Okie. This is the manga Immortal Rain *also known as Meteor Methuselah* by Kaori Ozaki.
The grandfather of Machika Balfaltin *known as Zol, the Grim Reaper* had been a very successful bounty hunter since well, he had become a bounty hunter. However, the only bounty he had failed to retrieve was Rain Jewlitt's bounty which seems to increase with every passing day.
Only knowing Rain as Methuselah, many travel to behead him to claim the bounty but none have succeeded. Why? Because Rain was immortal. No matter how many bullets penetrated him, or how many cuts and bruises weakened him, he could not die.
Intending to surpass her grandfather, Machika bravely challenged Rain to receive her bounty but only ended up having her life saved by him after encounters with other bounty hunters.
Since then, Machika had been chasing Rain wherever he went. Along the way, she finds out many things about Rain. Like, for example, the fact that he was actually 624 years old and he could not die due to having eaten an angel.
The mangaka does not reveal exactly how that happened until much later in the series, when Rain began having flashbacks of his childhood friends Yuca Campbell and Freya. Freya had been Rain's love interest since they had met and he carried the violin she used to play well. She was shot by Yuca because he claimed it was of a necessity in order to create the perfect immortal person.
After Freya proved to be a somewhat failed experiment, Yuca fed her blood to Rain and he was transformed into Methuselah with the help of a cross embedded into his chest, connecting to his heart.
What exactly was Yuca planning? Well, he was tired of being reincarnated again after every death. In order to prevent that from ever happening, he had wanted to end the world by killing everyone so there will be no one to give birth to another him anymore. Rain had heard of this and strongly protested but only ended up being used by Yuca.
How is he used? After being granted immortality, Yuca told Rain to use his gift to kill Yuca every time he was reborn.
That was his sole purpose, you could say, in being immortal.
Also along the manga, Rain and Machika begin to fall in love with each other and that is one of the many obstacles they face throughout the manga. This is because Rain does not want to be deeply involved with anyone. And that is because it would really hurt him when she died and he couldn't join her. That would also be the reason to why he tried to shake her off in the beginning of the manga so many times :P
Yeah~
Some conflicts here and there along the way *since Yuca is actually reborn*, but it's a really, really good story overall. I believe that this will honestly be worth your time, especially if you enjoy Rurouni Kenshin and people who are pretty much indestructible :)
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