If you’re still a bit confused, lemme try to explain. When he got shot down by an arrow, he didn’t die. He was only injured by that and survived that. The original way that he died was by dying in the lake. In the late chapters, it shows how the seme had someone do a body ritual on him so that he can meet the uke again. In order to have him completely he had to decline 5 lifetimes that he would be given. In one of the lifetimes, the uke never killed himself, he even had a child with him. So that life time was kinda a test that he was given to see if he can decline that to see the real uke. In the other 4 lifetimes, uke tries to kill himself. Soooo, when he jumped down near the lake, it was because it was the 2nd lifetime. The seme froze the lake and the uke tried to die there which didn’t work. But the ML didn’t really kill him since it was most of the time suicide. But he was the reason why he tried to die. (I don’t know if this helped)
This helped clear a lot, thank you sm! I was wondering why there was like different alternatives
This was good tho it got me confused a bit since the flashbacks came at random times and things were changed. Like how they explained the mc's death, mc saying the ML killed him then shows a flashback from the past of the mc running away and getting shot by an arrow in the ankle from the ML, then it changed into the mc unaliving himself in the lake, another change happened where the ML and MC are on the edge near the lake and fall down together injuring the ML?