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"Eihime-sama is really broad-minded, with an amazing amount of water and endless water." Miss Onozuka Komachi, the legendary god of death, stood on a small wooden boat drifting with the current like a weather vane with her hands on her chest, and faced the Mitsuto River with a sigh that was repeated countless times.

"Where is this? Who am I? What am I going to do? A translucent mochi-like creature with a soft white glow lay in the middle of the plank, rolling and jumping, "Why am I like a white mochi?" ”

"You've been talking to yourself several times since you got on the boat, are you asking me this time? I can tell you this is the underworld, but I don't really know where it is, and how do I know who you are? What are you doing? Why are you like a white mochi? You should ask these questions to someone who is more interested in answering them, such as the broad-minded Eithime-sama. Death said.

"Okay, please tell me where Eihime-sama is."

"Out of nowhere...... Ah、Probably a few miles after crossing the river and walking in the direction of the vertical riverbank.,Well,That's the mental distance set by the person in charge of the underworld, Lord Yinghime.,Actually,We're in Yinghime-sama's heart right now.,It's just that if you don't walk these distances.,She won't see anyone.,No one can see her.。 ”

"Really? I don't understand it, but I understand, so please speed up, I want to see Eihime-sama sooner, even though I'm still skeptical of your suggestion. ”

"It's normal to have doubts.、It's a very correct attitude.,Every deceased who comes to the underworld has a lot of doubts.,Seeing the spiritual mentor Lord Yingji is the inevitable choice of most people.,Last time there was a female high school student who didn't doubt herself at all.,Very happily left the underworld and chose to reincarnate again.,Ah,Reincarnation or something.,Is it real? Is it necessary to exist? I've been observing for many years and don't have a clue at all, and Lord Yingji can't answer this question, so it can only be boiled down to the natural development of things and natural selection, what we can do is to give you a little hospice care, and by the way, to verify the purpose of your own cultivation, and not contribute to the development of society, the evolution of civilization, or anything. ”

"Miss Scythe, you know a lot." The white mochi said after rolling a few laps.

"Miss Scythe? Are you calling me? It's casual anyway, it's very appropriate.,I do know a lot.,But the more doubts I have.,The more lazy I become.,I thought that I could transcend everything by achieving a true immortal.,But I somehow followed Lord Yinghime-sama to do the work of the god of death for so long.,And then I found that I didn't even know what to get rid of.,Alas......"

"Don't sigh, Miss Scythe, as long as you keep going, you'll always find what you're looking for."

Are you saying this from the bottom of your heart, or is it from a magazine or Twitter message? Thank you for your encouragement anyway. ”

"No thanks, can you speed up a bit?"

"I'm sorry, of course not, this river is called the Santu River, folklore has three kinds of river crossing speeds, to some extent it makes sense, because Lord Yinghime added this strange river when he transformed the underworld, and the total 'distance' between the width of the river and the shore is the mental distance between the deceased and Lord Yinghime, and the current speed, let me take a look - I guess you used to be a slow person who loves to think, so the drift is relatively smooth and slow, of course faster than the slowest wave, and it is not up to me to really want to meet Lord Yinghime soon, but yourself, oh, my duty is to tell you this, by the way, I don't know if there is a Jizo Bodhisattva view of a living appearance. ”

"Really?" The white mochi's doubts almost popped out of the "body" and condensed into a question mark, and then fell into deep thought.

The small wooden boat was still drifting slowly.

"Well, I don't think I'm in a hurry, it's very comfortable and relaxing to float on the river, and I think I must have liked it before."

"Oh, yes."

"Yes."

The small wooden boat floated slowly.

After an incalculable period of time, the boat docked.

"Congratulations to you Mochi, you are away from the spiritual master, the person in charge of the underworld, and the four seasons of Yingji? Then Lord What is one step closer, and after a little more travel, it is the legendary Hall of Judgment, your doubts may be answered, or you may not get anything, no matter what, after that, you will have to leave the underworld. ”

"I seem to think a lot on the river, but I forget most of it when I get off the boat," the white mochi rolled among the flowers on the banks of the Santu River, as if hoping to write down his feelings, "Miss Scythe, may I ask a question?" ”

"Yes, but I can't guarantee whether there is a need to answer and whether I have the ability to answer."

"Well, I wonder if I can stay in the underworld forever, not going, that, reincarnated?"

"It's reincarnation," the Grim Reaper corrected, "although reincarnation is not necessarily a correct description of natural evolution, the so-called reincarnation is even more nonsense." ”

"Oh, thank you for the correction."

And then there's the question of whether you can stay in the underworld forever, and it's a very good and common question, and many people have asked it, and some people feel in their hearts that staying in the underworld forever isn't it another way of eternal life? And the underworld looks empty, which is a good place to live comfortably. ”

"There is some expectation of this."

"Let's not talk about whether such an expectation can be realized, the underworld can capture the will of the deceased, and it seems to block the devouring of natural evolution, but mortals are mortals after all, and they belong to a part of reincarnation, and you yourself are reincarnation, which is nature."

“？” White mochi is questionable.

"Although the underworld is man-made, it is a part of natural evolution, and of course it belongs to reincarnation, and the underworld itself is also reincarnation." Death said.

"Ah," said White Mochi with understanding, "my journey at this moment is also part of samsara. ”

"Yes, stop the journey, stay in the underworld, you are still in reincarnation, what are you talking about eternal life?"

"But I think I can extend this journey forever, and live alone in a place where no one is around, and that's a way of life."

"That's what everyone who asks this question thinks," Death continued, "but in fact, it's all in the heart of Ehime-sama, she doesn't bring change to anyone, what you see, hear, and even think is tolerated by the person in charge of the underworld, and you don't actually have your 'self' to some extent." ”

"No, without me, why did I have the idea that I could stay in the underworld forever? Although I don't really expect to stay in the underworld forever, I would rather meet Eihime-sama. ”

"That's why it's somehow good." Miss Onozuka Komachi, who was carrying the scythe, didn't plan to say more, "In short, you can have the idea of staying in the underworld, or you can try to put it into practice, and Lord Yinghime won't care if there is one more wandering phantom in your heart, but in the end, you will always choose to leave the immutable underworld and give up the immutable self, so the act of staying in the underworld actually doesn't bring any meaning." ”

"But I don't think reincarnation itself brings any meaning, if there is reincarnation, ah no, there is a new birth, I am still a mortal who doesn't know anything, does reincarnation have meaning for me?"

"Well, I think so too, so I can't answer your question, you have to ask this question-sama Yinghime, anyway, you don't plan to try to stay in the underworld forever, but to meet Yinghime-sama."

"Ah, yes, how far is it?"

"Here we are."