Chapter 2: setting up shop

Takumi panted heavily as he finally made his way back to his house. His head was dripping with sweat, running from the top of his head to his chin. He's only been running for less than an hour, and Takumi's legs feel like they are about to fall off. Walking past his front door, which is also the front desk, to where his shop is. The place is large size and well organize, with enough space for four line of bookshelf, the wall are decorated with picture of diffirent characters from diffirent show that is now also genderbend, the man in them is wearing skimpy outfit that show alot of skin and girl that are now the main character, is shown to be topless. In his old world, he decided to sell manga because it was interesting to him. Plus, the shop was located where the young teens would normally go by. So the place got a decent number of customer, especially the nerdy ones, as this was considered to be their safe house. There's a separate room with an open round table space for some customers to relax and read. Glanced at the clock behind the counter wall, the clock showed 6:13 AM. 'Man, I need to train harder.' He reminded himself while getting inside. His manga store is located right in Sendai City, the very same city where the first season takes place. If he got lucky, maybe he could dodge Yuuji or Megumi, not that he hates them or anything. It just so happens that almost every worst thing that happened in the show, they are caught in it. Yuuji, who became Sukuna's vessel, and Megumi, who is suicidal, to summoned to the Shibuya incident. So until he can consider himself to be someone who is at the very least a grade 1 soccerer, he won't be involving himself in the story if he can help it. Takumi goes to wash his face before opening his store, but while doing so. He suddenly got an idea. Closing his eyes and focusing on his technique. As he opened his eyes again, his vision now showed two more identical people standing looking at him. All three of them were looking exactly alike, from each strain of hair on their head, down to the wrinkles they have on the shirt they were wearing that were also the same. "Haha, I did it.""" The three Takumi said at the same time. He has successfully used his curse technique, he was about to jump up and celebrate when a wave of tiredness hit him. Takumi can feel tired as the cost of all the current energy he has in his body. "Great, not only am I weak physically but in curse energy as well." But his cloning technique works, as his human consciousness is in all three bodies. Moving around, besides the current body, which he considers the main one, the other two don't feel the same tiredness. "Alright, soI'mm Takumi main, and you two from now shall be Takumi 1nd and Takumi 2nd," Takumi said, pointing to his two clones, both of them nodding in response. "Well, technically, we are all the same, since we are all just one person controlling three bodies." Takumi 1nd said. "And we can change the body of the real and clone whenever we want." Takumi 2nd add-on. "But what if people started asking questions? I'm pretty sure another curse user can feel our curse energy." Takumi 1nd ask. "Let's just say we're triplets," Takumi answered. "You'll think that works ?" Takumi 1nd said sarcastically. "Whatever, let's just use that as an excuse for now. Here, wear this, you two." Takumi said. Tossing the clone some new shirts. They change into their new outfit, while Takumi wears a white t-shirt in long trousers. Takumi 1nd would wear an all-sleeved black shirt, sporting a more emo look. Takumi 2nd is wearing a black short-sleeved button-down shirt. Once done with the new outfit, the two clones headed down the stairs and started with their task. 1st is cleaning the shelf and 2nd is the one to hang the store sign. "Takumi books and manga" Takumi 1nd, while cleaning the bobookshelfdecided to turn on the TV. "We are back again at channel 6, on today's news. The 63rd law on men's protection has just been announced." *bzz* "Men are the foundation of our country, with the ratio standing at 4 to 6. What would we have after 500-" *bzz* "You wanna know why, men have a 56% chance of being rape, senator? Do you want to know why? It's-" *bzz* Every channel talks about men's politics like it's the end of the world. And the lack of males in every channel is astounding. *ding* the store doorbell rang as Takumi 2nd wwalkedpass. "All done." Soon enough, the place was open and ready for customers. Takumi 1nd would handle the register desk, and Takumi 2nd would go grocery shopping. While the clone bodies did all the hard work, the main Takumi could lie in bed and figure out a way for him to get stronger. One obvious path is to exorcise the spirit, taking out his flip phone. Takumi likes old school stuff like this; it made him stand out more among his friends, and he was known as a boomer. But he didn't care, 'if it's still work, then why throw it away? Y' Tha Y's what he always says. Open up the map, and try searching for any place that is abandoned or haunted. A lot of places show up, but he only sees very few among them that might have curses. It was the afternoon when a customer finally showed up. *ding* The doorbell rang, signaling that a customer had entered the store. Takumi 1nd, who was on the counter, fixed his shirt and was ready to greet the first customer. "Greetings, welcome to Takumi Books and Manga. How may I help you?" Putting up a bright smile, he greeted, but midway, Takumi was surprised, realizing this person who just entered his shop was.