Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 46
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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life
Chapter 46
The town square was bustling not only with carriages from noble families waiting for their children who participated in the blessing ceremony, but also with commoner children who had turned eight this year and their parents.
There were priests who pretended to bestow blessings on paper flower crowns instead of real ones, blessing the children, and there were also priests who distributed single fresh flowers imbued with sacred power to the children.
Seeing this, Tiya pulled out a red silk pouch with its opening tightly sealed.
Inside were plenty of Palantio seeds that Tiya had obtained separately.
If only Palantio imbued with sacred power could cure the plague, what if she infused Palantio seeds with sacred power and grew them?
She had prepared the Palantio seeds with this idea in mind.
And while finishing the blessing ceremony before Anaël and waiting for her, Tiya had approached every priest she met, showing them the Palantio seeds and asking them to bless them.
She thought all the priests would be kind and gentle and wouldn’t refuse her request.
“I’m sorry, but there’s a religious law that says on blessing ceremony days, we can only share sacred power with flowers.”
“Young lady, you’ve already received your blessing, haven’t you? Sacred power and blessings aren’t necessarily better just because you have more of them.”
“Originally, sacred power is meant to heal people. I’m sorry, but I cannot waste the miraculous power given by God in this manner.”
They were all such penny-pinchers that not a single priest shared their sacred power.
Not even one!
When she followed Winter’s advice and made a gesture with her thumb and index finger forming a circle, meaning she’d slip them some money, she almost got kicked out of the temple.
Growing desperate, Tiya tried to say, despite Winter’s restraint, “But only this Palantio imbued with sacred power can cure the plague in the North!”
And that’s when she first realized how the prohibition worked.
“The Palantio in the North is so fresh!”
The sentence she was trying to say got all tangled up in her head, and she randomly blurted out a completely different sentence from what she intended.
Both Tiya and the priest blinked in confusion.
Seeing this, Winter shook his head disapprovingly. Similar attempts were all blocked as well.
【A prohibition isn’t called a prohibition for nothing.】
Thus, her attempt to infuse the Palantio seeds with sacred power failed. However, Tiya, who never knew how to give up, rushed back into the square and shouted.
“Just in case, I should ask them to share some sacred power with me again!”
And the result was—
“In my next life, I’ll definitely be born as a priest and scatter sacred power everywhere.”
It was such a devastating failure that Tiya vowed revenge.
Eventually, with a dejected face, she was wandering around the carriage procession in the square looking for Mia.
“Child.”
“That’s strange, she said she’d wait here.”
“There, child who has endured so many hardships.”
Huh?
Tiya unconsciously turned her head at the faint voice coming from somewhere.
In a corner of the square, a skinny old man sitting on a wooden chair was gesturing to Tiya.
“Grandfather, were you calling me?”
“Yes, yes.”
He was a stranger, but he didn’t seem dangerous because of his kind appearance—it was hard to tell if his eyes were open or closed.
Tiya approached the old man and asked.
“Do you need help with something?”
The old man shook his head and suddenly asked.
“Child. Don’t you often collapse or fall ill due to a weak constitution?”
“No? Grandmother always said I’m nothing but healthy.”
“Ahem, child. Don’t you feel that everything is empty and meaningless?”
“I have tons of precious things.”
“Th-this is strange. My eyes can’t be wrong.”
An awkward silence fell between Tiya and the old man.
Pitifully, the old man broke out in a cold sweat.
【Isn’t this just a complete fraud? What are the priests doing, not catching these charlatans?】
Winter grumbled, but Tiya quietly waited for the old man’s words.
Elders must be respected.
She resolved to agree with whatever he said next time so that grandfather wouldn’t be upset.
Right at that moment.
“Children.”
Children?
Tiya looked around, but there was only Tiya beside the old man.
“There’s only me here…”
Tiya, who faced the old man again, unconsciously swallowed her breath.
The old man, who had opened his eyes at some point, was staring intently at Tiya.
Cloudy and dim pupils that couldn’t absorb even a speck of light.
However, Tiya froze solid not because the old man was blind.
It was because those eyes that couldn’t see anything seemed to pierce through to her very depths for a moment.
“Do not forget that you are not different from each other. Only then can things return to their natural course.”
【This old fool must be senile.】
Winter, who had been quietly watching, interjected.
Unfortunately, Winter’s words seemed to be true. Only then did Tiya notice his thin clothing that didn’t match the season.
The old man’s dry hands, who had closed his eyes again, trembled.
“Grandfather. Where is your family? You can’t just stay here like this. The priests might scold you.”
“I got permission from the Pope, you see, back in my day, huh? I even went to the sauna with the Pope’s father, you know?”
【This is dangerous. Don’t get dragged into this and accused of blasphemy. Run away quickly.】
But it’s cold today… It reminds me of my grandmother too.
Hesitating, Tiya took off her coat and covered the old man’s knees with it.
“Cover yourself with this. You don’t have to return it, and keep your hands tucked in tight.”
The old man, who had been quietly watching what Tiya was doing, reached out and wrapped his hands around Tiya’s hand that was holding the Palantio pouch.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a warm soul. I’ve been watching, and it seems you need sacred power.”
At that moment, Tiya saw the gentle light she had seen at the blessing ceremony burst forth from within the old man’s hands.
Tiya frantically tried to shield the old man with her whole body, worried that other priests might see this.
Then she asked in a surprised voice.
“G-Grandfather, were you a priest?”
“Of course, of course. Back in my day, I was a very successful priest.”
Whether the old man’s words were a joke or the truth was unclear, but one thing was certain.
The Palantio seeds had been imbued with sacred power!
“Thank you, Grandfather!”
Tiya politely bowed her head, then lowered her voice and whispered.
“But you have to make sure the other priests don’t find out that you helped me. They’re all really, really stingy.”
“Yes, yes.”
Did he really understand?
Tiya thanked the old man once more as he nodded drowsily, then left.
Now she really had to find Mia before it got any later.
Tiya carefully held the seed pouch and looked around.
“Mother, look at this! The priest gave me a flower crown and told me to grow big and strong!”
“Our daughter is so pretty.”
“Congratulations on turning eight.”
Children wearing flower crowns and parents welcoming those children.
Tiya, who had come to the temple with Mia, found herself staring intently at that scene.
Then, feeling somewhat deflated, instead of calling out loudly for Mia, she just silently looked around.
“Miss Tiya!”
Just then, Mia’s voice could be heard from far away.
Mia came running over breathlessly and hurriedly guided Tiya to the carriage.
“Did you wait long? I was delayed getting the carriage ready.”
“Getting the carriage ready?”
Soon Tiya found herself standing in front of a massive carriage pulled by no less than six horses.
“This isn’t the carriage we came in, is it?”
“Hehe, no. I ‘happened to’ run into someone I know.”
Someone she knows?
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