Genshin Impact: As a Mortal, I Can't Stay with You Until the End

Five hundred years ago.

Raiden Ei looked down at the youth in the courtyard and said calmly:

"Hmph. A mortal... To 'eternity,' your life is but a fleeting moment... Very well, very well. I shall indulge you for a while."

Five hundred years later.

On a sickbed.

"Waaah! You good-for-nothing, pull yourself together! Don't die!!"

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I planted a little tree and watered it day and night for years, but never got to see its branches grow thick and lush.

I died the night before my beloved returned from studying abroad.

We were both so full of hope, yet drifted further and further apart. I never lived to see the day she emerged from the Pure Land and opened her heart.

I fed a little fox tofu for years. It grew into a big fox while I slowly grew old, until I could no longer lift my cooking utensils.

The Sacred Sakura, waka poems, plum wine and sweets, sardines and salt, the shrine strewn with fallen blossoms, our summer promise. Once again, I cannot keep our appointment.

I long to buy osmanthus flowers and share wine with you, but I have passed away as someone from your past.

It is never again like those carefree days of youth.

Human lifespans have their limits.

"Companionship is the longest confession of love. But I'm sorry, as a mortal, I can't keep saying, 'I love you.'"