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- Takes place in 2024, six years after the story.

- Yuji has moved in with his girlfriend, and they have one dog who really loves Yuji.

- He’s still working as a sorcerer but has become a workaholic due to the increasing number of cursed spirits and a new cult of terrorists who support Geto's ideas.

- After the pandemic, the number of curses has increased, and there’s a drug on the black market that gives normal people jujutsu powers and boosts the cursed energy of jujutsu users, keeping our main cast busy.

- Yuji's girlfriend wants him to retire because it’s a high-risk job and so he can spend more time with her, but Yuji always refuses, saying it’s his duty. Without Gojo, the world isn’t a safe place anymore. Yuji believes that if Gojo were still alive, he would agree with him. He’s too hard on himself, which makes him more serious towards everyone; he doesn’t smile or crack jokes as often anymore.

- Even on Sundays, he still hasn’t had time with his girlfriend until Nobara has to remind him that today is his birthday and that they should celebrate at his house tonight because he hasn’t returned home for almost a month.

- After work, on his way home, Yuji isn’t thinking about work, his girlfriend, or his friends too much. In fact, he’s quite annoyed that he doesn’t have time to plan for the future work of stopping curses and drugs.

- Then he sees a homeless young man asking him for money. The man annoys him so much that he gives him some money. The man thanks him, but Yuji tries to walk away. Then the homeless man asks Yuji if he seems stressed and if he wants to swap places with him.

- Annoyed and not in the mood, Yuji responds bluntly that, yeah, he’s tired of this and wants to swap places with the homeless man, then walks away without thinking much.

- Yuji returns to his house, where everyone is waiting to surprise him. Suddenly, when he opens the door, everyone shouts "Happy Birthday!" but then they are shocked after seeing Yuji's face.

- They ask who he is, and Yuji gets annoyed, asking what prank they are pulling; it’s not funny. But they say they never knew him or have heard of someone named Itadori Yuji before. Then Megumi asks him to leave before he calls the police.

- Then the homeless man comes to the house, and everyone seems relieved, saying "Welcome back! Happy Birthday!" This makes Yuji confused as to why they treat him like a stranger and act like the homeless man is Yuji.

- Everyone asks the homeless man if he knows Yuji, and he says he’s never known this Yuji before and asks him to leave the house.

- Yuji tries to pick up his phone to show the homeless man their photos together, but when he reaches into his pocket, he finds that his phone is no longer with him; it’s now with the homeless man. He then asks Nobara to pick up her phone to check their photos. She picks it up and shows it to Yuji.

- Every photo that is supposed to be Yuji now has the homeless man's face replaced in it. Yuji looks around the pictures in his house, and all of them have been replaced by the homeless man. Yuji and the homeless man have now swapped their existence.

- Yuji is shocked and tries to hit the homeless man, but Maki tackles him to the ground. He tries to use jujutsu, but it doesn’t work. He attempts to resist her, but he loses his strength. Everything that Yuji has has now been taken by the homeless man: his relationships, memories, and even his powers. Everyone he knows looks at him with disgusted eyes.

- Maki throws him out of the house. He tries to come back in, but they lock the door. He knocks nonstop until Maki wants to beat him up, but Yuta stops her and calls the police.

- The police arrest Yuji, but he keeps telling them that he’s supposed to be in that house. Then they take him to the police station to check and find out that there’s no evidence of a person named Itadori Yuji.

- They think Yuji has a mental problem, so they send him to an asylum, but Yuji runs away and escapes.

- He returns to his home again, but his girlfriend asks him to go away. Yuji keeps repeating that he’s her boyfriend until his girlfriend loses her temper and slaps his face. Yuji is shocked and looks like he’s about to cry. He doesn’t know what to do anymore, so he keeps repeating the same thing over and over again.

- The homeless man returns and tells Yuji to go away, but Yuji refuses and calls him a bum. The homeless man knocks him down and throws him onto a pile of garbage.

- Many hours later, Yuji wakes up. Having not eaten anything, he has no choice but to eat food from the garbage. While he’s eating, a group of homeless thugs comes and starts hitting him, using him as a punching bag. In this state, Yuji has no will to fight, so he lets them beat him.

- After getting beaten up, they urinate on his body. Yuji’s body is covered in garbage and urine, and flies are buzzing around him.

- Yuji returns to his house again and peeks through the window, seeing the homeless man kissing his girlfriend. He then loses his temper, biting his tongue until it bleeds, and starts crying.

- After that, every day, Yuji comes back to his house and keeps repeating the same things over and over again.

- The dog is the only one who can remember Yuji; it comes and hugs him. Yuji bursts into tears and hugs the dog back; at least he’s not alone.

- The homeless man knows this. One day, he kills the dog by making it eat grapes and pretends it was an accident. Yuji sees his dog die, and then he loses his temper, willing to do anything to take revenge on the homeless man. Yes, Yuji is willing to kill a human for the first time.

- Yuji sneaks around, waiting for the chance to catch the homeless man when he’s alone. He waits for him on his way to work and hides a knife behind the homeless man’s back.

