Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 60

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

 

Chapter 60

 

Tiya?

 

Startled, Rodion jerked his head up.

 

However, the girl standing on the threshold was not his sister Tiya.

 

Tiya was only four years old now, but the girl before his eyes appeared to be eight or nine years old.

 

Yet at the same time, somehow Rodion could tell that the girl was Tiya.

 

The girl with starlight in her hair stepped into the darkness-filled room without hesitation.

 

Rodion bolted upright and shouted.

 

“Don’t come in! You can’t come!”

 

As if waiting for this, Noir hissed from within the darkness.

 

The girl’s eyes widened, then she soon grinned mischievously. The moment sharp fangs glinted between her playful smile.

 

“Heh, the time for revenge has come.”

 

Whoosh.

 

The girl’s figure vanished in an instant.

 

The next moment, the girl who had somehow approached right in front of Rodion swung her magic wand boldly toward Noir.

 

“Uryaaah, Wolf’s Fang!”

 

Rather than from the momentum, Noir smoothly pulled back due to the light dwelling in the wand.

 

As much as Noir retreated, the darkness scattered.

 

The girl extended her hand to Rodion through the gap and shouted.

 

“Let’s get out of here!”

 

Rodion couldn’t readily grasp the hand the girl offered.

 

He couldn’t understand at all how the situation was unfolding.

 

‘I did hear that Tiya had woken up, but…’

 

She must have been bitten by Noir and had terrible nightmares, yet she came looking for him right away like this.

 

‘No, more than that, is this really Tiya?’

 

While thinking it was Tiya but hesitating due to uncertainty about her age and demeanor.

 

The girl grabbed Rodion’s hand in one go and pulled with all her might.

 

“Ugh! I’m sick and tired of waiting now!”

 

Rodion was led by that hand, rising awkwardly and beginning to be dragged along helplessly.

 

Behind them, Noir’s hissing sounds could be heard, and beneath their feet, darkness splashed like mud.

 

Rodion, who had been staring at the hand clasped with the girl running ahead, suddenly realized.

 

That the girl’s hand was trembling.

 

Even though she had confronted Noir so confidently.

 

“That’s strange. The door wasn’t this far away.”

 

He could hear the girl grumbling.

 

As she said, the entrance where the girl had entered, the only exit, didn’t get any closer no matter how much they ran.

 

It was right then.

 

Brrrrrrr.

 

A sound of something boiling came from behind them, and all the hair on their bodies stood on end.

 

The alarm bell that instinct was sounding.

 

Rodion glanced back.

 

“…!”

 

Noir, who had been thin and small enough to barely coil around his wrist, had somehow grown as large as a house and was chasing after them.

 

But that wasn’t the only problem.

 

Bubbles began boiling from Noir’s body, and another head started growing.

 

One head of the monster snake flew toward Tiya and Rodion like lightning.

 

Whoosh!

 

“Dangerous!”

 

Rodion wrapped around the girl’s body and tumbled to the floor.

 

“Kyaaaang!”

 

The girl who rolled around on the floor clutched her forehead and groaned.

 

“Why did you suddenly push me…”

 

The girl who was about to get angry saw Noir’s form stuck in the floor, writhing.

 

The girl’s jaw dropped.

 

The light on her wand trembled, speaking for its owner’s shock.

 

“Brother’s Noir is disgusting!”

 

“That’s not my Noir. Noir has one head—”

 

Rodion, who had been looking after his spirit even in this situation, paused.

 

A girl who seemed like a grown-up Tiya.

 

Even Noir chasing him in a monster-like form with two heads.

 

“This is a nightmare.”

 

He couldn’t remember the circumstances, but he must be having a nightmare after being bitten by Noir.

 

Realizing this, Rodion felt his heart become strangely at ease.

 

“Brother, behind, behind!”

 

Slither.

 

Behind Rodion, Noir shook its head, came to its senses, and raised its body.

 

However, Noir was no longer a problem for Rodion.

 

The most terrible nightmare he could think of wasn’t being chased by Noir.

 

“Right. If it’s a nightmare, everything makes sense. Tiya, you have something to say to me, don’t you?”

 

“Yes! Look behind you!”

 

Rather than being eaten and chewed by Noir hundreds of times, one word from Tiya could drag him to an even worse hell.

 

Nevertheless, Rodion didn’t run away and faced his nightmare.

