Mahito

Appearance As described by jujutsu sorcerers, Mahito is a human-looking cursed spirit with a patchwork face and gray eyes. (In the anime, Mahito possesses heterochromia, as his left eye is dark blue and his right eye is gray.) He has long grayish-blue hair that reaches past his neck and is sectioned off into three large strands with ties at the ends. Along with his face, Mahito has stitches all across his body that give him the appearance that he was sewn together.

Mahito normally sports a black shawl that is separated into three pieces on the left sleeve. He also wears matching pants with and sometimes without white shoes.

Personality

"Thanks to the hate spewed between people... I was born." Mahito is an immature and sadistic cursed spirit who enjoys toying with human emotions. He believes he was born from human transgressions and considers himself the manifestation of humans' hatred of each other. As such, Mahito supports human extermination and deems cursed spirits to be the true rulers of the world. Unlike his ally Jogo, who is short-tempered and arrogant, Mahito can remain relatively calm and playful upon confrontation with an enemy. Even so, they agree on the same goals for the future of their kind. He has a genuine friendship with the other curses, as he scolds Pseudo-Geto for putting Jogo in danger, protects Hanami from Haruta, and wants to avoid fighting with Jogo in Shibuya.

Mahito is also very philosophical when it comes to the concept of souls. He believes the human soul existed before the body and is intrigued by its nature. His cursed technique is derived from this obsession, and he uses it to experiment on human victims to gain further knowledge.

Mahito has no sympathy for humans and appears to place little value even in his own life. He is devoted to the cause, believing that reviving Sukuna is more important than his own well-being. As long as cursed spirits eventually reign supreme, Mahito doesn't care if he's there to see it.

Possibly due to the nature of his birth, Mahito is adept at psychological manipulation. He preys on human hatred, sorrow, and insecurities to direct people to accommodate his goals to the point where his victims go against any common sense. After indirectly causing the death of Junpei's mother by placing Sukuna's finger in her house, he convinces her son that the one who did it was Shota Ito, which, in turn, drives Junpei to become a curse user to avenge his mother. Mahito manipulates Junpei so thoroughly that the boy never considers Mahito evil, even after seeing his experiments in the sewer. Junpei only realizes Mahito's twisted nature when it's too late, moments before Mahito disfigures his body.

Mahito feeding the darkness in Junpei's heart. Nanami describes Mahito as extraordinarily childish and similar to Satoru Gojo. He enjoys messing with humans, even in battle when his life is on the line. Mahito befriends Junpei because he sees him as a toy that can be fun to play with. He coerces Junpei into becoming a curse user by feeding on his hatred. When Junpei runs out of use, Mahito uses him as leverage against Yuji and even kills him without a second thought.

Mahito experiences a shift in his mindset after his first fight with Yuji. Whereas before, he had mindlessly killed whoever he chose without any objective or strategy, his defeat and humiliation against Yuji strengthens his resolve. With this heightened resolve also comes a greater level of apathy towards others, even his fellow disaster curses. Whereas both Dagon and Jogo mourned Hanami's passing, Mahito only expressed mild surprise before returning to his care-free demeanor. He became more determined to break Yuji's spirit and affirm his identity as a curse. In his second fight against Yuji, he delivers a speech to his opponent declaring their fight is a battle of truths to see who will be left standing in the next century.

Usually composed, Mahito is shaken when his safety is threatened, as seen when Yuji's attacks seriously damage Mahito. Furthermore, when Nobara Kugisaki uses her cursed technique on him, he is surprised that her cursed technique can bypass physical resistance and attack his soul. He emphasizes getting rid of her, showing a strong desire to neutralize anyone or anything capable of hurting him. At the end of his second battle with Yuji, critically injured by Black Flash and exhausted, Mahito is deceiving Yuji when the latter shows him the resolve to hunt him down. At this moment, Mahito sees in Yuji the same callous disdain that he showed humanity. Mahito tries desperately to escape Yuji, making it clear that despite all his bravado and pontificating, he is little more than a cruel, cowardly, and hypocritical child at heart who enjoyed hurting others when there was no danger to him but was fearful when the consequences of his actions finally caught up with him.

