Elder Centipede (Two Chapters Combined)
January.
Winter had fully arrived. Snow blanketed the city, making it look quite beautiful.
Pedestrians on the streets had all put on thick winter clothes, and every breath they exhaled came out in clouds of mist. Yet they all stared curiously at a young man by the roadside.
It was not because he was particularly handsome, nor because of his gleaming bald head. Rather, in such freezing weather, he was walking down the street in nothing but a thin white lab coat, smoking as he went.
Wu Biao paid no attention whatsoever to the surrounding crowd's stares and simply kept walking.
As for why Brother Biao was here...
Simple... for money!
More precisely, he was here to catch a wanted criminal and exchange him for cash at the police station.
Logically, with two overwhelmingly powerful beings like Wu Biao and Saitama together, there was no way they should ever be short on money.
Yet they were short on money—so short that they could not even afford food...
Saitama, the miserable man who called himself a hero on the surface but was actually unemployed, had a wallet no bigger than a child's palm, and it was filled almost entirely with one-hundred-yen coins.
Leaving aside everything else, Wu Biao's appetite alone was enough that even an ordinary rich man could not afford to feed him, let alone a bumpkin like Saitama, who spent every day eyeing supermarket sales.
And the worst part was... he couldn't even be driven away!
In the end, to avoid starving, Wu Biao and Saitama had used every method imaginable: going to shelters to mooch compressed biscuits, tossing any beast-type monster into the pot, and constantly hunting for wanted criminals...
Both of them had grown used to freedom and had no desire to