Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 63

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

 

Chapter 63

 

While it was true that Noir’s aggression toward Tiya had decreased compared to before, he still couldn’t perfectly control Noir.

 

Once he was confident that Noir wouldn’t bite Tiya…

 

Then he felt he would have the courage to hold Tiya face to face.

 

Yet Tiya had absolutely no intention of listening to reason.

 

“It’s fine! I’m really not bothered by nightmares at all!”

 

So hug me! Hurry up and hug me!

 

She would constantly block Rodion’s path and demand hugs like a back-alley thug extorting money.

 

Rodion knew it was an absurd lie. There was no way nightmares weren’t scary.

 

But Tiya’s pleading gaze was so pitiful.

 

He couldn’t help but think that maybe just a hug would be okay.

 

Even though he didn’t have the ability to control Noir.

 

Finding it hard to resist that desire, Rodion had been avoiding Tiya for a whole week now, fleeing at the mere sight of her shadow.

 

Even before he could hear any signs of people in the distance, Noir reacted to Tiya’s mana first.

 

Rodion stopped walking and waited to hear the sound of Tiya’s bouncing footsteps.

 

But no matter how long he waited, he couldn’t hear any footsteps. Even though Noir was writhing, wanting to jump out of the shadows immediately.

 

And it wasn’t long after that.

 

Clatter clatter clatter clatter.

 

An unidentifiable sound began echoing from the end of that corridor.

 

It sounded like a centipede with dozens of legs scurrying across the wooden floor.

 

It gave him chills.

 

And finally, the moment the identity of what had been hiding in the shadows was revealed.

 

Clatter.

 

“A wooden soldier…?”

 

The tension drained from Rodion’s shoulders, which had been rigid with nervousness.

 

What blocked Rodion’s path was a wooden toy about the size of his palm.

 

The wooden soldier approached with stiff legs that couldn’t bend, bouncing off the floor.

 

“It must be Tiya’s magic.”

 

How cute.

 

Rodion smiled warmly and was about to carefully pick up the wooden soldier when he hesitated.

 

Clatter… clatter clatter.

 

The wooden soldier wasn’t alone.

 

Behind the soldier in the lead, dozens of toys were filling the entire corridor.

 

Just as Rodion took a step back, a sly voice came from behind him.

 

“Hehe, how does it feel to be the hunted, big brother?”

 

Tiya’s eyes gleaming in the darkness were ominous.

 

Rodion stammered in uncharacteristic panic.

 

“Ti, Tiya. Why are your eyes like that?”

 

Her eyes are so clear, so why is there madness…?

 

But Tiya could no longer hear Rodion’s words.

 

“Big brother is already surrounded! So give up now and surrender yourself to my embrace!”

 

Rodion pressed his forehead. Her eyes had completely rolled back, and it seemed they were long past the stage of reasoning.

 

Tiya immediately resorted to force.

 

“All troops! Advance forward! Our only objective is the capture of Rodion Vladijef!”

 

Clatter clatter clatter clatter.

 

At Tiya’s command, wooden soldiers swarmed like a pack of rats and surrounded Rodion.

 

Rodion was quickly cornered against the wall.

 

【I knew it, but a mana tank is truly terrifying.】

 

Winter, who had been leisurely watching the situation, muttered.

 

Tiya had inscribed creation magic on each and every one of those many toys.

 

Their movements creaked like zombies because the magic was hastily applied, but the important thing was that even after consuming so much power, Tiya’s mana hadn’t run out.

 

“My, my arms hurt.”

 

Though she did whine while holding her overworked arms from drawing magic formulas.

 

【…This must be why they said she went against the natural order.】

 

As the encirclement gradually tightened, Rodion had no choice but to extend his leg.

 

Sorry, but he thought he should just trample the soldiers and escape from this place.

 

“Ah! Little Count Redolph that Count Redolph made by staying up for three days and nights!”

 

At Tiya’s cry, Rodion’s hesitant foot moved to the left, then,

 

“Aah! Little Sir Anatsa that Sir Anatsa made while cutting his hand with a carving knife!”

 

At Tiya’s foot-stomping tantrum, his foot extended to the right.

 

Then this time Tiya covered her cheeks and turned red like a tomato.

 

Just as Rodion’s confused foot was about to extend straight forward—

 

“Aaah! Little Sir Berdolt!”

