Cursed to Infinity Chapter 29 (Patreon)

The long night's horrid nature and the frigid, cursed energy running through the air were made all the more manageable... With sexy twins filling your bed.

But there wasn't any time... Nor were the twins remotely interested in some hanky-panky while lying in the room their parents were torn apart.

And as the sun rose on a new day, I could still see the dark shadow where her parent's blood and gore permanently stained the bamboo flooring that hadn't been replaced.

Stretching a bit, I gave the two girls a bit of a shake with Anya and Alyx groaning as they too awoke. "Why... Why are you waking us up?" Anya groaned tiredly.

"We need to get some groceries if we are going to stay on the down low for the rest of the week. And... We need to give this place a good cleanup with some new floor panels." I said firmly.

The room went quiet as no one wanted to talk about the elephant in the room. The stained remains.

Both girls burrowed deeper into my arms before Alyx spoke softly. "It's still hard to think about."

And for a while we just lay there until, at an unspoken signal, we got up and got ready to go out. 

Heading out into the slum district of Tokyo where sorcerers, curse users, and even Hunters with demon/devil contracts would turn their noses up at the thought of visiting.

We headed straight to the holy land of the area. The economic zone of which not even curses, devils, or demons could shut down.

The street corner 7-11 which opened up with a loud hiss and as we walked into the corner store there was a late teen working the register which was 'protected' by a bullet proof plastic screen with the teen sitting there on his phone playing some mobile game.

"Welcome to 7-11... We are having a special on egg sandwiches on the back for the next four hours. Please enjoy your stay." The teen said in an utterly lifeless drone voice.

As it seemed that the power of this desolate area had broken even this teen's ability to even try to do the typical Japanese manners that was customary in the service industry.

Still, I sent a head nod to the teen who was locked into Honkai Impact 3rd maybe? Some game with girls yelling out there attacks as we quickly walked around grabbing snacks, drinks, and other things.

"Jake, should we get a jar of pickles to snack on?" Alyx asked with a brighter smile as she held up the massive jar of pickles that was almost the size of my chest.

'What the hell? I thought bulk pickles was just a thing in America?' I mused before my face twitched as Anya also brought out a large ceramic jar and asked with a pout.

"Jake... Can we make our own kimchi at home? You know how much I like spicy food?"

A sigh left me as I said helplessly. "Girls... You realize how much of a pain in the ass it's going to be to carry all this back right?" 

To which the two shared a look and Alyx said casually. "Just leave some more money behidn and we can borrow this shopping cart for a few days?"

Borrow my ass!

Still I had made plenty of money with my healing and other nonsense. And with how stressed these two were... I decided to just go along with it. It's not like the underage teen worker was going to fight to the death with a normie stealing a shopping cart from his dead end job.

Bringing up all the good's to the checkout, the teen finally looked up... Took one look at the twins next to me. Gave me the dirtiest look possible before he pushed a scanner through the revolving latch and said blandly.

"Scan all your items, when you pay I will give you, your bag's afterwards." 

'Damn... I don't even get my shit bagged for me.' I thought helplessly but I let Anya happily grab the scanner and get to work scanning our stuff.

But as she got to work, we paused as another flare of cursed energy filled the air and the teen inside the locked up box stiffened before he shot out of the chair and hid under the counter with a flare of cursed energy ringing out as well from below.

Clearly some method to hide himself in some sealed armored box or something probably.

My face pinched as the door to the 7-11 opened up and... A 'mostly' humanoid figure walked in with extremely long fingernails as he otherwise looked like a stick figure of a giant thumb for a torso, and his limbs and head were just finger's.

"The... Finger devil?" I asked out loud curiously as I filled the air with my cursed energy and readied to blast it with a Shout.

The devil hearing my words snapped towards me, and I could see my face reflected on its well-polished fingernail, and then a female voice rang out from the stick figure. "I am the Fingernail Devil thank you very much!"

Then as though sensing my outward cursed energy, it stiffened before it continued quickly. "I don't want any trouble! I am just here for more nail polish, paint and to get some files as I go through them so quickly in my shop!"

I actually paused at that before Anya spoke quietly. "Jake... The Finger Nail Devil run's an underground nail salon in the area where they eat the discarded finger and toe nails from the people who take contracts with her to get extremely well-coordinated hand-eye coordination. She doesn't kill anyone."

I couldn't help the facepalm. I was now debating killing an underground nail salon owner because of her race... What has my life become at this point.

"Let's just go, the cashier is already in his little bunker and can't take our money." I said, throwing my hands up in surrender to the bullshit of today. At least back in KJT, I only had to worry about Todo jumping my ass for a sparring session.