Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 118

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 118

Lev’s gaze was fixed on the sky.

Lev couldn’t understand the identity of this greed that surged up like an unbearable cough.

He just watched in a daze as a small bird flew through the sky and landed on Tiya’s head, then collapsed from the high fever that struck him like a blind arrow.

“Brother?”

He heard Tiya’s voice calling him from outside the window.

He needed to answer something to prevent Tiya from coming up, but all that came out of his mouth was rough panting.

Peach, who had been flying around Lev’s bedside chirping incessantly, flew to the window.

It seemed like she was trying to go outside and ask people for help, but the gap in the open door was too narrow.

Thud, thud.

Peach threw her body against the glass window trying to open it, but it was useless. However, it seemed to be enough to catch the attention of the children outside.

Soon after, Tiya’s confused voice was heard.

“Valen? Where are you suddenly going?”

It seemed that the quick-witted Valentina had noticed the situation.

‘No.’

He didn’t want to show himself suffering and leaving. Especially not to Tiya.

So he couldn’t show himself rolling around on the floor in such an unseemly way.

‘Let me get back to bed first. Then I’ll show them the same kind of end as usual…’

Lev’s body, which had been crawling along the floor with his nails dug in, collapsed with a thud. All strength completely left Lev’s arms.

In Lev’s blurry vision, Peach’s figure appeared. As did Kkokko, who had somehow landed again beyond the glass window.

The doctor had said it would be difficult to survive, and even if it did survive, it would be difficult to fly again.

Lev had also concluded it would die, but the baby bird that fell from its nest and was abandoned by its mother not only survived but even flew in the sky.

It repeatedly defied Lev’s expectations, who had concluded it would die and thought it would have been better not to save it even when it survived.

Perhaps that’s why.

Lev felt like Kkokko standing blankly outside the window was mocking him.

That his greed at the last moment was to return to bed to maintain his usual appearance.

When Lev’s face contorted not from high fever but from shame, humiliation, and jealousy.

“Have you never really been greedy for life?”

Valentina’s voice that he had heard once echoed in his head.

He had pretended not to understand those words then, but he actually knew.

What kind of feelings Valentina had when she said those words.

‘But hoping for the impossible only leads to emptiness.’

With that thought, words he had never spoken aloud burst out for the first time in front of the black bird looking down at him.

“I don’t want to die.”

He wasn’t sure if it was because he was greedy for life as Valentina had said.

But if possible, he wanted to die tomorrow, not today.

If he was a little more greedy, a week.

If he was even more greedy, enough to know what it was like to become an adult.

After that, he wanted to see Valentina safely leave this place and screw over the family, and he also wanted to see Corn dominate the stage at her debutante ball.

Someday he wanted to learn horseback riding from his brother and visit the North, and if possible, he wanted to have a few more times of getting along with his entire family including Father like before.

At that moment when he was thinking of such a distant future, the next words continued, breaking through the shell of old resignation inside Lev’s chest.

“I want to live.”

And it was when he spoke those words aloud.

“Ugh!”

His left shoulder blade began to ache so much that the high fever became secondary.

Lev’s clothes quickly became soaked with cold sweat.

Cold breath burst through his teeth, and frost flowers bloomed from his fingertips touching the floor, but Lev didn’t notice.

All the pain in his body was concentrated on his shoulder blade area, leaving him half out of his mind.

Finally, when Lev couldn’t bear the pain and screamed out loud.

“Lev!”

“Brother!”

The sound of two children running down the corridor could be heard.

And when Lev’s room door finally opened.

The air in the room had changed.

The sound of glass shards being stepped on came from under the feet of Valentina and Tiya who rushed into the room.

“This is…”

“…”

Valentina and Tiya’s feet froze in the bitter cold inside Lev’s room.

It wasn’t a mistake.

Lev’s room, which always maintained appropriate temperature and humidity, had become not just a cold valley but was completely frozen solid.

Summer, when exceptional heat was expected.

Winter had arrived only in Lev’s room.

Unable to move rashly due to the strange phenomenon, Valentina heard Tiya’s whisper.

“It’s a frost spirit…”

“What?”

“A frost spirit has hatched! Brother succeeded!”

Tiya excitedly entered deep into the room, then belatedly discovered Lev collapsed in one corner of the room.

