Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 39

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 39

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The next day.

Tiya’s wailing echoed through the room.

“Sasha 2nd!”

As soon as Winter heard that voice, she mentally prepared herself. The voice sounded so pitiful that she was regretting not telling her in advance when.

“Sasha 2nd has disappeared!”

【…?】

That can’t be.

Winter, who had been deliberately ignoring Tiya, quietly turned her head.

Tiya searched every corner of the bed looking for Sasha 2nd. She checked inside the blankets, under the pillow, the gap between the bed and wall, and even under the bed, but Sasha 2nd was nowhere to be seen.

【Look carefully. Where could he have gone? …He shouldn’t have been able to move since all his mana was depleted last night.】

“What…?”

Tiya looked at Winter with a shocked expression. Winter cleared her throat and continued.

【I mean, it’s a disposable golem designed to move only as much as the mana you poured into the magic circle.】

However, what surprised Tiya wasn’t the fact that it was a disposable golem.

Tiya rolled her eyes around once and confessed sheepishly as if admitting to wrongdoing.

“Winter. Actually, you see. Last night while I was hugging Sasha 2nd, I kept sharing my mana with him.”

【What…? Why on earth?】

“Well, because he was so precious….”

Winter began to realize what was slowly unfolding. Her head turned slightly toward Tiya’s room door that was left ajar.

So what she was saying now meant that the golem had absorbed plenty of Tiya’s mana all night long.

【You’re telling me that cursed doll is wandering around inside the manor?】

“Cursed doll! That’s too harsh!”

Huh? Wait a minute. Inside the manor?

Belatedly, Tiya’s gaze also turned toward the door that was slightly open.

【Ah.】

“This is bad.”

At this rate, they’ll find out I’m a mage!

The next moment, without anyone taking the lead, both Tiya and Winter rushed out of the room.

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‘The manor is unusually noisy today.’

Valentina, who was sorting flower seeds, paused her hands for a moment.

Then she quietly crossed the room, slightly opened the door, and listened to the conversation of the maids who were chattering while cleaning the corridor.

Even the trivial gossip the maids chattered about was quite valuable information to Valentina.

“A suspicious shadow in the corridor at midnight….”

“The girl in the room next to mine felt something clinging to her ankle….”

“Ugh, that gives me chills. The Count is quite scary, but we get long vacations and there’s no workplace like this. It’s strange how there are so many bizarre rumors.”

“Come to think of it, did you hear that story? You know, about the stables….”

Unfortunately, this time it seemed to be rather useless gossip.

Valentina closed the door and went back to sit at her desk.

Valentina, who had exceptional pharmaceutical knowledge beyond her years, was learning even more since coming to Vladijef Manor.

Valentina’s eyes narrowed as she examined the prescription for reducing Lev’s fever.

The experimental yet innovative herbal combination written in the prescription was surprisingly invented directly by Count Valoz himself, not the manor’s physician.

The Count apparently runs a small trading company, gathering all kinds of herbs from across the empire.

However, she heard he operates it not for profit, but purely to satisfy his own collecting desires.

Who would have thought the Count himself would have such excellent pharmaceutical knowledge.

“I thought he had no interest at all in his sick child.”

It was when she clicked her tongue and bent down to pick up a seed that had fallen on the floor.

She noticed something placed in the deep corner under the bed.

Or more accurately, it was closer to the sensation of making eye contact.

“…?”

What is it?

When she lowered her body and squinted her eyes, she saw a bear doll lying prone under the bed.

Naturally, it wasn’t Valentina’s.

‘Was it here from before I started staying here?’

When she was puzzled and reached out toward the bear doll.

Swoosh.

The bear doll only lifted its head and stared at Valentina.

Valentina’s body instantly froze. Chills ran up her spine.

But she hadn’t seen it wrong.

Thud, thud.

Now the bear doll was waving its arms and starting to crawl out from under the bed!

The appearance of the bear doll that finally revealed itself completely was utterly hideous.