Overall Skill Level: Mahito is an unregistered special grade cursed spirit that eclipses the power of at least three of Sukuna's fingers at the time of his first encounter with Yuji Itadori, and only continues to grow stronger.[2] He is younger than Jogo and as a result, is less experienced and not as powerful at first. Despite this, Mahito is far above what a special grade cursed spirit would normally be and demonstrates rapid growth over the course of only two months. He has very high intelligence and an extremely dangerous cursed technique. Mahito has incredible development potential, as on multiple instances he has developed in the middle of battle.

In a one on one fight, he was able to overwhelm the grade 1 sorcerer, Kento Nanami, by rendering his cursed technique useless. Following that fight, Nanami believed that Mahito had to be exorcised immediately or else he would grow into something too fearsome for Jujutsu High to handle.

In Mahito's two on one battle with Nanami and Yuji, Mahito would have likely defeated both jujutsu sorcerers if it were not for Sukuna's intervention. During this fight, Mahito was able to grow stronger while his life was in danger, allowing him to cast his own Domain Expansion.

Later, during the Shibuya Incident, Mahito went further beyond his boundaries, being able to create clones of himself that were indistinguishable from the original, while also developing his soul-manipulating abilities. Even after splitting his cursed energy in order to create a double, the divided Mahito still demonstrated relativity to Yuji in combat. During his fight with Yuji and later, Aoi Todo, he managed to land a Black Flash on the two of them, allowing him to gain sufficient understanding of cursed energy and his own soul to activate Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing, further increasing his power.

Enhanced Strength: Mahito has great physical strength. He mercilessly beat Yuji in their second fight, enough to make the latter cough up blood. Despite having divided strength after splitting his body to create a double, he delivered a blow to Yuji that was so powerful it made him bleed from the forehead. Mahito claimed that if he had put his back into it more, he could have split Yuji's skull. He could easily destroy numerous Mechamarus and was strong enough to pin down Nanami. When enhanced with Black Flash, Mahito's hits can be so powerful they made Aoi Todo cough up blood despite the latter focusing his cursed energy to protect the impacted area.

Enhanced Speed: Mahito has immense speed. He was able to blitz past Nanami's guard in their fight by morphing his legs. He was able to outrun Yuji and attack Todo so fast the only thing he could do was to focus his cursed energy to protect himself.

Enhanced Reflexes: Mahito has superb reflexes. When fighting with Yuji and Todo, he was able to react to their attacks and counter. Mahito even kept up with Todo's Boogie Woogie to an extent. He even single-handedly fought both Yuji and Nanami, all while dodging their attacks and countering extremely fast.

Enhanced Durability: Mahito is exceptionally difficult to kill. Not only does his cursed technique render physical attacks meaningless, but even Mahito's soul is extremely resistant to damage. Nanami attempted to crush Mahito's body, but he went through their entire battle without expressing that he felt any pain even when attacks did land. When Yuji was able to hit Mahito's soul and both jujutsu sorcerers overwhelmed Mahito, he was able to weather the storm and unlocked a new power instead of allowing his body to crumble under the pressure. While using Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing in a weakened state, Mahito suffered zero damage from Yuji's reinforced punches. This prompted Yuji to believe that only a Black Flash imbued with his maximum cursed energy could take Mahito down.

High Intellect: Mahito possesses very high intellectual prowess, especially for a cursed spirit. He was accurately able to deduce that jujutsu sorcerers were investigating him and was able to set a trap for his pursuers. Mahito can also surmise his opponent's skill level and even their cursed technique after just a few exchanges. He was able to accurately do so against Nanami and he was able to realize that Yuji had the ability to see souls thanks to his relationship with Sukuna. He developed countermeasures to Todo's Boogie Woogie far quicker than Hanami did. He is also very adept at using a variety of tricks to fool his opponents. Along with Pseudo-Geto, Mahito often acts as the brains of his faction's operation.

