Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 130

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 130

Shurkha looked down blankly at Tiya rubbing her face against his chest.

So perhaps, he seemed flustered.

Because something so absurd was happening right before his eyes.

A moment later, Tiya separated herself from the bewildered Shurkha and placed her hands on her hips, speaking boldly.

“Hah, even the Imperial Palace prison is nothing to me!”

Though it wasn’t a real prison, she had intruded into the Imperial Palace on her own. She hadn’t planned to escape in the first place, but things had gotten out of hand.

Shurkha immediately summoned a sand spirit.

At the same time, a sandstorm swirled around him, creating a giant sand hand.

The sand hand grabbed Tiya by the scruff of her neck and was about to throw her out the window—

“Kyaaaah! Time out, time out!”

When Tiya desperately grabbed onto the window frame and held on, he chose an alternative.

He threw Tiya back into the room instead.

Rolling around and executing a perfect landing technique, Tiya sprang up and scurried to stand before the Count.

“That’s too much! I came here to save Father!”

“Far from saving me, you’re making things even more complicated.”

Deep fatigue colored Shurkha’s voice.

After checking outside the window, it didn’t seem like anyone had discovered them.

But regardless of that, by intruding into his prison, Tiya had truly committed a crime.

Starting with the light charge of trespassing into a royal detention facility.

“Now that I’m here, don’t worry anymore! Shall we start by exchanging what Father knows with the information I’ve gathered? For Father’s escape!”

Conspiracy to help a prisoner escape and unlawful contact.

“Even if today’s planning fails, I’ll come every single day, so don’t be too anxious.”

And on top of that, threatening a prisoner.

Seeing his daughter ready to commit all sorts of criminal acts, Shurkha opened his mouth to drive Tiya away.

However, what escaped from above was a hollow laugh.

Quite bewilderingly, a fragment of emotion he had long forgotten burst from his lips.

His surprise at this was brief.

The information about the current situation that Tiya conveyed shook the Count’s plans.

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Vladijef Manor in the capital.

After Count Valoz was taken away, the butler and head maid comforted the employees, but as time passed, a tension like walking on thin ice pervaded the manor.

As if targeting this moment, strange rumors about the Count began spreading one by one.

The employees were beginning to consider leaving the manor one by one, worried that they too might face great trouble.

“Those are all false rumors. No one has ever died in this manor. Yet rumors spread that the Count killed servants by the cartload to silence them.”

“Right! It’s true that the Count is a frightening person, but…”

“What about the rumor that the Count is a wicked person who never once sponsored the poor? It’s true, but how many nobles are like that?”

“Exactly! The Count is frightening, but…”

In one corner of the corridor, Melody and Mia were whispering with their heads together.

They tried to refute the rumors one by one to strengthen their faith, but in truth, they didn’t know much about Count Valoz.

Not only were they not in positions to directly assist him, but deep down they thought the Count had inhuman aspects.

Nevertheless, the reason they defended the Count so much was—

“How is the young master doing?”

“Same as usual. What about Lady Astiya?”

“She’s been busily going around everywhere. Not just the Imperial Palace and Mage Towers, but even the pawn shop she used to frequent.”

It was all for the sake of the young masters they served.

Even if the Count wasn’t falsely accused but had truly committed crimes, they had no intention of leaving this manor.

“I heard some of the rumors were started by those who already left the manor. Be careful what you say, since it would greatly hurt the Lady and young master if they found out.”

“Of course! Instead of staying quiet during such difficult times, they’re making up stories. These traitors!”

Just as Mia was venting her anger and grinding her teeth, Melody quickly poked Mia’s side and covered her mouth.

Mia gasped and hurriedly turned around.

Fortunately, it wasn’t the butler or head maid who had heard their conversation.

“Lady Valentina.”

The girl, pretty as a porcelain doll, made eye contact with them and smiled awkwardly.

“Well… I ran out of hot water for Lev’s medicinal tea…”

True to her words, Valentina was holding a teapot in her hands.

For the sake of the troubled pair, Valentina kindly added a word.

“I also don’t want Tiya and Lev to get hurt, so don’t worry.”

At those words indicating she wouldn’t carelessly spread what she heard, Melody and Mia relaxed and conveyed their gratitude through glances.

“I’ll go get the hot water for you.”

Melody hurried to take the teapot from Valentina but paused.

“Oh my. You’ve grown quite tall.”

She noticed that Valentina had grown considerably since she first came to this manor.

She had secretly felt sorry for her thin frame like Lev’s. The saying that children grow in the blink of an eye was exactly right.

“Young Master Lev should also grow tall like this—”

Melody’s voice, which had been cheerful, gradually faded.

“…Is that so? Lev would be jealous if he heard. Then please take care of the tea water.”

Valentina bowed her head and turned around. Melody couldn’t take her eyes off the girl’s retreating figure until it disappeared beyond the corridor.

Was it her imagination? For a moment, Valentina’s complexion seemed to turn pale. As if she had been startled with fear.

“What’s wrong?”

At Mia’s question, Melody belatedly came to her senses and shook her head.

“No, I must have seen wrong.”

Yes, she must have seen wrong. Saying she had grown tall wasn’t something that would frighten children.

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Returning to her room, Lev hurried toward a corner wall. Traces of obsessive height measurements remained in graphite.

Though she had been neglecting height measurements lately, there was no way she could have grown so noticeably in such a short time…

Sighs appeared on Valentina’s face as she hurriedly measured her height.

It was just as Melody had said. She had grown half a span since the last measurement.

According to the age-specific growth development encyclopedia she had seen, her body would soon begin undergoing absurd changes.

Just as the anxious Valentina was about to measure her height again.

Knock knock.

A knocking sound came from the window.

Turning around, Valentina saw a mockingbird standing like a sentinel.

Valentina caught her breath and hurriedly let the mockingbird inside.

Though the timing was coincidentally startling, conveying information about Vladijef Manor to the mockingbird was nothing to her now.

This was because she deliberately selected only rather useless information from low-level employees to pass along.

This time too, she had pre-selected useless information to send to her father.

“Five leaves, thirteen thorns, one heart.”

Just as Valentina spoke the code without hesitation.

The mockingbird opened its beak and delivered a different command than usual.

“Make contact with a servant named Bren within the manor.”

Bren?

Bren was the name of a low-level employee whose personal details Valentina had once reported to Duke Dantal.

‘Why on earth would he want that person…’

Valentina’s question was quickly resolved by the words that followed.

“Have him hide the item he’s delivering in Lev Vladijef’s room.”

The boy instinctively sensed it.

That the information about Valen he had conveyed had been put to very good use by Father, and that some kind of trap had been planned as a result.

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