There are magic tricks like 'dispel idlers' that have been in operation for a long time, and in fact, there is no such thing as a mischievous and daring child like Lévy said to run into this building to play. Only guests who have accepted the invitation of the owner of the building, or who have something very important and serious and difficult to visit, and are in a very urgent mood to visit the owner, can break through the influence of magic and enter the building smoothly.

Of course, this kind of magic trick that can only be hinted at a very superficial level for ordinary people will definitely have no effect on Levi and Alice. Even if Alice didn't say it, Levi didn't know that there was a magic trick around the building that resembled the way to dispel idlers. Although he was sure that the owner of the building would use his own methods to make himself a little quieter.

"This building is actually a magician's magic workshop,"

Levi continues with Alice's introduction.

"You probably know what the magic workshop is, right? It's not that it's such a big building, it's just that the magician's workshop is in this building. And it was because it was suitable for building a workshop that she bought the building, which was once said to be because the original company went bankrupt and was confiscated by the bank and forced to auction off the debt, with a large sum of money. ”

Although it is an abandoned commercial building that has not been completed and cannot be put into use directly. But after all, the main body of this building has been built, and if you want to reopen it, you only need to renovate the interior. And even if you don't plan to keep this building, you can sell it for a good price if you occupy such a large piece of land underneath. Even if the city has a relatively poor economic environment due to its own reasons and the radiation bloodsucking effect of the metropolis. It's not that no one even asks for such a large piece of land for auction.

It can be seen that magicians are really a very lucrative profession. Not every magician is as profitable as the one Levi is looking for today, but looking at the Tosaka family's ability to learn the most money-wasting gem magic, but they can still easily maintain their family's life like a small aristocrat during Rin's father's lifetime, it can be seen that the Tosaka family's income is also quite expensive. Although Levi never knew what Rin's father used to make money on.

"Auction?bank?"

Alice heard words she didn't quite understand again. But in fact, she knows the basic meaning of these two words. In the past, when she participated in the human festivals in Gensokyo, she had seen that kind of 'game' in some shops. The shopkeeper puts out a product, and instead of telling everyone how much money they can buy, he asks everyone to say how much money they want to buy, and in the end, the person with the highest bid can take it home. As for the bank, after Alice came to Earth, she occasionally watched TV with the rest of the family, and also knew that the bank was a place to keep everyone's money and provide some money-related services. But when the bank auctions off someone else's things, Alice can't figure it out.

"In fact, it is very simple, that is, the previous owner of this building borrowed money from the bank, and then he ran out of money and couldn't pay it back, so the bank took his building and sold it, and the money from the sale offset the same amount owed by the original owner of the building. ”

Lévy said this, and Alice understood. Despite living in Gensokyo, she often goes to human villages, and naturally has a clear concept of money.

In fact, the monsters living in Gensokyo are not as outsiders think, living a life that does not eat fireworks like those monsters in fantasy fairy tale novels. From the descriptions of Reisen and Kaguya, it can also be heard that Gensokyo is actually a slightly more 'old' society that is not much different from the outside world. It's just that the status of the people who live in it has been replaced by youkai.

Even if you never go to a human village, the youkai in Gensokyo have a place where they need to spend money. For example, in the Enchanted Forest, where Alice lives, there is a shop on the edge that specializes in all kinds of strange items. In addition to the many modern technological products that occasionally fall into Gensokyo from the outside world, there are also many props, medicines, and even weapons that youkai can use.

The various medicines developed by the doctor in Kaguya's Eternal Pavilion would be taken by Reisen to the shop in the Enchanted Forest and handed over to the shopkeeper for him to sell on his behalf. Some of them are drugs that can help increase the speed at which mana is condensed, or other drugs that can provide auxiliary effects in combat. There are also medicines that can help people concentrate and calm their minds while cultivating, and even medicines that directly increase the speed and effect of cultivation.

Just like the ones that players often encounter in RPGs, there are shops that sell all kinds of characters that can improve the strength of the character that players control, making the game process easier and simpler. Alice is also one of the regular customers of that store,

Especially...... It's in a small 'department store' that Alice often sees scenes like Levy described. For example, a magical girl who wears a shrine hat and a broom, but wears clothes that look like a maid. She never paid when she went to the store to buy something. Alice had only seen it a few times, and the girl was urged by the shopkeeper to take it too far, so she brought some useless broken copper and strange plants from her house, saying that she was using the things called 'property' to offset the money she had signed for the things she had bought before.

The situation that Lévi said was probably equivalent to the fact that the girl owed too much money to go home, and the shopkeeper went to her house and could not find anyone, so he had no choice but to take something from her house that seemed to be of a little value, and put it in his own store after returning and sold it, and the money from the sale slightly compensated for the arrears he had lost.

"So, that magician and the bank bought the building?"

Alice asked, and Lévy nodded.

"It's true that the magician bought the building, but she's probably not the one who bought it at auction in the first place. I don't know when this building was auctioned off, but from the outside of this building, it is estimated that at that time, its owner was still young and working hard elsewhere, and it was unlikely that he could buy this building here, and he could not afford to buy it. I don't know if the building changed hands a few times, but she should have bought it from someone who accepted it later. If you're interested, you can ask later. I'm here today to find the current owner of this building. ”

As he spoke, Lévy walked across the street, came to the ground floor of the building, pushed open an inconspicuous ordinary door, and walked into the magic workshop that Lévi had just told Alice, called "Garan Hall".