Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 125

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 125

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Everything progressed too quickly and suddenly, without any time to prepare. So much so that even Winter hadn’t anticipated it.

That night when Tiya resolved to put Father in debt to her once again.

Winter was already formulating a plan in his mind to use the Count’s weakness as leverage and make him move like his own limbs.

If the mark of death had indeed been created by a mage rather than occurring naturally, as the Princess had said.

‘No matter how secretly they conducted the plague research, there must be traces left somewhere.’

Research on such a large-scale plague wouldn’t have been conducted for just a year or two.

If a mage’s hand was involved, there would be traces of materials and information exchanged somewhere. Therefore, tracing those traces through the Mage Tower would be a slow but certain method.

It was while Tiya and Winter were having such different pipe dreams.

Click, click.

The door handle twisted urgently several times, then the door burst open before Tiya could even give permission. Through the gap, a very unexpected figure revealed themselves.

“Valen?”

“Tiya, are you okay?”

Late at night, Valentina’s breathing was rough as she came to Tiya’s room in her nightclothes. It seemed she had run all the way to Tiya’s room in one breath.

Coming in the middle of the night, not knocking, and even her worried attitude – everything was unlike the usual Valentina.

Tiya, who had been lying on her bed pulling at her hair, bolted upright.

“Are you okay, Valen? What’s wrong…?”

Before Tiya could finish her words.

The moonlight that had been brightly illuminating the room grew thin, as if cut by a sharp blade.

For a moment, it seemed as if something enormous was swallowing the moon whole.

Not only Tiya’s gaze, but Winter’s as well turned toward the window.

“A wall, a wall is forming!”

【What is that…?】

The garden visible outside the window was blocked by something. Now all that could be seen was complete darkness.

To examine the situation more closely, Tiya opened the window. As the dry scent of sand wafted in, Valentina carefully pulled Tiya behind her.

“Tiya, step back.”

Standing behind Valentina, Tiya looked up at the massive wall that was gradually growing in volume like a tidal wave.

The wall that had risen so high it could even hide the moon completely surrounded the manor. In that moment, the manor became an impregnable fortress.

A step too late, the inside of the manor began to grow chaotic. Everyone was busily moving about, lighting fires in the sudden pitch-black darkness.

Since several lamps were already lit in Tiya’s room, the surroundings weren’t completely dark.

Valen seemed to know what was currently happening.

“Valen, do you know what that is?”

“Probably, it’s the Count’s spirit.”

Unlike her speculative tone, her voice carried conviction.

Winter, who had been glaring at the window, supported Valentina’s opinion.

【It’s the work of a sand spirit.】

A sand spirit. That was the spirit Father had subjugated.

Though she had only heard about it, Tiya had never seen that being with her own eyes.

“So that’s Father’s spirit.”

Tiya’s gaze, which had been filled with admiration, turned back to Valentina.

Valentina was still on edge, vigilantly watching their surroundings. At some point she had summoned Rose, the flower spirit, who was sprawling lazily on her shoulder and yawning widely.

Rose didn’t seem particularly tense either.

“Valen, you came to me even knowing it was Father’s spirit? To see if I was okay?”

At Tiya’s words, Valentina’s shoulders flinched. A faint bewilderment appeared on Valentina’s face as she looked back at her.

While preparing for bed, she had suddenly felt the explosive burst of spirit power from somewhere in the manor.

Though she thought it wouldn’t be dangerous since the power spread from inside the manor, Valentina immediately headed to Tiya.

Completely forgetting that she was supposed to pretend to be a timid and gentle girl.

Valentina, who belatedly realized her mistake, avoided Tiya’s gaze and answered.

“Well… you’re not close with spirits, Tiya. So I wondered if you might be startled…”

The reason Valentina had unconsciously run to Tiya.

She had worried that Count Valoz’s spirit might be aggressive toward Tiya, who was a mage, just like Rodion’s spirit.

Just as Valentina’s gaze fell to her feet, wondering if Tiya might find her different behavior strange.

Tiya’s hand suddenly entered her field of vision and grasped Valentina’s hand.

“I see. If Valen hadn’t been here, I would have thought something terrible had happened and run straight out of the house. Thank you for coming!”

Valentina’s gaze couldn’t leave Tiya’s hand.

She hadn’t noticed when they arm-wrestled before. Tiya’s hand was a whole joint smaller than hers.

Strangely, the proud comfort that fact gave her allowed Valentina to finally smile.

It was while Valentina’s hand, held by Tiya, was fidgeting.

“Corn! Are you okay-!”

Lev, who had arrived late, kicked open Tiya’s door and shouted.

His gaze turned to Tiya and Valentina.

Though Valentina hurriedly pulled her hand away, Lev had already seen everything.

“You, this-“

“Please don’t say anything, Lev.”

Though Valentina spoke with a smile, Lev could feel the killing intent contained in those words.

Following them, Mia and Melody along with other servants came to check on the children’s condition.

“It seems everyone came looking for the young lady. That’s fortunate. The young master asked that you stay in your rooms without moving for a while.”

Mia, who had quietly approached, whispered in Tiya’s ear.

“What happened to Father?”

“I don’t know well either… but I think I heard something about visitors coming.”

The servants, like Tiya, didn’t understand the situation well either. They were simply following orders from above.

The children huddled together by the window, looking outside and murmuring.

“Could Father’s spirit have gone berserk?”

“That can’t be. If it had, we’d all be floundering in a sand swamp.”

“If things are resolved well, won’t Lord Rodion explain it to us?”

It was while they were sharing their thoughts and suppressing the faint anxiety blooming in the pitch-black darkness.

“Look at that! The sand wall is crumbling!”

Like being pushed by fierce waves, the sand wall that had been surrounding the manor slowly began to collapse.

Finally, when moonlight illuminated the world again and the small clearing in front of the manor was revealed.

“Huh?”

In the middle of the night, where there should have been only a few soldiers guarding the manor, people in uniforms were standing.

Though they couldn’t see clearly relying on moonlight, several carriages bearing the royal crest were parked there.

But more ominous than that was the atmosphere of those standing in formation.

They had the bearing of soldiers just before an invasion.

Just as Tiya and everyone else in the room held their breath for a moment, the manor’s door opened and Shurkha appeared, surrounded by several burly men.

Even from a distance, the atmosphere was clearly not friendly.

【Those are royal investigators, aren’t they?】

Royal investigators?

At Tiya’s questioning look, Winter continued with an even more serious expression.

【They’re dispatched when major incidents that warrant the royal court’s involvement occur. If Count Valoz moves for the Emperor personally, those people only move to investigate major incidents that threaten the Empire’s security. For instance, when investigating treason or terrorist incidents…】

Suddenly Winter’s words cut off.

Though she couldn’t know what words would follow, at least it was certain that Father was involved in something serious.

Tiya immediately ran out of the room and dashed toward the main gate where Father was.

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