Let’s Make Saving a Habit - Chapter 25

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Chapter 25
At first, I thought it was a dream.
It had been several years since I graduated from the Talent Cultivation Institute—there was no way I could have traveled back through time to such a distant past.
I had never once imagined that Tania could rewind time by twelve years, such a vast span.
Until now, whenever time reversed, it had only gone back minutes at most, and even when it went furthest back, a month or two was the maximum.
So naturally, I assumed that was the limit of her ability.
The reason I could live through the repeated time loops with relatively little complaint was precisely because she only ever rewound short intervals—but now….
What on earth was this situation?
Of course, if I didn’t keep my nullification ability active, I might not be pulled back in time every time she used her power.
But I never deactivated my ability.
Well, wasn’t I curious?
What cunning scheme had Tania concocted this time before rewinding time?
Besides, if I hadn’t kept my ability constantly active, I wouldn’t have remembered our first meeting at all.
Ever since awakening my ability in childhood, I had been searching for the Ability User who could rewind time.
That Ability User was my life’s savior.
Of course, when that Ability User rewound time, it was entirely for their own sake—but still….
I wanted to repay that debt of gratitude someday.
Yet no matter how hard I searched, the ability user remained invisible until one day they suddenly appeared boldly.
Extracting only the richest ore veins and winning the auctions.
Becoming the major investor in ventures destined for great success.
As if saying, “I’m the ability user you’ve been looking for!”
I watched Tania from afar for a long time, hearing news of her exploits.
It was quite entertaining to see how her actions shifted with each rewind.
And when I became certain that Tania was the Ability User who could rewind time.
I attended a banquet she was participating in and deliberately lingered nearby until she took notice of me.
I knew well how easily my face could capture others’ favor.
My assumption proved roughly correct.
“Wow… Is this a person or a sculpture?”
There were many people murmuring about my face from a distance.
But Tania was the first to openly admire it right before my eyes like that.
Finding it quite amusing, I waited to see what she’d say next, and her admiration continued.
“Whoever marries you will be so lucky. Getting to see this face every day.”
I expected her to at least apologize for staring so intently or try to befriend me with a greeting.
Did she realize how lovely her rose-gold hair was?
Did she know how much I wanted to bite those still-soft baby cheeks?
Without knowing what I was thinking, I simply watched Tania, curious to see how far she would go.
But then….
After that brief exclamation, she rewound time without hesitation.
As if she had never said anything to me.
I was dumbfounded.
When did she ever admire my face with such confidence before me, and how could she turn back time without even attempting to speak to me once?
In the end, it was Elysion who approached her first and initiated conversation.
But despite opening that dialogue, Tania showed no inclination to grow closer to him.
It was as though she treated him like an artwork displayed in a museum.
Of course, this distance wasn’t reserved for him alone—she maintained it with everyone.
A deliberate separation.
So it was Elysion who found himself growing impatient instead.
He visited her every day to converse, fulfilled her various requests, and eventually succeeded in growing close to her.
And yet….
“You kissed me and then fled back twelve years? Is that what happened?”
Because of that kiss, he had already imagined fathering two rabbit-like children with her!
At first, he was furious.
Everything he had built with her was completely reset, as if it had never existed.
Moreover, with this small child’s body, he couldn’t engage in intimate physical contact with her.
The age difference between them was three years.
Waiting for her to reach adulthood had already been difficult enough.
“But if Tania is seven years old now, how many more years do I have to remain celibate here….”
The legal age of adulthood in the Empire was eighteen.
So even if they married as quickly as possible, he would have to wait at least another eleven years.
It was despair incarnate.
So after returning to the past, Elysion searched for Tania frantically.
But just as before, Tania remained silent and still during this period.
Finding her seemed impossible.
Then, one moment of clarity brought him back to adulthood again.
Elysion immediately went to find Tania. He was so desperate he didn’t even think to use teleportation.
But Tania wasn’t at her house or at her usual business establishments.
With a sinking feeling, the last place he searched was the Papiope Town House where he lived.
Remarkably, Tania had come to the Duke’s Mansion of her own accord.
Upon hearing from the butler that she was in the Reception Room, he rushed there immediately.
“Tania!”
There before his eyes stood the woman who had suddenly bid him farewell and turned back time twelve years.
Elysion strode toward her and grasped her wrist firmly so she couldn’t escape.
“You, exactly…!”
Her eyes widened in surprise at his angry expression.
In that instant, time inevitably rewound to twelve years prior.
The afterimage of Tania who had been before him moments ago scattered like grains of sand.
It was the moment he realized she was a being he could never grasp, no matter how hard he tried.
It was maddening.
“Why on earth are you causing something so impossible?”
The wealth she had accumulated thus far was beyond imagination.
It meant I could do anything I wanted and live freely.
“Could it be… that you rewound time to when someone like family was still alive?”
But didn’t he say that person had passed away five years ago?
There was no need to go back this far into the past.
As Elysion continued his chain of reasoning, he regretted showing anger toward Tania, whom he’d only just met again.
He should have calmed himself and spoken more carefully. At the very least, he shouldn’t have grabbed her wrist so roughly.
But the next day.
A shocking rumor spread through the Papiope Talent Cultivation Institute.
Three people had passed the institute’s entrance exam in a single day, and one of them had shattered every single record in the history of the tests.
Elysion immediately realized that Tania must be involved.
In the past, there had never been a day when three people passed, nor had an Ability User ever emerged who broke all the test records.
He quickly went through the institute’s documents and found the names of the successful candidates.
Tania.
It was her.
Elysion actually thought it was fortunate. If she entered the institute, he would naturally have many opportunities to make contact…
He thought he could take his time and convince her slowly.
Every day, he went to the reception desk of the institute and lingered, watching to see if Tania had come.
But even after a month had passed since the announcement of her acceptance, Tania never appeared at the institute.
This was in stark contrast to the twin siblings who had passed on the same day and enrolled immediately.
When Rosemary, who had been my younger sister in adulthood, appeared with her biological older brother, how bewildered I had been.
As the adoption ceremony drew near, Elysion grew anxious.
It seemed the adoption ceremony had been moved up because of Tania’s influence.
Yet the very person who was the cause of it all had not appeared.
Hadn’t she taken the institute’s test in order to be adopted by the Duke?
He sighed and headed toward the reception desk out of habit.
The moment he saw those lovely rose-gold colored locks at the reception desk, he found himself calling out her name without thinking.
“…Tania?”
Her gaze, which had been lowered, turned toward Elysion.
It was the meeting with Tania he had so desperately wanted.
Yet Elysion was struck as if someone had dealt him a heavy blow to the back of his head, and he could say nothing.
A tiny, fragile body. Thin, spindly limbs.
Remembering Tania as an adult, he felt as though this child version of her would simply crumble and disappear if he so much as tapped her.
He could easily tell that she too had endured a painful childhood, just as he had.
It wasn’t simply because she was thin.
She possessed that distinctive, sharp glint in her eyes—something only those of the same kind could recognize.
People who struggled through difficult childhoods and later succeeded usually don’t want to return to the past.
Yet she had come back to this point in time…
There must be a reason for it.

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