Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 65

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

 

Chapter 65

 

Everything seemed no different from usual, yet somehow it felt awkward.

 

Then Tiya suddenly realized why she was here.

 

‘Father! My father is being scolded by that scary grandmother!’

 

She had been looking for her brother to save Father.

 

Tiya scurried down the corridor with her short legs.

 

In the distance, she could see Rodion’s golden hair. Delighted, Tiya’s steps quickened even more.

 

“Brother!”

 

Rodion, who had been crouched with his head down, slowly raised his head.

 

Tiya’s steps gradually slowed.

 

Rodion kept raising his head, continuously. Endlessly.

 

His neck was getting longer and longer.

 

Accordingly, the clothes Rodion was wearing slipped off like molted skin.

 

Soon Rodion’s face transformed into the head of a pure white snake, flicking its tongue as it looked down at Tiya.

 

A massive shadow fell over Tiya, who had stopped completely.

 

“N-Noir?”

 

A frightened voice called the snake’s name.

 

Noir, looking down at Tiya with slit pupils, raised the corners of his mouth in a grin.

 

Then his triangular head split open in two.

 

“Ugh.”

 

Tiya swallowed her scream and began running back the way she came on her short legs.

 

Swish.

 

A chilling sound like silk brushing against grass followed Tiya.

 

“B-Brother!”

 

Tiya ran down the corridor calling for Rodion.

 

“Big brother!”

 

She called for Lev,

 

“Mother… Father.”

 

She searched for Mother and Father.

 

But no one came to find Tiya.

 

Her breath rose to her chin, and the hissing sound right behind her made her neck tingle eerily.

 

Her lungs felt painfully squeezed.

 

Cornered at the end of the corridor, Tiya stood with her back against a large glass window.

 

Noir was leisurely, like a predator driving its prey.

 

Soon, Noir opened his mouth wide once again.

 

The inside of the snake’s mouth was nothing but pitch black.

 

It was the moment when Tiya, paralyzed with fear, squeezed her eyes shut.

 

【This is why legless things are so creepy.】

 

An irritated voice full of complaints echoed in her head.

 

The next moment.

 

Crash!

 

The glass window Tiya was leaning against shattered into pieces, and an arm wearing black leather gloves burst out from within.

 

That hand precisely embraced Tiya’s body and pulled her straight into the glass window.

 

“Kyaaaaa!”

 

Tiya screamed as she tumbled to the ground.

 

Flailing her arms like a drowning person, Tiya belatedly noticed Winter looking down at her blankly.

 

Only then did she suddenly remember where this was and what her plan had been.

 

“Use Noir’s nightmares for magic training! And help Brother’s training too!”

 

She had definitely steeled her resolve like that.

 

“It was so, so scary!”

 

To become four years old again and dream of being chased by a snake and eventually eaten!

 

Somehow this nightmare was definitely different from the last one.

 

‘Last time I watched another me suffering from outside the mirror.’

 

It was sad, frustrating, and unfair, but her heart didn’t break.

 

Because she clearly recognized that it was a nightmare.

 

But this time was different.

 

Forgetting that she was having a nightmare and what her plan was, she could only helplessly be chased by the snake as a four-year-old child.

 

Tiya, who had barely calmed her heart, rubbed her arms that were still covered in goosebumps and said.

 

“If Winter hadn’t saved me, it would have been terrible. Thank you, Winter.”

 

As long as Winter is here, nightmares aren’t scary at all!

 

“Well, it’s mutual benefit.”

 

“What does mutual benefit mean?”

 

Instead of answering, Winter drew the long magic wand from his waist.

 

“It means it’s time to start training, my disciple.”

 

“Yes, Master!”

 

Tiya likewise drew her beginner’s wand from her waist and gripped it like a sword.

 

When they touched the tips of their wands together like handling swords according to the Family’s etiquette, a cheerful sound and vibration was transmitted, unlike before.

 

Winter, who had withdrawn his wand, held his magic wand vertically like raising a sword and briefly enjoyed the sensation of life transmitted through his hands.

 

“The reason I deliberately used lucid dreaming is to teach you staff magic.”

 

“Staff magic?”

 

“It’s like staff techniques using a wand. It’s quite helpful for mages who are vulnerable in close combat. Most mages avoid it though.”

