Stille

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Stille (斯蒂尔)
Gender	Female
Age	19 4 12
Affiliation	Camilla’s Magic Tower; Xinfei Merchant Guild’s Magic Research Institute 4 34
Education	Graduate of Lampari Royal Academy 28 34
Occupation/Role	Certified mage; Magic Array researcher; Xinfei Merchant Guild spokesperson 4 34 38
Family	Granddaughter of Great Mage Camilla 2 4
First Appearance	Chapter 1, “Applying for a Job” 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Mages’ Guild-certified mage; level unspecified	4	Passed the Guild’s qualification assessment the year before the story’s opening events.
Improved understanding of wind magic; no rank change stated	15	Studying and building the Piano Model deepened her understanding of wind magic. She acknowledged that her improvement was smaller than Xu Yi’s.

Background / History

Stille was admitted to Lampari Royal Academy three years before the opening events. By nineteen, she had also passed the Mages’ Guild’s qualification assessment, achievements that marked her as an exceptional magical talent. Camilla doted on her but maintained strict expectations for her studies, frequently criticizing her interest in small novelties 4.

After graduating, she returned to Bunta City while keeping in touch with her former classmates. These connections later helped her recruit researchers for Xinfei’s Magic Research Institute 28 34.

Appearance

Stille is described as a beautiful young woman with nearly perfect features and a lively, youthful presence. Her appearance becomes a central element of Xinfei’s early advertising 34 38.

• Hair: Shoulder-length blond hair, also described as flowing golden hair 28 34.
• Eyes: Large and normally bright; their loss of sparkle emphasizes her distress after returning from Anvilmar 27.
• Advertisement attire: A long white dress, with her hair and dress stirred by the Magic Fan’s breeze 34.
• Banquet attire: A fitted pale-purple gown and loosely pinned golden hair, exposing her long, fair neck 38.

Personality

Stille is confident, playful, and comfortable exercising her influence at Camilla’s tower. She orders Xu Yi’s hiring despite the interviewers’ objections and treats Camilla’s familiar lectures with cheeky rather than fearful defiance 1 4. Her conversations with Xu Yi frequently involve teasing, particularly her calling him an “old man” or “Uncle” in retaliation for being called a child 20 28 31.

Her curiosity about inventions coexists with a conventional belief in magical rank. She admires the Magic Fan’s ingenuity but initially argues that Xu Yi should prioritize becoming a powerful mage, because personal magical strength determines a mage’s standing. Building the Piano Model gives her firsthand experience of learning magic through practical work 15.

Stille values personal effort and self-respect. She wants to make her own birthday gift rather than simply buy one, and she refuses Vincent’s pressure to sleep with him despite her feelings for him. After discovering his character, she destroys the gift and eventually rejects her earlier habit of judging a man by his looks 13 28 49.

She is also perceptive about business. On first hearing Xu Yi’s explanation of endorsements, she immediately recognizes that a defective product could damage its spokesperson’s reputation. Her concern for Camilla similarly combines affection with practicality: she sees that closing the tower might ease Camilla’s burdens, while understanding how devastating the loss of that life’s work would be 31 50.

Abilities & Skills

Magical Talent

Stille’s academy admission and early Guild certification establish her as a gifted young mage. Camilla’s high expectations are based in part on that talent 4.

• Reproduces the Piano Model’s two Wind Magic Arrays easily once Xu Yi explains their principles 15.
• Uses a low-level fire spell to shatter and burn her handmade Piano Model 28.
• Her precise mage level is not stated in the supplied chapters 4 15.

Magic Array Research

Stille becomes the Magic Research Institute’s first hire. Her work involves modifying arrays to satisfy Xu Yi’s practical requirements for machinery, rather than simply maximizing spell power 41 45.

Project	Contribution
Magic Air Conditioner	Participates in development; her contribution is a major reason the device is completed quickly 38.
Magic Harvester	Works with Xu Yi on the Magic Array supplying the harvester’s driving power 42.
Magic Rice Cooker	Helps develop and test the cooker alongside Xu Yi, Akali, and Avita. Its Blazing Flame Magic Array heats the pot directly and evenly 47 48.

Crafting and Practical Learning

Stille is quick-witted and eager to learn, picking up Xu Yi’s explanations of the Piano Model’s construction with little difficulty 15.

• Builds her own working Piano Model under his after-hours instruction 13 15.
• Learns the importance of gear alignment, array spacing, and adjusting the arrays for a chosen piece of music 15.
• Initially depends on Xu Yi’s guidance for mechanical design and assembly, even though she handles the magical principles readily 15.

