My first impression of MadamRabbit was, how should I put it...
Neither good nor bad.
She gave the most delicious reactions, sure,
but she was always fighting with other gallery users, so she did not seem to have the best personality.
She was exactly the sort of gallery user the phrase “likable troublemaking fixed-nick user” suited.
So what was my impression of her now?
A home invader whose motives I cannot fathom?
It was definitely not heading in a good direction, at least.
ㅇㅇ(999.1): What do you mean, you were waiting for me?
└MadamRabbit: Precisely what I said.
└MadamRabbit: I have just finished interpreting the actions you performed that day.
...Could Backrooms have some kind of mind-altering ability?
I had no idea why she was acting like this.
When I saw her last time, both her mind and body had seemed perfectly fine.
Why was she suddenly spouting such nonsense?
ㅇㅇ(999.1): Sorry, but I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
└ㅇㅇ(999.1): What exactly did you interpret, and how?
└MadamRabbit: As I thought... you have lost your memories.
└ㅇㅇ(999.1): ?
"What is this supposed to be now?"
"Rookie? Is something going on over there?"
"Ah. No, my back was just hurting for a moment."
Jeez, the words had slipped out because the whole thing was so ridiculous.
I gave the manager in the stockroom a vague answer.
MadamRabbit: You need not worry at all.
└MadamRabbit: We will take care of your absence ourselves.
└ㅇㅇ(999.1): ????
└MadamRabbit: This is a small token of my appreciation.
Ding!
Along with MadamRabbit’s chat message, an alert went off on my phone.
The Status Window.
It was an alert from the kid who had recently begun a forced diet.
[A special ability has been automatically re-registered!]
[Rabbitification]
[Spend 50 GP to place a target in the ‘Rabbitified’ state.]
Special abilities are always an upvote, though I have no idea where I’d use this.
A new ability now occupied a line in my Status Window.
It looked like the type that increased speed or strength.
That was generally what rabbits were known for, after all.
MadamRabbit: Oh, right.
└MadamRabbit: I saw while escaping the ghost story that your residence seemed somewhat lacking.
└ㅇㅇ(999.1): ? Was that a diss out of nowhere?
└MadamRabbit: I will send someone over shortly.
└MadamRabbit: Please look forward to it. Hehe.
Hmm.
Now I understood why YoungIsBest called her an old lady.
She does sound a little like an old lady in writing.
Both her manner of speaking and the impression she had given me last time.
There was something about her that felt like an older woman.
Not that I disliked that, of course.
But what does she mean by sending someone over?
My eyes stopped on the word “residence” on the screen.
She had made it sound like my home was no good.
Was she going to buy me a new house or something?
Come on, no way. Even as compensation, that would be excessive.
It was not like Seoul housing prices were cheap.
I had worked myself to the bone just to get my tiny one-room place. There was no way she intended to buy me a house.
Maybe she was just going to send some furniture or interior decorations?
[Chat] Attention, location-type ghost stories living in Seoul
Author: MadamRabbit
A certain most precious anomaly is looking for a home.
I intend to choose one of you location-type ghost stories,
so anyone interested, please apply in the comments.
Applications will be open for exactly three hours.
After that, I will spend another three hours making the selection.
The final anomaly to survive the selection process will receive that honor.
I ask for the Ghost Story Minor Gallery’s enthusiastic interest.
[Total comments: 54]
PantyHouse: Wow, that’s insanely presumptuous?
└PantyHouse: Who is this anomaly to decide whether we get used as a house or not?
└[Author]MadamRabbit: It is the Rookie.
└PantyHouse: What?
└GroundBunker: What??
└SkyIsland: What???
GroundBunker: Holy shit, me me me! I absolutely have to do this!!!!!
└StarsAndSpace: Move, you bastard. I’m taking the Rookie.
└BurgerKing’s Royal Palace: Get lost, all of you. I’m the best home.
└ㅇㅇ(599.1): ?
└PantyHouse: Who are you? You’re not even location-type.
└Firearium: Stop making me scroll and move!!!
└Restaurant: MadamRabbit, please look at me, I...
......
**
I had not expected MadamRabbit to do anything huge for me.
She had already lost credibility with all that stuff about me losing my memories.
And once I received the special ability, I figured part of the debt had been settled.
Honestly, even the idea of her sending furniture had made me think, Really?
Step, step.
"But apparently, a snow demon really does catch people..."
While walking toward my destination,
I took a card out of my pocket.
