Part 3
When they arrived at the mansion it was already late-night. The silhouette of the headquarters under the moonlight was as big as a hotel's. Yō was looking at the mansion that will become their base and murmured in awe.
"It looks big even from far away, but ... its even bigger from close up. Where should we stay?"
"According to our Community's customs, we rank those who can participate in Gift Games and starting from the highest ranks they live on the highest floors, but .... you can use whichever you prefer now. Moving up and down would also be inconvenient."
"I see. Is there a problem if I use that other building?"
Asuka pointed at a building standing to the side of the mansion.
"Aah, that one is the children's building. It was used for something different originally, but for the sake of security everyone lives here now. If Asuka-san doesn't mind sharing the building with 120 children, then ..."
"I will refrain."
Asuka answered quickly. Even if she was not particularly bad at dealing with children, spending time with 120 of them probably didn't sound too good to her.
The three of them have set aside their questions about Little Garden and the Community for the time being, and expressed their strong desire to "Just want to take a bath for today.", so Kuro Usagi was in the process of preparing it for them.
When Kuro Usagi saw the current state of the large bath that wasn't used for quite a while now, she turned pale and
"Please wait about 1 hour! I will clean it in no time!" , she shouted and began cleaning at once.
The three of them briefly looked around each of their assigned rooms, then gathered in the waiting room of the bath.
"Ojou .... do I really have to take a bath too?"
"You do. Calico cat, you must properly take a bath too."
" ... phuun? I heard about it already, but you really can understand what the cat says."
"Yeah."
"What's with that disrespectful tone! If you keep that up I will cover your bed in fur-balls!"
"Don't say that. It's not nice."
To other people the cat's words only sounded as nyaa nyaa, but Yō responded to them naturally. To an outsider this looked rather creepy. Asuka reluctantly asked her.
"It may be a bit too meddlesome of a question, but ... perhaps the reason you did not have any friends was..."
"I had many friends. Just none of them were human."
From the tone of her answer Asuka knew not pry into the matter any further and stayed silent instead.
Kuro Usagi's voice sounded from the corridor soon after.
"Th-The preparations for the bath are done! Please enter starting with the ladies!"
"Thank you. We will go on ahead, Izayoi-kun."
"I'm a man who likes to enter later, so it's not a problem for me."
The three ladies headed directly to the large bath. The now alone Izayoi relaxed a bit in the waiting room, then...
"Now then. Let's settle things in the meantime with those guys outside."
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