Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 137

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Chapter 137
[Loading Viewpoint 1.]
“Have all matters been resolved?”
“Huh…?”
I blinked in confusion, my gaze sweeping across my surroundings as understanding eluded me.
I was standing at the Freemula Marquess House.
Based on what Raspi had just said, it seemed I had returned to a viewpoint saved after meeting the Marchioness.
I hadn’t manually rewound time myself.
…Had I died?
Goosebumps erupted across my entire body.
My heart began racing violently, and my extremities turned ice-cold.
This was the second time.
The second time the Tempus Family had killed me.
I never expected the Tempus Family would resort to such methods instead of assassins.
Why hadn’t I been more cautious until now?
There were countless ways to kill a person.
If my ability hadn’t forcibly rewound time, I would have been dead without recourse.
As panic gripped me, Raspi narrowed his eyes and asked with concern.
“Tania, did something happen? Your complexion looks dreadfully pale…”
“Raspi, I saw a future where I die.”
“What?”
“Once we safely reach Papiope, we need to increase my guards and refrain from going out.”
Raspi’s gaze fixed on my trembling fingertips.
Fortunately, he grasped the situation quickly.
“Did assassins attack us again on the way to Papiope, like last time?”
“No. I bought flowers from a young girl selling them on the street, but they apparently contained a lethal poison in their fragrance.”
“Their methods grow increasingly despicable.”
“Raspi, you follow behind the carriage and apprehend the Flower Basket Girl.”
“Understood.”
I steadied my frayed nerves and climbed back into the carriage.
My palms were already slick with sweat.
I urged the Coachman to drive faster, and the carriage’s speed increased dramatically.
Raspi assumed a defensive stance, ready to draw his sword at any moment.
How much time had passed?
Through the window, I glimpsed the silhouette of the young girl from my memory.
However, unlike the previous timeline, as I increased the carriage’s speed, the girl failed to block our path.
The speed was too great to stop safely, and if we collided, she would truly be run down.
She must have instinctively sensed the danger.
I signaled Raspi with a glance, and he approached the girl.
Given the high probability she had already ingested poison beforehand, I needed to capture her as quickly as possible and extract information.
Raspi immediately kicked away the flower basket the young girl was holding. After that, he began to capture the child.
That was when it happened.
Masked assassins appeared from nowhere, swiftly surrounding the carriage.
Realizing too late that it was a double trap, I frantically tried to shift my viewpoint.
But before I could activate my ability, a sharp blade pierced my throat first.
Whether fortunately or unfortunately, death came before I could even feel the pain.
[Calling viewpoint 3.]
“Gasp…! Huff, huff…!”
The moment my viewpoint returned, I frantically touched my neck.
Of course, there wasn’t even a scratch on my throat.
When I die, I return to a random one of my four saved viewpoints.
This time, I’d returned to my third viewpoint.
“…I promised Elysion I wouldn’t turn back time.”
It wasn’t intentional, but I’d already gone back twice.
“Aha…”
A small laugh escaped me.
For someone who’d just died, I was thinking remarkably calmly.
Perhaps the shock of death had driven me mad.
But soon my legs gave out, and I collapsed where I stood.
I’d pretended it was nothing, but the truth was I was terrified.
I didn’t want to die.
If I returned to viewpoint 1, I felt certain I’d die just as meaninglessly again.
I couldn’t ask Elysion for help.
My resolve not to drag him into my revenge remained unchanged.
“…Should I go back to viewpoint 2?”
But I immediately shook my head.
Viewpoint 2 was saved about four days before viewpoint 1.
In other words, if I returned to viewpoint 2…
All the process—from discovering that Aiden and Marquise Primula were my biological parents, to my anger, acceptance, and reconciliation—would be erased as if it never happened.
Of all days, the Tempus Duchy had chosen today to deliberately attempt my murder.
It was the worst possible timing.
“Don’t be afraid, Tania. You won’t die even if you die…”
I clutched my face for a long while, muttering to myself like a mantra.
Only when my raging emotions finally subsided.
Did I turn back time once more.
[Calling viewpoint 1.]
This time, I resolved to prepare thoroughly to withstand any attack.
I told Raspi everything—about the Flower Basket Girl and the assassin ambush.
And I had Raspi gather sufficient magical beasts beforehand using his tamer ability.
Moreover, I decided to abandon the idea of capturing the young girl and extracting information from her.
My sole objective was to arrive safely in Papiope.
That was my goal.
The moment the Flower Basket Girl appeared, I stepped out of the carriage.
If I were attacked by assassins inside the carriage, it would be far more difficult for Raspi to protect me.
Confirming that Raspi had placed his hand on his sword hilt, I directed a question toward the Flower Basket Girl.
“…You were sent by the Tempus Duchy, weren’t you?”
At that, the young girl’s face drained of color in an instant.
Realizing they had been exposed, assassins burst forth from all directions.
But we too had been concealing our true strength.
The assassins, thinking Raspi alone and underestimating us, fell helpless before the swarm of magical beasts that descended upon them.
Raspi stood at my side to protect me, while the magical beasts slaughtered the assassins.
Only when every last assassin lay dead could I finally catch my breath.
“Finally, they’re all dead…”
Now I wouldn’t have to die.
As the tension drained from me, my entire body went limp. I was catching my breath with my head bowed when it happened.
“Tania, it’s dangerous!”
In an instant, Raspi pulled me into his embrace.
As I leaned against him, the last thing I saw was a carriage hurtling toward us.
Crash—!
My body flew through the air before crashing to the ground and tumbling across it.
My skin scraped raw against the rough dirt road.
Yet I felt no pain. My entire body was numb.
I couldn’t move a single finger.
Raspi, who had embraced me to shield me, lay beside me like a corpse.
He was dead on impact.
Ah…
I needed to reset the timeline, but the accident seemed to have damaged my mind—I couldn’t think of anything.
All I could do was wait for the approaching death.
As my vision gradually blurred, I saw a familiar silhouette.
“…Tania?”
It was Elysion.
The one person I least wanted to see me like this.

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Elysion’s expression darkened as his leg bounced with irritation.
Tania had rewound time again.
Normally, he would have dismissed it with a thought of “here we go again” and moved on without concern.
But this time felt different.
“She clearly promised not to rewind time after meeting with Aiden and her Biological Mother.”
How long had it been since that promise, and she was already rewinding time like this?
“…Was it difficult to control her emotions?”
Though it seemed her emotional turmoil had mostly settled.
Tania wasn’t the type to break promises, but the habit of rewinding time had become so ingrained that she might have done it unconsciously without realizing.
He was about to let it slide this once.
A peculiar sensation rippled through him—time had rewound again.
“Tch… No matter how I think about it, two times in a row has to be intentional.”
Elysion’s brow furrowed as he rose from his seat.
He intended to find Tania and remind her of her promise.

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