The Last of the Miras

XXIV | Ni-Jū Yon

Inside the palace library, Helen was having her history class with her tutor with Avian.

Hmm. . .ojo-sama's doing great in my class.

He looked over the princess who was reading the said page number to which he told her to read. 

I'm sure that she'll be a great assistant leader when the prince will take over the throne in the future.

The first Mira family's reign in Altaria became known for being great rulers of their time. Helen softly whispered as she read through every line of the history book.

The girl turned to the next page when her eyes stopped at something interesting.

Princess Laura Mira, being the only child of the first family, became queen at the age of nineteen. With someone assisting together on her side who was known to be called as Anton became Prince Consort a year before the previous queen handed down the throne to the Nature Guardian.

This part got my interest, huh? The present princess looked over to her tutor, Avian through the top of the book as she covered most of her lower face with the book, only leaving her eyes to be left seen.

She didn't notice that her stare towards her tutor became noticeable by the man himself. Avian knew that Helen was staring at him as he looked over through the corner of his eyes.

Maybe ojo-sama saw something interesting in the book. I can tell that she's praying for me to widen and expound more information to her.

The princess blushed lightly when she realized that her tutor knew that she was staring at him too long. She didn't want to be exposed to him in this kind of way, so she looked away before he can see her embarrassed expression.

Luckily, he didn't notice Helen's reaction and just moved away to a certain part of the library to get something that would surely make the girl react or simply catch her interest.

Where is that book located anyway?

He asked himself as he let his index finger run through the spine of each book in which their titles were written at.

The princess internally scolded herself after what happened between her and her tutor.

What did I just do?

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Exiting the walls of the palace, Altaria's prince walked through the garden gazebo and stopped before the steps as he greeted the queen dowager who was taking a cup of tea in her seat.

A good day to you, obaa-san! He greeted his grandmother.

The old lady herself nods at her grandson.

What is it that you need, Axel-kun?

She asked the prince while scanning for something in the young adult's face.

Making sure that the prince felt welcomed by his grandma, she motioned him to take a seat as she rang the bell twice and in a second, a spirit palace maid presented herself before the two of them.

Make a cup of tea for the prince, will you?

She endearingly asked the uniformed maid.

Of course, queen dowager.

Came a short reply from the spirit maid. The palace maid went her way after she got the sign that the queen dowager didn't ask anything else.

Once the prince took his seat and got himself comfortable, Axel straightforwardly asked Alynna.

Obaa-san, I saw a vision within the throne room just this morning.

Alynna took a sip of her tea from a delicate floral ceramic cup and placed it back on its paired saucer.

Pray tell, Axel-oji.