"Then let's discuss the commission fee!" Touko Aozaki took over the conversation.
Though she also despised what that old worm Zouken Matou had done, she was, after all, a seasoned Grand Class Magician. Business was business, and she still had to charge the proper fee.
"And how much would that commission fee be?"
"One hundred million dollars! The Einzbern family is one of the wealthiest families in the Mage World, and Zouken Matou is the head of a Mage Family himself. That price isn't excessive, is it?"
"Of course not, but I have a better proposal."
"What proposal?"
"Three hundred million dollars, plus the Einzbern family's homunculus technology. And while you're at it, help me kill Jubstacheit von Einzbern."
"..."
Other than Touko Aozaki, Chloe, and Artoria, who knew the inside story, everyone else wore strange expressions. That name clearly belonged to someone from the Einzbern family. Was Illya planning to kill one of her own?
"Jubstacheit von Einzbern is the head of our Einzbern family—a paranoid lunatic who has lived for several centuries, much like Zouken Matou..."
Illya explained Acht's vile deeds once again.
Only then did everyone understand. Kurodo Kariya, especially, with his kind and sensitive nature, looked at Illya with eyes full of sympathy.
"The price itself isn't a problem, but are you really willing to trade away your Einzbern family's homunculus technology?" Touko Aozaki asked after recovering, though her expression was still somewhat odd.
Though she was the highest-ranking dollmaker in the Clock Tower, the Einzbern family's technology, passed down for two thousand years, had its own unique merits. It was no inferior to hers and was priceless to any magus.
"I suppose I'm being generous with someone else's property. Of course, only Miss Touko Aozaki may study and use these techniques. You may not teach