Episode 44

**Darling Little Piece of Junk** is the 44th episode of the *Edens Zero* anime, and the 19th episode of the second season.

Rebecca tests her Reverse powers, while Shiki and Homura converse about their friendship and Mother. Elsewhere, Hermit and Weisz arrive at the satellite server, coming face to face with an old enemy...

## Summary

While escaping from Britney, Rebecca finds the town they saw earlier, apologizing that she cannot help the people right now. She tries to think of a way to stop Britney, which she gets an idea from Happy's mumbles of eating. She is soon found by Britney, making her head into the home electronics shop. Rebecca gets a vacuum cleaner, planning to suck Britney into it. However, she cannot turn it on because of its user lock. Pino awakens and analyzes it for the password, but is too late as Britney engulfs Rebecca in a mist of highly corrosive malvaro nitride, making her scream in pain. Suddenly, Rebecca's Ether Gear activates, reversing time to just as Britney finds her. With the knowledge of what she did next, she unlocks the vacuum cleaner and traps Britney it it before sending her away into the sky. Pino wonders how she knew the password before she analyzed it, which Rebecca explains that Cat Leaper activated. Though she notes that it felt different from last time, more like when she fought Nino than leaping into World No. 30.

Rebecca gets some new clothes at the home electronics shop, planning to leave money for it and the vacuum cleaner. She then asks Pino to write a word on a notepad and hide it so she cannot see it. She then guesses that it says "apple", but Pino tells her it was "human". With this, Rebecca turns back time, noticing she went back by just a minute or two. She tells Pino to do it again, and guesses "human", surprising Pino and Rebecca explains that she came back from the future. Feeling unstoppable, she rewinds time again, but she feels pain after this and finds a crack on her face. She gathers what she learned from this, differentiating it her world jumping, calling it Reverse. She feels that her face is fine again, thinking it is a temporary thing, and asks Pino to write a word again before they go find the others.

At the spring, Homura is refreshed after her fight, and asks Shiki if they will always be together. Wondering if Mother can only grant one wish, and if they would still be friends. Shiki suggests that they might have to fight each other for it, but states that he would not want it as friends are more important. Suddenly, they sense incredible Ether power from three people, wondering if there are more bad guys. Elsewhere, Orc lies on the ground, trying to contact someone. Beast Squad 1 responds, calling his squad pathetic as they were monitoring the whole thing, and they promise to avenge them. Meanwhile, Weisz and Hermit manages to sneak into the satellite server with the help of Jinn, Kleene, Laguna, and Mosco. Weisz asks if Hermit is sure she is not infected, who pranks him before confirming that she has an anti-virus shield on. However, she tells him that they cannot be too sure as the virus is being updated in real time. She asks if that if she does go berserk, the. He should not hesitate to destroy her. Weisz tells her not to talk like that, saying he will modify her back to normal. After some banter about Weisz's programming skills, they find the main room. Suddenly the lights turn on, where a voice says that they have been expecting them. The voice is revealed to be Dr. Müller, asking Hermit if she would like to continue their experiment again.

Facing her old tormentor, Hermit thought Müller was in jail, which the scientist explains that he caused an explosion and escaped. He rants how they were wrong to arrest him, noting that he lost body parts from the explosion but is back as as an O-Tech. Weisz asks Hermit who this is, which the Mind of Edens says that he is the reason she started hated humans. Hermit asks if he was the one who spread the virus, but he informs her that it was the skullbot, and he was placed in charge of managing the server. He gets the humans for his test subjects as a reward, as well as getting to experiment on Hermit again. Before Weisz gets to shoot him, Müller shocks him and binds Hermit. Now at his mercy, Müller gets excited to start his experiments again, much to Hermit's fear. In the ship, Sister and Witch are unable to contact Hermit and detect something wrong with Kleene. Meanwhile, Shiki and Homura face against Beast Squad 1.

However, the three are easily defeated by Victory, who crushes them under his fist in his giant form. After returning to normal size, Creed traps the beast Squad in his Ether Lock cages. Justice notes that Nero has not deployed the Oceans, wondering if he does not think the situation is serious. He notices the two, sensing their Ether, he guesses they were on Elsie's ship and identifies Shiki as the Demon King. Shiki thinks they are friends with Elsie, but Homura feels it to be the opposite, noting that they are part of the Interstellar Union Army. After Justice learns of Shiki's relation to Ziggy and his inherited powers, he orders Creed to apprehend Homura. After he does this, he and Victory are ordered to return to the ship as Justice will operate as an Oración Seis Interstellar from here. An angered Shiki demands they return Homura back to normal, whilst Justice states that he has no interest in Nero or Ziggy, only caring about Elsie. He adds that having ties with her is enough of a reason to kill him. Just as Shiki is about to punch him, Justice blocks it with his hand and declares that in the name of justice, he will not let Shiki see tomorrow.

## Characters In Order of Appearance

1. Rebecca Bluegarden
2. E.M. Pino
3. Happy
4. Britney
5. Shiki Granbell
6. Homura Kōgetsu
7. Orc
8. Beast Squad 1 *(Debut)*
9. Weisz Steiner (X442)
10. Hermit Mio
11. Jinn
12. Laguna
13. Kleene Rutherford
14. Mosco Versa-0
15. Müller *(Debut)*
16. Sister Ivry
17. Witch Regret
18. Laguna Husert
19. Jinn
20. Kleene Rutherford
21. Victory
22. Creed
23. Justice

## Appearances

	+ Edens Zero
	+ Foresta
		- Elecloth *(Debut)*
		- Enormous Satellite Server
* Sakura Cosmos *(Flashback)*
	+ Newton *(Flashback)*
		- Müller Royal Laboratories *(Flashback)*

**Powers and Abilities*** Ether Gear
	+ Titan's Arm *(Debut)*
	+ Ether Lock *(Debut)*
	+ Satan Gravity
	+ Cat Leaper
	+ Smoke Bar
	+ Wind Ether Gear
		- Wind Snatch

**Techniques*** Poison Mist *(Debut)*
* Reverse
* Aoneko Kick *(Debut)*

**Items*** Vacuum Cleaner
* Edens Zero
* Taurus FT-003
* Enormous Satellite Server

**Battles and Events*** Rebecca Bluegarden & Happy vs. Britney *(Concluded)*
* Shiki Granbell vs. Justice *(Started)*