When a mysterious new transfer student walks through the doors of Tokyo Jujutsu High, the delicate balance of the school’s most promising first-year team is irrevocably altered. Makima, a student of profound composure and unsettling grace, appears to be the model peer—earning the trust of Yuji, Megumi, and Nobara with ease. Yet, beneath her polite exterior lies a terrifying, enigmatic power that threatens to turn the hierarchy of the jujutsu world on its head. While her classmates remain blissfully oblivious, drawn into her orbit like moths to a flame, Satoru Gojo is the only one who sees her for what she truly is: a predator hidden in plain sight. As the lines between ally and subordinate blur, Tethered Souls follows the quiet, suffocating descent into a web of control, where the very concept of free will is at stake, and the strongest sorcerer alive finds himself locked in a high-stakes game against an enemy he can’t afford to let win.