Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 138

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Chapter 138
Elysion arrived at Duke Papiope’s Mansion and searched for Tania.
He knocked on the window by her room as usual, but there was no response.
Left with no choice, he entered Duke Papiope’s Mansion through the Main Gate this time.
Then Papiope’s Butler came to greet him.
“Good day, Elysion.”
“I’ve come to see Tania.”
The Butler bowed respectfully and opened his mouth.
“The young lady is currently away. Would you care to wait in the Reception Room until her return?”
“No. I’ll come back later. Is Aiden at the Residence?”
“Aiden is….”
The Butler trailed off and turned around. Then Aiden, who had appeared from nowhere, raised one eyebrow and asked.
“What brings you looking for me?”
He had actually been keeping watch in that spot ever since Tania left to meet her biological mother.
Though he had said he wouldn’t go with her, he was deeply concerned about her meeting with her mother.
But he never expected that it would be Elysion greeting him instead of Tania.
Elysion answered with his characteristic wistful smile.
“Hello, Aiden. The thing is, I thought you might know where Tania has gone.”
“Why would you be curious about that?”
Watching Aiden tilt his head slowly, sweat began to bead on Elysion’s forehead.
Now that he thought about it, this was the first time he’d faced Aiden and conversed with him without Tania present.
Upon realizing this fact, his body grew somewhat rigid.
A private meeting with my father-in-law, no less.
Even for someone as composed as Elysion, tension was inevitable.
“I say this to avoid misunderstanding, but I have no intention of confining or obsessing over your daughter….”
“I know.”
“…Pardon?”
“I already know you’re not the type to do such things.”
Elysion blinked rapidly, unsure what was happening.
“Besides, even if you acted that way, Tania wouldn’t simply submit to it.”
At Aiden’s slight smile and words, Elysion’s tension melted away completely.
His eyes and tone conveyed complete trust in him.
Only then did Elysion also break into a grin and reply.
“Ha, Tania would never lose to me like that. I’m the one being dragged around by her.”
Aiden gazed at Elysion for a moment, then spoke softly.
“Has Tania told you?”
It was a somewhat abrupt question whose meaning was difficult to discern, but Elysion immediately understood what he meant.
“If you’re referring to the fact that you are Tania’s biological father… yes, I’ve heard.”
“Thank you. For always standing by Tania’s side.”
Aiden conveyed his gratitude to Elysion with sincerity.
Tania said she had rewound twelve years of time to save herself.
Before that, Elysion had been her only friend.
In the past, and even now.
“I’m glad Tania has someone she can trust and rely on.”
“I’m here by Tania’s side because I care for her as well, but… thank you for saying that, Father.”
“…That title seems a bit premature.”
Elysion’s eyes rolled about nervously.
He’d seized the warm atmosphere to tentatively call him Father, but it seemed the timing wasn’t right yet.
While he was gauging the reaction, Aiden opened his mouth.
“If you’ve heard that I’m Tania’s biological father, then you must understand something about her biological mother as well.”
“Ah, that is…”
I knew from hearsay that Tania’s biological mother was alive.
However, I hadn’t heard the details of who she was.
I realized Tania was intentionally hiding something from me, but I respected her wishes.
Just as I was about to tell Aiden that I didn’t know the specifics, he spoke first.
“You were looking for where Tania went, weren’t you? The girl went to House Freemula to see her biological mother. She went to have a conversation with her.”
Having inadvertently learned information about Tania’s biological mother, I answered calmly to conceal his slip.
“I see.”
So Tania’s biological mother was from House Freemula.
The image of Marquise Primula naturally came to mind.
I knew that Marquise Primula sent Tania letters almost every day.
Her hair was the same color as Tania’s. Now that I thought about it, her face seemed subtly similar as well.
Synthesizing all the circumstances, Marquise Primula must be Tania’s biological mother.
Having quickly finished my reasoning, I smiled brightly and asked Aiden for permission.
“Would it be alright if I went to fetch your daughter?”
“…Do as you wish.”
“I’ll be going then.”
Elysion immediately cast teleportation and moved to House Freemula.
Marquise Primula, seeing Elysion arrive without warning, quickly guessed his purpose.
“Elysion? You’ve come to fetch Tania, haven’t you?”
“Yes, that’s correct. I understand she went out with an escort knight, but given how dangerous the world has become lately, I grew concerned.”
“Oh my, what should I do…? Tania left to return to Duke Papiope’s Mansion just a few dozen minutes ago.”
“I see. I apologize for the intrusion, madam.”
“Wait…!”
Just as Elysion turned to leave without hesitation, Marquise Primula stopped him with a voice that seemed to have mustered great courage.
“How is Tania doing…? I heard you two are courting.”
A smile formed at the corners of Elysion’s mouth.
In the tone of her voice, I could feel that she truly cared for Tania.
“Yes. We’re doing well without any troubles. Thanks to Tania, each day brings me happiness.”
“It seems you care for Tania quite a lot.”
“Yes. I’ve been harboring these feelings for such a long, long time.”
Elysion smiled brightly, his sincerity shining through.
Perhaps that emotion had reached her.
Marquise Primula’s complexion brightened. Relief was evident in her eyes.
“Elysion, I….”
The Marquise hesitated greatly, as though wrestling with whether to speak.
“Please, speak freely, Marquise.”
After a long moment of deliberation, she finally bowed her head deeply, like one bearing guilt.
Then, in a voice so soft that one had to concentrate intently to hear it, she murmured:
“It’s presumptuous of me to say this, but…. Please take good care of Tania.”
“Of course. I shall treat her like a princess.”

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Elysion confirmed that Tania was not at House Freemula.
This time, rather than teleporting directly, he decided to search for her himself.
“We’re drawing closer to the time when Tania rewound time….”
Since she had said she was going to Duke Papiope’s Mansion, he could roughly sketch out the carriage’s expected route.
Elysion used magic to soar through the sky and move forward.
To catch up with the carriage that had departed first, he had to move quite rapidly.
During that journey.
Crash―!
A violent sound of impact echoed through the air.
He instinctively changed direction toward the source of the noise.
In the distance, he could faintly see two carriages scattered haphazardly, and around them, people lying on the ground bleeding.
The moment that scene entered his vision, Elysion’s blood ran cold.
His breathing grew ragged, and unease surged within him.
Surely not. Please, not that.
Reaching the accident scene, he descended urgently to the ground and frantically examined the people around him.
Then, Elysion’s thoughts froze.
He prayed—desperately prayed—that just one person would not be at this scene.
Yet of all people, that one person came into his view.
Someone who should never have been at this accident scene.
“…Tania?”
Tania, lying there drenched in blood.
It made no sense.
Everything before his eyes felt impossibly unreal.
Just half a day ago, she had been sleeping peacefully in his arms.

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