Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 140

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Chapter 140
“Don’t cry, Elysion….”
Elysion’s anger and tears—both were unfamiliar to me.
It pained me that all of those emotions stemmed from me.
“Tania.”
He gripped both my shoulders firmly and spoke in a low voice.
“Let’s tell everyone you truly trust about all of this.”
“What? But….”
“You promised you wouldn’t bear this alone anymore, Tania.”
Seeing my hesitation, he spoke with unwavering resolve.
“Not just to me, but to everyone you trust—tell them everything honestly. And ask for their help.”
Revealing all my circumstances to others had never been part of my plan.
Yet when I considered that everyone who loved me, not just Elysion, likely harbored similar feelings….
I couldn’t bring myself to refuse.
“Okay….”
In the end, I gathered everyone around me as Elysion suggested.
Starting with the members of Duke Papiope’s Household, and Marquise Primula.
My trusted aides Ron, Raspi, and Rosemary as well.
At my urgent summons, they all gathered quickly in one place.
They were that kind of people.
Always willing to make time and rush to my side.
As I slowly gazed at them all, I carefully opened my mouth.
“I’d like to tell you all a story I’ve been hiding from you until now.”
Truthfully, I still wasn’t certain this was right.
A secret I’d stubbornly kept for decades—could I really reveal it so simply?
But I had to tell them.
“I tried to handle everything alone so that others wouldn’t be hurt. But then I suddenly realized that this stubbornness of mine… might actually be causing pain to those who love me.”
I took a deep breath, then glanced sideways at Elysion.
He smiled faintly as if to say I was doing well, and nodded encouragingly.
Seeing that smile, courage seemed to well up within me.
“This will be a long story. Even if some of you already know parts of it, I’m sure there are those hearing it for the first time, so please listen once more.”
I revealed my ‘true’ Ability, my life before the reset, and the life I was living again.
And even how many times I had been killed by the Tempus Family.
I laid bare everything.
Upon learning that I had been killed by Tempus Duchy multiple times, my family grew not just angry but shed tears.
Among them, Marquise Primula, whose nature was gentle, nearly fainted in the middle of my account.
Ron, who already knew everything, quietly turned his head away, deliberately avoiding my gaze.
Raspi and Rosemary, now realizing I hadn’t discovered the assassins’ attacks through foresight, were shocked.
When I finished my entire story.
The room was filled with a heavy silence.
The only ones who shed no tears were Elysion and Ron, who had already known all the facts.
“Tania… How much have you suffered alone all this time?”
It was Grandfather Declan who broke the silence.
For him and Lucian, hearing this story for the first time made it all the more shocking.
“This old man is sorry. If only I had paid you a bit more attention… I failed to notice, and you had to endure such hardship.”
Grandfather approached and pulled me into his embrace.
Though his tone was somewhat restrained, his emotions ran so high that his body trembled slightly.
I had sworn I wouldn’t cry.
But seeing him apologize, blaming himself for not noticing sooner, tears streamed down my face.
From that moment on, those who had been listening to my story crowded around me.
“Tania, I thought you were just mature for your age… I’m sorry. I never knew you were carrying such a heavy burden alone.”
“I was wrong. I should have been someone you could trust and rely on.”
“Hero, I’m truly sorry. I’ve served you the longest, yet I was of no help whatsoever.”
Surrounded by a sea of tears, I found myself laughing strangely.
I was so happy to know there were so many people who cared for me like this.
Before I lived my life again, only Aiden and Elysion had been by my side.
How surrounded I had become by everyone.
Ron, who had been standing apart at a distance, began to organize the situation.
“Wait! Let’s save the deferred conversations and emotional processing for later. For now, I’d like us to focus on how to deal with the Previous Head of Tempus Family.”
Then he began peeling away the people clinging to me one by one as he explained.
“I understand you’re all shocked, but Tania was killed by the Tempus Duchy ‘today.'”
When I reminded them of the fact that I had been killed by the Former Duke Tempus, anger flashed across everyone’s faces.
