The First Female Duke

Chapter 17

When Edith and her party spoke their names, the old woman in charge of registration glanced at them, her thin fingertips handing over a set of keys. She looked old, the creases of age around her eyes.

"Doors open at ten o'clock, enter the dormitory beyond the door closing time at your own risk." The old woman seemed busy and didn't look up, handing them the keys before continuing to scribble on the parchment that was filled with names.

Edith looked the key in her hand over, realizing that it wasn't the traditional jagged shape, but something like a hard card, and after feeling it carefully, Edith said in a more affirmative tone:

"There should be a formation engraved inside this." She could vaguely feel the fluctuation of magic power.

The old woman stopped her pen and looked up with some surprise, and in the middle of the day, the quill moved again, "You guessed right." Nor did she explain the function of the formation.

Elena had long ago realized that her best friend seemed to be very sensitive to magic, but on second thought, magicians originally have stronger perception than knights, not to mention Edith's outstanding talent, so it wasn't strange for her to be able to see it.

Edith and her group smoothly entered the dormitory area, they quickly found their own door number, the surrounding buildings are a delicate three-story small building, which can be lived by four students, usually this kind of dormitory is more spacious, and needs to be applied for in advance, and as early as in the city of Nobia, Elena and Edith said that they would live together, so at this time the two of them plus their respective accompanying students, exactly four people.

The iron courtyard door was crawling with a layer of green vines, looking lush, and there were two mailboxes placed to the left and right of the entrance.

Thinking about what Director Lola had explained earlier, Elena muttered and took the key to open the mailbox that belonged to her, "Let's see what's inside."

A thick stack of books, school rules, uniforms, and a few random things.

Edith clapped her hands together, "Okay, let's get the stuff out of the mailbox and clean it up."

Simply tidying things up, though nobles rarely did such chores - servants would take care of everything for them. But Sophia had forbidden carrying servants, and they believed that nobles should have basic self-care skills.

So it was only after painstakingly and simply organizing their things that the four of them sat down on the sofa as if they were relieved.

At this moment, they had a mentor's profile in each hand. Director Lola had made it clear that the list of mentors needed to be finalized by tomorrow night, and the assessment would begin the day after tomorrow, so it was very important to hurry up now.

Tapping a name with her onion-white fingertips, Edith first analyzed it for Elena:

"Mentor Hood, Senior Knight, enrollment quota ten." Edith held Mentor Hood's information in her hand, a long list of feats written underneath in addition to a picture.

Elena huffed, good lord, picking the hardest one for her right off the bat, "Honey, don't you know that Mentor Hood is one of the strictest in the test? And look at his big beard - it just looks mean."

Edith nodded her head and commented objectively, "It's wrong to judge a person by his appearance, I think that with your talent you should totally strive to become his student - you should know that once a professional tutor has been chosen, he will be responsible for the professional teaching for the following eight years."

Elena was clearly convinced, but she hadn't made up her mind right away. Watching her considering, Edith shifted her eyes to Penny, and instead of giving direct advice, Edith adopted an inquisitive attitude towards Penny.

Her intuition told her that with Penny's character, if she gave advice directly, because of her master-slave status, Penny might adopt it, but she shouldn't be comfortable in her heart, but this kind of situation wouldn't happen at all when it came to Elena, who couldn't wait for her to give her ideas on everything - so that she could be lazy.

"What do you think, Penny." Edith asked gently.

Penny was a water magician, and her innate magic value was not low, Edith had just looked over the information of the water magic tutors, and she felt that, with Penny's character, nine times out of ten, she would choose that one ......

Sure enough, she heard Penny ponder for a split second and said:

"I'd like to pick Mentor Anna."

This answer was exactly the same as Edith's guess in her mind, she smiled slightly and thought to herself, this is really the case, with Penny's vision, if she's going to pick she's going to pick the best, put it on Elena, Elena might hesitate because of her mentor's strictness, but Penny wouldn't be able to do it at all, Edith had already seen long ago, that she's an extremely good-natured person.

Penny looked to Edith after she finished speaking, she was Edith's chaperone, Edith could even intuitively decide on her mentor, and if she didn't agree, then ......

Edith smiled up, "Mentor Anna is undoubtedly an excellent water magician, I have no problem at all with you choosing her."

Penny breathed a sigh of relief.

She felt fortunate that Edith was an extremely gentle and cultured noble, she never treated her servants and subordinates harshly, and she was even able to get full respect from her, which was very rare in the noble group. It's not that she didn't suspect that Edith's identity would be like her ...... but this idea was dismissed by her just as soon as it popped up.

If there was an invisible framework for noble identification, Edith had never stepped one step outside of it, and while she was friendly, she never lacked the detachment and arrogance that was exclusive to the nobility, which was why Penny attributed the gentleness with which she treated her to her last name.

--The Willey family had always been known for its elegance, and there had never been a rumor of harsh treatment of servants, at least by the generations of masters who had resided in Thagmart, and even the dumbest of the castle's Plenty was good-natured with his servants. With such a family tradition, it was no surprise that Edith had formed such a character.

Once Flanda had also picked out her mentor, all that was left was Edith herself.

But she happened to be the most difficult one - because of the scarcity of light magicians, although Sophia had a long history, there were only two tutors who were still engaged in teaching, and the rest of the light magicians were either too old or not teaching in Sophia.

So Edith's choice was far smaller than the others - she could only choose between these two instructors.

Elena held the two profiles in her hands, her brows furrowed and she looked very worried as well, "This is a bit of a difficult situation for you?"

