Chapter 8: Magic Wand (2)
That afternoon.
Philiana, after choosing several clothes that the Tyrant might wear, went to the bedroom where he was staying.
Knock-Knock-
“May I come in, Luna?”
“Come in.”
When Philiana opened the door, the Tyrant, who was reading a book, was sitting at the desk.
The book was the basic magic studies written by Philiana herself.
“You were studying.”
He was studying alone.
He was a truly admirable student.
Philiana, with a smile, was about to stroke the Tyrant’s head, when he suddenly raised his head.
“Philiana, I have one request for you.”
“A request?”
“Yes, come to think of it, I don’t have any money.”
Ah.
Come to think of it, he needed living expenses.
She had forgotten the most essential part for a human being to live.
‘Will a hundred thousand shillings a month be enough?’
It would be a considerably insufficient amount for the Tyrant, but he wouldn’t be used to the monetary sense of this era yet.
It would be financially better to gradually increase it in time.
“Luna. You might not know this, but the currency has changed a lot from a hundred years ago.”
“I know.”
“You know?”
She thought he wouldn’t know.
Was she underestimating him too much?
Philiana scratched her cheek with a somewhat apologetic heart.
“I went to a place called a shop with Bella this morning. I learned the prices of this era there.”
Aha.
He learned from Bella.
Philiana decided to ask the Tyrant for the amount he wanted since it had come to this.
“How much do you need, Luna?”
“Fifty shillings a month is enough.”
“Yes···?”
Fifty shillings.
It was a smaller amount than the monthly living expenses of the common people.
Philiana, who had been thinking of at least a hundred thousand shillings or more, couldn’t help but be bewildered.
‘He seems to know about prices, though.’
Why was he so frugal?
Even though it was the living expenses of the Tyrant who had conquered the world.
Philiana was about to fall into deep thought in dismay, when the Tyrant spoke softly.
“Money is something that must be earned to have value. I will only take the minimum amount of money from you.”
“Um··· I understand.”
If he wanted to be that way, then so be it.
She couldn’t say that she would give him more.
Philiana, deciding to be satisfied with the fact that money had been saved, stroked the Tyrant’s head.
It was then that the Tyrant spoke again.
“In fact, if it weren’t for the money I borrowed from Bella, I wouldn’t even need fifty shillings.”
“Did you borrow money from Bella?”
“Yes, because I wanted to buy a wand.”
“Oh? If it’s a wand, I can prepare···”
The Tyrant shook his head before Philiana could finish her words.
Philiana had no choice but to shut her mouth at the firm attitude.
“You’ll surely get an outstanding wand.”
“Yes, if you want, I can give you the one I use.”
“That’s why I bought this. Excessive objects are only poison.”
The Tyrant, who said so, took out a wand from his blouse.
Philiana’s eyes widened at the somewhat familiar appearance of the wand.
“This is···”
It was one of the souvenirs of the mansion, Philiana’s magic wand.
It was a toy that was very popular among children because various play magic was built into it.
But why did the Tyrant have this?
Philiana looked only at the Tyrant with a questioning look.
“This wand is appropriate for this body right now.”
“No, that is···”
It’s a children’s toy.
Philiana forcibly held back the words that were about to burst out of her mouth.
She didn’t want to lose face right away since she was in a good mood.
Philiana, chuckling to herself, reached out her hand to the Tyrant.
“Can I take a look at the wand?”
“Do so.”
The Tyrant’s small hand held out the wand.
Philiana, after receiving the wand, acted as if she was looking around, and casted a magic on it.
Even though it was just a children’s toy, it could become a wonderful wand if the Archmage’s magic was applied to it.
‘This much would be enough?’
The original Tyrant would have been found out when she casted magic on the wand, but it couldn’t be that way because he was hiding his power.
She had completely deceived him.
“···It’s a pretty good wand.”
“Of course. Because it’s made in your mansion.”
“Ah, yes.”
Ahem.
As Philiana cleared her throat and snapped her fingers, a money bag fell from the air.
“Shillings?”
“Yes, exactly fifty shillings. Don’t you really need to give me more?”
“It’s okay. I wasn’t the one who liked luxury in the first place.”
“Luxury?”
Philiana’s eyebrows twitched.
How frugal had he lived for fifty shillings to be considered a luxury?
It was something she, the owner of a great mansion, couldn’t understand.
‘What is he really?’
In the book, the Tyrant had caused the empire’s finances to falter because he spent money lavishly.
The Tyrant in front of her was a person who was too frugal.
‘This is really a historical error.’
