By the time Kana Shizumi reached his destination, it was around eleven at night.
As mentioned before, the destination was some distance from Osaka Station. After arriving, Kana Shizumi was in no hurry to get to work. Instead, he first looked for somewhere to stay.
A manga café was naturally the more economical option.
After all, he could stay there without registering his identity. Although accommodations in this damned country did not require an ID card or anything like that, he still had to judge for himself how cautious to be when away from home.
If a moment of carelessness gave Satoru Gojo the chance to catch him, that would quite literally be more trouble than it was worth.
"Your room is this way. Your allotted time starts now and ends at nine tomorrow morning-"
Kana Shizumi had heard this sort of thing far too often. He gave a few perfunctory responses and got it over with.
He headed into the room.
Though they called it that, it was really just a rectangular tatami cubicle.
There was no bed. An old desktop computer occupied roughly a third of the space, alongside a foldable floor sofa.
Kana Shizumi cleared enough room to lie down, then settled in and rested with his eyes closed for over an hour before sitting up again.
The rate at which a half-human, half-cursed spirit recovered his energy was clearly a little different.
He switched on the computer, stretched, and ordered some beef curry rice while he was at it.
Manga cafés offered services like that too, though of course they charged extra.
Eating his large serving of curry rice, Kana Shizumi began browsing the relevant information.
As for his destination this time...
It was within Osaka's Konohana Ward.
Since he lacked the relevant geographical knowledge, a