Can the Undying and the Reincarnator Play Too Rough with Silver Tower Maya?

When Youxi was tracked down for the tenth time after being reborn into another life, she finally realized something.

She took the mask off the head of the shogunate's assassins in shock and stared at the unchanged face beneath it. "Wait, aren't you the one with the reincarnation script?!"

The man smiled meaningfully. "Because I'm an immortal monster... What's with that look?"

Youxi lit a sugar-coated skewer and took a long drag. Good heavens, now we've got the melodramatic setup where an immortal old man gets picked up by a girl who adopts children.

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Youxi has had many names, because she is a shrine maiden who can reincarnate with her memories intact.

Her duty is to protect the shrine that enshrines the dragon vein. Because her spiritual power is too strong, every time she dies, she is reborn as a shrine maiden who will be adopted by the shrine. Each time, she is given the surname Kikuri, after the goddess of shrine maidens.

In her first life, she adopted a child who had mysteriously appeared at the shrine. Before she could raise him, her body died because it could not withstand her overwhelming spiritual power.

In her second life, before she could figure out how she had come back to life, someone killed her on the very night she inherited the surname Kikuri.

All Youxi saw were a pair of eyes, scarlet as blood, hidden behind a mask.

She went from resentment to shock, and finally, to despair.

In her third life, she finally understood that she could keep being reborn with her memories intact.

Proof: she just couldn't forget those melancholic eyes (dramatic documentary voice) (cut).

Once she realized this, Youxi felt a little sad. It really wasn't a good thing for someone without much of a goal in life, especially since, although she could reincarnate, her human body couldn't withstand her powerful spiritual energy, so she always died young.

But she soon made a friend, someone who would find her every time she was reborn.

They spent hundreds of years together, understanding one another without a word. Then, in her tenth life, Youxi had a sudden whim and decided to elope and marry a teacher in the countryside.

What she got instead was a friend whose heart was instantly shattered.

He took off his mask, revealing his dark and wicked side.

"A thousand years ago, you brought me back with you."

"You are the shrine maiden who protects the dragon vein, and I am the dragon vein incarnate."

"We are destined to be entangled with one another. Not even death can separate us... After all, we don't truly die, do we?"

Youxi: Good grief, it's the immortal witch picks up a child plot, but in a heavily remixed version.jpg

Youxi: Wait, what the hell, the dragon vein became sentient!

Xu: ...You're only realizing that now?

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Before the two of them could sort things out, Youxi's tenth life came to an end.

The man waited five hundred years, until he finally realized a cruel possibility.

Maybe she would never be reborn again.

But why should you get to die?

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When Youxi opened her eyes in her eleventh life, she discovered that the shrine had been leveled and rebuilt as an airport terminal, the dragon vein was now called Altana energy, and the shrine maiden clan had fallen into decline. She and the only two other shrine maidens left went to Kabukicho to make a living.

Once she joined the crowds, Youxi realized life could be so happy.

There are plenty of fish in the sea. Why fixate on one flower?

So many years had passed. Surely he had forgotten her by now. Youxi tossed her dignity aside with a clear conscience, only for him to show up at her door.

Youxi came running to the Odd Jobs Gin-chan office, howling, "Help! Help! A male ghost is haunting me!!"

"Youxi, Youxi."

His low, hoarse voice followed her like a shadow.

"I've been looking for you for five hundred years. Where did you go?"

"Which life is this for you? Have you been hiding from me on purpose?"

"If we can't be together while we're alive, then let's search for death together."

[Reader's Guide]

* The heroine is a reincarnator who can only live to the age of twenty-five in each life. The hero is immortal as long as the dragon vein's energy does not run dry.

* The heroine avoids emotional issues and deep bonds.

* Because the hero is immortal, his way of thinking is unlike that of ordinary people. He's a pervert.

Theme: Companionship is the longest-lasting confession of love.