Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 111

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 111

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Rodion’s drawing room.

Once a month, the doctor who reported Lev’s health condition to Rodion was visibly nervous.

And for good reason, as the news he was about to deliver was far from hopeful.

“Resistance has developed faster than expected.”

Rodion’s face showed he had expected this to come.

However, after composing himself with a brief silence, he first sent out Valentina, who had been listening to the doctor’s diagnosis with him.

“This conversation might take a while, so you can step out first if you’d like.”

Though his tone was gentle, as if making a suggestion, it was an undeniable command.

Valentina nodded once and left Rodion’s room, heading toward Lev.

His expression as he walked down the corridor was similar to Rodion’s. A face that said what was coming had come.

After finding the right herbal combination that worked well with Lev’s body, his condition had improved rapidly for a while.

However, the problem was that the intervals between taking the herbs were getting shorter while the dosage was increasing.

As the doctor said, resistance was building up.

And as with everything, too much was worse than too little.

Eventually, they had reached the point where increasing the dosage any further would actually harm his body.

A powder keg that could explode at any moment.

That was Lev’s current condition.

They had barely managed to suppress it with medicine, but if another seizure occurred, it would truly be dangerous.

‘It would be better not to let the person involved know.’

In front of Lev’s room door.

Valentina composed his expression and opened the door with his usual face.

“When am I supposed to die?”

He suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu. It overlapped with the day he first met Lev.

‘What a perceptive bastard, as always.’

“What do you mean?”

Valentina first played innocent and headed toward the armchair that was practically Lev’s designated seat.

“My condition.”

Lev continued casually, looking at his book with a bored expression.

“The doctor, Melody, and my brother don’t tell me anything. So you tell me.”

Finally taking his eyes off the book, Lev’s golden eyes looked directly at Valentina.

Personality, appearance, atmosphere—he had thought they were siblings with nothing in common. But that gaze that looked straight at people was exactly the same.

Unfortunately, Valentina was weak against that gaze.

“…About a month. Maybe shorter.”

“Just as I expected.”

Lev nodded and returned the book he had been reading to Valentina.

The plant encyclopedia that Valentina practically lived with was filled with annotations Lev had written.

They were all his own struggles to lower Lev’s high fever.

“Did you manage to squeeze some escape funds out of my brother?”

“What?”

“You said you weren’t going back home.”

For a moment, Valentina’s grip on the book tightened.

Right. That had certainly been Valentina’s plan. If he could also break the mage’s curse, it would be even better.

However, neither breaking the curse nor extending Lev’s lifeline until enough escape funds accumulated was easy.

When Valentina didn’t give a satisfying answer, Lev clicked his tongue as if he had expected this.

He gestured toward a jar placed at the head of his bed.

“Corn took most of it so there isn’t much left, but add what’s in there too. It’s useless to me anyway.”

“…”

“Oh, and take everything I’ve stuffed in the first drawer of the desk too.”

Valentina opened the desk drawer Lev had pointed to and stared intently at its contents for a long time.

Lev coughed awkwardly several times out of embarrassment.

He had put everything he owned that could be worth money. There were some accessories with precious memories attached, but it wasn’t like he could take them when he died.

‘This much should be… a pretty decent gift to give a friend.’

Maybe this kind of relationship was what Mother had called friendship.

Lev waited for Valentina’s reaction while pretending not to have expectations.

However, Valentina’s reaction was completely different from what Lev had expected.

“I’m not that desperate for money.”

Valentina didn’t look grateful at all. No, he actually seemed offended.

“Don’t be prideful and just take it when I’m giving it to you.”

“I don’t need it. I’ll handle it myself.”

“It’s a month at most. How are you going to gather escape funds in that time?”

“If a month feels short to you, then you should try to hold on a bit longer.”

At Valentina’s sarcastic words, Lev let out a hollow laugh.

“Hey, that doesn’t make sense—”

“Why doesn’t it make sense? You could at least try!”

Valentina snapped in an agitated tone and irritably rubbed his face.

