The sun shone during the warm Saturday morning on all of Z-City. As usual the abandoned area was quiet except for the call of a few birds and the protests of a young boy.

"Mom, I wanna watch cartoons!"

"Let me watch the news first, then I'll change the channel back."

"Oh, come on! We all know what they're saying, destruction here, catastrophe there, monster sightings everywhere… it's always something like that. What doesn't happen often is a special episode debut of Gatling Fighter where he teams up with Armageddon Devil." Kaiyo pleaded with his mother, giving her the best puppy-eyed look he could muster. When that failed, he turned to the kitchen where his father was filling up the watering can. "Dad, do something!"

"…Listen to your mom." Saitama said, also interested in hearing what type of destruction was upsetting the daily lives of people in the continent that time.

The eleven year-old crossed arms and huffed. It was a Saturday and weekends were meant to be spent at home doing nothing but eating snacks and watching all his favorite shows, sometimes taking advantage of the fact that his parents went out together and did whatever it was adults did on weekends. He honestly didn't care and didn't want to know, hoping it would remain that way for the rest of his life. There were some suspicions he absolutely loathed to have confirmed.

Conforming to the fact there was no way to go against his parents, Kaiyo sat down and leaned back against the low table. Maybe he'd at least get some entertainment from the information block that was airing. They were reporting news about an unusually high outbreak of mosquitoes that year and seemed to have invited some sort of expert with several books on the insects in question. The man was welcomed and sat down alongside the news anchors, turning to the camera with a stern face that somehow all scientists that appeared on TV appeared to have.

"Let's get straight to the point." The doctor began, nodding to the camera. "These mosquitoes belong to an entirely new species. Therefore I know nothing about them."

Well… that was something you didn't hear every day.

"Get out!" The newscaster quickly responded, pointing away to the backstage. "Ah, excuse me. Now, let's take a look at the areas likely to be hit hardest by the outbreak." A map that depicted the path the swarm seemed to be taking came up on the screen while the man continued describing the events that could be causing such unusual behavior.

"Man, Z-City's in their path." Saitama commented while heading out to the balcony. Putting on his slippers, he knelt down and began watering his favorite cactus. "Now we've got a mosquito outbreak. What's next?"

"We have lived through worse. Remember those acid slimes that began coming out of the sewers shortly after we moved in?" Lola pointed out.

"Yeah, I almost got my suit ruined that time."

"We interrupt this program for breaking news!" The newscaster on TV was handed a piece paper with some information written on it. "A large swarm of mosquitoes has been sighted in Z-City. Mummified remains of farm animals have also been found. If you encounter a swarm of mosquitoes, flee immediately!"

The albino woman sighted and sat down next to her son, crossing her legs and letting a sour expression take over her face. "Too bad, I wanted to go out and buy some ingredients for a hotpot… Now I bet all the supermarkets are closed."

Saitama continued listening to the news as he mused on the hotpot idea. Maybe he could go somewhere outside Z-City and get the ingredients, but he didn't know of any places that were on sale at the moment. Maybe they could wait until one week from then when his favorite store had a special event sale and eat hotpot then.

The bald man was still watering his cactus when a mosquito landed on his hand, bringing him out of his musings. Lifting up his other hand, he aimed carefully and swatted the tiny insect. There. He hated those annoying little buzzing creatures more than he cared to admit. But, why could he still hear it? Unless…

The insect flew away unscathed, as if to mock the hero for fun. So, the annoying mosquito wanted to play, did it?

Lola looked around when she began to hear what she thought were nearby small explosions. "Wait, are you hearing that?" She turned to her son with a questioning look.

"I think it's dad." Kaiyo said.

The boy got up and drew back the curtains so the two could see Saitama appearing and disappearing at lightning speed on the balcony while chasing a small flying bug and failing each and every time. Both of the sweatdropped at the sight of the usually calm man acting like a hyper child chasing after a mosquito that wouldn't stay still.

"Huh, your dad sure does hate those."

Suddenly the bald man grabbed a spray bottle of insect killer and jumped out of the balcony, shouting something about damn mosquitoes, leaving his wife and son flabbergasted at his actions.

"Did he just ditch us to chase after a stupid bug?" Kaiyo pointed outside while turning to look at his mother.

Shaking her head, the woman got up and began walking towards the kitchen. The breakfast dishes were still on the sink and someone had to do them. "Sometimes I wonder if I don't understand humans in general or just him."

"Same. Now, can I get my cartoons back?"

Noticing she still had the remote in her hand, Lola threw it in the air above her son. "Sure."

One of the boy's brown dreads seemed to come alive and shot up at the remote, wrapping around it and bringing it back to Kaiyo, who closed the curtains and sat back down against the table. Another one pressed a button and the TV went back to displaying the Adventures of Gatling Fighter, much to the pleasure of the young monster boy.

Lola looked at her son and smiled. Opening the tap, she began filling up sink with warm water while musing on her family, on how Saitama had changed ever since he'd stopped being a regular salaryman to dedicate himself to being a hero and defeating all monsters that he encountered. Well, almost all of them. There was no doubt if the two of them went against each other she would likely come out defeated, or at the very least with grave injuries that would take long to heal, even with her sped-up healing abilities she'd inherited from her mother. Maybe one day Saitama would even train Kaiyo to be just as strong as his father.

A monster hero. Now that made her want to laugh a little bit but also brought up some memories back to her mind. Her mother had wanted to help people but her actions had been perceived as other wise and that was what got her killed in the first place.

Maybe one day, but for now Lola had to decide what lunch was going to be since Saitama had excused himself so out of the blue.