"According to the seniority and famousness, tutor Faust is undoubtedly the best, but" she paused, "I heard that his temper is very eccentric, he hasn't brought a student for many years, before there was a student who awakened the talent of light magic who didn't give up and insisted on applying for him, and in the end, he didn't pass the examination and was directly shoved to the other tutors, at that time, this incident was a big fuss, the student's family even went after him. Other tutors, at that time, this matter made a big fuss, that student's family later also looked for Mentor Faust to mediate, but Mentor Faust hard did not agree."

"Actually, tutor Laura is also very good ah, I heard that she has a very gentle character and is also a senior magician."

Elena's meaning was actually very obvious, she didn't suggest Edith to choose Faust. But after hearing her words, Edith restrained her eyes and said nothing.

Elena coughed, "Honey, don't tell me you're really going to choose him, are you?"

Edith looked up suddenly, her bright eyes looked like they could speak, her voice clear and firm as she spoke in one word:

"A qualified Velry never lacks aggressiveness." She raised one eyebrow confidently, "Don't you believe me?"

Elena froze, Edith's delicate and sweet looks were extremely deceptive, and her always friendly way of treating people could easily create the illusion of a gentle personality - but she was the future heir of Tagmart, and her inner pride was never less than anyone else's, it was just that she didn't usually show it.

--True nobles don't often show their pride to others, because they don't need to prove themselves.

Elena suddenly giggled, "Oh baby" she cried sweetly, "Of course I believe you, after all I can count on you to be my lap~"

With her mind made up, Edith didn't hesitate any longer as she took a quill and wrote down her mentor on a piece of parchment while saying without looking up, "But don't, look at the giant sword you have hanging at your waist before you say that."

"I don't want to be under pressure that I shouldn't be under at my age."

Penny and Flanda poofed out a laugh.

Elena's face went red as she squirmed on the couch, "You called me fat ......"

"I did not."

After filling out the list, Edith looked up, revealing two light pear swirls, and at that moment she smiled like an angel.

"No one's allowed to tell the truth yet lah, my dear, when you put on your armor and a giant sword later, you'll be the heaviest of us all - and of course you are now."

Elena was still struggling, "I can wear soft armor ......"

Edith stood up and patted Miss Green on the shoulder, "That's heavy too, recognize reality!"

Exasperated, Miss Green didn't speak to Edith for a whole hour.

*

After a bad morning, Master Clarke moderated his mood, thinking that he shouldn't get angry with Missy, who was spoiled by her family -- wasn't that just making things worse for himself?

So he reflected seriously on his faults, and then spoke frankly of his thoughts to his chaperone, Emmy.

Emmy was enjoying his lunch at the time - meat steak with cream-topped potatoes - and upon hearing Master Clark say, "A proper gentleman can't trifle with unruly and capricious lasses," Emmy nearly spewed his mashed potatoes.

Wiping his mouth with a napkin, Emi raised his eyes to survey Master Clark, who looked serious at the moment, "Are you serious?"

Bridges tensed his handsome face, his brow furrowed in a deadly frown, "Do I look like I'm joking, do you think I'm wrong?"

Emi smothered a laugh, "Of course I'm right."

It's true that a proper gentleman shouldn't bother with little girls, but the point is - you're not a proper gentleman either! Emi privately thought that if he switched genders, Bridges might be able to be even more spiteful and capricious than that Miss Willey - as for whether Miss Willey was really spiteful and capricious, given that it was coming from Bridges' mouth, Emi felt that he was going to have to take it with a grain of salt.

"I hear that Miss Villey is living in Luxembourg?"

Emi asked, clearing his throat, while Lexi strained her ears to eavesdrop; he'd suffered the loss of touching Young Master Clarke before without any information, and this time he was going to learn from his experience.

Bridges gave a stiff hmmm, "Willey was supposed to be a longtime friend of Clark's, and her mom and mine were also very good friends, so my mom liked her a lot."

Simply liked her more than me, the son! Master Clark thought sourly in his mind.

"So how did you and her get to be like enemies?"

Lexi eavesdropped as he stuffed a piece of steak into his mouth, nodding frantically in his mind, yeah, yeah, I just complimented someone's little girl on being pretty awesome and you managed to ignore me all morning.

Bridges froze, hadn't really thought about it, he thought about it in his mind and realized that he and Edith didn't seem to have had any major arguments either - he was never going to admit that he was upset that that Willey had treated him coldly

In the end, Young Master Clark attributed the reason to the two of them not being naturally compatible, and looking at Emi with an expression of waiting for him to solve the problem, Bridges said vaguely, "Oh ...... anyway, it's just a little bit of a conflict." The specific what contradiction is not mentioned in a word.

Emi laughed in his heart and just wanted to say something, but he tilted his head and saw a familiar-looking person.

"That man seems to be from Luxembourg." He pointed in a direction.

Bridges froze and recognized it as Leila - his mother's personal maid - with a food box in her hand. Emi could see it too, and he teased, "What's your family doing serving you food properly today?"

Bridges said he didn't know either, so he asked Leila.

Leila maintained her impeccable smile as she began, "Her Ladyship has always been very concerned about your diet at the Academy, and was afraid that you wouldn't be able to eat well, so what's so strange about bringing you food."

Bridges nodded slowly, "And?" He'd be damned if he believed it.

Leila let out an oh-so-smile, still smiling, "Also, Her Ladyship is very concerned about Miss Edith and has ordered the kitchen to make a few dishes."

Usually don't see much concern about him not eating well, that guy Willey came and brought him food, listen to what that means, "specially ordered the kitchen", how come I don't have this treatment?

Young Master Clarke kept his face taut and didn't say a word.