Public Representation and Recruitment

Stille proposes becoming Xinfei’s spokesperson after learning how product endorsements work. She subsequently combines public-facing work with research and recruitment 31 34.

• Poses with the Second-Generation Variable-Speed Magic Fan for Master Anlisos’s advertisement 34.
• Uses correspondence with former classmates to introduce potential researchers to Xinfei 34 40 41.
• Distinguishes spokesperson work from direct sales, refusing to approach strangers at a banquet with product pitches 38.

Cooking

• Prepares dinner at Xu Yi’s home to thank him for teaching her to make the Piano Model 19 20.
• Checks Vivian’s healing wounds before asking her to help in the kitchen 19.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Handmade Piano Model — Created as a birthday gift for Vincent. Stille takes it to Anvilmar but never gives it to him; she later destroys it with a fire spell 13 15 28.
• First Magic Fan — Purchased from Xu Yi and shown to Camilla. Camilla damages it while experimenting with its array, then cuts it open for examination 4 8.

Relationships

• Xu Yi — Initially the applicant whose hiring she secures; later her crafting instructor, research colleague, employer, and trusted confidant. He comforts her after her disappointment in Vincent, while she publicly defends his talent against Qimiro. Their rapport becomes increasingly warm and flirtatious, though these chapters do not establish them as a couple 1 15 28 34 35 48 49.
• Great Mage Camilla — Her grandparent and a strict influence on her magical studies. Stille explains Camilla’s hostility toward commerce to Xu Yi and later reveals the financial crisis threatening the tower 4 31 50.
• Vincent — A former academy classmate she secretly admired, not an established boyfriend. Learning that he was engaged and dishonest toward other women ends her attachment to him 28 48 49.
• Akali and Avita — Former academy classmates whom she invites to consider work at Xinfei. They become her research colleagues and join her in testing the Magic Rice Cooker 40 41 42 48.
• Vivian — Helps Stille prepare dinner and later lends her clothes when she stays at Xu Yi’s house. Stille notices that Vivian is a girl, correcting Xu Yi’s mistaken assumption 19 28.
• Qimiro — A would-be suitor whose jealousy contributes to his hostility toward Xu Yi. Stille sharply rebukes his boasting and refuses to endorse his attempts to belittle Xu Yi 24 35.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Xu Yi’s Entry into the Magic Tower

• Meets Xu Yi at the entrance, where he holds the door for her 1 49.
• Interrupts his unsuccessful interview, examines his miniature piano, and orders the interviewers to hire him despite his unimpressive credentials 1.
• Brings his Magic Fan to Camilla and later summons Xu Yi to explain its design, helping connect the inventor with the Great Mage’s research interests 4 7 8.
• Delivers Camilla’s recommendation for the Mages’ Guild certification examination and urges Xu Yi to take rank seriously 20.

The Piano Gift and Vincent

• Asks Xu Yi to teach her to build a Piano Model within half a month, intending it as a personal birthday gift 13 15.
• Travels to Anvilmar to confess to her former classmate, only to discover his engagement and subsequently his dishonest pursuit of women 27 28.
• Confides in Xu Yi, destroys the ungiven model, and stays overnight in Vivian’s room 28.
• Still shows traces of hurt during the research team’s meal, but later tells Xu Yi that she no longer has feelings for Vincent and recognizes the shallowness of her earlier attraction 48 49.

Xinfei Research and Advertising

• Requests purposeful work and volunteers to become Xinfei’s spokesperson 31.
• Becomes the institute’s first hire, appears in the new Magic Fan advertisement, and helps attract academy-trained researchers 34 40 41 45.
• Contributes to the Magic Air Conditioner, Magic Harvester, and Magic Rice Cooker projects 38 42 48.
• By the time she and Xu Yi laugh together in the street, both are recognizable minor celebrities in Bunta City 49.

Camilla’s Funding Crisis

• Warns Xu Yi that Camilla’s stubbornness may endanger the Magic Tower and suggests that she may need his help 49.
• Reveals that reduced kingdom funding has left Camilla unable to sustain research and wages, with closure becoming a possibility. Her explanation prompts Xu Yi to visit Camilla directly 50.

Notable Quotes

“Something I make myself would mean much more than something I bought from someone else.” 13

“But if the product is no good, wouldn't that damage the spokesperson's reputation?” 31

“Because... you held the door for me when you came in.” 49