A/N: this is a chapter in the main OPM storyline, I'll return to the three years of training arc after this chapter. I just had this little idea and wanted to write about it.

Mini Chapter 6m: A short glimpse into the future

"Here are the essays from today's Hero exam, get cracking we have over a thousand of these to go through."

A myriad of groans and moans echo in the conference room, where we were grading the Hero essays. I decided to volunteer my time for this in hopes of maybe finding a decent man in this organization, but I'm stuck doing what I usually do at Sobu High School anyway. No, it's even worst, most of these essays wouldn't make it past high school level grammar, but the grading rubrik won't even allow me to completely fail them. All of them are just cliche, predictable ramblings of what a hero is.

"Ah, Hiratsuka-sensei, do you have a spare pen? The one they gave me ran out of ink."

"Yeah, here you go, Hanada." [1]

"I guess both of us kinda regret doing this, huh."

…

I'd take thousands of Hikigaya's antisocial, cynical, apathetic essays over any of this trash, though with the current grading rubric, I'd finally be able to fail him for a reason, but that wouldn't be as satisfying.

80… 75… 91… most of these are just failing on the grammar paragraph structure department, but they say everything the hero association expects them to say.

"They say the point of this essay is really to give those with great passion for being a hero a chance to make in the ranks, even if they fail the physical exams." Hanada-sensei tells me.

"Well I guess that's why the grading is so light."

…

"Hmmm… Hiratsuka-sensei take a look at this one."

"Huh? Is it especially bad."

I finally come across one that is not only fairly decent, but amazingly written. It talks about his tragic past of being nearly killed by a cyborg, the pain he went through sitting in the ruins waiting for someone to save him, the relief he felt when he was finally rescued and the amount of gratitude his heart felt, how his rescuer became a fatherly figure to him as he walked through the step with new limbs that allowed him to walk again, the awkward steps that he had to go through readjusting to his new body parts, and finally it ends with his burning desire to repay his savior's kindness as well as make those who hurt him and others pay for their misdeeds. A tear rolls from my eye at the beauty of it.

"It's wonderful."

"He'll definitely make a fine hero, I'm giving this boy a 100, what was his name? Genos, I'll keep that in mind."

"Yes, he deserves it. Ah, how old is he?"

"Um… 19 it seems."

"Ah, that's too bad. Well, hopefully there are treasures like that in my pile as well. Hopefully from someone older."

"Ehehehe."

"Well, let's see."

The next essay I opened was completely the opposite of what I had just read. I will give him props for great wording, perfect grammar, and overall a great persuasive structure to deliver his point. He may have the correct idea of being a hero, but by the association standards you could consider him more a villain. His views on society being helpless and too pre-occupied, so that those with the strength must carry the burden, so they can live out comfortable lives. He talks about self-sacrifice and how trying hard can leave you in a place where even achieving your dreams disappoint you, but you must carry on. It's cynical, it's conceited, it's unsymphathetic, and while the content honestly isn't wrong, it's twisted in a way that I know only one other person could do. Wait… don't tell me he's registering!

I quickly look at the name on the essay sheet.

"Saitama, Age 25?" oh, so it's not him.

"Oh, another gem? and 25's young, but I guess it's still in your striking range."

"Shut up, also no, this is the exactly opposite of what we just read. While the grammar is all there which means he still gets the full 40 points for writing ability, according to the association rubric he only gets 2 for passion for heroism." [2]

"Eh, that bad, huh?"

"It reminds me of an old student of mine."

"Eh, that Hikigaya-kid right, I had him as a student, too."

"What's he been up to lately?"

"I don't know. He suddenly disappeared near the end of his 3rd year, haven't heard from him since. I caught a glimpse of him a few years ago right outside the campus talking to one of the students, a girl with flaxen hair if I recall correctly, you might know her, but I haven't seen him since."

"Heh, so those two are still in touch, huh. Well, whatever. I never thought I'd read another essay like this since he left Sobu, but I guess there's others that share his twisted view of the world as well, What they're doing trying to play hero though is beyond me."

Then, again if I recall correctly, Hikigaya did that quite a lot in his Sobu days as well. In his own twisted matter, too. So, I guess it's not that far-fetched.

A/N(s):

[1]: I remember reading about a Hanada-sensei, in one of the fanfics here I think, forgot whose though.

[2]: 42/100 is 21/50, which is what Saitama got in the written test of his Hero Exam.

[]: Just a short chapter featuring our favorite Hiratsuka-sensei and showing why Saitama failed the written exam in the Hero Association test. I did this in a few minutes, so grammar may be all over the place sorry about that. Correct me in reviews.