Confrontation

After seeing Wiz had entered the door next to the cashier counter, Kimihito decided to look around the shop. He was curious about what items were sold here. Because it's different from the usual shops that generally sell goods, this shop has a variety of strange things that are new to his eyes. Of course, he didn't dare to touch that because that might have powers that would activate if touched.

"Do you know these things, Yuuna?" He asked because Yuuna was a ghost, so he wondered if she knew about magical items.

{No, this is my first time seeing something like this.}

"I thought you would know."

{But I know there are strange things inside Yuragi-sou's warehouse}

"Is that true?"

{I've even seen a lot of game boxes there, but Chitose-san forbids me to play them.}

"Why?"

{She said that everything there is cursed.}

Looking at Yuuna's writing, he felt confused about the cursed items stored in the warehouse. 'Why not just destroy it all?' He thought.

"I thought Chitose forbade you so that nothing bad will happen."

Looking back at the items in the shop, Kimihito thought that Wiz's shop had a lot of things. Inside the goods shelf, he saw a sculptured statue with a strange facial design that had one horn broken off. Then there was also what looked like a collar and lots of glass bottles that might have been some elixir. But of course, he doesn't know all the uses of the things here.

In addition to seeing the items on display on the shelves, Kimihito also saw the price tags listed there. He wanted to know if such things had a high price.

'What is this price?' He thought.

Not sure if he had misread the price, then he tried to wipe his eyes. Once again, he tried to read the numbers on the price tag carefully.

"2000 Yen?" He didn't know if such a price was reasonable for a collar in front of him, but it seemed to be made of a strong and quality material on closer inspection.

But still, Kimihito didn't know what effect the collar had, but he was sure that it could also affect the prices of the items sold in this shop.

Apart from that, he also surveyed the entire shop belonging to Wiz and saw that only he and Yuuna were the current customers. He wasn't sure if there were only a few people who knew about supernatural things or if the shop's initially inconspicuous appearance had caused the shop to be deserted.

KRING

While thinking about the possibility that Wiz's shop would be empty of visitors, suddenly Kimihito and Yuuna heard a sound from the front doorbell. Immediately they both turned to look in the direction of the sound. They could see that three people had just entered the shop. After seeing the three of them, his thoughts of Wiz's deserted shop immediately disappeared.

When he saw the three people who had just entered, Kimihito felt the strangeness of the three of them.

'Are they human?' He thought. However, he was able to see one of them, which was not a human because…

'Panda?!' X2

Of course, everyone knows pandas, that includes Kimihito and Yuuna. But seeing an adult panda suddenly appear walking on two legs into the shop certainly took them both by surprise, especially Kimihito. It wouldn't surprise him if it were a demi-human panda, but what he saw this time was a panda, 100% PANDA. Even everyone will say that 'that's a panda!'.

Besides the panda, there were two people, a girl and a boy. They both look like high school students because they wear the same black uniform.

The girl looked athletically tall with golden eyes and long dark green hair tied into a ponytail. She wears long socks with brown shoes and a black uniform with unique buttons. Lastly, she wore round glasses, even though one of the lenses had broken.

Just like the girl who had just arrived, the boy beside her was also wearing the same uniform with the addition of a light brown turtleneck sweater that he wore under his uniform. From his appearance, he seems to have a slim body with pale skin, brown eyes, and spiky blonde hair.

Meanwhile, Panda himself wasn't wearing any clothes, or in other words, he was currently naked. But that doesn't seem like a big deal considering he looks like a panda. It would be weird if an adult panda were wearing clothes.

"Where's the shopkeeper? Is this shop not guarded, huh?" Said the girl with glasses.

"Calm down, Maki. How about we ask the people over there." Said a panda trying to calm down the girl named Maki. Then he pointed at Kimihito, who was in the corner.

"Salmon!"

"Excuse me, are you know where this shopkeeper is?" The Panda tried to ask Kimihito who was in the corner of the shop.

Kimihito, who felt called by someone, immediately saw who called him. Instantly he was surprised because the person who called him was a panda he had seen earlier. Because it's rude to ignore people asking, he immediately answered the Panda question without thinking further about why the Panda could talk.

"Hmm? Oh, she's in the warehouse over there. She's looking for something that I want to buy."

"Is that so?"

"Calm down, Maki. I have a feeling that the item you're looking for will definitely be here this time!"

"Salmon!"

"By the way-" the Panda who wanted to talk suddenly looked so shocked that he couldn't finish his sentence.

"!!!" X3 The panda and the two high school children become silent.

Kimihito, who saw the three of them, became confused by what had happened. Yuuna, who finished looking around the shop, decided to return to Kimihito's side.

"Are you done looking around, Yuuna?" He asked.

{Yes!} She answered briefly.

"Is there anything you want to buy?"

{Can a ghost-like me keep things?}

"So what?"

{I mean… I'm just a ghost hitchhiking in your room, so…}

"It's okay. I don't mind it at all."

{But I do not have money.}

"I will pay for it, so if there's something you want, say it. Well, if there's nothing in this shop that catches your eye, we can go look elsewhere."

{...} Yuuna couldn't say anything else. She felt that she was the happiest ghost in the world.

Not far from the two of them, Panda and the others were also speechless, seeing Kimihito and Yuuna. They both look more like lovers who flirt with each other to the point that they think the world only belongs to them.

Besides the panda, the green hair girl immediately muttered when she saw Yuuna. "Grade 1? No, a Special Grade?!"

"Oy! Why is there a cursed spirit that can communicate here?" Asked a girl called Maki by the Panda earlier.

If other people didn't know Maki, they would think of her as a rude girl. Not because of her appearance but because of her tone and style of speech.

"Hmm? What do you mean?" Asked Kimihito, he didn't understand what she was saying about the cursed spirit.

"Huh? You don't understand? That's what I meant!" Maki said while pointing at Yuuna.

Looking at the direction of Maki's index finger, he replied, "She's Yuuna, a ghost."

"Ghost?! There is no such thing as a ghost during the day. Get out of the way! That creature might be dangerous!" Maki shouted, telling him to get out of the way.

Meanwhile, Yuuna, who heard her words, became restless. She didn't understand what the girl in front of her was talking about her. It all confused her when the girl told Kimihito to get away from her.

"Yuuna is my friend, and she's not dangerous at all. If you want to hurt her, then skip me first!"

Kimihito himself doesn't want his new closest friends to get hurt, especially if they don't do anything. Even though he had just met Yuuna yesterday, seeing her personality made him think that there was no way she would do evil things or even kill people. Well, if he thinks about it, he's also been flown by her poltergeist twice, but that was also an accident, so there's no need to count. He also doesn't mind about it at all.

After saying that, the atmosphere between Kimihito and Maki instantly became heated. Maki believes Yuuna is a cursed spirit that must be exterminated, and Kimihito believes that Yuuna is an innocent ghost. They both have their own beliefs.