The girls had not woken up from sleep. Baiyi wrote a letter using his mana, and when he was done, he passed it to the butler who had just arrived in a hurry. The man took it dutifully, then he tucked it safe between his coat and his shirt.

Before Baiyi left, the butler's ethos compelled him to ask, "Anything else I can do for you, Master Hope?"

The Soul Armature thought for a while. Then, he replied, "How about less meat in our groceries? I'm preventing them from getting too fat, you know?"

Upon hearing the unexpected request, the butler — whose default expression was of a professional, serious servant — twitched his eye. He nodded despite the discrepant expression on his face and left with the letter in his pocket.

Undine watched the butler depart with a curious expression on her face, and then she turned to face Baiyi, "You actually have a butler? How come I've never seen him before? He even looks so professional and haughty… It's like he serves a very high-class family or someth