Pork Cutlet Bowl

While out for a walk, Saitama is flagged down by two patrolmen who refuse to explain why he is being questioned and haul him in. Digging into his background, the officers decide he might be behind a wave of assaults near their precinct; his lack of a job, a home in a run-down rural area, and blood on his hands only deepen their suspicion. Over a bowl of pork cutlet from Chief Kuma, the talk drifts to the Hero Association and to Kuma's old partner, a man who failed the hero exams and joined the force instead. That partner poured himself into the work, only to be assaulted on patrol, and his dying words, still reciting details about the culprit and worrying over his chief, left Kuma grieving.

As they speak, the true offender reveals himself, a threat-level demon called Surprise-Attack Plum who has been posing as a delivery man and now strikes the station directly. He claims his hatred of the law, which twisted him into a monster, drives the attacks; an arrest for drug abuse had cost him his job and his family. A desperate Chief Kuma reaches for his phone to call the Hero Association, but Saitama snatches and crushes the device before he can beg for help, insisting that neither heroes nor police truly do their duty when they have to plead for it. Dismissing the voice on the line as no hero at all, Saitama offers to handle the monster himself as thanks for the katsudon.

Outside, McCoy has leaked the situation to the media and flooded the scene with reporters and every available high-ranking hero, aiming to humiliate the police. Before any of them can act, a single officer walks out carrying the monster on his back, stunning the crowd and spoiling McCoy's plan. Saitama slips away before anyone can thank him, satisfied simply to have helped. Asked later who the man was, Chief Kuma takes back his earlier verdict of an unemployed drifter with no fixed address and calls him, plainly, a hero. A voiced adaptation of the chapter appears on One-Punch Man Maji Drama CD Vol. 4.