Rin Tosaka, who doesn't care about other people's opinions, if it weren't for the fact that she has a father who has to take care of her demeanor and image at all times, she probably wouldn't care about the reputation of the Tosaka family at all, something that has no practical meaning to herself.

However, even if you remove the expenses to maintain the 'presence' of the Tosaka family, just as a magician, Rin Tosaka's expenses are far from being supported by the 'part-time jobs' that can be found in the normal profession in this world.

What is a legitimate part-time job with an hourly wage that can afford a high-quality and small gem in a month?

Learning magic and becoming a magician is quite a 'money-burning' career. First of all, a magician must build his own magic workshop. The existence of the magic workshop is the best place for a magician to research and develop his own magic, and it is also a powerful 'position' to improve his own strength. According to magicians, the so-called workshop is a kind of 'otherworld' created by magicians in order to hone their magic, and no matter how powerful the magician is, as long as he is not the owner of the workshop, the magic or mystery he can perform will be greatly limited. It can be seen that for magicians, the workshop can even be said to have both the possibility of self-development and the fortress of self-protection.

However, the significance of the magic workshop is so significant, which shows that building a workshop is not a simple matter. Some magic families have even perfected their magic workshops over decades or even generations.

Although Rin Tosaka is fortunate to be a contemporary descendant of a magic family, the magic workshop of the Tosaka family can be used directly by her, without spending a lot of time, effort and money to build. But just like buying a car and needing maintenance, the house you live in also needs to be repaired regularly. The magic workshop is not built once and for all, especially the workshop of a long-standing magic family like the Tosaka family, and it takes a considerable price to maintain it.

Outside of the maintenance workshop, Rin Tosaka's biggest expense in her magic practice is the gems she grinds and uses as consumables. In addition to the magician's own mastery of magic, the quality of the gemstones used in this gem magic is naturally also decisive.

If an ordinary piece of ore that is no different from precious jewelry in terms of chemical composition can achieve the same effect, how can gemstone magic be called a rare treasure that can only be mastered by a true aristocratic family?

Aside from Rin Tosaka herself, Levi knows best how much money she's burned over the years on gems and workshop maintenance. The huge amount of money that can scare her classmates to death when she says the numbers is not something that can be paid by the inheritance left by Rin Tosaka's father who died young. Although the Tosaka family is barely a long-established magic family that has flourished for hundreds of years, or even more than two hundred years, it stands to reason that they do not even have enough financial reserves to allow future generations to practice family magic without worry.

In fact, the Tosaka family not only has the big mansion that supports the façade, but they have always been veritable capitalists. Even if it is not comparable to the world's top rich people who are always in the news of the construction media, just by virtue of the magic patents held by the family and the assets of the branches, it can ensure that future generations can earn millions of dollars a year without doing anything - this should be the case.

Rin Tosaka's father is a veritable aristocrat who feels like a veritable nobleman no matter how you look at it. Whether it is the appearance and dress, or the way of speech and behavior, it gives people a kind of image of a local aristocracy that is not like a mysterious magician, but a common image of local aristocrats in novels and film and television works.

However, it is precisely because Rin's father was particularly able to implement the traditions of the aristocracy, and even the stubbornness and backwardness of the aristocracy that are often used in many literary works to satirize the characteristics of the aristocracy, he has learned and faithfully reproduced the fate of those nobles who are obsessed with tradition and cannot accept new things, and are gradually eliminated by the drastic changes of the world - if Rin's father Tosaka had not died untimely due to an accident, then his future is indeed likely to follow such a script.

Even though we live in a modern age that has begun to enter the information society, we are reluctant to use electrical appliances such as electric lights, which are already quite primitive. Communicating with others also used magic communication methods similar to those of the early telegraphs, and it was not true that the Tosaka family at that time did not have telephones that everyone had, but Rin-Tosaka's father, who adhered to the tradition of magicians, never used them at all.

This is not to say that it is necessarily wrong for a magician not to accept the products of technology. However, this stubbornness also largely reflects the personality of Rin Tosaka, the father she once admired when she was a child. It was a 'pure magician' who paid little attention to anything other than magic.

Although he is the heir of a family of magicians, it is his duty to study the magic of the family tradition diligently. But as the only heir of that generation, as the leader of a family, in addition to concentrating on magic, theoretically, for the continuation of the family, he should also devote some of his energy to care about the family's assets and pave a smoother road for his descendants, right?

But even if he did try to run the family business, at least from Rin Tosaka's later life, it was clear that her father ultimately failed.

After the death of her father, the lonely and quite stubborn eldest lady of the Tosaka family did not entangle with the relatives who came to try to get a piece of the pie, and generously let them take everything they wanted on the grounds of 'managing for the young head of the family', and finally even the remaining part of the water could not take away, as well as the income generated by the magic patent, Rin Tosaka refused to use it as much as possible on the grounds that 'it was all built by predecessors'.

Although the eldest lady seems to be very face-saving and hard-hearted not to use her father's inheritance at will, it is also thanks to the fact that Rin Tosaka is not as alone as her relatives thought at the beginning, and there is a man like Levy who can finally be regarded as a nominal replacement for her father behind her.