Chapter 935: The Radiance of the Death Omen Star, Perhaps the Radiance of a Bald Head Reflecting the Evening Sunset

"By the way, what does Garou actually look like? Do you have a photo? I might be able to help look for him."

"No, Saitama Senior Brother, you mean you had absolutely no idea what that guy Garou looked like before?"

Charanko looked over, somewhat stunned.

"I never learned boxing here before, and I don't know the guy. Is that strange?"

Saitama asked Charanko back in one sentence.

"It's not strange, but Saitama Teacher, photos of Garou, that Hero Hunter, have long been posted on the Hero Association internal website."

Beside him, Genos said while taking out a computer, inputting the Hero Association internal website, and pulling up Garou's photo.

"It's that white-haired hoodlum!"

After seeing the person in the photo on the computer, Saitama showed a very surprised expression.

"Saitama Teacher, have you met him before?"

"I've met him, and met him twice. Once he attacked me, once he attacked King, and I thought he was just a common street thug looking for trouble, so I just knocked him down and didn't bother with him afterward. Turns out he was Garou. But this person's ability isn't that great. Bang Teacher, you actually couldn't take him down?"

Saitama said while asking Bang in a surprised tone.

After hearing this, Bang's mouth corner only twitched twice, then replied: "Not everyone has strength as overwhelmingly powerful as yours and Broly's."

"Compared to you two, I'm at most just an old man who knows a bit of martial arts, and Garou really is just a street thug."

"Fine, I'll help look too. Once I find him, I'll bring him back for Bang Teacher to educate."

"Mm, Genos, help me print out Garou's photo."

"Saitama Teacher, why do you want the photo?"

"To find someone. Having a photo always makes it easier to find them."

"I see."

Genos hammered his hand, acting as if Saitama had proposed a truly excellent way to find someone. He and Charanko were actually the same type of people—when it came to someone they worshipped, they would directly brainlessly sing their praises.

"If ordinary methods of finding people really worked, then the other party wouldn't have made Bang Old Man so hard to find before, right?"

Vivian pointed out.

"Garou's counter-surveillance ability and concealment ability are still quite strong."

Bang also nodded in recognition of this.

"Besides, do you know who that flying monster who took Garou away is?"

"Uh, this—"

Saitama broke into a sweat on his forehead. He really didn't know much about criminal investigation and finding people.

"I know this one."

Bang interjected. The people around looked at this old man who had regained his youth, and heard the name of the Monster Association.

"The information about this organization was heard by the Hero Association from the mouths of various monster groups creating chaos in cities recently."

"Those monsters aren't stragglers, but outer monsters affiliated with the Monster Association, yet under the direction of that Monster Association organization, they carried out premeditated terrorist attacks on major cities."

"Then what's their purpose in doing this? Surely it's not just to cause destruction and carry out terrorist attacks?"

"The purpose is currently unknown, but I heard from Hero Association people that the son of a major donor supporting the association was kidnapped by Monster Association monsters in yesterday's chaos."

"How come I don't know about this?"

"Because the son of a major donor supporting the Hero Association being kidnapped is a scandal that would damage the Hero Association's public credibility. Therefore, this matter is currently being suppressed and hasn't been revealed publicly."

"So they're not planning to rescue that person's son?"

Saitama asked somewhat surprised.

"It's not that they don't plan to rescue him. It's that the association is now in a somewhat passive state—waiting for the kidnappers to actively send word, while secretly contacting some heroes skilled in investigation."

"As for us heroes who act more than we think, we probably won't be actively contacted by the association before the specific situation becomes clear."

"Mm, this news is what I and that Disrespectful kid gathered. You all must not directly leak it outside, otherwise, that kid will definitely not have a good outcome."

At the end, Bang still didn't forget to remind them.

"Understood."

After learning some of the information currently available, a group of people soon left the Flowing Water Rock Smashing Fist Dojo.

Coming out of the print shop, Saitama held Garou's photo and walked toward the station.

"Saitama Teacher, where are you going? Aren't you going home?"

"I plan to go to Q-City to try my luck and see if I can meet that Garou guy again."

