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I'm reading a manga and am stumped on what this sentence(s) is saying:

ロッカーを棲家としているわけでもなく殺人鬼のはずもなく普通の正社員

The previous sentence talks about someone at work who is like a Grim Reaper.

I don't even know if this is one long sentence or two. Is the first half
talking about lockers? or maybe rockers? Is the second half saying something
like the grim reaper/other employee (not sure who the subject is as I can't
parse the sentence) isn't homicidal, but a normal regular employee. I can't
infer much as this is literally the second sentence in the manga.

The sentence following this one states that there is a man called the Grim
Reaper (pretty much the same information as the first sentence).

Please note, I spelled the katakana as ロッカー but in the manga, it looks more
like ロツカー。I couldn't come up with a word for the second one so I think it's
actually spelled the first way.
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translation katakana manga
trouble translating/parsing sentence with katakana that is confusing
It means he neither lives in a locker nor is a murderer but a normal employee.

It may be clearer in this way.

> 彼はロッカーを棲家としているわけでもなく殺人鬼のはずもなく普通の正社員だ。

This is a long sentence. ロッカー means “locker” in this sentence because 棲家 means
a place where someone lives.

Perhaps ッ looked like ツ due to the font.
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Absent other context, I feel the sentence would make most sense if we
translate ロッカー as "rockers". (ie, people living the stereotypical rock band
lifestyle)

I would translate it as something like below:

```

    He does not have a rock band for a family nor is he a murderer.
    He's just a regular office worker.
    
```
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