Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 1

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Chapter 1
I had gambled away my entire fortune.
“Miss, are you alright…?”
The Old Gentleman nearby asked with concern, and I drew a smile across my lips.
“I’m fine. It’s only my life that’s ruined.”
The atmosphere around me grew heavier at those words, yet I laughed with composure.
A youthful and delicate face, as though I had only just reached adulthood. My appearance was utterly incongruous with the Gambling House.
“To show concern for others in such a cutthroat place—you’re a kind person, aren’t you?”
I twisted my rose-gold hair around my fingers absently.
“Sigh, I really don’t have the temperament for gambling. That was a close call.”
The people around me looked at me with expressions that said, ‘The disaster has already happened.’
“I don’t know how wealthy your family is, miss, but this amount of money….”
Despite the concern pouring in from all directions, I merely laughed with indifference.
“That’s right. It’s enough to lose several buildings in the Capital City Center.”
And yet, who earned that money in the first place?
I understood the value of that sum better than anyone.
“But this round wasn’t my fault—the other side cheated by switching cards. So there’s no reason I should lose money, is there?”
I had memorized every card, yet the outcome kept diverging from my predictions. That was the proof.
“This is why you should never play against card sharps.”
With an expression of wasted time, I clicked my tongue, then suddenly shrugged lightly.
“But it’s fine. I can just use my ability to fix this.”
After all, I had memorized the cards beforehand as well, so I hadn’t exactly played fairly from the start.
As I spoke as though I might overturn the table at any moment, the guards approached, watching me closely.
Sensing the physical pressure, I furrowed my brows with regret.
“Unfortunately, my combat ability isn’t very good. At least I’ve made saving a habit, so there’s that.”
I smiled brightly and introduced my life philosophy to those around me.
“Everyone, let’s make saving a way of life. Backup isn’t optional—it’s essential.”
[Loading Checkpoint 1.]
My vision spun in an instant, and the scenery shifted.
The moment I activated my ability, everyone in the Gambling House, including myself, vanished, leaving only silence in their wake.
No—people hadn’t disappeared. Everything that had just happened ceased to exist.

