Formerly, The Fallen Daughter of the Duke

19. Sleep deprivation

The next day, Claire woke up earlier than usual.

(Veek told me he was waiting, but I wonder if I could really invite him)

Think with your sleepless head as you get out of bed.

After Veek left last night, he was Claire, who started reviewing Royal School classes, but when she was at her desk, Veek’s face really didn’t disappear in my head.

Claire knew that Vik preferred herself as a friend.

However, how about that one last night as a friend?

Growing up as the fiancée of the first prince, Claire, completely immune to sex matters, was confused.

(In the first place, a prince of a country would have a fiancée in Veek. Yet I wonder if I come to this place every day)

I feel like I was giving you something.

On the back of what he was thinking, Claire had chosen her favorite piece for her outfit today.

It was definitely a place to dress and go if you were a Duke’s Lady, but now you’d be just as good as wearing an elegant piece.

I picked heel shoes to match the color of the piece, but I still have time today.

Claire thought of walking to the castle when the walk stopped wearing heel shoes and walkable booties, causing her pocket watch on her desk to sneak into her pocket.

“Claire, sister, are you going out?”

When she left her room, Claire stumbled upon Miss Isabella.

“Yes, I have made an appointment with a friend.”

Claire replies with a smile.

Isabella is a smart girl. When you tell them this way, they’ll never pry any further.

“Really? Please read the poems together in the next class.”

Isabella looks at Claire’s standing still, showing an unfortunate bare gesture. And I went on.

“Sister of the day, you are always beautiful with more. I’m sure you have fun plans!

―――――

From the House of Lehne to the Royal Castle, it was about an hour’s walk.

Arriving in front of the castle gate, Claire shows the guards by taking out her pocket watch.

“I have made a promise to His Highness, Vik”

Claire was terrified that she had only come to use the library, but what would she do if she was passed through during a glance?

“… may I see some?”

The guard with the pocket watch in his eyes looks gleeful for a moment before asking Claire.

“Yeah, sure.”

Claire, agreeing to give her pocket watch to the guard, had a voice.

“She’s my guest. Let it through.”

What showed up there were Veek and Lui, who looked sleepless.

(… Great…!!

“Your Highness, it’s a (…) long time (…) bu (…) ri (…)”

The guards can see it in Claire’s polite greeting trick.

“Claire, it’s been a while.”

“Lewie! I missed you!

Like Claire’s delight, which could be hugged by Lewis, Vique looked complicated.

“So, have you finished your work, Your Highness?

As she walks within the royal palace, Claire asks to tease Vik.

“Of course.”

Veek replied well.

“Me and Donnie were called in, too, and we helped each other out.”

Keep going like Lewis was stunned.

“Claire, it’s still beautiful today though…… but lack of sleep?

Claire was thrilled.

“Yeah, yeah. I can’t finish my school assignment.”

“Oh, personal lessons in witchcraft are pretty tough. I also remember studying desperately two years ago before my graduation exam”

Lewis nodded as he was convinced.

“Here we are.”

The Royal Palace’s special library, which Vique guided me through, was not as large as I thought.

If you say so in the Noston Country, it’s about the same size as Prince Asberto’s office.

But there are a lot of books lined up on the shelf.

“The magic book is this way. The book of contraindication spells is locked and illegible.”

Lewis explains a lot.

Claire came here today not just because she wants to learn about witchcraft.

Mysterious magic, given to me on Lindell Island. The baptism…… especially because he wanted to know the secret hidden from his mother’s origins.

From that day on, in Claire’s head, she had an idea of a possibility.

Of course, Vik and Lewis thought the same thing about it.

“Claire. I found classified material about the Lindell Country”

Vik calls from across the shelf. What Vik is in was a no-take-out book area surrounded by boundaries.

“Vik, isn’t that the book on that shelf something I shouldn’t read?”

“Put it inside this juncture, and if you can read the letters, you won’t have a problem”

As the word suggests, for some reason Claire could read even letters with magic on them, after putting them inside the junction.

says Lui with a bitter smile.

“This juncture was put up by a royal palace magician…. Claire’s magic isn’t known yet, but it must really be enough to change the country.”

“Don’t be too spared being shaken and taken by the Lene family”

Lewis says it too sarah. Yeah, Veek also makes tea, so Claire didn’t even have time to think she was scared of her powers.

“We’re taking a nap at the door, so take your time.”

“Someone’s just finished cleaning up the work they’ve been accumulating.”

Vique and Lewis cared about Claire and left me alone.

What Claire found out there was a fact as expected.

Decades ago, when the Lindell Nation was raided, the royalty was said to have been uprooted, but that there was actually only one survivor.

That was a 3-year-old little girl that the samurai had managed to take out, and a nobleman from the Noston country who knew the circumstances took it in secret.

Claire’s mother comes from a terminal aristocrat who has territory in an area close to the former Lindell nation among the Nostons.

The beauty of Claire and her two brothers was a mother’s concession, but I remember her maternal grandparents and mother not being very alike.

Never mind before, but considering Claire’s mother is the princess who escaped Lindell Country, it all fits snuggly.

I wonder if your father knew.

Though terminal, it is by no means disproportionate for a noble daughter to marry the Martino family.

Claire was horrified when she realized that her father, Benjamin, had not been part of Charlotte’s ploy, but had no integrity.