Philiana decided to watch a little longer and snapped her fingers towards the Tyrant.
The magic she used this time was the magic to change a person’s clothing.
“···What was that just now?”
“I changed your clothes. You can’t just keep wearing one blouse forever.”
“My clothes···?”
The Tyrant lowered his head and looked at his clothes.
The girl’s body froze with a cute frilled white dress.
“Don’t you like it?”
“···I don’t like it. Isn’t this the clothes girls wear?”
“Yes, I did it as you wanted, Tyrant?”
The Tyrant’s pupils shook as if there was an earthquake at Philiana’s confident appearance.
“···This body asked me to choose clothes similar to those pajamas.”
“Yes. I chose it in a similar style.”
“What, what is that?!”
The Tyrant, with a pale face, lifted the hem of his skirt.
It seemed he didn’t like the sky blue dress, and he frowned.
‘Um.’
In fact, Philiana also knew.
That what the Tyrant wanted was masculine clothing.
However, she decided to pretend not to know this time.
Because it was too inhumane for that lovely appearance to be dressed like a man.
“I just chose the cute clothes like pajamas as you said, didn’t I?”
“···Pajamas were certainly cool, though?”
“No, they are cute clothes?”
“Th, that···?”
The girl’s mouth that was slightly opening.
Philiana decided to take a step back at this point.
She knew that forcing him to wear clothes from the beginning would have the opposite effect.
She was going to change it slowly over time.
“Then, how about these clothes?”
Thwack!
As Philiana snapped her fingers, the Tyrant’s clothes changed.
It was the uniform worn by the academy’s female students.
“What is this?”
“It’s the academy uniform.”
“Uniform?”
The Tyrant looked down at his clothes and nodded.
He was dissatisfied with the pants that stuck to his thighs, but the neatness unique to the uniform wasn’t bad.
If he entered the academy, it was also the clothes he had to wear anyway.
He could consider it to be a reasonable assumption.
“It’s not bad clothes.”
“Then, shall I put on clothes like this in the future?”
“Yes, please.”
Philiana sighed after receiving the Tyrant’s permission.
In fact, she wanted to make him wear a skirt uniform, but she decided to back down to this extent for now.
‘Because I succeeded in one, anyway.’
The women’s underwear she put on in secret.
Since the homunculus didn’t need to go to the bathroom, it wouldn’t be found out if she did it well.
This battle was Philiana’s victory.
Philiana’s class ended around the time the sun started to set.
I went out to the garden to meet Bella before night.
It was the place where I first saw Eve.
“Bella, come here.”
“Ah, Luna!”
Bella came running towards me with a hurried pace.
Eve followed behind her, wagging her tail.
“Bella, do you have some time now?”
“Yes! My working hours are over, so I’m free!”
“If so, then follow me for a moment.”
“Eh? Where are we going?”
Bella tilted her head, and Eve imitated her.
It was cute that the kids were doing that, and a smile escaped from my lips.
“I received money from Philiana. I’ll buy you something at the shop.”
“Oh! Can I eat a lot of chocolate?!”
“···You can’t eat a lot. Because I don’t have that much money.”
Chocolate cost 20 shillings, and with my money, I could only buy two of them.
I scratched the back of my head with an apologetic feeling.
“Didn’t you get a lot of money from Philiana?”
“I got about fifty shillings.”
I held out the purse containing the coins.
Bella’s eyes widened because of the purse that wasn’t that heavy.
“···Didn’t you get too little?”
“No, this much is enough.”
50 shillings was the amount you could buy two and a half cows.
Of course, it was far from the maintenance cost of the peak, but I had to be satisfied with it for now.
Because I was going to earn money with my own hands.
Bella burst into laughter at that moment.
“Luna must be a kid, so you only got a little pocket money.”
“Eh, a kid?”
What is this mischievous girl talking about this time?
I looked up at Bella in dismay, and she put her hand on my head.
“I’ll buy you chocolate. Save the pocket money you got.”
“···Don’t treat this body like a child.”
When I glared at Bella with a frown, she shrunk her body and fidgeted her hand.
“···I made this body. Sometimes, I want to treat you like this.”
“···Is that so.”
After all.
Since I had forcibly taken this body, so to speak.
She was likely frustrated as she wanted to give her love.
I had to step back in this case, although I was a little dissatisfied.
“I understand. But only occasionally.”
“Yes! I like occasionally!”
Bella ran towards me with a happy mood.
She lifted my body with both hands, so I felt shame.
“Ha.”
Yes, so what.
She was the mother of this homunculus.
I just closed my eyes.