Chapter 44: A Place to Return To

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He died. Framed by a false charge, he protected the people dear to him and lost his life in the spring of his eighteenth year. —or that was how it should have gone. When he opened his eyes, Miroku Kannagi had gone back to the spring of his sixteenth year, two years earlier. His aim for his second life was simple: Survive this time. He wanted to give up his tiresome duties as a ritual exorcist and his responsibilities as heir to a prestigious family, and live quietly as an ordinary civilian. But then supernatural anomalies that never showed up in his first life started appearing. A sealed god began to stir. And a thousand-year-old ritual implement got mad at him over some peanuts. One odd incident after another started leading, for some reason, straight back to Miroku himself. The prophecy he received at seven: "You will die at eighteen." The truth behind his first death—and why he came back two years into the past. Two years were left until the spring of his eighteenth year. Can Miroku survive his second life? His motto: "Protect your life." Sadly, his actions usually say otherwise.

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