Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 16 [Parts 1 to 5] 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)

Chapter 2

“Oh, honestly! How do we still not know the latest news from Lalannoy?! And father’s council is drawing on interminably. Don’t tell me something’s happened to Allen and the others,” I grumbled to myself, pacing my palace chambers. The windowpanes reflected my blonde hair and white sorceress’s garb.

The weather outside was lamentably dismal. I couldn’t even see the Royal Academy’s Great Tree through the fog.

Two beast-eared children, one’s long hair white, the other’s, scarlet, had fallen asleep before the hearth. The two great elementals still wore their pale cloaks and were using the white wolf Chiffon for a pillow. I risked waking them unless I kept my nerves in check. Lia the Blazing Qilin had been spending her days at the palace long enough to grow used to my habits, but Caren—my younger friend and perhaps future sister-in-law—had left Atra the Thunder Fox in my care because she had a meeting to attend at Allen & Co. And yet, my mounting impatience proved impossible to suppress.

“Never forget to conduct yourself with dignity, Cheryl,” my late mother had always cautioned me as a child. “After all, you are a princess.”

Ten days had already passed since we had lost contact with the city of craft, capital of the Lalannoy Republic. The House of Zani, among the finest lines of eastern sorcerers, had been observing the region across the Four Heroes Sea and reported a clash between the Bright Wings Party and the Heaven and Earth Party. Following a tremendous surge of mana, my dear Allen, with whom I had attended the Royal Academy, our envoy Lily, and their companions had seemingly fled to the city outskirts. We had received no new information since, and magical communications were being jammed.

To make matters worse, the west of the kingdom seemed to have suffered a disturbance as well, and my father, his ministers, and Dukes Howard, Leinster, and Lebufera were all occupied debating our response. Could the demonfolk have finally broken the two-hundred-year standoff at Blood River and made their first move since the War of the Dark Lord? Surely not.

A radiant, scarlet-haired young woman dressed for swordplay looked up from the documents she’d been perusing, seated in a wooden chair with her long legs crossed. The magnificent enchanted blade Cresset Fox rested against an empty seat beside her.

“Sit still for once, Cheryl,” said Duke Leinster’s eldest daughter Lydia, the Lady of the Sword, my best friend and rival in love. “Do you want to wake the children?”

“Of course not,” I answered sheepishly.

She’s supposed to be the one who panics at times like this.

Despite my misgivings, I sank into the chair Allen had given me when I’d gone to study in the city of water. Papers slid across my desk.

“I summarized everything we got out of Yana,” Lydia said. “Connecting concrete house names to some of the eight ancient grand dukedoms was a breakthrough, given the gaps in our records, although I wish we’d gotten all of them. Do you want tea too?”

“Yes,” I answered, still puzzled.

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