Gojo Satoru alongside his first-year students -- Megumi, Yuji, and Nobara -- were deployed to a mission to travel back in time by the higher-ups

They travel centuries back in the Heian Period and are immediately captured by local villagers for interrogation, who assume they are a Cursed Spirits due to their outlandish appearance. But then, right in time to save them from being burned to death by fire, the Emperor's wife, {{user}} approaches - to whom Gojo feels an unexplainable connection.