Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 61
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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life
Chapter 61
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Thud!
A terrible roar echoed along with the vibration that shook the ground.
However, Tiya and Rodion ran toward the door without looking back.
Only just before crossing through the door did Tiya finally look back.
Noir, transformed into a giant mythical monster.
But Winter stood over the fallen Noir like a hero who had brought the giant mythical monster to its knees.
‘They’re similar…’
Before Tiya could dig into the source of that intuition that suddenly came to mind.
They escaped through the door, and Rodion’s memory labyrinth began to collapse.
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When Tiya opened her eyes, it was still dawn before the sun had risen.
‘How many days have passed?’
It felt like she had spent such a long time in the dream that she momentarily had that thought.
Just then, someone called out to Tiya.
“Tiya. What you just did was very dangerous. Promise me you won’t do that again.”
A voice much lower and calmer than what she had heard in the dream.
Tiya examined Rodion’s face by only moving her eyes while lying on the bed.
Having woken up before Tiya, he was sitting in a chair beside the bed looking down at her.
Perhaps because the last she had seen of him was his eleven-year-old appearance.
The current fifteen-year-old Rodion suddenly felt very unfamiliar. No, maybe unfamiliar was right.
After all, Tiya knew nothing about her brother.
“Grandmother said not to make promises you can’t keep.”
From that one casual remark, Rodion could tell that Tiya had grown up receiving a great deal of love in the North, just as he had hoped.
‘Sending Tiya to the North really was the right choice.’
Rodion, who had been about to casually brush Tiya’s hair aside with a bitter smile, suddenly stiffened.
Tiya was no longer hurt or disappointed.
She had learned too much for that.
Tiya didn’t rush Rodion and quietly sat up to face her brother directly.
“Brother. I don’t even remember what nightmare I had that day.”
A truly terrible nightmare wasn’t something like that.
“My nightmare was that no one needed me.”
“Tiya…”
“No one would listen to me, they pushed me away, wouldn’t hold me…”
Tiya paused briefly to swallow the surging emotions, then finished her words while gazing at Winter standing quietly behind Rodion.
“Our family would all be scattered apart, and there would be no one left I could call family.”
That was Tiya’s most terrible nightmare, and Tiya’s future when Winter wasn’t by her side.
Rodion smiled bitterly at Tiya’s words.
Because he realized what Tiya truly wanted.
But instead of telling lies as Mother had when she comforted him, he spoke the truth.
Because he didn’t want Tiya to suffer from false hope like he had.
“Tiya, Father doesn’t love us.”
Tiya opened her mouth to argue back, then quickly shut it tight.
Then with an extremely indignant expression, she covered her mouth and mumbled before boldly exclaiming.
“Even so, I’m going to work hard for our family. Just like how you tried to protect us, I’ll protect our family too! So I won’t give up on Father either. Father is our family too!”
“Tiya, that person is like a desert where nothing can grow. I don’t want you to get hurt.”
Now that I think about it, maybe Mother wasn’t lying to me, but truly believed that Father loved us.
Maybe she was enchanted by a mirage, unable to see Father’s desert.
When it’s nothing but barren wasteland.
“But brother. Even in barren wasteland with nothing, traces of the wind passing through remain, Grandmother said so.”
Those words of Tiya’s stirred the wind in Rodion’s heart.
In Winter’s heart as well, who was listening to that story.
“If Father is a desert, then I’ll create wind in Father’s desert. I’ll dig up the ground thoroughly and plant seeds there, water them, and create shade…”
If Father could somehow regain his emotions that way, and reconcile with Grandmother too.
“Wouldn’t a small oasis eventually form in Father’s desert?”
Tiya’s innocent eyes seemed to truly believe her own words.
He couldn’t bear to look at that face and tell her it wouldn’t work.
“And brother, now isn’t the time to blame Father.”
Suddenly Tiya put her hands on her hips and glared at Rodion with a fierce expression that created a small dimple on her chin.
