Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 142

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Chapter 142
On the road back to Duke Papiope’s Mansion.
I felt something closer to emptiness than satisfaction.
It was only natural.
Hugo Tempus, hidden behind all those carefully guarded secrets, turned out to be absolutely nothing.
He didn’t possess an ability, nor did he have any exceptional intellect or talent.
The fact that my entire life had been ravaged by such a worthless wretch was utterly absurd.
Elysion gazed at me intently and asked.
“How are you planning to take your revenge?”
I tilted my head slowly.
“…Haven’t we just killed Hugo Tempus several times over?”
“That’s just venting. He doesn’t even remember dying.”
He was right.
Truth be told, I had something else in mind anyway.
“Regardless of anything else, when it comes to avenging myself against Hugo Tempus, I want it to be me alone—not anyone else.”
“The people of Duke Papiope’s Mansion and your subordinates seem to be grinding their teeth quite a bit.”
“I know. But this isn’t simply a matter of relying on others or not.”
Elysion then looked at me with a worried expression.
I lightly clenched my fist and gave his side a gentle tap.
“Don’t worry. If I need help, I’ll ask for it actively. But I want to take my revenge on him with my own hands.”
“What kind of revenge are you thinking of? You’ve been searching for the source of your ruined life for so long.”
“Sion, do you know when the most painful moment of my life was?”
As the conversation turned to the past, Elysion’s expression grew somewhat darker.
“…When you were abandoned in the Monster Forest as a child and hunted by monsters?”
“Yes. The despair of not being able to escape even through death was overwhelming.”
I recalled that memory and bit my lower lip.
“So I want to make him feel that same pain and despair.”
“Do you have a specific plan in mind?”
“Yes. That’s why I wanted to ask for your help… though I’m not sure if it’s even possible.”
Only then did Elysion’s furrowed brows finally relax.
“Just tell me whatever it is.”
I am ready to do anything for your revenge.

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That night.
Hugo Tempus was tormented by a vicious nightmare.
The image of my granddaughter Tania smiling at me was rendered far more vivid in the dream than in reality.
[But I will promise you one thing. I will take responsibility for your final moments and ensure they end in agony.]
Count on it.
[I will exhaust every method at my disposal to ensure that among all the long years of your life, you experience the most horrific hours imaginable.]
“Gasp…!”
The moment Tania’s blade pierced his heart in the dream, he jolted awake and frantically clutched at his chest.
“Huff, huff.”
The clothes he wore were drenched with his sweat.
He rose from the bed and irritably tore off the robe he’d been wearing, casting it aside carelessly.
“Damn it!”
The very fact that he’d felt fear toward her—nothing more than a mass of blood—was humiliating.
Truthfully, the approaching death itself held no terror for him.
Having lived for an immeasurably long time since before the Empire’s founding, he harbored no lingering attachments to life.
That was why.
When my granddaughter Tania brought Elysion, the next Magic Tower Master, as her escort, I could maintain composure.
But the moment he learned that Tania’s true ability was the power to rewind time as she pleased.
He could not help but become agitated.
It was as though the means by which he could escape through death had vanished.
The reason he had always lived a life of leisure was because he enjoyed immortality while remaining indifferent to death.
But the moment that refuge disappeared, true terror began.
He could not even imagine what kind of horrific torture she would inflict upon him.
Moreover.
“…That woman Tania—if she dies, time rewinds to before her death? She can never be killed?”
A colossal fear, felt for the first time in his long existence, consumed him.
“No. No, no, no! Such a thing cannot be possible. She is human too, so she can be killed!”
Hugo Tempus summoned all the Assassins he had secretly cultivated in an emergency assembly.
Then, in an extremely agitated state, he issued his command.
“Kill Tania Papiope by any means necessary! Use blades, use poison, use anything! Bring me her head before me. Now!”
“Forgive me, but we have already attempted all the methods you mentioned, yet all have ended in failure…”
The Assassin bowed his head before his master, Hugo Tempus.
The young lady of Papiope saw through all of their plans.
When she traveled by carriage, she would teleport away the moment they attempted to execute their assassination plan, as if to mock them.
The meticulously layered assassination schemes could not even be attempted before they fell apart.
“My apologies, Your Excellency.”
Hugo Tempus gazed quietly down at his subordinate.
A capable servant.
One who had always cleanly disposed of any target I ordered killed.
Such a subordinate could not have possibly failed to assassinate a mere young lady.
Had the assassination succeeded, only for her to be revived by rewinding time?
A chill ran down my spine, and terror seized my entire body.
What, she continues to survive even in death?
I hurled whatever objects fell into my hands, screaming in desperation.
“Kill her no matter what! Understood? Do as you’ve done before—kill her!”
The Assassins, who had only ever witnessed my composed and unflappable demeanor, were greatly alarmed by my loss of control.
Yet they could only bow their heads and obey my command.
They were ‘dogs’ long since trained by Hugo Tempus.
“We shall obey your orders.”

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One week later.
Crash—!
A glass ornament shattered, its fragments scattering across the floor.
Hugo Tempus vented his fury without regard for the state of his own office.
“Is capturing a single woman truly so difficult?”
“My apologies. Ever since she visited the Tempus Duchy, the security at Duke Papiope’s Mansion has become extraordinarily stringent….”
“Excuses, excuses from everyone!”
Hugo Tempus retrieved a bottle of liquor from the display cabinet and drained it in one gulp.
“Don’t show your face until you bring me her head!”
Going to Duke Papiope’s Mansion now to claim Tania’s head was no different from going to one’s death.
“I shall… obey your orders.”
The Assassin bowed silently to his lord before vanishing into the shadows.
Left alone in his office, Hugo Tempus bit at his lips with an anxious expression.
The composure he had always maintained, an unwavering emotional state, had long since shattered.
Every night, I dreamed of Tania killing me.
Now, the moment I closed my eyes, her face appeared before me.
Each time her resentful gaze and cold touch pierced through my chest, I knew it was not reality, yet I could not help but convulse in terror.
My fear grew increasingly, making daily life unbearable.
The thought that I must eliminate her as soon as possible gripped me relentlessly.
Cornered, Hugo Tempus’s gaze fell upon the desk drawer.
It was the poison I had attempted to use on Tania some time ago, only to fail.
Or perhaps….

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The office door burst open.
“Hero, something terrible has happened!”
It was Rosemary’s urgent cry as she stormed in without so much as a knock.
Tania, who had been leisurely playing chess with Elysion, tilted her head curiously. “What is it? Did Hugo Tempus die or something?”
“Why? Did Hugo Tempus die or something?”
Rosemary’s eyes and mouth flew wide open.
“Gasp—you already knew?”
“What? He really died?”
I met Elysion’s gaze as he sat quietly across from me.
His expression mirrored my own bewilderment.
“Ha, how amusing. Trying to escape through death, of all things.”
“It’s about time we paid a visit anyway.”
I turned back to Rosemary with a question.
“Did he die yesterday?”
“…Yes! He’s presumed to have died last night and was discovered this morning.”
“How fortunate. I happen to have a saved checkpoint from around yesterday’s midday.”
I activated my ability without hesitation.
[Loading Checkpoint 1.]

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