Today was another peaceful day at the Sugarman Bakery.
Sugarman himself, Rikido Sato was in the back doing what he loved, baking.
He, unfortunately, didn't get to do it as much as he would like due to his hero work but he made sure to make time for it at least once a week.
On most days, when the bakery was manned by his employees it was pretty popular. But when Sato was there it became overrun with people all wanting to get a taste of his goods.
Today was no different as his poor cashiers tried their hardest to keep up with the flood of people.
I really should give them a raise. Sato thought to himself.
"Hey come back here with that! Thief!" Sato heard someone yell.
His head shot towards the source of the noise to see that a very rough-looking man had pushed down a woman and stole her bag of bread.
Immediately the man ran as fast as he could and Sato followed, leaping over the counter and running after him.
The man was surprisingly fast, perhaps because of his quirk, and managed to keep up his lead on Sato.
But Sato was a Pro-hero. And while he definitely was not known for his brain he knew how to use it. Eraserhead made sure of that.
He took note of the route the man took. And by the time the man finally lost him. Sato had already figured out his destination.
Every path the man took always had a way back to his bakery. He was trying to lead him in circles so he didn't notice.
Sato ran over to the alleyway that was close to his bakery. He walked in slowly. Not wanting to alarm the man in case he had a dangerous quirk.
He made his way to a corner of the alleyway where it made a turn.
He stuck his head past the wall and there he saw the man.
Along with two children. No older than eight.
"Happy birthday kids." The man said as he passed the bread to the two of them giving them both two loaves each.
The two looked at each other before turning to there father.
"What about you." One of them asked.
The man shook his head. "It's your birthday. You should-"
Before he could finish what he was saying the two broke their second loaves of bread in half and held it out to their father.
The father looked at the two before tearing up a little and accepting the two halves.
Sato looked on as the family ate their bread and slowly, he left.
The next day.
Zetsubo Teki was very nervous.
Yesterday he had stolen bread from the Sugerman bakery and had even been chased down by Sugerman himself.
Normally he would just take food the dumpster of his bakery but yesterday was his children's birthday. He wanted to give them something, anything that was better than garbage.
But he thought that he managed to evade the hero, so you can imagine he was quite shocked when Sugarman came into the alley holding a large box.
"Wait! Please!" Teki begged as his kids hid behind him. "I'm sorry for what I did please don't-"
Before he could finish Sato shoved the box in front of them and took off the lid revealing that it was full of sandwiches.
"I know I'm known for sweets but I thought that these would be more filling." He said.
The family just looked at him in shock for a moment before the children came a little closer.
"Yup this is for you guys," Sato said.
That was all the motivation the kids needed and they immediately dug in.
Teki was hesitant, however. "Why would you? I stole from you why are you feeding us?"
Sato smirked. "I may be the owner of a bakery. But I'm first and foremost a hero. And heroes help people in need. Besides, I gave the women some more bread and overall I can afford the loss. Did you see how packed it was yesterday? I can afford to give away some bread and sandwiches. Now did in. You looked starved."
The man just looked at him for a moment, before tearing up and saying "Thank you."
The man joined his children in feasting on the sandwiches.
"So I have an idea," Sato said gaining the man's attention. "My bakery needs some more cashiers. So I was thinking that if we get you cleaned up and if you apologize to that lady. Then I could hire you."
Teki's eyes went wide and he almost choked on his food.
"So. Do we have a deal." Sato said extending his hand toward Teki.
Teki swallowed his food and quickly and rapidly shook the man's hand. "Yes! Yes! Thank you! Thank you so much!"
Sato smiled. "Don't worry about it! Just doing my job!"