Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 16 [Parts 1 to 2] by Riku Nanano

Author:Riku Nanano
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, magic, fantasy, comedy, action, harem, maids, academy, royalty, aristocrats, male protagonist
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

We passed a group of knights in a square near the infirmary. Their scuffed and damaged gear proclaimed them casualties of the fighting in the capital.

“Thank goodness. Oh, thank goodness,” murmured one.

“Who knows how many more soldiers we would have lost if that holy woman hadn’t been here,” said another.

“I can’t thank her enough,” a third chimed in.

“Praise be to Lady Stella Howard!” cried a fourth.

It sounded like our resident saint was still hard at work.

“That’s my sister!” Tina said as an unruly lock of her hair stood up and swayed with pride.

“She’s certainly something,” I agreed. “And she’ll need a break soon. We’d better hurry.”

“Yes, sir.” The platinum-haired young noblewoman skipped along toward the infirmary.

I watched her go, pausing to glance at my pocket watch. “You pushed yourself hard enough to break your father’s amulet?” I could practically hear Lydia say. “I think you have some explaining to do.”

I’d better brace myself for her wrath.

I walked on, mulling over excuses in my mind, and the infirmary came into view. I had reinforced the building with earth and botanical magic and used wind spells to fashion the wooden entryways that stood open on either side. With a few exceptions, both Howard maids and Lalannoyan army healers had gathered here after the battle, and we exchanged greetings with them as we made our way inside.

“Welcome back, Lady Tina, Mr. Allen.”

“Fetching food is really our job, you know.”

“Lady Stella is taking a break too!”

“Why, Mr. Allen, Lady Tina.”

I reflected uncomfortably that an awful lot of people seemed to know me by sight.

My highborn companion gave a wicked chuckle. “All according to plan. Talking you up while I helped out here paid off even sooner than I’d hoped!”

“Tina—”

“You can give me that look all you want, but it won’t stop me.” The noblewoman stuck out her little tongue and skipped cheerfully up to a door on which hung a wooden sign carved with the words “examination room.”

“Come in,” a calm girl’s voice answered her polite knock, so I opened the door.

A young woman with a sky-blue ribbon in her platinum hair smiled gently at us from her chair. “Mr. Allen, Tina. It’s good to see you again,” said Lady Stella Howard, Tina’s sister and another of my students. “You got here just in time for my break.”

The future duchess in her white military uniform had been treating wounds too severe for any common healing spell to cure since our retreat to the old capital. She really was a saint if I’d ever seen one.

“You must be exhausted,” I said, setting my basket on a table.

“We brought bread and lots of fruit!” Tina added, gleefully depositing her own burden and showing off the fresh produce. Without her maid Ellie or her best friend Lynne around, she made frequent plays for her older sister’s attention.

I was brewing tea in the kitchenette, watching them out of the corner of my eye, when Lily poked her head in the door, her long scarlet hair tied with a black ribbon.

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