“You dodged my heart attack before, didn’t you? Fine, whatever. I’ll let that slide. But I still haven’t heard what I need to hear from you!”
Her demanding look was like a fierce creditor who had come to collect a debt.
Although Rodion couldn’t hug Tiya, he could at least say the words he had held back for four years.
“I missed you, Tiya.”
The corners of Tiya’s mouth twitched.
Still pretending to be somewhat upset, she cleared her throat and said primly.
“Hmph, that’s not enough. If you’re really sorry, grant me one request.”
“What is it?”
“Let me have a conversation with Noir. I’m going to have a very serious talk with him.”
A beat too late, Rodion realized he had fallen into Tiya’s trap.
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The training grounds set up in one corner of Vladijef Manor.
Tiya and Rodion faced each other.
“Brother, are you ready?”
At Tiya’s solemn question, Rodion hesitated but eventually summoned Noir.
Hiss! Hiss!
Noir, coiled around Rodion’s arm, was literally barking like a mad dog on a leash.
Perhaps because she had seen his terrifyingly transformed appearance in the nightmare.
Her fear of Noir wasn’t as great as she had thought. Maybe it was because she had learned the cause of her fear of snakes.
Tiya gazed at Winter guarding her side and fully charged her courage to face Noir.
As she recalled the image of Winter instantly subduing Noir in her mind, her rapidly beating heart calmed down a little.
“Shall I start then?”
Taking a deep breath, Tiya strode toward Noir.
Five steps like that.
Four steps.
Three steps.
Two—
“Tiya, it would be better not to come any closer.”
Good, so this far is okay.
Tiya faced Noir and asked calmly.
“Noir. Do you hate me because I’m a mage?”
Hiss, hiss!
“Don’t be like that, let’s get along from now on.”
Kaak!
A few more exchanges followed after that, but Noir’s response remained consistent.
Consistent hostility and aggression toward Tiya.
Eventually, Rodion had to step in.
“Tiya, normally you can’t communicate with spirits. Even Spirit Mages rely on their senses to give commands.”
Still, Noir was usually quite good at understanding and following Rodion’s words.
So there was really only one way.
He had to overcome this flaw himself.
Renewing his resolve, Rodion tried to persuade Tiya.
“The Noir problem is something I’ll—”
“Brother, please be quiet. This is between me and Noir.”
Tiya cut off Rodion’s words with a crisp tone.
“This is a last resort, but I learned how to communicate with spirits from Grandmother.”
To be precise, it was a method for communicating with those who don’t understand words, but anyway.
“You can actually communicate with spirits?”
“Yes, so don’t dismiss the materialization and just watch.”
Having gotten a definitive answer from Rodion, Tiya once again faced Noir directly and called his name affectionately.
“Noir.”
Hiss!
Noir once again bared his fangs threateningly at Tiya—
Whoosh. Thwack!
He got hit on the head by the wooden staff Tiya swung unconsciously.
The startled Noir wrapped his tail around his struck head.
“Violence is the most peaceful means of communication! Listen well, Noir. You mustn’t bite people!”
He was clearly a snake without facial muscles.
Yet his face somehow seemed to say, ‘Huh, what? You hit me? Even my master has never hit me!’
Bewilderment soon turned to anger.
Hisss!
He made threatening sounds as if rallying himself again—
Swoosh, thwack!
But ended up getting hit on the other side too.
“You mustn’t bare your teeth at people carelessly!”
The flustered Noir looked back at Rodion as if asking for help.
Master, help!
Noir’s eyes, filled with that desperate plea, began to well up with tears.
However, Rodion finally turned his head away and spoke solemnly.
“I think I raised you wrong. I’m sorry, Noir…”
As soon as Rodion’s apology ended, Tiya shouted again.
“Only overwhelming force brings peace!”
Hisss!
For a while, the training grounds echoed continuously with the sound of Tiya swinging her staff.
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