- Yuji doesn’t aim to kill him but wants to ask him how he did that and threaten him to give everything back. The homeless guy says Yuji is out of his mind. Then Megumi and Todo come to charge at Yuji and save the homeless man instead of him. Todo punches Yuji in the face, saying he’s worthless scum that deserves to die, while Megumi looks at him with hateful eyes.

- They send him to the police, and after proving him guilty, they conclude that Yuji is delusional and put him in the asylum.

- In the asylum, Yuji keeps repeating the same things again, which confirms to them that he’s insane. The psychologist tries to convince Yuji to believe that what he’s saying is just a mental illness, that a person named Itadori Yuji doesn’t exist, that he never ate Sukuna's finger, never knew Megumi and Nobara, and never had a girlfriend.

- They use different methods in Yuji's treatment, from psychotherapy and journaling to medical treatment, even beating him up every time he says he’s Itadori Yuji, until they successfully convince him that he’s crazy.

- Half a year later, Yuji stops saying these things and accepts that he has a mental illness. He behaves better, doesn’t need medication anymore, and the psychologists believe that he’s back to normal, so they release him and help him find a job. He starts working as a construction worker and cleaner part-time.

- Actually, it’s Yuji’s plan to pretend that he’s accepted that he’s crazy and behaves how they want so they will release him. Now he’s carefully planning his revenge.

- He makes a hypothesis that the homeless man must be a jujutsu sorcerer who used a cursed technique that he doesn’t know, so he has to fight the homeless man with jujutsu. But now he doesn’t have that power, so he uses the money he earns from work and sells his testicles to buy a special drug from the black sorcerer market to get his power back.

- The drug triggers his cursed energy, and he plans to sneak up on the homeless man who is living as him, making sure that no one is around this time.

- Finally, he fights with him but still loses. He gets hit by his own black flash that the homeless man now uses. He struggles to stand up but collapses on the ground and cries.

- The homeless man steps on Yuji’s head and tells him that this is what he deserves. The homeless man tells Yuji that he is actually from another universe.

- There are multiverses, and every universe has a different version of a person. But for Yuji, his place is supposed to be the homeless man's place, not his.

- The homeless man is the original identity in this role, the role of the sorcerer who defeats Sukuna. The disciple of Gojo, Megumi, and Nobara's friend is supposed to be the homeless man. Then the universe made a mistake and created Yuji.

- All the Yujis kill every version of him and replace him in every universe. Yuji's existence is a mistake; he’s a thief. All the homeless man is doing is taking back what belongs to him. He didn’t do anything wrong; the one who is wrong is Yuji.

- After hearing that, Yuji is shocked and says that he hasn’t done anything wrong and wants to continue to fight. He doesn’t care anymore about who is supposed to have this life; he just can’t let it go like that. But the homeless man stomps Yuji down again before trying to kill him. Seeing hopeless Yuji crying and begging the homeless man to give his life back, he spares Yuji’s life because Yuji is too worthless to kill.

- After an hour, Yuji gets up and decides to take a higher risk. He goes to the place where Sukuna's finger is kept, then swallows the finger, willing to summon Sukuna back to life to defeat the homeless man. At this point, he doesn’t care anymore, even if he has to bring back the biggest threat like Sukuna; he just wants to kill that man and take his life back.

- After swallowing it, Yuji’s soul wakes up in the afterlife. He sees Mahito waiting for him to wake up, then starts making fun of and insulting him until Sukuna appears from Mahito’s back and tells him to stop.

- Yuji asks Sukuna to return, begging for his help, bowing his head to Sukuna's feet.

“After many years, you’re still a crybaby; you never change…you brat! At least act like a man who defeated me! Man up! Itadori Yuji!”

- Sukuna can’t return because the dead can’t be resurrected, but at least he has a chance to choose a different path, as he swore. So he chooses to help encourage Yuji on his way to get back and fight. His vibe reminds Yuji of his grandfather.

“Your fight hasn’t ended yet; don’t you dare give up in front of me. Go back and fight, even if it’s hopeless. That’s how you defeated me, isn’t it? If you dare to return to me again next time, I will actually kill you.”

- Then Sukuna pushes Yuji back. Yuji wakes up in the real world, and at night, he throws up Sukuna's finger.

- He still doesn’t know what to do; Sukuna can’t help him. He’s now hopeless, so he buys a bottle of vodka and visits Gojo's grave. He asks the grave if Gojo is still watching him. If Gojo is still alive, what would he do? Then Yuji breaks down, crying and hugging himself from the cold air of the night. What’s colder than that is the loneliness of being alone in this world, begging Gojo to help him.

- Then a big portal opens behind him. A tall man, dressed and wearing a black blindfold, walks out of the portal with a teasing, jerky smile.

“Gojo sensei…?” Yuji asks with a shaky voice.

“Sensei, huh? I remember that I never had a disciple,” the man replies.

