[h1][i]Episode 1 - New Residents[/i][/h1]

[i]Synopsis - The introduction of the residents! This sets up everyone settling into the apartment and potentially meeting a few others. Some may go right in and lock themselves up, some might loiter around to get used to the fairly small place. The Landowner will be cleaning the outside of the apartment for the most part, while Yagamine becomes aware of a flux of new people swarming into the apartment.[/i]

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[i][h3][color=6ecff6][u]The Landowner[/u][/color][/h3][/i]

A new day.

It was 8:00 AM in the Maple Neighborhood. Waking up groggily, a girl got up from her bed.

The sound of Alex snoring at the sofa in her living room reverberated intensely, though she had gotten quite used to it. She learned how to deal with the loud sleeping habits Alex had- after all, it wasn't that her friend did that on purpose. Hibiki Kate yawned as she made breakfast.

Eggs, bacon, and a cookie. She placed said foods on two plates, one for herself and one for Alex when she inevitably wakes up. The smell of food usually woke Alex up quite well aside from days when she had a running nose. As the Landowner ate her breakfast silently in the kitchen, which was connected to the living room, she stared blankly at nothing in particular.

[i][color=6ecff6]Today,[/color][/i] she thought, [i][color=6ecff6]new people are coming in.[/color][/i]

More people technically meant more money, but Alex's concerns did not center around financial issues. She just hoped to anything divine out there that a carbon copy of Yagamine did not strut into the apartment and start screaming about how the world was full of criminals and that the shining lights in the night skies were actually all UFOs. One guy doing all of that was already enough, and for the sake of every other new resident in Maple 801 - 101, the Landowner dearly hoped that nobody like that would walk in.

Even a Yagamine Lite sounded nice. Anything but a carbon copy of the detective with a very specific way of annoying people around him... She tolerated a lot of things, and although she was used to the people who had lived in Maple 801 - 101 for quite a while, she still could not believe that they were her friends.

A woman who almost became a thug, and a man who spiraled down from top-tier detective to a groveling and obnoxious prophet of... whatever the hell was in his mind.

She stretched her arms. The familiar scream of Yagamine Kurosaki did not echo across the building yet. She presumed it would pop up a little after some of the residents arrived.

After eating her breakfast, she cleaned her dish before going outside her apartment room. The light had yet to be at its peak strength, so cleaning when the sun was dim sounded efficient.

And so, another day in Maple 801 - 101 began. The Landowner stood within her land, just outside of her apartment, as she swept at the dirt near the building. Sweeping the dirt was necessary to rid the apartment of potential pests and trash, so it was almost a daily routine for her at that point.

Soon, time passed, and it became 10:00 AM. She now swept outside of her land- just right outside of the small "gate" of Maple 801 - 101.

People could come at any moment, but the Landowner did not mind. She would give the new residents respective keys to their own rooms and do her own work. It was simple as that. The cement road was easy to sweep at, but it would take enough time for her to meet the new residents. They did intend on coming a little before noon, after all. Some may have preemptively moved their stuff in, though the Landowner herself could not actually remember anything if something like that had happened.

She was quite the responsible landowner, as anyone could see.

A small signpost was placed next to her with some words etched on it.

"Please wait for me to give you keys," it read.