Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke: Volume 5 Part 1 by Ichibu Saki

Author:Ichibu Saki
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, fantasy world, romance, nobility, magic academy, j-novel heart, shojo, otome game, strong female protagonist
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

The shrill chime of the detached palace’s front door startled Claire out of her studies a few mornings later. It was still quite early; she had just finished breakfast and her morning toilette and had been about to buckle down for some serious cramming. Who could it be at this hour? she wondered.

Sophie went out to the foyer to answer the door, only to scream, “Miss Claire! Oh, Miss Claire!”

Claire, alarmed, rushed out of her bedroom and stopped short with a shriek of her own. Whatever was this pile of rubbish?

“What is all this, Sophie?” she asked.

She could barely see the foyer floor for the mess. The hodgepodge of household goods faintly tickled her magic sensibilities, leading Claire to suspect this “rubbish” was a collection of curios gone mad.

She paused a moment to collect herself and take stock of the scene. An enormous wheeled box that resembled nothing so much as a wardrobe hampered most of her view. Its design was opulent to the point of gauche gaudiness. That, coupled with its enormous size, made it something of an eyesore. By far the most eye-catching item in this collection, Claire thought, it is certainly not the last!

Indeed, that was not the only oddity to have made a home for itself on Claire’s foyer floor. There was a cask probably meant for fermenting gapes, an odd stone inexplicably carved to resemble a footstool, a chair-shaped object that had no business calling itself a chair, an unsettling set of tableware redolent of magic, a streetlamp that looked quite out of place indoors, a curiously empty glass bottle... In and around such objects were a number of what appeared to be purely decorative items. However, Claire was loath to judge these “books” by their innocuous covers. Given the magical aura of these would-be knickknacks, these, too, were magical curios. In fact, everything in the room gave off a faint whiff of magic.

Claire bit back another scream as her eyes traveled up the heap of magical goods. “Whatever are all these objects doing here?” she said instead.

By way of answer, a man stepped out from behind the pile with spectacles agleam. His was, she’d daresay, a very familiar face.

“Long time no see, dear sister,” said Oscar Martino.

“Oscar!” Claire exclaimed.

Her eldest brother was the head of House Martino. No doubt he had employed his own magical powers to use the portal between Noston and Paffuto to teleport himself and his load of strange trinkets here.

He ran a hand over the enormously distracting wardrobe and told Claire with pride, “I received your letter. You said you needed a curio for your graduation thesis, yes? Quite a tall order, sister mine! Curios are few and far between in Noston, but even so, I was able to scrape together a few things that might suffice.”

Words failed Claire. “I...thank you?”

Rather quick on the draw, wasn’t he? And could he not have selected a handful of suitable items, rather than teleporting the entire contents of his search into her parlor?

Try as she might, Claire could not conceal her bewilderment.

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