>>5655731To be honest it wasn't a very developed idea. Simplifying it to "money problems due to various factors" might be easier, and it would be somewhat funny because in the actual OPM story Saitama is dirt-poor until Genos starts paying his rent and expenses.
***Meanwhile, during the livestream***
In his break-room, the monstrous scientist chowed down on more chocolates as he cycled between view-screens, wondering if anything interesting might come up. Sure enough, it turns out one of the newer heroes was in a street-brawl in one of the less-populated areas of town. At first he was simply amused at how eagerly the humans started beating the snot out of each other, but he quickly realized that the powers the C-class hero displayed were undeniably unique.
"It seems that girl is more powerful than her rank would suggest. And those powers may be of interest to my partner...." He murmured to himself as he scratched his gumball-encrusted head with sharpened candy-cane fingers. Picking up a headset and dialing in the correct channel, he then deactivated the suspended-animation cell of one of his creations and said into a microphone "Jawbreaker, come to my breakroom in half an hour. I'm planning an operation for you."
Exactly 30 minutes later, a 7-foot tall being with a red, elastic, humanoid body covered in jawbreaker candies of various colors, shapes, and sizes kneeled as he reported in, "What is thy bidding, my master?"
Pulling up a few portraits on his view-screens, the monster-leader answered, "These 'K-City Knights' display attack power exceeding what would be expected of heroes of their ranks. You are to find them when they are split up and fight them individually to collect combat data. The Hero Association may have begun sneaking powerful combatants into their lower ranks to throw even the more intelligent monsters such as myself off our guard; I'd like a confirmation one way or the other. If you defeat one of them, bring them here so I may conduct some experiments. Primary target is the girl, Kinetic Kaleidoscope, but the other two would-"
"I will bring her before you, or die trying." The Jawbreaker replied stoically.
"I beg your pardon?" The monster-scientist responded, taken aback, "I never approved a 'death before dishonor' mentality. If you're going to lose just disengage; in the early stages, probing attacks are sufficient. I'd rather not have to make another combat-candy to replace you."
"Oh. Thank you master, I just assumed I was expendable because you created me to fight." The Jawbreaker said.
"I'm not a callous poindexter who doesn't care about his creations. You and your brethren are the reason I do all this." His master said as he rose to return to his lab, "The Age of Man is ending, the Time of the Kandyman is nigh!"
