"Well, thank you for taking the time out of your day to talk with us." Maiko Plasma said, to which Saitama only replied with, "Yeah, sure. Just don't go around causing trouble."
Maiko Plasma and Phoenix Man were amazed. A powerful force, strong enough to take down some of the strongest beings they had gathered together, and he wasn't throwing his strength around at everything. Why did he live in the abandoned city, anyway? Did he feel that this was a safe place to attract dangerous monsters to? What was with his living condition, and why had they not heard of this guy before now?
"Aren't you a registered hero?" Phoenix Man asked. "Why are you out here? Did the Hero Association send you to work out here, to defeat violent monsters in a place void of other humans?"
"Eh? No, the rent's just cheap out here. It's quiet, too. No loud neighbors, low rent, and I've just been here so long I've felt no reason to go live somewhere else." Saitama responded.
"So you just live here of your own will?" Maiko Plasma questioned. "Don't the monsters coming here to fight bother you?"
"I guess they're annoying, but having monsters outside my door or having monsters in my monthly rent payment, I think I've chosen the lesser of two evils." Saitama said. "Not really much else to it. And besides, someone has to fight these monsters when they're being aggressive. Why not me?"
For their own sake, Maiko and Phoenix could think of why they wouldn't want their monsters coming to him first. But they still noted that he had a point, at least from his perspective. And suddenly, they felt the ground beneath them shake, as though a minor earthquake was rolling in. Saitama may have been somewhat confused, but Phoenix Man and Maiko Plasma had a terrifying guess as to what they could be feeling.
They ran outside quickly to intercept the angry centipede that was quickly coming out of the ground outside Saitama's apartment. Its size far dwarfed the building its target was in, and even could be said to rival most skyscrapers in full length. As it unfurled much of its body out of the ground, it stared at the beings in front of it that were desperately trying to catch its attention.
"Elder Centipede, please hold off for a moment!" Maiko Plasma yelled up to it. Phoenix Man quickly was flying up to the multi-layered face of the towering mysterious being.
"Please wait before you attack, Elder Centipede!" Phoenix Man said, getting closer to its face. "You don't know what you're getting yourself into!"
"What could you mean by that?" Elder Centipede said. "I am Elder Centipede, Dragon-level threat and the largest of my kin. As a member of the Centipede group of mysterious beings, I am here to avenge the death of Senior Centipede. How dare you try and stop me?"
"This isn't an ordinary human, Elder!" Phoenix Man said. "This is a man who has toppled several demon-level threats in a single strike. He is faster than we can capture recording of. Senior Centipede in particular fell to a single punch from the man. If you back down now, he's the kind of human who won't chase after you. You don't need to confront him."
"Whatever you say of the strength of this human is irrelevant, especially comparing him to monsters weaker than I." Elder Centipede stated. "This low-life human has stained our bloodline by spilling the blood of one of our lineage, the Senior Centipede. Nothing you can say will convince me to sit idly by as one of my own kin's killer lives. He is my objective."
"We need you to calm down for a moment, Elder." Phoenix Man was rushing to get his words out, worried that if he left a moment of silence in that his ally would run straight for his suicide mission. "You don't seem to understand the severity of the situation. This isn't a normal human hero with normal human strength."
"It is understandable the fear that you have for someone strong enough to defeat one of my own kin," stated Elder Centipede. "However, I am far stronger than Senior Centipede. I have seen reports flying around about the mysterious being of the Ghost Town. Everything that he is listed to have fought could not even come close to being a dragon-level threat like me. You have to trust that I know how to avenge my fellow centipede brethren. I will not allow this human to walk the planet anymore. And now, this conversation is done." With that, Elder Centipede ducked under Phoenix Man, and rushed headfirst at the apartment of his adversary.
At just about this time, Saitama was finally walking out of his apartment to see what all the shaking ground was about, only to be confronted by a charging, sky-scraping monster of a bug coming right for him.
"Even a dragon-level mysterious being could not stand a second against this man." Phoenix Man saw. The already-disheveled town was now covered in the blood, and minor remains of, Elder Centipede. It was as though nothing could be done to bring this man to even launch a second attack at any particular target. This man was almost a force of nature – an unstoppable, unmovable existence that could not be destroyed, could not be detained, only avoided. Phoenix Man and Maiko Plasma knew now that they had to make sure that this was information they had to deliver to other monsters before more came on a suicide march to deal with the ghost town's greatest power.
Maiko Plasma and Phoenix Man were now rushing to get back to their hideout to send out this information to all available to hear it. They needed to get to that computer, and somehow make sure they could reach as many monsters as possible to deliver their new threat warning. They needed to close the investigation parties that were being prepared for this area and tell them why they had to avoid the place.
By the time they had got there, news had not yet reached mass monster ears about the death of Elder Centipede. This would, without their intervention, surely just become another reported 'missing' monster in the ghost town.
"How did it go, you guys?" Venus Mantrap asked them when they got in. "It looks like you both are alive, which means this is the first time we've had a full team sent there come back alive. Did you learn anything?"
"Yes," Phoenix Man said. "This benevolence plan really is our only hope of interacting with this man without death on our end. We need to somehow show this man that we are not a threat to him."
"Sure," Electric Catfish Man said. "But how do you expect any monster outside of this group to go along with this type of plan? Nobody else has seen what we have. They won't believe anything about his power. In fact, I didn't believe it until I had to get that video recording of Senior Centipede fighting the man."
"Speaking of that," Venus Mantrap said. "I heard Elder Centipede left some time ago after you left to go after the abandoned district's mysterious being, as well. How well do you think that man can handle a dragon-level threat?"
"Well, it's not about how well might be able to handle Elder Centipede," Maiko Plasma said. "It's about how well he… DID handle Elder Centipede."