After getting Cyril's promise, "Magician" Fors remembered something very serious: she no longer had enough money to buy Deep Sea Spearfish blood.
...There was still a long time until her next writing payment came in, and Xio didn't have any extra money to lend her lately, either.
After thinking for a while, she looked around at the Tarot Club members and asked with unusual sincerity,
"Everyone, do you know any good ways to make money?"
The answer was silence from everyone.
After glancing at the silent crowd and thinking for two seconds, Cyril raised a hand.
"If you want to make money, I have a long-term commission."
"What commission?" "Magician" Fors immediately asked.
At the same time, "World," seated at the very bottom, and "Hanged Man," to Cyril's right, both looked over.
Cyril glanced at them, then said,
"Help me collect materials rich in Spirituality. Blood would be best, or things like plants that I could conveniently turn into paint."
Most of the Extraordinary Paintings he'd made had been damaged in his last battle against the three Beyonders from the Rose School of Thought's Indulgence Faction. He urgently needed to replenish them.
That made finding pigments suitable for painting Extraordinary Paintings a problem.
Previously, he'd relied on bleeding himself to make paint, but he couldn't keep that up forever, especially in large quantities.
Turning paintings into Mystical Items really was a practical Ability.
After sighing inwardly, Klein made his alternate account, "World," ask,
"Are there any requirements for how rich in Spirituality the materials need to be?"
Cyril replied, "The richer, the better. Actually, Beyonders' blood is the best. If you can collect any, I'll buy it at above market price."
Klein made "World" nod. "I'll keep an eye out and help you collect some."
"Hanged Man" Alger added,
"I'll