# E20 - Echoes
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**[00:02] Beholder**
The battle with the Nokkers
on Jananda came to an end.
**[00:08] Beholder**
Having learned many things on
the island, Fushi set off,
**[00:12] Beholder**
after saying goodbye to Tonari...
**[00:19] Beholder**
and to Hayase of the Yanome.
**[02:09] Proprietor**
When is this friend of
yours coming, old lady?
**[02:14] Pioran**
Dunno.
**[02:29] Fushi**
*Pioran...*
**[02:31] Fushi**
*I made her wait for so long.*
**[02:36] Fushi**
*Pioran's been good to me for a long time.*
**[02:41] Fushi**
*But I keep attracting the worst things.*
**[02:46] Fushi**
*Things that want to have their way with me.*
***SIGN*** Echoes
**[03:05] Fushi**
* I've been thinking the whole*
* time on my way here...*
**[03:09] Fushi**
*I can't bring anyone happiness.*
**[03:30] Fushi**
*I think I'll sleep here tonight.*
**[03:33] Fushi**
*And tomorrow, I'll leave on a ship.*
**[03:47] Fushi**
*Hang on, how much money does Pioran have?*
**[03:52] Fushi**
*She was eating peas at the shop.*
**[03:54] Fushi**
*There's no way she can survive.*
**[03:56] Pioran**
Are you sure you don't want me to pay?
**[04:00] Pioran**
You've even given me bread.
**[04:04] Proprietor**
It's all right. You don't have any money, do you?
**[04:07] Proprietor**
I've cleaned out the shed.
**[04:09] Proprietor**
I left some soap there, too.
You're welcome to use it.
**[04:12] Pioran**
Thank you.
**[04:20] guy**
Great meal! Thanks a lot!
**[04:23] guy2**
You had way too much to drink.
**[04:24] Fushi**
*She'll make it without me.*
**[04:29] Fushi**
*Goodbye, Pioran.*
**[04:50] Worker A**
All right, let's go.
**[04:51] Worker B**
Steady, steady...
**[04:56] Fushi**
* But then again, if I leave now,*
* she'll be waiting for me forever.*
**[05:01] Worker A**
What's that?!
**[05:02] Fushi**
*I can't do that to her.*
**[05:03] Worker B**
A rat?!
**[05:04] Fushi**
* I'll write her a letter to say she doesn't*
* need to wait for me anymore.*
**[05:08] Fushi**
*I'll produce a pen and paper, and...*
**[05:10] Fushi**
*Huh? I don't have any.*
**[05:13] Fushi**
Hey, could I borrow that?
**[05:16] Boy**
No.
**[05:17] Fushi**
Just for a second!
**[05:19] Boy**
Hey, what's your problem?!
**[05:22] Fushi**
Sorry.
**[05:23] Fushi**
Thanks.
**[05:28] Fushi**
"I'm okay now. Bye."
**[05:32] Fushi**
* Wait, was this the right*
* letter for the "P" in "Pioran"?*
**[05:36] Fushi**
*Whatever, this'll do.*
**[05:45] Fushi**
*It's goodbye for real this time.*
**[05:58] Fushi**
*Wait a second! Pioran always got cold at night!*
**[06:02] Fushi**
*She always said she wanted a coat.*
**[06:04] Fushi**
* She's going to freeze to*
* death in those clothes.*
**[06:07] Fushi**
*This seems good.*
**[06:19] Fushi**
*Pioran...*
**[06:20] Fushi**
*Where are you?*
**[06:25] Pioran**
Where do you think you're taking me?!
**[06:29] Man**
You came from Jananda, didn't you?
**[06:31] Man**
This place isn't for you.
**[06:34] Man**
Go back to the island!
**[06:35] Pioran**
Let me go!
**[06:36] Pioran**
I was officially freed from the
island by the island leader!
**[06:40] Man**
That's not our problem!
**[06:42] Fushi**
*I have to help her.*
**[06:45] ---**
Ow!
**[06:49] Pioran**
Fool.
**[06:52] Fushi**
*Pioran...*
**[07:00] Fushi**
*Pioran might be just fine without me.*
**[07:06] Fushi**
*But...*
**[07:11] Fushi**
*She's never smiled.*
**[07:14] Observer**
What's the matter?
**[07:16] Observer**
You've been going back and forth.
**[07:20] Fushi**
Tonari said a while ago...
**[07:23] Fushi**
that you might be a demon.
**[07:24] Fushi**
That you might be something bad.
**[07:28] Fushi**
Is she right?
**[07:32] Observer**
That's a discussion that's
far removed from us.
**[07:37] Observer**
You want to be with that Pioran, do you?
**[07:42] Fushi**
No.
**[07:44] Observer**
There's a chance that she'll be killed
by the Nokkers if she stays with you.
**[07:49] Observer**
Even if she's not with you,
that old woman will eventually die.
**[07:53] Observer**
She doesn't have long to live.
**[07:56] Fushi**
Stop it!
**[07:57] Fushi**
Pioran isn't going to die!
**[08:00] Observer**
All people inevitably die.
**[08:03] Observer**
Human flesh begins a process of change
at the moment of its birth.
**[08:08] Observer**
After a youthful, active period,
**[08:11] Observer**
their behavior gradually slows
and, eventually, stops.
