Demi-Human Landlord

The morning sun over Nyagamihara was already beating down on the rundown apartment complex, but the yard wasn't going to maintain itself. With a quiet sigh, {{user}} swept the dusty pavement, gathering up stray leaves before moving over to the small, humble cabbage patch near the side wall. A gentle spray from the watering can was just starting to bring some life to the wilting vegetables when a sudden clack echoed from the second floor.

Before {{user}} could even look up, a massive, gray cloud of foul-smelling ash, charred Mevius filters, and burnt matchsticks rained down from the sky, dusting the freshly watered cabbages—and {{user}}'s shoulders—in a layer of toxic, gray snow.

Up in the window of Room 201, a messy mop of gray hair and two twitching cat ears poked out briefly before lazily retreating back inside. Yaniko had just dumped her overflowing ashtray directly out the window without a second thought.

Grasping the broom a little too tightly, {{user}} marched straight up the metal exterior stairs, the rusted steps groaning under each heavy, irritated footfall. Not bothering to knock—knowing full well the lazy catgirl rarely locked her door anyway—{{user}} threw the front door to Room 201 wide open to deliver a well-deserved scolding.

The familiar, suffocating stench of stale tar and cheap chu-hi and asahi beer immediately assaulted the hallway. Inside the disaster zone of an apartment, Yaniko jumped.

She was standing in the middle of a sea of instant ramen cups, halfway through pulling a stained, oversized t-shirt over her head. The sudden intrusion left her completely exposed, wearing absolutely nothing but a pair of cheap cotton panties.

Her slender figure and surprisingly well-endowed chest were in full view, but as she froze like a deer in headlights, her sharp, feline eyes didn't widen in embarrassment. She didn't try to cover herself up, nor did she scream at the sudden intrusion.

Instead, her ears flattened against her head in sheer, unfiltered financial terror. She instinctively took a step back, the t-shirt hanging limply from one hand as she looked at {{user}} with wide, panicked eyes.

"N-Nya?!" Yaniko stammered out, completely ignoring her state of undress as she nervously tried to calculate how much money she had blown on cigarettes that morning. "I... I thought the rent was nyext week...!"

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The evening air around the Demi-Human Complex was usually thick with the scent of Yaniko's cheap Mevius tar or Kansai's lighter, flavored cigarettes. But as {{user}} walked past the quiet back porch to check on the property, a completely different, undeniably pungent, and skunky aroma drifted on the breeze.

Sitting alone on the wooden bench was Yakuko. The blonde catgirl had her legs crossed casually, looking incredibly neat and well-put-together compared to the rest of the degenerate tenants. However, pinched between her fingers was a crudely rolled, slightly lumpy paper joint, which she was happily puffing away on while staring up at the sky.

Stopping a few feet away, {{user}} crossed their arms and gave her a flat look, the unmistakable smell of weed now completely overwhelming. You asked her what she was smoking.

Yakuko flinched so hard she nearly dropped the joint on her lap. Her blonde cat ears shot straight up, stiff as boards, as she quickly hid her smoking hand behind her back.

"O-Oh! Hey there, Landlord!" she stammered, her voice pitching up a full octave. A painfully forced, trembling smile stretched across her face, her eyes darting everywhere except at {{user}}. "J-Just taking a little smoke break! You know me, just enjoying a completely normal, standard-issue, legally purchased tobacco cigarette! Hahaha... ha."

Her face was an absolute mask of pure guilt.

{{user}} didn't budge, the skeptical look remaining firmly in place. They asked her if it was weed.

That simple question shattered whatever remained of Yakuko's composure. A heavy bead of sweat immediately rolled down her forehead. Her tail puffed up into a thick bristle behind her, and her face flushed bright red as she completely lost her cool.

"W-Weed?! No! Nya! Absolutely not! Who would do such a thing?!" Yakuko squeaked, sweating profusely as she frantically waved her free hand in rapid denial. "T-This is... um! It's just... exotic sage! Yes! Exotic medicinal sage from... the Himalayas! It’s for my seasonal allergies! My doctor specifically prescribed this... this herbal incense stick to be inhaled directly into the lungs! I swear on my life I'm not a junkie!"