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I fidgeted with my fingers before the firmly closed door.
It was fine that I’d come to see Elysion, my only friend, before departing for distant lands.
But knowing this might be the last time, I couldn’t bring myself to pull my hand away.
…Wait. We are friends, aren’t we?
Suddenly uncertain about the ambiguous nature of our relationship, I shook off the thought and knocked softly.
“Elysion, I’m here.”
When I rapped on the Research Laboratory door, a small voice seeped out from within.
“No such person exists here.”
Excuse me? Then whose familiar voice was that just now?
I briefly considered forcing the door open, but stubbornness took hold, and I waited patiently for him to open it himself.
“Fine. I’ll hold my breath until you open this door.”
Ten minutes later.
I raised my voice with wounded indignation, making sure he could hear me clearly.
“You murderous bastard!”
Not opening the door for long enough that a person could die—wasn’t that heartless?
That’s when the locked door suddenly clicked open with a magical sound.
So he was going to open it after all.
I shrugged lightly and stepped into his Research Laboratory.
“Hello. You look busy.”
Elysion set down the quill he’d been moving busily and turned his gaze toward me.
“Tania, didn’t I specifically ask you to give me a year’s notice if you ever needed a favor?”
A playful glint danced in Elysion’s eyes as he spoke.
If he wanted a year’s notice, wasn’t that the same as saying not to ask at all?
“I just came because I wanted to see you. Should I leave?”
“…I welcome you visiting my Research Laboratory.”
Pleased by my words, he rose from his seat and began preparing tea with his own hands.
He moved his hands busily while glancing at me with a puzzled expression.
“You coming to see me without any favor to ask….”
“It’s a first.”
“Is something wrong?”
His pointed question made my expression slip for a moment.
I quickly composed myself and asked with a mischievous tone.
“Elysion, have you ever accidentally or unfairly lost important research materials you’d worked hard on?”
Like if you were about to save a file on Earth and suddenly a blue screen appeared.
Or the power suddenly went out before you could save.
Or you accidentally overwrote a completed file with another one.
At my question, Elysion furrowed his brow deeply and clicked his tongue in disgust.
“Why are you suddenly telling such a horrifying story?”
“Oh. Your expression is worth seeing.”
I pulled my lips up in a crooked smile. It was a more entertaining reaction than I’d anticipated.
Then again, as a mage, he’d likely experienced far more such catastrophes than most.
For instance, research materials painstakingly gathered over months could be swept away in an explosion during experimentation.
“Anyway, how do you feel when that happens?”
“I want to give up on everything.”
“Again?”
“The desire to turn back time?”
“Exactly.”
I smiled broadly and finally voiced the thought I’d been harboring in silence, never sharing it with anyone.
“Truth is, my life is like that right now. I want to go back to the beginning.”
“Tania.”
Elysion’s blue eyes darkened with shadow.
“Your life is already brilliant beyond measure. Why would you think such things?”
I let out a self-deprecating laugh.
“I have plenty of money. But I don’t have a family to share happiness with.”
“…Would you let me be your husband?”
I chuckled softly at his jest.
“You wouldn’t understand, Elysion, but there was someone precious to me—like family. He passed away five years ago.”
Aiden.
He was the one who spent his entire life struggling to raise me, though I wasn’t even his biological child.
How could I simply let him go with a light farewell, as if he were doing well in heaven?
I had only one choice.
To abandon everything I’d built here and go meet him.
Ever since he passed, I’d been gathering information to use in the next life.
From major historical climate patterns and political trends to minor scandals among the nobility.
Since I’d decided to discard this life the moment I confirmed his death, I felt no regret about leaving behind what I’d accumulated.
Yet there was one thing I couldn’t quite let go of.
I gazed intently at Elysion.
Silver hair gleaming as it caught the light. Eyes as blue as the sea itself.
Though he’d pulled countless all-nighters for work, not a single blemish marred his face.
I always thought the same thing—his beautiful features seemed to overflow with divine favoritism.
On impulse, I lowered my head and pulled him close by his collar, kissing him before he could even register what was happening.
The warmth of his lips against mine was vivid. My heart raced pleasantly.
After the brief kiss, I pulled away and offered him a radiant smile.
“This is a parting gift.”
“Huh…?”
Stunned, he stared at me with vacant eyes, as if he hadn’t even processed the words “parting gift.”
How much time had passed?
Once Elysion grasped what had just occurred, his face flushed crimson in an instant.
He hastily distanced himself from me, both hands covering his lips in a manner entirely unbecoming of him.
“You, you…!”
I suppressed the corners of my mouth that were creeping upward and chuckled like a mischievous boy.
“Elysion, you like me, don’t you?”
“…What?”
He stared at me with a momentarily dazed expression, then cried out with considerable excitement.
“What do you mean! You’re the one who’s liked me all along!”
“Huh?”
I blinked my eyes.
Knowing that I would eventually have to part ways with Elysion, I had deliberately kept my distance all this time.
Besides…
No matter how I thought about it, he was the one who had come looking for me every day without fail since our first meeting.
Whenever I thought it was an opportunity to make use of a precious mage, I would ask him for various favors, and he would comply without complaint.
But he was saying that I liked him?
Out of pure curiosity, I tilted my head to the side.
“Why do you think that?”
“Well…!”
He opened his mouth as if he had much to say, then hesitated and bit his lip.
I let out a soft laugh and poked one of his cheeks with my index finger.
“If you don’t like me, then it’s actually a relief.”
I could part ways without any lingering attachment.
I swallowed the rest of my words and smiled brightly at Elysion.
“Take care.”
Then I quietly closed my eyes and activated my ability.
[Which timepoint would you like to load?]
▶Timepoint 1
Imperial Calendar Year 286, September 28th.
19:41:42 (Age 19)
▶Timepoint 2
Imperial Calendar Year 286, August 1st
15:50:29 (Age 19)
▶Timepoint 3
Imperial Calendar Year 286, October 1st
12:41:42 (Age 19)
▶Timepoint 4
Imperial Calendar Year 274, April 20th
13:07:42 (Age 7)
Do you know what the greatest advantage of Save Load is?
The answer is simple: you can discard anything that’s gone wrong and restart from any saved timepoint whenever you wish.
Yes, I was planning to restart my life.
I would never have gone back if it weren’t for the only timeframe in which Aiden was still alive…
To my seventh year—the worst time of my life.

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“Take care of yourself.”
“Tania, what are you—!”
Tania vanished before his eyes, and Elysion found himself speaking in an unfamiliar room—not the Research Laboratory where she had been moments before.
He realized she had rewound time again, and his teeth ground together in fury.
“Now you’re trying to erase what happened between us, as if it never occurred?”
Infuriating. Absolutely infuriating.
Surely something as monumental as this deserved to be preserved so that even he could remember it.
And a farewell? What was this act of speaking as though they would never meet again?
He didn’t know what she was plotting, but he couldn’t simply let her slip away like this.
Elysion’s blue eyes gleamed with the piercing intensity of a predator that had spotted its prey.
“If you’re going to seduce someone so brazenly, you have to take responsibility for it.”
But he didn’t know—not then.
Tania had rewound time to a point in the distant past, incomparably further back than ever before.

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