Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 10 [Parts 1 to 9] by Riku Nanano

Author:Riku Nanano
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 3

“Hasten the redeployment of troops returning from the royal capital to the southern front!”

“And we mustn’t forget to reinforce roads and bridges in the principalities. What is the weather like there this time of year?”

“If the encirclement of both principalities’ capitals drags on, the necessary matériel will amount to...”

“Listen up, newbie. Around here, Miss Fosse’s word is law. Remember that!”

It was yet another busy day at headquarters in the great council hall of the Leinster mansion in the southern capital. Logisticians and staff officers from all the southern houses shouted, wailed, or collapsed on their desks. All the while, Leinster maids briskly distributed documents. I’d seen all this more times than I could count in the month or so since I’d escaped the royal capital and come to work here. Dark had already fallen, but day and night didn’t apply in this place. We were all striving together to do the nearly impossible and maintain supply lines for armies that numbered in the tens of thousands.

I do wish they would stop calling me “Miss Fosse,” but I can’t start slacking now!

Just as I fired myself up to attack another mountain of paperwork, a tall, slender beauty with dark-brown hair and skin on the dark side appeared without a sound and snatched the pen from my hand.

“It is time for your dinner, Miss Fosse,” said Emma, the Leinster Maid Corps’s number four.

“Once you have eaten, kindly bathe and then rest peacefully in your chamber,” a shorter, bespectacled woman with blonde hair that stopped at her ears added, placing a military cap on my head. Sally Walker was number four in the Howard Maid Corps.

I owed both maids my life. They had carried me to safety here in the southern capital even though I was nothing but a burden in combat. That said, they could be a little overprotective. Couldn’t they see that I was raring to go?!

“Thank you, Emma, Sally,” I replied, conscious of the unfamiliar weight of my military uniform. “But I’ll eat here again tonight. I can’t take time off while everyone else is working their hardest. Even Sasha has gone to the front.”

Lady Sasha Sykes had been working alongside me until a few days earlier. You might call her my comrade in arms. But then she’d appealed directly to Duke Emeritus Leen, saying that she wanted to discuss something about cracking the league’s magical codes with her father, the earl. She was currently on her way to the Principality of Atlas, close to the front lines.

Everyone else is earnestly tackling their own duties. I can’t be the odd one out! And not out of a wicked desire to show Allen what a good worker I am if he visits the southern capital—which he probably will. I...I’m not fishing for compliments. I’m not, okay?

Emma and Sally exchanged looks and then began a whispered conversation.

(“I’m glad to see her so enthusiastic, but don’t you think this is getting rather out of hand?”)

(“I’m told that Mr. Allen and Lady Lydia Leinster fled the royal capital seven days ago.

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