Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 50

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

 

Chapter 50

 

Valentina’s thin, delicate voice dropped even lower.

 

As a blue light flickered across her soft, fragile face like flower petals, it created a strangely eerie atmosphere.

 

“It was four years ago, on a night when even the moon hid deep away. There was a newly hired maid…”

 

The new maid, having finished her grueling day’s work, finally went to bed later than everyone else.

 

Just as she was about to fall asleep, exhausted from fatigue.

 

Knock knock knock.

 

Someone knocked on her door.

 

“At first, she thought she’d misheard it in her sleep. There was no reason for anyone to visit at that hour. But the knocking continued. So she asked.”

 

Who is it?

 

A brief silence.

 

And then.

 

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!

 

A fierce knocking sound that seemed to shake the earth erupted.

 

Tap. Someone placed their hand on Lev’s shoulder and whispered ominously in his ear.

 

“Found you.”

 

“Kyaaaah!”

 

Once again, Lev’s scream burst forth.

 

In front of Lev, who was on the verge of fainting, Tiya and Valen cheerfully high-fived each other.

 

Only then did Lev realize he had fallen for their wicked scheme. His scream of terror turned into a roar of anger.

 

“Y-you demon-like bastards! When did you two conspire together!”

 

“We didn’t conspire. Brother, don’t you know this story?”

 

It was quite a famous tale among the employees of Vladijef Manor.

 

Because there were actually several employees who had experienced similar incidents.

 

It was a familiar witness account to Tiya and Valentina, who stayed close to the maids, but Lev, who had spent his life curled up in bed being prickly and building walls with others, couldn’t have known.

 

“This is the midnight knock incident!”

 

【The people who opened the door don’t remember anything that happened afterward, so what happens when you open the door remains the biggest mystery of this story.】

 

Winter, who had been listening to the story with great interest, nodded his head.

 

“But fortunately, such things don’t happen anymore.”

 

Valentina, who had given both the disease and the cure, added this and blew out her magical flame.

 

Now everyone’s attention focused on Lev.

 

“Now it’s your turn, brother.”

 

You want me to tell a scary story in this kind of atmosphere?

 

He hated listening to them, but telling one himself was even more horrifying.

 

Lev, who crossed his arms to hide his trembling hands, desperately racked his brain.

 

Soon he thought of one method.

 

It was quite petty, but there was nothing he wouldn’t do to escape this situation.

 

Having prepared himself mentally, Lev suddenly pressed his forehead pitifully and muttered in a somewhat awkward voice.

 

“Hmm… I suddenly feel like I have a fever.”

 

“Huh? Are you very sick?”

 

Seeing Tiya’s worried face made his conscience ache a bit, but if she found out it was a lie, she’d be even more upset, so he decided to push through.

 

“I should probably go to my room and rest a bit— mmph.”

 

Right then, Valentina shoved something into Lev’s mouth.

 

Valentina gently pushed up Lev’s jaw to completely seal his mouth and smiled brightly.

 

“It’s an herb for reducing fever. It’s effective even when chewed raw, right?”

 

“You… ugh, just you wait.”

 

Since it was good for his health, Lev couldn’t bring himself to spit it out and chewed it thoroughly before swallowing, making all sorts of faces.

 

However, his expression crumpled even more at Tiya’s next words.

 

“Didn’t you hear some sound from outside just now?”

 

“Do you think I’ll be fooled once, then fooled twice?”

 

“No. I really heard some sound!”

 

To prove her words, Tiya jumped up and threw open the door.

 

However, the noise Tiya mentioned wasn’t audible. Only a heavy silence that seemed to deafen the ears crouched there.

 

Just as Lev was about to open his mouth in relief.

 

Crash!

 

A loud shattering sound shook the silence of the corridor.

 

But what felt even more ominous was the stillness that followed.

 

If someone had accidentally broken something, there should have been some kind of reaction.

 

But no sound came at all.

 

The three children quietly exchanged glances.

 

Tiya was the first to move.

 

She opened the door a bit more and stuck just her head out to look down the distant corridor. Valentina’s head appeared above hers, and Lev’s head was placed on top of that.

