Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 119

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Chapter 119
I fidgeted nervously under Ron’s gaze as I made my excuses.
“I mean, if I didn’t send Raspi along, Elysion might try to eavesdrop on our conversation….”
“Who said anything?”
“You just insulted me with your eyes.”
Ron gave a light shrug and withdrew as if he’d done nothing wrong.
“You’re the one who felt guilty. Anyway, I’m not explaining twice, so you tell Raspi yourself.”
I nodded obediently.
Since I was the one who caused this mess, it was only right that I clean it up.
“Ron. So what was so urgent that you came looking for me?”
“Someone took the bait I spread through the Information Guild. But their behavior is strange, and they’re from somewhere I never expected.”
I narrowed my eyes.
I’d scattered so many pieces of bait hoping at least one would catch, that I couldn’t guess which one had been taken.
Information about Father?
Or information about the people around him?
But what came from Ron’s mouth was something I’d never anticipated.
“About your Ability.”
“Huh? My Ability?”
“Actually, I leaked some false information that you’re not a precognition Ability User. And someone came to the Information Guild demanding that information.”
Hearing Ron’s explanation, my tension melted away. I’d thought something major was coming given how urgently he’d rushed in.
I opened my mouth with an openly disappointed expression.
“That’s the kind of information anyone would be curious about.”
People often concealed their Abilities, so the Information Guild dealt with quite a lot of such information.
In other words, someone being curious about my Ability and requesting information wasn’t something to make a fuss over.
But Ron raised one eyebrow and replied with satisfaction.
“Do you think I’d rush to find you over something like that? Let me explain in more detail.”
“Then what?”
“The person who requested your information didn’t buy it—they paid for its complete destruction.”
“What…?”
Thump.
My heart sank.
Requesting destruction instead of purchase—wasn’t that as good as saying they already knew my real Ability?
The moment I thought that someone else besides Elysion knew my true Ability, which no one else was supposed to know, my heart began racing wildly.
No, I shouldn’t jump to conclusions yet.
It was entirely possible that Elysion, of all people, heard my information was circulating and requested its destruction.
Since he didn’t know I was running the Information Guild, it was certainly a plausible scenario.
Whether Ron noticed my extreme tension or not, he continued speaking.
“They paid ten times the information price in exchange for complete destruction and a guarantee it wouldn’t be sold elsewhere.”
Ten times.
That wasn’t a sum paid lightly.
“…Did you find out who requested the deletion of that information?”
“Ah, about that. The person who came to buy the information seemed to have been trained professionally since childhood.”
Trained movements….
Contrary to my hopes, it meant that Elysion was not the one who requested the deletion of the information.
If he were a mage, he would have erased his presence with magic and then teleported away.
“So they’re not an ordinary person.”
“Right. Their movements were so swift and silent that the guild members thought they’d let them slip away entirely.”
I felt as though my breath had been stolen.
It was as if all the air around me had vanished.
“Ron, so you succeeded in tracking them?”
“Yeah. Interestingly, the moment they entered a tavern, they went straight to the warehouse and never came out again.”
“…So that tavern is actually a front for their headquarters?”
“Bingo.”
Ron’s smile deepened.
“So I dug through everything about that tavern until not a speck of dust remained. And then I found something strange.”
It was impressive, to say the least.
He must have had considerable work to handle as my aide, yet I couldn’t fathom how he’d managed to investigate all this information.
“A noble family has been running a civilian business support program for a long time. That tavern was selected every single year.”
I focused on the word ‘family’ more than anything else. Which family could possibly have my information….
“It’s interesting, isn’t it? It’s not common for an ordinary tavern to consistently receive support from a noble family.”
“So which family is it?”
Feeling inexplicably anxious, I pressed Ron, and after a brief pause, he opened his mouth.
“Tempus Duchy.”
“…What?”
My head spun.
An unexpected family had emerged, and cognitive dissonance struck me.
