Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 133

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Chapter 133
The expressions on Aiden and Marquise Primula’s faces when I told them about my past flashed through my mind.
They were clearly suffering.
They must have wanted to be with me as well.
They must have wished for me to live happily.
As my emotions settled, the details I had missed in my turbulent state began to accumulate, and I gradually came to understand their circumstances.
The feelings that had remained as a knot in my chest slowly crumbled away.
Now I could finally see who I should have truly resented.
All of this stemmed from the Previous Tempus Family Head.
In other words, if I killed only Duke Tempus, my maternal grandfather, everything would be resolved.
A grandfather whose existence I never knew, whose face I had never seen.
Hugo Tempus.
Would he even know that I carried the blood of the Tempus Family?
No, if he did know, he wouldn’t have proposed to me, his niece.
Unless he wanted to kill me.
Now I finally understood Aiden and Marquise Primula’s reactions when Hugo Tempus proposed to me.
It was a relationship that should never have come to pass.
Then my goal was singular.
The Previous Tempus Family Head.
“Elysion, I… I want to go back to the time when the Papiope Family is there.”
I wanted to meet Aiden and Marquise Primula and hear their story.
I had fled here. I had planned to spend at least several months in this time period.
I never thought my heart would turn so quickly.
It was all thanks to Elysion.
“All right. Let’s do as you wish.”
Elysion gently brushed my cheek, as if respecting whatever decision I made.
His touch was so reassuring that my heart swelled.
I lightly pressed my lips against his palm.
“Elysion, are all mages like this?”
“What do you mean?”
“Being with you makes every moment feel like magic.”
At my words spoken with a serious expression, Elysion burst into clear laughter.
“Tania, if you were trying to seduce me, you succeeded. That statement just made my heart race.”
But in the expression Elysion wore afterward, there lingered some reluctance.
“If I could truly control you with magic, I would have made you stay here for at least a few more days.”
I realized my mistake in an instant.
I had told him to live in the time period he desired, but surely he too had his own preference hidden within.
“Elysion, do you prefer this time period?”
At that, Elysion chuckled as if asking why I would worry.
“I don’t care which time period it is as long as you’re there. However…”
“But?”
“I was hoping you’d rest here for a while. You’ve been running nonstop all this time.”
Once again, his mind was filled entirely with consideration for me.
That fact made my heart feel so warm and cherished.
“Then let’s rest today and leave tomorrow.”
Accepting Elysion’s suggestion, I decided to spend the day with him.
It was practically our first date, and I didn’t want to let it slip away like this.
…Now that I think about it, if we’re leaving tomorrow, I don’t need to worry about the contraceptive I hastily drank yesterday, do I?
If I reverse time immediately after we’re done, there’s no need to wait for the potion’s effects to take hold.
I ran my fingers through his hair, then suddenly leaned down and whispered softly against his ear.
“Sion, should we try that little fire play you mentioned tonight?”
Elysion’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed.
“…You made up your mind in just one night?”
“Maybe?”
At my ambiguous answer, Elysion suddenly sprang to his feet and scooped me into his arms.
“W-why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
The situation reversed in an instant while I was giving him a lap pillow.
As I thrashed my legs in surprise, Elysion answered brazenly.
“Why? To move to somewhere more intimate, of course.”
“Now? No, you said tonight…!”
My eyes widened involuntarily. What was he in such a rush for?
Who does fire play in the middle of the day?
“Tania, are you trying to drive me insane? You give me that kind of warning and expect me to wait until night?”
I was wrong.
Elysion’s eyes were already consumed by desire.
It seemed I had touched something I shouldn’t have.
Before I could even protest, a magic circle materialized beneath Elysion’s feet.
Whoosh—!
I closed my eyes from the dizzying sensation, and when I opened them, I was already in my bedroom.
It was the place where Elysion and I had held hands and fallen asleep the night before.
He carefully lowered me onto the bed.
Then he leaned over and pressed down on both my hands from above.
Really? Now? Here?
So suddenly?
I pushed away his face, which looked ready to act immediately.
“Are you really going to do this now?”
“Why…? Can’t we?”
Elysion’s expression crumpled like an otter who had lost his precious clam.
Beads of sweat formed on my skin.
Seeing that disappointed face, I couldn’t bring myself to say no.
“No, it’s not that I can’t. I just thought it might be a bit too rushed.”
“Too rushed? Just holding hands all night yesterday took every ounce of my patience.”
When I glanced at him sideways, Elysion’s hands began moving with purpose.
I quickly opened my mouth, desperate to buy myself some time.
“W-wait, I haven’t even bathed yet…!”
“Shh, it’s fine. I’m here.”
Elysion snapped his fingers lightly, as though such trivial matters posed no obstacle whatsoever.
Snap—!
A cool surge of mana enveloped my body.
Instantly, I felt refreshed as though I’d just stepped out of a bath, my body growing light and buoyant.
It was as if every trace of accumulated dust had been swept away.
Though he’d merely cast a cleansing spell, he’d poured such meticulous care into the incantation that my skin even carried the phantom scent of fine soap.
“I’m embarrassed… it’s still daylight…!”
Snap—!
Elysion snapped his fingers again, and the room darkened as though night had fallen.
“Is this better?”
His low voice resonated through my ears.
I felt like a rabbit cornered by a relentless predator, with nowhere left to flee.
Did he really need to be this thorough?
No matter what excuse I offered, there seemed to be no escape.
My eyes hadn’t yet adjusted to the darkness, leaving me unable to see anything.
Yet strangely, I had the illusion that Elysion’s gaze was fixed precisely upon me.
“Tania, I’ve never been more grateful that I’m a mage than I am right now.”
Conversely, I’d always been delighted that Elysion was a mage.
But tonight, his magic seemed utterly unhelpful to my cause.
His hand swept gently across my waist.
“Ah…!”
With my vision stolen away, my other senses grew painfully acute.
Before long, Elysion leaned in and kissed me.
I closed my eyes tightly and surrendered to him.
Along with the anxious certainty that this playful fire would not end quickly.

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My anxiety had become reality.
Opening my trembling eyes, I found that morning had already broken.
The passionate fire that had begun yesterday afternoon continued through the night, only ending once my stamina was completely depleted.
Though truthfully, it had been exhausted several times in between.
Cruelly, Elysion kept replenishing my drained stamina with magic that boosted vitality.
Honestly, I too had long anticipated our first night together, so it would be a lie to say it wasn’t wonderful.
Honestly, it was far better than anything I had vaguely imagined.
The thrill I felt when we first became one was a memory I would never forget.
But the desire Elysion had accumulated all this time seemed to exceed mine by several times over.
He showed no sign of stopping, as though he were claiming compensation for everything he had endured until now.
For a mage, why did he possess such extraordinary stamina?
It was as I gazed at Elysion, who lay with his eyes closed in apparent dissatisfaction.
“Tania, you’re awake?”
He had been awake before me, only pretending to sleep, and now regarded me with a playful expression.
“Why are your cheeks puffed out?”
“You’re asking because you don’t know?”
“I genuinely don’t. Are you perhaps protesting to be devoured?”
That was a dangerously suggestive thing to say.

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