[ Thank you, based Chihiro, for taking him away from any apartments with potential Neighbors to a place with actual neighbors. But he hopes this is an apartment with laundry, because he would rather . . . not use the bath and shower to wash his clothes . . . ]

Three months, huh? That's a long time.

[ It's about as long as he'll be here, unbeknownst to him, so he's getting the deal of the century. ]

When you say the apartments aren't as full as before, does that mean people moved out?

[ To where, though? Somewhere else in the colony? ]