I asked in an excited voice, and Matilda replied with a satisfied smile.

“You should ask the person who made it directly.”

“The person who made it?”

“Yes. I’ve brought the magic engineering teacher who will be instructing you from now on.”

“Oh, where is he?”

I hurriedly looked around, but besides Matilda, there was no one else in the room.

As I looked back at Matilda with a puzzled expression, she seemed to realize something late and sighed as if she had a headache.

“Phew, really!”

Matilda strode over and flung the door wide open. Then, an old man appeared, looking as shabby as a vagabond on the streets.

Dressed in grubby clothes that seemed to reek, and with soot smeared on his face, the old man looked far from an ordinary scholar.

‘…Who is he?’

There was no such character in ‘The Beloved Holy Lady’ as far as I knew.

While I was staring at him, Matilda, standing next to me, spoke as if to explain.

“As you can see, he may be a bit eccentric, but he is very wellknown in the field of magical engineering. The Duke has gone to great lengths to bring him here.”

“I see.”

“His name is Barne Ad Teynandora….”

“What?”

I couldn’t help but be shocked when I heard the name Barne. He was the person who wrote the magic engineering book I read.

I had pleaded with Orland and Matilda for a skilled teacher, but I hadn’t expected they’d bring Barne.

I was so happy that he would be teaching me, I felt like jumping for joy.

“Hello, I’m Tanashia….”

“I know. Daughter of Duke Breloff. If I hadn’t owed your father a debt in the past, I wouldn’t have been dragged all the way here.”

Barne looked at me with a disgruntled expression. It was clear at a glance that he didn’t want to teach me.

“I’ve heard from Matilda that you’re a genius, but it’s just a hobby you’re doing before you get married. I don’t intend to participate in the play of a noble young lady….”

“Sir! How can you say that when you’ve already agreed to teach!”

Matilda cut off Barne’s words with a loud shout.

Somehow, Matilda and Barne seemed to already know each other. In fact, his words could have been perceived as quite rude, prompting her to step in.

But honestly, I didn’t care. It wasn’t important what kind of mindset Barne came here with.

What was important was the fact that I could directly ask Barne about my questions.

“Wait a moment, I’ve always had so many questions I wanted to ask when I met you.”

I quickly brought the book that Barne wrote. In it were numerous questions I had marked because I couldn’t understand.

Immediately, I handed the book to Barne and asked him each question.

“This part here. I don’t understand why you explained it like this.”

“…What?”

The one taken aback by this situation wasn’t me, but Barne.

He alternately looked at me and the content filled in the book with surprised eyes.

“This is a profound part of magical engineering, it’s inevitable that it won’t be easy to understand… but you’re curious about this? Why? Aren’t you a noble young lady?”

“What does that have to do with this?”

“…!”

At my words, Barne seemed to have lost his words and stared at me.

My being Tanashia of the Breloff family and my desire to learn magic engineering were two separate matters.

But to Barne, I seemed very peculiar. It’s true that a typical noble lady wouldn’t study magical engineering as if her life depended on it like I do.

“Hah.”

Barne, who had been laughing insincerely, looked at the parts I marked and soon his expression turned serious.

He looked at Matilda standing next to him and spoke in a voice lower than before.

“So, you weren’t lying about the genius thing, huh?”

“Of course! Why would I lie about that?”

“I thought you were exaggerating to lure me in.”

Somehow, Barne’s eyes looked serious compared to before. He pointed to the desk with a nod and spoke softly.

“Come here. I’ll explain.”

“Yes.”

I replied brightly and followed Barnen to the desk.

That was when.

Knock, knock, Gerin cautiously spoke as he knocked on the door.

“Miss, Lady Crisha is here to see you.”

“Reiana? Why so suddenly?”

“It seems she’s come because today is the regular meeting day you have every month. What should we do?”

I knew that Tanashia and Reiana were friends in the original work, but I didn’t know they had regular monthly meetings.

It was a part that I couldn’t pay much attention to as suddenly a lesson schedule was added while I was studying magical engineering these days.

As Barnen stood in front of the desk waiting for me, I quickly replied to Gerin.

“Please tell Reiana to wait in my room for a while. I’ll go as soon as the lesson is over. Please understand.”

“Ah, yes. I understand. Miss.”

After hearing Gerin’s answer, I hurriedly approached Barnen.

Thinking that I was going to learn magical engineering, which I had studied alone, from someone, my heart was somehow pounding.

To feel this way while studying in my life…

I felt anew the reality of being a genius.

Reiana didn’t want to come to the Brelof Mansion from the start.

Until recently, it was fun to play together thinking that she was friends with Tanashia, but she was hurt as much as possible after the royal ball.

But it was not yet time to reveal her true feelings to hit her properly.

Now, it felt more advantageous to be around pretending to be close, as Tanashia did.

So she attended without breaking the regular meeting…

“Does she even make me wait?”

Hearing the explanation from Gerin, Reiana couldn’t hide her absurd heart.

Tanashia, who used to welcome her happily, changed too much overnight. Even if it was a sudden class schedule, she could have told her in advance if she cared a little.

Gerin cautiously spoke, watching the stiff eyes of Reiana.

“I’m sorry. It’s a sudden class schedule…”

“Hah, okay. I understand, so bring me the tea.”

“Yes, Miss.”

Gerin went out of the room in a hurry with her answer. Because he had seen how fierce Reiana’s personality was.

Reiana’s mood, which was not good in the first place, fell even deeper.

Tanashia’s behavior seemed to be ignoring her implicitly.

‘Ah, now that I’m the daughter of a hostess, it comes out like this?’

It was Reiana’s inferiority complex, but she couldn’t control her mood even if she felt she was slightly ignored by people.

It was then that she was sighing roughly and coughing.

Knock, knock, with the knock on the door, a familiar boy’s voice was heard.

“Miss, it’s me.”

She thought it was Gerin who came to bring the tea when she heard the knock, but she realized who the other party was as soon as she heard the voice.

‘That voice is…!’

The boy who had arrogantly offended Reiana at the royal ball, it was Askan.

No matter how Tanashia told him to do it, Reiana had no intention of forgiving him.

Thunk!

Reiana swiftly approached and instead of answering, she flung the door wide open.

Askan, who had not expected Tanashia to be in the room, looked at her with surprised eyes for a moment.

Reiana grinned and waved at Askan.

“Hello, we meet again?”

Askan’s face was to Reiana’s taste even when she saw it again.

A face so handsome that it fits perfectly with the term ‘pretty boy’. She loved destroying such a face into tears.

“We have a servant in our house that Tanashia ruined.”

In the original work, Tanashia whipped whenever she didn’t like something a bit. It was the same in the Crisha mansion where Reiana lived.

The two were similar in character, so they never had a problem touching each other’s servants or maids.

“How should I make you?”

Looking at Reiana, who was excited to find a target to vent her anger, Askan’s originally expressionless face grew colder.