Niji Ebina is a male curse user who collaborates with curses and appears as a minor antagonist in the series Jujutsu Kaisen.
He operates alongside captured curses on the battlefield but meets his end during the Shibuya Incident at the hands of Mei Mei.
Niji Ebina is a human sorcerer aligned with curses rather than with official jujutsu organizations.
He is portrayed as a curse user of considerable strength, roughly equivalent to a semi–Grade 1 curse.
Despite this power level, his combat performance shows a clear gap between him and top-tier professional sorcerers.
His brief appearance emphasizes the overwhelming strength difference between freelance curse users and elite jujutsu sorcerers.
Ebina comes across as opportunistic and pragmatic, choosing to side with curses to further his own goals.
He does not display deep ideological conviction; his cooperation with curses appears more self-serving than belief-driven.
When faced with death, he abandons any pretense of pride or composure.
He goes so far as to prostrate himself and beg for his life, revealing a cowardly core beneath his earlier bravado.
Ebina is said to possess combat capabilities comparable to a semi–Grade 1 curse.
This places him above average among curse users and dangerous to ordinary people or weaker sorcerers.
However, his encounter with Mei Mei shows that his practical combat level is still far below that of high-grade professional sorcerers.
He is unable to significantly pressure her and is quickly overpowered once the fight begins.
Ebina also demonstrates the ability to control or at least handle curses in the field.
Rather than fighting alone, he relies on bringing a chained curse into battle as offensive support.
Ebina is seen accompanied by a curse that he keeps restrained with chains.
This curse is not a personal familiar or “pet,” but a wild curse he captured and weaponized.
The chained curse functions as both his partner and tool in combat situations.
Its presence suggests Ebina specializes more in capturing and using curses than in direct, high-level jujutsu techniques.
During the Shibuya Incident, Ebina appears in the Tokyo Metro railway area.
His objective is to kill Mei Mei, who is operating there as a jujutsu sorcerer.
Ebina enters the scene with confidence, backed by his chained curse and his status as a powerful curse user.
However, Mei Mei quickly overwhelms him, showcasing superior skill, composure, and tactical sense.
Realizing he cannot win, Ebina completely breaks down.
He drops to his knees, prostrates himself, and desperately begs Mei Mei to spare his life.
His plea for mercy is ignored.
Mei Mei executes him, ending his role in the story and underlining the brutal stakes of the Shibuya Incident.
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