"You... what did you just say?" The ticket-snatching boy's expression darkened.
He was furious. Bullies are creatures of habit — they carry themselves with arrogant authority in front of their victims, and so when those victims dare to fight back, they feel their dominance has been challenged. Right now, his rage had completely drowned out the subconscious flicker of fear lurking beneath it.
"Are you looking down on me??" He closed the distance in two steps and shoved Junpei hard, sending the boy stumbling back several paces. The bully felt something loosen inside his chest.
See? Still the same scrawny little nobody. What were you trying to pull?
"Looks like you're asking for a beating." He rolled up his sleeve, ready to do what he always did — handle things with his fists.
And faced with a scene exactly like every scene before it, Junpei's eyes flickered ever so slightly.
In a situation like this... this is probably when he should use the power Angel Lady gave him, right?
Angel Lady had told him: no matter how much of a scene he caused today — even if the monster's form was laid bare before his entire class — she would erase his classmates' memories of seeing it.
So all he needed to do right now was go all out and teach these guys a lesson. Right?
I absolutely won't let you down!
Cursed Energy began to surge. He started drawing on the power Mahiko had given him — the power called Transfiguration.
Junpei was born with his own Jujutsu Technique, one named "Poison." He could summon a large blue jellyfish Shikigami whose tentacles released venom, allowing him to attack others with toxic strikes.
But this ability was, truthfully, a bit underwhelming. In the original story, his poison wasn't particularly strong — it even struggled to kill an ordinary person.
One of the reasons Mahiko had chosen to help Junpei was precisely to ensure the boy would have the ability to protect himself and his family through the various crises of the coming Shibuya Incident. His abilities were on the weaker side, and Mahiko had known from the start that she'd have to do something about that. After carefully studying the properties of Junpei's poison, she discovered that his venom glands were something she could modify with relative ease.
So Mahiko had prepared for Junpei a whole arsenal of distinctly different toxins, each with entirely different effects.
And what Junpei was currently activating was one of those toxins.
Its name: [Bodybuilding Community Devastation Extract].
Fssst——
In a corner of the classroom that no one else could see, a glistening blue tentacle reached out from thin air, and a long, slender needle plunged into the back of Junpei's neck.
The toxin injected instantly. A wave of heat surged through Junpei's entire body in a single rush.
"Ugh... UGH!! ——"
Power. Pain. Tearing.
Under the influence of the toxin, Junpei's previously slight and unimpressive frame began to swell at a terrifying rate, as though he'd been pumped full of some kind of expansion agent.
Bones proliferating. Muscles ballooning. Clothes splitting apart. The boy howling in agony.
"UGHAAAAAAAAH!! ——"
It was terrifying. It looked exactly like something out of a biohazard mutation scene.
As his stunned classmates watched in open-mouthed disbelief, Junpei's body kept growing taller, wider, larger. The anguish of tearing muscle nearly drove him to tears — and had his surrounding classmates trembling on shaking legs.
"So this world really is going to have a biohazard outbreak, huh?" one boy in class said, his voice quivering.
"It's definitely all Umbrella Corporation's fault." Another boy buried his face in his hands with an expression of utter despair.
Junpei, for his part, had absolutely no attention to spare for anyone else's reactions right now. He genuinely felt like he might die from the pain.
And then, through the agony, a thought slammed into him — he had forgotten something.
To fully complete the Transfiguration, he still needed the other supplementary agents!
Which one was the second agent?
The second one was——
Fumbling through the pain, Junpei searched among the roughly ten venom glands Mahiko had prepared for him, located the second toxin, and injected it into his body without a moment's hesitation.
The second injection: [Pleasure-Pain Conversion Serum], also known as the Masochist's Happy Shot.
Its function was exactly what the name implied.
Mahiko had designed this particular toxin specifically to help Junpei push through the transformation phase.
Fssst — the toxin entered his body.
