The self-cultivation of the passer-by hero

"This shouldn't be the case"

The red-haired girl circled Takeya, her head full of questions that could not be answered.

"Aren't you an undead?"

"I don't know, aren't you the God of Death? Don't ask me about this kind of thing."

Takeya himself didn't understand what was going on. Out of nowhere, the other party started talking to him in words he didn't understand.

"That's strange. Has the power of the God of Death failed?"

The red-haired girl frowned. She stopped and looked up and down at Takeya in front of her.

"Theoretically, a human soul like yours shouldn't be able to resist the breath of death. It's natural to become such a spiritual state, but why?"

Feeling puzzled, the Shinigami girl stretched out her hand and squeezed Takeya's arm. The merciless force caused Takeya to gasp in pain.

"Hiss—what are you doing?"

"The body's perception ability is not blurred. It is exactly the same as when it was alive. What is this?"

After thinking hard for a while, the red-haired girl suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and her eyes lit up as if she had thought of something.

"I see!"

She tapped her palm with her right hand like a fist, and the red-haired girl looked at Takeya in surprise:

"It took me a long time to figure it out, but it turns out you're really not an undead person."

".ah?"

Although he heard the words that he seemed to be alive, for some reason, Takeya couldn't be happy at all.

"Well - your current situation is very troublesome to explain. To put it simply in a way that you humans can understand, you are already half 'dead', or you have already stepped into the realm of death with one foot."

".Can't understand."

"Well, how should I put it? By the way, don't you humans have that saying? When you are about to die, you will suddenly recall the past."

"You mean"

After hearing the girl's messy remarks, Takeru thought hard and tried to say:

"Carousel?"

"Yes, yes, it's just a revolving door."

The girl nodded in agreement:

"Your current state is what you humans call a 'walking lantern'. In fact, it is no different from a dead person. After all, the soul has to be transcended, but conceptually you are still alive because your body has not yet Die."

It sounds reasonable at first, but think about it carefully!

"Hey, are you serious? I've never heard of anyone's revolving lantern going to the Santu River!"

"Why don't you believe me? I'm the God of Death."

The red-haired girl didn't understand Takeya's question:

"And your current state is very powerful. There has never been such an example in the thousands of years of my tenure as the God of Death in Santuhe. You are the first."

"."

What? Your statement is the same as an advertisement. Is it amazing that I am the first soul in thousands of years to come here because of the revolving door? I'm not happy at all!

"Then how can I go back?"

Wu Ye stared at him with a pair of dead fish eyes, which made the girl feel uncomfortable all over. He only heard him say gloomily:

"Since I'm not dead, it must not be a good thing to stay here, right?"

"Of course."

The girl agreed with Takeya's statement, but——

"It's definitely not okay to stay here as an 'undead soul'. This is against the rules. But when you can go back is not something I can decide."

"What's the meaning?"

"Well--"

Maybe she felt that it couldn't be explained clearly in ordinary language, so the girl did not speak directly, but instead asked Takeya another question:

"Have you ever passed out before?"

"faint?"

"He just hit his head accidentally or ate something strange. Anyway, he lost consciousness unintentionally."

"Uh, I have."

Wu Ye nodded, his face a little subtle, as if he remembered something unpleasant.

"That's good. Your current state is the same as when you fainted."

The red-haired girl shrugged and said:

"How you can 'alive' depends on when your body recovers from the 'dead' state. Generally speaking, it takes at most half a day for a normal person to wake up after fainting. But can special cases like you be able to wake up in a normal way?" Considering the situation, if you are unlucky, it is not impossible to faint until you die."

".Wouldn't that mean he becomes a vegetative state!"

After saying what the girl wanted to express, Takeya's face became extremely ugly. Although it was good news that he was not dead, but there was a possibility of becoming a vegetative state. What's wrong with that?

Give a candy and then give yourself a mace? You don’t play like this!

"Haha, don't worry so much."

Seeing that Takeru's entire face was darkened, the red-haired girl smiled and waved her hands and said:

"That's the worst case scenario. You should be able to go back safely. By the way, you don't look like the humans in Gensokyo. Are you from the outside world? If you don't have any acquaintances to seek refuge with, I'll leave it alone for the time being. Can you arrange it for me?"

"Well"

The enthusiasm of the red-haired girl was beyond Takeya's expectation, but the other party seemed to misunderstand him as a human from the outside world, although that is actually not wrong.

If you ask the other party, he should pick a safe place for you to wait until you wake up, right?

"Then please."

"Hmm - I remember that a new shrine was moved over to Yokai Mountain. What's it called? Moriya Shrine seems to be there. How about you go there temporarily and wait?"

"Absolutely not!"

If he sees those two gods in his current state, he will definitely be forcibly saved!

"Hey, why are you so determined?"

Looking at Takeya with a puzzled look on his face, the red-haired girl was stunned for a moment, and then tried to ask again:

"Well, there is a sunflower field nearby. The scenery is not bad. How about you go there and wait?"

".Absolutely not this!"

Who knows what will happen to him when he sees that tyrant again? Can he still use the trick of deceiving children a second time?

"You are really troublesome."

After two consecutive suggestions were rejected, the red-haired girl said with some distress:

"I won't go here or there. Do you want to follow me to Santu River?"

"Hey, this is possible."

"Are you serious? There is something wrong with your mind. There is actually a living person willing to go to Santu River."

"Actually, it's nothing. You didn't say that. Aren't I already 'half-dead' now?"

Wu Ye smiled nonchalantly and said:

"And I'm still quite curious about Santu River, so I'll leave it to you, Miss Death."

"Really, there is such a guy in the world. Forget it, it doesn't matter if I take you there, but on the other hand, don't cause any trouble to me."

"learn."

"Well, there's more."

While guiding the undead around her, the red-haired girl casually introduced herself:

"Don't call me Miss Death, it sounds weird. Call me Komachi, Onozuka Komachi - this is my name."

"The God of Death also has a name."

After an unexpected pause, Wu Ye smiled and said:

"I understand, then Miss Komachi, just call me Takeya."

"Takeru? I feel like I heard the name somewhere. Forget it, let's go."

It seemed that he was talking to himself unintentionally. After learning Takeya's name, Komachi didn't say anything more and guided the undead to prepare to leave the Tomb of No Purpose.

"Ah, right."

Takeru who was following behind suddenly called out to her.

"Miss Komachi, since you are Shinigami, there must be that, right?"

Thinking of this, Wu also stretched out his hand and gestured:

"The god of death has a sickle, right? Where did your sickle go? Didn't you bring it?"

"Huh? Scythe, I pawned the wine money yesterday, ahem, no, I accidentally forgot it at home."

"Hey! I heard it! You actually traded the sickle for wine money! Are you a god of death? Are you really a god of death! How can there be such a cold and unreliable god of death!"