Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 64

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

 

Chapter 64

 

Tiya lightly stretched her limbs and flipped her hair back with a flourish.

 

“Heh. The results of training, perhaps?”

 

As if that were possible.

 

Noir’s nightmares weren’t something you could escape from simply through effort or staying alert.

 

Of course, in principle, you just had to find the exit door, but that couldn’t be so easy.

 

To Rodion, who couldn’t quite accept it, Tiya added triumphantly.

 

“I told you, didn’t I? I’m not scared of nightmares or anything like that at all. So let’s keep training! Let’s move on to the next stage!”

 

“Next stage… training?”

 

“Yeah! Training where you hold me tight and endure so Noir doesn’t bite me. You just saw it, right? Even when Noir bites me, I wake up right away. I don’t even have nightmares.”

 

“But—”

 

Tiya raised her index finger in front of Rodion’s lips as he was about to object.

 

“If you train like me, you can do it too, brother!”

 

He couldn’t even object by saying ‘you can’t do it.’

 

He had seen the impossible result with his own two eyes.

 

Winter, who had been watching the standoff between the two, nodded with a satisfied smile.

 

【Results of training? My disciple has gotten quite thick-skinned too.】

 

Naturally, the reason Tiya could snap awake from Rodion’s nightmares wasn’t thanks to the results of training.

 

* * *

 

One week ago.

 

Tiya, who had secretly climbed onto the roof, was observing constellations with Winter.

 

Though it was a bitterly cold winter night, for Tiya who had spent four years in the North, this level of cold was no problem at all.

 

【A truly excellent mage must know how to read the flow of celestial bodies. So you must always observe the changes in the stars every night.】

 

Magic is power that comes from the constellations.

 

Therefore, during periods when constellations draw particularly close to this world, the power of mages who have received that constellation’s blessing grows stronger.

 

Mages called this ‘the star blooming.’

 

【There, at the far left end, the star shining with red light is Artes, the guardian star. Do you see it?】

 

“Mm-hmm.”

 

【Don’t get distracted and look carefully. Confirming your constellation is also important work.】

 

Despite Winter’s scolding, Tiya’s head kept turning beyond the roof, toward the far end of the manor’s left third floor.

 

It was Rodion’s room.

 

When Tiya couldn’t focus on the lesson at all, Winter decided to end it here.

 

The night was getting late, and what was urgently needed wasn’t learning to read celestial flows.

 

Winter’s gaze turned to the crude magic wand fastened at Tiya’s waist.

 

Too good a weapon not only hinders a young mage’s growth but is also dangerous for them.

 

It’s the same principle as having someone learning swordplay start with a wooden sword rather than a real blade.

 

Therefore, the original plan was to have her wield only beginner magic wands for about six months.

 

‘For a magic wand whose strength is its durability to crack. She must have really beaten it up good.’

 

Because the wand had cracked from Noir’s etiquette education, they needed to get a new wand again.

 

Actually, that wasn’t the only reason they needed a new wand.

 

Tiya’s learning speed in acquiring magic was extraordinary.

 

‘Is early education really important for magic after all?’

 

Thanks to this, it seemed they’d need to get a proper wand sooner than expected.

 

Winter crossed her arms and wiggled her fingers while lost in thought.

 

‘It’s her first proper wand, so I can’t just give her anything.’

 

Winter’s hand caressed the wand handle at her waist.

 

‘There’s really only ‘that wand’ for this.’

 

Just as Winter finished organizing her thoughts and was about to speak.

 

Tiya let out a heavy sigh and grumbled.

 

“My overwhelming force is insufficient to subdue Noir…”

 

【I thought you couldn’t focus on the lesson at all, and that’s what you were thinking about?】

 

“It’s an important problem for me.”

 

After resolving the misunderstanding with Rodion in the memory labyrinth.

 

Unlike before, Tiya no longer misunderstood Rodion’s affection.

 

Moreover, Noir’s etiquette education was showing results, but they weren’t the only ones growing.

 

Tiya’s rival, Noir, was also getting stronger!

 

Tiya lovingly caressed her cracked wand and asked.

