Yuki Tsukumo & Choso vs. Kenjaku

Yuki Tsukumo & Choso vs. Kenjaku is a battle fought by special grade sorcerer, Yuki Tsukumo and the Cursed Womb: Death Painting, Choso against the curse user, Kenjaku. It occures when Kenjaku invades the Tombs of the Star in an attempt to seize Tengen.

Prologue
At 9:00 A.M. on November 9th, Tengen aided with Yuji and Megumi's group with their plan to combat the Culling Game. In return, Tengen asked for two sorcerers out of Yuki Tsukumo, Choso, and Yuta Okkotsu be chosen to protect them. Tengen explained to them that despite being immortal and protected by barriers, Kenjaku possesses the means to both undo the seals on the Tombs of the Star and absorb Tengen with Cursed Spirit Manipulation. Yuki and Choso volunteered to remain in the Tombs of the Star to eventually face the curse user while Yuta joined the other Jujutsu High students to enter the Culling Game.

Yuki, Choso, and Tengen strategized in anticipation of Kenjaku's arrival. Aware the battle will take place in the empty barriers above the Tombs of the Star, Tengen wants Kenjaku to feel comfortable there because he's a powerful barrier user and can manipulate the environment. The primary objective of their joint strategy is to get Kenjaku to expand his domain and take advantage of it burning out his cursed techniques. While Kenjaku's cursed techniques are unusable, it's the group's hope that Yuki can best him.

Choso volunteers to fight Kenjaku first to bring out his domain even if he has to sacrifice his life. However, Yuki and Tengen have a better idea. They suggest using Yuki to bait out Kenjaku's domain and then Tengen will dispel it by destroying the empty barrier, then he'll be vulnerable to a two-on-one attack. Chose still insists that he go alone first to draw out any of Kenjaku's hidden techniques because he doubts his father will use domain expansion if he knows someone else is going to leap into the fight. Even if Choso is defeated, he can use this to convince Kenjaku is in a one-on-one against Yuki, leaving him properly vulnerable to an ambush.

On November 16th at midnight, Kenjaku breaks into an empty barrier above the Tombs of the Star Corridor. Choso is there waiting for him and Kenjaku uses the opportunity to present one possible outcome of his master plan. He manipulates the empty barrier, changing it into a theater to give a visual explanation to Choso. Kenjaku shows Choso the citizens of Japan transforming into a conglomeration of cursed energy. When Choso asks why he's doing this, Kenjaku simply answers that it intrigues him and its fun. He even admits he would laugh if the conglomeration ended up being nothing more than a funny face. Irritated with his father's antics, Choso rejects Kenjaku's scheme and attacks him with Blood Manipulation.

Battle
Choso immediately launches Piercing Blood blood straight at his father's face. Kenjaku not only avoids the blood beam by ducking underneath it, but he sends a cursed spirit to crawl up the stream in one smooth countermovement. Choso whips his Piercing Blood to the side to slash apart the cursed spirit while tearing up the ground around his opponent. Kenjaku casually rides through the air atop the debris and throws one of the broken stones at Choso. Believing he's being underestimated, Choso prepares more condensed blood to counter when suddenly cursed spirits spawn from behind the projectile and catch Choso by surprise. In response, Choso throws the condensed blood at the cursed spirits and uses Supernova to exorcise them all in one shot.

Kenjaku uses the aforementioned exchange as a diversion to get close the distance. He grabs Choso's defending arm and parries it away before landing a strong left hook to the Death Painting Womb's face. Choso is sent back from the hit but he leaves compressed blood behind to blast Kenjaku with Supernova. Kenjaku uses another cursed spirit to defend himself and remains completely unharmed, practically bored of the fight.

Choso asks Kenjaku what his plans are for Yuji but he reveals there isn't anything specific. Kenjaku believes Yuji is the eye of the storm for a new age, one where the cycle of curses will continue as long as he and Sukuna exist. Irritated, Choso launches another Piercing Blood at Kenjaku, which he easily avoids. Choso loudly declares that Kenjaku is the root of evil and not Yuji, but he's overzealous and allows himself to be distracted. Cursed spirits surprise Choso by crawling up from underneath the floor and ensnaring his legs.

While Choso is immobilized, Kenjaku pummels him starting with a left hook that knocks the Death Painting to the ground. Then he steps on Choso's face and reveals that he knows this one-on-one fight is only a feeling-out process to Yuki can get strategize. Kenjaku taunts Choso about his siblings and the Death Painting attempts to grab his ankle. However, Kenjaku summons cursed spirits from his foot and they ram into Choso, sending him flying. Then Kenjaku commands the swarm of curses to lift Choso up and slam him into the ground, severely injuring him. Kenjaku reveals he used weak cursed spirits reinforced with his cursed energy to best Choso. He boasts that the rank special grade signifies a power Choso can't hope to match. Lying on the ground nearly defeated, Choso is ashamed for being unable to land a single hit. Despite this, Choso rejects Kenjaku's statements on Yuji and the Death Painting Wombs. Choso uses the image of his younger brothers to bring him strength. His body erupts with a wave of blood, surprising Kenjaku before Choso suddenly reaches his feat and asks his siblings to give him strength.