Cursed Energy Capacity: Mahito has a vast amount of cursed energy at his disposal. Nanami himself said that fighting Mahito until his cursed energy ran out was unrealistic. Mahito is able to use his cursed technique repeatedly without depleting his cursed energy. Only his Domain Expansion has used up significant enough amounts of cursed energy to exhaust Mahito's reserves.

Cursed Energy Manipulation: As the events progressed, Mahito evolved his control over cursed energy. The first major results of that were shown in his fight with Yuji during the Shibuya Incident, when he used a variety of manipulations with his cursed energy to trick his opponent. Mahito's control ended up becoming well-refined from using Black Flash, enough that he could shorten the process of using Domain Expansion into one step instead of two.

Black Flash (黒こく閃せん, Kokusen?): A phenomenon that creates a spatial distortion when a user connects an impact of cursed energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit, causing cursed energy to flash black, creating a more potential attack to the power of 2.5 of a normal hit. Mahito learned how to use Black Flash during the Shibuya Incident. He has performed it twice.

Idle Transfiguration (無む為い転てん変ぺん, Mui Tenpen?) is Mahito's innate technique. It grants him the ability to distort the shape of souls and transfigure their respective bodies as a result.

Description

Mahito reshaping a human's soul to transfigure their body and kill them. Idle Transfiguration allows the user to reshape the soul of themselves or anyone they physically touch. The shape of the body is dependent on the shape of the soul, so if the soul is distorted, so too is the body. Therefore, someone using Idle Transfiguration can disfigure their target's body into something grotesque by warping their soul's shape with just a touch. This process creates what are known as "Transfigured Humans".[1]

Strengths

Mahito reshaping his own soul to repair his broken arm. This cursed technique attacks the soul directly. Only under certain circumstances can someone protect their own soul and anyone who cannot be instantly killed or transformed by Idle Transfiguration. All ordinary people eventually die after having their soul transfigured if the user intends to harm them.[2]

The user can also reform the shape of their own soul and heal any injuries their body sustained in battle.[3] This renders traditional means of injuring the user useless, as their soul must be attacked to do any significant damage.[4] The user can even transform their body to give them an advantage, such as giving themselves wings for flight[5] or shrinking their body to avoid an attack.

Weaknesses

Resonance hitting Mahito's soul directly. An individual facing the threat of Idle Transfiguration can stay out of range and use cursed energy to protect their soul from being distorted. However, Idle Transfiguration can still injure the body if the user touches their target, even if it doesn't fully distort their soul enough to deal a fatal blow. Even so, after two or three more direct attacks to the soul, even if it's being protected by cursed energy, the target will no longer be human.[6]

Techniques like Nobara Kugisaki's are especially difficult to handle as her ability is not only long range but can attack the soul directly through sympathetic resonance. Mahito called her a "natural enemy" of his due to this.[7]

Mahito gaining the ire of Sukuna. Idle Transfiguration is also unable to select the specific soul in question, resulting in the touching of one soul touching any others that may lie within the target. This was something Mahito had to be careful of when battling Yuji Itadori, as the second soul lying dormant inside him, Sukuna, would become enraged if Mahito dared to touch his soul.[8]

The healing aspect of Idle Transfiguration is also useless for handling attacks that target the soul. While Mahito can restructure his body to be normal after an attack that strikes his soul, it still does much more damage than the equivalent done to others via physical attacks and can quickly wear him down. With those who can harm his soul directly, he tends to avoid them and try to strike at long range.

Usage

Mahito experimenting on a human body to see how large it can get. In his spare time, Mahito uses Idle Transfiguration to experiment with human souls. For example, he transfigures human bodies to see how big and small they can get via disfiguration. He even carries small transfigured humans on his person, which can be manipulated further to create larger monsters that obey Mahito.[10]

Mahito distorting his own body to escape from being crushed beneath heavy debris. Mahito will often transfigure humans by placing his hand on them without killing intent and then suddenly disfiguring their body. Additionally, he uses disfigured humans as monsters to attack his enemies.

