She shook her head. "Only when the shop I go to has no supplies of what I'm looking for," Tomoko replied easily. "That store only sells books, relics, and equipments, and sometimes it carries dried ingredients like powders and leaves too. But if something needed fresh body parts, I need to go somewhere - and usually, the second store carries it."

She paused. "Someone told me that the two owners of the shops were lovers who had separated because of their beliefs, but I can't be sure." It was an interesting thought, though, and Tomoko often wondered why the two didn't end up together.