Now, we have to spend more money

Once arrived at James's Mansion, Ram received a warm welcome from his characters.

It helped a lot that Ram was the one who introduced all of them into this world and explained their positions.

"...tsk."

While some were less grateful than others, noone could doubt that they all owed Ram their lives here.

Needless to say, Rem was the most excited out of everyone.

"This is amazing! It reminds me of my own world, back when I served Roswaal-sama! Did you had him as a owner back in your world as well?"

"Unfortunately, yes. He was a douchbag, so I guess this is some kind of improvement?"

"Oh, really? I recall my sister being on good terms with Roswaal."

Ram smiled and shrugged.

James watched the conversation between the two maids with a small sigh.

During the carride back home, Ram had implored to keep her relationship with Rem a secret for the time being.

"I've kept her locked up in that tube for so long...and sold her off as well. I want to tell her when I'm ready..."

Personally, James didn't see any reason to hide the fact that they were siblings when they were going to stay under the same roof from now on.

It wasn't like Rem loathed Ram either, so it really felt pointless to him.

Nontheless, he respected Ram's judgement on the matter.

With that, James's first trip to the RealDreams emporium was officially done and over.

He now owned a huge mansion, eight pretty girls serving him as a master, and so much money he'd make Scrooge McDuck look like a begger on streets in comparison.

"Things couldn't get possibly worse from here~"

James muttered to himself as he threw himself on the bed.

...and approximately three seconds later, someone knocked on his bedroom door.

"Master? May I come in?"

Lalter said from the other side.

James swallowed a huge groan, picked himself from the bed and called,

"Come in!"

Lalter quickly slipped through the door as soon as it was wide enough.

Mind you, that didn't mean much due to her massive tits, but it conveyed that she was in a hurry.

"...Lalter, I get that you are eager to continue where we left off, but I'm kind of tired at the moment."

"What? N-no! That's not why I'm here, master!"

Lalter exclaimed, flushing red.

"...although, if you are suggesting..."

She mumbled under her breath with a hopeful glanced towards James.

When he shook his head, Lalter let out a disappointed pout and placed a hand on her chest.

"I usually do not make demands for material needs, but we need some extra clothes, Master."

James frowned.

"We? Don't any of you have other clothes?"

"Everyone, except for Saber, only has the clothes we came with.

And I'm most troubled since my bodysuit has already been tainted from our...you know."

Latler blushed into a deeper shade of red.

"Ah...I see."

James slightly blushed as well.

It was a real problem if all of the characters here didn't have any extra clothes.

Come to think of it, there were lots of things to buy.

Food, clothes were just the essentials; rhe characters probably needed countless other things if they were going to live here, and even want more things out of preferences.

'Maybe this is the real reason why characters are considered too expensive.'

The character itself costs several thousands, which is not a cheap price in general.

But then, there was also maintenance cost, which would practically match up to an actual human being.

James rubbed his forehead.

Thinking about how much money it would cost made his head throb, and even a little concerned.

Sure, he had literally countless amount of money, but it was starting feel like that the consumption was going to be vast as well.

"Master, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine...let's get the matter in hand taken care of first.

Can you tell everyone else to gather around at the study? There's one next to the library, right?"

10 minutes later...

After gathering his thoughts, James headed to the study.

"Good afternoon, Master. Everyone is here."

Saber immediately greeted him, followed by other characters saying Good Afternoons in their own distinct way.

As Lalter had said, James noticed that none of them had different clothes.

"Alright, thank you all for gathering. I've called everyone here, because I've just realized that we have so much things to buy.

Food, clothes, other household equipments and even things that you might all want separately.

Sinc there is nearly a dozen people here, I think it'll be more efficient if I handed out a wish-list for each and every one of you."

"Excuse me."

Ram raised her hand with a small frown.

"If you are giving out the wish-list to us, do you mean you'll get us whatever we want?"

James nodded.

"That's the point of a wish-list, isn't it? Unless it's something too ridiculous or absurd, I'll do my best to get what you want."

"Hm."

Ram put her hand back down with a small nod.

Since there were no other questions, James handed out a piece of paper and pens out for each characters.

Then, while they were busy writing down their list, he also sat down and wrote down various things they would need as a group.

1. Food (Ask Rem how much we need. A week's worth would be best)
2. Clothes (There must be outfit or costume shops at the emporium...wait, I don't even know everyone's size!)
3. ...

James blankly stared into the paper.

He couldn't think of anything else someone would need besides food and clothes. Heck, that was the only thing he bought before he became stupidly rich.

He was so used to living only to survive another day, he couldn't think of any extra materials that would improve the quality of his life.

"Master."

Then, Rem came up with the paper in hand.

"Oh, are you do...woah."

Rem's paper was filled to the brim with letters from top to bottom. James was surprised that Rem wrote so much in such a short time.

"What are all these?"

He asked in amazment. Rem blushed and figited her fingers together.

"Well, after taking a look around the mansion, I've noticed that apart from bulky furnitures like beds, toilet and sinks, the mansion was practically empty.

So, I've been checking everything we'll need to take care of the mansion and live well together."

"Rem...you're a life-saver! I've been trying to think of things like this, but I couldn't!"

"Ehehe...thank you, master."

Rem smiled sheepishly.

"I can get groceries with Ram-san. We were both in charge of doing that back at our original world as well.

Clothes, on the other hand...you're right about knowing our body sizes, but not even we know that."

James nodded.

Not even Saber was aware of her own BWH measurements when they went to buy extea set of clothes, so he hadn't expected anyone else to be aware of that information.

"I thought so. But is there a way to check it?"

"Oooh! Oooh!"

Asuna suddenly jumped up and down in her seat, waving her hand in the air with such energy that it made Ryu and Karin jump in their seat.

"I know a place! It's in the house!"

"Really?"

Rem furrowed her brow, confused.

"I don't remember seeing any measuring instruments in the mansion. Where did you find them?"

Asuna jumped up from her seat, knocking over the chair she had been sitting on from the excitment.

"It's at the basement! I accidentally ran in there while cleaning the hallway! Come on, I'll show it to everyone!"

Before anyone could say otherwise, Asuna ran out the study and into the hallway.