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

[overstrain]

[ 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

[overstrain]

[ If you need to contact Terry for any reason, he'll be standing outside the new house, looking exhausted. He skipped a full day of work for this. If anyone wants to ask him anything or whatever, he'll be here. ]

I can't believe it's finally done, nya...

[ That's also a thing. ]

[reveilation]

So this sort of thing can also appear... That's so sketchy.

[ It's a house and she can't complain, coming over from next door with a train of 35 cats behind her to look around this new house. They aren't going to live there, because Espeon would throw them out the window or something, but they're here for housewarming day until they're kicked out.

Kido herself is just going around to see what works. For a house that's suddenly dropped from the sky or whatever, it's remarkable that the place hasn't completely crumbled. The lights and water work. She opens the fridge to see what's inside and hopes it hasn't been 40k years since Terry last cleaned it out.

In the living room... Kido tapes a piece of paper on one blank wall that says "Space reserved." ]

[overstrain]

[ Orien unsealed Terry's powers just so that he can use his speed to quickly clean the house and make sure there isn't anything horrible, like expired food in the fridge. There's nothing in the fridge. Everything is so clean... it looks like a new house. His powers are immediately sealed after he's done with that though.

Terry walks up to Kido when he sees the paper. ]

What's the wall gonna be used for?

[compendiem]

[ Nya...

Minato has no business being here, but he's here anyways, because this is probably the largest otherworldly thing that's come here. The implications are... not very good, but he keeps his opinions to himself and instead goes upstairs to where the bedrooms are.

...

He jumps up and down for a bit, listening to the way his shoes echo inside the empty room, and then does the same with his hands cupped around his mouth. ]

Hello—-!

[ It's that weird echoey quality of a completely empty room. So weird. He loves it. He's not living here, but climbing up one set of stairs and jumping two or three times is physically exhausting, so he goes ahead and lies down in the middle of the room, on his back with his hands clasped over his stomach. Eventually, Espeon comes around to lie on his face and stop him from breathing, but Espeon is cool so Minato forgives him and allows himself to be suffocated. He's like one of Kido's 35 cats that you have to kick out in order to make the house hospitable. ]

[windbreakers]

[ Let's just assume that Seto has settled in... it's been almost a week since he arrived so I guess he's just been trying to pick up a job asap because somebody ate crickets and he had to find a way to pay back the hydrogen peroxide that he took... anyway, yeah, that's what's up with Seto. Just working then getting the message. He stands outside the front of the new house. ]

Terry-san's pretty generous, isn't he? Giving us a place to stay without any rent!

[ Maybe now he doesn't have to work ten jobs at once. ]

[reveilation]

Conspiracy theories. Orien and I were talking about having a chalkboard to write down everything we know, so everything's in one place and we don't have to keep making copies of notes. It'll look tacky in our house, so it's going to be here.

[ She also doesn't want chalk dust everywhere in their house, and the screeching noise of chalk on the board is also something she can do without, and so the board will be delegated to this place. ]

This living room looks larger than ours, right? I guess since there's no furniture yet... But we can hold meetings in here.

[cicadashell]

[At some point during Kido's walkthrough, the cat train has gained a 36th member. A medium-sized black cat with a white flaming circle on his back. He seems to be overly curious, making sure to look over everything like he's inspecting the house.]

[reveilation]

[ Holy shit one more cat. She knows that Toki also has a cat and will probably bring her, but the white marking on this cat's back makes him stand out from Kuroko, so she approaches him. ]

Hey... Which of these people did you adopt?

[overstrain]

I guess so, nya.

[ He's given up on the nya thing. Whatever. Let it take its course. ]

I don't think anyone has enough money to buy big furniture right away either, nya. It would take several nyaights to set up everything if they weren't broke as me when I started too, nya.

[reveilation]

[ Terry's trying so hard to have a serious conversation despite the nyas, but Kido just starts laughing in his face. She pats him on the head. ]

You're cute.

[overstrain]

It's not like I'm doing this on purpose, nya!

[ Oh my god. He's so embarrassed. ]

Stop laughing, nya!

[toybombs]

[There's a tiny girl looking very confused about all of this, peering at the house from the outside. She doesn't actually look much different, although those who are used to seeing her around may notice that her pigtails are tied lower than usual. That's it. That's the only change.]

I suppose it has been about two years...

[What.]

[reveilation]

[ Nah, it just makes her laugh harder. ]

Yeah, you're cute without even trying. Say something else.

[cicadashell]

[He looks up at Kido and yawns, then nods his head in the direction of Jiro, who's hanging by the doorway.] That idiot. [His voice is low and deep, decidedly unlike something that should come from such a small body.]

[reveilation]

[ Kido gives a startled yell when the cat talks, turning to follow Rago's gaze to the doorway and brain scrambling to make sense of there being a talking cat— but also that, yeah, Jiro is an idiot and needs a cat to look after him, and with that one piece of information making sense, everything else sort of tempers down with it. ]

Hey, Jiro, come here!

[ Explain this cat. ]

[yokeye]

What has?

[Toki isn't going to be living here, but he wants to at least take a look, so he ventured over from next door. He doesn't notice any difference in Rio's hair, or anything off about her.]

[cicadashell]

[Rago laughs at Kido's yell, burying his face in his paws. Jiro walks over and is about to ask what she wants, but there's the stupid cat laughter. He looks at Kido and shrugs.]

That's Rago. He showed up this morning.

[As if that explains anything.]

[reveilation]

[ It's too bad Kido couldn't rope Seto in to living in the Black Cat house, because the income from those ten jobs would have been really useful. ]

Yeah, he is. He's also a dumbass and should have collected rent.

[ He had to buy the land?? That in itself must have been very expensive, and between murder and spa trips and hospital bills, they always seem to be in the red. ]

[reveilation]

[ That tells her absolutely nothing, but she gets a name and that's good enough. Kido reaches to pet Rago on the head, because he's just a cute black cat. ]


Hi, Rago... You'll have to talk to Orien and Espeon later so they don't eat you.

[cicadashell]

[Rago's ears flatten at the petting.]

"I'm not a cat!"

[Jiro glares down at him.]

Don't be a dick! You look like a fucking cat; you're a fucking cat!

[Then he's talking to Kido.]

They wouldn't eat him, would they?

[overstrain]

[ Terry doesn't say anything in defiance................ ]

[not_that_sasuke]

[Sasuke's wandering the second house as well, occasionally running his hands along the walls as though to convince himself that it's real. Kurou's around too, but not with him - he's blending in among the other cats around the houses.]

The shrine could bring things like this, too...?

[Hm. Seems kind of bad. Convenient, but... bad.]

[reveilation]

[ ): What good is a cute cat if she can't pet him? She takes her hand back, though, content to just crouch there in front of him and be near him. That was the best she could do when she was little: be near a cat. This is just as good as petting. ]

Orien's reasonable if you talk to him, but Espeon I'm not as familiar with. He night not eat Rago, but he might get thrown out the window or something. You saw how he was in the dungeon, with Minato.

[cicadashell]

[Rago's tail swishes, but he's fine with this crouching arrangement.]

"I'll throw him out the window."

[Jiro tries to remember Espeon's dungeon adventures...]

Is that the dumbass who wasted his energy redirecting a bullet for me?

[He would have been fine.]

[reveilation]

So, um... Furniture. They'll need a dining table, bedding, that sort of thing. What do you think?

[ Come on, Terry. Let's continue the conversation. It doesn't matter what he talks about as long as Kido gets to listen to him talk and then make fun of him for it, like nobody made fun of her because I immediately forgot about it. ]