Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 109

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Chapter 109
Elysion admired Tania’s face as she worked busily, the scratching of her pen filling the silence.
Her rose-gold hair gleamed as if scattered with starlight.
Her round eyes appeared innocent and guileless, belying the mischievous nature beneath.
Below them lay soft cheeks and plump lips pressed together in concentration.
Every time I looked at her, I felt the desire to devour her whole—such was the effect of her face.
Eleven years had passed since Tania turned back time twelve years ago.
The seven-year-old child Tania had become the adult woman I remembered.
Of course, Tania was not yet officially an adult.
But in a week, her birthday would arrive—the day she came of age.
The long, endless wait was finally drawing to a close.
The hardship of these years stemmed from the fact that puberty arrives regardless of mental maturity….
In any case, it had been a time of true trial.
Elysion’s lips curled upward with the expression of a predator with its prey within reach.
“You look busy, Tania.”
“If you know that, why don’t you help?”
“I fled the Magic Tower precisely because I didn’t want to work. I can’t do that.”
At his words, Tania scattered the documents she’d been writing across the desk with a whimper.
“Ugh, why do I have to do all the work!”
“Isn’t this all your own doing? You need to finish what you’ve started.”
Elysion casually organized the documents she’d scattered everywhere with magic.
In truth, Tania knew he would restore them immediately, which was why she’d acted out.
It was a sort of small stress relief.
“The problem is it’s not the finish—it’s just the beginning.”
Tania sighed softly and began reviewing the documents Elysion had neatly returned to her desk.
Elysion gazed at her intently, lost in thought.
Tania hadn’t stopped after her great success with the catalog business.
She’d been moving about busily for the past four years, planning to build something called a Department Store….
And now the opening was just around the corner.
The escalator she’d requested him to develop in exchange for a favor had been installed in the Department Store.
She’d even prepared a teleportation floor-transfer system for VIP customers.
From site selection to construction, interior design, and tenant contracts—
Having watched her handle everything from start to finish, I couldn’t help but admire her.
In truth, after time had rewound, I’d lived a more leisurely life.
It was only natural.
I already knew all the magic I’d worked so hard to learn and master in my childhood.
I pretended to study adequately while devoting more time to Tania.
Yet Tania kept pushing forward relentlessly, in both her past life and this one.
She’d become a noble—something she hadn’t achieved before—and saved Aiden, whom she’d treated like family.
Still, she seemed anxious about something.
“Tania.”
“Hmm?”
“Wouldn’t it be far easier to earn money if you touched real estate?”
In the past, I had primarily earned money by investing in real estate or businesses that succeeded in the short term.
After turning back time once significantly, I earned money directly with the aid of my ability, rather than relying solely on investments.
I had chosen the difficult path, leaving the easy method behind.
Even after investing considerable time and effort, I could lose astronomical sums of investment in a single moment.
I responded to Elysion’s question as though it were nothing.
“My goal is to gain influence.”
“That seems to have already happened since you became a maid.”
“No, it’s different. What I want is a situation where the nobility are so desperate to look good to me that they’re anxious and eager.”
I lifted my head from the documents I had been studying and looked at Elysion.
“Do you know what kind of treatment my brother received when he first attended a gathering of noble youths?”
He knew all too well.
Elysion, too, had been an adopted child of Duke Papiope’s Household in the past, so he had overheard much of what other nobles gossiped about.
A noble of commoner origin.
That created a subtle line between him and the nobles of true bloodline.
In truth, Elysion had no intention of becoming a duke and was indifferent even when facing it directly….
Lucian was different.
He was always stressed by it and reacted sensitively.
Only after marrying the Princess of the Imperial Family was he able to escape that gaze.
In fact, I had thought Tania wasn’t the type to care much about such things, so I simply watched and waited.
Perhaps I was wrong.
Elysion tilted his head slightly, concealing the coldness that crept into his eyes.
“Who disrespected you?”
“Not outright, but…. Well, it’s obvious.”
My gaze turned to one corner of the office.
Following my gaze, Elysion’s face crumpled.
In the direction his eyes fell lay a mountain of marriage proposals and love letters piled high.
Even before I turned back time twelve years ago, I had been beautiful enough that anyone would glance at me once.
But in this life, having become a noble and been thoroughly managed, my beauty had completely blossomed.
As a result, marriage proposals poured in to me so frequently in the interim.
If I had my way, I would have wanted to check the list and secretly dispose of them all….
But their number had grown so large that secret disposal became impossible.
“I don’t like it.”
Tania was….
Beautiful, wealthy, well-regarded, and even a high-ranking noble, yet because of her commoner origins, she could only appear easy prey.
The only saving grace was that so many marriage proposals and love letters poured in that I no longer even glanced at them.
Elysion immediately burned the scattered scraps of paper with magic.
Whoosh—!
“Tania, you should use those as kindling right away.”
“If I’m going to use them as kindling, I need to pile them up first, don’t I?”
“Then burn them immediately.”
“Your words seem to change awfully fast, don’t they?”
Tania laughed softly, propped her chin on her hand, and asked in a subtle tone.
“Elysion, are you jealous?”
“Yeah. I’m so jealous I’m going crazy.”
At his immediate, honest answer, Tania’s eyes widened as if she hadn’t expected it.
Then, despite being the one who asked, she replied with a flushed face.
“Don’t joke around.”
It wasn’t a joke.
Since I teased Tania so often, this had come back as a side effect.
I thought I’d expressed my affection openly all this time. But perhaps it wasn’t enough to give her certainty.
I was tempted to just confess how much I liked her.
But not yet.
Only one week remained until Tania came of age.
I planned to confess to Tania on that day.
Everything—my feelings, my ability that nullified hers, and even my dark past.
“That’s right, Elysion.”
“Yeah.”
Lost in thought, I snapped back to attention at Tania’s voice.
“Actually, I have a request for you. Since you’re here anyway, could you give me an estimate?”
“Oh really? Did you ignore what I said earlier about running away because I didn’t want to work?”
“Oops.”
“Don’t try to act cute—it doesn’t suit you. You know you’re coming of age soon too, right?”
Actually, it was far too cute.
I wished she’d do it more.
Tania’s aegyo was so rare that if I could, I’d save it to a video file and watch it on repeat all day.
But I never let that fact show.
Because I knew that if I did, there would be no next time.
“Fine, let me hear what it is.”
“Really?”
“I said I’d just listen.”
Tania nodded in agreement, and her face brightened as she began to explain.
“Actually, on the Department Store’s opening day, I want to create an absolutely massive spectacle. Can you help me with that?”
“…You’re planning to turn the Department Store into ashes? If you’re locking up all those people who sent you marriage proposals and creating a hellfire, then I’m all for it.”
“Ha ha, Elysion! What are you imagining?”
“…Then what?”
“Not a fire—a sensation! I want to create a spectacle that will capture the attention of everyone in the Empire.”
Ah. So that’s what it was.
I thought Tania might actually do something that reckless.
After all, once she rewound time, it would be as if it never happened.
Elysion shrugged lightly. In any case, he was prepared to indulge whatever she wished to do.
“So what do you want to do this time?”
“Well…”
Tania grinned like a mischievous child and laid out her plan.

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