Tia’s Smooth Life After Regression - Chapter 75

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Tiya’s Smooth Regression Life

 

Chapter 75

 

A lunch gathering where the entire family was present, except for Father.

 

Not only her brother, but Valentina’s mood also seemed to have sunk.

 

Throughout the meal, Tiya kept her attention focused solely on Valentina’s plate.

 

‘One bite, two bites, three bites, half…?’

 

While she chewed and swallowed an entire chunk of steak, all Valentina had eaten was barely three and a half bites of bread.

 

【How can she eat so unappetizingly like that? I can’t even eat, but watching her makes me lose my appetite too.】

 

Unable to bear watching any longer, Tiya picked up a piece of meat from the meat platter.

 

She placed it on Valentina’s plate and said,

 

“Valen, try this too. It’s really delicious?”

 

“Yes, I’ll eat it well.”

 

Fortunately, Valentina didn’t refuse.

 

Instead, she cut the chunk of meat into fingernail-sized pieces and carefully ate them one piece at a time.

 

Winter, who found everything about Valentina disagreeable, continued grumbling.

 

【How is that supposed to even reach her liver? She’s already skin and bones, and if she doesn’t eat during her growth period, she won’t grow tall later… Ah.】

 

As if remembering something, Winter suddenly stopped speaking.

 

After that, she no longer commented on Valentina’s eating habits.

 

However, this time Tiya nodded in agreement with Winter’s words and muttered,

 

“You need to eat a lot to grow big and strong, so you can become an amazing adult later.”

 

‘No wonder Valen is so delicate and thin.’

 

She was already smaller and more petite than her peers.

 

She said she was nine years old, but she was a whole hand’s width shorter than me, who’s eight.

 

When I first went to the North, I think I understood a little why Grandmother Bear tried to feed me six meals a day.

 

‘I hope Grandmother Bear is doing well.’

 

Just as her thoughts naturally began to flow toward worrying about Grandmother Bear,

 

Clank.

 

The sound of utensils clinking brought Tiya back to attention.

 

Even though her plate wasn’t completely empty, Valentina had put down her fork.

 

“Are you already finished eating?”

 

“I’ve eaten enough. I can’t eat any more.”

 

It was right when Valentina finished speaking.

 

Grumble.

 

A rumbling sound came from somewhere.

 

It wasn’t just Tiya who heard it, as everyone’s gaze focused on Valentina.

 

It was too loud for her to deny it wasn’t her, so Valentina quietly blushed.

 

However, no one laughed.

 

Tiya’s face became serious as she began combatively loading food and transferring it to Valentina’s plate.

 

Lev, sitting to Tiya’s right, quietly moved his portion of vegetables through Tiya to Valentina’s plate.

 

Before long, food was piled up like a mountain on Valentina’s plate.

 

“I’m really full though…”

 

Valentina muttered with a slightly overwhelmed expression, but this no longer worked on Tiya.

 

“You need to eat this much to grow tall like me. Come on, say ‘ah.'”

 

Tiya stabbed a large piece of lean meat with her fork and brought it to Valentina’s mouth.

 

Valentina hesitated, then opened her mouth slightly to accept it.

 

Without even chewing a few times, the meat melted away in her mouth like snow.

 

Despite her hesitation, a faint satisfaction spread across Valentina’s face.

 

Tiya, who had been waiting for her to finish chewing, quickly offered the next piece.

 

“Say ‘ah’ for this one too.”

 

This time it was a thick slice of bacon, crispy on the outside.

 

“This one too, ‘ah.'”

 

Next was a spoonful of fluffy mashed potatoes.

 

【Just like a mother crow bringing food to her baby bird.】

 

It was when Tiya, who had begun to feel a kind of mission in feeding Valentina, reached for a meat pie stuffed full.

 

Rodion, who had been sitting across from them watching his siblings with a pleased expression, spoke up.

 

“Tiya, you shouldn’t force her to eat. Valentina, you don’t have to eat everything Tiya gives you either.”

 

“…Valen, were you eating reluctantly?”

 

“No, I ate well thanks to you. It seemed to taste better because you were giving it to me, Tiya.”

 

Valentina gently responded to Tiya’s mumbling.

