Even though there's no love lost between them, Kimihiro seeks Yuko's help when Dômeki becomes the object of a grudge just for trying to be a good samaritan. Will the price be too high?

Watanuki is Yuko's unwilling assistant, but even he is compelled by the fascinating adventures he's had since he started working for the "space-time witch." Yujo operates a shop that grants people what they need, but there is always a price to be paid ...

"Without realizing it, Kimihiro Watanuki has purchased a dream. According to Yûko Ichihara, the mysterious time-space witch, people usually buy good dreams, but Kimihiro's dream is a man-eating nightmare. Even worse, it has come true! Then Kimihiro meets a wistful girl who, like him, can see the spirit world. Together they try to prevent a harmless ghost from being exorcised from its beloved resting place, and ancient cherry tree. The girl's mother...

Kimihiro Watanuki finds things inside Yuko's wish-granting business all too familiar, and a strange feeling overcomes him as he makes a choice, a feeling that he has made this choice before.

"Watanuki's vow to the witch Yûko, who has disappeared, leaves him in charge of the shop where wishes must be granted to those who meet the price. Enter a deranged customer who is determined to capture the heart of the man she is stalking. Now Watanuki may have no choice but to deliver his friend Shizuka Dômeki into the arms of this unstable woman!" -- from publisher's web site.

"Since returning to his roots working for Yûko alongside Dômeki, Watanuki has been plagued by a sense of déjà vu, and upon receiving another visitor with a tale of exchanged coins and a chance encounter with a familiar bird cage, everything falls into place. With understanding comes purpose, but sometimes, as the saying goes, ignorance is bliss..."--