 

Tiya clutched her head and wailed.

 

In the end, Rodion’s foot returned to its original position.

 

He had wondered why they all looked so different. They must all be Tiya’s precious friends.

 

‘I have no choice.’

 

“Noir.”

 

At the quiet call, Rodion’s shadow expanded wildly and stretched all the way to the end of the corridor.

 

The soldiers whose shadows were consumed by Noir’s domain creaked involuntarily and made way for Rodion.

 

Rodion walked through that path, which had parted like the miracle of the Red Sea, without hesitation.

 

“That’s, that’s cheating!”

 

Tiya shouted from behind, but Rodion didn’t look back. This was something even he couldn’t compromise on.

 

He planned to escape the corridor just like this before Tiya could charge at him like an angry bear.

 

“Kyaang!”

 

Thud.

 

Tiya’s scream and the sound of her falling hard caught his ankle.

 

When he glanced back, Tiya was lying face down in the middle of the corridor.

 

It seemed she had tripped while trying to run to him, avoiding the soldiers.

 

“Tiya, are you okay?”

 

Unable to pretend he didn’t see, he asked worriedly. After a long silence, Tiya raised her head.

 

Her eyes were brimming with tears. It was the moment when Rodion’s heart softened and he hesitated.

 

Tiya’s lips curved up in a grin, revealing her particularly sharp canine teeth.

 

With the face of a hunter who had spotted prey caught in a trap, Tiya shouted.

 

“Now’s the time, Sasha 2nd!”

 

Rodion wasn’t careless.

 

The surroundings were already within Noir’s domain.

 

Even if something approached, he could immediately grab its shadow and stop its movement.

 

The moment he raised his head while maintaining his guard.

 

Whoosh!

 

“…?”

 

Sensing a presence above his head, he looked up to check the ceiling, and his body froze instantly.

 

“…!”

 

A cursed doll with a menacing appearance was staring down at Rodion with hollow button eyes.

 

The price of losing focus for a moment was devastating.

 

“Heart attack!”

 

At the same time the cursed doll stuck to Rodion’s face, a familiar weight and warmth burrowed into Rodion’s arms.

 

While instinctively catching the small body that entered his embrace, he desperately suppressed the rampaging Noir.

 

“Stop, Noir!”

 

Noir, who had revealed himself on his own, froze as if his tail had been stepped on.

 

Rodion, who had barely managed to control the situation, let out a sigh of relief and stared at Tiya with a stern expression.

 

However, Noir’s body being bound by Rodion’s command was only momentary. Using that gap, Rodion put his hands under Tiya’s armpits and lifted her up.

 

“Tiya, what kind of dangerous thing is this? Hurry—”

 

“Hey, you hairless thing! Baldy! They say you’re a chrome dome!”

 

“What?”

 

Tiya’s gaze was directed not at Rodion, but at Noir.

 

He definitely shouldn’t be able to understand human speech.

 

As if his reverse scale had been touched, Noir began trembling his tail violently.

 

Noir immediately dove into Rodion’s shadow with a splash.

 

And so it was the moment when Rodion briefly lost track of the spirit’s location.

 

Like a predator hiding in a swamp, Noir swam through the shadows and shot up like a geyser, sinking his fangs into Tiya’s dangling ankle in mid-air.

 

Before he could do anything, the small body lost strength and went limp.

 

“…Tiya?”

 

Rodion held Tiya close and checked her complexion, but it was already too late.

 

Tiya had already been deeply submerged in the swamp of nightmares.

 

“No…”

 

Once again, he had dragged Tiya into a terrible nightmare.

 

It was the moment he cupped Tiya’s cheek while biting his lip in guilt.

 

Flash!

 

Tiya opened her bright eyes and used the momentum to spring up like a coil, then shouted energetically.

 

“Boooooom!”

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

Not only Rodion but even Noir was left speechless in disbelief.

 

A person bitten by Noir and fallen into nightmares couldn’t wake up for at least several hours.

 

The dream world was a place where the laws of this world didn’t apply. Sometimes a few hours in reality could feel like days in a dream.

 

That’s what made Noir’s nightmares even more terrible.

 

Rodion asked with a bewildered face.

 

“…This shouldn’t be possible. Tiya, how did you wake up so quickly?”

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