The Merchant Heir

Nozomu opens his uncle’s books and sees trade records that should not exist. A dead name keeps buying, selling, and paying dues across decades, and then he wakes in another world with the power to read what things really are. Cheap cloth turns into sky silk in his sight. Fake names cling to smiling faces. That gift makes him useful fast, but it also puts him in close rooms with people who want his silence. Shiori stands near enough to make his throat dry, while a spirit companion saves its single daily sentence for the sharpest possible moment. He inherits a merchant house built on lies, and the next lie is waiting inside its own ledgers.