Tonikaku Kawaii - Vol. 26 Ch. 250 - Immortality and Children

[Seath5252]

Ah, fair enough. Interesting theory nontheless.

 

[apstorm]

re-reading chapter 1, i can't see where he did. Only saw both of them pretty bloodied after the truck hit.

It was the anime that gave me the idea, in that you can clearly see her give him some of her blood.

It was also shown during the sequence where he recovers the rest of his memories from their first meeting, too. Ch.147, Pg.8.

However... you're making a huge leap of logic that isn't supported by the rest of the manga: It has been shown a number of times since his initial encounter with Tsukasa that he can still get sick and still suffer normal injuries that require bandages and such and take time to recover from. These are things that contradict what Tsukasa herself has said are part of her abilities a couple of times: that she quickly recovers from injuries and cannot get sick.

If he became immortal back then, he would have had the same huge ass all consuming fire thing going on that Tsukasa did, too, in the moment of consuming her blood (Tsukasa's origins flashback arc: Fly Me To The Moon: a life's final embers Ch.2, Pg.9 and Pg.10). Consuming the blood isn't sufficient. The ancient incarnation of Kaguya explicitly made the Hourai Elixir from her blood, but it isn't just the blood of an immortal- something else unexplained was done to the blood so it could create a new immortal.

The blood on its own is just a temporary healing salve. She gave him a reprieve for awhile before he'd still need medical attention lest he actually die and stay dead. It's why it was important for him to stay behind and be found and rescued by the paramedics and police that were arriving that night while Tsukasa ran off.

Wait, that's a guy?!

I thought the kid was a girl too

The translation notes were pointing out that Mao was a historical figure known as Kukai. Also, it seems a comment for the prior chapter pointed out that Mao/Kukai was misgendered with the initial upload, and that appears to have been fixed since then. You might have seen things before the fix was applied for the prior chapter.

 

[apstorm]

Tsukassan truly is just a punching bag for all those people she smooched off, eh?

You mean mooched off, I assume. She hasn't smooched anyone but Nasa.

 

[apstorm]

Perhaps Mao meant he found the secret of reincarnation and was reincarnated into Nasa?

I feel like the reincarnations have actually been relatively hap-hazard, not intentional like you're implying (or if it is intentional, it's an outside power at work), and I feel like there's a lot more evidence that it's actually Shotoku who was reincarnated into Nasa. On Pg.8 here, it was pointed out that Mao's lines as a small child reminded her of another 'boy', and I'm pretty sure she was referring to Prince Shotoku and his passionate promise to make her wish come true, which they then pointed out that he regretted not being able to achieve it in his lifetime on Pg.15, middle-lower panel.

The point is that it's not at all an entirely unusual thing for people saved by her to say. After all, Tokiko and Chitose have essentially said the same thing, too.