It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

Hammer Head wanted to use all his third retreating force, just to quickly escape from the clutches of these two obviously perverted guys.

But just as the two were about to grab the hammer head, a guy in black tights suddenly appeared in front of them and blocked their way.

"Where's the mace?" asked the guy in the black tights.

The boss pointed behind the man who was blocking the road and told him, "If you turn around now, you might be able to see his big black butt."

The guy in tights turned around and saw half of a naked butt. Unfortunately, the owner of the butt quickly disappeared into the depths of the jungle. The guy in tights said to himself, "I didn't expect you to have accomplices, but it doesn't matter. It won't be too late to kill you after we get rid of these two guys."

After saying that, the man in tights threw a kunai, but Saitama caught it easily. Then, Saitama showed the kunai to his boss and said in surprise: "Look, it's a ninja weapon! Does this mean that there are ninjas in our world too?"

The next moment, the guy in tights raised his knife and attacked the not very agile boss Cheng. But when his knife was about to pierce the boss's eyes, his long knife was missing half of its original length. When the guy realized that the knife was gone, the missing half of the long knife fell straight from the sky.

"Oh, you've practiced the instant body technique pretty well." The boss smiled and said, "You're about to break the speed of sound. You must have practiced a lot, right? This is the first time I've seen a ninja from this world. Do you also use chakra to fight? Or are you more like the ninjas in sword fighting movies, who only use cold weapons and physical skills to fight?"

Saitama next to the boss asked the ninja who suddenly appeared: "Did you find the wrong person? We are not Hammerhead's accomplices, but..."

"Don't lie! I can see clearly that you are all bald! Just based on this fact, you still want to deny it?"

The boss pointed to his head and said in defense: "See? I'm not bald, I have stubble!"

But the other party directly replied to the boss: "Because your hair grows fast!"

Saitama continued to defend himself, saying, "I'm an amateur hero! I've been an amateur hero for a long time! I've been in the newspapers!"

But the other party just said one sentence, "Who knows who you are?" and Saitama was completely defeated.

"So... is that so..."

The man in the tights ignored Saitama who seemed to have lost his soul, and continued to say to the two people: "I don't care whether you are members of the Taoyuan Group or not. You two have seen through my tricks twice in a row, this is the problem! I was born in the village of ninjas, and I have been studying physical skills and swordsmanship since I was a child.

But you two saw through all these moves, which is unforgivable! My self-esteem has been greatly hurt. No matter who you are, I will never allow you two to escape from my hands."

"You only used two moves!" Boss Cheng corrected him, "Two moves cannot be prefixed with 'all'."

Saitama, who had regained some of his spirit, asked the man in tights, "Are you planning to test your skills on the two of us? As soon as I saw your innocent smile, I knew what you were planning. If we're sparring, we both know the rules of knowing when to stop."

"I say, Baldy Qi, how can you tell innocence from his smile? And how can he be smiling? The corners of his mouth are almost stretched to his ears, how can that be considered a smile?"

"What is this if not a smile?" Saitama asked.

"Just smile foolishly! Your back teeth are showing!"

450 Ah~ What a painful realization~

"We have to be more careful next time. He might become more courageous and challenge us more often."

Saitama looked at the boss in confusion, shook his head and said, "I don't understand."

"Because we have an old saying in China: A man with one testicle is a man of courage."

"What kind of weird pun is this?"

Let’s go back to 2 minutes ago.

It is said that victory or defeat between masters is often decided in a flash, but the ninjas in tights do not seem to have the master's concentration and particularly prefer to fight mobile battles.

It's not the kind of tactical infiltration on an open battlefield as you think, but the kind of mobile warfare that involves constant movement before the actual fight.

"How about it! I can reach a speed faster than the speed of sound, and there is also a shock wave of this magnitude! Can you keep up with my fart~ ...

Saitama turned to his boss and asked, "What's the point of him jumping around like that?"

"He probably thought that if he kept jumping around like this, the two of us wouldn't be able to keep up with him."

"But he's so slow!"

Boss Cheng suddenly had an idea and said to Saitama, "How about I use some tricks to force him to speed up?"

"Oh that's fine."

"No problem! Watch this! The ninth move of the Nine Yin Manual - Ten Thousand Buddhas Bombardment!"

In just a moment, hundreds of fist-sized portals suddenly appeared in front of the boss. These portals always appeared at the right time near the foothold of the tights ninja. And every time the tights ninja landed, a big hand with orchid fingers would flash out of the portal.

These orchid fingers are not sissy, nor are they Buddhist hand seals. Instead, they are "sign language" to convey the meaning of "I want to flick your head".

The ninja in tights accelerated every time he landed, just to avoid these head bangs. And every time the boss made a gesture, there would be a loud sonic boom. The ninja in tights also realized that the other party had been playing with him.