 

“Even though it’s a nightmare, Tiya is kind… Still, I’m fine, so you can speak honestly. Do you hate me now?”

 

“What?”

 

“I should have protected you, but far from protecting you, I let you get bitten by Noir. I have no face to show you, Tiya. Still, I’ll try my best. If you wait just a little, I’ll definitely…”

 

“Wait for what! Brother took too long to come, so I came!”

 

It was when Tiya, overwhelmed with sorrow, screamed loudly.

 

The starlight spreading widely from the tip of Tiya’s wand bounced back as if blocked by something.

 

Tiya craned her neck to look up.

 

Looking up from below, the two-headed Noir looked even more terrifying than before.

 

Even with the monster snake behind him, Rodion smiled with detachment. It was a smile that didn’t suit an eleven-year-old child at all.

 

“It’s okay. This is a nightmare. It’ll be fine.”

 

The moment Rodion was about to close his eyes as if he had given up on everything.

 

“B-Brother.”

 

His eyes snapped open at the voice calling him.

 

It was just a nightmare.

 

Everything before his eyes was an illusion, and efforts here and now were futile.

 

Like a nightmare, it would surely meet the worst outcome.

 

That one word from Tiya made Rodion’s legs, which had been frozen like stone, move.

 

He had somehow positioned himself to protect Tiya behind him and faced Noir.

 

In the monster that had grown to three heads, he could no longer find any trace of Noir’s appearance.

 

Of course. That wasn’t the real Noir, but a fake created by his nightmare.

 

Nevertheless, the essence of Noir must be melted into the essence of that thing.

 

Based on that premise, Rodion commanded firmly.

 

“Stand back, Noir.”

 

The heads of the monster snake, which had been swaying as if about to charge at any moment, stopped moving as if bound by invisible chains.

 

It wouldn’t last long.

 

Still, he could at least buy enough time for Tiya to escape.

 

“Listen carefully, Tiya. Let’s run away like this—”

 

“Okay. Hold on tight, big brother!”

 

Tiya stood beside him and gripped her staff firmly.

 

Even though she had just said she was scared. Even though her hands were trembling.

 

“I’m all grown up now too. Just as big brother protected me, I’ll protect big brother too!”

 

She tried to stand beside him, not behind him.

 

Unlike the four-year-old Tiya who followed behind him like a baby crow, the Tiya in the nightmare was never docile.

 

Then, above the two children’s heads, just as the snake’s fangs that had finally escaped Rodion’s control were about to strike.

 

Clang!

 

The monster snake that collided with the magic circle that appeared in front of the children was bounced away with intense sparks.

 

“Tsk. It’s not a snake head but a stone head.”

 

The woman who suddenly appeared from the darkness was black as the god of death.

 

Rodion stretched his arm sideways to protect Tiya while being wary of the unfamiliar woman.

 

Then Tiya grabbed that arm and lifted it up high while shouting.

 

“Winter!”

 

Winter… she said?

 

This was definitely inside Rodion’s nightmare.

 

But he couldn’t understand how a being that he didn’t know but Tiya knew could intrude, though there was no time to ponder that problem now.

 

Karrrrrrr.

 

The monster snake’s body was bubbling up again.

 

Seeing this, Winter let out a deep sigh.

 

“Ha, to think I’d end up saying something like this.”

 

It seemed as stupid as babbling “Did we get them?” in front of a fallen enemy, but there was no choice.

 

Winter, who stood blocking Tiya and Rodion’s path, said coolly without looking back at them.

 

“Leave this place to me and—”

 

Before Winter could even finish speaking.

 

“Thanks, Winter! See you later!”

 

Tiya, who scrunched up her whole face and winked at Winter as if trying to wink, grabbed Rodion’s hand and ran away without looking back.

 

Winter glanced once at her empty back and muttered helplessly.

 

“…There’s no point in raising a disciple, damn it.”

 

Winter irritably swept her hair back.

 

The veil covering her face came off from that rough gesture, but she didn’t care and drew her staff.

 

Since Tiya wasn’t by her side, there was no need to beat enemies while wearing such cumbersome things.

 

Winter looked up at the monster snake that now had countless heads and sneered.

 

“Let’s go wild after a long time.”

 

And settle old grudges while at it.

 

The next moment, dozens of magic circles surrounded Winter.

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