Every shredding, tearing pain across every inch of Junpei's body instantly converted into a wave of intense, tingling, electric bliss. What had been a wretched, agonized "UGHAAAAAH" abruptly transformed into a very different kind of sound — a strange, flushed, ceiling-directed "mmmnnngaaahh."
One second he'd been writhing on the floor in screaming agony. The next, he had his head thrown back, neck arched, face crimson, making deeply bizarre sounds of ecstasy up at the ceiling.
Weird. So incredibly weird. No matter how you looked at this scene, it was absolutely, eye-searingly wrong.
"This is the Jujutsu Technique you designed for him?" Outside the building, Mechamaru's voice came through Mahiko's earpiece, thoroughly unimpressed. "Seriously? Is this some kind of hobby of yours?"
"Ugh." Mahiko's brow gave a small twitch. "To be honest, when I ran the multi-dose trials yesterday, this particular reaction didn't come up."
Mahiko had read the original story. She knew that Junpei's Shikigami was actually quite solid in terms of strength and durability — his critical weakness was the frailty of the sorcerer controlling it. So she had prioritized fixing that physical vulnerability first.
But during yesterday's tests, these sounds had definitely not happened. Could it be that Junpei had been deliberately suppressing himself in front of her?
Whatever. Doesn't matter. She had already told him beforehand to just go ahead and make a scene — truthfully, she'd nudged him in that direction at least partly because she wanted to enjoy the spectacle.
But the chaos that resulted was still hers to contain.
Mahiko brought two fingers together on each hand and formed a seal. A small, invisible-from-the-outside Curtain descended over the entire classroom. Whatever happened inside would be imperceptible to anyone outside. And afterward, using Cursed Speech to erase these kids' memories would also be considerably more convenient.
"Uuhh..." The boy's voice had gone deep and rough — a rough voice riding out the last trembling reverb of satisfaction.
Hot breath puffed from his lips. A bare-chested giant, two meters and thirty centimeters tall, with shoulders wider than a door, sat on the floor with his head tilted back, wearing an expression of absolute, boneless exhaustion.
Another tentacle extended, stabbing into Junpei's neck. The third toxin injected. Junpei's massive frame gave a violent shudder — and his eyes lit up instantly.
Like a man revitalized.
The people around him, seeing the shudder, all shuddered in perfect unison — synchronized in a way that was almost comically precise.
The third injection: [Jiahao Spirit Revitalizer].
After completing his Transfiguration, Yoshino Junpei would fall into a temporary state of mental fatigue due to the drain on his spiritual energy. This was the moment for the final agent of the transformation sequence — used to bring his mental state back up to a level of high-alert readiness.
The giant stood up.
Whoosh——
And in the next instant, everyone felt their vision blur. It was as though a powerful, forceful gust of wind had swept through the classroom.
Like teleportation — the hulking giant who had been standing two steps away blinked out of existence and reappeared directly in front of the boy who had been bullying others and stealing tickets. One massive hand seized the boy by the collar and hoisted him into the air like a man picking up a baby chick.
Virtually no one caught how he moved.
The giant stood bare-chested, his sharply defined muscles built like a Transformer. Most of what remained of his clothes and pants had burst apart — only a few straps of fabric remained, digging into the muscle, trembling and straining under the pressure as though they might snap at any second.
"Oh, listen here, baby, I am so in love with you." Junpei held the struggling boy up by his collar with one hand, while somehow producing a comb from nowhere with the other and running it through his own hair. His voice came out in a strange, bubbly lilt. He looked down at the frantically squirming boy in his grip, a dangerously flirtatious smile spreading across his face. "But sweetheart... when you bully your classmates like that... well, it makes your daddy very, very unhappy, now doesn't it."
"Oh my god." Outside, Mahiko buried her face in her hands. "How on earth did this kid inject himself with that much stimulant in one go."
The déjà vu was genuinely, explosively bizarre.
This was too much. She really was starting to reach her limit.
[Reading the comments — so everyone really wants to see Kamen Rider Junpei, huh? (Puzzled)]
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