Shrine

Shrine
Title
Kanji	御廚子
Rōmaji	Mizushi
Capabilities
User(s)	Sukuna Yuta Okkotsu (Copied) Yuji Itadori
Type	Innate Technique
Move Range	All Ranges
Capabilities	Offense
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 8
Anime Debut	Episode 4

Shrine (御 (み) 廚 (づ) 子 (し) , Mizushi^?) is Sukuna's innate technique that allows him to unleash invisible slashes, either at range or through physical contact, to cut down his enemies. It also empowers him to unleash a burning hellfire arrow under certain conditions.

Description

Dismantle

Dismantle (解 (カイ) , Kai^?) is the user's default slashing attack that can be launched point-blank or at range, and can be used against inanimate objects, cursed spirits and sorcerers with great effectiveness. To fire Dismantle, the user typically makes a hand gesture at his target, usually pointing, though he can omit this motion. An invisible slash then flies towards the target, cutting them.

Dismantle's slicing power depends on the cursed energy outputted into the technique. With less than ten percent of his output, a barrage of Sukuna's Dismantle only left bloody gashes on Yuji Itadori's body. At its highest, it was able to cut a skyscraper in half with one slash. Unless a sorcerer bolsters their durability with cursed energy reinforcement or weakens the slashes with Simple Domain or Domain Amplification, Dismantle could easily cut them apart.

Sukuna launches a slash that cuts into the wall behind Jogo.

Sukuna reduces Nanako Hasaba into cubes of flesh.

Sukuna uses Dismantle on Mahoraga.

Sukuna slicing off Mahoraga's limbs.

Yuji Itadori withstands a barrage of weakened Dismantle slashes.

Yuji uses Dismantle.

Slash That Cuts The World

Using Mahoraga's second adaptation to Limitless as a model, Sukuna learned to enhance Dismantle by broadening its target area to include space, existence, and the world themselves, transforming the regular slashes into "slashes that cut the world" (世 (せ) 界 (かい) を断 (た) つ斬 (ざん) 撃 (げき) , Sekai o Tatsu Zangeki^?). Using this enhanced version of Dismantle, Sukuna was able to bypass Satoru Gojo's Infinity, an otherwise impenetrable barrier, and finally kill the jujutsu sorcerer by slicing him in half.

When he originally learned it, Sukuna could launch the space-cutting Dismantle by only having to form the hand sign of Enma (閻 (えん) 魔 (ま) 天 (てん) , Enmaten^?), the same two-handed sign needed to cast Malevolent Shrine. However, Sukuna was unable to fulfill this condition after losing a hand to Gojo's Hollow Technique: Purple (prior to returning to his original, four-armed form). In order to bypass the activation condition and unleash the slash that cut Gojo in half, Sukuna imposed a binding vow on himself that would require him to fulfill not one but three conditions for all subsequent world-cutting slashes: (1) to make the necessary hand sign, (2) to recite Dismantle's incantation, and (3) to direct the slash's trajectory with his palm.

The incantation for activating this technique is "Dragon Scales." "Repulsion." "Paired Falling Stars." (〝龍 (りゅう) 鱗 (りん) 〟〝反 (はん) 発 (ぱつ) 〟〝番 (つが) いの流 (りゅう) 星 (せい) 〟, "Ryūrin" "Hanpatsu" "Tsugai no Ryūsei"^?).

Sukuna launches an enhanced Dismantle against Kashimo.

The world-cutting Dismantle aimed at Higuruma cuts apart a bridge.

Maki dodges a slash that cuts the world.

Cleave

Cleave (捌 (ハチ) , Hachi^?) is the second slashing attack that adjusts its power depending on the target's toughness and cursed energy level to cut them down with one attack. Unless used in their domain expansion, the user must make physical contact with the target in order to activate Cleave.

Similar to Dismantle, the cutting power of Cleave also depends on the user's cursed energy output. Both Yuta Okkotsu and Yuji Itadori who gained access to Shrine through their own means were only able to deal minor injuries to Sukuna when using Cleave, whereas Sukuna's Cleave was able to cut through the cursed energy reinforcement of Ryu Ishigori, a Culling Game player with exceptional cursed energy output.

A Finger Bearer cut to pieces by Cleave within Sukuna's domain expansion.

Sukuna cuts apart Ryu Ishigori's head.

Sukuna severely injures Yuji with Cleave.

Yuta uses Cleave against Sukuna.

Yuji using Cleave to cut out a pillar.

Spiderweb

Main Article: Spiderweb

Spiderweb (蜘 (く) 蛛 (も) の糸 (いと) , Kumo no Ito^?) is an extension technique of Cleave that Sukuna applies to the inorganic environment. By placing his hand on the ground and activating Spiderweb, the technique adjusts its power based on the surroundings' toughness, cutting apart the ground in the pattern of a spiderweb and collapsing it in one fell swoop.

