Reverse Cursed Technique (
Description
Reverse cursed technique converts cursed energy into positive energy to regenerate flesh and heal injuries. Cursed energy comes from negative emotions, unfit for healing living things. Reverse cursed technique uses the principle of multiplying a negative by another negative to produce a positive.[1][2] While cursed energy flows from the gut, the brain directs reverse cursed technique.[3]
Positive energy can reproduce blood, bone, flesh, and organs, allowing proficient sorcerers to recover entire limbs and withstand powerful attacks. The speed and effectiveness of this process are dependent on the user's cursed energy output.[4][5] Reverse cursed technique can even heal the soul, but this requires the unique ability to perceive the shape of the soul.[6]
Reverse cursed technique is extremely complex and difficult for most jujutsu sorcerers to perform. One of the primary hurdles when using reverse cursed technique is compensating for blood loss from injuries. Reverse cursed technique can convert cursed energy into blood in a technical process that consumes a massive amount of cursed energy. Individuals who can already convert cursed energy into blood like the Death Painting Wombs can learn to use reverse cursed technique easier than others.[7]
Most reverse cursed technique users can only heal themselves.[8] Healing oneself is more efficient and less difficult to perform than healing others.[9] One reason is the fundamental difference in application. Another is because the receiver's body can refuse the treatment due to an incompatibility with their cursed energy. The receiver could reject the healer's cursed energy or they could fail to respond to conversion. Due to this, the effectiveness of healing others with reverse cursed technique is case-by-case.[7]
Cursed spirits are manifestations of cursed energy and need only to manipulate it to heal instead of resorting to reverse cursed technique. They are vulnerable to positive energy because it can compromise the integrity of their bodies and destroy them.[10]
An innate technique exhausted by domain expansion cannot ordinarily be restored with reverse cursed technique. Satoru Gojo and Sukuna circumvented this limitation by destroying the engraving of their technique in their brains with cursed energy and then healing it with reverse cursed technique. However, they could not recover their exhausted technique and heal their body at the same time.[11][12] This is a highly risky maneuver that can leave lasting damage to the user's brain and even prevent them from using domain expansion altogether.[13]
Cursed Technique Reversal
Cursed Technique Reversal (
Countermeasures
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Uraume unable to remove the poison from Choso's blood with reverse cursed technique.
The primary tactic for fighting a reverse cursed technique user is to target their head. Positive energy is directed from there and a reverse cursed technique user can be killed if their head is destroyed before they get a chance to recover.[15] Another countermeasure is using poison. Unlike flesh regeneration, targeting a toxin and removing it requires a higher level of reverse cursed technique. Not even Uraume's reverse cursed technique was able to deal with Choso's blood poisoning.[16]
Usage
Shoko Ieiri
Shoko Ieiri is one of few people who can use reverse cursed technique to heal others.[8] She is considered incredibly valuable to Jujutsu High. Thanks to her talent for utilizing reverse cursed technique and her medical knowledge, she earned her position as the school doctor. Despite being incredibly well versed in utilizing positive energy, she has never been good at explaining how it works to others.[17]
Ryomen Sukuna
Sukuna is capable of using reverse cursed technique to heal himself and others. While he is incarnated in Yuji Itadori's human body, he mainly uses positive energy to restore it.[2] In order to push him to making a Binding Vow, he removed Yuji's heart and used his ability to heal as leverage. After they agreed on terms of the binding vow, he healed Yuji's heart and returned him from death.
