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  • Complete Monster: While all the members of the titular club prove that Teens Are Monsters, their leaders are the most monstrous:
    • Zera, real name Tsunekawa, is the leader of the Hikari club, having turned it from a boys' club into his own Cult of Personality, explicitly basing it on the Nazis. Introduced ordering the execution of a classmate and allowing Jaibo to torture a teacher, Zera only becomes worse later. Throughout the series, Zera creates the robot Litchi and orders him to capture female teenagers in order to "admire their beauty" by keeping them captive; allows the girls to starve until other members free them except for his favorite girl; threatens to rape the little sister of a rebellious member; and, as his paranoia becomes worse, has his followers brutally executed. Deciding to sacrifice his favorite captive in order to—in his mind—save himself from a prophecy that said that he would either die at fourteen or rule the world at thirty, Zera laughs at his lover's death before he is killed by a formerly loyal follower, dying surprised at realizing that his entrails were like everyone else. A cruel, selfish teenager that based his own actions on the insane Roman emperor Elagabalus/Heliogabalus, Zera was an egomaniac obsessed with youth and his own pleasure.
    • Jaibo, real name Ameya, is Zera's right hand and secret lover. Formerly a child with a hobby of killing animals, Jaibo encouraged Zera into becoming even worse, even creating his current name. When a member of the Hikari club offered to give his own eye, Jaibo purposely made the operation as painful as possible. Introduced brutally killing his own teacher after having humiliated her, Jaibo later becomes jealous of Zera's favorite captive, while he starts to notice that he's losing his attention. Decided to betray Zera to prevent him from leaving him, Jaibo burns the lichi field fueling their robot and blames another member for it alongside a completely loyal member that captured him, knowing perfectly that Zera would execute them. In the finale, Jaibo tries to kill Zera himself, hypocritically confessing his love towards him before being killed. A sadist obsessed with Zera, Jaibo was complicit in his crimes, following him with an obsession born of finding someone as wicked as himself.

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