 

“At this rate, there won’t be any wands left, Winter.”

 

【When Artes blooms, let’s go get a proper wand.】

 

“A proper wand?”

 

Tiya’s eyes already sparkled as if she had discovered treasure.

 

Then she quickly became dejected and hugged her wand to her chest.

 

“But what if it cracks like this wand again?”

 

【…Don’t you think using a wand for physical purposes is what’s wrong?】

 

“But I have no choice when dealing with Noir. Isn’t there magic that can make your body hard like stone? If I’m fine even when Noir bites me, I won’t have nightmares. Then brother could hug me comfortably, couldn’t he?”

 

【If such convenient magic existed, mages wouldn’t be called weaklings in close combat. The important thing is not having nightmares, so like now…】

 

Winter, who had been speaking, suddenly trailed off.

 

Not having nightmares, huh…?

 

Winter, who had been wiggling her fingers as if pondering something, spoke after a moment.

 

【Even if you have nightmares, it’s fine if you escape right away. You know the method, don’t you?】

 

“There’s such a method?”

 

Tiya’s gloomy face brightened completely.

 

As expected, life’s answer key, Winter!

 

She knows everything!

 

However, Tiya’s answer key didn’t easily reveal her thoughts.

 

【You already escaped from a nightmare by yourself. How were you able to do that?】

 

Tiya crossed her arms and began wiggling her fingers like Winter did when thinking.

 

Tap.

 

‘I didn’t escape the nightmare by finding the door brother mentioned. According to Winter, I used a trick.’

 

Tap tap.

 

‘How was I able to do that? I just pulled another me beyond the mirror.’

 

Tap.

 

‘If there’s something special about me that others don’t have…’

 

Finally, Tiya’s finger movements stopped.

 

“Because I have… Winter? So that’s why I could use a trick to escape from the nightmare?”

 

【You’re starting to think quite like a mage now, my disciple.】

 

Winter’s lips curved in a refreshing smile, as if proud of her disciple who got the right answer.

 

【That’s right, normally it wouldn’t be easy to escape from nightmares. But there’s one thing the snake brat didn’t notice, right? Namely—】

 

Tap tap. Winter tapped her own chest.

 

【My existence. When you have nightmares, I’ll use a trick to get you out.】

 

“Then… then it doesn’t matter if Noir bites me! I can just whoosh! escape from the nightmare anyway! Then brother can treat me without hesitation even without subduing Noir!”

 

【Foolish disciple, you know one thing but not two.】

 

What Winter was aiming for wasn’t improving the relationship between Rodion and Tiya.

 

Only one thing. Teaching Tiya magic more efficiently.

 

【In a lucid dream, I can have a physical body too.】

 

If she had a physical body, she could teach things that couldn’t be taught with this phantom form.

 

Though there was a veil between them, master and disciple looked at each other.

 

Identical smiles formed on both their lips.

 

【I’m going to use Rodion’s snake brat for magic training.】

 

“I’ll use magic training as an excuse to help brother learn to handle spirits!”

 

The girl and the ghost shouted completely different things, but at least their purpose was the same.

 

From that day on, Tiya followed Rodion around persistently, letting him know that she was completely unaffected by Noir’s nightmares.

 

Naturally, Rodion didn’t believe her, and after a week of playing tag like that…

 

“Heart attack!”

 

“Stop, Noir!”

 

Even as she was bitten by Noir’s fangs, Tiya smiled triumphantly.

 

* * *

 

“Good, everything’s going according to plan!”

 

Tiya, who had been shouting with clenched fists, suddenly stopped.

 

“But… what was the plan again?”

 

Tiya looked around with a blank expression.

 

The long corridor of Vladijef Manor leading to the Great Hall.

 

Tiya’s reflection appeared in the massive glass windows decorating the corridor.

 

Perhaps because this was her first time here. Everything seemed so grand and enormous while she alone felt so shabby and small.

 

Her fists no bigger than chestnuts, her height that didn’t even reach an adult’s waist, her short arms and legs.

 

“Why… am I so small.”

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