[OPEN] fastforwarded to december 1. open house!!

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[ On December 1st, Hirajiro's residential district goes through a minor change, which is having Terry's two-story house appear right next to the Black Cat house. With Orien's help, Terry bought the land that the house sits on. Anyway, the house has two floors. The entire first floor has a living room, kitchen, and a bathroom with sink, toilet, and shower. When you climb up the stairs, you'll reach the second floor, which has four bedrooms with a bathroom connecting two bedrooms together. The bathrooms can be locked from the inside only. There is no master bedroom nor bathroom in this house. One of the rooms are soundproof, but Terry is not telling anyone which one it is. You'll have to find that out for yourself. AC and heater are fully functional.

Terry sent out a message to all the Guests. For those who don't have phones, Orien personally delivered the message to those people himself. The message is as follows:

We solved the housing situation. Terry will not ask anyone to pay rent, but the house isn't furnished at all except for a refrigerator and a fireplace. You'll have to buy supplies and furniture on your own. There are several conditions you need to accept if you choose to live here:

1) Please do not destroy the house or cause property damage. If you do, you're paying for the damages.
2) Clean up after yourselves. A clean house means no bugs and good standard of living.
3) Do not steal/take anything from the Black Cat house. (this needs to be mentioned because he had several door stealing incidents)

The address/general directions to the location has been mentioned, which is basically next door to the Black Cat house.

Feel free to make your own top levels and stuff. ]

Comments

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[ Seto smacks Terry on the back. I didn't realize how often he does this and how hard he does it... the crybaby really did turn into a twunk... ]

Ahaha, it's nothing to be embarrassed about! A lot of people like cats and probably won't find it that weird.

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[ WHY Terry looks distraught for a split second. He's exhausted. He doesn't like pain. Help. Also he gives up in trying to make Seto understand and looks over at Kido. ]

Yeah, Kido loves cats, but she'd still laugh at me anyway, nya.

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[ Seto follows Terry's gaze over to Kido. ]

Don't take it too hard. I'm sure she's just laughing because she thinks it's cute.

[ also lmk when seto should read terry's mind so he can starting going Hm ]

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[ Seto can read Terry's mind whenever you want, Ichi. No permissions. Go all out. ]

Cute, huh...

[ Terry thinks back to when Kido was saying the nya stuff too, but he was a dog back then, so it's not like he could fully appreciate that. Kido was so cute though... and he was given that horrible video evidence by 45 just the previous day because that's when she also sent it to Kido, and he thinks back on that.

Context matters, but... man... that would have been hot if it was used under the right situation. ]

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Yeah, when we were younger, she--

[ He was about to tell the story about them in the orphanage, how Kano once turned into a cat and Kido completely changed her tune, getting all excited about it. He would have left some details out to give more of a generic story, but the Kotengu decided that now is a good time to give him back his eye ability. Unlike the others, there are still some times when his ability goes out of control, typically when he's distressed, but with how it suddenly comes back to him in the moment, it just turns "on". ]

[ His eyes turn red and suddenly, he's going through Terry's thoughts and... oh no, his face is going red too. He's just pure red. ]

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[ Terry's just thinking of the time when he had deeper kisses with her and maybe he should just... take it slow for her. But his thoughts are interrupted when he sees Seto going red. ]

... You okay, nya?

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[ Seto has heard and seen some terrible things when he was a kid, still trying to adjust to his powers, but this... this may be the worst one yet. It's all the more embarrassing because it's Kido and he just wants to bury his face in his hands. In fact, he does that with one hand right now. ]

Y-Yeah, just-- just give me a minute.

[ God, this is so fucking awkward and such a breach of privacy. This is why he hates his eye ability so much. He can't apologize enough to Terry... holding his head for another second and trying to compose himself, he finally looks up, eyes still red. ]

Did Kido ever tell you about our abilities?

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[ He briefly wonders if Kido ever used her eye ability when they kissed since his mind is still on that topic. Anyway, he nods. ]

Yeah, hers is hiding presence with a radius of two meters or something, nya. You have one too, nya...

[ He can see that from the way Seto's eyes are red, but he doesn't know what his does. ]

Does it make you sick, nya?

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[ terry, holy shit, stop fucking thinking. why do you think during the one that you shouldn't?? ]

No, it's... it's the ability to read minds and--

[ His face is progressively getting redder. ]

I'm sorry! I didn't mean to use it. It sometimes turns on by itself.

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[ Give him a break he's a 40k year old virgin with normal thoughts--

Terry stares at Seto and. Oh.