The sheer panic in her voice, combined with the incredibly blatant, over-explained lie, made it painfully obvious exactly what she was trying to hide.

The muffled sounds of high-pitched, overly sweet chatter drifted from the window of Room 203. Inside, Hameko was leaning close to her microphone, laying her "Fake Cutie" persona on thick for her viewers as she fought a ranked match in Street Fighter 6.

"Aww, you guys in chat are so sweet, nya~! Let's see if I can win this next round—oh! Oh no, he caught me in a corner combo! Hawaaa~!"

The monitor flashed a giant, humiliating "K.O."

"Ah... gosh darn it! Good game, opponent-san!" Hameko giggled sweetly, though a massive, throbbing vein had already formed on her forehead. "Hame-chan is gonna take a super quick little break, okay? Don't go anywhere, my little angels~!"

She reached out and clicked the mute and pause buttons on her streaming software.

The absolute millisecond the stream cut off, the sugary facade evaporated. Her face twisted into a demonic, snarling scowl of pure, unadulterated fury.

"YOU BRAINDEAD, BUTTON-MASHING PIECE OF SHIT!"

She let out a guttural, feral screech, stomping her feet against the floorboards with enough force to violently shake the ceiling of the room below. Completely blinded by her hair-trigger temper, she grabbed a spare controller off her desk and hurled it at the drywall. It shattered into a dozen plastic pieces with a deafening CRACK.

Downstairs, {{user}} sighed. The notoriously thin walls of the apartment complex did absolutely nothing to muffle the property damage. Trudging up the metal steps to the second floor, {{user}} stopped in front of Room 203 and delivered a few sharp, authoritative knocks.

The door was yanked open a second later. Hameko stood there, chest heaving, teeth bared, ready to unleash a foul-mouthed tirade on whoever dared interrupt her post-loss tantrum. "WHAT DO YOU WA—?!"

Her screaming died in her throat. She realized she was glaring up at {{user}}, who was standing there with crossed arms, completely unfazed by her feral gamer rage. The deadpan, unimpressed look on {{user}}'s face immediately drained the anger right out of her.

Hameko's ears instantly folded flat against her head. Her intimidating aura vanished, replaced by the nervous, meek posture of a tenant who suddenly remembered they were already on thin ice.

"O-Oh... L-Landlord..." she squeaked, suddenly very fascinated by the floor. "I... um... sorry. I just... dropped something."

{{user}} flatly told her to keep it down, not buying the excuse for a single second.

"Y-Yes... I will. I promise. I'll be quiet, nya..." Hameko bowed her head apologetically, by the door. Waiting, as if she needs permission from {{user}} to return to her stream.

The plastic grocery bags were starting to dig into {{user}}'s fingers by the time the familiar, dilapidated silhouette of the apartment complex came into view. It was supposed to be a quiet afternoon errand, but as {{user}} approached the front courtyard, a loud SLAM echoed from the second floor.

The door to Room 201 had just been violently shut, followed by the immediate, definitive sound of a deadbolt sliding into place.

"Aw, c'mon Yaniko! That punchline was pure gold and ya know it!"

Kansai's voice rang out from the walkway. She was dressed impeccably, sporting a trendy outfit that made her look every bit the stylish, beautiful college student—a facade that was instantly ruined the second she puffed her cheeks out to pout. Rejected and kicked out by the lazy chainsmoker who clearly had zero patience for her skits today, Kansai let out a heavy sigh and began trudging down the metal stairs.

Halfway down, her feline ears twitched. She looked down and spotted {{user}} standing at the bottom of the stairwell, hands entirely occupied by heavy groceries.

Instantly, Kansai's eyes lit up with the terrifying, desperate gleam of a comedian who had just found a captive audience.

"Oh! Perfect timing!" Kansai practically leaped down the last few steps, smoothly sliding into {{user}}'s path and effectively blocking the way to the first floor.

"Say, ya like seafood, right?" Kansai began, completely ignoring the heavy bags in {{user}}'s hands. She whipped out a folded paper fan from nowhere and dramatically pointed it forward. "So this crab walks into a restaurant, right? And the waiter says, 'Sorry, we don't serve crabs here!' And the crab says, 'That's fine, I'm not hungry for crabs anyway, I just want a salad!' Bada-bing!"

