The Useless Duke's Daughter Saves the World

♧ [V2 || Chapter 26] ♧

VOLUME 2: The Ceremony

[6 months later]

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"NOVA, YOU PIECE OF %$*#!"

A shrill scream can be heard all across the mansion hallways. The door to a bedroom burst opened and a messy haired woman came tumbling out. Her usual mischievous purple eyes were full of anger as she opened her mouth one more time.

"How dare you use the pages of my books to make your stupid nest!"

"My lady! Language please!"

From across the garden of the Alcmene, a particular golden bird was snickering to himself as he carefully laid out the torn pages into the branches of a tree.

'That's what you get for cutting down my food allowance'

The golden bird huffed angrily to himself, "How dare she claims that I've gained weight. I'm an immortal being! I can't gain weight!"

"Now, now, my lady," Marise tried to calm down her mistress. She was used to seeing the two of them argue on a daily basis. Despite her lady and her divine spirit having their differences, the two were more alike than they'd like to admit. Just last week her lady took revenge by drawing on Nova with ink because Nova refused to train an extra hour with her.

"When I get my hands on that damn bird, I'm going to pluck his feathers one by one," Evangeline gritted her teeth.

At the same time, Nova felt a shiver down his spine. "Strange. Why did I feel like something ominous is going to happen?" he thought to himself. He shrugged his little shoulders and continued to lay the ripped papers on the branch. Technically, he didn't even need to nest but this particular tree was the perfect spot to nap in the outdoors.

Meanwhile, it was chaos inside the mansion as Marise was trying to calm down her angry lady. Not to mention, she was displaying unladylike behaviour by messing up her hair in anger.

"I'll place an order for the same book, my lady. Please do not worry too much."

"Thank you, Marise. What would I do without you," she sighed. She'll have to give that Nova an earful once he shows his smug face around dinnertime.

As Evangeline walked back into her room, she brought out her notebook filled with her schedule. Similar to how she was as May, she liked to organize her thoughts through written form.

'The date for the ceremony is drawing near and I haven't mastered my magic as much as I wanted to,' she thought to herself. If she wasn't fighting with Nova right now, she would have asked him to train with her again.

For the past 6 months, Evangeline had been practicing to control her mana. She was lucky enough to get the help of Luca, the shopkeeper from town to help her, although she didn't think he would accept the idea in the first place.

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[5 months ago]

"Luca! I have a preposition for you!" Evangeline exclaimed as she opened the door to Luca's shop.

Startled, Luca dropped the piece of donut he had be holding in his hand.

"Ahhh! Luca I just mopped this morning!" Sylvia complained as she went to grab something to wipe the sugar dusting off the floor.

"Oh, sorry. Anyways, come in, Ms. Evangeline. What do you mean preposition?"

Evangeline strode forward with determination on her face. It's been a month since awakening her powers on her birthday and it seems as if her powers were different than the ones as the original Evangeline. In the novel, the original Evangeline had little powers and could only contract a minor spirit.