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Whaaaat?!

No way! Not in a million, billion years! Geez, why the heck would you even think something like that place would be okay?! I don't care what you've read on my fan pages, but that sort of thing is--!

...even if Senpai is there, my mind's made up, and that's final. Time for another plan, you perv!

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That's not strictly true. The hostel will allow you to stay as long as you wish, though if you cannot pay rent then you are required to contribute to chores in some way instead. But in terms of what you could do...I expect there might be something at the Opera House. I know they often put on performances and events and the apartments provided for those who live there are comfortable enough.

[She doesn't quite elaborate on how she knows that but it's probably obvious anyway]

Oh? Is that where you live, Naoto-kun?

No...I live elsewhere. Somewhere that seems to be getting a lot emptier of late...but Kanji-kun does.

Ah, I getcha! So you've been spending a lot of time there, huh?

Yes. Lately it seems easier to be there than anywhere else.

[And it's not at all about anything else, honest]

Besides, going out presents its own challenges now that the natives have become rather more hostile to our presence.

*She was just going to call her out on, you know, sleeping at her boyfriend's, but...* Wait, what? They don't want us there?

Most of them are civil enough. But there have been territory issues recently, and there always have been those who take exception to the special treatment they believe Atia grants to us, and our perceived ungratefulness for being so chosen.

I'm not sure being threatened to be intimate with others on pain of death is really "special treatment"...

Maybe we should offer to trade?

I think they feel we shouldn't be of a mindset where the collars are the only thing motivating us. That, and there is the small matter of revival after death, which is only offered to the collared.

But that's not really a benefit! I mean, it is a benefit, but it's not like we'd be missing anything if it was taken away, right? It'd be how we all normally live back home, only without the threat of choking to death every two weeks.

It benefits Atia to keep us within her grasp. And...it has proven to be of benefit in the past.

[Murder investigations being so much easier when the dead revived, not to mention without that being possible, she would never have met Jia Xu and might not be alive at all herself]

I bet it has! But I'd still rather switch.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with doing that sort of thing but I'd really want it to be on my own terms!

You and most of the people who arrive. You would think Atia would see the benefit of allowing us to accept her terms without being forced, but apparently she cares less for our willingness and more that we do as she asks anyway.

Yeah...

...hey Naoto-kun? What was your first time like?

[Oh boy. She is possibly the worst person to ask this question to]

I suspect any answer I could give you would be one you would not want to hear. At the time it was a necessity, nothing more...but I suppose it could have gone worse.

[She's not counting the curse with Izaya for many reasons and she's not getting into having to expose her true figure to people she barely knew or being utterly exposed and left to be guided by the more experienced.]

Did it hurt? It's supposed to, right?

Not really...it was uncomfortable, but I'm not sure how much of that was my own doing. Perhaps had I approached it differently, it might have gone more smoothly.

[Like, maybe, not picking someone who seemed to enjoy her discomfort]

Okay. That makes me feel a bit better about everything. Well, not everything, but about that part.

I'm sure Senpai will take very good care of me.

I'm certain he will.

[She's lucky, really. Not that Naoto will say it but having someone around she could have trusted from the start would have made her adjustment a lot easier]

What, that's the only reaction I get? No "Really, him?" or "I never knew you felt like that!"...?

...I guess I was pretty obvious about it, huh.

Hmm?

[Oh yeah, so obvious that Miss Socially Oblivious hadn't even let that cross her mind]

Oh...I hadn't realised it was quite like that, although I know you've always held a fondness for him. I thought it was merely that he is someone you already know you can trust and thus an obvious person to turn to for collar assistance.

[Yeah, she's still not entirely past the stage of sex as practical first, even now she knows it can be more than that]

Well duh! That part goes without saying!

But it's supposed to be fun, Naoto-kun. I know you and having fun aren't always the best of friends, but come on!

I'm perfectly capable of having fun!

[Great, now she has Rise and Shayla Shayla to contend with. Just what she needs]

Look, I'm really not the best person to talk to about this. It's only recently that I've come to regard it with anything other than resigned contempt and then only because I haven't had to deal with it at all of late.

Even with Kanji-kun~? Hmmmm~?

I would have thought the "only recently" clause to that sentence would have made it obvious that it's different with him.

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