Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 10 [Parts 1 to 4] by Riku Nanano

Author:Riku Nanano
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2<

“Wait! Stop, Allen of the wolf clan!”

The cry brought me up short one early-spring day just as I left the Royal Academy by its massive front gate, my graduation ceremony over and done with. There was no one around. Looking behind me, I saw a man with pale-blue hair, on the long side, wearing a school uniform and sober spectacles. Sweat beaded on his forehead and his shoulders heaved as he gasped for breath—a far cry from his usual intellectual air. He was also missing his beret.

“Niche Nitti?” I asked. “Can I help you?”

My pursuer had been in my year when I’d first enrolled, although I had then joined a scarlet-haired noblewoman and blonde princess in skipping several, so we had hardly ever spoken.

“...y?” he panted.

“I beg your pardon. I couldn’t quite hear you,” I replied, my mind on the stop behind me, where a carriage belonging to the Ducal House of Leinster stood waiting. Unless I made this quick, Lydia would come looking for me.

Niche caught his breath, raised his head, and glared at me. “Why?!” he demanded. “Why didn’t you graduate at the head of your class?! I won’t deny that Duke Leinster’s daughter is brilliant—no one could dispute that. But...But surely—surely—the highest honors should be yours!”

I blinked, genuinely stunned to discover that I had an admirer among the student body apart from Lydia, Cheryl, and the late Zelbert Régnier. Then I cracked a grin and said, “You overestimate me. Even graduating second in my class is more than I deserve.”

“Hogwash! A man of your caliber must realize what a feat it is to graduate from the Royal Academy in only a single year—and what the difference between placing first or second will mean for your future! It’s still not too late. Speak to the headmaster and demand—”

“Forgive me,” I interjected, “but I have an engagement to keep. Please try to be brief.”

I was one of the lowly houseless—without even a surname—and an adopted member of the wolf clan, at that. My graduating at the head of the class would cause a scandal. And given the current state of the kingdom, that might spell disaster.

Niche gnashed his teeth so loudly that I could hear and fixed me with a wrathful stare. “Listen,” he said, “because I’ll only say this once! Allen of the wolf clan, I want you to—”

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