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Chapter 7: Let Me In

Close me, I am your fire protection!

The stale scent on the air was more present in the now room. The left half of the room was an open space with beat up and damaged drywall and to the right walls made of perforated wood hardboard to form storage units. Walking through the open part of the room, I scanned the set of doors when I stopped at door twenty-two.

"Sweet, found it." I approached the door, and the key went in with no resistance. The door creaked open and inside was an empty unit. The lack of lighting within the unit left it in near darkness, save for the light that came in from the open door. With no time to waste, I entered and pulled the door shut and plunged the space into darkness with only a few slivers of light coming from the edges of the door. As the seconds passed, the darkness took on a green hue and the walls of the unit came into view.

Thank god I got night vision as a power that came with this deal. Let's clean up, then I should be good to get some info out of Cassie.

My backpack let out a thud as it hit the floor. I rustled through the backpack and grabbed the clean set of clothing, my cleanup kit, and a few other things to help me look good for my upcoming visit with Cassie.

At least I'm not covered in blood... this time. I won't have to bag and burn these clothes. Though Cassie wouldn't care at this point.

I felt my clothes peel off of my skin. All the sweat that had soaked into them from being out in the heat and rooms without air conditioning. With everything off, I got the grime and dust off with the shower on the go wipes. A quick air dry and the fresh clothes were on. I opened the door to let some light in and used my phone as a mirror to fix my espresso brown hair back into its proper soft and spiky taper cut. 

As I locked up the storage unit, I remembered something. I pulled out my phone and opened Twitch, a livestream showed with the title: Yu-Lu is a Farmer?! Clicking the stream I heard Eunie's energetic voice as her colorful character model moved and emoted with her words while Sammy's remained still and neutral.

"D-D! Look, the parsnips are ready! We're finally gonna have money again! How much longer do you think the cauliflower needs? People said they're worth a lot!" Her chat began to spam the number twelve and versions of that. Sammy's model moved as he glanced at something.

"Chat says twelve days, also they're saying the potatoes will be ready next." His voice lived up to the name he set for himself; Deadpan Dan.

"Yay! I can't wait for those!" Eunie's character model threw her hands up in the air and waved her arms around. A smile formed on my face as I set up a donation in the code amount for this stream.

|Silver_Eyed_Psycho:

-Hey Yu-Lu, things are going well with the new place! Can't wait to show you the place once it's all set! Also, which villager are you gonna marry first?

As the donation sounded off, she lit up.

"Seppy! Glad it's going good! I can't wait to see the new condo! Also, I'm not sure yet, but I'll text you when I figure it out!" She paused a moment to address the chat, spamming my name and her nickname for me. "I think we can read some more donations!" I closed out Twitch, then made my way through the door at the end of the storage room.

The new room was much easier to breathe in, like my building. It had the same blue carpet and trim. Across from me was a condo with a thirty-eight on the door. Looking around, I found the staircase and took them up to the first floor. At the top, a similar layout with two units, two doors to lead outside, and a set of mailboxes by the courtyard door caught my attention.