Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 38

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 38

Tiya pushed her upper body into the toy chest she had brought from the North and flailed around for quite a while.

Finally finding what she wanted, Tiya shot up and shouted.

“I’ll use this one, Master! My grandmother made this for me with her own hands!”

In Tiya’s hands was her beloved doll, Sasha 2nd.

It was an excellent choice.

But he couldn’t readily say to go ahead and use it.

It was called a bear doll, but that thing…

‘Did she really play with something like that? It looks like it crawled up from hell.’

The button eyes were mismatched, and the body was covered in patches as if made from the hide of other dolls.

Not only that, but for a bear doll, its expression was incredibly fierce.

Just thinking about that thing waddling around…

‘It’s like a cursed doll.’

However, among Tiya’s possessions, there was no medium as perfect as that one, so Winter reluctantly nodded.

【That should work.】

From that day on, Tiya carefully embroidered magic circles into Sasha 2nd, stitch by stitch, as if doing delicate needlework.

“This one makes the arms move, that one makes the legs move. This little one makes the head move!”

For an entire week, the light from the creation pattern floating above Tiya’s hand never dimmed.

And after a week.

“You can do it, Sasha 2nd!”

Finally, Sasha 2nd pressed both arms, stuffed full of cotton, against the ground. Then it wiggled its bottom, with cotton sticking out, gathering momentum.

The next moment, as both arms pushed against the ground, Sasha 2nd’s two legs seemed to firmly plant themselves on the ground before promptly toppling forward.

“Sasha 2nd!”

She quickly ran over to help Sasha 2nd up.

After that, Sasha 2nd repeatedly stood up only to topple over, then got up again and fell down.

【There’s nothing wrong with the magic. Why can’t it stand?】

Winter, who was watching, tilted his head similarly.

Then he suddenly noticed something odd.

One of Sasha 2nd’s legs was shorter.

The handmade Sasha 2nd, filled with the Duke’s love and effort, was unfortunately lopsided.

Winter clicked his tongue lightly and said.

【It’s defective, so it can’t stand properly.】

Tiya jumped in surprise and covered Sasha 2nd’s ears. Then she glared at Winter with a terrifying expression.

“Shh! Why are you crushing our baby’s spirit like that!”

【Hey now. That thing isn’t alive. It’s a pseudo-life form that moves with your magic circles and mana.】

“Still, Sasha 2nd is my doll…”

Tiya hugged Sasha 2nd tightly and whispered to it.

“It’s okay, Sasha 2nd. You’re perfect just as you are right now.”

Sasha 2nd was unsuitable as a golem medium, but even so, Tiya and Sasha 2nd didn’t give up.

“A healthy mind dwells in a healthy body! Don’t neglect training your mind or body, and someday you’ll be able to stand properly!”

Sasha 2nd repeatedly stood up until its cotton-stuffed bottom burst, then fell down again,

“Being strong isn’t about beating opponents, but about not giving up! You can’t settle for where you are, Sasha 2nd!”

No matter how many times it fell, it got back up again.

And finally, when another week had passed.

Tiya massaged the bear doll’s shoulders and encouraged it.

“It’s okay if you can’t walk. The fact that you’re my one and only beloved doll won’t change.”

Then the bear doll’s button eyes turned toward Tiya. For a moment, Tiya read an indomitable will in those eyes.

“Alright, let’s try one more time.”

Tiya immediately stood facing Sasha 2nd.

The bear doll lifted its right leg.

It wobbled this way and that, but finally stepped forward with a thud.

“You’re doing great!”

Tiya cheered enthusiastically while pouring mana into it. Encouraged by that support, Sasha 2nd even stepped forward with its left leg, displaying perfect walking.

“Sasha 2nd! You did it!”

Tiya cried out with an emotion-filled voice and lifted Sasha 2nd up high.

“This must be what a mother’s heart feels like.”

【Get a grip. It’s just a bear doll. A walking cotton ball stuffed with fabric, cotton, and your mana.】

Even Winter’s dream-crushing words couldn’t stop Tiya.

Though it couldn’t run, watching Sasha 2nd waddle around without giving up, accepting her mana, made her nose tingle every time.

‘She actually made that defective thing walk.’

Setting aside her mana capacity that didn’t tire even after pouring mana into the bear doll all day long.

Seeing Tiya never give up until the end made him feel somehow… proud of that child.

‘…What am I thinking.’

Winter, who came to his senses belatedly, shook his head and spoke in a colder voice than usual.

【Get it together and finish up. It’s not over yet.】

“Oh right, that’s true.”

Only then coming to her senses, Tiya picked up Sasha 2nd and placed it on the prepared magic circle.

Right now it was literally just moving, and couldn’t be called a golem.

Creation magic shows its true value by imprinting commands into the golem.

Specifically, giving the golem tasks and roles to exist as a single life form.

“Hmm, what would be good.”

A role that would suit Sasha 2nd.

The deliberation wasn’t long.

All this time, whenever Tiya felt sad, frustrated, or angry, she would take Sasha 2nd out of the toy box.

She wanted to give proper compensation to Sasha 2nd, who had comforted her while absorbing her tears and snot.

“Alright, I’ve decided.”

Nodding, Tiya spoke each word infused with mana as Winter had taught her.

“Sasha 2nd. From now on, your job is to beg anyone, anytime, for hugs!”

【What? Are you really going with that-!】

Before Winter could finish speaking.

Flash!

Tiya’s command seeped into the magic circle and glowed, becoming Sasha 2nd’s identity.

Sasha 2nd slowly lifted its head and looked up at its master. Then it spread both arms wide.

Tiya hugged Sasha 2nd as if she’d been waiting and rubbed her cheek against it.

“Sasha 2nd, please take care of me from now on!”

Winter let out what must have been his umpteenth deep sigh.

‘A doll that begs for hugs.’

Setting aside giving such a command to a golem that consumes tremendous mana…

With that appearance begging for hugs too, the horror was doubled.

‘Good thing it’s a disposable golem made for practice.’

Since it was the first practice, he had made it use less mana.

So when all the mana contained in the magic circle was exhausted, it would automatically stop working.

But because Tiya loved Sasha 2nd so much, he had missed the timing to tell her that fact.

‘When she wakes up tomorrow morning, it’ll be back to being a regular doll.’

Winter observed Tiya, who was hugging the bear doll tightly even in bed.

“Our Sasha 2nd. Smooch smooch. Sleep well and see you tomorrow.”

She liked it so much. Winter, who had been hesitating until the end, ultimately chose to keep his mouth shut.

In the deep night when everyone in the manor had gone to bed.

The bear doll rolled out of Tiya’s arms as she tossed and turned in her sleep.

A moment later.

The bear doll that had been lying stiff as a log smoothly, now quite familiarly, raised its body.

Then it lovingly spread both arms toward Tiya.

However, there was no way the deeply sleeping Tiya could accept Sasha 2nd’s embrace.

Not understanding this fact, Sasha 2nd kept begging for a hug for quite a while before finally drooping its arms with a slump.

The only command Tiya had input was to beg for hugs.

Unable to receive a hug from its owner Tiya, Sasha 2nd’s head slowly turned to search for a new target.

Crack, creak.

With the sound of stitches tearing, the bear doll’s head turned 180 degrees. Even so, it still couldn’t find a target.

Sasha 2nd began moving its cotton-stuffed legs to carry out the command given by its owner.

And so one grotesquely twisted bear doll left Tiya’s room and began wandering the corridors of the manor.

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