run.
**[09:19] (Flashback) Gojo**
I'm not saying a bunt is bad.
**[09:21] (Flashback) Gojo**
Baseball is a team sport,
**[09:23] (Flashback) Gojo**
and everyone has their role to play.
**[09:25] (Flashback) Gojo**
But jujutsu sorcery is an individual sport.
**[09:29] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
Coordinating with other sorcerers
is important, isn't it?
**[09:32] (Flashback) Gojo**
Sure.
**[09:34] (Flashback) Gojo**
But no matter how many
allies you have around you,
**[09:37] (Flashback) Gojo**
when you die, you'll be alone.
**[09:41] (Flashback) Gojo**
You can only piece together
undervalued data on yourself and others.
**[09:46] (Flashback) Gojo**
You can't imagine a stronger
future version of yourself.
**[09:50] (Flashback) Gojo**
Maybe that's because of your trump card?
**[09:53] (Flashback) Gojo**
You believe that in the worst case,
**[09:55] (Flashback) Gojo**
you can resolve everything
at the cost of your life.
**[09:59] (Flashback) Gojo**
But at that point, forget about me.
**[10:01] (Flashback) Gojo**
You'll never even measure up to Nanami.
**[10:03] (Flashback) Gojo**
Dying to win and risking death to win...
**[10:10] (Flashback) Gojo**
are completely different, Megumi.
**[10:15] (Flashback) Gojo**
Give it your best.
**[10:17] (Flashback) Gojo**
Be greedier.
**[10:28] Fushiguro**
How many seconds was I unconscious?
**[10:31] Fushiguro**
My Demon Dog's destroyed...
**[10:33] Fushiguro**
no, the technique was released.
**[10:39] Fushiguro**
This is it for me.
**[10:45] Fushiguro**
Sacred treasure, swing...
**[10:55] (Flashback) Sukuna**
What a waste of talent.
**[11:02] Fushiguro**
Screw it!
**[11:04] Gojo**
*A jujutsu sorcerer's growth curve*
**[11:07] Gojo**
*isn't necessarily a gentle slope.*
**[11:11] (Flashback) Sukuna**
Back then, why did you run?
**[11:16] Fushiguro**
Spit out the entire depths of my shadow...
**[11:20] Fushiguro**
Worry about a specific structure later,
**[11:24] Fushiguro**
and just push it out as soon
as I collect the cursed energy.
**[11:28] Fushiguro**
Imagine a future version of myself
who's freely surpassed my limits!
**[11:34] Fushiguro**
I'll do it!
**[11:35] Gojo**
*With a strong foundation,*
**[11:37] Gojo**
*and a little bit of sense and imagination,*
**[11:41] Gojo**
* it just takes the slightest trigger*
* to change a person.*
**[11:45] Fushiguro**
Domain Expansion:
**[11:52] Fushiguro**
Chimera Shadow Garden!
**[11:58] Fushiguro**
*It's incomplete!*
**[12:00] Fushiguro**
*It's ugly work at best.*
**[12:02] Fushiguro**
*But for now, that's fine!*
**[12:21] Fushiguro**
*Broaden it...*
**[12:25] Fushiguro**
*more freely!*
**[12:29] Fushiguro**
*The interpretation*
**[12:34] Fushiguro**
*of the technique!*
**[12:59] Fushiguro**
Demon Dog Totality's claws
were able to injure that thing.
**[13:08] Fushiguro**
They'd have no trouble piercing through
you when you're caught off-guard.
**[13:23] Fushiguro**
I'm tired.
**[13:28] Fushiguro**
Now, where are those guys?
**[13:34] Sukuna**
Good!
**[13:36] Sukuna**
That's good!
***SIGN*** JUJUTSU KAISEN
***SIGN*** JUJUTSU KAISEN
**[14:04] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
There's one fundamental rule
for interacting with others.
**[14:08] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
Do you know what that is?
**[14:10] (Flashback) Boy**
I don't.
**[14:12] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
It's "I won't kill you,
**[14:15] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
so please don't kill me, either."
**[14:19] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
You can substitute "kill"
for anything you please.
**[14:21] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
The point is drawing a line where you agree
not to infringe on the other person.
**[14:25] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
In order for both people to exist together,
**[14:28] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
they need that rule.
**[14:30] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
Breaking that rule, swaggering about,
**[14:31] (Flashback) ---**
and having others trying not to anger you
**[14:35] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
must have felt real pleasant.
**[14:39] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
Next time you do it in
front of me, I'll kill you.
**[14:42] (Flashback) Boy**
What did we ever do to you?
**[14:45] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
Figure it out yourself,
**[14:47] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
or go die.
**[14:48] (Flashback) Teacher**
Hey!
**[14:51] (Flashback) Aida**
T-T-T-T-Today's the day I tell
off Ikezawa and his buddies!
**[14:54] (Flashback) Aida**
I'm not their gofer anymore!
**[14:57] (Flashback) Friend A**
You can do it, Aida-shi!