Mahito believed that reverse cursed technique could not revert the shape of a soul back to normal to remove the effects of Idle Transfiguration.[18][19] Jogo corroborated this, claiming that even if Sukuna was capable of using reverse cursed technique on others, Mahito's Idle Transfiguration is not something that can be fixed.[20]
When Sukuna found Megumi Fushiguro in a state of suspended death in Shibuya, he used reverse cursed technique to heal him and ensured his survival.[21]
After he incarnated in Megumi's body and his arms were severely damaged by Gojo's Purple with 200% cursed energy output, Sukuna used reverse cursed technique to restore his arms.[22] As Satoru pressured Sukuna with two consecutive domain expansions after proving he could severely injure Sukuna while keeping Unlimited Void in an extremely shrunken state to withstand Malevolent Shrine's effects, Sukuna too was forced to heal his cursed technique twice in order to avoid being affected by Satoru's Unlimited Void.[23]
Having inhabited Yuji's body, Sukuna has been made aware of the shape of his own soul, allowing him to heal wounds to his soul. This allows him to heal injuries inflicted by the Split Soul Katana, which are otherwise impossible to recover.[6]
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Satoru Gojo
Despite being the most talented sorcerer in the world with the Six Eyes, Satoru Gojo up to his second year at Jujutsu High was always unable to grasp the complex nature of reverse cursed technique. He was completely unable to unleash the Cursed Technique Reversal: Red, failing to activate it in a fight during the Star Plasma Vessel Escort mission as a student.[24]
After being nearly killed by Toji Fushiguro, Satoru tapped into the core of cursed energy and awakened the true powers of the Limitless. This allowed him to utilize reverse cursed technique for the first time, restoring himself from a near-death state.[25] Applying this same concept to his Limitless technique, Satoru was able to unleash Red on Toji in their rematch.[26]
As a third year student, Satoru further mastered the Limitless and learned to keep reverse cursed technique constantly running through his body to preserve his brain while his technique is active.[27]
In the rare case where Gojo was injured during his adulthood, he could instantly heal his body with high reverse cursed technique output. When he was caught in Malevolent Shrine, Gojo used reverse cursed technique at maximum output to heal himself at a rapid rate to keep pace with Sukuna's slashes. He could even use reverse cursed technique while activating simple domain. When this tactic couldn't buy him sufficient time after burning out his cursed technique, Gojo used reverse cursed technique to heal his exhausted cursed technique.[28] However, Gojo achieved this by damaging the engraving of his technique in his brain using cursed energy before healing it with reverse cursed technique. Recklessly repeating this process left Gojo with lasting brain damage and made him incapable of opening his domain during the latter half of his battle with Sukuna.[13] Accumulating injuries caused Gojo's output to plummet, resulting in his injuries healing slower.[4] He replenished his output through successive black flashes, allowing Gojo to regrow his severed arm.[29]
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Yuta Okkotsu
Yuta Okkotsu learned to utilize reverse cursed technique early on in his tenure as a jujutsu sorcerer. This was due to Rika Orimoto's tremendous levels of cursed energy and her ability to unconditionally copy techniques. Yuta first utilized it to heal Maki Zenin, Toge Inumaki, and Panda all at the same time after they were injured by Suguru Geto. Suguru was highly impressed that Yuta was able to use reverse cursed technique after only recently becoming a sorcerer.[30] Even after releasing Rika from her curse, Yuta retained the ability to use reverse cursed technique and has become highly efficient in doing so. Yuta possesses the rare ability to output positive energy. Like Shoko and Sukuna, this allows Yuta to heal others, something not even Satoru Gojo can do. In addition, Yuta has the unique ability to apply positive energy to his attacks as well.
When tasked to execute Yuji Itadori, Yuta was able to avoid permanently killing him by instantaneously healing him with reverse cursed technique the moment his heart stopped. He was able to trick the higher-ups into thinking it was a real execution because not many people know Yuta can take positive energy as is and apply it to others.[31] He is also able to heal poisoned victims, which requires more precise skills. This is shown when he healed Naoya Zenin in exchange for informing the higher-ups that Yuji was executed.[32]
Up against Kurourushi in the Sendai Colony, Yuta knew he could exorcise the curse by driving positive energy into its body. Positive energy will compromise a body made of cursed energy regardless of how powerful that cursed spirit may be. However, using reverse cursed technique is a rare ability and Yuta did not want to reveal it during the fight with other Culling Game players watching his moves.[33] He only resorted to using reverse cursed technique when his life was in danger to destroy Kurourushi. He bit the cursed spirit's face and delivered a mouth-to-mouth blast to its brain, completely compromising the integrity of its body.[34]
During his fight against Ryu & Uro, two very powerful incarnated sorcerers, Yuta was forced to use his reverse cursed technique constantly when faced with the powerful attacks of his opponents. However, the high cursed energy and stamina cost of using reverse cursed technique repeatedly caused Yuta to "bottom out", forcing him to summon Rika's full power in order to continue fighting.
