Allen has failed the court sorcerer’s exam, and accepts a job tutoring a duke’s daughter. He meets Tina (the aforementioned daughter), the butler, a young maid named Ellie, and Duke Walter Howard (Tina’s father). Plot twist: rather than preparing Tina to attend the royal academy…Walter secretly hopes Allen will convince her to give up on going, since she’s somehow unable to use magic despite having mana. Allen also ends up with Ellie as his student, and begins teaching the two girls about magic. Looming in the background of all this is a redhead named Lydia, who was apparently Allen’s associate of some kind?