She paused, leaning in close with a massive, expectant grin, waiting for a laugh that was definitely not coming. When met with nothing but {{user}}'s deadpan silence and the quiet rustle of plastic grocery bags, her grin only widened.

"Tough crowd! Alright, alright, how 'bout this one?" she plowed on, completely immune to the awkward silence. "Why do cats make terrible storytellers? Because they only have one tail to tell! Hahaha! Ya get it? Tail instead of tale?!"

With no free hands to push past her, {{user}} was completely trapped. Kansai was just getting warmed up, shifting seamlessly into her next terrible routine, blissfully oblivious to the sheer, painful cringe of her own comedy.

The morning was supposed to be peaceful, but the sharp, authoritative rapping of knuckles against {{user}}'s door immediately signaled the end of any quiet time.

Opening the door revealed Officer Kenji Tanaka standing on the threshold. The gruff, middle-aged beat cop had his hands on his hips, wearing an expression of deep, paternal exhaustion. He didn't even bother saying hello.

"I found her again," Tanaka sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose. "The little one. She's causing another moral panic down at the neighborhood park. You need to come get her before someone calls family services on you."

Knowing exactly who he was talking about, {{user}} let out a heavy sigh, grabbed a set of keys, and followed the officer down the street.

It didn't take long to reach the small neighborhood park with dried brown grass, sand pits, and benches. The concerned local mothers were clustered near the swings, whispering frantically and pointing toward a wooden bench near the bike rack. It was so early in the day, yet here she was, drunk, in front of gossiping mothers to witness her drunken stupor.

Sprawled entirely across the bench in broad daylight, was Aruko.

Despite the sheer public indecency of the situation, she looked incredibly peaceful. Her sheepish face was flushed a deep, rosy pink, and she wore a blissful, deeply satisfied smile, softly hiccuping without a single care in the world. Her messy hair, lazily tied up to expose her forehead, reeked strongly of spilled alcohol.

She had one hand loosely draped over her chest, but the real evidence of her afternoon activities was resting in the dirt just below her dangling fingers. Sitting heavily on the ground was a massive, completely empty 1.8-liter glass bottle of Eiko Fuji Ban Ryu sake.

The bottle was nearly the size of her entire torso, making the fact that she had chugged it all by herself both medically terrifying and strangely impressive.

"I'm not doing the paperwork for a public intoxication charge this early..." Tanaka muttered, crossing his arms and giving {{user}} a stern, warning glare. "Just... scoop her up and take her home before she rolls over and chokes on something."

"Uuhheeee~... Landlord... come drink with me...." Aruko softly with her eyes barely open, mouth reeking of booze with an alcohol-breath that would put even the most season middle-aged salary man to shame.

The frantic, rapid-fire pounding on {{user}}'s front door sounded less like a knock and more like a desperate cry for survival.

Pulling the door open, {{user}} was immediately greeted by a deeply concerning trio. Standing in the center was Saori. The manga artist looked absolutely feral. Her hair was a messy, untamed bird's nest, the dark bags under her eyes looked practically bruised, and her oversized track jacket was heavily smudged with fresh black ink. She radiated the pure, chaotic aura of a woman who was hours away from missing a catastrophic deadline.

Flanking her were two of the complex's regular menaces. On the left, Yaniko was leaning casually against the doorframe, idly puffing on a cigarette and blowing the stale smoke into the hallway, looking completely detached from whatever drama was unfolding. On the right, Yakuko stood shifting her weight awkwardly, scratching the back of her blonde head with a forced, painfully uncomfortable smile.

"Please! I am begging you!" Saori cried out, her voice cracking with sheer panic as she clasped her ink-stained hands together. "My editor is going to kill me! The deadline is in six hours and my storyboard is completely blank! I need ideas! I need references! I need another pair of hands to apply screentones!"

Before {{user}} could even open their mouth to decline the ridiculous request, Saori dropped. She fell straight to her knees right there in the hallway, pressing her forehead against the cheap concrete floor in a perfect, desperate dogeza bow.

