Tensei Shite High Elf ni Narimashitaga, Slow Life wa 120-nen de Akimashita - Highelf with a Long Life - Ch. 43

[Sheza]

it must be in their blood to be falling in love with elves, That elf bussy being irresistable

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[AbuHajaar]

I'm kinda excited to see what happens when he goes home, if we will get a name drop of someone he knows from there and what they are like
We haven't actually met anyone from his home the entire time this manga has been running

 

[Kathartes]

I do hope he gets a long-term companion sometime, which will definitely add a good dynamic to the story. The question is how long will that last as well. I’ve seen stories where immortal companions kind of slowly devolves into apathy due to the longevity of it all. I honestly wouldn’t mind a spoiler from a ln reader about his future encounters. I really do love this story.

He will.

Spoiler

And you're right about his companion. IIRC around 400+ year old mark he decides to settle down with Irena on a secluded island (but not really lacking in visitors because at that point she is the most influential person in the entire continent). Their relationship is purely platonic, though they have raised a child together. His bonds with the outside world eventually fade away after Master Rock Muncher's passing, and the Yosogi clan has grown too big and too distant to keep involving.

Spoiler

Irena will also pass away 200~300 years before him, afterward his last few centuries is just fast-forwarding without any noteworthy event. The older he gets, the closer he becomes to the standard high elf mindset, so he'll go back to the forest depth to die quietly.

 

[jagfanbb]

The least he could have done was goodbye fuck her 🤔

 

[KazuyaKan]

Page 9

This man is like a father to me.

Isn't that Aesir speaking internally? Shouldn't is say "son" instead of "father"? I mean, he even says later on, on page 31 that he thinks of them all as his children.
I get the original raws translate that way in many translators, but it doesn't make any sense. It's possible it's actually saying "I am like a father to this man", and it would fit with the following "when a child comes to the end of thier life... " and make sense.

 

[Diagus]

Next Boss

 

[nielspeterdejong]

Personally i don't think it even needs to be a lover, but i geniuely believe there is need for some sort of "permanent" companion or acquaintance. The problem this story is facing from my side is that most of the characters became effectively worthless because they are not allowed to exist beyon teaching the MC something new and thus they become less of a characters in story and more of a tool.

This arc is the perfect example of this. Why the hell should we care about any of these characters when the chances are next time Aesir will come back they will be just extra grave for the background. Aesir needs someone to bounce off from, but it feels empty when the people he bounces off pretty much exist as one time thing.

Now you understand EXACTLY why elves in fantasy tend to be a bit aloof towards humanity (is that the proper word?) or perhaps sometimes even cold and distant. Likely they met humans before, and try to first distance themselves from most of them in order to spare themselves more heartbreak. Elrond from Lord of the Rings comes to mind.

Elves are often called racist towards humans, but to them humans are basically children that keep making the same immature mistakes over and over again. They don't see humans as equals, because at their very core we aren't. Humans live short lives, and need to rush and make the most of things, but then die within less than a 100 years while taking all that wisdom with them. Elves are lead by elders, who in fantasy are often considered "intolerant" and "backwards", but in practical terms only do what their long lives of experience have shown them repeatedly; that some things work in the long run, and some don't. And while the individual human can indeed be wonderful (which is why they keep helping humans), as a whole humans are dangerous panicky animals that act on impulse. Look at the whole covid hysteria. In hindsight, it was no less dangerous than the flu, yet big pharmacy was able to buy out a lot of the media companies and politicians, and then demonized anyone who had questions about their radical new medication (which they dubbed a "vaccine", even though in technical terms it wasn't, it was mRNA, so they lied even there). The scared and panicky population then attacked anyone who questioned the lockdowns (which had never happened before in human history, and were not very effective to begin with as it was airborne) or who objected to having people lose their livelyhood over something that had only been tested for 3 months, as opposed to the usual 5 years of testing it should have taken. Trampling their rights. Worse, their poorly tested medication did nothing to limit the spread of the disease, which only stopped because people got natural immunity against it, not to mention all the negative side effects that it gave people; like increased risk of heart attacks and blood clots. Now people are pretending like nothing happened, because they don't want to even admit that they got played by a few smart suits at the top, who made a killing during covid.