- As the man walks closer, Yuji sees his hair—not white like Gojo's, but pink. Then he opens his blindfold, revealing Yuji's face.

- Then other people keep walking out of the portal. They’re all Yujis from different universes.

- There’s a sniper Yuji, Heian Yuji, Knight Yuji, Female Yuji, Sukuna Yuji, Heaven-restricted Yuji, Cursed Spirit Yuji, President Yuji, WWII Yuji, Sherlock Holmes Yuji, Milf Yuji, Muslim Yuji, Nerd Yuji, Black Yuji, Cyberpunk Yuji, Chainsaw Yuji, Rapper Yuji, Animal Yuji, Video Game Yuji, and 8-bit Yuji walking out of the portal.

- They explain that they’re members of the Council of Yujis, and what the homeless man told him was a lie. Yuji is not a mistake. Everyone has a different version of themselves in every universe; that’s how the laws of nature work. But Yuji has the homeless man as a double identity that shouldn’t exist but ended up existing. Nerd Yuji tries to explain it in quantum physics, but Female Yuji interrupts him and simplifies it:

“Imagine if the universe is a manga, and the mangaka is a god. Every character has their own identity, like Gojo has only one Gojo in every universe. But Yuji has two identities: Current Yuji is the final character design, and the homeless man is the first draft character design. The problem is that somehow the first draft, which shouldn’t exist, entered the manga, and now there are two versions of the protagonist character role existing at the same time.”

- The homeless man always escapes the hunt of the Yujis because he doesn’t want his existence to be eliminated. He’s looking for the universe where Yuji doesn’t know about this and uses his power to swap their roles, and this time they came too late.

- The only way to end this is to delete the homeless man from existence by plugging the jujutsu hard drive into his nape. But the only person who can do this is the person whose role was swapped: Yuji. They give Yuji his power back temporarily to help him defeat the homeless man.

- The next morning, the Yujis attack Jujutsu High School. The sorcerers stand by immediately and fight them. Yuji asks the Yujis not to go hard on anyone because they’re brainwashed, but Sukuna seems to ignore him.

- The fights go like this:
  - Megumi vs. Sukuna Yuji (Megumi's personal revenge)
  - Nobara vs. Female Yuji (Bitchy fight)
  - Yuta vs. Gojo Yuji and Black Yuji
  - Maki vs. Heaven-restricted Yuji 
  - Todo vs. Rapper Yuji (they end up debating who’s better between Playboi Carti and Takada-Chan)
  - Mei Mei vs. Milf Yuji
  - Kusakabe vs. President Yuji (hating each other because of political views)
  - Hakari vs. Heian Yuji 
  - Panda vs. Animal Yuji
  - Inumaki vs. Sniper Yuji

- And of course, the homeless man vs. Yuji. Finally, Yuji wins and almost kills him brutally. Other Yujis try to stop him, but they can’t. Yuji keeps punching his face furiously until Nobara comes to protect him and accidentally gets punched by Yuji. Then Yuji stops.

- Yuji plugs the hard drive into the homeless man’s nape. While plugging it in, the homeless man’s memories flow into Yuji’s mind. He sees the memories of the person: loneliness, not being accepted, getting hunted down simply for existing. He sees this man peeking into many Yujis' lives and wishing to be him. He sees this man sneaking into his life for a long time and being jealous of him.

- Yuji starts to empathize with the homeless man, so he lowers the volume of the hard drive to extend the time before the homeless man disappears.

- Yuji understands that the homeless man just wants to live a normal life, so he gives the homeless man the last 24 hours to live as him and say goodbye to everyone.

- In the last two hours, Yuji walks with him, showing him each of Yuji's favorite places. Before the man slowly disappears, he cries and wishes that he were Yuji. Yuji only feels pity for him; he understands the man but can’t justify what he’s done. Yuji is empathetic but firm about the laws of karma.

- Yuji gets an idea: what if he turns the man into a cursed object and eats him just like how he ate Sukuna's finger? This way, the man can still exist without any consequences. He then asks Nerd Yuji to help him do this. The man, now called the Shadow, lives within Yuji under his control.

- Everyone is free from the brainwashing. They can’t remember what they did but somehow feel guilty without knowing why.

- Yuji learns how important relationships are after almost losing them. He becomes less tolerant of himself and spends more time with the people around him. How can he fight things that burst out of negative emotions if he’s stuck in negativity himself?

- He also becomes a member of the Yujis Council, which, after the events and the increase in members, is renamed the Yujis Society, where they come together to discuss problems, big or small. As people say, when no one is beside you, you know yourself best.

- Yuji finally meets the founder of the Yujis Society: his grandfather from the universe where he doesn’t have a family. He gathered all the Yujis because of this.

- The founder is going to die of old age, just like how Yuji's grandpa died at the beginning of the story. But this time, Yuji has the chance to say goodbye and thank him for being the person who taught him the value of relationships.

Yuji can’t be Yuji without the relationships that formed him into who he is: the man who never stops giving up hope. That’s the core of Yuji that no one can replace.