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The same day, same time every month, the demon king comes to Kyou and Asu... asking for the rent. But this month he didn't come. Kyou thinks that means she won't have to pay rent. I don't think so (^^;;) The next day, while Kyou's out playing with water (school swimsuit on underneath her clothes so it's okay), their neighbor in the apartment, Renko, tells her and Asu that the landlord is in the hospital with a broken leg. Kyou and Asu decide to go visit him in the hospital, buying an apple to give to him.

The landlord's a pretty grumpy old man (tsundere?) and doesn't care much for Kyou and Asu's presence. However, Kyou and Asu come the next day, and the next day, and the next day, giving him a back massage and tea and a watermelon and finally some flowers from Asu. He told them not to come anymore... that night it starts to rain, but the roof doesn't leak like it usually does. Somebody must've fixed it for them... the landlord must've broken his leg while he was doing that. Kyou and Asu go back to visit him the next day to tell him to get better quick -- he says thank you.

Kyou@Maaya Sakamoto (15) and Asu@Tomoko Kaneda (9) live by themselves in a one-room apartment with not much in it. Their father built up a huge debt and left, and their mother is in heaven keeping watch over them. Kyou wakes up early to go deliver newspapers (yes, somehow she can work even though she's only a middle schooler), and Asu gets up after she leaves, ready to make breakfast -- she's the one that takes care of things around the house. Asu's very excited about the upcoming festival that night -- there's plenty of money in the piggy bank so they can buy this and that, and her favorite, candy apples. After Kyou gets back, Asu runs off to the festival grounds to make a plan for what she and her sister will do that night. When Asu arrives back home her sister isn't there and the piggy bank is empty. Kyou comes in with a new yukata just like hers for Asu.... Asu calls her sister "baka" and runs off...