"Interest-Driven Hero…"
Saitama looked at the title and, after some effort, remembered that this was his only hobby for a long time in the past.
He put down the sundries in his hand and looked at the report in the newspaper. The reporter who wrote this article used extremely flowery language, almost wanting to portray this Hero as a legend from a mythical story.
"Teacher, monsters have started appearing again recently. Many cities have experienced large-scale destructive incidents in the past two days, and half a year ago, that great catastrophe…"
Genos's eyes constantly refreshed with data. He retrieved many incidents from the database, wanting to persuade his teacher.
He was very unwilling to see his omnipotent teacher become the walking dead he was now.
Genos could feel that Saitama was becoming increasingly detached and indifferent. Even when the large supermarket in the neighboring city held its anniversary sale last week, Saitama didn't show much excitement, merely habitually queuing up to buy things.
The "humanity" on his teacher was diminishing. He had inquired with the supermarket owner and found that his teacher's attendance record was also becoming more irregular. Perhaps one day, Saitama would completely abandon these boring routines.
Genos inexplicably felt anxious about that future. He was very worried about what Saitama would become when he truly had no desires.
Can a superhuman existence still be called a "human" after losing all human desires?
The Doctor told Genos that "humanity" does not lie in the physical body. Even a fully modified cyborg like him, as long as he possesses human emotions and morals, is still human.
Conversely, even with a human appearance and a human body, if one completely loses human emotions and morals, they are naturally no longer human.
His teacher…no longer human.
That kind of future was unimaginable to Genos.
Saitama's eyes lacked much sparkle. His life had long been occupied by boredom. As monsters gradually disappeared, and as this world was gradually taken over by a group of people who needed to pay to register to be called "Heroes," he slowly lost his only hobby.
Bored, he occasionally reminisced about the old days, but as time passed, those memories also began to fade.
At this moment, he looked at the smiling face in the newspaper and the other person's thick hair, feeling a sudden, inexplicable interest.
—
"That Interest-Driven Hero, is that you?"
The woman's arms were crossed, accentuating her impressive figure. Her dark green hair was slightly longer than Bai Cangshu had imagined, falling to her shoulders.
The woman wore golden hoop earrings and a pearl necklace around her neck. A black plush coat was draped over her dark green form-fitting long robe.
Her stunning appearance and dignified demeanor—this was Jigoku Fubuki, the leading Hero of the Fubuki Group, which currently held the top popularity among all professional Hero agencies.
Blue light surrounded her as she slowly descended from the sky, casually surveying her surroundings.
The woman sneered and spoke, "This area is basically abandoned because it's close to the Spirit Realm Infestation Zone. This isn't your real residence."
"You, you're just a hypocrite who temporarily ran over from somewhere else, deliberately hyping up your reputation, aren't you?"
At this moment, several black sedans had already arrived in front of the small building where Bai Cangshu temporarily resided, and men in suits got out one after another.
Bai Cangshu looked at their actions, shook his head with a wry smile, then took a step forward, closing in to within half a meter of the woman.
This distance was already extremely dangerous, and the people behind Jigoku Fubuki immediately surrounded her.
Fubuki frowned, but she was unwilling to be overwhelmed by the aura of the person in front of her. She merely floated upwards, a strong wind pressure accompanied by psychokinesis creating an intense sense of oppression, as she looked down at Bai Cangshu from above.
Bai Cangshu knew very well that his extensive promotion of the title "Interest-Driven Hero" using Reincarnators and plot characters would definitely attract the attention of some Reincarnators and plot characters.
But he didn't expect the first one to seek him out to be this Ability User, not other Reincarnators.
Jigoku Fubuki, once the top-ranked B-class Hero in the Hero Association, with actual strength probably in the top ten of A-class. However, because she had long been in the shadow of her sister, Tornado of Terror, she had never achieved any "first" place, and thus refused to be promoted to A-class, monopolizing the first seat of B-class.
Unlike that monster, Tatsumaki, she was a normal Ability User with a normal power level.
"Heh, who knows about that."
Bai Cangshu did not argue. His gaze swept over the Fubuki Group members behind her. These former Heroes, whom Tatsumaki described as a "B-class fan club," indeed did not possess strong combat power.
At most, they were just ordinary people with strong bodies and some combat skills, unable to win a one-on-one fight against even a slightly powerful monster.