 

It was when Lev was pretending to gag at Valentina’s sweet talk, as he always did.

 

Rodion, who had been waiting for everyone to finish eating, spoke with an expectant expression.

 

“You know the Crystal Palace opens in a few days, right?”

 

The children nodded.

 

The news of the Crystal Palace’s opening had The Dominion buzzing, so they couldn’t help but know.

 

Especially Tiya, who desperately wanted to attend the Crystal Palace’s opening party.

 

In front of such siblings, Rodion held out three card envelopes.

 

“Huh, huh? Don’t tell me these are…?”

 

“That’s right, they’re invitations to the Crystal Palace opening party.”

 

At a speed that would make even the best card shark stick out their tongue, Tiya quickly grabbed an envelope.

 

She tore off the seal as if ripping it apart and opened the envelope to pull out the card.

 

When she unfolded the card, a three-dimensional model intricately carved in the shape of a massive glass garden rose up from within the card.

 

It really was an invitation to the Crystal Palace opening party!

 

“Brother, you’re the best! How did you get these? They said you couldn’t buy them even with money!”

 

Rodion had a slightly contemplative expression, wondering how to explain this, then just spoke honestly.

 

“I’m attending as the representative of the Vladijef Family.”

 

Ah, I see!

 

The Royal Court had sent invitations to the empire’s distinguished noble families to commemorate the Crystal Palace opening, and naturally the Vladijef Family was included among them.

 

But currently the Vladijef Family was trapped in the North due to the blockade order.

 

“So brother is the highest-ranking Vladijef elder in the capital!”

 

【So this is how we get them.】

 

Tiya laughed delightedly with glee.

 

Valentina also touched the card with a face that couldn’t hide her anticipation.

 

Only Lev frowned with disgust and picked up the edge of the invitation with his index finger and thumb, as if picking up a used tissue.

 

Going out was absolutely detestable.

 

“Hyung, you should tell me about things like this in advance. I’m a busy person too. Unfortunately, I have work that day, so going out would be difficult.”

 

Lev spoke with a face that seemed truly regretful, but.

 

“Brother, you had something to do?”

 

“What kind of schedule do you have?”

 

“Lev, you have a prior engagement? Did you perhaps make a friend?”

 

【Where would a room corner mold have to go?】

 

It didn’t work at all.

 

“Ah, fine. I’ll go, I’ll go!”

 

In the end, Lev had no choice but to click his tongue and take the invitation.

 

* * *

 

After the meal ended.

 

Valentina immediately returned to her room and stuck her head into a bucket.

 

After forcing herself to dry heave as if wringing out her insides, she vomited up most of what she had just eaten.

 

Though exhausted, instead of lying on the bed, she went to the corner wall of the room, pressed her back against it, and stood. Then she marked her height with charcoal.

 

The wall was densely covered with traces of Valentina measuring her height.

 

Though the height of the lines drawn on the wall was roughly the same, anxiety flickered in Valentina’s eyes.

 

‘Have I grown a bit?’

 

She wasn’t sure. But it was true that she had been eating excessively well at every meal since coming here.

 

“Tsk, I can’t get too tall.”

 

No matter how much she dressed up and was careful with her behavior, there would come a time when she couldn’t hide being a boy.

 

To delay that time even a little, she had drastically reduced her food intake even at Dantalion Castle.

 

Fortunately, thanks to the terrible food, starving wasn’t too difficult.

 

But the warm soup, soft wheat bread, and juicy meat she had tasted here completely destroyed Valentina’s patience.

 

And lately, she had just barely learned how to restrain herself with food.

 

“Tiya, you shouldn’t force her to eat. Valentina doesn’t have to accept everything you give her either.”

 

Suddenly, Rodion’s words from the dining table came to mind.

 

‘Did it look like I was eating reluctantly?’

 

Still, she had eaten the food Tiya offered deliciously.

 

Because Tiya’s face looked so proud and happy when feeding her food.

 

Valentina soothed her aching stomach and examined the invitation Rodion had given her once more.

 

To think she could see all kinds of flowers she had only seen in plant guides.

 

“You’re looking forward to it too, aren’t you, Rose?”

 

For the first time in a very long while, Valentina found herself hoping that time would pass quickly.

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