Sukuna collapses the ground with Spiderweb.

Divine Flame

Divine Flame (竈 (カミノ) , Kamino^?, lit. "Hearth/Stove/Furnace") is a cursed technique that can only be used after the user performs Dismantle and Cleave. It allows him to create and manipulate flames for long-range attacks by forming them into the shape of an arrow before launching it.

To activate this technique, the user verbally utters the technique's name followed by the command "Open" (開 (フーガ) , Fūga^?). During Sukuna's initial usage of Divine Flame against Jogo, its name was censored as "■" in the manga and silenced in the anime. The firepower of the fire arrow completely outclassed a concentrated fire blast from Jogo, a special grade cursed spirit whose defining trait involves extremely destructive pyrokinetic powers, and burned him to death.

Despite its power, Divine Flame lacks speed and has a narrow effective range. To mitigate this weakness, Sukuna entered into a binding vow, restricting himself from using Divine Flame against multiple targets unless within his domain. As a result of this binding vow, Malevolent Shrine's cursed technique is expanded, imbuing all pulverized matter within it with the same explosive energy as Divine Flame, which Sukuna contains within the range of his domain by altering the barrier's specification to only allow entry and exit for living creatures. This transforms the dust particles into thermobaric explosives that spread throughout the domain, which are detonated after Divine Flame is unleashed, causing instantaneous high temperatures, shock waves, decompression and intense pressurization.

Sukuna activates Divine Flame...

...and forms a flaming arrow.

Divine Flame's heat incinerating Shibuya.

The destructive power of Divine Flame.

Sukuna uses Divine Flame, revealing its name.

Sukuna's ultimate secret art returns in Shinjuku.

Domain Expansion

Main Article: Malevolent Shrine

Malevolent Shrine (伏 (ふく) 魔 (ま) 御 (み) 廚 (づ) 子 (し) , Fukuma Mizushi^?) is the Domain Expansion of Shrine which creates a Buddhist shrine decorated with skulls. Within this domain, inanimate objects are targeted by Dismantle while anything with cursed energy is hit with Cleave. Until the domain expansion ends, all targets that fit these criteria are relentlessly slashed. The degree to which these targets are damaged is catastrophic, as entire buildings within a populated area of Shibuya were reduced to dust, and the people killed by it were seemingly disintegrated.

Malevolent Shrine has a unique trait that it only shares with Womb Profusion; it doesn't create a separate space using a barrier to construct the innate domain. Instead, the innate domain is materialized into the current airspace without enclosing it with a barrier. This ability is considered a divine technique that borders on the impossible, akin to an artist painting a masterpiece on air instead of on a canvas. By allowing others to escape the domain, a binding vow is formed which vastly increases its sure-hit effect's effective area to a maximum radius of nearly 200 meters.

The increased range of Malevolent Shrine has a side effect. In case the domain equally clashes with another domain, Malevolent Shrine's much wider radius allows it to attack the other domain's barrier from the outside. Since most domains' barriers are weak to external attacks, this destroys the barrier and deactivates the opposing domain expansion altogether.

Sukuna activates Malevolent Shrine against the Finger Bearer.

Sukuna uses Malevolent Shrine against Mahoraga...

...to relentlessly slash the shikigami.

Malevolent Shrine equally clashing with Unlimited Void.

Malevolent Shrine endlessly slashes Gojo.

Sukuna's impromptu Malevolent Shrine.

Trivia

• Shrine and its derived techniques appear to have an overall cooking motif:
  • Mizushi (御 (み) 廚 (づ) 子 (し) , Mizushi^?) is an archaic word for "kitchen". Also, mizushi-dokoro (御廚子所, mizushi-dokoro^?) is an archaic term referring to a section of the Emperor's residential compound (dairi) in the Imperial Palace (Kyōto-gosho), where food from the kitchen compound (naizenshi), meant for the Emperor's meals, would be brought for more advanced stages of preparation.
  • The Japanese names of Dismantle and Cleave, Kai (解 (カイ) , Kai^?) and Hachi (捌 (ハチ) , Hachi^?) respectively, consist of kanji used in cooking to refer to "dismantling" and "filleting" (especially fish). The official English subtitles of Episode 41 initially translated Dismantle as "Dissect" and Cleave as "Fillet" while rendering Malevolent Shrine as "Malevolent Kitchen".
  • Furthermore, the Japanese name for Divine Flames, Kamino (竈 (カミノ) , Kamino^?), uses the traditional form of the kanji "竃" and translates to "hearth", "furnace", or "kitchen stove".
• Viz Media has at different points incorrectly translated Shrine itself as Malevolent Shrine, the same name as Sukuna's domain.

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