The vendor chuckled and was already at work for the order. It wasn't long before it was all packed and passed over to Junichiro, "Run off now and tell your mom 'congratulations' from me, alright?"
Junichiro gave the vendor a little clueless smile and nodded, "Sure thing!"
He barely managed to hold in his giggles until he was out of sight. He loved that excuse! Tell any person in the service industry that you were the gopher for a pregnant woman and they'd do a lot to help and wouldn't argue about anything weird you were buying. Especially not weird or unhealthy food as a kid.
Once he started eating, after slipping his bracelet back on, he pondered which stores he should try to hit for supplies before heading home. He definitely needed to make something else to help hide his mana before it got too much bigger. He munched on his breakfast while keeping an eye out for any hardware stores. Maybe he'd ask directions later. Might need to even take the train to find a place. Ah well, something to do after breakfast! He was definitely looking forward to the work though!
Junichiro paused in the middle of walking, his hand holding his breakfast just in front of his mouth. He stared wide eyed at a building directly across the street from him. For a moment he wondered if he was an idiot. It felt like he was an idiot. Though further thought showed that he was, thankfully, not actually and idiot just somewhat forgetful and a tad ignorant.
Directly across from him sat an internet cafe. One of dozens within the city. One where anyone, any acceptable age, could go and rent a computer for a few hours. A computer with internet access. Internet access that would let him buy anything legal online. Things he could easily have delivered to the junkyard's address since no one payed any attention to it. Things like a proper coal forge, anvil, tools, coal itself, even raw materials.
His eyes widened further as he realized he could sell things online as well! Not magical things, obviously. But, once he had proper materials and tools he would easily be one of the top ten best blacksmiths on the planet. Mostly because he could cheat rather than raw talent. Even then, his ability to work metal as an apprentice Artificer would easily be somewhere around a top tier Journeyman or low tier Master. Cheating with magic would make his mundane creations equal to a Grand Master, easily.
Junichiro grinned to himself and kept walking and looking for other things. The internet wasn't the place it would be in another ten to fifteen years. Places like eBay were still relatively new so he shouldn't have much of an issue buying stuff from them using a prepaid credit card. Those could be bought in any convenience store on the street. It was receiving money he would have trouble with, but he'd think of something.
This idea was infinitely better than what he'd been thinking before. He'd originally been thinking of heading out to contact the yokai faction. Of the four factions in Japan that he was aware of, the yokai seemed the least scummy. He might have considered the exorcist families and their faction, being human himself, except they were supremacists that looked down on any humans not born in their clans. Hell, they even killed their own clansmen if there was anything 'wrong' with them. Sick bastards.
No way in hell was he going to look to the church and the angels. The angels might not be too bad, but the church was a horrid cesspit of hypocrisy and evil. If you weren't with them then you were against them, regardless of anything else. No way in hell was he going anywhere near them. Maybe some of their exorcists... In a few years when it's less creepy and he's not a shota.
Up next on the 'nuh uh' list, Devils. He wasn't certain who, if anyone, was the current local devil in Japan. If he recalled correctly someone named... Belial? Whatever. The person before Rias was killed for... reasons. Whatever they were, he can't remember everything. Anyway. After her he was pretty certain Kuoh was abandoned by the devils until Rias took over years later. He could be wrong, of course. Regardless, he wanted nothing to do with any devils that weren't either Rias or Sona. They were the only ones he felt he could potentially trust. The rest were far too likely to abuse his skills.
So, unless he was forgetting a faction, that just left the yokai headed by Yasaka. He knew they weren't all sunshine and rainbows, no faction was. Yet, he couldn't recall anything supremely bad being done by them. Yasaka seemed pretty nice and Kunou was a treasure to be protected! He was certain there were plenty of bad yokai, some traitors if he remembered right. But finding a friendly yokai shop to sell his stuff in? Probably would have been his best bet. Hell, he still might do that, once he's strong enough to protect himself with bullshit magical items.
Thoughts for the future.