From its mottled fur to its neck twisted 180 degrees.

“Why is such a cursed doll brazenly wandering around this manor!”

Valentina quickly summoned Rose.

Rose, with her fur bristling, climbed onto Valentina’s head and prepared to grow thorny vines for her master at any moment.

The cursed doll staggered to its feet and began waddling toward Valentina.

When Valentina hesitantly stepped back, the bear doll hopped forward to close the distance. And it stopped exactly three steps away.

Creak.

The doll’s neck returned to its proper position and faced Valentina directly.

Gulp.

Valentina swallowed dryly and decided that if the cursed doll took just one more step closer, she would tear it to shreds.

Thud.

The cursed doll stretched out both arms.

“…?”

“….”

One of Valentina’s eyebrows rose crookedly.

“What. You want me to tear your arms off first?”

“….”

“Hey, should I attack first?”

“….”

Just standing there with arms spread without saying anything felt like another kind of pressure.

It was when Valentina was finally about to summon thorny vines.

Bang bang bang!

There was a sound of knocking on the door as if it would break, and before she could even answer, Tiya burst in.

“Valen! Did you happen to see a cute and adorable bear doll around here… Sasha 2nd!”

Discovering the standoff between the two, Tiya let out a shrill scream.

Valentina quickly hid the half-sprouted thorny vines behind her back.

“Sasha… 2nd?”

“Yes! I was looking for him and here he was. Isn’t he cute?”

Tiya lifted the bear doll under its arms and held it out to Valentina.

“Sasha 2nd seems to like Valen. He wants a hug.”

You want me to… hug this?

You mean she wanted to be hugged?

Valentina gulped down her dry saliva.

If she touched it wrong, she felt like she’d be cursed.

“Like I said before, I’m not good at handling spirits… I’m scared I might hurt it.”

She thought making this excuse would make her back down.

“Don’t worry! Sasha 2nd is sturdy. So come on, come on.”

As Tiya pushed the bear doll closer, Sasha 2nd flapped both arms.

She felt like she’d be cursed if she hugged that thing, but also cursed if she ignored it.

“Th-then just once.”

There was nowhere left to retreat. In the end, Valentina squeezed her eyes shut and hugged the bear doll.

Poof.

Sasha 2nd’s cotton ball arms stuck snugly to Valentina’s chest.

“…”

“How is it?”

How is it?

“…It’s nothing.”

Fortunately, she didn’t seem to be cursed.

More than that… are dolls originally this fluffy?

Valentina gently rested her chin on top of the bear doll’s head.

She didn’t know why, but somehow it made her heart feel ticklish.

Before she knew it, Valentina was unconsciously kneading Sasha 2nd’s body.

Only after noticing Tiya’s gaze watching her with a pleased expression did Valentina come to her senses.

This wasn’t the time for this.

Valentina removed the bear doll from her embrace, set it down on the floor, and asked with a serious expression.

“This is magic, isn’t it?”

“That’s… Oops!”

Tiya belatedly covered her mouth, but it was already too late.

Valentina didn’t miss the opportunity and asked again.

“Tiya, were you a mage?”

“N-no, I’m…”

“That power that caught me when I was falling last time wasn’t spirits but magic, right?”

“Well, that’s true, but…”

“How long have you been a mage? I never heard about it from Lord Rodion. So you’re keeping it secret from your family?”

Aaaaah. Tiya exploded at the questions that hit the mark with every word.

“A-anyway, keep it secret that I’m a mage!”

…keep it secret that I’m a mage!

…secret!

…secret!

She shouted so loudly that Tiya’s voice echoed resoundingly several times.

Valentina belatedly covered Tiya’s mouth and whispered.

“I-if it’s a secret, how can you say it so loudly!”

But it was already too late.

“The young lady is… a mage?”

Creak.

Perhaps Tiya hadn’t closed the door properly when she came in, as it slid open smoothly. Soon, the figures of maids who had been cleaning the corridor outside were revealed.

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