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Ring-Ring-Ring~!!! Hello! This is Hajime! I got your note!

What did you need Saitama-san!

Ah. Hey.

I just wanted to know if we're originally from the same place. [ World? Planet? He still hadn't figured out how the geography here really worked. ]
'Cause we're both heroes. Or used to be at least.

Even if we're not home that doesn't make us any less of a hero! As long as you're still you, you'll always be a hero!

But I'm from Tachikawa!

I'm from Z-City... I guess we aren't from the same place.

I'm just a hero as a hobby back home, but it kinda seems impossible to do the same stuff here as a god. Do you manage to do any hero work?

Z-City....Z-City... Hmhmhmhmmmm Nope! I've never heard it! Sorry!

It's great to meet another hero! Even over the phone! We should meet up sometime!

Oh! What counts as hero work to you? Saving people from Ayakashis doesn't count, Saitama-san? It's a God's job but I think you can be a hero and god.

I can't really go on patrols for monsters or crime like I could before. I can't fight anything by myself either... Needing a shinki is kinda weird. [ Especially when it's your old best friend and disciple. ]

I'll figure it out I guess. But, yeah. You can stop by my place if you ever want to. There's always tea running.

Thanks, uh.... [ shit he forgot her name already. ] Hashime....?

You can patrol for Ayakashis. But yeah, it is strange to always have to have a shinki with you! I agree but its not a bad thing! Do you like your Shinki?

Really?! Yes! I will sometime soon then! I would love to see your place! You too! I want to meet you sometime soon! Hero to hero! It would be fun!

Oh, I'm Hajime!!

[Its okay, she has no issue correcting on the name. She's much to excited from meeting a fellow hero. That much is clear in her tone alone. Befriend the bubbly teenage girl One punch man!]

Right, right.

Yea I can bring my shinki along if I visit. He's uh, kinda weird but he's a good guy. I knew him before all this, so it's...

Anyways, thanks Hajime.

[ He will befriend the bubbly one!! In his own way! ]

I have now both working internet and working number, finally.

[ he feels bad for spending money on that, but it was annoying to have internet access only at home or hunted wifi spots ]

oh cool
where are u at right now?

i still dont really get how to use this

I'm on the Near Shore. Just left electronic shop.

I'm considering a part-time job search.

why would u need a job
dont we get paid for this?

right?

Maybe you do. I don't. I still consider myself lucky that the currency I had in my wallet is exactly as the one accepted here.

gnos
i m screwED

[ at some point Saitama had checked his wallet. A whopping 350 yen was in it. ]

Please remain calm and don't move much. I will return shortly. I should have enough funds to get pliers on my way.

[ he took it literally... ]

no you brat
how the hell am i gonna find a job!!

I don't think you will require pliers for that.

...
genos i swear

Don't worry, I didn't bought them. That's 1000 yen saved.

[ Genos enters the room that Saitama is currently in, his eyes focusing on the screen of his phone. ]

I've got a questions, can you recommend a sad movie? The tear-jerker kind?

[ Saitama is laying in bed, legs up on the wall, and nose buried in a magazine he got recently. ]

A tear-jerker? [ Saitama can't remember ever crying at a movie. ]

Uh... maybe something romantic?

Romantic? [ haven't thought about that ] Like Romeo & Juliet and other similar tragedies, where lust and poor, hormone-induced judgment causes huge fallout, and everyone dies?

[ yeah, he's not good with crying on movies too ]

[ He peers from the top of his book, blinking slowly. ]

Yeah. Or you're crying cause it's a happy end or whatever.

You trying to pick a movie for a date or somethin'?

[ Genos looks positively horrified for a moment and protests ] No! It's not a date!

I's an emergency situation! I wouldn't normally go as far to help, but it will benefit me greatly in the long run.

[ He has to smirk at Genos being so defensive over it most definitely not being a date. ]

If you don't tell me the situation then I can't give you a good recommendation, kid. [ Is his date some ugly girl and he was too scared to admit it? ]

Do you remember that annoyance, Add? He's the guy that paid us late night visit and we made mint desserts. [ Genos helpfully reminds about the details ]

His eyes can turn into similar black to mine, and looks like he damaged one of them. He's unsure about the severity of the damage, and would like a sample of secretion that possibly causes the black coloration of the sclera. [ Way too many words to say, this dude wants to harvest tears for science ]

Normally I wouldn't agree, as I stated previously. But Add, aside from being a cyborg, is also an engineer. And while I wouldn't agree to have him repair me without a trusted supervision, he's still one of the very few people capable of extensive repairs to my body. Perhaps even creating spare parts to the one already existing or impossible to fix. [ he shows up his hand, the softer silicone pads on the fingers and palm, bear the marks of kitten claws and bites. They're ripped to shreds in some places ] As you see, this is a mutually beneficial exchange, not a date. I simply figured him having gratitude debt to me, might be useful one day.

