Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 120

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 120

Valentina’s eyebrow shot up crookedly as she looked back at Lev.

Then she crossed her arms and nodded with a look that said ‘let’s see how far you’ll go.’

Lev hesitantly added more words.

“Still, I didn’t say anything wrong, did I? I said I’d give you what you need.”

“….”

“Anyway, the conclusion is, I’m sorry about everything?”

Lev thought he had apologized quite sincerely with this much effort.

Valentina seemed to agree as her expression gradually began to soften. Her crossed arms loosened and she straightened her body that had been standing with one leg cocked.

Just as Lev felt relieved that her mood had finally improved, a chillingly sweet smile appeared on Valentina’s lips.

“Thanks for saying that. Let’s get along well from now on. Well then, I’ll be going.”

He didn’t know what he had done wrong, but he could intuitively sense that something was wrong.

Lev began chasing after Valentina who was walking ahead.

“Hey! What’s wrong with you again! I apologized.”

“Yeah, that’s right. As a sign of accepting your apology, I’ll take everything you promised to give me before you die.”

“You still have that creepy face and you’re accepting my apology?”

“Saying it’s creepy. That’s too harsh. Valentina is hurt.”

Goosebumps rose on Lev’s arms at the sight of Valentina pitifully pretending to wipe her eyes.

“Ugh! I apologized. What exactly is the problem!”

It was when Lev was making a fuss and brushing his arms.

“Both of you stop it!”

Tiya’s head popped up like a sprout from the nearby thicket. Not even knowing there were grass blades stuck to her head, Tiya squeezed between the two.

“I even dug a reconciliation trap, so why are you both still fighting?”

“We weren’t fighting. We were just having a conversation.”

“Right, Tiya. We had some differences of opinion.”

The two children immediately stopped fighting and began cooperating. Tiya looked back and forth between them with suspicious eyes.

【You don’t actually believe what they’re saying, do you?】

Even though it was Tiya, she didn’t blindly believe what the two were saying like Winter had said.

“Really? So you made up?”

“Corn, don’t you trust what I say?”

“Yeah, we made up.”

Nevertheless, the suspicious gaze continued.

Lev and Valentina had no choice but to stand close together facing each other.

Tiya narrowed her eyes as if gauging the distance between the two, then finally nodded.

“Alright, I’ll believe you. It was just a difference of opinion, right?”

“Right.”

“Yeah.”

It was the moment when both secretly let out sighs of relief.

“Then I’ll help you so you don’t argue anymore.”

Tiya looked around and grabbed two tree branches about the size of her forearms from nearby, waving them as she spoke.

“Both of you hold these and fight like dogs! The winner is the victor, and the loser submits to the winner. Got it?”

This was exactly how people of equal standing in the North settled their differences of opinion.

“….”

“….”

Lev and Valentina’s gazes met in mid-air.

While they were indeed angry at each other, swinging tree branches until one of them collapsed wasn’t their way.

‘Hey, you know? For now-‘

‘It’s an alliance.’

The two who had immediately reached a silent agreement spoke simultaneously.

“We just agreed on something.”

“It’s thanks to you, Tiya.”

“…Really?”

【…As if.】

Only Winter noticed it was merely a temporary alliance, but Tiya had already completely fallen for it.

Just when they thought they had somehow overcome the crisis, the next crisis immediately arrived.

“Then hold hands to commemorate your reconciliation.”

“….”

“….”

Not only Lev but Valentina couldn’t manage her expression either.

The two children hesitated for a long time as if they had been asked to dip their hands in a cesspit. Finding their appearance frustrating, Tiya demonstrated by grabbing each of their hands.

“Like this, like this! Quickly, quickly!”

“Uuuugh.”

“….”

At Tiya’s urging, the two children finally held each other’s hands.

Tiya smiled contentedly and nodded.

“It really looks good. Let’s hold hands for a while to commemorate the reconciliation. Okay?”

“Uuuugh.”

“…If that’s what you want, Tiya.”