**[14:58] (Flashback) Friend B**
But I might become their next target,
**[15:02] (Flashback) Friend B**
so don't try too hard, Aida-shi!
**[15:04] (Flashback) Aida**
Hey, come on, fatty!
**[15:06] (Flashback) Aida**
I'm changing the line!
**[15:07] (Flashback) Aida**
I'll tell them this fatty is my
replacement starting today!
**[15:10] (Flashback) Boy**
You'd sell your friend out, Aida-shi?!
**[15:12] (Flashback) Aida**
Shut up!
**[15:14] (Flashback) Tsumiki**
Megumi.
**[15:19] (Flashback) Friend A**
Huh?
**[15:20] (Flashback) Friend A**
Isn't that Ikezawa and his
buddies piled up over there?
**[15:23] (Flashback) Tsumiki**
You said you wouldn't fight anymore.
**[15:27] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
Don't act like you're my guardian.
**[15:30] Fushiguro**
*I hate bad people.*
**[15:35] Fushiguro**
* They act so damn superior when*
* their empathy and imagination*
**[15:38] Fushiguro**
*are as empty as a vacant lot.*
**[15:42] Fushiguro**
*I can't deal with good people.*
**[15:44] Fushiguro**
*They forgive those bad people.*
**[15:48] Fushiguro**
* Then they view the act of*
* forgiveness as a noble thing.*
**[15:53] Fushiguro**
*Makes me want to vomit.*
**[15:56] Fushiguro**
*Tsumiki's a model example of a good person.*
**[16:00] (Flashback) Fushiguro**
You disgust me.
**[16:05] (Flashback) Tsumiki**
Oh, sorry.
**[16:07] (Flashback) Tsumiki**
I didn't think it'd spill out.
**[16:10] Fushiguro**
*When I was in first grade,*
**[16:13] Fushiguro**
*my father and Tsumiki's mother,*
**[16:16] Fushiguro**
*one parent each, hooked up...*
**[16:19] Fushiguro**
*and then vanished without a trace.*
**[16:22] Fushiguro**
*A suspicious white-haired man told us...*
**[16:25] (Flashback) Gojo**
You know, your dad...
**[16:27] (Flashback) Gojo**
He's from the Zen'in Clan,
a big clan among jujutsu sorcerers,
**[16:31] (Flashback) Gojo**
but they're such good-for-nothings,
it freaks even me out.
**[16:33] (Flashback) Gojo**
Your father left the clan to have you.
**[16:37] (Flashback) Gojo**
Megumi-kun,
**[16:39] (Flashback) Gojo**
your father was saving you as the ultimate
card to use against the Zen'in clan.
**[16:45] (Flashback) Gojo**
Pisses you off, doesn't it?
**[16:47] Fushiguro**
* That solved the mystery of how*
* they got the funds to disappear.*
**[16:51] Fushiguro**
* Apparently, I had been sold*
* to that Zen'in clan.*
**[16:54] Fushiguro**
*Yeah, it pisses me off.*
**[16:56] Fushiguro**
*Especially your lack of tact about it.*
**[17:00] Fushiguro**
* Plus, that irritating man stopped*
* my sale to the Zen'in clan,*
**[17:04] Fushiguro**
* and used the promise that I would work*
* as a jujutsu sorcerer as collateral*
**[17:08] Fushiguro**
* to get financial aid from*
* Jujutsu High to support us both.*
**[17:15] Fushiguro**
*What's this jujutsu sorcerer crap, anyway?*
**[17:17] Fushiguro**
*It's bullshit.*
**[17:18] Fushiguro**
*Who the hell would I ever save?*
**[17:21] (Flashback) Girl**
Hey, Tsumiki!
**[17:22] (Flashback) Girl**
What are you doing?
**[17:24] (Flashback) Girl**
Megumi-kun, ciao!
**[17:26] (Flashback) Tsumiki**
Nothing.
**[17:27] (Flashback) Girl**
Hey, hold on.
**[17:28] (Flashback) Girl**
So did you give any thought
to the test of courage?
**[17:32] (Flashback) Tsumiki**
I don't want to go, but I'll go
because I'm worried about you.
**[17:35] Fushiguro**
*Shortly after I started ninth grade,*
**[17:37] Fushiguro**
*Tsumiki was cursed.*
**[17:40] Fushiguro**
* The identity was unknown.*
* The origin was unknown.*
**[17:43] Fushiguro**
* But apparently there were several*
* victims of the same curse nationwide.*
**[17:47] Fushiguro**
* All I found out was that*
* nobody knew anything,*
**[17:50] Fushiguro**
*and Tsumiki was left bedridden.*
**[17:53] (Flashback) Tsumiki**
If I have the time to curse someone,
**[17:56] (Flashback) ---**
I'd rather spend it thinking
about those precious to me.
**[17:59] Fushiguro**
*She always smiled and spouted pretty ideals.*
**[18:02] (Flashback) Tsumiki**
Not forgiving people isn't a bad thing.
**[18:05] (Flashback) Tsumiki**
That's just part of your kindness, isn't it?
