Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 73

In Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 73, Riko Amanai finally makes her choice — and it costs her everything. At the school she decides she doesn’t want to merge with Tengen after all; she wants to stay with Gojo, Geto, and Kuroi and live an ordinary life as a normal girl. For one fragile moment, with Geto’s hand extended toward her and everyone smiling, it seems the nightmare is finally over and she can simply choose to live.

Then Toji steps through the barrier and shoots her through the head. The chapter freezes on the horror of it: the girl they guarded for days dies in a single instant, the merger abandoned forever, and Geto arrives just in time to watch her body fall to the ground.