Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 150

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 150

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That afternoon.

The retainers who should have originally arrived with the Duke began arriving at the manor one after another.

They all had dark circles under their eyes, having spent the night tracking and chasing after the Duke who had rushed off to the capital first, saying he couldn’t sit still because he was restless.

“Weak fools. Anyone would think you ran here yourselves. It was the horses that did the running.”

“Please understand that horseback riding is also physically exhausting work, Your Grace.”

The retainers who got scolded by the Duke as soon as they arrived turned around dejectedly, but soon encountered a welcome face.

“Miss, you’ve grown so much during the time we couldn’t see you!”

“Miss Tiya!”

“Everyone’s here!”

After sharing joyful embraces with the knights and retainers from the Duchy, Tiya soon discovered a face she never could have imagined.

“Huh? That couldn’t be…”

“Yes. That Sasha fellow, he’s so perceptive that he somehow sensed we were going to see you and followed along.”

“So what choice did we have? We prepared a cage for Sasha and brought him along.”

Because of that, they couldn’t catch up to the Duke and fell behind, but they had no regrets.

Because—

“Sasha!”

They got to see the young miss this happy.

Tiya hung onto the neck of Sasha, who was crying out loudly.

His round nose and black eyes were as shiny as Tiya remembered, and his paws, which were as big as Tiya’s face, smelled like corn.

Tiya climbed up onto Sasha’s body, buried her face in his slightly rough fur, and breathed in deeply.

The majestic scent of the northern forests filled her lungs. Only then did she feel the reality that she hadn’t even felt when meeting Grandmother Bear.

“Winter, we really did it.”

Winter’s gaze turned to the Duke and her knights freely roaming the Vladijef Estate, and to Sasha.

A scene she could never have witnessed, never even imagined she would see.

There was still a long way to go, but—

【The future really has changed.】

At Winter’s response, Tiya looked up and grinned.

“Great! I need to go show Sasha to my brothers and Valen too!”

The first target was naturally Lev.

All this time, she had been singing to Lev about going to the North together, saying she would show him Sasha if they did. He pretended not to care, but Tiya clearly remembered how curious Lev had been about Sasha each time.

It happened to be Lev’s walking time.

Tiya, who knew all of her brother’s walking routes, ran to the glass greenhouse with Sasha by her side.

Today too, Lev was sitting with a sour expression in front of the tea Valentina had prepared for him. Since Valentina was also there, it was perfect timing to introduce Sasha.

“Everyone say hello! This is our Sasha I told you about before!”

Smart Sasha cried out in response to her words.

“That’s… Sasha?”

Valentina asked back, her face turning pale.

“What kind of dog goes ‘kueoong’ and bar, bar, bar, bar, bar…”

Lev couldn’t finish his words like a broken wind-up toy.

And after a moment, Lev cried out loudly.

“You never said Sasha was a bear!”

“…?”

Tiya’s head tilted. Then she looked back and forth between Winter’s usual expression and the giant black bear, Sasha, before asking.

“Is that important?”

“Of course it’s important! What if he eats me! No, he’ll tear me to pieces!”

“How rude!”

Tiya quickly stretched out her hands to cover Sasha’s ears.

The black forest bears that lived only in some regions of the North were small in size and gentle animals that mainly ate things like tree nuts.

Tiya protested against the absurd accusation.

“Our Sasha is herbivorous! Well, of course he sometimes eats jerky or fish as snacks.”

“That means he’s omnivorous, not herbivorous! And where do you treat a bear like a pet dog!”

“Our Sasha is safe. He’s been trained in the traditional northern way not to attack people.”

Tiya wiped her nose and continued proudly.

“As long as you don’t walk on all fours in front of Sasha, he won’t attack first.”

Feeling like his common sense was crumbling, Lev said in surrender.

“I’m canceling my promise to go to the North later.”

A place where they raised bears like pet dogs. He absolutely didn’t want to go there.

Valentina comforted Tiya, who quickly became dejected.

“I want to visit, Tiya. …Someday.”

“Right? I knew Valen would say that. Later when we go to Frost Castle.”

Tiya quickly regained her energy and dreamed of the day she would go to the North with Valentina.

It didn’t seem like it would be the very distant future, nor an impossible thing.

With Winter, everything seemed like it would go well as she had always dreamed.

She believed this without doubt, but that late evening.

On that day with an unusually large number of visitors, a letter arrived at the manor.

The recipient was Valentina, and the sender was none other than Duke Dantalion.

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Duke Dantalion’s letter was decorated with all kinds of flowery language.

It said that he seemed to have been too indifferent to his child, that he was worried about how Valentina was doing, and that he would personally visit the manor on the promised day.

Although a father’s affection for his daughter was evident throughout the letter, no one who heard the contents took them at face value.

Not even Tiya.

“Brother! Valen doesn’t have to go back home, right? Right?”

She couldn’t know the detailed circumstances, but she knew that Dantalion Castle in the South wasn’t home for Valentina.

She had been so reluctant to return home.

Rodion also agreed that they couldn’t send Valentina back yet.

For selfish reasons, they needed Valen’s power for Lev’s health recovery, and above all, that place wasn’t safe for Valentina.

“If Duke Dantalion wants to take Valentina away… we can’t stop him.”

However, there was nothing Rodion could do.

Both he and Tiya were outsiders who couldn’t interfere in Valentina’s affairs.

“But Valen might not want to go. Then she doesn’t have to go back, right?”

At Tiya’s words, Rodion hesitated.

It seemed his sister also had an idea of Valentina’s circumstances. But still, there was only one answer he could give.

“Even if Valentina doesn’t want to, that place is Valentina’s home. If Dantal… if Valentina’s family wants it, we have no choice but to send her.”

How could that be.

Tiya recalled Valentina’s face, which had turned pale as soon as she read the letter.

To think they couldn’t do anything because they weren’t family.

As she couldn’t swallow the rising indignation, an idea flashed in Tiya’s mind.

“…If it’s because we’re not family, then we just need to become family!”

“What?”

“I have a good idea!”

“Wait, Tiya!”

Tiya ran straight to Lev’s room, leaving behind Rodion who was trying to stop her. As she expected, Valentina and Lev were together.

Perfect timing. Tiya immediately grabbed both Lev’s and Valentina’s hands.

And first, she looked at Lev and spoke.

“Brother! I’m going to ask you something really important.”

“I get goosebumps every time you act like this. What on earth are you trying to do now?”

Tiya asked with a more serious expression than ever before.

“What do you think about Valen?”

“What?”

Lev’s gaze, which had hesitated, turned toward Valentina.

‘Say the right thing.’

Seeing what looked like venomous thorns behind her smiling face, Lev subtly averted his gaze and answered.

“Well, she’s a decent kid.”

“Right? Right? Then listen.”

Tiya gulped and made Valentina and Lev hold hands.

Tiya, who failed to notice the two’s disgusted reactions, clasped their hands tightly together and shouted.

“Marry Valen!”

“…What?”

“…”

“Marry Valen and make Valen part of our Family!”

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