Imagine that you're an elf, and you are seeing all of that. What would your impression of humans be? Yes, exactly, individually kind and often genuinely good, but as a whole dangerous and impulsive and cruel to those who don't fall in line. Though with the occasional outstanding person leading them and weeding out corruption and redeeming them in some manner. That is humanity. Lovely in most cases, but dangerous as a whole due to their desire to conquer and control the world around them, while living short and fleeting lives.

 

[nielspeterdejong]

Yea that's exactly what I was thinking

There will be zero romance for MC and the only reason they bring in romance is to show us how sad/bad being immortal is
Typical shit because this is like what? the 3rd time its being done? makes me wonder how many more times will the author keep doing this because we get the point already

Also

because the author CAN ADD it, my question is why does the author keep bringing up this romance crap with humans that DON'T live long when clearly he's written a MC that doesn't want any romance to do with things that are impermanent like you've stated, Author could literally just add another immortal like being into the series to have romance for, ffs it could be another elf but he doesn't.....

Like either drop the whole mortal humans trying to romance MC and failing it because author wanted to use that as a way to keep reminding us that being immortal is sad OR hook up MC with a nice immortal girl because seeing this human romance doomed to fail for like the 2nd or 3rd time is quite annoying

Well, if you like spoilers...

Spoiler

He will actually get a lover, a certain elf from the caravan whom he met at the start of his journey, and with whom he even raises another child. Sadly not from his own blood, as it is very hard for high elves and elves to have children, as they are basically different species. But overall things will work out, and I think that you'll like the ending

 

[waldo220]

Ngl, when he said Kaeha was in his sword, I thought he was pointing at his dick

 

[nielspeterdejong]

He will.

Spoiler

And you're right about his companion. IIRC around 400+ year old mark he decides to settle down with Irena on a secluded island (but not really lacking in visitors because at that point she is the most influential person in the entire continent). Their relationship is purely platonic, though they have raised a child together. His bonds with the outside world eventually fade away after Master Rock Muncher's passing, and the Yosogi clan has grown too big and too distant to keep involving.

Spoiler

Irena will also pass away 200~300 years before him, afterward his last few centuries is just fast-forwarding without any noteworthy event. The older he gets, the closer he becomes to the standard high elf mindset, so he'll go back to the forest depth to die quietly.

Yup, you summed it up well, except:

Spoiler

We don't know if their relationship was platonic, as they were pretty close. She was often referred to as his partner, so they likely were intimate. The reason they likely never had kids of their own is because they are both different species. High elves are an elder race who were created by the same entity that created the gods themselves, while elves were created by said gods as imitations of the high elves. Therefor high elves and elves were completely different species, so it would be hard for them to have offspring together. After all, it is already pretty hard for a human and an elf to have kids, so I imagine that it might be even harder for them to have one. Perhaps they could have had one if they'd immediately started becoming a pair from the moment they met, giving them more time, but alas that was not meant to be. At least they had a wonderful time together, and raised a great daughter as well.

 

[HDMI1]

Page 9

Isn't that Aesir speaking internally? Shouldn't is say "son" instead of "father"? I mean, he even says later on, on page 31 that he thinks of them all as his children.
I get the original raws translate that way in many translators, but it doesn't make any sense. It's possible it's actually saying "I am like a father to this man", and it would fit with the following "when a child comes to the end of thier life... " and make sense.

I came here to comment the exact same thing.

@AlphaTM Can you recheck the Raw and confirm if it's correct?

