Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 15 [Parts 1 to 3] by Riku Nanano

Author:Riku Nanano
Language: eng
Format: epub

After the council, I showed a strangely amenable Cheryl and Lydia back to the palace, then returned to face Duke Walter and Mr. Walker in the council chamber. You could cut the tension with a knife.

The one and only Duke Howard, practically royalty, bowed low to me. “First, allow me to express my gratitude,” he said. “Thank you for saving Stella. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. If not for you, I...I would have been forced to take my own daughter’s...” Sobs shook his massive shoulders.

He hasn’t changed since I first went north to tutor Tina. He loves his daughters with all his heart, even if he doesn’t always know how to show it. At the same time, in his role as Duke Howard, he steeled himself to serve the kingdom and its people, no matter how deeply it pained him personally.

I brushed my slender bracelet and thanked a kind angel.

“Duke Walter,” I replied, “please, raise your head. You needn’t fear for Stella’s safety any longer—although some may revere her as a saint or call her an angel when she sprouts wings and takes flight now and then.”

“That sounds worrisome enough in its own right.” The duke slowly looked up and gave me a bemused smile. “I hope you’ll be understanding with her. And with Tina too, of course.”

His eldest daughter had just added the power of flight and tremendous healing magic to the supreme spell Frost-Gleam Hawks and the secret Azure Sword and Shield. His younger girl had mastered the supreme spell Blizzard Wolf. Her magic was improving by leaps and bounds, and she housed the great elemental Frigid Crane. The Howard sisters had a bright future ahead of them—a far cry from their predicament mere months before. I knew they would surpass me. And that certainty made me all the more determined to find a way of freeing Frigid Crane and sparing them from the threat of the church.

“Mr. Walker,” I said, turning to the head butler who stood ready a respectful distance behind his master, “as I said in my report, Ellie’s mother, Millie, may still live. Remire Walker left his last testament in the formulae governing the Sealed Archive.”

The Abyss, renowned for his icy calm, the man who had overpowered Aster’s facsimile, looked shaken. “I read your report, sir,” he said slowly, “but can it be true? I still don’t dare hope.”

“To learn that answer, we’ll need to uncover Duchess Rosa’s journey with Floral Heaven, before Earl Coalheart adopted her,” I replied. “The magic Remire left in the archive used Duchess Rosa’s formulae. She may have worked with the Walkers to combat ten-day fever. This calls for a fresh investigation—including an appeal to the Royal House of Wainwright, which tacitly approved her adoption.”

In the northern capital, Duke Walter had told me of a suspicion that we had yet to share with Stella or Tina. He believed that someone may have laid a fatal curse on Duchess Rosa Howard. And after long years of searching, we might finally have our hands on a lead.

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