Episode Title:
Road to Hero.
Episode Description:
A story about Saitama when he still had hair and his costume was a track suit. Defeating numerous villains in the abandoned area in Z-City but still having problems with rent money (and continued harassment from the landlady who says he's 3 months overdue), Saitama speaks with a shop owner who is being forced by a local gang to surrender his store's deed. Several other shops have gone out of business and his store is the last one; a conversation between the gang boss and one of his stooges reveal that the boss has had an impulse to buy out all the stores in the area to destroy them. Saitama gives counsel to the clothes-shop owner to not give up, and the clothes-shop owner points him the direction of the gang's base which turns out to be Saitama's apartment complex. He goes door to door meeting various criminals who work under the boss, but has no real interest until he hears them each mention a reward that's on their heads and soundly beats them. The boss is the only one left, after Saitama tells about no need for overcharging, the boss loses it and transforms into a villain called Fish of Darkness. Saitama and the boss have a brief fight, until the boss mentions the reward on his head is greatest, upon which Saitama defeats him easily. Saitama returns to the landlady, saying he's called the police on the criminals living in her apartment, but she promptly throws him out after he arrested all of her former tenants. Saitama later returns to the shop owner to explain what happened, who states that he was getting too old and has decided to close the shop anyway, but not before finishing a masterpiece that he made for Saitama (which turns out to be Saitama's hero outfit). Now in the present after hearing his story, Genos impulsively thinks Saitama should get a better suit, but Saitama asks him if he was really listening when he explained his suit was also a memento.
