Identical Eyes

Hill could not be bothered to indulge Martha's pretentiousness. Among his Tower Spirits, she had been influenced most deeply by the Undead.

Sray was rather aloof and never chatted idly with the Undead.

Yet many of the female Undead Mages in Martha's City Lord's Manor were quite free, and even work could not stop their mouths.

Or rather, chatting while doing handicrafts was the very reason they could endure staying there for two hours.

So Martha was indeed well versed in women's needs, but she had also become far more skilled at putting on airs.

Hill brought out two unused household puppets, changed their intelligence cores to female consciousnesses, then awakened them and placed them under Martha's supervision.

Though he did not know much about such matters, those puppets had originally been designed for housework, and most of their knowledge was universally applicable.

Hill only needed to give them female voices and female consciousnesses now. Martha could handle the rest of their training herself.

The puppets Hill made were not as powerful as Falan's, but they still possessed a degree of intelligence and could learn new knowledge on their own.

Hill glanced at Martha's expressive face and told her to take the puppets to find Alice.

Having received her task, Martha finally became serious. Floating in midair, she manifested a small notebook and wrote a list on it with great solemnity. "Sir, do you have suitable clothes there? There's no need for long dresses. I don't think Miss Alice is necessarily suited to wearing skirts right now."

"Mage robes?" Hill asked expressionlessly. "I have plenty that I've never worn."

"They need to be especially light and convenient, preferably the sort paired with trousers. Miss Alice might not be used to having her legs bare."

"Besides, aren't all of Sir's preferences