You Dare Steal My Kill!

"Moving?"

Runo sat on the sofa, looking in confusion at her brother buried beneath the stuffed toys.

"Yes, we're moving to Q City."

Baicang lay on his side with his head on Runo's soft thighs. He moved the stuffed rabbit off his face and replied, "We're a little too far from the city center here."

"If something happens, it'll take too long for the heroes to get here. It isn't safe enough."

Runo said casually, "I'm not scared. My big brother will protect me."

Baicang turned his head to look straight into Runo's bright eyes.

"Runo, you need to understand that I can't be by your side all the time."

Feeling hurt, Runo's eyes slowly reddened. She hugged her brother's head and cried, "I don't care!"

"Mmph! Mmph!"

Caught in her embrace, Baicang struggled desperately as two soft, fragrant mounds squeezed against him, leaving him unable to breathe.

"Okay, okay! We'll stay together! Always!"

"Let go! I can't breathe!"

After finally wriggling enough room to shout, Baicang was saved at last.

He sat up and gulped down air, looking at Runo beside him, her cheeks flushed and her expression smug.

Baicang still said irritably, "We're moving anyway. Safety is one reason, but moving downtown will also give me more job opportunities, so I can reach B-Class faster."

Although Runo hated to leave the house where she and her brother had lived for so long, she considered how it would benefit him.

In the end, Runo reluctantly agreed.

Moving to Q City was part of Baicang's plan.

First, Runo's safety was unquestionably the most important thing. In the One-Punch Man anime Baicang had watched before transmigrating, Q City had never suffered a major disaster.

Q City's guardian, the S-Class Hero Watchdog Man, was another unfathomably powerful fellow. He was at least at the peak of Dragon-level, and with him there, Q City's safety was assured.

Second, Q City was relatively close to Z City, where Saitama lived, making visits more convenient.

So moving was definitely necessary.

After soothing Runo, Baicang decided to go house hunting in Q City and stop by Saitama's place in Z City while he was at it.

The next day, he set off on his pink war chariot.

Q City.

Under the blazing summer sun, the young women on the streets wore light, revealing outfits.

Riding his beloved little electric scooter, Baicang admired the lovely scenery around him (the miniskirts).

Baicang couldn't help reflecting that this world was pretty nice when there weren't any monsters or disasters.

Before he could keep enjoying the view,

the scantily clad young women on the street screamed and scattered.

"There's a monster!"

A frog-like monster had leaped into the crowd, causing the panic.

"Come on, come on! Have my babies!"

The frog monster laughed grotesquely, whipping its mucus-covered, several-meter-long tongue through the air.

The oval pupils in its bulging eyes scanned the fleeing crowd before finally locking onto a tall college girl.

"Wah, wah, wah!"

With an excited, bizarre cry, the frog monster flicked its airborne tongue, shooting it toward the girl like a spring.

The girl couldn't possibly outrun the flying tongue.

One second before the tongue reached her,

Baicang arrived on his little electric scooter. Seeing the danger, he leaped straight off it and kicked the tongue in midair.

"Awooo!"

The frog monster recoiled in pain, retracting its tongue and clutching the spot he had kicked as it howled.

Baicang landed perfectly. Feeling the spectators' eyes on him, he flashed the girl a sunny smile. "Miss, are you all right?" He held out a hand and helped her up.

"I'm fine." The girl was too shy to look up at him.

The frog monster recovered from the pain, too. Seeing that Baicang had stolen its prey, it shouted furiously, "Who are you? How dare you steal my woman!"

"I'm Bai-"

"I'm Tank-Top Tiger, Class C, rank six!"

Before Baicang could finish, a gruff voice cut him off.

A burly man with tiger-striped clothes and hair stepped out of the crowd, came up beside Baicang, and gave his shoulder a heavy slap.

With an arrogant expression, he said, "I'll handle this. You can step aside."

Baicang was a little stunned, but then he understood.

Fuck, someone actually dared to steal my kill!

Tank-Top Tiger was a minor character Baicang knew quite well. The way he and Tank-Top Black Hole had harassed Saitama in the One-Punch Man anime had really pissed him off, and now he actually dared to bully Baicang himself!

You're finished!

As Tank-Top Tiger walked toward the frog monster amid the crowd's cheers, Baicang remained unhurried.

Instead, he turned to the girl and asked gently, "Are you sure you're okay? Do you need me to take you to the hospital?"

The girl immediately shifted her gaze from Tank-Top Tiger back to him.

Blushing, she said, "I'm really fine. Thank you. Are you a hero?"

