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.
