Episode 10

**Off On a New Journey** is the tenth episode of the Children of the Whales anime. Due to the destruction of the Nous Skylos and its battleship, the fight between Mud Whale and the Imperial Soldiers ends. Later, a battleship different from the Skylos appears before Mud Whale.

## Summary

A joint mass funeral between the residents of the Mud Whale and soldiers of Skylos is held. During it, Shuan requests a lock of his wife Sienna's hair as a memento. He's soon approached by his mother, Rasha and chastised by her for his devilish smile.

Time passes and life on the Mud Whale slowly returns to normal. In Ouni's room, Kicha watches over her leader as he rests on his bed. At that moment, Suou arrives with some medicine for the wounded Ouni. Kichi blames Suous for picking him to be on the attack team and pushes him away as he tries to embrace her in the form of an apology. The children that came with Suou, put gifts on his bed and graciously thank him. Afterward, Lykos is questioned by the remaining Committee of Elders. It concerns the recent attack from Skylos and information on the Nous. Both Chakuro and Nezu furtively eavesdrop on the conversation. They're soon found out when a Kokalo given to Chakuro by Olivinis awakens and runs amuck. Once he finally catches it, Chakuro wonders if anything will ever be the same again for the people of the Mud Whale.

Meanwhile, Orca and his records keeper Itia enter Orca's room with his jesters in it. As the jesters act in a jovial and amusing manner, they're silenced by a wounded Liontari. This surprises Itia, as he listed him dead in the line of action. Begging Orca to be able to return to the Mud Whale, Orca allows it if Liontari becomes his jester. Initially refusing, Liontari is forced to become one after being surrounded by the other jesters. While the residents of the Mud Whale bath in the collected water areas, the majority of which are the females, a ship approaches the Mud Whale. It is noted, however, that the ship is not from the empire. Suou sees this as an opportunity to make new allies.

Rochalizo and his crew land on the Mud Whale and are soon greeted by the nude Suou. This flusters Foni and Fterna of Rochalizo's crew. Stepping in, Rochalizo introduces himself and his background to Suou. After an embarrassing moment, where Suou realizes he's nude, Rochalizo announces his plan to annex the Mud whale. Although Suou wanted to be polite at first, this changes as he then believes Rochalizo and his crew to be nothing more than usurpers. This notion makes Rochalizo act in an apprehensive manner by pointing his gun at Suou. Sequentially, Shuan disarms the visitors and has his own soldiers armed with bows and arrows aimed at them. Rochalizo's advisor, Ganba suggests they surrender. They do so and are well fed.

Soon, Chakuro chases after Lykos, noting her strange behavior since the arrival of Rochalizo and his crew. In his pursuit of Lykos, Chakuro runs into Aima who has his Tokusa on her shoulder. After Chakuro requests that Aima live up to her end of the bargain for revealing secrets about the mud whale to him after the last battle. Aima agrees to do so and more. At that moment, the Tokusa on Aima's shoulder sprouts giant effervescent wings on its back that change the direction of the ship. Aima then reveals that Tokusa acts as the rudder for the ship and that the Mud Whale is originally a ship full of exiles. She then disappears in a portal of light. That night, the residents of the Mud Whale are visited by a small girl who enters their dreams, sings a song and then does a prayer, and then leaves in their tears.