[Eterno Baekdam Residency Certificate]
[Hehe, it is only a small token, so please accept it.]
A black card that appeared to have been sent by MadamRabbit.
It had been stuck in my mailbox when I got home.
This was simply absurd.
I had thought, surely not—and she had actually given me a house...
"Ah! Are you perhaps the person scheduled to move in today!?"
Just as I was nearly at my destination,
a bright-looking attendant approached and spoke to me.
"Yes, I believe I am."
"I see! I will show you to your unit right away! Please give me your bag and follow me!"
The attendant said, pointing at the bag I had brought.
When I handed it over,
she smiled brightly and walked toward a building, beckoning me to follow.
"...Excuse me."
"Yes! What is it!?"
"I think you may have led me into the wrong building."
"No! This is the right place!"
The problem was, though,
that the building was plainly an expensive, luxury apartment complex.
How tall is this thing...? It looks like it could reach the clouds if it tried.
As I followed the attendant inside, I looked over the apartment building’s exterior.
A design that tastefully blended gold and silver.
A massive chandelier visible the moment I stepped inside.
Even sunglass-wearing guards stationed on either side of the main entrance.
It did not seem like somewhere I belonged.
It was the kind of place that made me seriously consider turning around even now.
"The elevator is at the end here! As a resident, you will be using the very top floor, the forty-fourth!"
"Y-yes. Understood."
My body stiffened for no reason, and I awkwardly stepped into the elevator.
The elevator doors soon closed and it began moving.
It was clearly going up, yet I did not feel that distinctive floating sensation.
Was this another way expensive buildings were different?
Ding-dong!
"We’ve arrived! You can register your fingerprint for the door lock later, and if you need anything, please call us!"
"Yes, thank you for guiding me here."
"Thank you for your hard work! Boing!!"
Once I took my bag and stepped out,
the attendant went back down with that peculiar farewell.
Boing. That sounded rather rabbit-like.
"Then... shall I take a look around my new home?"
After taking a deep breath to prepare myself for the shock to come,
Creeeak!
I opened the front door, which had not yet been locked.
"...Huh."
The inside was truly beyond anything I had imagined.
A space at least ten times larger than the one-room place I had lived in, filled with furniture and decor.
Above all else,
the sprawling Seoul nightscape visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows took my breath away.
"Did the punishment for home invasion get harsher without me realizing...?"
I wandered around the apartment, looking at this and that.
To offer a place like this and call it a small token.
Was MadamRabbit actually one of those rich ladies from a TV drama?
Flop.
"Nice. Much better than that place."
I threw myself onto the huge bed.
It felt good, too.
Just as I was wondering whether I should take a nap like this,
Rattle-rattle-rattle!
"Whoa, you startled me."
The Backrooms Summoning Ticket I had kept in my pocket suddenly began shaking like crazy.
[Chat]: Get out right now, you trash house anomalies
Author: ㅇㅇ(599.1)
(A photo of a blonde woman taken with the focus shaking violently.)
(A photo of a blonde woman taken with the focus shaking extremely violently.)
She’s my resident...
I’m her home!!!!!
Why are you slobbering all over a resident someone else already claimed!!!!!!!!!
[Total comments: 7]
AshesMimic: Why is this person suddenly acting like this?
└AshesMimic: Judging by the way they talk, they don’t seem low-intelligence.
└Chrishimas: They were looking for a home for the Rookie earlier, so it’s probably about that??
└WhiteBear: But that one isn’t location-type.
└VaultKeeper: Right, right. If it’s 1, then it’s humanoid?
└Chrishimas: That’s why I said probably. I don’t know for sure either;;
Eterno Baekdam: lol
└ㅇㅇ(599.1): Aaaaargh!!!!!
└ㅇㅇ(599.1): Where do you live!!!!!!!
└ㅇㅇ(220.3): Calm down;; calm down;; calm down;; calm down;; calm down;; calm down;; calm down;;
└ㅇㅇ(599.1): Does it look like I can calm down???
└ㅇㅇ(599.1): All of you, get over here. We need to make a plan.
└ㅇㅇ(220.3): Eek eek eek eek eek eek
[Maestro’s Private Chat]
ㅇㅇ(599.1): RookieRookieRookie
└ㅇㅇ(599.1): (A map photo showing a roadside in Seoul.)
└ㅇㅇ(599.1): It’s urgent, so come here.
└Maestro: Pardon?
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