In battle against jujutsu sorcerers, Mahito mainly aims to touch their soul and transfigure their body like any other human. He has stated that strong jujutsu sorcerers like Kento Nanami are perfect for experimentation.[11]

Mahito shape-shifting his arm into blades. In the rare situation that he's unable to touch his opponent's soul (such as the case with Yuji Itadori), Mahito will rely on his personal monsters or changing his body into a variety of different shapes for offensive and defensive purposes.

Mahito using his technique to remove a heavenly restriction. By reshaping his own soul, Mahito changes his appendages into animal limbs for greater mobility, into weapons for increasing killing power, and many more potential abilities.[12] He also uses this same application in order to heal himself after sustaining an injury to his body, and can even heal humans if he so chooses.[13]

As seen with Kokichi Muta, Idle Transfiguration can even be used to completely remove the Heavenly Restriction he had since birth and grant him a normal human body.[13]

Soul Multiplicity (多た重じゅう魂こん, Tajūkon?) is an Idle Transfiguration extension technique used by Mahito.

Description As the name implies, Soul Multiplicity combines two or more souls using Idle Transfiguration. It also creates a reaction due to the soul's naturally rejecting the fusion with one another. This allows the user to derive more techniques that take advantage of the reaction.[1]

Usage

Mahito combining two transfigured souls. Mahito first utilized Soul Multiplicity against Satoru Gojo after having further mastered his innate technique since the fight with Yuji and Nanami.

In Shibuya, Mahito used Soul Multiplicity to lead into his Body Repel technique, which uses the rejection of fusion to create an overwhelming output of transfiguration. Unleashing Body Repel mercilessly cuts down countless non-sorcerers as a way to keep his adversary at bay.[2]

Soul Multiplicity takes a little bit of time to charge. During his rematch with Yuji, Mahito used a transfigured human to occupy Yuji while the curse got behind him and combined two distinct transfigured souls together. This once again leads to Body Repel, but creating a much more focused attack that combines the multiple souls into one transfigured monster attack.[3]

Mahito fusing numerous souls together. In order to counter Aoi Todo's Boogie Woogie technique during their fight, Mahito combined numerous miniature transfigured human souls together at once with Soul Multiplicity. Hiding several in his stomach, Mahito vomited the transfigured humans before crushing them all together and unleashing Body Repel to attack Todo from all directions.[4]

When that strategy proved ineffective, Mahito used Soul Multiplicity to merge souls with weak rejection together to form one body. This generates a Polymorphic Soul Isomer, a unique type of transfigured human. Mahito attempted to use the Polymorphic Soul Isomer to distract Todo with its explosive attack power. While it was fighting Todo, Mahito used Soul Multiplicity again to pressure Yuji one on one.[5]

Body Repel (撥ばっ体たい, Battai?) is an Idle Transfiguration extension technique used by Mahito.

Description: Soul Multiplicity generates a reaction when it tries to merge two or more souls because they naturally try to reject the fusion. By increasing the energy of the souls associated with this effect, the user can generate an overwhelming output of transfigured humans fused into one attack.[1]

Usage

Mahito using Body Repel's volume to attack from every direction. Mahito uses Body Repel as a special mid-range attack that greatly adds to the unpredictability aspect of his offense. Body Repel can take many different forms, in fact, it has looked different every time Mahito has unleashed it.

