>Nod. "That's pretty understandable, but I kinda figured you were older than that. Seein' as how you were callin' me young and all. But just 150?"
>Pause. "Well, you are a turtle, those guys do live pretty long. There's hardly any insect out there that'll get old enough to be a youkai y'know. Except maybe firefiles, since everybody loves them."
> "I call most people young, because relative to my place in the lifespan, they are. For a turtle... I am very, very old. Indeed, when the young maiden said I was too old, she knows the same as I do. I do not have long left for this world... indeed, 150 years is exceptional for my kind, where 100 is average." Genji admitted.
> "Stop talking like that you silly turtle. If you ever do start getting problems from age we'll just take you to Eirin." Reimu said.
> "Medicine cannot cure old age, unless it is the type the immortals took. I have no interest in that." Genji said.
> Genji listens as you speak. "While Youkai indeed age differently to everything else, many, if not most, having infinite natural lifespans, becoming a Youkai has little to do with your age, young Nightbug. Take Miss Margatroid for example. When we met her within Makai, she was not yet a Youkai, but was no older than 12 years old, I belive younger than that. When we next met her, but hours later, her ability with magic, and her dexterity, had caused her to become a Youkai."
> Genji thinks for a moment; "Indeed, it is not age that determines what makes a Youkai, but something about the individual. Be it ability, knowledge, or even strength of will. I wonder what it was that made you ascend from being no more than another firefly? Alas, if I keep asking such philisophical questions, we'll start wondering what made Miss Yakumo like she is, and that will keep us here until we all expire."
