Episode 13

"Ripped Apart ~Someone is Watching~" is the thirteenth episode of the Mob Psycho 100 anime adaptation, and first episode of the second season.

Synopsis
Reigen received a phone call at his office, the Spirits and Such Consultation Office. The client asked him to find out what the black shadow that kept destroying his fields actually was. Meanwhile, back at Salt Middle School, Kamuro announces that he's going to resign from the position of student council president. Elections to decide a new student council president are going to be held and Mezato convinces Mob to run as a candidate, but...

Summary
A farmer calls Arataka Reigen explaining that for the last three years about his harvest crops dying and that he saw something strange. He tells Arataka that he can't afford to pay him much due to needing to pay for his son's school and Arataka proposes he give him 30% of his harvest. Arataka then calls Mob and he feels a presence from the scarecrow and destroys it. Roots emerge from the ground revealing the real body of the spirit, who manages to capture Arataka and make Mob surrender. Mob realizes the spirit isn't possessing the roots, but just controlling them and decides to do the same and overwrites the spirits commands. The spirit takes control of other roots and faces Mob, but it gets easily beaten by Mob. Later, Arataka pays Mob with some seeds as the harvest was ruined and the farmer could only pay with soil, fertilizer and seeds.

Shinji Kamuro decides to step down from being the Student Council President. Knowing that Mob can't currently lead the Psycho Helmet Cult, Ichi Mezato convinces Mob to run for Student Council President as that way the girl he likes, Tsubomi Takane, would be interested in him. Mob agrees and starts preparing, but on the day of voting, he completely freezes on the stage and doesn't even say a word for the five minutes he got, and Shinji was re-elected.

Mob receives a love letter in his locker room and a girl, Emi, confess that she liked him and wanted to date him. They start to walk home daily with Mob saying that his part-time job is at a book store and Emi confesses that she wants to be a novel writer. A week after going out, Mob reads Emi's novel and likes it. She tells Mob that she knew he was going back to school after they walk home and is still happy that he walks with her even though he rejected her. She explains that she took a bet with her friends and lost and had to ask him out because of it, but since Mob spend time with her, her friends didn't learn she was rejected. Not wanting to lie him anymore, Emi returns to her friends, who see her novel and laugh about it with Emi explaining she wrote it while being bored. Her friend then rips the novel to pieces, but Mob shows up and asks her to stop. He starts collecting the pieces of paper, commenting that this isn't trash for him and he made a decision to consider his feelings more. Emi decides to join him and tell her friends to go without her. Mob and Emi collect almost all the pieces, but then a gust of wind blows them all. Emi tells him she will just write it again, but Mob uses his powers and gathers all the pieces together and tells Emi that he is an esper.

Mob tells all of this to Dimple, who wonders why he didn't tell him sooner if something fun like this was happening. He asks Mob if Emi fell for him due to his esper powers, but Mob says there is no way that would happen. Meanwhile, Emi starts to think that Mob is amazing and gets an idea for story about a middle school student with psychic powers.

Manga and Anime Differences

 * In the manga, Mob and Reigen's errand to erase Wriggle Wriggle takes place later, after dealing with some urban legends and meeting Banshomaru Shinra.