"Then I'll go with Saitama Teacher too."

When Saitama and his disciple Genos left Z-City, Phoenix Man also returned through the underground sewers to the Monster Association Headquarters located beneath Z City Ghost District.

"Your Excellency Giant Eye, Garou has been brought back by me, but there's painful news: Centipede Elder was killed while covering my retreat."

Inside the Monster Association, hearing Phoenix Man's words, the monsters discussed in a clamor. Centipede Elder was an elder-level monster of the Monster Association.

It could be said that without Centipede Elder, there would be no Monster Association headquarters like today's underground ant-nest city. But now, such a model executive of the Monster Association had died, dying on the road to save a human who called himself a monster.

"Your Excellency Giant Eye, it's not that I want to question your decision. It's just that, to save such a guy who looks like he should still be human, sacrificing Centipede Elder—is it really worth it?"

A monster raised an objection.

"I also feel very pained by Centipede Elder's death, but regarding the decision to save Garou, I do not regret making it."

"This kid on the ground, in human form, could defeat an S-Class Hero like Tanktop Master. His monsterization is quite worth looking forward to."

"It's well known that the stronger one's strength before monsterization, the greater the qualitative leap in strength after monsterization. Yet I see the shadow of Monster King Orochi in this kid."

"Sacrificing Centipede Elder is indeed painful, but if we can harvest a combat member whose strength is not inferior to Monster King Orochi."

"I think this will not only not weaken our Monster Association's strength, but will greatly enhance our Monster Association's strength."

Giant Eye's words calmed some of the monsters' dissatisfaction. After all, they weren't sorry about Centipede Elder's death, but sorry that the Monster Association side had lost a major combat force. This was very unfavorable for them, who were about to go to war with the Hero Association.

"But, Adult Giant Eye, is this kid on the ground really trustworthy? No matter how you look at it, he's still human now. Even if he says he wants to become a monster, if his identity is human, then he really isn't worth your trust, right?"

"No, he isn't an ordinary human right now; rather, he has entered a half-monsterized state. It's a pity this process wasn't carried through to the end."

"However, it's also fortunate it wasn't carried through to the end; otherwise, it would have actually wasted his aptitude. After all, his potential in human state hasn't been thoroughly excavated clean yet."

"Hmm, Phoenix Man, you take him down to look after him first. When Garou wakes up, I'll issue him a nomination certificate mission."

"Only after completing that mission can he, with his half-monster identity, join us————"

Garou slept unconscious for two days and two nights, and during these two days and two nights, the Hero Association finally received contact from the Monster Association.

Giant Eye manipulated a Hero Association staff member, and after mocking the Hero Association's upper echelon with talk of wanting to fight for equal human rights for monsters, he gave the Hero Association the decisive battle information.

"Our Association's headquarters is in Z-City. At that time I will contact the outside world's media, have them come witness whether it is your Hero Association's heroes who successfully save the hostages and defeat us as monsters, or our Monster Association's monsters who eliminate your heroes————"

Giant Eye's no-ransom, blatant attitude of wanting a fight triggered a difference of opinion within the Hero Association.

Metal Knight believed this was a naked trap; the Hero Association should not be led by the nose, but should, after confirming the Monster Association headquarters' precise coordinates, directly carry out a saturation firepower cover, eliminating all enemies.

But Child Emperor believed that with hostages in the other side's hands, they could only follow the other side's ideas for now; while the Hero Association side made preparations for the big showdown, they also had to think of a way to sneak into the Monster Association headquarters in secret to rescue the kidnapped hostages.

As for the father whose son was kidnapped, the Major Donor Waganma who supported the Hero Association from behind, he both berated the Hero Association's incompetence for failing to rescue his son in time, and stated he would also dispatch extra armed forces — a Mercenary Corps wearing Enhanced Suits — to save his son who had already been kidnapped for four days.

Just as the Hero Association was holding meetings big and small, the Zeniru Group was methodically calculating the bomb quantity for blasting Z City Ghost District, all abandoned building structures.

Who knows if it was the calm before the storm; Z-City simply had no monsters causing trouble, and after Centipede Elder, the Hero Association also didn't contact Broly.

