Cursed World
'Run.' That was the only thing Toji could think of as he watched his cursed energy being permanently consumed by the Curse of Inventory seal and not recovering.
Without caring if everyone died right now, he had only one priority: to save himself and Nakame.
Running, using only his physical energy and body as the engine, Toji shot forward at a speed faster than before, becoming nothing more than a blur to normal eyes.
"15, 14, 13, 12." While explosions reverberated behind him, Toji kept counting the seconds because he knew that the Gun Devil had only been active for 26 seconds before dying and its flesh would disperse.
**BOOM.**
Narrowly avoiding an explosion, Toji continued running, oblivious to the world around him.
**BOOM.**
**PULSE.**
As an explosion echoed behind him, he felt his Curse of Inventory seal pulsing, which was strange because all it had done until now was absorb his cursed energy and nothing more.
"5, 4, 3, 2." Without finishing his mental count, Toji incredibly saw a car flying in front of him and crashing into a house.
"1." Finishing his mental count, Toji, along with an unconscious Nakame who had fainted from shock, entered a medium-sized, luxurious-looking but half-destroyed white house with a hole in the center that seemed to belong to an average family, but he recoiled at the sight of completely unrecognizable crushed corpses and equally lifeless children.
Toji felt the need to vomit but stopped to think.
"I can search the house and take valuable items." Toji said as he went upstairs, leaving Nakame by the door of one of the rooms.
He had never stolen before and didn't really want to, especially from the deceased, but he couldn't help it because in this cursed world, "Survival is all that matters."
Toji knew in a world like this, there were no good or bad people, only the strong and those who knew how to survive according to their interests.
You had to seize the opportunities that the world gave you. If you could gain a strong ally, gain them, no matter what it took. If you could improve your job position but had to step on others, there would be no mercy because only you could be the king, and only you decided what your life would be like.
However, he had to hurry; he knew that the police would arrive in his area at any moment, along with firefighters and ambulances to help the injured and rescue the dead from the rubble.
Entering the first room, he saw that it was a child's room. Without hesitation, he approached and searched the closet, where he found sleeping bags and backpacks, things that would serve him perfectly for survival.
Taking the backpacks and sleeping bags, he left them where Nakame was and focused on going to the adult's room, where he immediately saw a large painting. Without thinking twice, he hit the wall, breaking the painting in the process, regardless of whether it was valuable or not
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Seeing what he was looking for, which was a safe containing three large bundles of money, he grabbed them and returned to where Nakame was, stuffing the money into his backpack.
(3 hours later)
After thoroughly searching the house, he discovered a room that was more like an office where there was another safe.
In total, he had 3 million yen, which would be more than enough to leave Tokyo for a while.
Arriving where Nakame was, he found her staring blankly into space, visibly subdued and sad, looking in the direction where the bodies were mangled.
Approaching, Toji hugged Nakame from behind, embracing her protectively, causing her to shiver for a moment before breaking into a sharp, broken cry.
Gently stroking her head, he let her cry while making a decision in his head.
"Once we turn 17, I'll get her out of Japan. She should live a life far away from here," Toji thought in his mind as he softly stroked the girl's hair. She turned around and hugged him tightly while still crying.
"Cry as much as you want; I'll be here," Toji said softly, focusing on gently caressing the girl's hair as she buried herself in his chest even more while letting out a muffled cry due to their position.
After 10 minutes, sirens began to be heard, and quickly Toji had to react.
Backing away slightly and gently caressing her face, Toji hugged Nakame and spoke to the girl, who no longer had her angelic appearance that he liked. Instead, her eyes were red from crying, and her soft, green hair was stained with dirt.
"We need to move," Toji said, separating from her and grabbing the heaviest backpack before starting to walk.
**PULSE**
With a groan, Toji fell to his knees due to the pain emanating from his shoulder where the seal was.
Struggling to get up because of the pain, he was suddenly helped by Nakame, and forced him to place his hand on her shoulder.
The two orphans, now both without parents or family, left the house with only each other to rely on and no one to trust to survive. Now it was just the two of them in a Cursed World.
(13 years later, October 2014)
After the catastrophe, they had spent the money they obtained within 5 months. They had to bribe several people to secure a house and protection from the gang leaders in case they came for Nakame, whoever was looking for her.
If you wonder why protection, the original plan was that the gang members would die first in case they were assassins or agents of the association themselves. This would give them time to escape and plan something.
However, they never came, and Toji was forced to eliminate the gang that was guarding them in a bloody battle. He won, and that finally awakened his Cursed Inventory, which was the most painful thing in the world. It felt like a piece of his body was being ripped off. He almost died because, despite the fact that the bastards were weak, their leader was a very resilient Fork Devil. In this time, he discovered something quite interesting.
1. His Cursed Inventory brings all the weapons from the Toji Canon, which means that the Reversed Heaven Spear, the Thousand Mile Chain, and the Wandering Cloud were in his "Inventory Pet." Seeing them all together was a surprise for him.
2. His cursed energy allows him to heal wounds and strengthen his body, but it runs out very quickly, and he can only use it for a maximum of 3 minutes.
He forced Nakame out of the country, making her study abroad in the United States under the name Rita. While she was reluctant, his name as an assassin and Demon Hunter in his profession, or at least what he called himself, allowed her to improve and earn a lot of money easily. he was already gaining strength rapidly and was known as "one of the strongest human hunters without contracts" in the underworld of Chainsaw Man.
(4:00 PM in Tokyo at an unknown location)
In an elegant house, a tall man with small eyes and long black hair with bangs that reached his chin, framing it slightly, and a scar that started near his lower left lip and reached his upper left lip, was seen. He wore a tight black short-sleeved shirt that clung to his body, accentuating his powerful physique. His baggy light-colored pants were held up by a dark belt, and he wore black loafers as shoes.
Wrapped around his body was a giant brown worm that coiled around him from the left side of his abdomen, going around his lower back, continuing through his right ribs, passing through his chest, and finally coiling around his right shoulder.
In front of him stood a man with a curious look, smiling at him without emotion.
"Are you Toji Fushiguro, or should I call you Toji Zenin?" spoke the man, looking at the powerful figure in front of him.
Without a word, Toji pointed a gun that he took from the mouth of his Cursed Inventory directly at the man's head, gazing at him intently.
"What is it?" said Toji, aiming directly at the man's head without hesitation or trembling, appearing as an experienced assassin.
The man looked at him with a pleased and curious smile, observing the worm that had provided a gun to the assassin in front of him.
"I want you to go fetch some demon corpses and, by the way, kill a few associates of a certain man along with a new recruit who has a contract with the fox demon. I need to show him who's in charge," said the man in front of Toji with a complacent and somewhat eerie smile, something that didn't seem to bother Toji.
Lowering the gun slightly, Toji simply asked somewhat lazily, "Name of the man and the boy."
"Kishibe and Aki Hayakawa, although I'll understand if you can't get them. After all, Kishibe is the strongest," the man said with a bored smile, taunting the assassin in front of him.
"Accepted," said Toji indifferently as he lowered the weapon.
End of Ch.