The image of Choso's brothers push him forward and reassure him that he's got this. Choso fires Piercing Blood again and Kenjaku says he's unafraid of the technique because he's aware of its weakness. However, rather than firing a single blood beam, Choso fires several at Kenjaku by imitating Eso's Maximum: Wing King. Kenjaku rides atop a winged curse that's unable to outrun Wing King. The cursed spirit is destroyed but Kenjaku simply switches to riding a cloud-like curse instead. Choso engages Kenjaku in close range and they trade parries with their fists. Choso uses the remainder of Wing King to curve blood beams from behind him toward Kenjaku while they're clashing. Kenjaku summons another cursed spirit from his feet to block the technique and then backflips to avoid Choso's punch. The cursed spirit is exorcised and explodes into dust, acting as a smokescreen to impair Choso's vision for a moment. Several more curses suddenly appear from the smokescreen and ram into Choso, but he uses blood to rip each of them to shreds.

Kenjaku casually sits on a tree and tells Choso that his actions are pointless. He emphasizes that even with Wing King's tracking, reducing the speed of Choso's blood beams isn't ideal and the poison won't affect his father regardless. Choso ignores his opponent and takes inspiration from his brothers to keep piling it on. First, Choso takes inspiration from Kechizu and fights freely. Choso outstretches his arm and separates his hand and forearm from the rest of his body, connected by a stream of blood. He grabs Kenjaku from a great distance and slams him out of the three and into another one. Choso whips Kenjaku around several times before reeling him in to deliver a powerful crushing right hook. His punch takes inspiration from Yuji's power, but Kenjaku reduces all the damage by blocking with cursed spirits.

Unharmed, Kenjaku asks if Choso is finished but his son continues to attack and activates Wing King again. Kenjaku jumps back away from the four streams of blood and reminds Choso that this technique lacks the speed of Piercing Blood. However, Choso uses Wing King's tracking as a canal for transporting compressed blood through the streams. Doing so allows Choso to send four orbs of compressed blood at Kenjaku at once, taking him completely by surprise. Choso activates Supernova, shooting compressed at Kenjaku from every direction, but no blood reaches him. A mysterious gravitational force suddenly sends all of the crashing into the ground around Kenjaku instead. Choso quickly realizes this is a second technique aside from Cursed Spirit Manipulation that Kenjaku used to bail himself out. Impressed with Choso's effort, Yuki commends her new "older brother" and tags in for him.

Choso falls through the floor of the empty barrier and Yuki tells Kenjaku that she likes the rough-type. In Kenjaku's case, however, Yuki feels she's going to need to beat him into shape. Kenjaku was unable to get any information on Yuki's abilities from Jujutsu Headquarters so she's an unknown even for him. Cautious, Kenjaku keeps Yuki at a distance by summoning a foreign special grade cursed spirit to test her out. Yuki summons her shikigami, Garuda, and it folds into a ball. She kicks Garuda with such force that it beheads the special grade curse in a single shot, surprising her opponent. Yuki quickly closes the distance on Kenjaku, appearing suddenly from behind the curse's disappearing body. She reveals that her cursed technique manipulates mass and punches Kenjaku. He tries to block with his arms but Yuki's punch not only breaks the bones in his arm, but it hits him in the face and sends him flying so far that he breaks the circular definition of the empty barrier.

Yuki divulges her technique, Star Rage, and Kenjaku uses reverse cursed technique to heal himself. Kenjaku wonders if he can defeat a wild beast like Yuki while she ponders his mysterious gravitational technique. They both analyze one another's abilities until they come too the same conclusion: this fight is going to be a pain. As planned, Yuki wants to make Kenjaku open his domain, which he does sooner than expected. Kenjaku calls out Yuki hesitation and calls her bluff, stating that perhaps she lacks confidence in a domain clash. Kenjaku expands his domain: Womb Profusion and Yuki calls out for Tengen to act quickly and enact their strategy.

However, Yuki and Tengen miscalculated. Kenjaku's domain doesn't enclose its barrier, leaving no outer shell for Tengen to target. Yuki activates Simple Domain but it's quickly stripped away by the opposing barrier. Before its completely destroyed, Yuki runs toward Kenjaku. Tengen decides to target the edge of the area of effect for Womb Profusion's can't-miss attack. They're just moments too late as Yuki's Simple Domain is destroyed and she's hit with the can't-miss attack. The empty barrier and Kenjaku's domain are dispelled, but Yuki is grievously injured. She's bleeding, collapsed, and her limbs are mangled from the attack. Kenjaku tells her a proper domain clash might not have led to such a poor outcome and advises her not to trust Tengen.