"Yes. I'm Baicang, Class C, rank seventy-seven."

Baicang continued looking at the girl with a gentle expression.

"Is that guy your partner?" the girl asked curiously, pointing at Tank-Top Tiger as he fought the frog monster.

"No."

Baicang dropped his gentle expression and put on a pitiful look instead.

Instantly slipping into actor mode, he gazed at the girl "affectionately" with his deep, dark eyes and said with a hint of sorrow, "Actually, he's someone in the Hero Association who keeps bullying me. He uses his higher rank to steal the credit for everything I do."

"Look, he showed up again this time after I injured the monster."

With that, he wiped a finger across the dry corner of his eye.

"How could he do that? Isn't he a hero, too?" the girl said angrily upon hearing about Baicang's tragic experiences.

Baicang smiled faintly.

He pressed a finger to her lips as she prepared to start cursing. "Don't. We're both heroes in the Hero Association. We should stand together. Making this public would reflect badly on us."

"We fight monsters for everyone's sake. Does it matter whether I'm the one who defeats them or he is? Everyone's safety comes first."

"It doesn't matter if I suffer a little injustice... sigh..."

Seeing the girl practically grinding her teeth in anger, Baicang added one final remark.

"Remember, don't tell your girlfriends. Don't spread it around... and definitely don't let anyone know I told you."

The girl immediately nodded rapidly.

From how fast she nodded, Baicang knew the show was about to begin.

He turned back toward Tank-Top Tiger, who was still locked in fierce combat. As expected of Tank-Top Master's follower, the sixth-ranked C-Class hero did have some skills.

Combining all kinds of fighting and wrestling techniques with his impressive strength, he battered the frog monster until it couldn't fight back. Just as he pinned it down and applied a rear naked choke to finish it off,

"Let's test the effect on you."

Baicang sneered and activated the superpower that had changed again yesterday.

Plague Source: Select one living creature and cause gastrointestinal distress resulting in diarrhea. Duration: 1 minute.

This time, Baicang had finally rolled an ability that wasn't complete trash, but was still useless.

Ding!

The frog monster was being strangled until its eyes nearly rolled back. Just as Tank-Top Tiger thought victory was within reach, his stomach suddenly cramped. Along with the intense discomfort, an inexplicable force kept battering his floodgates.

"Gurgle~" Tank-Top Tiger couldn't help clenching his buttocks, trying to resist the onslaught through sheer physical strength.

He continued tightening his arms.

"Gurgle." Another wave hit. Tank-Top Tiger turned pale and broke out in a cold sweat, his arms gradually losing their strength around the frog monster's neck.

Feeling the choking pressure around its neck ease, the frog monster immediately broke free of Tank-Top Tiger's hold and tried to escape.

Baicang, who had been waiting nearby for quite some time, naturally wouldn't let it succeed.

The instant the frog monster got up, he knocked it aside with a whip kick, then expressionlessly stomped through its neck.

Baicang glanced contemptuously at Tank-Top Tiger lying on the ground and said quietly enough that only the two of them could hear, "I gave you a chance, but you couldn't make anything of it, huh?"

"You!"

Tank-Top Tiger clenched his buttocks and struggled to stand up.

Superpower, crank it up!!

Just as Tank-Top Tiger was about to say something, wave after wave struck again.

"Owww~ You... just you wait!"

Even Tank-Top Tiger's voice sounded strange now. The foul stench coming off him made the spectators cover their noses and move away.

"I..."

Tank-Top Tiger still wanted to explain, but a crackling burst of firecracker noises erupted between his thighs.

Tank-Top Tiger covered his face with the hand that had been clutching his backside and rushed out through the crowd, sobbing quietly.

Soon, the spectators stopped paying attention to Tank-Top Tiger, the "Shit Rickshaw Boy," and turned to Baicang instead.

"He's so strong! He took down the monster in one hit when even Tank-Top Tiger couldn't beat it!"

"Excuse me, are you an A-Class Hero?"

"What's your name? I want to join your fan club!"

Baicang spread his arms and accepted the crowd's praise. "I'm Baicang, Class C, rank seventy-seven. I'm not a powerful Class A hero, but I'll do everything I can to protect you all, just like today."

The crowd erupted into even louder cheers.

The girl Baicang had rescued gazed at him shining amid the crowd, utterly captivated.

She secretly resolved to expose Tank-Top Tiger's exploitation of lower-ranked heroes, even if it meant going against Baicang's wishes.

I'll talk to the girls tonight. We have to protect our wonderful Baicang!