Haruto was lying in his bed trying to get rid of his sleepiness. It was the morning after he saw Hitomi in the bath the previous day and he still had the image burned into his eyes. He rang the bell to call Zoe and after a short time she walked into the room.
"What is it Master Haruto?"
"I was wondering if you could bring me more less expensive clothing then the ones that were in the closet…They just seem like clothes I'd have to be careful in and I don't want to ruin them…"
"If it as you wish I will you bring more humble clothing."
"Thank you!"
Zoe left the room and Haruto opened the closet again. He looked at the clothes again and went all the way down the closet. At the middle part of the closet the clothes changed from male clothing to female clothing which he found strange.
"I guess this was meant to be guest room so they'd have to be prepared for either gender."
He left the closet and grabbed his phone from his bag and started to play a game while he waited for his clothes. After about 5 more minutes Zoe came back having more normal looking clothes her hands.
"Will this do Master Haruto?"
"Yes! They're perfect!"
He took the clothes and changed into them.
"Much more my style."
While looking at the clothes in the mirror he heard something behind him.
"That's strange, Zoe already left…"
He saw that his bag that was originally on the table was now on the floor. He walked over and put it back it on the table when he heard another sound come from the closet.
"Huh?"
He walked over and was startled by a girl who was inside of his closet. The girl was also startled by Haruto and started running until hitting a wall.
"A-Are you okay?!"
"I couldn't go through again…"
"Excuse me? …Go through?"
"Also what are you doing here, this is my room."
"Eh?"
"I made this my room a long time ago, so if you would kindly leave-"
"Wait wait! If this is your room why would I put into this room?"
"…"
"…Do they not know you're here?"
"Egh! O-Of course they do!"
"It doesn't seem like it…"
He quickly ran for the bell but was blocked by the girl.
"I'll tackle you!"
"Try!"
He lunged at her and she fell over.
"I think I succeeded in tackling you."
"Why can't I phase through stuff!!!" She started whining obnoxiously and held herself a tantrum.
"Um? You keep mentioning something about phasing…Could you maybe be a ghost?"
"Y-Y-Yes…Wh-Why did y-y-you wa-want t-to know?"
"In that case can you remember your life? You do look human so where you once human?"
"I-I do-don't know!" She started crying even louder after exclaiming that she couldn't remember her life before.
"Hey…Uh, could you maybe calm down?"
The girl was only crying now and looking away from him.
"I-I know! What's your name?"
"A-Aki…"
"Aki? Okay Aki, is there anything that would calm yo-"
The doors to the room burst open and a familiar elf girl stood on the other side of the doorway. She saw Aki crying and glared at Haruto.
"What did you do to her?! It better not have been perverted!"
"N-No I didn't do anything! She just started crying! Kept going on about how she can't phase through stuff!"
Hitomi went to Aki's side and hugged her.
"It's alright…You need to calm down, okay?"
"Do you happen to know her?"
"Of course I do! I'm the one who let her stay in this room, I wasn't expecting my mother to put you in the same room."
"So we're roommates then?"
"No! You can't be trusted so you'll stay in the servant's closet!"
"Wow I don't even get a room?"
"You don't deserve one!"
"…Okay then…" He sat on the bed. "I'm not leaving."
"Huh? Yes you are! You wouldn't defy a princess would you?"
"Yeah but the thing is…You're not my princess."
You could visibly see her face becoming angrier especially after his last statement.
'Maybe I shouldn't have said that…'
Aki tugged onto Hitomi's sleeve and looked up at her, still with tears in her eyes.
"I-It's m-my fault! D-Don't ki-ick him out!"
"Huuh?!?! You can't trust that little twerp!"
"B-But he d-didn't d-do any-ything wrong!"
"…"
"P-Please do-on't kick h-him out be-ecause of me!"
"…Fine…But if I ever see you do anything to Aki I'll make you sleep in the palace furnace!"
"Woah suddenly dark, you really want to burn me alive?"
After awhile they both calmed down and Aki and Haruto became official roommates.
"So you're a ghost but you can't remember anything from your past life and can barely do anything that can be considered ghostly? Doesn't that pretty much make you human?"
"No, not necessarily. I can see in the dark, I don't have to eat, drink or sleep and I can't die since I'm already dead!"
"Why would you praise the fact you're dead?"
"Well that's my greatest skill, since I'm dead I can't die so if I'm ever needed in a deadly situation I can help in more ways then one."
"Hm. And Aki isn't you're actual name?"
"Yeah, someone found me as a ghost and since I couldn't remember my past life they gave me this name. Still it's rare to have someone with a similar sounding name to mine! You don't hear our names too often."
"Do you remember who gave you that name?"
"Hmmm…Nope!"
"Haaaa…Another roadblock."
"Hm?"
"Ah, we'll in case you couldn't tell I'm human."
"I knew that."
"Haha, okay…We'll I'm the only human in this forest and after hearing Hitomi's name I thought maybe there could have been other humans before. Hitomi insists that it wasn't a human and you say you can't remember who named you…I wonder if it was the same person…"
"Well of I ever suddenly remember I'll be sure to tell you!"
"Ha, thanks. Also you said your ghost abilities barely work, does that mean they work sometimes?"
"Oh yes! If I concentrate really hard I can sometimes phase through stuff or fly around for a bit."
"Could you try to phase through the bed then?"
"Yeah sure!"
She scrunched up her face and clenched her hands. After awhile she started to appear more see through until her clothes went through her. Haruto quickly looked away.
"Y-You're clothes!"
"Huh?"
She looked down and saw her bare body and turned red. She quickly through her clothes back on and Haruto looked towards her.
"Y-You didn't see anything did you?"
"…Maybe a little."
She turned red again and punched him across the room.
"Please forget you saw anything! I don't want people seeing my boobs! Ah! And I'm sorry for punching you across the room!"
"I-It's fine…"
His point of impact dented the wall pretty good so they covered it up with a picture to try and hide the fact that they broke the wall.
'I hope my days don't continue like this…'