This led to Broly and Vivian, who had come to Z-City, being somewhat idle. Aside from still delivering three meals a day to Tatsumaki, Broly spent the rest of the time in his new Z-City residence, training body and cultivating feelings together with Vivian and Mosquito Girl.

As for Fubuki, because she had to train her psychokinesis techniques, she would stay at the Spaceship Amusement Park side during the day, only to be picked up by Broly in the evening, and only at night would she join the family's feelings-cultivation process; yet each day passed very fulfillingly.

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Arriving at Q-City on the third day, the similarly somewhat idle Saitama walked into a family restaurant and ordered a cola hamburger plus french fries set meal.

"Ah, as expected it's impossible to find someone purely by luck!"

Just as he was sighing, he suddenly heard rapid chomping sounds *smack smack* from behind him.

Garou, who had been hungry for a long time, after accepting the nomination certificate mission to seize a hero's head and return to the Monster Association to report, ran out to forage for food.

Garou's position happened to face away from Saitama's position; while Garou was eating like mad, he didn't discover that right behind him there was a bald head, curiously poking out to look at him.

【Red hair; although the hairstyle is somewhat similar and the build is also somewhat similar, it's obviously not the person I'm looking for————】

Saitama only poked his head to look twice, then sat properly and didn't turn back to look again.

Until, his hamburger was only half eaten, when he suddenly heard the family restaurant's waitress call out, "Sir, you haven't paid the bill yet."

Immediately after came the sound of the family restaurant door's bell shaking, and then a figure flashed past at extreme speed from the lively street outside the glass window beside him.

"No way, that person really is Garou, and that guy actually dined and dashed?!"

Although Garou's running speed was very fast, Saitama still captured his profile and recognized the other party as the guy he was looking for.

But just as Saitama stood up preparing to leave the restaurant to chase Garou, the family restaurant's waitress spread both arms and blocked in front of him.

"This sir, you also haven't paid the bill yet."

Obviously, having just had one dine-and-dash run off, the waitress didn't want another to run off.

Saitama: "————"

He could have just barged past, but didn't have the nerve to barge.

Saitama took out his wallet and politely said to the waitress: "I know the person who just left; however much he ate here, I'll pay his bill together with mine."

"Ah, this bald sir, are you serious about that?"

Hearing this, the waitress who thought she would definitely have the money deducted by the boss widened her eyes and asked.

"It's true, but just call me sir; don't add extra adjectives in front."

Saitama corrected her form of address for him.

"Ah, this sir, thank you very much!"

After Saitama really paid the dine-and-dash customer's tab together, the waitress was very grateful to him.

"No need to thank me, I still have things to do————"

When Saitama ran out of the restaurant, Garou had long since run out of sight.

He could only follow the direction the other party fled without paying, jump to a high place, and start searching for the other party's tracks.

And when he relocated Garou, it happened that Garou was resolving a siege for a snot worm who was being "bullied" by friends.

Standing on the grassy slope, seeing this scene, Saitama's originally bad impression of Garou as a dine-and-dash petty hoodlum improved a lot at once.

【Of course, the behavior of eating a tyrant's meal and ditching the bill in a restaurant, this is still not okay.】

Just as Saitama was preparing to go lecture Garou, two monsters — Slash King and Bug God, dispatched by Giant Eye to tail Garou — arrived in front of Garou even faster than him.

The distance was comparatively far; Saitama couldn't hear very clearly, but that guy with dual blades, whole body wrapped in bandages, who at a glance looked a bit perverted, seemed to be about to make a move on the snot boy beside Garou.

This sudden situation made Saitama halt his steps; only his expression had already turned serious, having made preparations to save the boy and take down the monsters at any moment.

And among the monsters to be taken down was included Garou standing beside the boy right now; although from Bang that old man's description the other party should still have a chance of redemption, who knows what it's like now.

As the saying goes, hearing is false, seeing is true.

If the judgment the other party makes is not like what Bang said, that he is a person who can still be saved.

Then Saitama won't hesitate either; he'll treat Garou as a monster and take him down together.