Just as Kenjaku is about to reveal something about the Culling Game, Garuda reappears and surprises him. Yuki reaches her feet to get his attention and then Garuda strikes. Kenjaku dodges around and figures that Yuki is using her shikigami to buy time to heal. He decides to use that time to replenish his cursed techniques but Yuki makes the surprise decision of attacking him head-on. She throws a kick that he blocks with both hands and Kenjaku is confused why she won't heal herself. Yuki claims she doesn't want to heal and continues to attack, barraging her opponent with a flurry of punches and kicks despite her injured state. Kenjaku parries and avoids any significant hits, but he's backed into an attack from Garuda, who strikes Kenjaku from behind and wraps itself around his waist. Yuki throws another kick that Kenjaku blocks but her body reaches its limit and she vomits blood. Kenjaku admits she's surprised him but asks if there was a better way of approaching this. Yuki responds by reminding Kenjaku that she likes the rough-type. Choso suddenly re-enters the fray, jumping through the wall behind Kenjaku with condensed blood ready to be unleashed.

Garuda forces Kenjaku to kneel by increasing its weight to immobilize him. Ready to commit patricide, Choso fires Piercing Blood at point-blank range right in front of his father's face. However, Kenjaku detaches the stitched-on top half of his head and uses its rotation to deflect the blood beam. The right side of his face is injured but Kenjaku avoids a fatal blow. Yuki feels like such a desperate move means Kenjaku is admitting he's cornered. She hits him across the face with a flying kick while Garuda is still holding him. Yuki believes he would've been finished if Star Rage wasn't weakened by her injuries. Choso attacks Kenjaku with Yuki and he's able to defend against their initial strikes. He ducks under another kick from Yuki and deflects her foot away. Choso tries to land a diving elbow but Kenjaku blows it with his arm while standing back up straight. Yuki attempts to elbow Kenjaku in the face from behind and his narrowly blows this. Choso overwhelms him with a palm strike to the face and tells Yuki to heal herself. While Yuki is using reverse cursed technique, Star Rage is powered down, allowing Kenjaku to escape Garuda's clutches.

Once healed, Yuki takes Gaurda in hand and uses it as a whip with her technique activated. Yuki strikes the ground with Garuda and the resulting shockwave tears apart the environment, including the floor and walls. They descend another level where the ground is flooded and Choso surprise attacks Kenjaku from behind by using the falling debris as cover. Yuki whips Garuda at Kenjaku at the same time but the curse user counters by activating his gravity technique, slamming Choso and Garuda into the ground with great force. Choso realizes that Kenjaku has replenished his cursed techniques. While Choso is unable to move, Garuda attempts to get up only to be slammed back into the ground. Yuki uses this demonstration of Kenjaku's gravity technique to discover it has a time-lag. In the six seconds between activation timing, Yuki presses on the attack and assumes Kenjaku will try to counter with Cursed Spirit Manipulation. Unafraid of any curses he may throw at her, Yuki whips Garuda at Kenjaku. He ducks underneath it and summons a cursed spirit, the response Yuki expected. She rips through the cursed spirit with ease using Garuda and closes the distance.

Yuki is confident victory is at hand because her opponent is exhausted and his cursed energy is diminished after using reversed cursed technique and domain expansion. She lands a hard right hook across Kenjaku's face and follows up with a right that hits hard as well. However, Kenjaku rolls with the punch and then grabs Yuki's right arm. She realizes too late that a miniature Maximum: Uzumaki is floating in front of her face and it blasts her with a beam of compressed cursed energy. Yuki defends her head but this leaves her mid-section vulnerable to another mini-Uzumaki. Kenjaku has realized that Yuki's innate technique doesn't increase her tensile strength. He blasts a hole through Yuki's torso, dealing her a fatal blow as Choso watches from the ground.

Yuki realizes too late that Kenjaku wasn't using curses as a diversion for a gravity attack, but the mini Uzumaki. Before Yuki has time to use reverse cursed technique, Kenjaku activates his gravity technique to force her body to the ground. Choso tries to intervene and save her, but per Yuki's request, Choso is removed from the fight so he can live on. Due to the hole in Yuki's torso, her body is bisected as she's slammed into the ground by the increased gravity, sealing her fate.

Tengen appears and gets Kenjaku's attention long enough for Yuki to grab his ankle. Kenjaku tells her to die already when suddenly he feels the pressure of being sucked into a powerful vacuum. Yuki continues to add mass to herself until she morphs into a Black Hole that appears to suck Kenjaku in. The black hole expands, but only enough to so destroy a large portion of Jujutsu High above the Tombs of the Star. Kenjaku miraculously climbs out of the debris and admits he's impressed.

Aftermath
Surprised Kenjaku was somehow able to survive a black hole, Tengen asks what happened and how he achieved this. Kenjaku reveals that the gravity technique he was using until now was the cursed technique reversal of Anti-Gravity System, Kaoiri Itadori's innate technique. Yuki's black hole could've destroyed the Earth, but her will and Tengen's barrier suppressed it. Kenjaku thanks Tengen for this and claims this was a fun warm-up. As Kenjaku approaches the tree containing Tengen's real body, he tells Tengen that they've atoned for their tedious existence and says goodbye to an old friend.

Kenjaku seizes Tengen and completes the pre-prep for the merger. Choso is distraught over the loss and Jujutsu High is left in a poor state. He's left with the Prison Realm and Yuki's book of notes on the soul. This news reaches Maki and the others participating in the Culling Game by noon of November 16th.