“Instead of throwing away your stuff to me like garbage, can’t you try to hold on more desperately?”

Valentina, like Lev, also lived a life with a time limit. The moment his gender was discovered, he would die.

Even so, Valentina did whatever it took to survive.

Despite feeling humiliated, he desperately disguised himself as a girl, and endured the bullying from his idiotic half-brother.

He had even prepared to stab his father’s heart with a knife, using revenge as an excuse.

Compared to that, Lev had given up on everything too quickly.

Even though there were so many people around Lev who wanted him to live even one more day.

“Have you never truly desired to live?”

Beyond anger, with eyes that even held a hint of jealousy, Valentina asked.

Lev couldn’t answer hastily.

Just as he opened his mouth after a long silence.

“Ugh!”

He suddenly bent over and clutched his left shoulder blade.

Sometimes he felt a needle-like sensation, but just now it felt like being stabbed with a heated iron skewer.

“You’re putting on a show to avoid answering, aren’t you.”

Valentina, who had been letting out a hollow laugh, soon realized that Lev’s pain wasn’t fake.

“Hey, let me see. Why are you suddenly like this?”

High fever, insomnia, and mild chills were frequent, but this was the first time he had shown such symptoms.

His heart sank, wondering if these strange symptoms were appearing because he didn’t have much life left.

“…It’s nothing serious. It’ll get better soon.”

With a pale face, Lev swatted away Valentina’s hand.

“You’re just going to leave it like this? You mean this isn’t the first time? You right now…!”

Just as Valentina’s voice was about to rise.

Knock knock knock.

The sound of urgent knocking cut through the heated atmosphere between the two boys.

Lev quickly said, as if relieved.

“Come in!”

As a third party entered the room, a forced smile appeared on Valentina’s fierce face.

But he couldn’t completely suppress his anger, as the corners of his mouth trembled convulsively.

“Young master, there’s something you need to see—!”

Melody, who had rushed in, sensed the awkward atmosphere and glanced between the two boys for a moment.

“Did you two fight?”

“It’s not like that.”

“…No.”

Both denied it, but anyone could see the cold air flowing between them.

However, what was important now wasn’t mediating the reconciliation between the two children.

Melody continued her interrupted words.

“Young master, I think you need to come out urgently.”

“Why.”

“Well… Mia, who went out with Miss Tiya, has returned.”

A troubled expression crossed Melody’s face. At the story about Tiya, Valentina and Lev’s gazes immediately focused on her.

As if she had organized what to say, Melody concluded her words.

“Instead of Miss Tiya, Mia brought back some child who looks exactly like the miss.”

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Tiya thought there would never be anything more humiliating than this in her eight years of life.

“That’s why I warned you not to abuse Growth Accelerator ver.10. It’s a side effect of the magic potion.”

“When will you return to your original body? Well. I can’t say for certain.”

【Be grateful you didn’t become ten years younger right now. You almost went back to before you were born!】

Magic potions are originally made to match the user’s body.

The growth potion was made to match Roxanne’s body, and she had heard there might be side effects from it…

“I didn’t know it would be like this.”

Inside the carriage returning from the pawn shop to home.

Four-year-old Tiya crouched on the carriage seat and hid her face.

Mia, who was patting the small body so Tiya wouldn’t fall off the seat, spoke with a pitying expression.

“You mustn’t carelessly eat just anything from now on. Do you understand?”

She had no choice but to tell Mia that she had eaten some unknown magic potion in Roxanne’s room.

Since she didn’t know when her body would return to normal, she couldn’t keep hiding in Roxanne’s room forever.

“Mmph, woo. I won’t eat it.”

Tiya, whose face had turned bright red from being covered with a blanket, peeked out her face and nodded.

Though she was already lovely in appearance, her face with plump cheeks was about five times more adorable than usual.

The corners of Mia’s mouth melted away.

However, she couldn’t just smile at the words that followed.

“Mia, let’s keep this a secret.”

“Pardon?”

“Me becoming this humiliating body. It’s a secret!”

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