Itadori launches into a back-and-forth battle against Mahito, but he struggles against Mahito's ploy of using average people against him. Meanwhile, Kugisaki encounters one of Mahito's separated bodies as she returns to the battlefield.

Itadori stands in a daze at the disaster before his eyes, his mind already well past its limit. As a curse, Mahito is elated at seeing his ideal sequence of events play out before him, and he prepares to further finish off Itadori.