Shindou Yuusha to Maid Onee-san - Vol. 1 Ch. 3

[Tamerlane]

The maids are immune but eternal life itself is a curse. It's a kind of hell to walk the earth without end as eventually you grow numb to everything, no stimulation is interesting anymore and there's nothing to look forward to because you've already experienced it once before.

Not to mention how everything in a certain radius of him dies and he has to sustain himself somehow. Imagine the world progressing without you and you can't ever keep up with it, forever isolated by yourself.

Yeah, MC is cursed. Just because he has a harem chasing after him, doesn't mean everything is hunky-dory.

 

[Liquidxlax]

@Tamerlane If you didn't have continual aches and pains while maintaining your youth there is no real reason that should happen because there are damn near endless things to learn, research, create there is a possibility that you may be fine or you eventually turn into one of the gods from those isekai manga that like to turn planets into battle grounds for personal enjoyment. Though I imagine your perception of time would change based on your lifespan to a degree. Besides how would anyone know if they were immortal or not. Just because you haven't found something that can kill you doesn't mean yo will not eventually die because you never know which day is your last.

 

[Legion499]

"Next time they will be licking something!"
...
Yeah and it wont be his little jimmy obviously. 😒 The poor bastard clearly has an incurable case of eternal virgin going on. Has evidenced by the fact he had gorgeous, near naked, women who love him all over him just now and, beyond all reasoning, somehow managed to NOT get laid even once. #Fail 😕

 

[Tamerlane]

"There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death. What is divine, terrible, and incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal."-Jorge Luis Borges

This might go into existentialism a bit. @Liquidxlax

The first question is what one interprets life to be. If you go down the Buddhist route, life/existence is pain/suffering, and the way to transcend such method is to forgo earthly attachments and reach a point of enlightenment to reach Nirvana-or Non-existence. In this belief system, endless life would be a form of hell with no respite from it as it would create continuous suffering. All things are meant to be temporary, and watching as everything, in perpetuity, is found, lost, regained, etc. until the end of time in that cycle, then it would just drive a person mad.

There are also perspectives that the finite nature of life is what gives it value. The limited nature of resources is what raises their want-supply and demand. Time, too, is a resource, and so what time you invest into something determines how much you value it. If time is unlimited, that loses the core value of it.

Also to mention what gives life meaning in the first place is prone to many schools of thought. Nihilist reject any potential meaning, whereas Absurdists believe that there could be a meaning to life, but humans can never find it and are in continuous search for something they will never know if they have found it or not.

It's an interesting philosophical discussion to have.

 

[Bell-air]

the mc is cuter than all those girls tbh

 

[Liquidxlax]

@Tamerlane not sure if i'm taking the first quote to literal but there are plenty of animals which know death and the limits of their own and the quote may be from a time where man did not know these things. Ants will make the oldest ants work in the dump do they needn't clean up corpses, there are pack animals where the elderly wander off to die. We don't see our own mortality until someone close to us dies or death. I don't think immortality is even possible due to how inefficient a lot of things in nature are. An immortals body would have to be something like pure energy or something far more complex. Within what we know I should say it doesn't seem possible. Life would be great for the first immortals born, but not the youngest ones.

 

[Mathiason]

Thanks for the chapter!
Is it me or does it seem like Nagi lost a few cups being in human form compared to her true form in chapter 2? Be nice if got a flashback soon from when MC met each of them along with them showing up and becoming his maids. Although since the MC can't go to town, do the maids take turns for supplies and stuff hence how Arushera got a book on the lewd side of maid services?

BTW, I think someone mentioned a LN version, but tried googling title and novel updates but only got links to purchase not read. Anyone know a site with the LN or PDF in English? Thanks.

@Tamerlane and @Liquidxlax Immortality isn't all it's cracked up to be. Yes being limited allows one to appreciate the value of things better. However, being immortal doesn't necessarily mean unageing. Take the myth (can't remember if Greek or Roman,) about the guy who found a pearl that grants wishes, wished for immortality, and then started getting weaker and shrinking due to still ageing normally and taking centuries to find another pearl to wish for youth. Or like the 'witches' like CC realized in Code Geass, knowing can't die can be torture and doing despicable things or pairing with scum just to finally have a way to die. Or that Star Trek Next Generation movie where a 300 year old woman, Picard, and Data fell in the water and she almost drowned because never got around to learning how to swim. Also, things can get boring quick. Want a taste of eternity? Pick a dish and only eat that dish for every meal until utterly sick of it. There are only a finite number of recipes one has access to or can have made so would it even take a millennia or two before bored of every dish out there?

 

[Tamerlane]

A) It's Greek. He lives for so long he shrinks to the size of a grape and is shouting gibberish from dementia
B) Also remember the fate of Wheatley/Kars in Portal 2 and JoJo respectively in that they're unable to die but are caught in the vacuum of space, literally spent to think to themselves for eternity. Eventually, all life on Earth will die and eventually the universe will face heat death and, due to entropy, will be unable to sustain life. Now, if you live forever, you'll have to endure that shit and eventually live out your existence as every star/sun fades away and you're left on a cold desolate rock.

In the words of Queen, who wants to live forever?
@Mathiason

 

[Kadoya_Tsukasa]

Thanks for the update

 

[LikeASkurn]

As if it’s safe to let a bastard who KILLED HIS FUCKING TEAMMATES back into the streets...

 

[Popbomber69]

The ending said they would be licking something else..
*_*

 

[Mlg_John_Cena]

Those are indeed female molesters. Lol

 

[The_H_Guy]

Well, this is where all hopes for decent ecchi dies.
If nothing interesting is show in a common bath/onsen/beach chapter is basically set in stone that will never happen.

 

[Tonikill1]

I'm sorry but power fancies cringe me too much

 

[HarutaSato]

Fk I cant read this im in public

 

[LordoftheKeep]

not killing a criminal murderer

what a pansy

 

[syee]

sure let a rapist back to the street how about hand him over to the guards then this bullshit

 

[residentFATBOY]

"I'm all-powerful shota boy but am too good-natured to kill anyone, even though they robbed the capital, murdered their partners, destroyed my property, decapitated me, and intended to rape my maids." Can't expect me to take your story seriously, so why treat it seriously?

 

[AncientWatcher]

Tiny breasts? Dafuq are you talking about?