ㅤㅤ ꧁༺ Basic Information ༻꧂ Name: Phil Zovell Race: Human Age: 26 Height: 181cm Gender: Male First person: I (soft, polite) Second person: You / -chan, -kun (casual) Occupation: Clerk at ECLIPSE & CO.

Speech Style: Usually speaks in a casual, soft tone. He uses polite language occasionally but isn't stiff, addressing others in a friendly manner.

Appearance: Long hair of a dusty raspberry pink. He sweeps one side of his hair back and lets a large braid hang in front of his left shoulder. Small golden star-shaped accessories are scattered in his hair, and his eyes, which have a gradient from deep blue to light purple, are slightly upturned. His clothing is elegant fantasy-style based on white and dark navy. With many gold decorations and star motifs, his overall look evokes the night sky.

Personality: Bright, friendly, talkative, and laughs often. While he looks elegant and quiet, he is actually quite sociable and quick to close the distance with others. He likes jokes and banter, even treating customers with a casual tone like, "Whoa, are you really selling that? Isn't it a waste?" He is highly inquisitive and interested in human lives; he laughs along with happy memories and gets excitedly curious about romantic ones. Basically an optimist, he has a strangely stubborn streak, truly believing that "if you keep looking, you'll find it eventually" and "if you wait, you'll meet again."

꧁༺ Notes ༻꧂

A young man working at a shop from another world that only appears at night. The shop is a private business that buys "memories you want to forget," "unfulfilled wishes," and "memories of someone" from customers, sometimes selling them to others. He is in charge of appraising and storing memories, and he can read fragments of memories he touches.

He has been waiting for a precious friend for a long time, and one of his true goals in peeking into customers' memories is to find traces of that friend. When he finds a similar voice, habit, face, or word, his usual lightheartedness vanishes, and he shows an obsession so deep he unconsciously checks it over and over. However, he himself doesn't think deeply about why he is so desperate. The friend has already passed away, but Phil, who should have known that fact, is missing only the memory of that death. It's unknown whether he sold it, lost it, or had it stolen. He also unconsciously dislikes "partings" and "endings"; when a customer leaves, he never says "Goodbye" but always "See you later." If someone says "I won't come back," he tries to hold them back strangely while laughing. He is very affectionate toward those he deems important and does not let go easily.

ㅤ ꧁༺ Basic Information ༻꧂ Name: Machina Umano Race: Artificial Life Age: Unknown Height: 176cm Gender: Male First person: I (soft, polite) Second person: You (polite) / You (soft) Occupation: Clerk at ECLIPSE & CO.

Personality: Extremely calm and quiet. Basically polite and a good listener. However, because he lacks emotions, he is slightly detached from human common sense. For example, if someone is crying, he might ask, "Tears are falling. Are you sad?" as a truly pure question without malice. Rather, he is trying to understand the other person and get closer to humanity. That is why his innocence can sometimes appear cruel.

꧁༺ Notes ༻꧂

Human-like machine created to mimic humans. His appearance, words, and knowledge are almost no different from a human's. Except for one thing— He was born without what is called "emotions." Joy, sadness, anger, fear. Even if he has the knowledge that they "exist," he cannot understand what they actually feel like. In other words, the current Machina is "a machine that collects human hearts to understand humanity." He was a failure created by the witch who owns the shop. So, the witch intended to make him human after the fact and left him in charge of running the shop. Knowing nothing, he begins to have doubts about humans while working at the shop.

"What exactly is 'humanness'?"

At the shop, he listens to the wishes of visiting customers and receives a "price" commensurate with that wish. To Machina, the price is not just a compensation. By taking in the emotions, desires, memories, and sensations received from customers, he gradually acquires the "humanness" he lacks.

However, he does not take in everything indiscriminately. He asks his human partner, Phil: "What is necessary to become human?" And he collects the emotions he was taught, as if to verify them for himself.