Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 12 [Parts 1 to 7] by Riku Nanano

Author:Riku Nanano
Language: eng
Format: epub

When I opened my eyes, my gaze met that of a platinum-haired girl reaching out toward my head. She let out a little gasp and quickly started blushing.

“I-It’s not what you think, sir!” she—Tina—protested in a panic. “I...I only came to wake you because lunch is almost ready. A-And I haven’t done anything yet! I only t-touched your hair! I didn’t try on one of your shirts or anything!”

“We’ll go over all the gory details of the crime later,” I said, sitting up and looking around.

I recognized the room as part of our hideout. Atra was sleeping like a log beside me—she must have crept into bed sometime after I’d dozed off. Every so often, she smiled slightly and twitched her ears.

Lydia gave me strict orders to get some rest, and then...

“Are the maids making lunch?” I asked Tina.

“No.” My highborn pupil folded her arms and sullenly explained, “Lydia got the others together to cook. I offered to help too, but Lily kicked me out. It’s deplorable! Not to mention unjustified!”

I recalled a stern warning from the Howards’ head maid, Shelley Walker: “Under no circumstances should you ever let Lady Tina prepare food.” She must have communicated as much to the Ducal House of Leinster too.

“Hm... I’m sorry to say that a defense will prove difficult,” I replied. “You don’t have a case.”

“Jeez, sir! Why do you have to be so mean?!” Tina threw herself into a bedside chair, pouting harder than ever.

I heard maids cheering in the distance. Perhaps lunch was ready.

“It’s been a long time since we talked like this,” Tina said softly. “Just the two of us.”

“That’s true,” I replied. “So much has happened.”

Under normal circumstances, a new semester would be underway at the Royal Academy, and we would be in the capital, talking often despite our busy schedules. But between the Algren rebellion and the strife that followed, we hadn’t found time for a chat like this.

I assigned exercises, but I haven’t been much of a tutor, I mocked myself. And in the meantime, I decided to ask about the exploits Celebrim had relayed to me.

“I hear you managed to cast four advanced ice spells at once.”

“Yes,” Tina said. “And all thanks to you, sir.”

In these days of hand-wringing about magical decline, few even among the students of the Royal Academy managed to master an advanced spell by the time they graduated. And four at once? Unheard of. To top it off, Tina had lacked any magical ability a mere few months earlier. Who could guess what her future held?

“You earned it through hard work,” I demurred. “You’ll surpass me before—”

“No!” the platinum-haired girl shouted without warning.

The sleeping Atra’s eyes snapped open, but then she saw me and closed them again.

“That’s not true,” Tina said, downcast and trembling. “Not true at all.”

“Tina?”

The young noblewoman leaned against the bed and seized my right hand in both of hers. The mark of Frigid Crane flickered on the back of her own right hand. “You gave me magic, sir,” she said, closing her eyes as if in prayer.

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