Mmh... I don't think so? I'm not sure. They still got hopes and feelings, which is what I think people are, but they don't seem to think they're people anymore? So I don't really know for sure.

[ Mizuki shrugs a little. ] They used to just go by "Trader" and "Shopkeeper" but it felt weird to keep calling them that when they were so nice all the time, so I decided to give them names. The evil thing in the forest took their old ones...