[snorts]

They brought us here to do their clean up for them. We're a bunch of workers for them, so it's in their best interest to have us whole.

Nature rose up and took over their world, kill all the native people. We're here to beat it back and repopulate.

That's what they want . . .

No, they're not. I saw a kid from grade school at one point, and there's some girl who couldn't manage to fight if the lives of everyone she gave a shit about depended on it. And those are just the most obvious.

. . . There are some guys to stay away from. Killers, torturers that have ended up here.

The guy in apartment X with fucked up hands. They might be healed by now . . . Brown hair and eyes, one of the only people who looks over thirty.

The next is a living statue. Do not fight him alone under any circumstances. An entire mob could only put a dent in him.

The third is a guy with short blond hair and red eyes that likes to call people mongrel. He thinks murder is a fucking favor.

Good. . . . Stay close for a while too, alright?

—O-or anyone else from this apartment.

Excel—she'll tell you to call her Lucky. That blonde girl you saw at the shrines. Fang and Sparta stay in our room with us too. Blue hair with an eye patch they trade between them. Fang's eye is blue, and Sparta's is gold. Allen's got a weird arm and a scar on his face, and Link's got a blonde ponytail and two dots on his forehead.

Ah . . . then there's Zel who I think you saw too. The guy with pale blue hair? Haruto's another blonde that's always around Excel, and Colombina is a weird girl with dark hair . . . —Oh, and Fang and Sparta's mom is staying here too. She looks just like them.

There are others you'll see around sometimes, but they don't live here with us.

. . . Yeah?

I told you! I've changed a lot.

Good. If you said it was they might try to throw you out.

. . . I don't know.