Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 27

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 27

“Oh my. You look very tired. Let’s have you sleep first and talk again with a clear mind, Lev.”

Though his voice was gentle as if comforting Lev, an ominous smile lingered at the corners of his mouth, meaning he would put him to sleep forever if he didn’t sleep right now.

“You… this…”

Lev’s small rebellion, barely managed, soon lost its strength.

A moment later.

After confirming that Lev had fallen into a deep sleep, the tension left Valentina’s body.

She stepped back and collapsed onto the chair, watching Lev, then as if realizing something, hurriedly got up and brought her hand to his nose.

Fortunately, he was breathing.

“What kind of person sleeps like they’re dead? Scaring people.”

Valentina collapsed onto the chair once again and buried her face in both hands.

From the young voice that leaked through her fingers came a deep fatigue that didn’t match her age.

“The people in this house are somehow strange.”

Rodion Vladijef, who showed excessive kindness to her despite agreeing to use each other.

Astiya Vladijef, whose good or bad intuition was indistinguishable.

Even Lev Vladijef, who despite being a weakling writhing on the bed, had seen through her identity at once.

She couldn’t let her guard down at all.

As if worried about such a master, Rose whined and tugged at Valentina’s sleeve.

The boy’s attitude, which had been sharp like a poisonous rose thorn, softened considerably.

Valentina scratched her only ally’s chin and smiled weakly.

“Don’t worry, Rose.”

With her other hand, she gripped her chest area tightly as if tearing it and finished her words.

“I will definitely survive.”

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“So, Valentina becomes best friends with Brother Lev?”

At that moment, Tiya was hearing information about Valentina from Winter.

【Yeah, from what I know, she probably stays at the manor for about 6 months and then returns to the South after Lev Vladijef dies.】

“…She went back as soon as Brother died?”

【That’s right. Though it was under the pretext of being a playmate, judging by Rodion’s attitude, he probably brought her to easily obtain medicinal herbs that would help his younger brother.】

Winter, who had been answering, fell into thought for a moment.

‘Come to think of it, even before receiving the Duke title, the head of the family changed once. The current Duke of Dantal being attacked and killed was about 6 months from now.’

Could there be some connection?

Unfortunately, Winter didn’t know anything more about the Dantal Family and Valentina either.

“But how does Winter know all this? You said you’ve only lived in the North.”

【…I heard it from the future you.】

“I knew it. Winter, I’ve been thinking, but you’re hiding something from me, aren’t you?”

Though there were more than one or two things he was hiding, Winter calmly pretended not to know.

【What are you talking about?】

“I know everything. Hehe, shall we call it the result of genius deduction?”

Tiya triumphantly placed both hands on her hips.

The logical thinking she learned from Winter activated.

Winter knows the future me!

Winter knows my childhood well!

I like Winter!

Three hints! One truth!

“Winter was best friends with the future me!”

【No. I hated her.】

“Uh… then you were destined rivals?”

【No. I hated her.】

What on earth did the future me do to Winter?

Tiya’s heart was torn to shreds by the second immediate answer. Still, she didn’t give up and persistently asked.

“Then will you be friends with me now?”

【No.】

The third immediate answer. However, the last rejection rather stirred Tiya’s competitive spirit.

“Really? If you become friends with me, I’ll give you heart attacks too?”

【What’s the point when I can’t even touch you? And your heart attacks aren’t worth that much.】

What kind of hurtful thing to say!

“Hmph. No, hmph! Fine then. I’m… I’m going to find child Winter when the blockade is lifted! And I’ll be friends with him, okay? Don’t come asking to be included later.”

【Do whatever you want.】

The attitude of ‘go ahead and try if you want’ properly touched Tiya’s competitive spirit.

“Just wait and see. I’ll sweet-talk child Winter and make him completely my best friend!”

I’ll get revenge for this humiliation on child Winter!

Tiya, who had been snorting, paused and glanced up at Winter.

‘What does Winter look like?’

Tiya had never seen Winter’s face yet. The only thing she knew was one thing.

“Though all the direct descendants of Vladijef died and I, who was from a branch family, rose to the position of head, it was beyond redemption.”

That she was from a branch family.

Tiya had never met the branch families of Vladijef, that is, her relatives.

Wondering if there might be cousins of similar age to play with, she had asked the employees of Frost Castle several times, but they all hurriedly left with troubled faces saying “Well…”

One day when she pestered Grandmother, she said just one thing.

“I sent them all to distant foreign countries.”

They went to foreign countries, so it couldn’t be helped, she had given up.

But there was a cousin this close by!

Tiya used the hint of being from a branch family to try to picture Winter’s face in her mind.

‘His hair would be jet black, and his face would be covered with mischievous features.’

Maybe he has freckles too? What color are his eyes?

While Tiya was imagining Winter’s face, they had arrived at their destination.

【Why did you come to the kitchen?】

“I want to throw a welcome party for Valentina. To say thank you for coming to our house and that we welcome her. For that, I need an amazing cake!”

Above all, Tiya believed without doubt that Valentina would stay here for a long time.

Because Brother Lev had become invincible now.

Though she couldn’t relieve the longing for family, she hoped that during Valentina’s stay at Vladijef Manor, this place would become another home for her.

Just like how Frost Castle in the North was another home for Tiya.

* * *

That day was Lev’s sixth birthday.

In front of the cake with candles, Lev made wishes greedily, but eventually got sick and vomited everything he had eaten.

Then the wishes he had made while blowing out the candles also seemed to have become mere filth.

Mother’s thin hand gently covered Lev’s tear-stained eyes.

“Mother will cast magic for you. When I remove this hand, Lev’s wishes will come true.”

“Really? All of them?”

“Um… not all of them, maybe three?”

“Three is good too!”

Six-year-old Lev excitedly grasped his blindfolded mother’s hands with both of his and counted together.

“One.”

However, ten-year-old Lev knew how this dream would end.

Mother ultimately didn’t make it past that autumn.

He never suddenly became healthy enough to give Tiya piggyback rides.

The palace never collapsed for Father to lose his job and spend plenty of time with family, nor did the fairy-tale best friend ever come along.

“Two.”

Even so, Lev helplessly hoped just like when he was young,

“Three!”

When the gentle warmth covering his eyes disappeared and the world gradually brightened.

“Did you sleep well?”

The disgustingly pretty face that had risen to first place among the most detestable humans in Lev’s ten years of life greeted him.

Lev, whose mood had turned terrible because of the dream he just had, spoke as if spitting out the words.

“…The worst.”

Valentina, sitting in the armchair flipping through a plant encyclopedia, was still lovely.

However, her face bathed in sunset light wasn’t as docile as what Lev had seen before he fainted.

The expressionless face revealed beneath her hair was sulky, and her crossed-leg sitting posture held a strange rebelliousness.

This was probably Valentina’s true appearance.

Lev raised his upper body so he could pull the emergency cord at any time.

“Hey, let me ask you one thing.”

“If you answer what I ask too.”

“Are you a pervert?”

“…”

Thud.

Valentina closed her book and turned to look at Lev.

Valentina’s eyes darkened like an old well.

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