"Oh dear, what's this money for?"

Wu Lili asked this question curiously.

"It's just simple savings." Yixing composed himself and explained, "In case Miss runs out of money..."

"Just in case," Yixing said, ruffling her hair. "I always need to have a backup plan, don't I?"

"Got it." Wu Lili tilted her head slightly, revealing a mischievous smile: "If Lady Yoda isn't a rich woman anymore someday, then you can use this money to go play with other women. As expected of Maekawa-kun, so shrewd and far-sighted."

"What?! Is that how it is?!" Erina feigned shock. "I never expected you to be such a despicable servant!"

"I didn't do it! Don't talk nonsense! Don't believe everything you hear!"

Yi Xing realized that the young lady was playing a trick on him.

However, continuing to discuss this topic was putting him in a very passive position, so Yixing quickly explained his true thoughts: "What I mean is that having your own little treasury will allow you to help the young lady when she is short of money, so she won't be helpless."

"But Lady Yoda would never be short of money, would she?" Wu Nini joined the conversation. "She doesn't just spend the family's money. A lot of the Yoda family's income comes from the Yomi Shrine Maiden."

"That's right, that's right." Erina said earnestly to Yoshiyuki, "Yoshiyuki, you can spend the allowance I give you however you like. If you need more, just ask me. Don't save it all."

"I really can't think of anywhere to spend the money, Master." Yoshiyuki gave a wry smile. "So it's better to save it for you."

"Hey, don't set a high bar for me!" Erina snorted, took a bite of her sugar-coated donut, and poked his cheek. "If I run out of money, who's going to support you?"

"Young lady, if it really comes to that, let me take care of you." Yixing gently wiped the sugar frosting from his master's mouth and patted her head, using the same technique as patting a Samoyed that always had a silly grin on its face: "But if you don't eat less sugar, you probably won't live more than a year."

"Fine! Are you cursing me to get diabetes?!" Erina angrily grabbed the dumpling next to her and slapped it across his face. "Even if I had diabetes, it wouldn't kill me that quickly!"

Yixing felt both itchy and comfortable from being slapped by the dumpling, so he just laughed.

Seeing this, they began to whisper among themselves.

"Sister, sister, look, this is the saccharine smell of love. They're flirting and teasing each other all the time," Wu Lili whispered to Wu Nini.

"Sister, sister, I think it's better to pretend we didn't notice. Otherwise, they'll feel awkward," Wu Nini quietly replied.

"Hey, I can still hear you!" Yixing complained, finally losing his temper. "Could you guys keep your voices down a bit when you're plotting?!"

"Huh? Did we just say anything?"

Wu Lili immediately chose to play dumb.

"We didn't say anything except that the donuts were cute."

Wu Nini said slowly and deliberately.

"What? A donut?" Erina glanced at the half-eaten donut in her hand, then immediately pulled her hand back to her seemingly flat chest, wary. "No way, you can't have any. Only Yoshiyuki can eat what I've bitten... By the way, Yoshiyuki, do you want some?"

"Huh? No way." Wu Lili was stunned for a moment, looking like she'd just eaten a lemon: "They can show off their love like this?"

"Uh." Yi Xing ignored Wu Lili's soft mutterings, glanced at the thickness of the frosting, and thought that taking a bite of this would definitely be too sweet.

So he complained like this.

"Please spare me, young lady. One more bite and you'll lose your precious servant... Speaking of which, this whole box of pastries is half gone! Aren't you full yet?"

"Hmph, girls have two stomachs, you know? One of them is specially for sweets! When you only eat sweets, you can double your appetite!" Erina took another bite of the donut with a smug look, and her mouth was covered in frosting again.

"What? Two stomachs?! This is a groundbreaking discovery that will revolutionize scientific understanding!"

Yi Xing deliberately said this, and wiped the mouth clean again for the young lady who was so lazy that she couldn't be bothered to wipe her own mouth when he was around.

Erina chuckled smugly, rubbed her stomach, and made the suggestion.

"Do you really want to feel it and see if it has two stomachs?"

Yixing wasn't uninterested in the young lady's suggestive belly-touching behavior, which resembled a dog rolling over on its back. In fact, his hands were already itching to touch her belly, almost unable to resist.

However, Wu Nini and Wu Lili were staring at them expectantly.

This forced Yixing to abandon the idea, lest he be instigated by them and be so ashamed that he would almost die in social humiliation.

"Miss, that's in the wrong place. That's the intestines." Yoshiyuki coughed to calm himself down, and in a serious tone, he explained some basic biology to her, taking Erina's small hand and moving it to the correct position above: "The stomach is here."

"How come I don't know where the stomach is! You lowly servant, are you looking down on me?!" Erina was both angry and amused by him: "Why don't you just say you'll cut me open and see?!"

"Huh? That seems interesting." Wu Lili suddenly became interested. "Actually, I really want to see what the inside of the Yellow Springs Priestess's belly looks like... How is it different from an ordinary person's?"

"You'll never see it in your lifetime," Yixing retorted. "Are you a mad scientist?!"

"Wu Lili is indeed very curious. She has often gone on adventures since she was a child, and has almost killed herself many times. I have told her countless times that cats die from curiosity, but she just won't listen."

As a good older sister, Wu Nini didn't hold back in exposing her past.

"Furthermore, she has a particular fondness for taking things apart. She often completely disassembles a mechanical device simply out of curiosity about what parts it's made of..."

"But I've already put it all together, haven't I?" Wu Lili muttered back.

"You call that assembling it?" Wu Nini pinched her sister's animal ears. "When have you ever finished assembling something and not noticed a few extra parts?"

"Ahem, ahem..." Wu Lili laughed awkwardly, then quickly changed the subject: "By the way! Maekawa-kun has been serving you, do you get paid?"

"Yes?" Erina mumbled, chewing on a cookie. "But it's not called wages, it's called pocket money from my master!"

"It doesn't sound like a lot," Wu Nini said.

"It's not a lot, really," Erina replied after thinking for a moment. "And there's no fixed amount; we've never calculated how much we'll get. On average, it's only about five million yen a month."

"...How much?" Wu Lili was stunned for a moment, her voice trembling slightly.

"Over five million? Yen." Erina asked casually, sipping her coffee without looking up, "What's wrong?"

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