**[18:08] Fushiguro**
*She even accepted my disposition.*
**[18:12] Fushiguro**
* Yet Tsumiki would get genuinely*
* angry whenever I hurt someone, too.*
**[18:18] Fushiguro**
*That irritated me because*
**[18:20] Fushiguro**
* I thought it was hypocritical in light*
* of her leave-others-be policy,*
**[18:24] Fushiguro**
*but now I realize I had the wrong idea.*
**[18:29] Fushiguro**
*Just as I choose who I save,*
**[18:32] Fushiguro**
*she was choosing me to worry about.*
**[18:36] Fushiguro**
*I'm sorry.*
**[18:37] Fushiguro**
*I was just a kid.*
**[18:39] Fushiguro**
*I'll apologize.*
**[18:42] Fushiguro**
*So wake up already, stupid sister.*
**[18:46] Fushiguro**
Damn, my head hurts...
**[18:51] Fushiguro**
* This Yasohachi Bridge curse*
* was just overlapping the other one.*
**[18:55] Fushiguro**
* I doubt the curse that put Tsumiki*
* into a coma was undone.*
**[19:01] Fushiguro**
Now, how do I break the news
about the finger... to... Itadori...
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 0 -150 l 98 -150 l 96 0
***SIGN*** Fushiguro
Fell
Asleep
**[19:14] Eso**
*A huge presence suddenly appeared.*
**[19:16] Eso**
*Did Sukuna's finger leave the barrier?*
**[19:20] Eso**
*If a sorcerer exorcised the finger's host,*
**[19:25] Eso**
*they're quite good.*
**[19:27] Kugisaki**
*But even if the finger's...*
**[19:29] Kugisaki**
* Even if the special-grade*
* cursed spirit was defeated,*
**[19:33] Kugisaki**
*they wouldn't come out unscathed.*
**[19:35] Kugisaki**
*I hope they're okay.*
**[19:39] Eso**
I misspoke.
**[19:41] Eso**
Please forget what I just said.
**[19:44] Kugisaki**
Hold on!
**[19:46] Kugisaki**
*He's going after the finger!*
**[19:49] Kugisaki**
You think you can mock me
by running like that
**[19:51] Kugisaki**
and still get away from me?
**[19:55] Eso**
I'm a bit insecure about my back, you see.
**[19:58] Eso**
This is your warning.
**[20:00] Eso**
If you see my back, I'll kill—
**[20:02] Yuji**
Oh, Kugisaki!
**[20:04] Curse**
Oh, brother!
**[20:06] Eso**
Y-Y-Y-You saw, didn't you?!
**[20:13] Yuji**
Huh?! Who?!
**[20:13] Curse**
Sorry, brother!
**[20:14] Yuji**
Sorry, I guess?
**[20:14] Curse**
It wasn't on purpose!
**[20:15] Curse**
It wasn't on purpose!
**[20:17] Eso**
I'll kill you!
**[20:25] Kugisaki**
Then why are you dressed like that?
**[20:28] Kugisaki**
Is that the source of this weird smell?
**[20:30] Eso**
Because it gets musty!
**[20:32] ---**
Rot Technique, Supreme Art: Wing King!
**[20:38] ---**
Death...
**[20:41] ---**
by Wasp!
***SIGN*** Juju Stroll
**[22:18] Yuji**
Sensei!
**[22:20] Yuji**
Kugisaki!
**[22:22] Gojo**
Huh?
**[22:24] Kugisaki**
So annoying.
**[22:26] Kugisaki**
It's too hot for your craziness.
**[22:28] Yuji**
Fushiguro's getting hit on!
**[22:32] Gojo**
Formation B!
**[22:34] All**
Roger!
**[22:36] Both**
Fushiguro-kyun!
**[22:39] Kugisaki**
Who is that woman?!
**[22:41] Kugisaki**
Have you forgotten the night
you toasted to my eyes?
**[22:43] Yuji**
Was it all a lie when you said your time
with me was the most enjoyable of all?!
**[22:45] Kugisaki**
That night! That night!
**[22:48] Fushiguro**
What?
**[22:49] ---**
Seriously, what?
**[22:52] Gojo**
Could you not touch him so casually, please,
**[22:54] Gojo**
you homewreckers?!
**[22:56] Gojo**
Megumi-chan has violin practice with me now.
**[23:02] Gojo**
Let's go home, Megumi-chan.
**[23:05] Gojo**
Today I'll have you master
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
**[23:09] Fushiguro**
It's okay.
**[23:10] Fushiguro**
Don't mind them. Just go ahead.
**[23:12] Fushiguro**
The station's straight ahead.
**[23:13] Woman**
Thank you so much.
**[23:15] All**
Huh?
**[23:17] Fushiguro**
Okay, seriously, what is this?
**[23:19] Fushiguro**
Could you stop? You're embarrassing me.
**[23:25] Fushiguro**
Explain!
**[23:28] Yuji**
Ow!
***SIGN*** Episode 24:
Accomplices