 

[Drax]

Page 9

Isn't that Aesir speaking internally? Shouldn't is say "son" instead of "father"? I mean, he even says later on, on page 31 that he thinks of them all as his children.
I get the original raws translate that way in many translators, but it doesn't make any sense. It's possible it's actually saying "I am like a father to this man", and it would fit with the following "when a child comes to the end of thier life... " and make sense.

I came here to comment the exact same thing.

@AlphaTM Can you recheck the Raw and confirm if it's correct?

It's Shizuki's line from chapter 41, not Aesir speaking.

 

[dokidoki]

Well, if you like spoilers...

Spoiler

He will actually get a lover, a certain elf from the caravan whom he met at the start of his journey, and with whom he even raises another child. Sadly not from his own blood, as it is very hard for high elves and elves to have children, as they are basically different species. But overall things will work out, and I think that you'll like the ending

Thx for the info

All I wanted is for the heart breaker romance stuff to stop being a thing because like I already got the point, so Its nice to know things do get better

 

[Cataegis]

Now you understand EXACTLY why elves in fantasy tend to be a bit aloof towards humanity (is that the proper word?) or perhaps sometimes even cold and distant. Likely they met humans before, and try to first distance themselves from most of them in order to spare themselves more heartbreak. Elrond from Lord of the Rings comes to mind.

Elves are often called racist towards humans, but to them humans are basically children that keep making the same immature mistakes over and over again. They don't see humans as equals, because at their very core we aren't. Humans live short lives, and need to rush and make the most of things, but then die within less than a 100 years while taking all that wisdom with them. Elves are lead by elders, who in fantasy are often considered "intolerant" and "backwards", but in practical terms only do what their long lives of experience have shown them repeatedly; that some things work in the long run, and some don't. And while the individual human can indeed be wonderful (which is why they keep helping humans), as a whole humans are dangerous panicky animals that act on impulse. Look at the whole covid hysteria. In hindsight, it was no less dangerous than the flu, yet big pharmacy was able to buy out a lot of the media companies and politicians, and then demonized anyone who had questions about their radical new medication (which they dubbed a "vaccine", even though in technical terms it wasn't, it was mRNA, so they lied even there). The scared and panicky population then attacked anyone who questioned the lockdowns (which had never happened before in human history, and were not very effective to begin with as it was airborne) or who objected to having people lose their livelyhood over something that had only been tested for 3 months, as opposed to the usual 5 years of testing it should have taken. Trampling their rights. Worse, their poorly tested medication did nothing to limit the spread of the disease, which only stopped because people got natural immunity against it, not to mention all the negative side effects that it gave people; like increased risk of heart attacks and blood clots. Now people are pretending like nothing happened, because they don't want to even admit that they got played by a few smart suits at the top, who made a killing during covid.

Imagine that you're an elf, and you are seeing all of that. What would your impression of humans be? Yes, exactly, individually kind and often genuinely good, but as a whole dangerous and impulsive and cruel to those who don't fall in line. Though with the occasional outstanding person leading them and weeding out corruption and redeeming them in some manner. That is humanity. Lovely in most cases, but dangerous as a whole due to their desire to conquer and control the world around them, while living short and fleeting lives.

I was with you until you started saying that COVID isn't any worse than the flu and that the vaccine isn't a vaccine. Well over a million people died in the US alone - more than literally any other country on the planet, thanks to people like you, and I personally know several people who were permanently disabled by the damage COVID caused in their nervous system.

Remember. Other countries also used the same vaccine we did, and yet did not have nearly the same death rate. Perhaps because everyone in those countries vaccinated, and people like you didn't. Because you don't know how vaccines work, or what mRNA does.

 

[nielspeterdejong]

I was with you until you started saying that COVID isn't any worse than the flu and that the vaccine isn't a vaccine. Well over a million people died in the US alone - more than literally any other country on the planet, thanks to people like you, and I personally know several people who were permanently disabled by the damage COVID caused in their nervous system.

