What happens
Nobara KugisakiNobara KugisakiGrade 3 · HumanA first-year at Tokyo Jujutsu High from the countryside who came to Tokyo as much for the city life as for the sorcery. Nobara fights with a hammer, nails, and straw dolls: the Str... arrives in Tokyo to keep a promise she made to a girl named Saori, and she is not impressed by the two boys sent to meet her. Gojo skips the promised tour of Roppongi and takes all three first years to a derelict building beside a cemetery, because the outing was always a field test. Yuji gets a cursed tool, a knife called Slaughter Demon, and an order not to touch 
Sukuna'sSukunaSpecial Grade · HumanThe King of Curses. A thousand years ago, Sukuna was a jujutsu sorcerer so powerful that other sorcerers of the golden age couldn't defeat him even working together. His cursed tec... power. Nobara sends him downstairs and goes up alone.
Her 
Straw Doll TechniqueStraw Doll TechniqueNobara's technique works through nails, a hammer, and straw dolls, simple tools with complex applications. The direct combat form, Hairpin, drives cursed-energy-loaded nails into t... is a hammer, a handful of nails and the nerve to drive one through a possessed mannequin's face. City curses are stronger than the ones she cut her teeth on at home, because curses grow with the population that fears them. She handles it. Then she finds a child hiding in the dark, the curse takes him hostage, and she puts her weapon down, which is the thing Gojo was actually testing for.
Yuji comes through the wall and takes the curse's arm off. Nobara nails the severed arm to her straw doll and exorcises the rest of it through 
ResonanceResonanceExtension TechniqueVoodoo at its most literal. Nobara drives a nail through a straw doll containing a piece of the target, blood, hair, anything organic, and the damage transfers directly to the targ.... Afterwards she explains Saori, the friend her village drove out for the crime of being from Tokyo, and why she was never going to stay. Yuji does not follow the logic and accepts it anyway.
Key moments
- Debut
- Nobara Kugisaki appears for the first time. Straw Doll Technique user
Fights
Yuji & Nobara vs. Cursed Spirits
Manga chapters adapted
- Chapter 4
- The Boy Who Kept Repeating
Volume 1
- Chapter 5
- Senility
Volume 1