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The cherry blossoms in the Netherworld were pretty great, but the ones here are something special.
The other ones are too far away~.
Could you people loiter somewhere else? I'm trying to sweep these up, and you're in the way.
Does it really matter if you leave them on the ground? C'mon, let's drink the sake Komachi brought.
I found some good stuff, so I figured I'd take a walk and bring it over.
Well, that changes everything. Did you bring anything, Rumia?
Nope~. Even if I brought meat or something, you wouldn't eat it, right?
You've got a point. That might take a bit of courage.
Heeey!
Oh, Keine. And...
It's been a while.
You brought Mokou?
I just thought she should get out once in a while, so I invited her. It's finally spring, but she still secludes herself in the bamboo forest...
Now that I think about it,I guess I haven't seen you around... so how have you been?
Same as always. And from the looks of it, you two are too.
Well, yeah. It hasn't been that long. But what about you? I haven't seen you since back then, so I thought something might've happened.
Don't tell me you're avoiding us because you're worried about that whole not-dying thing?
Um...
It's fine, Keine. They already know about it, so there's no point in trying to hide it anymore.
Yes, I'm immortal. Long ago, I drank a certain elixir.
An elixir...?
Thanks to that, I don't age and I can't die. It seems like the shinigami noticed as soon as we met though.
Only that you weren't a normal human. I was surprised to hear that you really can't die.
...Mokou is telling the truth. That's why she lives alone in the bamboo forest.
Even if I form bonds with people, they always end up thinking I'm creepy because my appearance never changes.
Why? What should that have to with anything?
Are you seriously asking that? I've been spending the last thousand years living away from people because of that.
A thousand years, huh? That sounds depressing.
...A lot's happened. I've also spent hundreds of years doing nothing.
But, I've only made it this far because I have a score to settle with someone.
Who?
The girl who I got the elixir from. Like me, she's-
Ageless and immortal? Too many of you folks around and I'm out of business...
Is it a problem for a shinigami when you can't take someone's life?
Well, from the perspective of the cycle of reincarnation, removing your own lifespan is certainly blasphemous. But you seem to have a good grasp of what it means to be immortal, and the weight of a life...
I realized that during the incident, so I'm not gonna do anything.
Komachi...
Okay, let's just cut off this heavy chat there and start the party.
Let's try out this Higan sake and see if we can taste the afterlife!
...Heh, what a joke.