Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 127

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Chapter 127
“…Death news? Who died?”
For a moment, my thoughts seemed to grind to a halt, unable to comprehend their words.
It felt as though I had heard something utterly impossible.
It couldn’t be.
How could someone who was perfectly fine just yesterday suddenly be gone?
“Captain… What I mean is, Aiden passed away during a mission.”
Why did they keep saying he died so ominously?
The Aiden I knew was not the type to die on the roadside.
“Aiden had always requested that if he were to pass, we conceal that fact from everyone.”
“….”
“However, we discovered that Aiden had been secretly supporting you all this time, and we believed you deserved to know the truth.”
The lean man bowed respectfully to me, his posture formal and sincere.
“I apologize for the delay. Since Aiden left no record of your location anywhere, it took considerable time to piece together various clues and find you.”
I forced my trembling heart to settle.
It’s fine.
Everything is truly fine.
Aiden’s sudden passing was unimaginable, but fortunately, I possessed the ability to turn back time.
“How long ago did he pass away?”
“Approximately a month ago, on August 1st.”
“What…?”
The moment I heard “a month ago,” my breath caught in my throat, and despair flooded through my entire body like poison through my veins.
A month had already passed?
And of all days, August 1st—the day I had saved Checkpoint 3 to commemorate my birthday.
I had been certain that Aiden would come find me on that day without fail.
Checkpoints 1 and 2 were being used constantly, so there was no need to mention those.
That meant Checkpoint 4 was the only timeline where Aiden was still alive.
My childhood at seven years old—before I met Aiden—had been nothing but horrific.
Even if I turned back time, all the memories I had built with Aiden would vanish completely.
The moment that realization struck me, my legs gave way beneath me.
Just as my knees buckled and I began to collapse, the Mercenary Company Members rushed forward and caught me.
“Tania…!”
“Are… are you alright?”
But their words couldn’t reach me, no matter what they said.
My vision blurred, and my ears felt numb.
“Nooooooooo!!!”
I thrashed against them, my anguished cry piercing the sky, laced with resentment.
“Why does this always happen to me! When will I ever be happy! You’ve taken so much already! Isn’t this enough….”
“Tania, please calm yourself!”
The last thread of reason that had sustained me through every hardship snapped, and everything crumbled to dust.
In the moment when I howled like a beast.
A sharp beeping sound pierced through Tania’s mind, and silence descended.
Afterward, countless memories—stained with the shock of revelation—surged through her consciousness.
They were not memories of the life she had lived as Tania, but of her previous existence.
Overwhelmed by such an avalanche of information all at once, she ultimately lost consciousness and collapsed.
And when she regained awareness.
Tania had miraculously reclaimed her rationality.
The memories of her past life, flowing in like those of a stranger, allowed her to judge the situation with cold clarity.
Her previous life had not been a happy one either.
An orphan, she had worked here and there to earn money, only to die from overwork at a young age.
Thus, misfortune was familiar to her, and accepting it came easily.
First and foremost, returning to Point 4—the only moment when Aiden was alive—remained an unchangeable fact.
Even if he did not remember me.
“However, I should postpone going to Point 4 for now.”
Returning to that seven-year-old self, when each day had been suffused with despair, required preparation.
With thorough planning and preparation, I would ensure that in the next life, I lived a truly happy existence.
Never again would I reset my life.

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It was while I was retracing memories of the past.
Aiden asked, his lips trembling as if suppressing his emotions.
“How far back did you turn time?”
It seemed he no longer intended to hide the fact that he was my biological father.
He had already suspected my true ability.
Because he knew that I carried the bloodline of the Tempus Family.
So if he already knew I possessed a time-related ability….
How absurd it must have seemed to him all this while, watching me lie about being a Precognition Ability User.
“Haha….”
A self-deprecating laugh escaped my lips.
There was no longer any reason to hide the truth.
“Twelve years. I abandoned everything I had accomplished up to that point and returned to that terrible seven-year-old self, all to bring you back from the dead.”
I wonder if you remember.
The image of my younger self, skin and bones clinging together, gaunt and withered.
“I turned back time, even accepting that you would not remember me.”
And yet.
“…you must have already known me before I was seven years old.”
My younger self had no memories of Aiden.
This meant—for how long had he entrusted my childhood self to someone else?
Thud.
Aiden dropped to his knees, then drove his forehead hard against the floor with a heavy sound.
“I’m sorry. I’ve inflicted a wound upon you that can never be healed.”
His lips trembled ceaselessly as he offered his sincere apology.
Deep furrows etched his brow, bearing the weight of self-loathing and guilt.
Aiden, who had always seemed so formidable.
Yet kneeling before his daughter and confessing his sins, he appeared infinitely diminished.
The fact that he acknowledged his wrongdoing and apologized so readily only deepened my sorrow.
More precisely, I felt a bitter sense of injustice.
“Do you know how desperately I wanted to call you Father…?”
My emotions churned like a tempest within me.
“Tell me. In your past life, you wouldn’t let me call you Father! We lived apart! So why did you live the exact opposite life in this one?”
Why, why!
“If your convictions were so flimsy that they could flip like a coin, then don’t get angry with me. You shouldn’t have worn such a terrifying expression….”
I wiped away the tears streaming down my face with my sleeve, again and again.
I understood that the current Aiden had no memory of those times.
Yet because there was no one else to direct my anger toward, I poured out every word that had been locked away in my heart, regardless of what he might think.
“You were everything to me when I was small…. Why did you do that!”
My emotions crumbled slowly within me.
Aiden gazed at me with an expression that defied description—one filled with anguish.
“I don’t know what my past self said to you. But I understand the thoughts behind it. All of it—those were actions I would have taken. I’m sorry, Tania.”
Seeing him like this stirred within me a strange emotion I couldn’t quite comprehend.
It irritated me that he spoke as though he understood his past self.
It angered me that he apologized sincerely for words he hadn’t even spoken.
Aiden opened his mouth carefully, as though confessing his sins.
“At first… I thought you had to live apart from me.”
His lips quivered pitifully as he continued without pause.
“The Tempus Family Head only knew information about me, so as long as you weren’t connected to me, you would be safe.”
“Then why did you try to be with me in this life? You even proposed adoption first!”
“It was greed.”
“What?”
“I wanted to watch you grow from a place close to me. When I heard you were entering the Papiope Talent Cultivation Institute, it only intensified.”
It was a reason I had never even imagined.
“So, knowing it was greed, I did it anyway.”
Aiden hung his head low, afraid of what reaction might come in return.
I committed that sight to memory, burning it into my retinas.
“I hope you suffered as much as I was wounded.”
[Overlaying the current viewpoint onto Viewpoint 1.]
So I saved the viewpoint, ensuring that the emotions I had poured out to him wouldn’t be erased.
What came after was emptiness.
“What have I been living so hard for…?”
I had devoted my entire life to saving Aiden, to being with him.
Yet the root cause of my misery stemmed from his misguided choices.
All the effort I had poured in for so long felt utterly wasted.
I wanted to abandon everything. I couldn’t even bear to look at him.
And so I made the decision to shift to the only saved checkpoint where Aiden was not alive.
[Loading Checkpoint 3.]

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