“Why would Duke Tempus target me?”
“Tania. Duke Tempus is the one who’s been continuously sending you marriage proposals since long ago, showing his interest, isn’t he?”
“…That’s true. But he doesn’t like me. I can guarantee that.”
I knew that Duke Tempus hadn’t sent those marriage proposals because he had genuine romantic feelings for me.
Given that he said I didn’t need to undergo the Evanesco ceremony, he must have coveted my ability.
He always approached me with a smile, but I never felt sincerity from him.
I knew well that if someone truly loves another, their gaze speaks differently.
Elysion, who always looked at me with eyes dripping with honey, and Duke Tempus were incomparable.
But if Duke Tempus didn’t like me, then the request for deletion of my information didn’t make sense.
Why would he pay a fortune to have my information deleted?
Before that, does Duke Tempus even know that my ability isn’t precognition?
If he does, how on earth would he know?
“So here’s the thing, Tania.”
At Ron’s voice, I set aside my tangled thoughts and fixed my gaze on him.
“Mm.”
“What’s your real ability?”
His pupils trembled faintly.
It seemed he had realized from this incident that my ability wasn’t foresight.
“Ron, I….”
I hesitated over whether I should be honest with him about my ability.
But I knew Ron wasn’t the type to fall for my clumsy lies.
In the end, I decided to reveal my true power to him.
“I can go back to any point in time that I’ve saved. Whether it’s the past or future relative to the present moment doesn’t matter.”
I squeezed my eyes shut, waiting for his reaction.
Would he feel betrayed by all the deception so far?
I knew Elysion had been infinitely patient with me.
It wouldn’t be strange if Ron got angry with me.
But contrary to my worries, Ron began pelting me with questions, his face flushed with excitement.
“So you’ve already experienced the future and returned to now? How many points in time can you save? Then you’ve already lived through famines and monster invasions, and came back to the past to prevent catastrophes?”
I opened my eyes wide and absorbed his barrage of questions with my whole body.
Ron, having poured out his questions, looked satisfied.
“That explains it. You seemed more mature than your peers. When I think back to how I was swayed by you when we were younger, I couldn’t have been more bewildered.”
“…Is that all?”
“How else should I react?”
“Aren’t you curious why I’ve been deceiving you all this time?”
“I think it makes less sense for you to go around announcing something like that. Besides, if you were that foolish, I wouldn’t have joined your side.”
His train of thought was odd, but….
On the other hand, it was reassuring because it was so typical of Ron.
“I’ll ask you detailed questions about your ability later. But Tania, first——”
“Huh? Yeah.”
“Does Duke Tempus know your real ability?”
“He couldn’t possibly know…. Though his behavior makes me suspicious.”
Why on earth did he demand that information about my ability be destroyed?
“Something feels off, doesn’t it?”
One of Ron’s eyebrows arched skeptically.
“Training in silent footsteps and nimble movements is something usually only assassins do. And you were attacked by assassins not long ago.”
The assassins I caught on my birthday didn’t belong to any guild.
My suspicion at the time was that they were assassins raised by another organization or family.
“Ron, you’re suggesting the Tempus Family Head might be the one who sent the assassins.”
“It’s possible, but in the current situation, it’s the most likely.”
…Why?
Could it be because I rejected Duke Tempus’s proposal?
But it doesn’t make sense to send assassins over something so trivial.
I hadn’t had much contact with him in the first place.
The more I speculated, the deeper I sank into a labyrinth of confusion.
If Duke Tempus had truly sent assassins after me, there would have to be a motive.
Yet I could discern none whatsoever.
Suddenly, a memory surfaced—Father’s darkened expression as he urged me to keep my distance from the Tempus Family.
…Had Father made an enemy of the Tempus Family?
Could it be that the Tempus Family Head had been targeting me for that reason?
But then, there had been countless opportunities to kill me until now—why make a move only now?

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