Hill was still pondering where exactly to begin when he discovered that there was something else in the book chest Ellie had left on the table.
He picked it up and found the deed to his current residence, along with a permit for unrestricted construction... Of course, Earl Ster had requested in an extremely humble tone that Hill try not to build anything higher than the watchtowers atop the castle.
In other words, he was asking Hill not to build a Mage Tower.
That was no problem.
He had never planned to build one in the first place.
However, Hill had assumed these things would be delivered only after he accepted Ellie's request. But they had simply been placed in the book chest and sent to him without even considering that he might refuse?
These things... were just like what Hill had said at the beginning. Since Miss Ster had brought the matter to him for guidance under the pretext that nobody could understand it, Hill only needed to return a modern translation to them.
Judging from her behavior, Ellie had been mentally prepared for that as well.
And according to common sense, this plot of land in the central district, and even in the residential area of the Mages, was actually Hill's payment as a teacher.
If they had given it to him today... could it be that when Ellie came again, she would offer a reward worth more than this land?
The Ster Family was being far too obsequious. No matter how he thought about it, Hill felt that something was off.
Earl Ster couldn't possibly think of having him become the family's tutor, could he?
Hill shook his head. That earl seemed quite shrewd and had a good sense of boundaries. He shouldn't be foolish enough to