Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 5

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

Chapter 5

Tiya felt her heart pounding thump-thump-thump.

It wasn’t because of fear about the terrible future Winter had spoken of earlier.

“Me…?”

It was because of hope.

【That’s right. To save the Vladijef family, we need you.】

The anticipation that even a defective member of the family could do something for the family, for her loved ones.

【It’s something only you can do.】

At those words that filled the hole in her heart completely, Tiya sprang up with her own strength.

“I’ll do it! No, let me do it!”

At Tiya’s spirited answer, a satisfied smile finally appeared on Winter’s lips.

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Three hours later.

Winter and Tiya’s grand plan to save the Vladijef family was complete.

1. Prevent the epidemic.

2. Eliminate the evil mastermind.

3. Make allies (supporters).

“Perfect!”

Tiya puffed out a breath through her nose.

Winter, exhausted from conversing in simple language so Tiya could understand, was sprawled carelessly in the air.

【You… you really understood it this time, right?】

“Of course! I’m smart enough to read everything, you know?”

【An kid who can’t even do addition is hardly that smart.】

“Ahem, I’m just naturally weak with numbers…”

Winter, lying in the air as if in her own bedroom with her head tilted lazily on her hand, suddenly asked.

【First question. What’s the ingredient for the cure to the epidemic Death’s Mark?】

Quiz time had suddenly begun.

However, Tiya raised her hand high and shouted confidently.

“Easy! Palan grass!”

【…You’re missing the most important part. I told you several times it’s palan grass imbued with divine power.】

“Oh, right. That’s why it can only be obtained from the temple.”

Fortunately, Winter knew of an herb that could cure the epidemic!

In the early stages of the epidemic outbreak.

Somehow knowing about it, the Royal Court sent loads of palan grass, which showed effects in treating the epidemic, to the North.

However, there was one crucial thing missing.

It wasn’t just any herb – only palan grass imbued with divine power by a priest could completely cure the epidemic.

Divine power was a noble force bestowed by the gods to heal people.

Therefore, priests only used divine power when treating people.

This meant that even if Tiya immediately obtained palan grass and went to a priest saying ‘Please pour divine power into this!’, the priests would refuse, citing religious law.

【Second question. Why can’t you tell priests or other people that ‘palan grass imbued with divine power is the cure for the epidemic’?】

“Easy! Due to the prohibition, I cannot reveal future events!”

【Correct. Both the story about the Vladijef family’s destruction and the fact that palan grass imbued with divine power is the cure are information I learned from the future. Under the Great Spirit’s rules, information learned through regression cannot be revealed to others…】

Winter, who had been giving a supplementary explanation, suddenly stopped speaking.

Despite getting the answer right, Tiya was tilting her head with a confused expression again.

It seemed the explanation had gotten too long.

【Third question. Who is the real enemy of the Vladijef family?】

Winter’s voice dropped a tone lower, and tension appeared on Tiya’s face.

The fundamental reason for the Vladijef family’s destruction wasn’t the epidemic or the barbarians.

【There was a massive barbarian invasion. Strangely enough, they were armed with the Empire’s new weapons.】

The Royal Court that never lifted the blockade of the North until the end.

Even the Empire’s new weapons that the barbarians possessed.

Behind all those events, there was a mastermind.

Tiya spoke that name with a grave expression.

“Count Montes.”

【…Correct. The uncle of the prince who later becomes emperor is our real enemy. Even if we cure the epidemic, as long as he remains in power, the Vladijef family won’t be safe.】

So Count Montes must definitely be brought down, or if necessary, even assassinated.

Hiding the bloody plan from the child, Winter asked the next question.

【Fourth question, why do we need to find allies?】

From the fourth question onward, the difficulty suddenly skyrocketed.

Tiya took a deep breath with an expression that said ‘here it comes.’

However, Winter didn’t expect Tiya to get this politically complex question right – it was too complicated for a young child to understand.

“Count Montes has the royal family backing him. While the Vladijef family is like royalty in the North, due to the isolated environment, they can’t exert much influence outside. Therefore, we need allies who can move within the Dominion for the Vladijef family while keeping Count Montes in check!”

Toward the end, perhaps running out of breath, Tiya poured out the words rapidly without pausing to breathe, then panted heavily.

