"Found you, Nekomata!"
"So that's how it is..."
"I was wondering why you didn't recognize me."
"So you failed at body snatching and were even controlled by a human, how utterly ridiculous!"
Hideo changed his benevolent face and revealed his eerie true form.
Hideo's head split open, turning into tentacles with sharp blades.
"Holy crap!"
"What the hell is this?"
"So disgusting!"
"Aha! I know, it must be some kind of prank show, right!?"
"Where's the cameraman?"
Everyone in the audience was stunned, staring in disbelief at the eerie scene before them.
Many even thought it was just a deceptive prank show.
"A servant of the Demon King, openly appearing like this, how audacious!" Rikka said in a deep voice.
"Wow! Is that a servant of the Demon King?" Yui had a surprised look.
"No need to worry, that's just Rikka's chuunibyou setting." Megumi explained calmly.
"Hey, hey! Is the 'setting' the main point?"
"Also, why are you guys so calm?!!" Yumiko was scared pale.
The experience at the summer camp had been erased from her memories, so for her, this was the first time witnessing something supernatural.
"Tenya, what do we do now?"
Rukia glanced around, there were simply too many witnesses right now.
"You handle the memories, leave the rest to me." Tenya concisely said.
Bang!
Hideo attacked Yukino. The tentacle blades were so fast that the human eye couldn't keep up, splitting deep trenches in the rubber track on the ground.
Swish!
Yukino dodged while holding the unresponsive Eriri. The Nekomata power within her was also actively activated, causing cat ears and a cat tail to grow.
"Yukinoshita-san..."
"You, your ears and tail!"
"So cute!!!!"
Eriri was startled at first but then stared at Yukino with excitement.
Most people might be startled, but for a hidden otaku like her, it was an amazing experience she had always dreamed of.
"Thanks... but now is not the time to talk about these things."
Yukino's eyes narrowed, staring intently at Hideo.
"The soul of a Nekomata... is completely dominated by a mere human!"
"Rather than be like this, it's better for me to devour it!"
Hideo's true form was a parasitic eerie insect, which wasn't very intelligent.
After devouring the brain of the human 'Shimada Hideo', it inherited some of the latter's 'closet pervert' personality.
This also explained why he exposed his strength during the physical test, achieving a result that broke the world record.
But reason told him that to integrate into human society, he couldn't display anything too astonishing.
So when James personally supervised, he suppressed his strength so his results weren't so outrageous.
In short, the current Hideo was a supernatural being with the personality of a 'closet pervert'.
If Hideo had remained restrained, Tenya wouldn't have bothered with him.
After all, there were so many spirits, ghosts and whatnot in this world. If he had to handle everything, wouldn't he be busy his whole life?
However, the accident occurred when Yukino reached out to save the fallen Eriri, inadvertently revealing a trace of Nekomata's aura.
This stimulated Hideo, who them wanted to devour the Nekomata power within Yukino.
Greed overcame his limited reason, causing Hideo to reveal his eerie true form right before everyone's eyes.
Then...
There was no 'then'.
When some pest threatened those around Tenya, it was destined to be eliminated.
Swish!
Tenya rapidly advanced with Hirenkyaku.
A simple, unadorned punch!
"Wh...?!"
Hideo's pupils dilated.
Puchi—!
The fist, imbued with Armament Haki, pierced through Hideo's chest like a sharp spear.
Tenya pulled out the latter's heart, and then crushed it.
"Ah?!!!"
Everyone in the audience was so shocked by the bloody and brutal scene before them that they were speechless.
Bang!
Rukia took the opportunity to use the memory replacement device. A special mist quickly covered most of the people on the scene.
Including the teachers, they all fell into a deep sleep.
Except for Rikka and a few others who were prepared amd actively avoided the mist's range, the only one whose memory wasn't replaced was Eriri, who was close to Yukino.
"What's going on?"
"Why did everyone faint?"
Eriri was initially bewildered, but then her otaku mind quickly guessed the general idea—covering up the truth!
"You! You...!!"
"How dare you...!!!"
Hideo had suffered a fatal blow, his human body was already dead.
The power within his body erupted uncontrollably.
Black mist expanded wildly, transforming into a three-story-tall tentacle monster in the blink of an eye.
"Useless."
Tenya's Sharingan saw at a glance that the tentacle monster before him, while seemingly huge and terrifying, was actually strong on the outside but weak on the inside.
Its heart was destroyed, and its vitality was greatly damaged. If it didn't replace its physical body in time and reoccupy a human body, it would quickly perish.
"Damn human!"
"You destroyed my physical body, so let your body pay the price!!!!"
The tentacle monster descended into madness, controlling countless tentacles to grab at Tenya.
And Tenya's response was still just one punch—
But the slight difference was, this punch was a bit big.
"Susanoo!"
Tenya activated his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and the Chakra around his body materialized into a purple skeletal armor.
The Susanoo, capable of both offense and defense, not only easily blocked the tentacle attacks but also transformed into a giant skeletal fist, punching through the monster's chest with overwhelming force.
The battle ended.
Tenya was relaxed and at ease throughout.
"Is it over just like that...?"
"Your power really is as exaggerated as ever!" Yukino let out a deep sigh of emotion.
"???"
Eriri was in a state of complete bewilderment the entire time.
"As expected of my friend!" Rikka had an attitude of sharing in the glory.
"Um~ making such a big scene this time, it'll be hard to deal with, right?" Megumi took a look and said.
As the last wisp of the disruptor dissipated, a headless, heartless corpse was revealed.
"Ugh!"
Yui and Yumiko supported each other and started vomiting.
"Leave the corpse for me to handle."
Rukia, being a Shinigami, expertly packaged and took away Hideo's corpse.
"There are still some who slipped through." Tenya looked at Yumiko and Eriri respectively.
Neither of these two had their memories replaced.
"I don't want to!"
"Yui knows, why shouldn't I know?"
Yumiko stared at him with an unwilling look, saying pitifully, "Tenya, aren't we friends?"
Despite her strong exterior, she was actually someone who valued relationships greatly.
Yui also chimed in from the side, "Tenya-kun, just leave Yumiko."
"Friends should be open with each other!"
Bringing her best friend into her camp to increase her influence?
Megumi saw through Yui's little scheme.