Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 6] by Riku Nanano

Author:Riku Nanano
Language: eng
Format: epub

Lightday marked one week since the start of my hospital stay. I felt much recovered—ready to leave at any time. And yet...

“I can’t seem to get permission,” I grumbled, sitting on a roofed wooden bench in the spacious courtyard garden. People seemed convinced that I would work myself to the bone.

I laid down my pen on the table and stretched. Verdant foliage mitigated the summer heat, and the profusion of blooming flowers soothed my mind. It was a tranquil afternoon.

Stella—whose hospital stay had been prolonged due to the unexplained growth of her mana and the ill-health that accompanied it—had gone to fetch drinks with Lydia. Atra had become quite taken with her and followed everywhere she went. Although her condition worried me, I thought that taking some time out like this occasionally might do her good.

“Is something worrying you, Allen?” a lilting voice intruded on my thoughts. “Here, I brought you a fresh notebook.”

“Thank you, Lily,” I replied.

“Don’t mention it! After all, I am a maid!” She sat down directly across from me and pored over my notes with great interest. “Are these assignments for the young ladies?”

“Right in one. Everyone keeps telling me to rest, my parents won’t even visit for fear of disturbing me, and my other callers are kept to a minimum, so I have more time on my hands than I know what to do with. And my students are such fast learners that I’m running out of exercises for them.”

At present, I was tutoring four girls—Tina, Ellie, Lynne, and Stella—all of whom had solved every problem in the notebooks that I’d given them before the outbreak of rebellion. Although their growth thrilled me, I would be a laughingstock if I failed to keep pace with them.

Lily rested one elbow on the table and her chin in her hand. “That must be so hard on you,” she commiserated. “By the way, I’d love to update my spells too!”

“Were you even listening?” I asked wearily. “And in any case, you’re already more than a match for me.”

The Leinster Maid Corps was a strict meritocracy. No amount of personal or familial connections could secure a position as its number three.

“I want something neeew!” Lily whined, puffing out her cheeks like a sulky child. “It doesn’t even have to be one of your experiments!”

I sighed. “Oh, very well.” With a wave of my right hand, I deployed the current iteration of my fundamental spell formula. Lily ran her eyes over it, and a grin soon spread across her face.

“Thanks so much! I’ll try it out later.”

“Please do. I think it’s a significant improvement on what I was casting five years ago.”

“I’ll bet!” Lily giggled with exuberance.

“You know, you’re the only one who’s mastered my formulae as is. Not even Lydia or our schoolmates from the university have managed that.”

My spell formulae differed from the norm in that they left considerable blank space for the elementals to work in. As a result, they were somewhat less stable than their conventional counterparts and required adjustments to suit each individual caster.

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