"Damn it, how dare you tease me!"

But even if he teased him, what could he do to this strong bald man? Moreover, the tights ninja himself found that his speed was improved again under the pressure of the opponent's bullets.

So, the tights ninja, who couldn't get any advantage from the boss, focused his target on another "ordinary-looking" bald man. But the result...

Just when the tights ninja thought he was about to succeed, this "ordinary-looking" bald man suddenly turned in his direction and asked him, "When are you going to do it?"

"Now! Watch out! Wind Blade Kick!"

The ninja in tights did a 3600 degree front flip and kicked Saitama's bald head when he was close to him. However, Saitama just turned sideways and completely avoided the attack of the ninja in tights. Then Saitama raised his right fist again, just as a threat to the ninja in tights, so that he would retreat.

But who would have thought that the tights ninja had already used all his strength in this move, even to the point where he couldn't retract it even if he wanted to. As a result, the right side of the tights ninja's solid egg slammed into Saitama's fist, and even the weight of the whole person fell on the contact surface between the solid egg and the fist.

If Saitama hadn't realized that if he didn't withdraw his fist, the opponent would probably lose everything, so he withdrew his fist early to avoid a tragedy. Maybe...

I don’t know what the surgical techniques in this world are like.

"Sorry, sorry! I really didn't mean it!" Saitama turned around and accused his boss after apologizing, "Can you stop laughing at this time? You should have some painkillers in your warehouse, right?"

The boss shook his head and said to Saitama, "It only takes me ten seconds to recover from my injuries. I don't need anything like that. But I do have some healing potions."

After a short wait of 1 minute and 30 seconds...

"Damn it, who wants that kind of thing!" The ninja, who was trembling all over and with his legs clenched tightly together, told the two people: "I am the strongest ninja who combines assassination and protection and dares to take on any job - Sonic's Sonic!"

"Um..." The boss raised his hand and asked, "What does the speed of sound in the speed of sound mean? Does it mean the speed of sound squared? Oh, with this calculation, I think you should just call it the second cosmic speed!"

(Explanation: The second cosmic velocity is 11.2 km/s, and the square of the speed of sound just exceeds the second cosmic velocity.)

"Hate, hate, don't interrupt! My name is Sonic of Sonic! Not Sonic of Sonic! It seems that I have to put my work for today aside. Since I have met such a good opponent like you, I can only work hard to train myself before deciding the winner. Can..."

"I have a bottle of healing potion here." The boss handed over the bottle and said, "Why don't you drink it first? If you hold on for too long, I'm afraid you'll... die."

"I, I will not accept charity from my enemies!"

"But your injury looks really serious!"

"Hate it! I said no...use it! I, Sonic, always keep my word!"

"Looking at you like this, we both start to feel the same pain."

Sonic ignored the two bald guys' empathy and continued to ask them, "Can you tell me your names, please?"

"My name is Cheng."

"My name is Saitama."

"Makoto! Saitama!" Sonic took a deep breath and then yelled, "The next time I see you, it will be your death! I will definitely use the ultimate ninjutsu to kill you! I, Sonic the Speedster, always keep my word!"

"Okay!" Saitama clenched his fists and encouraged Sonic: "You must do your best!"

The boss pointed at his nose and said, "I also know ninjutsu, and I'm very strong! If you want to learn, come to me anytime. I have a lot of Kage-level people, and they are all very good at ninjutsu."

Sonic trembled and disappeared, leaving behind only the two bald guys who could still empathize.

"That punch you just threw..."

"I really didn't mean it!" Saitama defended.

"Whether it was intentional or not, it doesn't matter. But..."

"But what?" Saitama asked.

"But we have to be more careful next time. He might become more courageous and challenge us more often?"

Saitama looked at the boss in confusion, shook his head and said, "I don't understand."

"Because we have an old saying in China: A man with one testicle is a man of courage."

"What kind of weird pun is this?"

"Hey, don't worry about the pun. I just hope this kid can keep his roots - wipe away the blood and tears in his heart, and keep our roots!"

"Ah! Your singing is so bad, could you please stop singing in the future?"

The boss turned around and stared at Saitama sincerely and earnestly.

"Bald, do you know why I consider you one of my best friends?"

Saitama shook his head.

"Because you dared to listen to my singing, and you were able to listen to it without any injury. I... I am really touched."

"Oh." Saitama thought for a moment and said, "I would really appreciate it if you could help me open the door and go to the supermarket to grab discounted items."

You see, friendship between men is often so pure.

But pure as it is, friendship is useless when faced with bad things. For example, Saitama has been a hero for 3 years and killed countless monsters, but now he is still an unknown person.

Not only was Saitama deeply shocked by this, but he even lost his appetite.

