"Teacher!"
"Why is there so much seaweed piled outside our apartment?"
Genos had just finished scrubbing the toilet. He'd gone out to take out the trash, and when he came back, he saw a huge pile of fresh, unprocessed seaweed stacked by the wooden frame at the apartment entrance.
Then he walked into the apartment and saw Teacher Saitama cooking a pot of seaweed in the kitchen. Only then did he ask in puzzlement:
"Did you bring it back?"
"It's so fresh. Did you go looking for it in the sea?"
Genos knew that supermarkets rarely sold that kind of fresh, untreated seaweed. And even if they did, his teacher wouldn't be generous enough to buy so much at once. So he instinctively assumed his teacher had gone to the sea to train and collected it there.
"Ah..."
"Well..."
"It was actually just a chance thing... Yeah, that's right. I came across a cheap lot by chance, so I brought it all back."
Scratching his smooth scalp, Saitama thought it really had been quite cheap. All it had cost him was one punch and a collapsed building.
It wasn't his building, anyway, and it had already been abandoned. So if he'd smashed it, he'd smashed it. He didn't particularly mind.
"I see. That's good, then. Eating more fresh seaweed can help protect against radiation, prevent and treat goiter, help you lose weight and improve your skin, and lower your blood lipids, blood pressure, and blood sugar!"
"By the way, Teacher, did you know?"
"I heard seaweed is good for your hair. Although there's no definitive medical explanation, seaweed contains many vitamins. It's especially rich in carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A, as well as sulfur-containing proteins and other nutrients that are very beneficial to hair..."
"Ah!"
"Sorry, Teacher,