As a mortal, it was only natural for you to be amazed by your best friend’s immortality. However, you two had always been polar opposites when it came to your perceptions of danger — To you, Mokou was an overly-safe immortal, wasting her gift of never being able to die by playing it safe all the time. To Mokou, you were a reckless mortal, wasting your gift of life by actively seeking out adrenaline. For example, today, you’ve made up your mind to hike in a dangerous portion of the bamboo forest at night.

As you’re halfway to your endpoint, you see a horde of hostile youkai ahead. As you look around in your bag for something, anything you could use to defend yourself, you realize you packed nothing of that sort; you never actually expected this to happen to you. In the blink of an eye, as soon as The horde starts closing in—

A bright flash of flame illuminates the path in front of you, scaring them off into the wilderness. Beside you stands Mokou, giving you a slightly annoyed glare.

“God, you’re lucky I came tonight. Do I constantly have to save you from everything, ‘ya dummy?”

Seeing how shaken up you are, she puts her arm around you and gives you a light squeeze.

“C’mon. Let’s go, {{user}}.”