Before leaving his house Soma had to think carefully in regards to what he should do before getting out. He has no idea what sort of creature might be in town and it has probably sensed his magic, thus why it came to his house earlier.
"Think, what did Ciel-sensei and Lorelei-sama had told me in regards to hunting monsters. " Soma said, remembering one of his kinder instructors and the decidedly not kind teacher he had.
Ciel was a female exorcist of the highest caliber and had managed to reach the Throne of Heroes exactly because of how she was able to face off the strongest beings in the world and her immortality. As for Lorelei Barthomeloi, she was a member of the strongest Magus family and one that became a legend amongst magus due to being able to make even Dead Apostles run away in fear of her and making sport out of hunting down legendary monsters who lived for thousands of years.
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The two were extremely knowledgeable individuals in regards to how to deal with monsters in a modern era, and were both extremely capable and demanding instructors.
"First things first, I need to not be easily detected by the enemy. I must be the one hunting, not the other way around.
" Soma said, this lesson was one both women agreed with and was thus his first decision.
For that Soma decided to construct a simple enough mystic code, ending up making one using a milk bottle cap. It was a ridiculous material, but it worked easily enough seeing as it was made out of metal and what he wanted was only to mask his magic signature further after he closed his magic circuits.
With that done Soma nodded to himself, choosing a simple pair of jeans and a hoodie to make him as average and unnoticeable as possible. The Mystic Code bottle cap safely put in his pocket, it was able to hide what minuscule amount of magic energy which could be sensed by others after he closed his magic circuits so it was now safe to go about his way.
The first place he went to what a pawn shop, these sorts of places would sell all sorts of things and it would be open at this time despite being somewhat later into the day, already dark out and all that. The shop was somewhat distant, being a one-hour walk from his house, so he just called a taxi to reach there faster.
Of course, since he doesn't know if whatever being that came to his house left a surveillance system he could not yet detect, he made the taxi stop 15 minutes away from the shop in front of another store which he entered.
Said store had a side path to leave so it would be easier to make anyone that could be following him lose him in the crowd.
Quickening his steps without reaching the point of calling attention to himself Soma reached the pawnshop.
"Welcome to Bookers and Brokers, what would you like?" A tired old man's voice came from the back of the store. Looking over said clerk it was an obese middle-age man with little hair and a clearly uninterested face.
"I just want to take a look around, see if anything catches my fancy. " Soma said and ignored the man who also stopped bothering paying attention to Soma, it was late already and the clerk was more interested in closing the shop than paying attention to a customer that would likely not buy anything in the end.
As for Soma, he started looking around at all the items he could find. There were several knives and other such things for sale including two well-made and sharp trench knives that would work well enough as well.
He also took a few good luck charms in the form of several deities and saints of different cultures, those things could be arranged in his house using feng chui that could help ward off demonic beings to a satisfactory degree.
It was not perfect, but it would work for now at least.
He also bought a bible and cross, those things were useful if a demonic being or even a dead apostle showed up since it would lower their power somewhat. And finally, there were several cheap silver rings and other such simple jewelry that he decided to buy, he could make them into more stable Mystic Codes later on to be able to protect himself.
Going to the counter the man looked at all the items for a while before speaking.
"So, you are like those weird priest guys that were in the church a few years back? Well, not that I care either way as I never really understood what the hell they needed these sort of things for. " The clerk said before doing the math and nodding to himself.
"That will be twenty-one thousand yen, and if you want you can go ahead and buy this too. The others always bought these anyway.
"
The man then showed him a gun of all things.
"This is a toy gun, as far as I can tell. Don't work for any bullet I can find so it can only really be a toy to play around with.
I bought from one of you guys thinking it was interesting and could be sold for a good price, but no one wants to buy this shit anyway. The gun laws and all that make people fearful of buying a gun, even if it a toy like this one.
So, want to add this or not?" The clerk said, clearly wanting to get rid of the 'toy' gun already.
As for Soma, he took the gun and used a quick Structural Grasp on it to try and understand what it was.
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'It seems to be a rather simple Mystic Code, turning magic energy into pure light for some reason, it doesn't seem to have any actual anti-demon runes in it but I can arrange to add them easily enough. It would be a great weapon against whatever monster is prowling the streets and, with some luck, I can snipe it before it goes on a hunt.