Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 47

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 47

In front of the bewildered Tiya, Mia threw open the carriage door wide.

“…Brother Lev? Valen, what brings you here?”

Surprisingly, Lev and Valentina were inside the carriage.

Lev, clutching a bucket to his chest, nodded his pale face weakly.

“Just, I wanted to ride in a carriage after a long time…”

Didn’t he always turn green saying he gets motion sick just from riding carriages?

Valentina extended her hand to the tilting Tiya, helping her into the carriage while explaining.

“We’re not too late, are we? Lev’s stomach was upset, so we had to rest several times along the way. It took us three whole hours to get here.”

“Hey! You don’t have to, urgh.”

Lev, who was about to get angry, buried his head in the bucket and dry heaved several more times.

It seemed Valentina’s words weren’t an exaggeration after all.

Only then did Tiya’s face bloom brightly as if she had realized something.

“Could it be… you came out to meet me?”

“No way? We just happened to meet by coincidence?”

“It’s fortunate that Lady Mia and I arranged a meeting place in advance yesterday.”

“I see. Mia knew about it.”

“Are you two even listening to me?”

“Congratulations on turning eight, Tiya.”

“Yes, thank you for coming out to meet me!”

Lev looked at Tiya and Valentina with disbelief as they chatted sweetly together, completely ignoring what he said.

Then, Valentina poked Lev’s side and nodded her head.

At the silent urging, Lev grumbled reluctantly.

“Corn. About turning eight, well, you know. Good job. Just stay exactly as healthy as you are now.”

Tiya quickly forgot about feeling gloomy when looking for Mia and answered with a bright smile.

“Okay!”

Through the carriage window, she could see children her age returning home with their parents.

However, Tiya, who was with Brother Lev and Valentina, was no longer captivated by that scene.

She no longer envied those children.

Because she too had family who came all this way to meet her and celebrate her turning eight.

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“Such a good child.”

The old man’s eyes, which held not a single point of the world’s light, followed Tiya’s movements.

The coat covering the old man’s bony legs was soft and cozy. He knew it wasn’t because of the coat’s quality, but because of the child’s heart.

A child who carried an ember in her heart that would never be extinguished.

That’s why it was even more heartbreaking.

“How much pain she must have endured. How much suffering she must have gone through.”

He was blind, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t see the world. He simply saw the world differently from others.

Flames of life crossing through darkness.

Among them was one particularly small flame that had been consumed by darkness.

He had seen countless souls, but he had never seen a soul with so many wounds.

A soul that wasn’t worn and eroded, but broken and shattered with missing pieces. The flame of life should have been extinguished long ago.

Yet the reason she could still bounce around like that was probably…

Just as the old man’s gaze was about to turn toward Winter, who was guarding Tiya’s side.

“I’ve been looking everywhere for you!”

An urgent voice cut through the old man’s thoughts. A young priest who had rushed to the old man breathlessly lowered his voice and whined.

“Why on earth are you doing this here? The royalty has arrived and you haven’t even shown your face. Come, come. It’s cold today. Please go inside.”

Tsk, the old man clicked his tongue and sniffled as he answered.

“Don’t wanna.”

Trembling and throwing a tantrum like a child, he looked exactly like a senile old man.

“Oh my, only pretending to be senile at times like this!”

“Senile! Back in my day, I tell you, eh? I even went to saunas with the Pope’s father, you know?”

“Yes, yes. I’m well aware that Your Holiness was very close friends with his father back in the day. So please go inside now.”

“Don’t wanna. Royalty scary.”

This damn Pope’s child, really!

“They’ve left, they’ve already returned!”

“What? They died?”

“Ah! No! They returned to the Imperial Palace!”

Ah, well that’s different then.

The old man straightened his body as if he had never been trembling.

Then with a solemn expression, he stepped forward lightly.

“Come, let’s go in. We must bless the little angels who have visited the Grand Cathedral.”

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