Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 12

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Chapter 12
Hold on a moment.
How old is she at this point in time? She seems about the same age as him?
This time, I was the one who grew excited, seizing his shoulders with both hands and shaking him.
“Raspi, does your twin sister also have black hair and green eyes like you?”
“…Yes, that’s correct.”
Regardless of his bewilderment, I clutched my head in shock at this impossible secret of his birth.
“This makes no sense. Then why did Rosemary leave you alone?!”
In that previous point in time, Rosemary was the youngest of three siblings adopted into Duke Papiope’s Mansion.
Which meant she was the last person to close the door and enter the household I was now aiming to be adopted into.
[Overwriting Point 1 with the current point in time.]
I furrowed my brow and spoke to Raspi as though giving him an instruction.
“I’m going to verify whether the Rosemary I know is the real one, so you wait right here.”
“What do you mean by——”
I quickly saved the current point in time and moved forward into the future to confirm my suspicions.
The morning after I’d lost all the money I’d brought at the Gambling House.
In other words… the point in time when I was an adult.
[Loading Point 3.]

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I had a total of four save slots for my points in time.
Slots 1 and 2 I alternated between for saving and backup purposes.
Slot 3 was my future point in time.
Slot 4 was my reset slot.
Yes, I had mentally abandoned the point in time from when I was an adult, but I’d kept it for future use.
Think about it.
I’m no genius—how could I possibly remember all that vast information I’d accumulated with perfect accuracy?
It was far more advantageous to simply write it down at my adult point in time and come back to check it whenever I needed it.
Both in terms of security and accuracy.
And…
I could occasionally visit my friend Elysion again when I missed him.
Having saved my point in time early in the morning, I immediately boarded a carriage and headed to Duke Papiope’s Mansion.
Papiope’s Butler confirmed my arrival and apologized as though troubled.
“Tania, I apologize, but Elysion is not currently at the mansion.”
The reason Papiope’s Butler mentioned Elysion to me as though it were obvious was simple.
Elysion was also an adopted child of Duke Papiope’s Mansion.
In other words, Elysion and Rosemary were siblings with no blood relation.
“I didn’t come to see Elysion—I came to see Rosemary.”
“…You mean the youngest lady?”
“Yes.”
“I’m uncertain whether Miss would be awake at this hour, but I shall inform her.”
“It’s urgent. Tell her I’ve brought news that will make her eyes pop out of her head.”
“Yes. I’ll convey that as well.”
Once shown to the Reception Room, I settled into an elegant chair and gathered my thoughts.
If Rosemary truly was the beast tamer Raspi’s sister, how had they ended up living such different lives?
It puzzled me even more that it was Rosemary who had been captured by the Traffickers, not Raspi.
Yet before I could fully organize my thoughts, Rosemary appeared in the Reception Room in casual attire.
I rose from my seat and greeted her.
“Good morning, Rosemary.”
“It seems quite a lot of interesting things are happening this early in the morning.”
“Interesting things?”
“My second brother suddenly let out a strange scream and bolted from the mansion.”
“…Elysion did that?”
It was peculiar.
That he—a grand sorcerer capable of executing long-distance teleportation with ease—would scream and flee the mansion was extraordinary.
How urgent could it have been for him to forget magic entirely?
“Yes. And not long after, you came looking for me, Tania, saying you had news that would make one’s eyes pop out of their head.”
It seems this wasn’t a morning for sleeping in.
She added this with a composed expression and asked casually.
“I’m curious. Tania, why have you come to see me instead of my brother?”
“I have something to ask you. It’s truly important.”
“I see. If it’s important enough to seek me out so urgently, then I’ll answer you sincerely.”
I was grateful that I’d already become acquainted with her through Elysion.
Since I had no intention of lingering at this point, I got straight to the matter.
“Miss Rosemary, do you have a biological older brother whom you were separated from in childhood?”
At that, a crack appeared in Rosemary’s composure, which had remained serene until now.
“Why would you ask such a thing…?”
“So you do.”
“Tania!”
“Then, is the beast tamer who died two years ago perhaps your biological brother?”
Upon revealing his identity, Rosemary’s carefully maintained stern expression crumbled entirely.
“How… how did you know that…?”
“I met your brother when I was young.”
“W-when you were young? How old were you then?”
“When you were taken away by the Traffickers. I remember him vividly—his eyes bloodshot with determination as he moved to rescue the young lady who had been dragged away by adults.”
Rosemary’s breathing became noticeably rapid upon hearing my words.
“However, I couldn’t hear any news of him afterward, so I wondered if you might know something. You see, I made a promise with that boy…”
She gazed at me with eyes full of fear.
Even the Empire had failed to uncover anything about the war criminal who had sparked the beast war.
Her expression showed confusion—she couldn’t fathom how I had discovered that he was her family.
I added more words to reassure her.
“Raspi. That’s a name the Empire never managed to uncover. I heard it directly from that child. So please, believe me.”
“…Yes. Raspi is my twin brother’s name.”
The moment she heard the name Raspi, tears streamed down her face like water from a faucet.
“When I was captured by the Traffickers, I was trapped in the Underground Prison, but I escaped in the chaos caused by the monsters’ invasion and rampage.”
Raspi’s ability was monster taming.
In other words, he had gone to rescue his sister despite his body being far from whole.
However, I couldn’t help but sigh at Rosemary’s next words.
“But Raspi, who came to save me, couldn’t do it. He was overpowered by the Traffickers and captured.”
“Ah….”
“After that, I searched desperately for my brother, but I couldn’t find him. So I thought he was dead.”
Now I understood why Raspi had remained silent about what happened to him. She had known nothing of her brother’s whereabouts.
“Then one day, a monster tamer suddenly appeared in the Empire….”
“You must have been certain he was your twin brother when you saw his portrait.”
“Yes.”
It seemed that at the time, Raspi had succeeded in rescuing his sister as he’d hoped, but hadn’t managed to save himself.
It was merely speculation, but….
He appeared to have been captured by the Traffickers and exploited thoroughly before seizing an opportunity to escape.
After his escape, he must have wanted revenge. He must have needed somewhere to direct his rage.
I understood why Raspi harbored such emotions.
To be bought and sold like merchandise, treated like livestock. How horrifying it must have been.
Yet countless innocent lives had been lost in the war with monsters that he had unleashed.
People who bore no guilt whatsoever.
Now that I understood the cause, I had to prevent Raspi from going alone to rescue his sister and being captured by the Traffickers in turn.
“…Sigh.”
Raspi. I’d thought he was just a madman who’d declared war on the Empire, but he had his reasons, didn’t he?
I had always been weak to children. Even more so if they were pitiful ones.
As compassion welled up within me, I was gazing at the ceiling with a complicated expression.
Rosemary moved her lips with a tense face.
“Tania, do you know what promise I made with my brother?”
There was no particular reason to hide it.
After all, when we returned to the original timeline, she would lose her memories anyway.
“Rosemary, it was to find out whether you were alive or dead, and to tell him.”
She bit her lower lip hard as if something had welled up inside her.
“But my brother is already dead, so that promise can’t be kept.”
“No. He won’t die, and the promise will definitely be kept.”
“…What?”
“I told you, didn’t I? The image of Raspi crying out that he had to save you with bloodshot eyes is vivid in my mind. The truth is, I saw Raspi not long ago.”
“…Are you making fun of me?”
“Rosemary, my ability is, in fact, not a precognitive power like the world believes it to be.”
As if struck by sudden realization, Rosemary’s pupils dilated in an instant.
She hastily parted her lips, eager to voice a question.
“Tania, you don’t mean to say…!”

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