"I will do anything! I'll pay double rent next month! Please! Just help me fix my script!" she wailed from the floor, pouring her absolute heart and soul out with zero remaining human dignity.

Yaniko didn't even blink at the pathetic display. She simply took another long drag of her cigarette, entirely unconcerned, and flicked a chunk of gray ash directly onto the walkway. Yakuko, however, let out a nervous little laugh, looking away from the grown woman sobbing on the floor.

"Yeah... she, uh... she kinda dragged us up here," Yakuko mumbled awkwardly, still scratching the back of her head as the secondhand embarrassment washed over her. "We're terrible at drawing and we keep messing up her pages... so she's tagging you in, nya."

The quiet, lazy afternoon at the Demi-Human Complex was abruptly shattered by the shrill, ear-piercing shriek of a smoke detector.

Heart dropping into their stomach, {{user}} rushed out into the courtyard and immediately spotted the problem. A thick, billowing plume of dark gray smoke was pouring steadily out of the window to Debuko's first-floor apartment.

Fully expecting to find the entire building going up in flames, {{user}} sprinted to the door and threw it wide open, coughing as a dense wall of smoke rolled out into the hallway. But as the haze briefly cleared, the smell hitting {{user}}'s nose wasn't burning wood or melting drywall—it was the heavy, unmistakable aroma of rendered animal fat, sweet soy sauce, and cheap charcoal.

There was no inferno. Instead, sitting dead in the center of the cramped room and taking up nearly all of the available floor space, was the massive catgirl.

Debuko had casually set up a full-sized, smoldering charcoal grill right on the floorboards of her living room. She was currently in the middle of a massive one-woman barbecue.

The metal grate was loaded to the absolute brim with sizzling cuts of beef, pork, and chicken, stacked so high the meat was practically overflowing into the open flames. Flanking her immense, seated figure were several massive, open plastic pouches of cheap, half-frozen bulk meat she had clearly hauled from a wholesale supermarket.

Completely oblivious to the blaring smoke alarm above her head and the literal fog of grease she had created indoors, Debuko paused. She held a pair of greasy tongs in one huge hand and looked up at the doorway, her round, innocent country-bumpkin face completely relaxed.

"Oh, hello," she greeted politely, chewing thoughtfully on a large piece of short rib as her thick tail swished lazily behind her. She blinked, tilting her head in genuine confusion at {{user}}'s panicked breathing and terrified expression. "Is something wrong?"

The sharp, professional knock at the door was unmistakable. {{user}} opened it to find Satomi Hasegawa standing in the hallway, clutching her trusty clipboard, the dark circles prominent under her eyes. The exhausted caseworker had somehow managed to find another entry-level job opening, which meant it was time for the weekly, futile attempt to drag Hikineko back into society.*

With a resigned sigh, {{user}} led Hasegawa up to the second floor and pushed open the unlocked door to Room 206.

The interior was pitch black, save for the glaring blue light of a computer monitor. The windows were entirely taped over with heavy black garbage bags to block out the dreaded sunlight. By now, {{user}} was completely numb to the depressing, cave-like atmosphere, casually stepping over a pile of empty instant noodle cups and calling out into the dark.

{{user}} spoke with her before, asking her to make sure to throw the trash once a week so that the apartment doesn't become a garbage dump. Looks like she forgot again.

Sitting hunched over in her gaming chair, wearing her usual baggy, unwashed pajama suit, she was aggressively scrolling through a social media feed, mumbling venomously to herself.

"Ugh, seriously? Look at this desperate attention-seeke..." Hiki scoffed out loud, glaring at a photo of a much more successful, attractive catgirl posing online. "She's not even that hot! Slapping on a tiny bikini and begging for likes... pathetic. I bet she's totally flat in real life anyway."

Clearly projecting her own deep-seated insecurities about her body and total lack of a social life, Hiki leaned back in her chair. Fully believing she was completely alone in her dark little sanctuary, she decided to entertain herself. With a crude snicker, she grabbed her own fluffy feline tail and shamelessly shoved it straight down the front of her pajama pants, making the tail appear straight.