To capture everyone’s attention so instantly—his eloquence was remarkable.
Ron cleared his throat briefly, then began to broach the subject of the Previous Head of Tempus Family’s whereabouts.
“Our Information Guild has been searching for the Previous Head of Tempus Family ever since we learned he was the culprit. However, we’ve obtained no information whatsoever.”
As if he were a person who didn’t exist.
Aiden furrowed his brow and continued.
“I’ve also been tracking his whereabouts for a long time. But I couldn’t find him at all. Later, thanks to Viviana, I even received help from Papiope, but it was useless.”
When even Aiden said he had found no information about him, everyone’s gaze naturally turned toward Marquise Primula.
She flinched in surprise, shrinking back slightly, but her lips moved.
“I… I don’t know where my father is either. The last time I saw him was when I confessed the false claim about giving birth to Tania and miscarrying…”
In the end, it meant no one knew where the Former Duke Tempus was.
Then Rosemary raised her hand abruptly.
“I have a question.”
“Go ahead.”
“If the Tempus Duchy’s ability is to rewind time, why didn’t he prevent Marquise Primula’s elopement when she was a young lady?”
“That’s true. If he could rewind time, he could have easily stopped her from eloping.”
Given the Previous Head of Tempus Family’s nature, he would never have allowed her to elope.
“That’s likely because the Former Duke’s ability was insufficient.”
Aiden added an explanation as everyone’s gaze turned toward me.
“Rewinding time is a more powerful ability than any other Ability User skill. No matter how strong one’s innate power, rewinding time would be difficult.”
The span of time I could rewind was likely only a few dozen seconds at most.
He blinked slowly, his eyes revealing the secret behind my Ability.
“My Biological Mother’s family bloodline possesses the rare gift of amplifying Ability User powers that normally have clear limitations. Because Tania inherited this blood, she can rewind time without any constraints.”
Only after hearing Aiden’s explanation did my abnormally powerful Ability finally make sense.
I had always thought it was an impossible power, yet I’d simply attributed it to luck.
That was when it happened.
Elysion contradicted Aiden’s theory.
“But it probably isn’t the ability to rewind time at all.”
“…How can you be so certain of that?”
He smiled gently at Aiden’s question and explained as if it were nothing special.
“My ability is Ability User negation, and time never rewound once before Tania awakened.”
In that instant, gasps erupted from everyone present.
“What?! Wait, you’re an Ability User, Elysion?”
“Then that means every time Tania rewound time, you moved with her. Remembering everything?”
To Rosemary and Raspi’s questions, Elysion lifted the corners of his mouth and answered.
“It was a long, long unrequited love.”
The Duchess’s reaction was closer to admiration than surprise.
“I see. I always thought it was unlike her, that she suited Tania well, but I never imagined there was such a reason behind it.”
As the conversation threatened to veer in another direction, Ron reorganized the situation once more.
“In any case, then the Previous Head of Tempus Family doesn’t have the ability to rewind time. It means he’s either powerless, or he possesses a different ability related to time.”
The Abilities parents pass to their children are actually the same category, but different varieties.
What did that mean?
If I compared a water-manipulating Ability to a dog breed…
What’s inherited through blood is only the category of “dog.”
Whether that dog is a Maltese or a Poodle remains unknown.
Even if someone inherits the same “water” Ability, one person might gain the power to freely manipulate water.
Another might gain the ability to generate water from nothing—the varieties differ.
Usually, the variety is also likely to be inherited, but it wasn’t a certainty.
Rosemary tilted her head to the side.
“Then isn’t he just powerless? What other ability could be derived from time besides rewinding it?”
“Many exist. Stopping time, for instance. Or slowing time’s flow so that one second for my opponent feels like ten seconds to me…”
“Or perhaps he could even manipulate the time of living beings or objects.”
“Huh?”
At Ron’s addition, a hypothesis struck my mind like lightning.
“Hugo Tempus!”
My heart began racing frantically.
Why hadn’t I thought of this until now?
“What if he’s the same person as the Former Duke Tempus?”

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