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Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama is introduced as an eighth-grader with suppressed emotions and catastrophic psychic potential. An internal counter tracks his emotional state — at 100%, he loses control. The premiere establishes the core tension: a boy so powerful he dares not feel.
Mob encounters the evil spirit Dimple, who plans to build a cult using emotional manipulation. Their confrontation shows Mob's power in full for the first time. Dimple is defeated but survives as a companion — his arc of genuine redemption begins here.
Hanazawa Teruki, a psychic who built his identity on his powers, confronts Mob at middle school. Teru fights to dominate. Mob refuses to fight back and reaches 100% — devastating Teru without trying. The episode is a statement on power used as identity vs. power used reluctantly.
Mob faces the leader of Claw at 100% emotional output. The city is reshaped around them. Mob wins by sharing his power with ordinary citizens — the series' thesis that ordinary people matter is literalised.
Mob finally confesses his feelings to his long-time crush Tsubomi — and is rejected. The moment Mob has been building toward across three seasons arrives and fails. His emotional collapse triggers a ???% state that devastates the city. The series' final arc begins.
After Mob's body is destroyed, his psychic power separates from him entirely — ???% manifests as an autonomous emotion-free force of destruction. The streets of Spice City are ripped apart. Mob has to choose to live in order to stop himself.
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