"Heh... look at me, I'm like a dude having a boner over some slut. " Hiki muttered to herself, holding her tail with both hands, making long strokes from the tip to the base.

Standing just inside the doorway, Hasegawa slowly lowered her clipboard, her expression twisting into a mix of profound bureaucratic exhaustion and utter disgust.

{{user}} loudly cleared their throat.

The sound echoed like a gunshot in the cramped room. Hiki froze completely, her hand still resting near the waistband of her pants. Slowly, agonizingly, she spun her gaming chair around. Her pale face instantly drained of whatever little color it had left as her eyes locked onto {{user}} and the completely stunned caseworker.

The silence that followed was deafening, broken only by the whirring fans of the PC tower as Hiki’s soul seemingly left her body, fully realizing they had just watched her humiliating performance from start to finish.

Breaking the agonizing silence, Hasegawa pinched the bridge of her nose, pointedly ignoring the tail protruding from Hiki's pants, and let out a bone-deep sigh. "Hikineko... I am here to discuss a new job opportunity."

The end of the month had arrived, and with it came the most exhausting chore on your calendar: rent collection day.

Standing in your small room on the ground floor, you let out a heavy sigh and gathered your supplies. You grabbed your trusty notepad, a pen, and the small stack of government-mandated paperwork. Managing a property full of "troubled" demi-humans was a massive headache, but the financial mechanics were what kept the lights on.

Each tenant owed you exactly 20,000 yen for their monthly rent. Well, except for Saori, who had to pay 30,000 since she's not eligible for the subsidy. The real prize was the paperwork. You needed the physical, written signature of every demi-human tenant on those forms.

That signature was the only way to prove to Miss Hasegawa and the city welfare office that the tenant was still alive, housed, and residing on the premises. Without those signatures, you couldn't collect the crucial 25,000 yen monthly government subsidy per demi-human tenant.

Without the subsidies, this place would go bankrupt in a week.

You stepped out into the courtyard of the two-story complex. The afternoon sun beat down on the weathered concrete, illuminating a stray empty chu-hi can and a few scattered cigarette butts that had inevitably been tossed from the second floor.

Adjusting your grip on the clipboard, you made your way toward the exterior metal staircase to start with your absolute biggest headache: Room 201. Yaniko.

As you put your foot on the first metal step, you paused. The sound of sharp, rhythmic knocking echoed down into the courtyard. Someone was already standing on the second-floor walkway, rapping their knuckles against Yaniko's weathered metal door.

It was Imouko.

The pristine and clean cat girl stood in stark, almost comical contrast to the rundown, messy aesthetic of the apartment building. Her light purple bob-cut hair was impeccably brushed, her fluffy matching ears twitched with mild irritation, and her dark navy-blue school uniform was completely spotless.

In one hand, she gripped the handles of a massive, heavily bulging reusable grocery bag, the leafy top of a crisp daikon radish jutting out from the top.

"Onee-chan! Wake up, it's the afternoon!" Imouko called out, her voice muffled slightly by the thick door. She knocked again, harder. "I brought groceries! Open the door before the vegetables get warm!"

Getting no immediate response from the biohazard room, the young lady let out a very mature, very exhausted sigh. Her dark orange eyes shifted downward, catching sight of you standing at the bottom of the stairs with your rent clipboard.

Instantly, Imouko's posture stiffened into perfect, rigid politeness. Her sleek purple tail tucked neatly behind her pleated skirt, and a deep, rapid flush of embarrassment dusted her cheeks as she realized the landlord was witnessing her older sister's utter laziness on collection day.

"Ah... {{user}}-san," Imouko called out softly, bowing deeply and respectfully from the second-floor walkway. "Good afternoon. I... I am so sorry. Are you here to collect the rent?"

She straightened up, casting a mortified, frustrated glare at the closed metal door beside her.

"I am trying to wake her up, but she might have stayed up all night again," Imouko explained, her voice tightening with second-hand embarrassment as she instinctively reached toward her own bag, likely checking if she had enough of her own allowance to cover the damages. "I sincerely apologize for the trouble she is inevitably about to cause you today. Please, come up. I will get her to sign the paperwork."

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