Oh...

Terry's head might as well turn into a tomato. Too bad that doesn't stop his thoughts from remembering the times when Kido was a lot bolder. ]

Can you, like... turn it off, nya?

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When it acts up like this, it takes a while...

[ Typically, he can do it by focusing and calming down, but that's when he's distressed and it acts up. When it occurs like it did in his childhood, sudden and random, he just has to wait it out. ]

So... you and Kido...

[ They're sharing a house... hm.... ]

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... We didn't go that far, nya.

[ He doesn't know how to feel about it, so Seto will just sense frustration. ]

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Still... I didn't expect Kido to be in a relationship...

[ Not that there's anything against her, but she's... yeah, she's just the way she is and Seto just couldn't have imagined it. His sister, all grown up... ]

How long have you been together?

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[ I didn't expect Terry to be in one either when I apped, so that makes two of us, Seto. Lmao.

Terry thinks back. ]

We started in August. It's December now.

[ Even if it feels like forever to him. ]

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[ He nods. Even a few months is progress. ]

This might be a strange question, so you don't have to answer it, but are you two happy?

[ Terry seems like a good guy and all, so he just hopes that Kido is doing okay. He seems to have missed out on a lot of stuff. ]

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[ Ah. Terry looks hesitant for a moment. There's a lot of things running through his mind at breakneck speed, like a mishmash of flashbacks. It's pretty much all the bad memories where he almost killed Kido. He bites his bottom lip, but he does think about Kido's words when he came back from having taken over by a Shadow, saying that she wanted him there. That's all he wanted to hear from her. ]

... I'm happy, nya. You'll have to ask her if she feels the same, nya.

[ It's really bittersweet. ]

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[ Seto supposes that it's kind of a dirty trick, to ask a question and supposedly give them an option to not answer it yet having the ability to read their mind. Stealing eyes isn't particularly powerful right now, turning on solely as an accident, so it can't keep up with all the flashbacks or memories, but he can get a general idea. So, he just nods and smiles. ]

I'm glad.

[ He doesn't know if he should just approach Kido and bring it up suddenly, but he will have to tell her that he accidentally discovered their relationship. Based on what he knows of Kido, he can't imagine her enjoying PDA or being very open about it, so he'll have to show some tact for starting that conversation. As he ponders over this, his eyes revert back to their regular brown colour and now, he can't hear any more thoughts or feelings. ]

Ah, it turned off now. Sorry again about that. I don't use my ability unless I really have to and accidents are... rare, but I try to keep myself away when it happens.

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It's fine, nya. Sorry you had to, uh... see all that, nya...

[ ... ]

You should probably keep the power hidden, nya. Some people here are really really touchy about keeping secrets and everything to thrmselves.

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[ He nods. He can understand that. He's not fond of wanting to learn about people's secrets, anyway. ]

Thanks, Terry, I'll keep that in mind. I only normally use it on animals, but I'll be more careful around the house and others so I'll head out to the forest for that.

[ It's actually nice having a forest nearby. It's just like when he was a kid and ran off in there for entire days and maybe a night or two when the sun went down and he couldn't direct himself back home anymore. ]

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Don't tell Kido about that, nya. She'll scream at you that there are bears and stuff, nya.

[ ...

He grins. ]

You know? She used to talk so much about you, nya. You're a really dependable guy as I thought you'd be, nya.

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[ He laughs a little. Yeah, he can definitely imagine Kido yelling at him because he went out into the woods. It reminds him of the time that he ran out into the forest and disappeared for an entire day, meeting Mary. He got a real chewing when he returned. ]

Haha, she's probably giving me too much credit. I hope she didn't say anything from our childhood.

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Not about your childhood, but she kept saying about how you knew stuff about animals all the time like you were some animal guru, nya. It was like she was proud of you, or something, nya. It was cute.

[ ...

Anyway. ]

I'm glad that you're here, nya. She missed her family a lot...

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[ That's so cute, Kido... He smiles when he thinks about how she talked about him. An animal guru, huh? Yeah, that sounds about right. ]

... I'm glad I'm here too. I didn't think I'd ever see her again so I'm happy that I have this opportunity to be with her.

[ Especially after thinking that he would never be able to see her again. ]

Time must work differently here, if she was here for all these months.

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[ Terry nods to that. ]

It's a mess of time space continuum, nya. I once left this place for thousands of years, but only a day passed here, nya.

[ hi I'm old ]

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--thousands of years?

[ yet you're still stupid ]