The Duke's Daughter's Third Life

Chapter 70

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Marius had a cranky look plastered on his face as he stormed into the duchy. He took the towel from the servant, muttering a quick 'thanks' and wiped his sweat away. He placed his sword back into his hilt and turned to the servant that stood not far from him.

"Where's Aeliana?" he questioned.

The servant bowed and answered, "The young miss is in her room, studying."

He grunted, "This year's exam is soon huh? Pft boring~"

He handed the towel back to the servant and made his way upstairs, heading over to Aeliana's room with a mischievous grin, excited to play around with his little sister.

"Hey Zeru, do you understand this?" Aeliana pushed her chair back slightly, holding up her book with the question she had been stuck on for a while now.

"What is it? Oh you're learning about magic circles?" he carefully read the question before answering,

"Hmm for this question, you first need to understand the concept of it which should be in the previous chapters from this one. Ah right here, so the concept isn't too hard to understand. Magic circles are created by using a different type of language, by understanding the language you can understand the meaning of it and even the spell that it projects."

Zeru flipped through her book and frowned, "It looks like your book doesn't have a good sense of the language. I'll head back and find a book for you that can help you understand."

"You don't need to go through all that trouble," she tried to reason but he shook his head and smiled.

"It's not a trouble at all, we're friends. I'll be back later, see you."

A ring of light engulfed his body, leaving traces of white dots that floated around where Zeru had once stood. Aeliana placed her book down and decided to study something else for the time being.

Just as she took another book to study, her door was burst open. A loud voice echoed through her room,

"Alien~!!" Marius sang, smiling widely, ignoring the fact that he had barged into his sister's room without knocking.

She gripped her pen tightly as she irritated tone, "Marius...I told you to knock on my door before coming in!"

Marius swiftly blocked her attack as she threw the pen at him. He glared at her, fighting back; "Who said you can call me informally?? It's Brother! Say Brother!"

"I'll only call you that if you actually listened to me!"

Marius huffed, crossing his arms, upset as he grumbled to himself, "You were so much cuter last time.."

She raised an eyebrow at his mumbling, "What on earth are you saying?"

"Nothing that concerns you and your tiny head." he curtly replied, sticking his tongue out.

Aeliana rolled her eyes at her childish third brother and turned her focus back on her studies. Abruptly, she felt a weight pressing on top of her head.

"...Marius, get off me."

"Don't want."

"You're..heavy!"

"I'll get off if you play with me right now."

"I'm studying,"

"So? You have a month left."

"Which is why I need to study?"

Marius groaned, digging his chin deeper into her head causing her to yelp in pain. She smacked his arm but he still didn't budge.