Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 36

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 36

Lev lay back down on the couch, waiting for the medicine to take effect, breathing heavily.

“How foolish. Is now really the time for you to be stubborn?”

“I don’t want to in front of Corn. She’s stupid, so she’ll think I’m sick because of her.”

Valentina clicked her tongue and glanced at Lev’s condition while organizing the tea set.

‘It does seem like his fever is gradually going down.’

Since coming here, he had tested various herbs that could reduce Lev’s fever together with the Vladijef family’s physician. Fortunately, they were able to find a combination that worked well with Lev and took effect immediately.

But this was still just emergency treatment.

Now Valentina knew where Lev’s fever originated from.

Heat from a fire spirit.

Since this wasn’t caused by illness, medicine couldn’t be a fundamental solution.

He would gradually build resistance to the medicine, and eventually there would come a time when medicine could no longer help…

Just as Valentina unconsciously tightened her grip on the empty teacup.

“Hey, this tastes weird. Next time, brew it more deliciously.”

Lev complained about the medicine’s taste like a mother-in-law.

“I’ll try my best.”

Next time I should add plenty of bitter herbs that will numb his tongue.

Rose and Peach, who had been summoned at some point, were having the battle of the century on the tea table.

Valentina asked as if something had just occurred to her.

“Come to think of it, is Peach the same way?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean being wary of Tiya. Rose may not be friendly to people, but she doesn’t avoid them either. But strangely, she runs away whenever she sees Tiya.”

There were cases where spirits, who were indifferent to most humans except their masters, sometimes showed unusual reactions.

One of those cases was when they encountered heterogeneous power that deviated from this world’s order—that is, when facing a powerful mage.

After a brief silence, Lev answered in an uninterested tone.

“…Well, she’s always been indifferent to all women anyway.”

“I see.”

No, if that were really the case, Peach would have avoided and run from Melody too.

It was true that Peach particularly liked males, but that didn’t mean she avoided females either.

She only ran away from Tiya.

Valentina had seen spirits show this kind of reaction at Rose Castle too.

‘Rose used to avoid that gloomy mage at Rose Castle.’

Therefore, Valentina was certain.

That Tiya was a mage, and that Lev also knew this but kept it secret from others.

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Meanwhile, Tiya, who had set out for the kitchen, was able to safely obtain the madeleines that would save Lev’s life.

The head chef was so generous that the picnic basket was completely full.

“I have to feed all of this to my brother. He needs to eat a lot to give birth to excellent spirits smoothly.”

【It’s not wrong, but somehow the expression is a bit…】

“I hope they’re born soon.”

She knew that Lev had the ability to subjugate more than one spirit, but she couldn’t tell when the frost spirit would be born.

Tiya could only hope that the frost spirit wouldn’t hatch too late.

While returning to the glass greenhouse with the picnic basket in her arms.

Tiya’s eyes caught sight of the employees having a busy afternoon.

‘Hmm, it is too much for my brother to eat alone.’

After examining the madeleines in the picnic basket, Tiya ran to the employees.

“Snack time! This is caramel cream hojicha madeleine, and this is fig cream cheese garlic oregano madeleine. Two per person!”

Wherever Tiya passed, office workers who had recharged their daily sugar intake with two baked goods began appearing one after another.

After wandering around every corner of the manor and sharing snacks with the employees she encountered for quite a while.

Tiya’s steps stopped in front of Shurkha’s study door.

‘Childcare Encyclopedia Chapter 3! How to feed baby food and snacks!’

Just as Tiya placed her hand on the slightly open door to share snacks with Father too.

【Wait. There seems to be a guest inside.】

At Winter’s sudden interruption, Tiya peeked through the slightly open door gap, but she could only faintly hear voices having a quiet conversation—the guest’s appearance wasn’t visible.

In Tiya’s place, Winter made full use of his physical advantages and stuck his head through the study door before pulling it back out.

【It’s Rodion Vladijef.】

Rodion?

The small hand placed on the door slid down smoothly.

Tiya hesitated for a moment, unable to enter readily.

After shaking off her jealousy toward Valentina.

She had been able to become friends with Valen, but that didn’t mean she had grown closer to her brother.

Her brother’s actions consistently confused Tiya.

He seemed to welcome her, but when she actually approached, he would only avoid her.

‘Even when I was sick, only brother didn’t come to visit…’

【If you don’t want to go in, you don’t have to】

As if sensing Tiya’s feelings, Winter spoke quietly.

Looking down at Tiya, who didn’t respond for fear of being discovered, Winter sighed and said.

【I won’t say anymore that family means nothing to you. You don’t listen anyway.】

Though he clicked his tongue as if exasperated, there was somehow a worried tone to it.

【Since you only charge forward when you’re bound to get hurt, it’s okay to avoid it sometimes.】

Instead of just charging forward, sometimes avoiding.

There was… that method too.

Tiya looked up at Winter with a face of great enlightenment and nodded.

If she saw Rodion avoiding her again today, she felt like… she would be more upset than usual.

“Thank you for telling me a good method, Winter.”

Just as she whispered that to Winter and quietly turned around.

“Is that true? That the relief supplies to be sent from the Royal Court have been decided as Palantio.”

Tiya’s steps came to an abrupt halt.

Tiya and Winter looked at each other.

“They just said Palantio, right?”

When Tiya asked in bewilderment, Winter nodded with certainty.

The girl and ghost pressed their bodies close to the study door again without either taking the lead.

Winter even went inside the study, crossed his arms, and eavesdropped on the father and son’s conversation.

“His Majesty the Emperor asked for my counsel. Since I’m from the North, don’t I know well about their endemic diseases? So I simply answered that Palantio would be sufficient.”

“To think you’d cure an epidemic with weeds—I didn’t know you were so knowledgeable about medicine, Count. I thought you had a grudge against the North and were just sending useless grass.”

Though it was his usual gentle voice, the thorns in his words were particularly sharp.

Even dense Tiya could vaguely sense that her brother was being sarcastic.

However, Father’s response was no less formidable.

“The Royal Court’s relief supplies have already been decided as Palantio. There’s no reason for me to deal with your ignorance any further, so know that.”

She hadn’t heard wrong after all.

The herb to treat the epidemic.

That very answer had come from Father’s mouth!

‘Of course, there’s still one crucial thing missing.’

But there was no time to rejoice.

The tension between Father and her brother was escalating to the point where watching Tiya felt anxious.

“That’s not enough. We need to mobilize the Count’s trading company and connections to secure more counsel and herbs. What do you know about alternative medicine to—”

“That’s right. It’s not your trading company, it’s my trading company.”

In the end, words as sharp as a cold blade cut through Rodion’s speech.

“If you’re so dissatisfied, think about solving it with your own strength. Don’t throw such pathetic tantrums.”

A brief silence.

Just when even Tiya was holding her breath.

“…You’ve already abandoned the North. Just like you did with Mother.”

Mother?

At the unexpected words, Tiya’s body leaned closer toward the door.

Through the crack in the door, she could see her brother’s trembling fist, having lost his composure.

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