The first time Mahito used this technique he targeted numerous non-sorcerers in a crowd during his group's battle with Satoru Gojo. Mahito and Choso worked together, using Supernova and Body Repel at the same time to cut down several civilians surrounding Satoru.[2]

Mahito used this technique again, but a much more focused version against Yuji. After combining two small transfigured humans' souls, Mahito unleashed a horde of transfigured flesh shaped into a large monster. The elongated beast attempted to bite and swallow Yuji whole with its giant teeth. Yuji was able to stop it with his brute strength, but Mahito appeared from inside the creature and landed a clean shot to his opponent's face.[3]

Mahito uses Body Repel to keep the pressure on Yuji. In order to counter the switching ability of Aoi Todo's Boogie Woogie, Mahito unleashed a Body Repel that created several long snake-like heads with giant mouths that attempted to chomp his targets from every direction. It created such a high volume of attacks that it broke through underground Shibuya into the streets above.[4]

Once the attack concluded, Body Repel solidified together to create a platform for the battle.[5] After keeping Todo busy with a Polymorphic Soul Isomer, Mahito went all out on Yuji by activating Body Repel. He generated longer transfigured mouths to attack and bite at his opponent. This time Body Repel was made more powerful by the increased volume of heads and the scale-like spikes added to them.[6]

Polymorphic Soul Isomer (幾き魂こん異い性せい体たい, Kikon Iseitai?) is an Idle Transfiguration extension technique used by Mahito.

Description: Using Soul Multiplicity, the user combines numerous souls with weak rejection to create one body. This manifests a highly stable and extremely strong transfigured human that doesn't speak and has little to no chance of dying off on its own.

A Polymorphic Soul Isomer is an attack specialist with explosive power behind its hits. This is due to Soul Multiplicity expending numerous souls to create it. However, the trade-off for is extraordinary strength is its lack of durability. A Polymorphic Soul Isomer can be killed with a single direct hit using cursed energy.

Usage

The explosive strength of a Polymorphic Soul Isomer. Mahito first created a Polymorphic Soul Isomer during his fight with Yuji and Aoi Todo in Shibuya. It was used as a distraction to keep Aoi Todo at bay so Mahito could focus on fighting Yuji one on one.

Todo initially underestimated the Polymorphic Soul Isomer, believing it to be ranked around the level of a just grade 2 or 3 cursed spirit. Upon being struck by one of them, Todo was surprised to find it had enough strength to hit him clean through a building.

A Polymorphic Soul Isomer defeated in a single punch. The grade 1 sorcerer used his innate technique to outmaneuver the transfigured human and smashed its head with a cursed energy infused punch. Todo was further surprised to find that the Polymorphic Soul Isomers are fragile enough to be defeated with a single hit.

Two Polymorphic Soul Isomers facing Aoi Todo. Two more Polymorphic Soul Isomers confronted Todo after he defeated the first one, but he made short work of them after learning their weakness.[1] Mahito believed they would do the trick and was disappointed when Todo defeated them so quickly.[2]

While heavily injured after being hit with Black Flash, Mahito created a Polymorphic Soul Isomer to fend off Yuji. The Polymorphic Soul Isomer and Yuji quickly parried each other's punches until the latter put it down with a kick. Although once again easily defeated, the Polymorphic Soul Isomer bought Mahito enough time to ascend into his true form, the Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing.[3]

Transfigured Humans (改かい造ぞう人にん間げん, Kaizō Ningen?) are humans who had their souls distorted by Idle Transfiguration, thus transforming them into monstrous beings that resemble cursed spirits.

Description:Creation Process

Mahito transfiguring Junpei Yoshino. Transfigured humans are created through the use of the Idle Transfiguration cursed technique, which was the innate technique of the special grade cursed spirit Mahito. By placing his hand on a human and then activating his technique, Mahito can freely transfigure their soul into any shape he desires. Since the shape of the body is dependent on the shape of the soul, it is also transformed. The result of this transformation is usually a grotesque creature that bears almost no resemblance to the human it was created from, although this is likely intentional by Mahito.

