Magic Shop

Everything they saw changed drastically when they were only a few meters from the shop building.

"This..." He was amazed at the drastic changes that had occurred to the building in front of him.

Besides Kimihito, Yuuna was also quite surprised to see this change even though she had several times seen miraculous things from the residents of Yuragi-sou. But this was the first time seeing an old building turned into a small shop with a warm atmosphere.

The building that initially looked very old has now drastically changed 180 degrees into a small shop with a small garden in front of it. The impression of horror that had been very thick had disappeared in an instant.

"Is this magic?"

{Whoa! The house is changing!}

Now, they can see a house with brick walls made of dirt and arrange improvised. Two large windows with a unique design are placed next to the green door. There is also a window on the door with the same design motif on the side. The house also has a plain unpainted wooden roof which adds to a fantasy world. Lastly, a wooden plate is hanging in front that reads 'shop.'

"Shall we go in?" He was sure that the building was the shop they were looking for.

{Yes!} She also thought the same.

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"Welcome!"

Upon opening the door, they were greeted by the soft and warm voice, most likely the shop's owner.

Kimihito and Yuuna could see a woman in front of them. He who saw the young woman in front of him was shocked, and he thought that the person who was a shopkeeper at a magic shop like this was a wrinkled old granny dressed in all black and also wearing a magic hat, but apparently what he imagined was wrong.

"This is your first time here, right? Introduce, I'm Wiz, the owner of this shop." Said the woman named Wiz.

Wiz is a lovely and well-endowed woman. She looked barely twenty years old, with fair skin and a curvy figure. She has brown eyes and straight brown hair reaching down to the front of her shoulders, further behind her back, and slightly curling at the tips. Her fringe sometimes covers her right eye. Wiz also possesses a single ahoge that arcs off the top of her head.

Wiz's color theme is purple. She wears a light purple long dress under a purple hooded gambeson robe with golden props and dark-purple boots. Over her robe, she uses a golden cross brooch with bat wings.

"I am Kimihito Kurusu and the ghost friend beside me, Yuuna"

"Wait, can you see ghosts?" He asked.

Wiz, who heard his question, became confused. "O-of course, is there a problem?"

"Nothing, I'm just relieved that a human can see Yuuna." He wasn't too surprised because she was the shop owner, which meant she must also know supernatural things.

"I'm not human but a LIch, so it's normal for me to be able to see ghosts."

"Lich?"

Kimihito didn't expect that the beautiful young woman in front of him was a lich. In his mind, the Lich was a skull figure wearing a robe that was torn at the ends and had a gloomy aura.

Wiz, who saw his reaction was immediately worried. "A-are you scared?"

'That's impossible, isn't it?' After seeing her appearance, he shook his head to answer her question.

Wiz, who saw that the customer of her shop wasn't frightened due to her type of race, became relieved. Lich had a negative impression on most or even all people's thoughts. It was not uncommon for her to see someone frightened when they found out her identity.

"Fuuuh… Oh yeah, is there anything I can help you with?"

"There's something I'm looking for."

"Hmm... Are you looking for items to send ghosts to heaven?"

"Eh?" X2

"If that's the case, I can do it!"

"W-wait! What?"

"I can send your friend Yuuna to go to heaven to be calm and happy." She said, explaining.

Meanwhile, Yuuna, who heard that immediately wrote quickly, {K-Kimihito, do you want me to go to heaven?}

"You're my friend Yuuna, and there's no way I will do that."

Wiz, who overheard their conversation, became confused. Because she had been helping the ghosts at the poor cemetery to go to the afterlife, she thought that Yuuna was a ghost who wandered around looking for someone to help guide her to the afterlife. Then she met Kimihito and said her plea. Kimihito, who couldn't do it, finally found a way to send Yuuna to heaven, and they finally arrived here.

"A-awawa… S-sorry! I'm so sorry! I do not know! I'm so sorry!"

Realizing her mistake, Wiz immediately apologized. She didn't mean to send ghosts to heaven. She just felt sorry for the ghost she had met because they looked sad. The regret that remains in the world makes them from going to the afterlife.

"It's fine. You haven't done anything either."

"But I've said something bad."

"Relax, Yuuna didn't think about it either. Isn't that right, Yuuna?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, Wiz-san," She answered directly to Wiz.

Kimihito saw Wiz's expression getting better, and he could guess that Yuuna must have been talking to Wiz. Unfortunately, he couldn't hear what Yuuna was saying, but he didn't think much of it either as long as everything was fine.

"By the way, Yuuna-san looks happier than any ghost I've ever met."

"What kind of ghost have you ever met?"

"They look weird."

"Heeh... I just found out about that."

That was something Kimihito had just learned. Considering Yuuna was the first ghost he met, he didn't understand the other ghosts.

Wiz, who saw Yuuna, once again said, "But Yuuna-san may be a special ghost."

"Special?"

"There are cases of ghosts having great spiritual power that allows them to have a consciousness." She replied.

As someone experienced in the field of magic and who had lived a long time, Wiz must have met many different types of races. She was also known as a No-life King. Her knowledge of the supernatural world was vast, and there was no need to question it.

Hearing Wiz's words, Kimihito immediately thought that it made sense. If he remembers again, he also met a ghost, not an invisible ghost-like Yuuna but a ghost that possessed a human body. From a medical point of view, possession is considered a mental illness and not something mystical. But, those who believe in and understand the supernatural thing will say that it's caused by supernatural spirits, ghosts, or objects.

Yuuna also has an extraordinary poltergeist power to control the objects around her. It would feel bizarre if she were equated with ordinary ghosts who only had regrets. So it's only natural that she has tremendous spiritual power.

"Does that mean Yuuna has no regrets?" He asked, looking at where she was.

{I have no memory before becoming a ghost.} Yuuna wrote quickly.

After he finished reading it, he became confused. "Is that possible?"

"As far as I know, it's impossible. What might happen is that Yuuna-san erased her memories or sealed them." Wiz replied in response to his question.

It's impossible for a ghost-like Yuuna who has excellent power to be unable to remember anything about her past. Even ordinary ghosts must remember their past deeply, especially their regrets.

Kimihito, who heard the two possibilities, could conclude several things. He knows that memory is very precious because it contains all a person's memories of what they've been through all this time. If she deletes it, then it could be that she doesn't want to remember her past and wants to throw it away for good. But if she sealed it, perhaps she needed the right timing or special conditions to recall it.

"If Yuuna-san sealed her memories, I can help unseal her," Wiz told him.

"I'm sure Yuuna must have personal reasons for doing that." He said with a smile.

"By the way... Is there something Kimihito-san wants to look for here?"

After they finished asking them, they instantly realized why they had come here in the first place.

"If you didn't remind me, I'd have completely forgotten about it." He said while scratching his head.

{I forgot about it too!} She was the same way too.

After meeting Wiz and talking about the supernatural, Yuuna and even Kimihito forgot why they went to this shop. On the other hand, Wiz herself didn't mind chatting with them because there weren't any other customers besides the two of them. So she could relax a bit, and without realizing it, the three of them had been carried away by the flow of the conversation.

"The reason we came here was to look for an item from Chuuma Ninja."

"Chuuma Ninja? I happened to stock up on some items directly from their village last month."

"In that case, are there spirit-detecting glasses?"

"Please wait a moment. I will check it."

After saying that, Wiz immediately went to the warehouse inside the shop to check the items Kimihito wanted. Suddenly...

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