 

Three pairs of eyes gazed down the corridor, but in the corridor where not a single human shadow could be seen, only moonlight that had been half-devoured by shadows and turned reddish flickered.

 

“W-we must have misheard.”

 

Lev barely squeezed out his voice, but he knew best that it wasn’t true.

 

Tiya stepped one foot into the corridor and said.

 

“We should check it out.”

 

Lev looked at Tiya with incredulous eyes.

 

“What are you going to check?”

 

“What if thieves broke in like last time?”

 

“If thieves broke in, that’s all the more reason not to go out!”

 

Lev thought he was making a very reasonable point. But it didn’t work on Tiya.

 

“Then you stay here, brother. I’ll go quickly check and come back.”

 

Then Tiya boldly stepped into the corridor.

 

Lev and Valentina’s eyes met.

 

It wasn’t just Lev who couldn’t break Tiya’s stubbornness.

 

Thus, the three children came out into the dark corridor and plunged into the practical version of a courage test.

 

The children who left the room huddled together and crossed the corridor.

 

“Corn. Stop being stubborn and let’s go back now.”

 

“We’ve come this far, it would be a waste not to go all the way!”

 

While bickering and walking step by step.

 

Winter’s attitude changed when they had come about halfway down the corridor, as he had been following the little ones with an indifferent attitude.

 

【Wait, stop. Something’s strange.】

 

At Winter’s warning, Tiya stopped walking.

 

“What? Why are you stopping?”

 

Lev asked while hiding behind Valentina. Ready to push him aside and run away with just Tiya if necessary.

 

Though Winter didn’t explain separately, Tiya seemed to understand what he was trying to warn about.

 

Beyond the central staircase leading downstairs was pitch black without a single point of light.

 

As if the space itself had been cut away.

 

“That’s strange. The corridors and stairs always have lights on…”

 

As she said, even when they went to hide Valen and the constellation flowers, the corridor lamps had been lighting the way.

 

It was just as Tiya narrowed her eyes and peered into the darkness.

 

“Run!”

 

Suddenly Lev shouted this, grabbed Tiya’s hand, and started running back.

 

Valentina’s situation wasn’t much different.

 

Tiya, who was now being dragged along with one hand held by each of Lev and Valentina, asked while being half-pulled.

 

“What, what is it? Why are we running?”

 

“There was something there!”

 

“I have a bad feeling.”

 

The two of them seemed to sense something that Tiya couldn’t perceive.

 

Before they knew it, spirits had been summoned and were perched on their shoulders and heads.

 

Tiya, who couldn’t understand what was happening, turned around to look behind them.

 

Was it her imagination? Somehow the area engulfed in darkness seemed wider than before.

 

【It’s getting closer.】

 

As if proving Winter’s words, the lantern that had been illuminating the children’s path flickered and then whoosh, the light went out.

 

The next moment, pitch-black darkness began slowly creeping along the walls, ceiling, and floor like ink spilling from an inkwell.

 

Only then realizing the severity of the situation, Tiya picked up her pace.

 

Tiya, who had been dragged along by Lev and Valentina, was now leading the boys ahead of everyone else.

 

Before long, their destination—Tiya’s room—came into view.

 

It was when Tiya briefly let go of Lev’s hand to open the door.

 

“Ah!”

 

Lev, losing his balance, fell forward.

 

“Brother! Quickly, get up quickly!”

 

It was the moment when Tiya and Valentina grabbed Lev’s arms and tried to drag him into the room.

 

Whoosh.

 

The darkness that had crept closer engulfed Lev’s lower body in pitch black.

 

Squeak squeak!

 

Peach, who had been hanging onto Lev’s hair, stepped forward to protect her master.

 

Whoosh!

 

The darkness retreated and gave way to the flames that Peach breathed out.

 

Thinking this was their chance, Tiya and Valentina quickly dragged Lev into the room.

 

Bang!

 

Valentina quickly closed the door and locked it with the latch.

 

“This is my first night of trials like this.”

 

Tiya said while panting.

 

It was right then that Lev’s voice rang out, still sitting on the floor unable to get up.

 

“…That just now, wasn’t that brother?”

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