Characteristics

The largest transfigured human Mahito can create. Despite appearing like cursed spirits, transfigured humans still possess human bodies, and thus can be perceived and touched by non-sorcerers, as well as being photographed on phones or other electronic devices.[1] Additionally, transfigured humans can have their brain stems modified to give them cursed energy, allowing them to further mimic cursed spirits.[2]

Mahito regurgitant small transfigured humans. Transfigured humans can come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. The largest transfigured human Mahito can create is more than twice as tall as himself and appears extremely obese, while the smallest is roughly the size of Junpei Yoshino's palm.[3] Mahito keeps a stockpile of small transfigured humans within his body by swallowing them and regurgitating them when needed.[4]

Once transfigured, a human will eventually die.[5] Not even reverse cursed technique can heal them or return them to their original form.[6][7] Furthermore, a human is entirely under Mahito's control once transfigured, unconditionally obeying his commands. However, the "sweat" of the human's soul "trickles out" every now and then, causing a transfigured human to partially regain consciousness and cry, plead for help, or ask for death.[8]

With their monstrous features and strength, transfigured humans can easily kill an average non-sorcerer human. Most transfigured humans, if graded according to the grading system, would be around the strength of grade 3 to weaker grade 2 cursed spirits.[9]

The enhanced strength of a Polymorphic Soul Isomer. Soul Multiplicity can be used to combine souls with weak rejection to form one transfigured human, known as a Polymorphic Soul Isomer. These transfigured humans possess far greater strength than other transfigured humans, enough to launch a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer through a building with one punch, and are less likely to die by themselves.[10] The explosive power behind their strikes comes from the sacrifice of multiple souls when creating them. As a trade-off for its high strength, a Polymorphic Soul Isomer has very low durability and can be killed with a single direct hit with cursed energy.[11]

Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing (遍へん殺せつ即そく霊れい体たい, Hensetsu Soku Reitai?) is an Idle Transfiguration extension technique used by Mahito.

Description: Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing is a special self-transfiguration that morphs the user into a much more powerful state. Due to the nature of Idle Transfiguration and its connection to the soul, Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing can only be achieved when the user realizes the truest essence of their being.

This technique not only greatly alters the user's appearance, but increases their abilities as well, granting them incredible offensive and defensive prowess.

Usage

Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing's tough exterior completely nullifies Yuji's punches. During the Shibuya Incident, Mahito used Black Flash for the first time against Yuji. The state of focus provided by Black Flash allowed Mahito to feel the true essence of his soul for a moment.[1] Mahito immediately desired to feel it again and was able to hit Aoi Todo with Black Flash during the climax of his battle with both sorcerers. Using Black Flash again allowed Mahito to find and understand the true essence of his soul. He proceeded to evolve into his "true form" and expressed how he felt reborn.

Mahito's human-like skin and appearance literally shed from his body, leaving the cursed spirit with a much more monstrous appearance. His eyes appeared to be covered by a crown-like plate crudely attached to his lower jaw. Not only his face, but Mahito's body's overall shape altered greatly with a much tougher and bulkier exterior. He sported a thick tail and black tendrils that extended from both his elbows with multiple loose black tendrils at the back of his head, which could be used as weapons. Additionally, Mahito's legs as well as the area around his neck and forearms were completely black.[2]

Mahito's true form is about 200% more powerful than his normal state.[3] He can create shockwaves capable of breaking the ground apart with just a wave of his arm.[4] Defensively, not even Yuji's cursed energy reinforced superhuman strength can deal any damage whatsoever. Yuji stated that it was even harder than when Choso used hardened blood to protect his body in their fight.[5] In terms of speed, Mahito completely outclassed Yuji as they traded blows. This forced Yuji to recognize that as a cursed spirit, Mahito had become something completely different than before this transfiguration.[6]

Mahito using the black tendrils and his tail to counterattack. In order to maximize his killing efficiency against Yuji, Mahito included a self-imposed binding vow on Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing. The vow prevents him from further transfiguring his body in exchange for his true form's extreme destructive power. This does not apply to the dark-colored tendril-like blades attached to the back of his elbows and head. A separate vow is imposed on them so Mahito can freely change their shape and utilize them at mid-range with no repercussions. Mahito's hands are the only appendage that remains unchanged while in this state, still allowing him to transfigure others.[3]