[ Saitama's eyes glaze over and he goes back to reading his manga not even a quarter of the way through Genos' rambling. Right. This Genos never got the memo. ]

You're gonna have to start summarizing things for me, dude.

And don't you just cry oil anyways?

Correct. But as the exact details are unknown, checking the composition and comparing it to the one in damaged eye, might help figuring how to fix it. [ He shrugs. It's too complicated to him too. He wouldn't be able to remove his own eye, let alone fix it. So Add is kind of more hardcore. ]

I can't cry on order, hence the idea to watch sad movies.

Whatever you wanna do.

[ He was thinking of movie ideas that make girls cry, but he's not sure about what upsets Add enough to cry. ]

It's gotta be a movie? Can't you do something else?

Someone suggested a book, but reading one takes much longer than watching a movie.

And frankly speaking I would probably throw Add out of the window sooner than later. [ You need to focus on your book if it's to get emotionally invested. Having a creeper sit right next and "IS THAT THE SAD PART? IS THAT THE SAD PART?" would probably achieve opposite effect ]

You could just step on his foot or somethin' and make him cry from that.

Kid seems like a total wimp.

[ Ooops, he didn't made himself clear. ]

Ah, no, it's me who's supposed to shed that one tear for science.

Oh. Right, right. My bad.

You don't really seem like the type to cry at movies. [ Saitama can only remember one time where Genos actually cried. And he definitely doesn't want a repeat of it, or the situation that brought it on. It's not like this was important enough for that. ]

At least it looks like I'm trying. [ even if it fails he stays in "good graces" ]

Location is still undecided. We have a TV so I proposed our temple, but he wants to minimize other people presence. But then Hermes-- I mean Sonic is offering too, but I think we won't go through with that location.

[ it's TWO more people, instead of just one aka Saitama ]

[ Wants to watch a sad movie together. Preferably alone. ... This just sounds like a date idea to Saitama. He is going to bring up the ridiculous idea when something Genos said surprises him. ]

Sonic? Like the purple guy?

That's him. One of the few people to actually propose a movie. [ And it's about cute deer, what the hell ]

Can't tell whether he's trolling or serious. [ nothing new under the sun ]

Nah. He's totally human from what I know. [ Saitama definitely isn't in-tune with online jargon. ]

And really annoying. [ Then again so is Genos, so Saitama can't really compare. ]

[ Genos needs a moment to realize what Saitama meant. ] I know he is. I meant I don't know if he's serious or just shitting me for fun.

I never can and it's frustrating. Especially since he knows details about... [ he doesn't finish. He wanted to say "my past" but it's not something to discuss. He's very much aware of it ] I ended confronting him to not share it where I can see it.

[ Saitama was going to chalk it up to Genos being easy to rile up when the last part made him pause. ]

He's been blabbing about that kinda stuff? [ He sits up in bed and puts his manga away. ] You know it's all a buncha lies, right? [ He has no idea what Sonic has actually been saying and just how much is true or false, but he knows that none of it could be good for Genos. ]

Yes. You must be right. [ Genos nods a bit reassured ] That's what I was suspecting.

[ Or telling himself to. It was easier than accepting the explanation that "compulsion to not tell wasn't strong enough". Because it made everything easier to discredit and not think about ]

[ But aside from that Saitama is right too. Genos is easy to rile up ]

What kinda stuff was he saying? [ He hadn't considered the fact that Sonic might be blabbing about their past. He just assumed that everyone felt the same hesitation and looming feeling of something dark. ]

He mentioned that he knew you, of course. That I fought him and lost before... [ And now his lips are sealed, because it's already too much information. Especially to discuss here, with Saitama. He shakes his head ]

It's unnerving, but I will deal with it. And try to not get any ideas.

Hm. [ Mentioning that Saitama knew Sonic before isn't that troublesome, but for Somic to admit he also knew Genos can pose a problem. The last thing Saitama wants Genos to suspect is that they know eachother. It would be too annoying to deal with. ]

Well you know that last part is a bunch of crap, huh. You could totally kick that guys ass. [ He's joking around a bit to hopefully pull Genos from any kind of deep spiraling inner monologues he could be in. Not that it would take long to potentially piece things together. ]

I could see such possible outcome but I just don't understand a point in such fight. Technically we're on the same side. [ Gods and shinki versus ayakashi, that's it. But it still makes him grumpy. ]

I fail to see why it's such a bragging topic to him.

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