Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 106

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 106

Because I didn’t want her to resemble me.

I couldn’t bring myself to tell her the truth that I was Tiya from the future…

But Tiya said she wanted to become me. How absurd.

‘Anyway, she’s such a disobedient disciple.’

How is it that she’s never once moved according to my will?

Winter smiled as if resigned.

Then she asked Tiya, who was secretly sniffling with her head down.

【Hey… are you crying?】

“I’m not crying!”

Tiya suddenly raised her head and glared at Winter with tears welling up in her eyes.

【I’m not good at comforting crying kids.】

“I said I’m not crying!”

When she was hidden behind the veil, I didn’t know, but that face that slowly grated on one’s nerves couldn’t be more shameless.

I don’t know about other things, but she won’t resemble me in that aspect. She won’t grow up like that either!

【Well, if I were to try to stop your crying in my own way…】

“I’m not crying—”

【I think it’s time to use the golem core you brought.】

“That thing…?”

Tiya’s attention, who had been stubbornly insisting she wasn’t crying, quickly turned elsewhere.

As Winter said, the tears that had been welling up in her sniffling eyes disappeared with one sniff through her nose.

‘Good thing she’s simple.’

And Winter looked fondly at Tiya, who quickly regained her spirits due to her simplicity, and told her about her plan.

* * *

Volkner couldn’t keep his feet still for even a moment and paced back and forth in his research lab.

On his desk lay a new letter from his patron.

It was a reply to the letter he had rashly sent to his patron yesterday evening, but he didn’t dare open it.

Even without opening it, it was obvious. It would be asking about the progress of the matter.

This time, failing to eliminate the Vladijef family’s brat couldn’t be helped.

If only he were given another chance, he was confident he could deal with that brat.

“Yes, if only another opportunity comes…”

To get that next opportunity, he had to destroy the golem core that brat had brought.

Had his desperation reached the heavens?

He always thought he had bad luck, but today fortune seemed to favor him.

In the evening, news reached Volkner that Astiya, having recovered, had returned to the manor.

And not alone, but together with the Mage Lord.

Unable to let this matter slide, it seemed the Mage Lord had personally moved as a master and as the owner of Shetbyeol Tower to explain the situation to the Vladijef family.

In other words, the Mage Lord’s research lab was currently empty!

He had to take this opportunity to destroy the golem core that would be stored in the Mage Lord’s research lab.

Volkner moved swiftly.

He arrived at the door of the Mage Lord’s research lab without being seen by anyone.

And immediately entered without hesitation.

The dim light of magical lamps illuminated the chaotic interior of the research lab.

Volkner carefully headed toward the Mage Lord’s workbench, making sure to leave no traces.

He knew from the Mage Lord’s habits that truly important items were carefully placed on the workbench.

Indeed, there was the golem core that the Vladijef family’s brat had so proudly shown off.

‘Lucky me.’

He wondered if things had ever gone this well in his life.

Now he just needed to damage the magic circle so that the creator’s information engraved on the core couldn’t be identified.

It was when he picked up the golem core with a satisfied smile.

He felt a strange sense of unease.

The weight and craftsmanship of the scrap metal touching his hand felt foreign.

He held the golem core under the lamplight to examine it.

“This is…”

“It wouldn’t be a golem core you made.”

“…!”

At the suddenly heard voice, Volkner jumped in surprise and turned around.

The Mage Lord, who shouldn’t be here, was standing guard at the doorway.

“Ah, Lord Argon… That, that is, I was just—”

His attempt to blurt out any excuse was cut off by Argon’s words, mixed with complexity and anger.

“Just as my disciple said. The culprit would definitely come to retrieve the golem core.”

With those words, Volkner realized.

The retrieved golem core and the news that the Mage Lord had left his research lab.

It was all a trap to lure him in.

“To think you couldn’t even recognize something you made yourself. Your impatience has made you a blind fool.”

Realizing that no excuse would work, Volkner muttered through gritted teeth.

“Of course. There was never any golem core to use as evidence from the beginning.”

If he had been safe thanks to destroying the golem, he should have thought there was no way to obtain an intact golem core.

As the Mage Lord said, impatience had blinded his eyes.

Volkner threw down the golem core and drew his staff.

Since it had come to this, it was do or die.

If he could just eliminate the old man before him, he could bury the fact that he was the culprit of this incident, and the position of Mage Lord would become vacant too.

Since the disciples were still young, the vacant position of Mage Lord would naturally go to one of the elders.

Volkner’s eyes seethed with murderous intent and greed.

The Mage Lord, recognizing his intention, shook his head and clicked his tongue.

“Volkner, my man. How foolish you are. Have you forgotten where this place is?”

“Where else, the research lab of an old man who should have been in a coffin long ago along with your disciple…”

The next moment, all expression disappeared from Volkner’s face.

He could feel mana moving from all directions. Argon hadn’t even drawn his staff.

Soon, his eyes saw shadows slowly rising from the floor of the research lab.

They were all golems.

The golems’ glowing eyes were all focused on Volkner.

The Mage Lord quietly closed the door behind him and said.

“Volkner. You should show a bit more respect for the Mage Lord.”

* * *

Late at night.

News of what happened at Shetbyeol Tower spread, causing quite a commotion at Vladijef Manor as well.

While Mage Lord Argon, who arrived late, was having an adult conversation with Rodion about this incident, Tiya lay her tired body on the bed and blinked her eyes.

By her side, as always, was Winter.

Tiya looked at Winter’s unfamiliar yet familiar face without the veil and chattered.

“Then why is Winter called Winter? They said Winter was the alias of the Mage Lord of protective magic… Could it be?”

【…Well, protective magic suited me best, so I did become the Mage Lord there.】

To be more precise, I was just desperate to return to the North, but.

Winter, who swallowed her latter words, hesitated.

Tiya was looking up at Winter with eyes that couldn’t possibly sparkle any brighter.

“As expected! I’m a genius!”

…Since Winter is Tiya, it’s not wrong at all.

But why does it feel so annoying.

Winter was ignoring Tiya’s self-praise with her arms crossed when it happened.

“You know what. Winter said before, right? That to go to the past, you have to pay a price. So what did the spirit of time take from Winter?”

An unexpectedly sharp question pierced Winter.

Winter remained silent for a while.

And then she slowly continued speaking as if talking to herself.

【Probably… my greatest attachment】

“What is Winter’s attachment?”

At first, Winter didn’t know either.

But after meeting Tiya, when stories about family came from the child’s mouth, she realized.

That she couldn’t feel anything.

Sadness or affection, guilt and resentment… not even hatred.

Winter, embracing the empty void in her chest, answered with a voice that felt no emotion at all.

【My attachment to family.】

If I could go back to the past and meet Brother Lev, I wanted to tell him I missed him.

I wanted to be the first to hug Rodion tightly from behind, and even if Father said harsh words to me, I just wanted to see his face once.

All those attachments she had held onto to the very end—hating and loving and despising—no longer remained even a single fragment in her heart.

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