Mahito partially deactivating Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing. Despite all the advantages gained from his true form, Mahito still retains all damage dealt to him prior to its activation. Mahito was hit with Black Flash just prior to transforming. Due to being hit soon after activating domain expansion, the hit did serious damage to Mahito's soul. While trying to blitz Yuji in their fight, Mahito was forced to stop and even coughed up blood while transformed.[7]

Mahito recognized that Yuji could use Black Flash to break through Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing and decided not to overpower him recklessly. Instead, Mahito deactivated Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing on the left side of his body, giving Yuji a target to hit so he could counter. This ultimately backfired and Mahito was forced out of this form and defeated by a Black Flash imbued with Yuji's maximum cursed energy.[8]

Barrier Techniques Curtain (帳とばり, Tobari?): Mahito can create a barrier that surrounds a certain area. The barrier is capable of sealing the area off from other people or a specific person wanting to get in.

Self-Embodiment of Perfection (自じ閉へい円えん頓どん裹か, Jihei Endonka?) is Mahito's domain expansion using Idle Transfiguration.

This Domain Expansion is conjured by hand seals formed by tiny hands inside Mahito's mouth. This creates a large black environment that presents Mahito's target with giant hands clasped together to form a flower-like shape. Connected to these hands are multiple arms that grab one another to form a net pattern that surrounds Mahito's target.[1]

Nanami describing the feeling of being inside Mahito's Domain Expansion. Self-Embodiment of Perfection increases the effectiveness of Mahito's Idle Transfiguration cursed technique by allowing him to transfigure the souls of the targets within his domain without requiring physical contact. Kento Nanami described the experience of being inside Mahito's domain as akin to literally being in the palm of Mahito's hand.[2] Alongside Satoru Gojo's Unlimited Void, Nanami believed Self-Embodiment of Perfection is an almost guaranteed victory for the caster.[3] However, a major drawback of this ability is that Mahito is forced to touch the souls of everyone inside the domain, which backfires when Yuji Itadori entered the domain from the outside, causing Mahito to, albeit unintentionally, touch Sukuna's soul a second time, prompting the King of Curses to lash out at Mahito.[4]

Usage

Mahito using his domain against Mechamaru. Mahito first developed this technique while he was close to death during the climax of his battle with Nanami and Yuji. Using death as an inspiration, Mahito was able to increase his power and unlock the ability to utilize a Domain Expansion.[5] Upon activation, it immediately locked Yuji out and trapped Nanami alone inside the domain.[6] However, before Mahito could use his cursed technique, Yuji broke into the Domain Expansion from the outside. This forced Mahito to touch Sukuna's soul, who slashed his body with two devastatingly deep cuts, severely damaging Mahito to the point that he was unable to maintain his Domain Expansion, causing it to collapse as he fell onto his knees defeated.[4]

Mahito's all-or-nothing domain expansion of 0.2 seconds. On October 21st, Mahito activated his Domain Expansion against Kokichi Muta,[7] seemingly defeating the sorcerer as his large mechanical puppet collapsed.[8] However, Kokichi used Ultimate Mechamaru - Mode: Absolute's Technique Charge Simple Domain to negate its effects and intended to be affected to strike him back.[9]

After being inspired by his battle against Satoru[10] and awakening a better understanding of the essence of cursed energy from landing a Black Flash on Yuji earlier,[11] Mahito learned how to activate his Domain Expansion for 0.2 seconds by shortening the processes of realizing his innate domain and activating his cursed technique into one process.[12] He demonstrated this feat against Yuji and Aoi Todo, successfully using Idle Transfiguration on Aoi without touching him, who stopped the technique from traveling to the rest of his body by cutting off his transfigured hand.[13] Due to the short amount of time the domain expansion lasted, Mahito was able to avoid being attacked by Sukuna despite touching his soul.[14]