However, this organization succeeded in the era of professional Heroes. Because of their large numbers and strong unity, they played a role in many fields, gradually making the Fubuki Group one of the few agencies that still conducted normal Hero activities.
Of course, they were very shrewd. Before each mission, they would gather intelligence in advance. They would abandon overly powerful targets, and Fubuki would directly engage weaker enemies.
In a sense, the Fubuki Group was the Hero organization most suited to the current era.
Fubuki looked at the red light that flashed in the eyes of the man in front of her, who called himself an Interest-Driven Hero. She shielded Lily Threesection Staff, who was beside her. The other party's gaze didn't resemble that of a Hero; it was more like…a predator.
"Since you call yourself an Interest-Driven Hero, you should know that guy."
Fubuki disliked the man in front of her. With just one glance, she felt uncomfortable. If her sister Tatsumaki's arrogance was an undisguised disregard for everyone except herself as trash, then the person in front of her, beneath his smile, concealed a sinister aura that treated everyone as lambs to be slaughtered.
Such a person calling himself an "Interest-Driven Hero" made her feel displeased.
But she had experienced a lot in the past two years and was no longer as impulsive as before. She did not make a move but instead directly inquired about Saitama's whereabouts.
Since the great catastrophe, more and more incidents had made her feel powerless. Fubuki realized that a Hero like herself was not enough to protect the world. Therefore, she wanted to reassemble her former "New Fubuki Group."
She activated her influence and had already found traces of Silverfang Bang, who seemed to be living in retirement somewhere in Z City. King was also occasionally sighted by witnesses frequenting game stores. Only the man whom she implicitly considered the only one comparable to her sister could not be found.
Therefore, she came to seek out this so-called nameless Hero.
Bai Cangshu's gaze roamed, and the curve of his mouth subtly lifted. He suddenly reached out towards Fubuki.
Fubuki frowned, and intense psychokinesis instantly erupted, but at that moment, one of the Fubuki Group members had already rushed forward.
Lily Threesection Staff didn't expect this newcomer, who had just joined the Fubuki Group, to react so quickly and be so brave. She instinctively moved aside, while also unfolding her threesection staff, preparing to flank this so-called nameless Hero who had extended a "perverted hand" towards Lady Fubuki.
But the next moment, she saw several glowing spherical objects clutched in the other person's hands, and a huge sense of danger emerged.
"Be careful!"
Jigoku Fubuki turned and saw that fire had already erupted. At the last moment, she instinctively pushed with one hand, and Lily was instantly blown away by psychokinesis. The explosion's flames instantly engulfed her.
Bang!
The power, far exceeding any grenade explosion of this era, caused the chests of Mountain Ape and Eyelashes, the two Fubuki Group deputies, to feel constricted from the violent shockwave. They were more than ten meters from the explosion point, but their vision still blurred, and they felt dizzy.
The two staggered forward, wanting to see if Lady Fubuki was injured.
The next moment, they heard a bang, a terrifying gunshot from a great distance. In the smoke of the explosion, blood spurted.
In the forest three kilometers away, a Reincarnator saw blood through his sniper scope and, after confirming through his spatial panel that he had not attacked another Reincarnator, spoke into his earpiece:
"Wildfire reporting, Wildfire has completed the objective. Plot character Fubuki has been injured. Preparing to withdraw."
Jigoku Fubuki was a tempting bomb; many Reincarnators wanted to capture her, but they feared her overly powerful sister.
However, Jigoku Fubuki was also a tool that could be used to kill with a borrowed knife. By simply attacking and severely injuring her when she made contact with certain Reincarnators, that Reincarnator would naturally face Tatsumaki's attack.
"Heh, Tao Bai Bai…it's not that easy to violate the iron law."
"Tremble…"
Wildfire turned, took a Harley motorcycle from his backpack, and was about to leave when other orders came through his earpiece.
"No energy fluctuations above 'Fierce' detected. Wildfire, please confirm if you hit the target…"
Wildfire frowned, turned around, and set up his sniper rifle again. Through the scope, he saw that the smoke had dispersed. The woman, still shaken, had a high chest, but there were no signs of injury.
The next moment, Wildfire suddenly felt a chill in his heart. Where was that guy…
He rotated his sniper scope and suddenly saw a face close at hand, and the cruel smile on that face.
"Wait, I'm Mu…"
Pfft!
The sniper scope on the sniper rifle was suddenly plunged into Wildfire's eye socket by a large hand.