A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

As an extremely fanatical monster otaku who even keeps monsters as electronic pets, Akane Shinjo's focus instantly veers off course after confirming the truth.

She didn't care how much panic the video caused online, nor did she care about Qianyu's two-faced approach of playing both savior and mastermind.

She has only one thought in her mind right now.

"Hey, Aya-chan."

Akane Shinjo grabbed Aya Asagiri's wrist, her eyes flashing with an alarming light, her tone filled with undisguised fervor and pleading.

"There's no one here right now, could you conjure up a monster for me to see right now? Zetton is fine too, I'm not picky. I want to feel the texture of the monster's shell, to see if it's really like what the monster encyclopedia says! Please, just once!"

Asagiri Aya shook off Shinjo Akane's hand.

At this moment, she had no mind to pay attention to Shinjo Akane's outrageously strange XP request.

The video has gone viral online, with astronomical numbers of comments and shares.

At this rate of spread, it won't be long before all of Japan, no, the whole world, knows about their existence.

Will the government arrest them?

Will the army come to annihilate them?

Will those angry citizens come after them?

Countless terrifying thoughts raced wildly through Asagi Aya's mind, making her hands and feet turn ice-cold.

"Chiba-san...where is Chiba-san now...?"

She muttered to herself, her voice filled with anxiety and worry.

The exposure of her identity was bad enough for her, but it was probably even more dangerous for Qianyu.

Because the way the scene is cut makes it seem like he's the mastermind behind everything!

At the same time, Kazama Chiba was also watching the video that had gone viral online, and in her mind, she cursed the poster's ancestors for eighteen generations.

"Who the hell edited this?"

From Kazama Chiba's perspective, the true context of these three pieces of material is as follows:

Transforming into Ultraman Tiga was to save the students on the bus; transforming Asagiri Aya into Zetton was to give her a chance to fight back against the scumbags; and transforming into Gatanothor was even more so to scare away Zoga and save the entire city of Kamisui.

Each of these three things, taken individually, could easily be described as a savior story.

But now?

Qianyu swiped the screen with her thumb to rewind the video and watch it again.

In the first scene, he transforms into Ultraman Tiga.

In the second part, the monster wreaks havoc.

In the third scene, he hands a card to Aya Asagiri in an alley, and then Zetton appears.

In the fourth section, the same card-passing action is performed, and Gatanothor descends.

After being maliciously pieced together so seamlessly, the taste has completely changed.

What did he become?

A seemingly heroic figure who secretly manipulates monsters to destroy the world – the ultimate mastermind.

Qianyu scrolled down to read the comments section.

@shocked_citizen

It turns out everything was under Ultraman Tiga's orders!!!

@brain_404

Am I going crazy? I actually saw Tiga commanding Gatanothor?! Aren't those two mortal enemies?!

@conspiracy_master

So Tsuburaya Productions isn't making a tokusatsu drama, but a documentary, right? The Giant of Light appears to be fighting monsters, but secretly they're raising their own monsters to fight—isn't that just self-directed and self-acted?

@angry_taxpayer

Could Tiga be the mastermind behind the monster incident? He releases monsters to cause chaos, then transforms into a hero to reap fame? That's disgusting!

@melon_eater

Ultraman Tiga: You foolish humans, you actually saw through my plan!

Hahahaha, this is hilarious! What kind of magical plot twist is this?!

@victim_family

My house was trampled down by a monster! Now I know who to hold accountable! @Government

"..."

Qianyu forced herself to calm down.

He understands that netizens are having a blast with the memes.

After all, the idea that "Tiga is the mastermind" is indeed very impactful and suitable for spreading as a joke.

But the problem is that the hidden tricks behind these jokes are very troublesome.

Chiyu leaned against the wall of the alley.

The publisher doesn't care about the truth at all; all he wants is to incite hatred and fear in people towards Qianyu.

This move, unfortunately, struck right at his weakest point.

He can only transform into Ultraman Tiga by relying on the light that humans crave in their hearts.

Only when people believe in light, yearn for light, and call upon light can they use that power to complete their transformation.

To put it simply, it's a giant "faith power bank"—the stronger a person's positive emotions, the higher their combat power after transformation.

Conversely, if humans lose trust in him and begin to fear and loathe him, his blue bar will be reset to zero.

And now?

This video precisely links the identities of "Tiga" and "monster controller," subconsciously leading everyone who watches it to the same conclusion:

This so-called giant of light is actually the mastermind behind the monster.

He saved people? No way.

He's fighting monsters? He directed and acted in it all himself.

He's a hero? Ha! He's the biggest villain.

Once this understanding is formed, humanity's yearning for light will collapse directly.

No one will pray for a self-proclaimed fraudster.

No one would call upon the light to a dark hand that controls monsters.

In other words, Qianyu's transformation blue bar was uprooted from the root.

In this climate of public opinion, who would still pray to him for light?

"What a clever tactic..."

This move, which cut off his supply lines, caught him completely off guard.

The person who released this video clearly has a considerable understanding of him.

Not only did they know he could transform into Ultraman Tiga, but they also knew he was secretly training Aya Asagiri as a monster transformant, and they even filmed their actions in alleys and on mountaintops in great detail.

This all-encompassing, unobstructed God's-eye view...

A name flashed through Qianyu's mind.

Camilla.

He couldn't think of anyone else with this level of surveillance capabilities.

"So this is your trick?"

"Using human opinion to sever my connection with the light, what a clever scheme. It seems I underestimated you, Camilla."

What Chiyu didn't know was that he had overestimated Camilla's intelligence.

This dark queen from 30 million years ago had no idea that Tiga's transformation required "humans to provide light"—a purely idealistic concept.

Her real purpose in releasing this video was simply to incite humans to cyberbully Qianyu, to have him cursed by the whole world, to make him completely disillusioned and disheartened with humanity, and then to obediently return to the embrace of the dark camp.

A blind, blundery tactic, by sheer luck, resulted in exceeding the strategic objectives.

Unaware of the situation, Qianyu had already conjured up an image of a dark queen in her mind—one who was cunning and had an intelligence that seemed to defy all odds.

He knew that if a monster were to suddenly appear and cause trouble, the regular Ultraman Tiga would no longer be able to log in.

"This is troublesome..."

If forced into a desperate situation... Chiba will have no choice but to grit his teeth and switch to Dark Tiga form.

And that was exactly the result Camilla wanted to see.

Fortunately, his beam of light from 10,000 meters in the air had completely wiped out the Zoga Legion.

It's unlikely that any new monsters will emerge to cause trouble in the short term.

Mass forgery begins in Chapter 163.

Faced with Camilla's malicious editing, Qianyu quickly came up with a plan, a idea of ​​fighting fire with fire.

Since Camilla wants to use fake editing, he might as well muddy the waters completely, making it impossible for anyone to distinguish between what's real and what's fake, and then they'll see who has the best ability to create drama.

It's important to understand that AI technology was quite scarce at that time. Being able to awkwardly reply to a few sentences in a chat application was considered cutting-edge technology, completely lacking the diverse AI video generation technology that has emerged on Bilibili in later generations.

As for AI video generation technology that can generate high-definition, continuous videos out of thin air, with even pores and lighting so realistic that it's indistinguishable from reality, it's completely a science fiction concept for today's netizens.

Therefore, Qianyu, who holds the "phantom card," has an absolute advantage in the field of video forgery.

In the next half hour

Qianyu began mass-producing fake videos, with the powerful technical support of Huanpai and the assistance of the Ghost Shadow Legion in filming.

Before long, all sorts of outrageous videos sprang up on the internet like mushrooms after rain, directly overshadowing the video Camilla had released.