"I think if we're the best family to take her in we can do that with some reasonable precautions but we would need a bigger apartment."

"The ダンジョン発生基金 has to pay for movers too, not just the higher rent," Haru says. "We just moved here. We have to live in a building with a garage, because I can't walk very well and will need to be driven to go anywhere especially when it's icy. It has to be near the school Mama's going to work at."

Blink, blink.

"You heard him," says Ren, pouring herself a glass of water.

"...I'll see what I can do."

It's much more pleasant to watch Haru interact with other people than to do so herself.  "If this amount of money is going towards me, does that also mean I will be able to have real clothes?"

"Yes, it'd be plenty to take you clothes shopping and get you furniture and books and a phone of your own and all those things."

She will have to write another thank-you note to the government.  "...Why?"

"The government is responsible for taking care of people who've been affected by dungeons and you seem to be one of those, however that may've happened. If we knew where you came from they might pass you off to whichever country you originally belonged to, but since they don't, Japan is going to do it."

"That's kind of them."

"Japan is a pretty functional country or we wouldn't've moved here."

Nod.

"...well. I can send you some money out of the incidentals fund for your immediate needs and see about hiring those movers, Swan-san," Takuma-san says to Ren.

"I haven't replaced my phone since my own abduction, you can send it to him."

Haru presents his account details.

Fine, she will send money to the eight year old boy.

She was already not planning on getting on Haru's bad side, but she should really take extra care to stay on his good side.  But she doesn't really have the ability to get him anything at the moment...

"I'll be in touch," Takuma-san says, "please let me know as soon as you have your new phone, Swan-san. Hopefully a new apartment will be available before tomorrow night, though moving today may not be realistic."

"Thank you!" chirps Haru.

"You're welcome, Swan-kun." And she lets herself out.

"How would I be unique among monsters," she asks Haru.  "If I were one."

"There's no other monsters who look human and talk and leave their dungeon," he says. "So that's one. And you have to have teleported really far since there's no more of you in Tokyo and no reported dungeon that could've made you, so your dungeon would have to be from someplace that's bad at keeping track, like Indonesia, but the teleporting really far is still special, there's espers that can teleport that far and dungeons can close and reopen at a distance like Omen but monsters that teleport don't ever go that far. And if your dungeon is dead and you're an orphan monster, then it's unusual that you're saying you remember anything. Usually those say they don't even when they do talk."

She nods along.  "I still don't really know what a dungeon is except sometimes they have peaches and they kidnap people and monsters have to do with them.'

"Oh! I can explain about dungeons. They haven't always been around! They started happening almost fifty years ago. Just out of NOWHERE. There's portals, I can show you a picture -" He does. "Sometimes monsters come out but a lot of the time they don't even try, because dungeons can kidnap people by just teleporting them into themselves. That's what happened to R- Mama, she just disappeared. Mama, did the peach dungeon have monsters?"

"Sure it did, kiddo, bees bigger than you."