After the highly emotional sixth episode, the seventh episode ofMob Psycho 100 IIItakes it down a few notches, jumping an indiscriminate amount of time forward in the future to sometime over a month since the incident with Dimple.
With graduation season rapidly approaching, Tome and other senior students of Salt Middle become contemplative about the future, and Tome in particular comes to a painful realization about the time she has spent in the Telepathy Club at school. Three months away from graduating from middle school, and Tome realizes that she’s been wasting her time, coming to the decision that she ought to disband the club.
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Wasted Youth
The seniors at Salt Middle have their high school entrance exams looming. The atmosphere is particularly subdued asthe focus on the futurethat has steadily been building since the first episode of MobPsycho 100 IIIreaches a climax. Graduation is three months away, and to Tome’s frustration, her fellow Telepathy Club members admit that they were never truly into it the way she was, and some were barely even sure what it is they were doing there. Tome tells them that with her and Kijibayashi’s graduation, the club will dissolve on its own without them having made any progress whatsoever towards making contact with aliens, or finding any telepathists to speak of. Tome comes to the painful realization that her club members, the only people who would follow her on such a foolish quest in the first place, weren’t actually into it at all. She decides to disband, and leaves the clubroom, with her eyes bloodshot from crying.
You Okay, Bro?
Since it’s Winter Break, Mob has nothing to do, so he just spends his time relaxing and spacing out. Ritsu comes into his room to tell him that he has guests, before asking Mob if he was still thinking about Dimple’s long absence. WithDimple being gone for over a month, Ritsu was worried that his brother was still thinking about it, but Mob tells him that he was just spacing out, smiling reassuringly. Outside, the Telepathy Club members await, hoping to speak to Mob about potentially getting to use his telepathic powers. Unfortunately, Mob does not have telepathic abilities, but Ritsu takes them to the Shiratori brothers, whom he met during the first season’s Claw arc.
The Telepathy Club members are desperate to locate a telepathist capable of making contact with aliens; desperate because over the week or so since Tome disbanded the club, they have come to realize how little they have achieved; how few memories they actually made in their time there. They also feel bad about how little interest, consideration or enthusiasm they’d shown in their time at the club, and wanted to get Tome to experience their discovery of a telepathist before her graduation in less than three months' time.
Making Noise
The Shiratori brothers explain that their telepathy has very strict limitations; such as being restricted to communication between them; or range. Since it’s cold, the group relocates to what used to be the Telepathy Clubroom, where the Shiratoris' explanation continues. At their current power, they can only hope tosend a telepathic signalover a radius of 500 meters; however, with help from Mob, they could hope to increase that range over three times. While the experiment continues, with Mob as a power generator, the telepathic signal actually attracts someone who only appears to have shown up by pure coincidence.
Takenaka, a fellow Salt Middle student and a former member of the Telepathy Club who left a long time before its disbandment shows up at the clubroom. It was because of Takenaka’s departure that the Telepathy Club came to shut down in the past. He claims to be looking for a place to be while he skips tennis club practice, and even ridicules the group when they tell him what they came there to do. Takenaka seems to be rubbed the wrong way by talk of psychic phenomena and telepathy; however, as Mob and the Shiratori brothers continue putting out their signal, it begins to affect those who are attuned – Takenaka included.
Alone Among Endless Voices
After enduring it for a short while, Takenaka asks them to stop their noise, exposing his identity as a real-life telepathist. He tells them about his childhood, how he discovered his own abilities and came to use them to entertain himself at other people’s expense. He could hear people’s thoughts, and even transmit his own thoughts to a target of his choosing; however,the ability came to be a baneon his existence and he came to seek a way to make all the voices; all the noise, stop. He soon discovered that earplugs do just the trick; however, his experience with his abilities has also made him an expert at reading people.
Takenaka also reveals that he had joined Salt Middle’s Telepathy Club in earnest, but came to be disillusioned due to the lackadaisical attitude of its members and its banal club activities. Mob correctly understands that Takenaka had signed up for the clubin search of a kindred spirit, and tells him that he gets sick of his own abilities too. The experience diminished Takenaka’s hope in finding someone like him, someone who understands his situation; however, Mob implores him to stick around and watch what they get up to.
Mountain Adventure
Mob contacts Reigen and asks him if he could take him and the group to Mt. Mud Boat to go looking for UFOs. Reigen accepts since he has nothing to do over New Year’s, and Serizawa is too busy with his Winter Break homework to accompany Reigen on any plans. The outing shows another goofy side to Reigen as his fear behind the wheel is made evident, but he manages to get them all safely to their destination. Despite calling and texting Tome, the Telepathy Club members are unable to get through to her as the days lurch forward to New Year’s Day.
When the day arrives, Mob and his friends are left waiting for Reigen, who overslept due to his alarm clock’s battery dying. Despite not being able to contact her for over a week, the group is surprised to see that Tome managed to arrive at the agreed upon meeting location. Her phone broke at some point, and she somehow had not noticed. Tome, still very guarded around her former club members, doesn’t believe that they have actually managed to find a telepathist, and her suspicion peaks when it is Takenaka who is presented to her as the entity they spent their entire middle school lives looking for. Despite her huffing and puffing,Tome’s passion is not even a questionas she still managed to go because the idea of actually locating a UFO with help from an actual telepathist is simply too good for her to pass up. The episode takes on a much calmer atmosphere than the series has in the last few episodes, and surprisingly, Dimple was not given as much attention as one would have expected due to the brief time-skip in between episodes 6 and 7.
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