Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 43
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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life
Chapter 43
【Listen carefully. If you accept a duel here and now, whether you win or lose, it’ll be no different from defeat.】
Only those who understand honor can accept the outcome of a duel.
From what Winter quickly assessed, the yellow-haired Prince didn’t seem to have the intelligence to understand honor.
【Just repeat exactly what I say.】
Though Tiya had no idea why the Prince was throwing such a fit, she obediently followed her master Winter’s words.
Click. Tiya knelt gracefully on one knee and spoke like a knight swearing loyalty.
“Your Highness, please withdraw your command. To point a blade at royalty would be treason, so how could I dare draw my sword against Your Highness?”
“Wh-what?”
The Prince flinched at Tiya’s sudden formal speech, like the stuffy ministers in state council meetings.
His mind raced busily.
‘Treason? Treason is bad! But I still need to see her get humiliated.’
As the Prince clicked his tongue, unable to find a proper response, a weasel-like child who had been waiting for his chance stepped forward.
“Then I shall become Your Highness’s proxy!”
“Proxy?”
The Prince repeated the weasel’s words, then after a long moment raised his voice as if he’d had a brilliant idea.
“Right, I can appoint a proxy! To think of such a clever method. As expected of me. After all, people with good heads don’t suffer in body. Don’t you think?”
The Prince naturally stole the other child’s idea as if it were his own and patted the weasel’s shoulder.
Huh? Is this right?
Though initially bewildered, the weasel quickly changed his expression and groveled, showing the quick wit of one hoping to become the greatest sycophant in the future.
“Y-yes, that’s right. As expected of Your Highness!”
“Right, right. Then I’ll give you the honor of serving as my proxy.”
“Yes! I am Trada, third son of the X Family!”
The weasel stepped forward confidently, announcing his name to the Prince, and clumsily gripped his decorative sword hilt.
He had no real interest in swordsmanship, but had worn the sword only to impress the Prince who supposedly liked swords.
But now that preparation was paying off.
Moreover, according to His Highness, his opponent was a novice mage who had only recently awakened her mana!
Of course, he knew how amazing mages could be.
Even the hired mage in his family’s manor received respect from everyone, including his father.
But that was only true for trained high-level mages who had long honed their magical arts.
A mage who had just awakened their mana was no different from an ordinary person. Even if she had learned magic in the past few days, it would take forever just to draw magic circles and cast spells.
“Ready…”
‘Hehe. Become my stepping stone to power!’
“Begin!”
At the signal to start the duel, the weasel confidently drew his sword and kicked off the ground.
He felt so light it was as if his body might fly away. No, it wasn’t because of his condition.
His body was actually floating in mid-air.
“Huh? Huh?”
Seeing Tiya’s staff pointed at him, the weasel instinctively realized.
That he was already within Tiya’s magical range.
And simultaneously, what an impossible thing had just happened.
“N-no way, magic without even a magic circle?”
Silent casting is something even our family’s mage finds difficult!
Toward the shocked weasel, Tiya said cheerfully.
“Let’s dance together for just one turn!”
“What are you talk-“
The next moment.
Tap-tap, Tiya stepped to a dance rhythm and vigorously swung her staff while shouting.
“Spinning Whirlwind!”
“Aaaaaaaah!”
The weasel’s body spun round and round like a piece of paper caught in a tornado.
After a moment, the whirlwind gently dissipated and the weasel settled to the ground.
“Bweh-weh-weh-weh-weh.”
The weasel dry-heaved, staggered this way and that, then collapsed with a thud.
Confirming her enemy had fallen, Tiya elegantly put away her staff and swept her hair back.
Heh, this is the very technique that defeated Brother Lev.
“How’s that, my Spinning Whirlwind!”
【…Do you really have to shout out the technique name?】
“But it just comes out naturally?”
【It looks ridiculous and tells your enemy your attack pattern in advance.】
“But that’s the romance of it!”
【Romance can freeze to death.】
While the two were bickering.
“That duel just now is invalid!”
A frenzied voice came from behind them.
Naturally, it was the Prince.
“How cowardly, why didn’t you draw a magic circle when you’re a mage! Using cheats like that.”
【Can’t even distinguish between cheating and talent. Why does that bastard even carry a head on his shoulders?】
Winter sneered cynically, but Tiya nodded obediently.
She thought it might indeed feel like cheating from the opponent’s perspective.
Tiya raised her right hand and solemnly declared.
“I’ll draw magic circles when using magic from now on.”
“Hmph, of course you will. Next! You, I’ll give you a chance. Go!”
“Y-yes?”
The Prince naturally put forward the next proxy.
Another noble boy, pushed forward unexpectedly, stood awkwardly across from Tiya.
The Prince seemed to have no intention of stopping this duel until Tiya admitted defeat.
【You don’t need to be fair with someone like that. Just blast him without warning.】
While the opponent picked up the weasel’s fallen sword, Tiya whispered to Winter.
“Don’t worry. I’ve been practicing swinging my magic staff really hard!”
Even so, it couldn’t be faster than the speed of a sword thrust.
Despite Winter’s concerns, Tiya faced off against the Prince’s second proxy.
“Begin!”
Whoosh!
The next moment, contrary to everyone’s expectation that she would draw a magic circle, Tiya shot forward like an arrow.
And then she drew her magic staff-
Smack!
She struck the side of the boy who hadn’t even properly taken his stance yet.
“Ack!”
Smack!
“T-time out!”
Smack!
“Time to get in position…!”
Smack!
Smack, whack! Crack, thud!
Merciless violence rained down, hitting the same spots repeatedly.
“I-I surrender!”
Under the barrage of beatings, the boy threw himself face-down and surrendered.
Silence fell over the gathering.
Winter was the first to speak.
【You… what kind of mage uses a magic staff for physical combat.】
Winter pressed her forehead at this completely un-mage-like thinking.
She had definitely taught magic, but how did this child end up like some kind of battle mage.
“What, what kind of nonsense is that? Why aren’t you drawing magic circles!”
In front of the Prince who was questioning her with foam practically at his mouth, Tiya widened her eyes and tilted her head.
“I’m not using magic, so why would I draw circles?”
【Excellent, my disciple.】
How very cunning. The fact that there was no malice whatsoever made it a perfect ten out of ten.
Finally, the Prince exploded. The Prince, who had been jumping around in rage, turned his gaze to the children gathered behind him.
“Useless fools! You! This time, all of you attack together!”
“Huh? B-but this is a duel?”
“Stupid idiots. Don’t you know anything about tactics?”
Was it really right to call ganging up on someone in a sacred battle “tactics”?
“Anyone who doesn’t follow my orders will be treated as a traitor!”
The stupidity that lowered even the listeners’ intelligence broke the morale of even the children who had sided with the Prince.
But they couldn’t openly defy the Prince’s command, so they glanced at each other while slowly stepping forward.
“Brother. Perhaps you should stop there.”
A small but calm voice.
Everyone’s gaze turned to the girl who had been hiding in the Prince’s shadow, present yet absent until now.
Due to her deeply pulled-down bonnet, all that was visible was an unusually slender chin for a child and wavy silver hair.
【…The Princess?】
At Winter’s murmur, Tiya finally recognized the girl’s identity.
The Prince wasn’t the only royal present at this gathering.
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