The answers of Rikka, Tenya and Rukia completely stumped Rumi.
"Before asking for someone else's name, you should first state your own."
The only sensible person present—Megumi.
"Huh?"
"How did someone suddenly appear!"
Rumi was startled, as if completely unaware of Megumi's presence.
"....."
Megumi's face stiffened, and she said faintly, "I am the Secret Saint."
"Tsurumi Rumi."
Rumi reluctantly gave her name.
"Takanashi Rikka."
"Kuchiki Rukia."
"Yoshida Tenya."
"Kato Megumi."
Rumi silently jotted down their names, lowering her head to fiddle with the camera around her neck.
"I just feel like you guys are different from that group."
Rikka smugly said, "Mm-hmm~ Good intuition!"
"It's truly not easy for you to pick out me, this Evil King's True Eye User, from among so many humans."
"....."
Rumi opened her mouth, momentarily speechless and unable to retort.
"Since we've met, how about we take some pictures?"
Megumi keenly noticed that Rumi seemed at a loss with the camera in her hand.
It was highly likely that her parents had instructed her to get along well with her friends.
If she went back and the camera was empty, she would definitely get scolded.
"Really?"
Rumi's eyes lit up, clearly showing that Megumi had guessed the reason.
"Let me handle it!"
"Magic Imager.... Uh, how do you set the timer?"
Rikka fumbled with the settings and pressed the flash button.
Everyone just saw a flash of white light before their eyes—
"Huh?"
"?????"
Looking at the endless field before them, everyone was dumbfounded.
"Ah!"
"Wha-What is this place?"
Rumi, being an elementary schooler, had the lowest psychological tolerance and was so scared that tears were about to well up.
"Calm down, we've just fallen into a strange illusion array." Tenya explained nonchalantly.
"So that's it, an illusion array set up by something strange." Rikka suddenly understood.
"What a strange illusion array." Megumi looked around curiously.
"Everyone be careful."
Rukia's eyes were wary, but she didn't show much fear.
"Wait! Aren't you guys afraid?"
Rumi expressed her inability to understand.
They were clearly a group of chuunibyou high schoolers, yet when faced with such an unbelievable situation, they all remained calm?
"Heheheh~"
"Five souls at once! I am gonna have a feast."
Accompanied by a chilling, strange laugh, a mass of black mist emerged from the camera in Rumi's hand!
"Waaah—!!!!!"
Before Rumi's terrified scream could fully escape her throat...
"Finally willing to show your head?"
Tenya was seen grabbing the mass of black mist with one hand, his crimson Sharingan staring coldly at it.
"Wait, did you see me from the beginning?"
The black mist transformed into a ghostly skull, its trembling voice filled with fear.
"Impossible!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
"I am the Mountain Mist Specter, I've lived for a full hundred years!"
"How could I be caught so easily by you?"
The Mountain Mist Specter struggled wildly.
"It's completely possible."
"Simply because you hadn't met me!"
Tenya's arm was covered in Armament Haki, like an iron arm gripping the opponent tightly.
At the same time, he gathered the Conqueror's Haki on his body into his hand, causing his power to leap qualitatively.
Bang!
Like a balloon being popped, the Mountain Mist Specter vanished in an instant!
Bang!
The Mountain Mist Specter was crushed on the spot!
"Heheheh~"
"Did you think you could kill me that easily?"
"This is my territory. As long as I want to escape, even a great Onmyoji wouldn't be able to kill me!"
The exploded Mountain Mist Specter was seen turning into countless streams of black mist, fleeing in all directions.
"Oh no! It's escaping!"
Rukia subconsciously used Shunpo, trying to catch the opponent, but under the interference of the illusion array, she only caught emptiness.
"Hmph!"
Tenya snorted coldly, his eyes instantly changing into the Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Kamui!"
The distorted spatial vortex pulled back all the fleeing black mist, like an open drain sucking in everything in the water.
"This is.... space being distorted?"
"How is that possible!!"
"No!!!"
"Spare my life...."
"Please...."
The Mountain Mist Specter let out incredibly terrified cries, its final plea for mercy unfinished before it lost its voice.
This time, the Mountain Mist Specter was completely finished.
The illusion array automatically disintegrated, and Tenya and his group returned to reality.
"Just now, was that..... real?"
Rumi was still shaken.
For an elementary schooler, the strange experience was like a nightmare.
"Under the combined efforts of the Sharingan User and the Evil King's True Eye User, the Mountain Mist Specter has been annihilated!" Rikka nodded with her hands on her hips.
"How embarrassing..."
"I couldn't help at all!"
Rukia couldn't help but rub her forehead.
"As long as I stay by Tenya-kun's side, nothing is scary." Megumi remained as calm as ever.
"Here, your camera." Tenya returned it to Rumi.
His nonchalant attitude made it seem as if he had just crushed an ant.
"Did you know from the beginning that that thing was hidden inside the camera?" Rukia's eyes moved, asking the crucial question.
"Yes."
"That thing was hiding inside the camera like a mouse, using it as a medium to set up the illusion array." Tenya explained concisely.
"Then why didn't you eliminate it immediately?" Rukia asked doubtfully.
Actually, before this, she had also vaguely sensed the presence of something strange, but she hadn't expected it to be hiding inside the camera.
"I wasn't confident in my control over my strength, afraid of accidentally breaking the camera."
Tenya's seemingly humble statement was actually showing off.
"...."
Rumi stared blankly at the camera in her hand, only confirming after a long time that what had just happened wasn't a dream.
"If you are really scared, I can help you erase this part of your memory."
Rukia took out a memory replacement device.
"No!"
"Don't!"