Episode 21

**"Infatuation Reborn"** (鼓動する遺言) is the twenty-first episode of ***To Your Eternity***, and the premiere of its second season that premiered on the morning of the twenty-third October of 2022 online.

## Synopsis

It has been four long decades since he had lost his good friend and elderly mentor Pioran to a ripe old age. The immortal shapeshifting being Fushi spends his years in solitude on Sarline Island. Before Fushi, who should have decided that he would never see anyone again, a precocious nine-year-old girl from the Yanome Tribe, Hisame, appears. she says "I am the granddaughter and reincarnation of Hayase."

In order to save innocent people from the threat of the relentless Nokkers, which have begun to move again, a reluctant Fushi decides to act together with Hisame and her fellow "Guardians" of the cult founded by the twisted, obsessive Hayase herself to act as Fushi's everlasting devoted "lovers" and followers.

## Plot

A middle-aged Fushi has been living on Sarlnine Island all alone since the death of his elderly good friend Pioran. To survive the mundane decades of solitude and isolation, the white-haired middle-aged immortal man has been eating the pickled remains of Nokkers he has defeated so far. The Beholder, suddenly appears before him and informs Fushi that he has been on the island for forty long years.

Fushi firmly assures his "maker/parent" figure that he is fine making it on his own and that he does not need any allies or friends by his side under the guise of forever losing them to his relentless adversaries. Upon being told that more and more Nokkers are attacking and killing hundreds of thousands of innocence, Fushi prepares to leave the peace and quiet of Sarlinine Island to help humanity again. As he is about to depart to the mainland, he is approached by a precocious young girl who introduces herself as Hisame, the granddaughter of Hayase who she claims was in Fushi's debt. Confused, Fushi wonders what became of the girl's mother, Hayase's daughter, and to Hayase herself, to which Hisame calmly replies that she had passed on before she was born nearly a decade earlier. This pleases Fushi to no end and he laughs at his greatest hindrance finally being dead and gone for good. Hisame is confused at his reaction of her grandmother's death, as she believes that Fushi has always been an overly generous and selfless person who values life above all else, as written in her maternal grandmother's autobiography.

## Characters

#### Major

* Fushi- Form of the Eskimo Boy
* The Beholder
* Hisame (debut)
* Nokkers
* Tonari Dalton
* Dr. Sander

#### Minor

* Pioran (spirit form; cameo)
* March (flashbacks; impersonated by Fushi)
* Rean Cropp (flashback; cameo)
* Gugu (spirit form; cameo)
* Booze Man (flashback; cameo)
* Shin (flashback; cameo)
* Hayase (flashback cameo; spirit/soul/fey being reborn as her own granddaughter)
* Yellow-Green Fish, a Crab, Sea Snake (debut; flashbacks- forms taken on by Fushi)
* Parona (flashback; form taken on by Fushi)
* Uroy (flashback; form taken on by Fushi)

## Trivia

* The Beholder does *not* narrate this premiere but rather Hayase's only male successor, great-great-great grandson and sixth descendant/reincarnation, even though he does not debut until its third (twenty-third) episode.
* This starts where the season one finale left off four decades later.
* The bottom attire that the middle-aged Fushi donned was replicated from his dearest elder brother figure.
* The Beholder explains the most likely reasons for young Hisame being not only Hayase's granddaughter but her reincarnation as well.
* We learn what became of best childhood friends Tonari Dalton and Sander over the last four decades since they had remained on Jananda Island as teenagers to make it a much better place.
* The way that Hisame's right arm that has merged with the Nokker that had attacked and merged with her maternal grandmother automatically acts on its own accord is reminiscent of the cursed right arm of the main antagonist Prince Ashitaka of *Princess Mononoke.*