Zen'in blood · Tokyo Jujutsu High

Megumi Fushiguro

The shadow is not a hiding place but a store: only he knows what will come out of it.

Megumi's technique is not an attack but an INVITATION. The shadow at his feet is a door lying under the surface; make the sign and something comes through. There are ten doors, each with its own name and temper, and each can be tamed only once. This page lines those ten doors up along a single ground line: the shadow you choose stands up from it, and the broken one never stands again.

Megumi Fushiguro — AniList dossier portrait

The ground line is one and the same across the page: every shadow leaves it and returns to it.

Dossier

Taken verbatim from the AniList record; blanks left blank.

Born
22 December 2002
Age
15
Height
175 cm
Grade
Grade 2 sorcerer
Cursed technique
Ten Shadows (十種影法術)
School
First-year student

Blood type is not recorded in the dossier, so it is absent here too.

Three pillars

The technique, the domain, and the ritual that sets the technique's price.

  • Jusshu KagehōjutsuTen Shadows TechniqueIt calls ten separate creatures out of the shadow.An inherited technique carried in Zen'in blood. The shadow formed between two hands is not a surface but a passage: one of ten shikigami comes through it. Each arrives with its own nature — one tracks by scent, one swallows, one heals, one is only speed. The user does not own them all at once: every shikigami must be tamed separately.Ten shikigamiInherited techniqueTamed one by one
  • Kanmoki An'ei TeiChimera Shadow GardenIt turns the entire floor into shadow.Rather than raising a dome, this domain seizes the FLOOR: everything is shadow, so everything is an exit. Shikigami no longer emerge from one point but from wherever you set foot. Megumi uses it with the dome unfinished — an incomplete domain forfeits the guaranteed hit, but its upkeep is cheap.Floor-basedMany exitsDeliberately incomplete
  • Chōfuku no GiThe Taming RitualPermission won, not permission granted.A shikigami does not serve on its own: it must first be beaten. The ritual is the summons to that fight, and losing it costs a life. A tamed shikigami becomes callable forever; a destroyed one never returns. The whole weight of the technique sits between those two rules.Permanent if wonDeath if lostIrreversible

Four details

What the shadow does beyond shikigami — and the weight of the inheritance.

  • Storing in shadowThe shadow does not only produce shikigami; things go into it too. A blade, a cursed finger, a wounded body — all can be slipped below the surface and taken back on demand.
  • Chain of a thousand milesThe one output that is not a shikigami: a chain that comes out of the shadow and binds. It needs no taming, but it ends no fight on its own — its job is to hold.
  • The Zen'in inheritanceThe technique belongs to one of the three great families, and Megumi holds it by blood. The family tried to buy him as an infant; the sale did not happen. What he owns is an inheritance his name does not carry.
  • The unfinished domainClosing the dome guarantees the hit but burns energy. Megumi leaves it open on purpose: he buys duration instead of certainty. He treats the limit of his own power not as a lack but as arithmetic.

Ten shadows

Raise one from the ground line. A tamed shadow stands; a broken one stays down; an untamed one demands the ritual first.

Callable8 / 101 broken

Tamed

Gyokuken · Kuro

Divine Dog · Black

The survivor of the pair. Fast, its teeth do work, and its real value is scent: this is the first shadow Megumi reaches for when an unseen curse or a missing person has to be found. It does the same job alone — what is missing is not power but a second nose.

The shadow has risen from the line.

Every row in the list is a button; tab through them and raise one with space or enter.

Five stops

The short history of a boy who decided to hand out justice unequally.

  1. infancy

    The child who was not sold

    The Zen'in family moved to buy the infant who carried the Ten Shadows. His father haggled, but the sale never closed; the boy grew up away from the family, without the Zen'in name. What he owned was a technique his name did not carry.

    Touji FushiguroThe father who struck the deal

  2. childhood

    The sleeping sister

    His stepsister Tsumiki fell into a sleep no one could wake her from, under a curse. What made Megumi accept sorcery was not duty but this: a kind person living something she had not earned. His decision to hand out justice unequally begins here.

    Tsumiki FushiguroHis stepsister

  3. age 13

    Being found

    Satoru Gojō found the boy carrying the technique his family had been chasing and brought him into the school. For the first time Megumi learned to use his technique as a tool rather than an inheritance — and for the first time entered a place where someone asked what he would do, not what he would become.

    Satoru GojouThe teacher who brought him in

  4. age 15

    The breaking of the white

    On his first major mission, facing a special grade curse, one of his two dogs was torn apart. The technique did not give it back and never will. That day Megumi learned his technique's real price: nothing he calls is on loan — each is a holding he is putting at risk.

  5. Shibuya

    Reading the words no one reads

    With nothing else in hand, Megumi read the ritual no one in his family's history had ever won. What he called was not an ally; it was a third party set against everyone on the scene, himself included. He knew he would lose, and he read it anyway.

    布留部 由良由良 布留部
    The words of the taming ritual — at Shibuya

Closing

What remains behind a shadow once it has been broken.

  • 俺は不平等に人を助ける

    I save people unequally.

    Megumi FushiguroExplaining his own definition of justice — he calls it selfish, not heroic.
  • 布留部 由良由良 布留部

    Furube yura yura furube — the words of the taming ritual.

    Chōfuku no GiIn his family's history, no one has read these words and won the fight.

The Ten Shadows Technique. Its name states not a power but a NUMBER: he holds exactly ten, and when one goes, nine remain.

Dossier, portrait and birth data from AniList: AniList · Megumi Fushiguro #126635