Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 13 Part 1 by Riku Nanano

Author:Riku Nanano
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 1

“Really? They’ve already linked the tracks? The Leinsters and Niche don’t waste any time. Oh, Cindy, you made a calculation error on this form. Please go over it again.” I broke off listening to the latest news from the south to levitate a document I’d been checking onto a desk ahead and to the right of mine.

Allen & Co. had its new premises in the royal capital’s western quarter. The company had relocated because a raid during the Algren rebellion had nearly demolished its former offices. I’d heard that this house had belonged to a hidebound noble family that had fallen amid the successive disturbances. Still, it was spacious, convenient, and sturdy. I hardly felt the cold weather.

The Leinster Maid Corps’s number six pulled a face as she accepted the document, then fell flat on her desk. Her milky-white tresses swayed with the impact.

“I drew the winning lot to leave the city of water early, and this is what I get,” she groaned. “A-And you’re supposed to have the day off because you’re tutoring this afternoon, Mr. Allen. It says so on the blackboard. I...I can’t take any more paperwork! Oh, Saki! Hurry up and get here already!”

A little girl with long white hair—Atra the Thunder Fox, one of the Eight Great Elementals—looked up in alarm from the nearby sofa where she’d been dozing but closed her eyes again, relieved, when she saw me. The sight brought smiles to the faces of every Leinster and Howard maid in the room and to the former Fosse Company staff driven by circumstance to work with them.

“An urgent summons went out to all the ranking Howard maids, including Sally Walker and the others assigned to the company,” I said, tweaking spell formulae arrayed in midair while I dashed off a signature. “Their departure for the northern capital leaves us shorthanded. I’ve put in a request to Anna for additional staff. The next document, if you please.”

“Oh, so that’s why all our officers have been gathering in the royal capital. Except Lady Lily—she’s visiting her parents in the under-duchy. But why do I have to pick up the slack?” Cindy grumbled, although she also set about correcting paperwork. She took her job seriously.

Two months had flown by since the battle for the city of water. Even those of us who had remained there at first, dealing with the aftermath, had gradually made our way back to the royal capital via the southern one. I thought that I’d done all I could in my grudging role as a contact for negotiations. Assigning Saki’s team to guard Niccolò Nitti and Tuna had been my idea. But I had taken no direct hand in politics after my return to the capital. Although I’d been forced to stand in the line of fire ever since the Algren rebellion, I remained a “houseless” wolf-clan adoptee, a humble private tutor, and the nominal president of the company that bore my name.

Formal peace with the Yustinian Empire had been delayed,

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