"Wow, I never thought that someone like you who fights monsters for free would care about fame!" The boss turned around and said to Genos, "I've known him for a year, and I've never heard him say that he wants to be famous."

"In three years, I haven't seen any hero as active as me, so it's only natural that some people know me! It's also natural that there are enthusiastic female fans! Do you know what someone said about me today? He told me... Who knows who I am... I have helped F City deal with so many weirdos, but no one in F City knows me at all!"

Genos was also wondering, because the news reports said that the one who repelled the Taoyuan Group was neither Saitama and the boss, nor Sonic the Sonic Squared, but the Hero Association's C-class 1st hero - the Unlicensed Knight.

"Could it be that the two teachers..." Genos, who had discovered the key point of the problem, looked up and asked the two: "Could it be that the two teachers are not registered in the Hero Association's roster?"

The boss waved his hand and said, "I and the other people who own shops on this street belong to another organization. Even the izakaya that will open in a few days that sells takoyaki and okonomiyaki is a member of our organization. We are too lazy to join some hero association and act like we are playing house with rich people every day."

But Saitama asked Genos: "What is the Hero Association?"

The boss and Genos stared with wide eyes and exclaimed in disbelief: "No way!"

"Are you from this world?"

"Doesn't Mr. Saitama go online?"

At this time, Saitama realized that the "heroes" who often appeared on TV were not out of interest or determination to uphold justice, but a job similar to that of a star. Only those who passed the assessment of the Hero Association had the opportunity to be registered in the "Hero Roster". And those who were registered in the "Roster" were professional heroes recognized by the Hero Association. The Hero Association would pay wages and bonuses based on the performance of the heroes.

"Only those who are recognized by the association and registered in the "Roster" are qualified to call themselves heroes. No matter how those who are not in the "Roster" carry out their personal actions, they are just some big-talking...perverts?" Saitama pointed at the computer screen and asked the well-informed boss: "What do they mean by doing this?"

"Using the first-mover advantage to set industry standards, and then using industry standards to build industry barriers that are conducive to their own development, the end result is monopoly and one-man rule." Boss Cheng shrugged, "But in our place, although such companies can prosper for a while, the final result is that they are overturned and divided up. There is basically no rise and fall, and they all come to an abrupt end like "I watched him build a tall building, I watched him entertain guests, and I watched his building collapse."

"Teacher Cheng, what do you mean?"

The boss shrugged again and said, "A one-off business is never a business."

"Genos, have you joined the Hero Association?"

"No, Mr. Saitama. Students are not required to join them."

Saitama looked at the boss again and asked him, "Don't you want me to join?"

"It's not a question of willingness or unwillingness." The boss said bluntly: "Although I think this association is basically impossible to prosper forever, and it is even very likely to collapse from within. But when the tree falls or is replaced, do monkeys of your strength still worry about not being able to escape? In addition, every time a group of monkeys disbands, they will elect a new monkey king for each small group."

"Snapped!"

"I understand!" Saitama clapped his hands and decided, "Let's fight for a spot! Genos, come with me to fight for a spot. Then, I will accept you as my student."

"Okay, Mr. Saitama!"

Two days later, outside the sixth special venue of the Hero Assessment Examination...

In the examination site with more than 2000 strange creatures, which could be called a grand prize of "strange humans", Saitama and Genos dragged their boss, who looked like he had lost all hope in life, through the approval of the registration inspection office.

The preparations for the test area were quite good, with free drinking water, free but unpalatable energy bars, and even the toilets were open to test takers for free.

At this time, the broadcasting system of the stadium, which was temporarily serving as the examination venue, also sounded:

"Attention, volunteers! Attention, volunteers! Please line up in two rows according to the serial numbers on the exam notice, with odd and even numbers. Pay attention to the number segments under your feet, and do not stand in the wrong number partition. If you stand in the wrong number partition, you will be disqualified from the exam. Repeat! Please press..."

In an instant, the 2000 or so people who were originally in good order suddenly became a mess. Almost everyone lowered their heads and began to look for the area they were supposed to go to according to the number sections marked on the ground.

"Teachers, my number is 11, so I need to go to the front."

"My number is... 1895. But the three of us submitted the application together, so why are the numbers so different? Cheng, what's your number?"

"Let's not worry about the number for now! Before the exam starts, let's have a good chat. Why did you two take the initiative to fill out the registration materials for me? And you even forced me to come and take the exam with you! I haven't taken any exams in the past few decades since I died on the battlefield at the age of 13! I haven't written properly for many years! Except for the words I often use to sign autographs for fans, I can't write anything else!"

"Wow! Were you a big star?" Saitama asked in surprise.

"It turns out that Mr. Cheng was once a big star!"

"Nonsense! I was one of the top 10 contestants back then! No way! It's useless to praise me. Don't think you can just say 'you're awesome' and brush it off."