Chapter 77

Premature Death, Part 2 (--) is the seventy-seventh chapter of Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen.

Summary
Haibara answers Tsukumo's question about what kind of girls he's into. When Haibara leaves, Tsukumo reveals who she is to Geto. They have a conversation about trying to create a world where curses don't exist. Tsukumo lists two options of (1) eradicating cursed energy from humanity or (2) teaching humans how to control their cursed energy. She states she's focusing on (2), that if every human became a Jujutsu sorcerer, there'd be no more curses born. Geto proposes killing every non-Jujutsu sorcerer, which Tsukumo says is possible but too crazy for her. Tsukumo asks if he hates non-Jujutsu sorcerers, and Geto expresses uncertainty. Tsukumo states he has to decide. Before she leaves, she tells Geto that Tengen is stabilized.

Later, Nanami vents to Geto over a mission gone wrong that was harder than it was supposed to be. They are in the morgue, where Haibara's dead body is. Geto's doubts about being a Jujutsu sorcerer intensify.

In September 2007, Geto goes on a mission to a village where kidnappings and deaths have been happening. He finds two beaten young girls in a cage (Mimiko and Nanako). The adult villagers explain that the girls are in there because they're responsible, but Geto explains they're not and he's already exorcised the curse responsible. However, the adult villagers continue to condemn the girls. Geto kills 112 villagers and is now considered a curse user who should be executed.