“Kyaaaah! Brother!”

Valentina also belatedly discovered the unconscious Lev and quickly ran over to check his condition. Tiya clung to Lev’s side and screamed.

“B-Brother is cold!”

“Tiya, call the doctor, no, call Lord Rodion!”

Tiya ran out of the room half crying.

Valentina instinctively brought her ear to Lev’s nose.

Unlike his ice-cold body, she could feel warm breathing.

It was when Valentina then straightened out Lev’s body that had been curled up on his side.

“This is…”

Valentina’s expression changed strangely when she confirmed what Lev was holding in his arms.

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A week later.

Tiya, who had grown more than a span taller in the meantime, was standing in front of a tree in the garden.

In the week, the temperature had risen steeply, and now it was hot enough to sweat just standing still. Nevertheless, there was a reason Tiya had come out to the garden.

Tiya, with Kkokko perched on her head, looked up at the towering tree with a determined face.

“Alright. I’m ready!”

Then she immediately clung to the tree trunk.

She moved her arms and legs vigorously to climb up the tree trunk, but before long, she slid down with a whoosh.

Seeing this, Winter clicked his tongue.

【Ready for what. If you used magic, you could climb a tree like this in no time.】

It was a reasonable point, but naturally, Tiya didn’t budge from her stubbornness.

“No, I’m going to climb the tree without using magic. Kkokko flew with his own strength, right? And I need to train my body too.”

She didn’t know how many times she slid down from the tree like that.

Tiya, who had finally climbed up to the branch she had aimed for, discovered a crow’s nest.

Both Tiya and Kkokko perched on Tiya’s head swallowed their saliva.

Tiya carefully balanced on the increasingly thin branch and approached the nest.

And she stretched out her head to look inside the nest.

Kkokko dropped down into the nest from atop Tiya’s head.

However, all that remained there were some downy feathers and a few shiny wing fragments.

Though she had expected it, it seemed Kkokko’s mother and siblings had already all left the nest.

“Everyone must have been really busy.”

Tiya tried her best to comfort Kkokko, but Kkokko couldn’t leave the empty nest.

“Kkokko…”

It was when Tiya was looking at Kkokko with a pitiful expression.

From under the tree came the sound of something climbing up, digging in its claws with a tap-tap-tap.

Kkokko, Tiya, and even Winter looked down below the tree.

Though it wasn’t clearly visible, they could sense something making its way up through the thick leaves.

After a moment, a white kitten with fluffy down fur climbed up onto the branch where Tiya was perched.

Tiya reached out her hand in delight.

“Pur!”

Kyaaaak!

However, she hastily pulled back her hand at the fierce hissing that immediately followed.

【Why is that one being temperamental when it followed us up here? Really, just like its master with such a foul temper.】

“I guess it doesn’t like me.”

It was when the dejected Tiya quietly moved away from Pur.

“Pur, is Corn there?”

At the familiar voice heard from under the tree, Tiya covered her mouth and held back her laughter.

Shh!

Tiya put her index finger to her lips to quiet everyone around, then nimbly stepped on the tree branches like a monkey as she climbed down.

“Pur?”

And the moment the voice was heard again from under the tree.

She hooked her feet on a branch and dropped her upper body to suddenly reveal herself.

“Corn is here!”

It was the moment when Tiya, hanging upside down, came face to face with Lev.

“Kyaak!”

The moment Lev let out a piercing scream, a sharp ice pillar shot up in front of Lev’s feet.

“…”

“…”

Tiya slowly rolled her eyes to look at the terrifying ice pillar that had just grazed right beside her.

“I, I almost died.”

Lev’s complexion was even paler than Tiya’s.

Lev grabbed Tiya’s head and shook it while shouting.

“You, you Corn! I’ve told you so many times not to startle me since I can’t control spirits well right now! You almost died!”

It was when Lev, who had been shaking Tiya’s head until his anger subsided, finally let go.

A white kitten gracefully leaped down onto Lev’s head.

Then it tapped Lev’s forehead with its front paws as if demanding to be quickly praised for completing its mission of finding Tiya.

“I’m really serving my master well.”

Lev let out a deep sigh.

The cat’s identity was none other than the frost spirit Pur, whom Lev had newly subjugated.

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