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1. find me with a flashlight (i'm standing right behind you) by areyouabadwolf2

   Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   01 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Jinshi/Maomao (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • Jinshi & Maomao (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • Jinshi (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • Maomao (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Humor
   • Angst
   • Moon Prince Jinshi (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • Ghost! Jinshi
   • Jinshi in his casper the friendly ghost era
   • Maomao Needs a Hug (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • Soulmates
   • Past Lives
   • Bickering
   • Ghosts
   • Unreliable Narrator Maomao (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • Maomao is a Cat (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • Jinshi is a cat (part time)
   • Jinshi Needs a Hug (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • they need to hug each other
   • Death
   • But Also Life
   • Love
   • Eventual Sex
   • Maomao being Maomao (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)

   Summary

   For some reason, Maomao remembers her and Chue's chat about the Moon Prince loitering around the former brothel.

   Would she be crazy if she considered it? Everyone else in the building believed it was haunted; if Maomao participated in a group hallucination that hardly counted as crazy.

   And so, for some reason or another, Maomao sits on her futon and looks around, before saying, “Um … Ka Zuigetsu?”

   There’s a clatter in the bathroom and Maomao’s heart is in her throat.

   No way…

    

   OR

    

   When Maomao needs a cheap place to stay, she doesn't even think twice about the low month-to-month rent at the old Verdigris House.

   So what if it used to a brothel, and everyone says it's haunted? She doesn't buy into that stuff and she's faced worse than ghosts.

   But when strange things start to happen in her room, and a pretty boy claiming to be a long lost prince keeps appearing in her bathroom, she might have to pay up.

   Maomao asks the question she always does: what's the cost?

   She should be asking: is she willing to pay it?

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