Unlike Lev who only let out pained groans, Valentina seemed tense as she slightly averted her gaze and only looked at her shoe tips.

Still, she couldn’t help but occasionally glance at the hand she was holding with Tiya without realizing it.

The three children began walking unsteadily while tightly holding each other’s hands.

“What are we even doing.”

Only after safely arriving at the manor while spinning around in uncomfortable positions did complaints burst from Lev’s mouth.

However, Tiya, enchanted by the savory smell wafting from the entrance, didn’t hear Lev’s words.

“Oh, the reconciliation cookies must be done baking! Both of you don’t go anywhere and wait here. Got it?”

Tiya let go of both their hands and quickly ran toward the kitchen.

A cold atmosphere settled between Lev and Valentina who were left alone again.

Lev cleared his throat a few times, then casually asked Valentina to lighten the mood.

“Hey, do you really like Corn?”

Valentina, who couldn’t bring herself to use harsh words because of the servants busily moving around the manor, wore a painted smile on her lips.

However, her tone couldn’t be as gentle as her expression.

“Shut up.”

Ironically, the strong denial became a strong affirmation. If it were the Valentina that Lev knew, if she truly had no feelings for Tiya, she would have naturally brushed it off by praising Tiya’s merits and saying she was a good child.

Thanks to this, Lev, now certain of Valentina’s true feelings, warned her with the serious face of a proper older brother.

“No matter what, Corn’s first dance at her debutante will be with me. I can’t compromise on that.”

Only then did Valentina look back at Lev.

His face darkened in a different way than before. As if he was hiding some secret.

Lev was about to question him, but Valentina was faster. Taking advantage of a moment when people’s gazes couldn’t reach them, she sneered.

“Looks like you’ve decided to live until Tiya’s debutante. Planning to give up everything and die after that?”

“….”

“Please, if you’re going to die, do it where I can’t see. I came here to help treat a sickly, ill-tempered, and difficult noble young master.”

“Just go ahead and curse me out.”

“I can’t say I don’t have other motives, but when someone I know dies… it feels… shitty.”

Lev, who had been triumphant about to retort to Valentina’s words, hesitated. He remained silent for a while before letting out a sigh.

He now understood that his appearance of resignation in the face of death could have hurt Valentina and his remaining family.

Was it because he had suffered from minor ailments for too long and accepted death as natural?

Lev lacked persistence or motivation for life.

To Valentina, who wanted to survive even while disguising her gender, such an attitude of his might have seemed pathetic.

Lev touched his left wing bone.

He hadn’t known that each time he coveted tomorrow, the spirit’s egg was cracking little by little.

So the hatching of the frost spirit was practically proof that he had become attached to life.

Lev eventually nodded his head.

“I’ll admit that. I gave up too quickly. So I’m sor…”

What was so hard about saying sorry? Those words just wouldn’t come out.

After a long while, Lev spoke as if coughing out the words.

“I’ll fill up the piggy bank and give it to you.”

A brief silence passed. But it wasn’t as uncomfortable as before.

Valentina took off her mask and said with a sly smile.

“I’ll take it, and hand over what you stuffed away in that first drawer you mentioned too.”

“You daylight robber.”

“I’ll graciously steal it for you.”

While the two children exchanged pleasantries, Tiya came running with cookies filling both her hands.

“These are reconciliation cookies I completed by mixing my secret ingredient into the cookie dough the head chef made! You have to eat these for the reconciliation to be truly complete.”

The three children shared the still-warm cookies.

And unable to resist Tiya’s urging, they each took a bite.

And none of them could open their mouths.

The moment they bit down, the sticky ingredients that oozed out from inside clung to their teeth.

“…What the, *smack*, hell did, *smack*, you put in this.”

“Marshmallows and, *smack*, tons of caramel…”

“…”

She had put in lots of chewy ingredients meaning for them to stick together as closely as the cookies stuck to their teeth, but it seemed she had overdone it.

The children continued their silent cookie tasting for a while. The sweet cookie aroma lingered around the manor for some time.

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