Chapter 9: Rank Up

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~Tsukiya's POV~

It's been a while since the Deep Sea King, us three were walking home from the grocery store, carrying groceries of course. Suddenly a package fell from the sky.
Saitama: What is this?
Tsukiya: A package?
Genos: It's mail, mailman cannot come here so they parachute it in.
Saitama: They do that!
Genos: No, the hero association fowards it.
Saitama: Oh.
Genos opens it to see many letters.
Tsukiya: Woah, there are so many.
Genos: They are mostly fan letters from ordinary people.
Saitama: Really?! Any for me!
Tsukiya: Ah, there's five for you.
Saitama: Give me!
Tsukiya: Why are you so excited?
Saitama: Shush!
Genos pours the rest out.
Genos: There are quite a lot for you too Senpai.
Tsukiya: Really?
Genos quickly separates out mail and gave me my pile. I open to see girly handwriting and embarrassing letters.
Tsukiya: I-I can't read anymore.
Genos: Why?
Tsukiya: It's...
Genos: You get easily embarrassed Senpai.
Tsukiya: Be quiet!
Saitama: ...
The letters Saitama gets were threats.
Genos: How dare they...I will look into these senders...
Saitama: Don't they have anything better to do?
I grab the hate mail and crumble them.
Tsukiya: I'll burn this later.
Genos: Allow me.
Genos grabs it from my me and lits his hand.
Genos: Incinerate!
The mail burns while I clap. Saitama smiles and I lean over to read the last letter.

"To the hero Saitama, THANK YOU!!"

Tsukiya: Aww, that's nice!
Genos: An acquaintance?
Saitama: I dunno, but he's thanking me.
Genos: You must've helped him.
Genos was holding two letters in his hands.
Saitama: What's that you're holding?
Genos: It's from the hero association, one for you and one for Senpai.
Tsukiya: Me too?
Saitama: I must've been fired, oh well.
I opened mine the same time as Saitama.
Saitama: Class-C, Rank 1...
Tsukiya: The Hero Association is deciding to whether or not you'll move up to Class-S...
Saitama and Tsukiya: Come to the association now to see results.
We look at each other and shrug.
Saitama: Lets go.

We head to the association, Saitama is wearing a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops while I went more casual yet stylish.

Saitama: Soo, Why are we here again?Man: Have you ever read the manual you received when you joined?Saitama: Are you going to chew me out?Tsukiya: Were we suppose to read that?Man: No, it's fine that you didn't read it

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Saitama: Soo, Why are we here again?
Man: Have you ever read the manual you received when you joined?
Saitama: Are you going to chew me out?
Tsukiya: Were we suppose to read that?
Man: No, it's fine that you didn't read it. Congratulations for Saitama on advancing to Class-C, Rank 1.
Tsukiya: Are you the ones ranking heroes?
Man: The board is generally large but we four are the ones who will be interviewing you two. Now, Saitama, would you rather move to Class-B or stay? If you move to Class-B then you have to be bottom rank again.
Saitama: I don't really care but why not? It means no weekly quota for heroic deeds right? (With Genos in Class-S and Tsukiya moving to Class-S soon, I can't stay behind in Class-C forever.)
Man: That's a yes then.
Woman: We have some simple questions for you Saitama, fill this exam. Have a seat once you take this paper.
Saitama: You wanna know my motivation and stuff?
Tsukiya: What about me?
Woman: For you Kuze-
Tsukiya: Tsukiya, address me as that please.
Woman: Sorry, Tsukiya, all of us on the board agree to move you up to Class-S if you wanted to and you start at Class-S, Rank 18. First we need to consult to someone for you to move up, do you want to be Class-S?
Tsukiya: Yeah, I'm fine with that.
Saitama: Congrats!
Woman: Please fill this out Tsukiya and we'll rate for both of your results.

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