Remember. Other countries also used the same vaccine we did, and yet did not have nearly the same death rate. Perhaps because everyone in those countries vaccinated, and people like you didn't. Because you don't know how vaccines work, or what mRNA does.

Honest question: Do you believe that the flu isn't deadly? Millions of people die from the flu each year, yet we don't panic nor lock down our economies for it. Or better said; we don't shut down smaller businesses while keeping bigger ones with connections to politicans open (remember how mom and pop shops had to be closed, but McDonalds was allowed to remain open?) Why? Simple, because there is no point in doing that. The flu can be deadly yes, but it also mutates all the time, making it impossible to find a cure against it, but also making it less deadly than diseases like the black death. That is why people don't panic about the flu, because they know that they can't do anything about it since it is airborne, and because airborn viruses are far less deadly than direct contact ones.

This was the case with Covid as well. The masks were ridiculous from the start, and many scientists pointed that out very early, as it helps only against bacteria, not viruses. The diapers we were forced to wear on our faces weren't even proper masks, but were just there to make people "feel save" and as a show of compliance from the foolish citizens to the politicians, who had constant parties where none of them wore masks. Worse, the waitresses there were forced to wear them, signalling the difference in status. I mean, they claimed that taking it would prevent you from spreading it to others or catching it. When that failed (as evident by the dozen or so "boosters"), they started pretending like the "vaccine" only magically worked as long as everyone else was forced to take it.

So no, those people you know didn't die because of me, they died because of a virus which would have killed them anyway. If anything, it is because of people like you that the virus spread so far, because by distancing people it took us longer to develop natural immunities against it. This is exactly why in many cultures, during a disease, they share drinking cups in order to spread it in a slight amount, thus creating a higher chance for them all to develop natural immunity.

I dare you to look at the statistics, as you will realize that areas that did not have lockdowns or "vaccines" did much better than those that did. I mean, by your logic, most of Africa would be dead by now. Yet, they had far fewer cases than we foolish Americans and Europeans did. Just listen to yourself, you genuinely believe that mNRa is a form of vaccine. They are both very different methods; one infects you with a small dose of the virus, the other one directly affects your cells to (in theory) make you more resistant. You say something which is absolutely ignorant with such great confidence, just because others have pushed you into believing it.

As someone who loves humanity, yet is also very critical of our species, this is what irks me the most: The inability to admit that something didn't work (the "vaccine" didn't prevent you from getting it, nor spreading it, even the WHO has admitted as much) just because the truth is too painful or inconvenient, is exactly why we as a species will always be repeating the same mistakes.

 

[nielspeterdejong]

Thx for the info

All I wanted is for the heart breaker romance stuff to stop being a thing because like I already got the point, so Its nice to know things do get better

You're welcome

And yeah, same, though honestly seeing how long elves live it would make sense for something like this to repeat over and over again. Especially seeing how attractives elves are as a species. But I think you'll love the next chapters, as it only gets better from here!

 

[KazuyaKan]

It's Shizuki's line from chapter 41, not Aesir speaking.

You are correct. I didn't even think of that even though the author likes to reuse quotes from the past. He did the same with some past quotes with Nonna when he came across her great-grandchild at the inn.

 

[artyom]

on one hand it hurt everytime mc leaves behind someone, but on the other hand hope it don´t become another Usagi dropped, what a weird feel this manga get from you

LOL, Usagi dropped.... what an infamous term

 

[finalm]

I don't know, but for some reason, a 20-year-old woman marrying a 44-year-old man is a lot less palatable to me than a 20-year-old woman marrying a 200-year-old elf.

That's because a 200 year old elf is about 20 in human terms. They live for over a 1000 years on avarage.

 

[Pilomotor]

That's because a 200 year old elf is about 20 in human terms. They live for over a 1000 years on avarage.

So by that logic, does that mean a 20-year-old human dating a 100-year-old elf is unacceptable because the 100-year-old elf isn't emotionally mature enough for any kind of romantic relationship?