As Winter’s mouth fell open, Tiya shrugged her shoulders triumphantly with a proud expression.

After a moment, Winter asked again.

【…What are allies?】

“Count Montes has the Royal Court backing him. The Vladijef family is like royalty in the North-“

【You just memorized it all without understanding, didn’t you?!】

“Gr-Grandmother said so! When you don’t know, memorize it.”

【What a roundabout way to say you don’t understand.】

To think she had to carry out various schemes and plots with this child.

The road ahead felt hopelessly long.

“But Winter. Who is the ally? Who should we make our ally?”

At those words, Winter hesitated for a moment.

Someone who had established influence in central politics, right in the heart of the Dominion.

Someone whose power was strong enough to keep Count Montes in check, and who had connections with northern nobles and could serve as a bridge between the Dominion and the North – that would be perfect.

‘On top of that, ‘he’ has connections with the temple too.’

Considering the North that would be isolated by the epidemic, there was no one more perfect than him.

Nevertheless, after hesitating for a long time, Winter finally spoke in a displeased tone.

【…Shurkha. We need to make him our ally.】

“Good. Make Shurkha our ally!”

Tiya, who had been repeating like a parrot for memorization, suddenly stopped.

Wait. Shurkha? That’s a name I’ve heard a lot somewhere.

Tiya, who had been tilting her head, soon opened her eyes wide and exclaimed.

“That’s my father!”

Tiya immediately became triumphant and puffed out her chest as if to say ‘just trust me.’

“Don’t worry, Winter. Father is already on our side.”

【Why do you think he’s on our side?】

“Because we’re family!”

At those words, Winter snorted.

【During the blockade period that lasted over 10 years, the person who didn’t send even a scrap of medicinal herbs to the North is Shurkha. That cold-blooded man will surely become our ally just because of family ties.】

【Shurkaya is the one who didn’t send even a scrap of medicinal herbs to the north during over ten long years of blockade. That cold-blooded bastard will surely become our ally just because we’re family.】

“Wh-what did you say?”

【Cold-blooded. A person who treats even his own child like a chess piece without any blood or tears.】

Tiya, who had been blankly listening to Winter’s words, gradually narrowed her eyes.

She didn’t understand everything, but one thing was certain.

“Did you just insult my father?”

【Oh my, did it sound like an insult? I was just stating the facts as they are.】

“You just insulted my father again! I understood everything!”

An unbridgeable deep river formed between the girl and ghost who had been in agreement just moments before.

Just as neither side would yield and they faced off tensely.

Knock knock.

The sound of knocking was heard, then a young maid carefully entered.

“Miss, the Count is looking for you. Would you like to go see him?”

【Perfect timing. Why don’t you see for yourself what kind of person the Count is?】

It was a summons from Father after a full five days.

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Tiya swallowed nervously as she looked up at the door before her.

The door that had seemed enormous when she was four still looked imposing now that she was eight.

Tiya deliberately straightened her shoulders that were unconsciously shrinking.

She had momentarily forgotten due to her conversation with Winter.

That she had caught Erin—no, the thief—who had tried to steal the spirit’s egg yesterday.

All the employees she met spared no words of concern and praise for Tiya.

‘So maybe Father wants to praise me too.’

Her heart pounded as if she had been running at full speed.

Soon the door in front of her opened, and something like the smell of sand heated by scorching sun wafted out.

There were many adults in the study, but Tiya’s compass pointed straight to only one person.

Long jet-black straight hair like Tiya’s and cold blue eyes.

An atmosphere that seemed somehow precarious like a flower blooming at the edge of a cliff, and arrogance as if looking down on the world.

“Father.”

The words “I missed you” and “I wanted to see you” were packed tightly into that single word.

Tiya’s feet, which had been walking toward Father with joy in every step, stopped as if caught in quicksand at the Count’s next words.

“What were you doing there.”

“Pardon?”

“The reason you were in a room that’s forbidden to enter in the middle of the night, Astiya Vladijef.”

Father finally looked up from his documents and stared at Tiya.

Before, she had only thought those eyes were mercilessly cold. However, in Father’s gaze that she faced again…

‘It seems empty.’

Far from being cold, there was nothing contained in them at all.

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