Defeating numerous villains in the abandoned area in Z City but still having problems with rent money (and continued harassment from the landlady who says he is a couple of weeks old ), Saitama speaks with a shopowner who is being forced by a regional gang to concede his store deed. A lot of shops have gone out of business along with also his store is the one. A few of his stooges and also a conversation between the gang boss reveal that the boss has had an urge to get out all the stores in the region to destroy them.