 

He had decided to teach her after seeing Tiya beat up Noir. If he taught her staff magic, she would surely put it to good use.

 

However, unlike magic, there were limits to teaching physical combat techniques with a spirit body, which would have been regrettable, but to have such an opportunity.

 

Winter lightly swung his wand, feeling the weight of gravity after a long time.

 

“Now, I’ll teach you about staff magic, so learn well.”

 

“Yes, Master!”

 

Tiya prepared to listen attentively to Winter’s words with a serious expression.

 

“The basics of staff magic is flowing mana into the magic wand to strengthen it. A wand wrapped in compressed mana won’t be cut even by an aura-wrapped sword.”

 

Tiya’s eyes blazed fiercely like an evening sky with falling meteors.

 

While mages were cool, she had secretly thought they might not be able to beat knights.

 

But to overcome even aura-wrapped swords!

 

‘Mages are the strongest…!’

 

“If you compress too much mana, the wand gets damaged, and conversely, if you compress too little, the mana scatters. So how much mana should be compressed and to what degree. This can only be learned through practical experience.”

 

“I like practical experience!”

 

“Good attitude. Still, since today is the first day, let’s go easy. First, try infusing mana into your wand.”

 

Tiya infused mana into her magic wand as Winter instructed.

 

Carefully, carefully, mana spreading from Tiya’s hands wrapped around the magic wand like dressing it in clothes.

 

“I did it!”

 

Right at that moment.

 

Crack!

 

Winter’s wand, loaded with golden mana, struck Tiya’s wand like a sword. Then the mana that had wrapped Tiya’s magic wand shattered instantly.

 

“Kyaaa, my mana!”

 

“Next step. Try blocking my attack with a mana-wrapped wand.”

 

“…Didn’t you definitely say we’d go easy since today is the first day?”

 

“Right, let’s lightly learn practical combat sense. Get in position.”

 

Isn’t the pace too fast, Master?

 

Tiya’s response was drowned out by the continuous sounds of striking that followed.

 

Every time Winter’s staff clashed with Tiya’s staff, sparks of mana flew up like fireworks.

 

Even so, Tiya didn’t even blink as she thoroughly absorbed everything Winter taught her.

 

Her frightening level of concentration combined with her natural physical abilities.

 

Before long, staff magic had become Tiya’s most confident specialty.

 

* * *

 

“Buuuuah!”

 

Tiya, who had been sleeping in Rodion’s arms, raised both arms into the air and shouted.

 

Though Rodion had already seen Tiya wake up from nightmares as if nothing happened several times, he still couldn’t believe it.

 

“Phew, that was another productive nightmare today. Brother, how many minutes did it take me to wake up this time?”

 

“…About 1 minute.”

 

It took 3 whole hours for the memory labyrinth to collapse, but only 1 minute in reality!

 

“Yes, jackpot!”

 

“Jackpot, you say. Where did you learn such words…”

 

Rodion, who was about to ask where she learned that, closed his mouth and shook his head.

 

Tiya is as cute as a honeybee too. And according to her words, I want to let her live buried in flowers, just sucking honey, so it’s not wrong either.

 

“You didn’t have any particular nightmares today either?”

 

“Nope. How about you, Brother? Is your training going well?”

 

Rodion’s expression became strange at Tiya’s question.

 

Lately, Rodion had been training to control Noir while holding Tiya in his arms.

 

It actually did take longer than before for Noir to attack Tiya.

 

He couldn’t tell whether it was because he was controlling Noir well, or because Noir was getting fed up with Tiya who would bounce right back up no matter how many times he asked.

 

Still, if he tried to interpret it positively somehow—

 

“It seems better than before.”

 

At any rate, holding Tiya wasn’t as frightening as it used to be.

 

“Good. Let’s work harder. Then hug me one more time!”

 

Noir hissed as if he was getting extremely annoyed.

 

This time, Rodion hugged Tiya tightly without hesitation.

 

Noir immediately went berserk, but Rodion didn’t loosen his strength from the arms holding Tiya.

 

Tiya also hugged Rodion back with all her might.

 

“Brother, stay strong!”

 

Unfortunately, that became Tiya’s last words before falling asleep. In the end, he failed to control Noir today as well.

 

But instead of shaking the sleeping Tiya awake again, he whispered softly into the child’s ear.

 

“Sweet dreams, Tiya.”

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