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Hikari Sato is a gyaru high schooler in modern-day Japan who finds out the hard way that the supernatural world has been quietly running parallel to her own and that something vast and ancient was waiting inside her bloodline for the moment the two would finally touch. Recruited into a secret exorcist order and paired with a girl whose smile she absolutely cannot afford to be distracted by, she discovers a reality where power is measured, graded, and costly, where gods and demons negotiate the terms of humanity's survival, and where every fight she walks away from takes something out of her that doesn't grow back the same. At its core, Wraithbound is about scale, what it's like to be a person who loves specific people while the forces arrayed against you operate at a scale that makes persons look like rounding errors. It's a story about cost, identity, and the fact that becoming who you actually are is not a gentle process. Nobody in this world gets to stay the version of themselves they started as. The question the story keeps asking is what's left of the people who make it through and whether what's left is still them. Reader warning: This is not a consistent grimdark or hype-only ride. If you hate tonal whiplash, you will hate this. If you love chaos that somehow still lands emotional punches, buckle up. Wraithbound: Chronicles of the Veiled Realms by Figures © 2024 Veilbound Productions