During the final battle with Sukuna, Yuta was able to heal from multiple of the King Of Curses' slashes, even when taken by surprise due to their high-speed.[35]
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Uraume
Uraume is capable of using reverse cursed technique to heal themself. After being shot through the hand by Choso's Piercing Blood, Uraume used reverse cursed technique to instantly repair the hole in their hand. Kusakabe immediately noticed this and assumed Uraume was on another level based on their ability to use an innate technique and reverse cursed technique.[36] Despite their healing however, Uraume was unable to remove the poisonous effects of Choso's blood from their body.[37]
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Iori Hanezoki
Iori Hazenoki's cursed technique requires him to remove his own body parts to detonate them. He uses reverse cursed technique continuously to replenish his flesh, mainly teeth, and eyes that he uses as explosive projectiles.
Kinji Hakari
Kinji Hakari never learned to use reverse cursed technique on his own. The bonus provided from hitting the jackpot in his Domain Expansion: Idle Death Gamble grants him four minutes and eleven seconds of unlimited cursed energy. The overflowing cursed energy in his body during this time causes Hakari's body to reflexively heal in order to prevent permanent damage. Hajime Kashimo blasted Hakari's arm off with a bolt of lightning and the latter was able to regrow his arm just a few seconds later. This effectively means that Hakari is unkillable during the jackpot bonus.[38] This reverse cursed technique is so advanced that it can automatically start the process of healing while the damage is occurring at the same time[39] and is able to remove toxins from the body.[40] In terms of regeneration speed alone, Hakari's reverse cursed technique surpasses even Sukuna and Satoru Gojo's.[41]
Kenjaku
Kenjaku is capable of using reverse cursed technique to heal himself. Despite him possessing this ability, he cannot heal the scar on his head, as it is caused by a binding vow.[42] While possessing Suguru Geto's body, Kenjaku healed his shattered arms after they were broken by Yuki Tsukumo.[43]
Kenjaku can utilize cursed technique reversal with great proficiency as well. By applying the positive energy from reverse cursed technique to Antigravity System, Kenjaku can reverse the effect and intensify the force of gravity around him.[44]
Yuki Tsukumo
Yuki Tsukumo is capable of using reverse cursed technique to heal herself. She used it to great effect in her fight with Kenjaku, healing her body after he hit her with the sure-hit attack from his Domain Expansion.[45]
Round Deer
Round Deer is a shikigami summoned by the Ten Shadows Technique that can use reverse cursed technique and output the positive energy to heal or counteract the cursed energy of others. It was summoned by Sukuna during his battle against Yorozu, who used it to heal himself as well as neutralize Yorozu's cursed energy that was used to control the liquid metal around him.[46]
During his battle against Gojo, Sukuna merged Nue, Great Serpent, Tiger Funeral, and Round Deer and summoned Merged Beast Agito which had also inherited reverse cursed technique of Round Deer. Merged Beast Agito used positive energy to heal its abdomen and the head of its snake tail.
Hiromi Higuruma
After having his arms cut off and his legs slashed by Sukuna, Hiromi Higuruma awakened his ability to use reverse cursed technique. When Sukuna was distracted by a shot of Piercing Blood, Higuruma took advantage of the distraction to approach Sukuna while regenerating his right hand and healing his legs with reverse cursed technique to stab him with the Executioner's Sword.[47]
Yuji Itadori
Within a month before his battle against Sukuna, Yuji Itadori learned how to use reverse cursed technique to heal himself by undergoing replacement training with Yuta.[9][48] This allowed him to regenerate his body after half of it was destroyed by Sukuna using Cleave.[49] He displayed his ability to use it to Sukuna by healing from two of his slashes later, and continued to use it throughout the fight.
Due to recently learning it, Yuji still hasn't fully mastered reverse cursed technique yet, failing to heal the deeper wounds caused from taking and then healing Sukuna's four fatal attacks. But, if used in conjuncture with Blood Manipulation, and through Choso's instruction, he learned to sense out the more fatal internal wounds caused from attacks and heal them with reverse cursed technique,[50] managing to return to battle soon after.[51]
Trivia
- The Sword of Extermination is imbued with positive energy, the same energy created from reverse cursed technique.
References
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