Can't risk letting human-eating monstrosities prowl around town and potentially decide to have a feast in those who can't defend themselves, especially if they are Momo and her family. No one touches them in my watch.
'
"I will buy it for another three thousand yens. " Soma said and the clerk smirked inside while giving out a gruff nod as if reluctant.
In all honesty, the clerk just wanted to get rid of the thing that was only occupying space by now. He would have sold the thing for half that price.
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With the gun laws out there even a toy gun was not something people would usually buy so getting someone to actually buy this fancy paperweight was great for the clerk.
Getting the gun in his hands together with the knives and other things Soma left the store and began his track to the local church. The last time he went there it was quite a nice place overall so it should still be quite filled with people, but the news of people carrying guns like the one he just bought there meant the place could be somewhat dangerous.
While walking to the church he very silently started the process of modifying the gun into a better Mystic Code. Mostly he just erased some of the redundancies of the process of turning magic energy into pure light while also imputing anti-demonic aspects to the light generated by said gun, it was honestly quite simple using his knowledge over alchemy and how to make and program mystic codes.
He did learn from the best when it comes to these things so something to this degree was rather easy, even if the final product wasn't spectacular or anything like that. It was just basic modifications to make the gun better, after all.
Passing by a vending machine he bought two bottles of water, drinking one immediately as he was rather thirsty, and since he did not know when combat could happen with demons in town it was better to be at the very least hydrated in case combat started.
After around twenty minutes of walking Soma finally arrived at the church, even if it was not like the place he remembers. The whole location looks quite decrepit with the church having several cracks with its paint falling off and the bushes and trees around growing all over the place.
An abandoned church through and through, but for Soma that was still fine either way.
He only needed a place that can be called sacred grounds to do his holy enchanting to his knives in preparation for the hunt of the demon(s) around town. Someone had to get rid of them before they killed the defenseless humans of town, after all, and Soma did not know if this world had anyone else capable of such a thing and there was no time to wait to investigate if there were such people.
The longer he waited the more humans would be eaten, that was one of the main lessons he learned from Jaques de Moleis, a legendary templar knight.
'Being merciful to demons is the easiest way to hurting the innocent. '
Well, not that Soma hated and was against ALL demons anyway. He has grown rather close to Ibaraki Douji and the other Onis that were in the Throne of Heroes, but he had no doubts they were still dangerous beings (like most other Heroic Spirits really) and he would not blindly trust an unknown demon unless he could be sure he could at the very least survive a confrontation if that happened.
When he knocked at the doors of the church he did not expect anyone to actually open the doors, considering how rundown it was and the air of abandonment the whole place was exuding, but unlike his thoughts someone actually opened the door.
It was a young man in his late teens to early twenties, an albino with white hair and crimson red eyes. With one look Soma could tell this man had a few screws losses and was quite insane, but he didn't really mind that all that much.
Many heroes in the Throne were completely deranged, and they were great friends as long as they weren't trying to kill him at the moment. It was all in how you would deal with them, for instance just ask Gil de Rais about Jeanne's good points and he would become as docile as they come.
"Oh, now this is interesting. A lost lamb coming to a decrepit house of God, are you connected to one of those shitty devils walking around this town?" The man questioned and Soma looked at him as if he was strange.
"Why would I be associated with such beings? I am not dumb enough to sell my soul to a devil or make deals with them, who knows what they might demand anyway. Just look at Faust, making deals with devils is bad business who just can't end up well.
" Soma said easily enough, partially because the deranged man was using priest clothing so being even slightly pro-devil/demon was a bad idea, and part because he has been close to Mephisto before in the throne.
Crazy fucker was worse to get along with the Giles de Rais, and if you are worst than the pedophilic mass murderer who made it a point to defile everything he could and commit every single sin possible, then you know he is bad news.
"Hoho, so why have you come to this place? It is quite a wreck and it is being used right now anyway. " Freed questioned, slight curiosity in his tone.
He has been here for three weeks now and this was the first time someone who wasn't in his group or expected showed up.
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Shrugging his shoulders Soma answered.
"I just need to be in some sort of sacred ground to bless some stuff, there are some dark presences on town and I'd rather be prepared in case they come after me or something. I would rather have something to stab them with in case one tries to chomp me or someone else around me, anyway.