Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 14 [Complete] by Riku Nanano

Author:Riku Nanano
Language: eng
Format: epub

Lydia fixed the tall apostle with a gimlet stare. I couldn’t make sense of his mana—vast but terribly cold. It reminded me of a doll. Or a corpse.

Flames engulfed Cresset Fox as its blade leveled at the staff-wielding apostle in the azure-trimmed robe. “I saw you in the city of water,” its wielder said. “You dropped an iceberg that was supposed to be Falling Star on us. Perfect timing. I need to ask you a few questions.”

I couldn’t make out most of the silent apostle’s face, but the way his lips curled at that gave me the creeps. I moved my fingers, signaling Tina and Ellie to get ready to fight at the drop of a hat.

“Fourteen years ago, you fought the previous Hero in the Yustinian capital,” the scarlet-haired noblewoman continued in glacial tones. “Eleven years ago, you spread ten-day fever in the royal capital and took a hand in the murder of Millie and Remire Walker. More recently, you cursed Carlotta Carnien when she started researching old legends of the city of water. And would you also be the one who broke open Zelbert Régnier’s tomb and made off with his corpse, Mr. ‘Sage’—although who knows how much right you have to that title?”

Tina and Ellie froze in shock.

“H-He broke open a tomb?”

“A-And stole a corpse?”

I grimaced. What would Allen do if he ever found out?

“The spell-soldiers Allen and Cindy fought in the Nitti archive were infused with vampiric power,” Lydia said while her fiery plumes roared, menacing the apostles. Her unbelievable mana shook the pillars and even the ground under our feet. She was well and truly furious. “You couldn’t have worked out how to do that so quickly on your own, not even with Alicia Coalfield feeding you hints. And knowing how potent vampirism can be, I doubt you managed to control it without taking unsavory shortcuts.”

Allen and Lydia had told me all about the vampire who called herself “Crescent Moon”—the lieutenant of Allen the Shooting Star, a wolf-clan champion who’d fallen at the Battle of Blood River as the War of the Dark Lord drew to its close. Alicia had seized control of the very weather, staining the city of water in the light of a crimson moon. No one could wrestle such monstrous power under control without a struggle.

“So, let me guess.” Blinding scarlet rays flashed from the mark on Lydia’s right hand. “You used the body of Zelbert Régnier, the man who chose to become a dhampir?”

The younger girls and I gave a start. What did she mean, Allen’s best friend had become a dhampir?

In lieu of an answer, the Sage sneered. A derisive chuckle escaped his lips as he floated off the ground and onto the roof of a mausoleum, from which he looked down at us. The tall apostle still hadn’t even drawn his weapon.

“Flaming hair, a witch’s sword, and Blazing Qilin,” the Sage mused. “You must be the Leinsters’ cursed child. And you...” The apostle’s gaze made Tina flinch. Despite his looks, I could hear long years of experience in his voice.

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