**[08:17] Observer**
Are you concerned with how
that old woman will die?
**[08:22] Observer**
It's not worth wondering about.
**[08:25] Observer**
One doesn't know until it happens.
**[08:28] Observer**
Unless they themselves choose
**[08:33] Observer**
how they wish to die.
**[08:39] Fushi**
What do you think I should do?
**[08:43] Observer**
What do you want to do?
**[08:46] Fushi**
I don't know.
**[08:47] Fushi**
I don't know, which is why I'm worried.
**[08:51] Fushi**
And...
**[08:56] Observer**
You're lonely?
**[09:03] Fushi**
Right...
**[09:04] Fushi**
Yeah.
**[09:06] Fushi**
I think I'm lonely.
**[09:13] UroyFushi**
Uroy...
**[09:16] OopaFushi**
Oopa...
**[09:20] MiaFushi**
Mia...
**[09:23] MiaFushi**
I'll admit it.
**[09:25] MiaFushi**
I killed them all.
**[09:28] MiaFushi**
The islanders...
**[09:31] MiaFushi**
Gugu...
**[09:32] MiaFushi**
Parona...
**[09:34] MiaFushi**
March...
**[09:44] MiaFushi**
It's all right.
**[09:46] MiaFushi**
It's all right now.
**[09:49] MiaFushi**
*This is it.*
**[10:04] Pioran**
Who's there?
**[10:08] Pioran**
Wait!
**[10:08] Pioran**
You there!
**[10:19] Pioran**
Fushi!
**[10:21] MiaFushi**
N-No, I'm not!
**[10:23] MiaFushi**
Look carefully, see?
**[10:25] MiaFushi**
I'm a girl!
**[10:37] Fushi**
* I think I've neglected a*
* lot of things up until now*
**[10:41] Fushi**
*that I didn't understand or didn't accept.*
**[10:47] Pioran**
Take a look!
**[10:49] Pioran**
This is the forest of Sarlnine.
**[10:54] Fushi**
There really is no one here.
**[10:57] Fushi**
Do you think there might
be potatoes in the ground?
**[10:59] Pioran**
There are potatoes in the ground everywhere.
**[11:03] Fushi**
* There might come a day when I have*
* to face the things that I've neglected.*
**[11:27] Fisherman**
Does your wound still hurt?
**[11:32] Fisherman**
Have some of this, if you'd like.
**[11:44] Beholder**
Progress report.
**[11:46] Beholder**
For the past month,
**[11:48] Beholder**
I've watched over the travels of the boy,
the old woman, and the donkey.
**[11:54] Beholder**
The old woman, Pioran,
is close to ninety years old.
**[11:57] Beholder**
She's skilled at catching river fish.
**[12:01] Pioran**
Start a fire, Fushi!
**[12:03] Beholder**
The mind of the boy, Fushi,
**[12:05] Beholder**
has continued to change since the
time he behaved like a beast.
**[12:15] Beholder**
He's perhaps fourteen in human years.
**[12:19] Beholder**
He seems to have a fully-developed
sense of self.
**[12:24] Beholder**
They're 500 meters to the south.
**[12:28] Fushi**
They're here, Pioran.
**[12:30] Pioran**
What?!
**[12:31] Fushi**
* There are some rules we keep*
* in order to stay safe together.*
**[12:35] Fushi**
Let's run!
**[12:36] Fushi**
* First, if the Nokkers come,*
* we run, no matter what.*
**[12:36] Pioran**
Right!
**[12:41] Fushi**
*It's dangerous to try to fight back.*
**[12:44] Fushi**
*Second, avoid changing into random animals.*
**[12:50] Fushi**
What is this?
**[12:50] Fushi**
* Because if I can't maintain*
* my sense of self as that animal,*
**[12:51] Pioran**
Were you bitten by a leech?
**[12:54] Fushi**
*I can't respond when the Nokkers come.*
**[12:57] Pioran**
Goodnight, Fushi.
**[12:57] Fushi**
*Third, I go to sleep after Pioran,*
**[12:59] Fushi**
Yep.
**[13:01] Fushi**
*and wake up before Pioran.*
**[13:04] Fushi**
* I should write down everything that's*
* important so I don't forget.*
**[13:12] Pioran**
You spent all that time writing,
and now you're burning it?
**[13:15] Fushi**
It's fine.
**[13:16] Fushi**
I can get it back whenever I need to.
**[13:18] Pioran**
Uh-huh...
**[13:19] Fushi**
Is there anything you want
to do or eat, Pioran?
**[13:23] Fushi**
Do you have any wishes?
**[13:25] Pioran**
Wishes?
**[13:27] Pioran**
Well...
**[13:29] Pioran**
If I had to choose,
I'd like to become younger.
**[13:33] Pioran**
If I were younger, I could move around
better, and I could eat hard foods.
**[13:38] Pioran**
And I'd be popular with the men.
**[13:40] Fushi**
Popular?
**[13:42] Pioran**
I used to be beautiful a
long time ago, like Rean.
**[13:48] Fushi**
That's a hard wish to make come true.
**[13:50] Pioran**
I've done everything I could ever want to.
**[13:55] Pioran**
It used to be a life of
toiling away like a horse.
**[14:01] Pioran**
But I was blessed with a grandchild,
and now, I have freedom.
**[14:07] Pioran**
It's been a plenty fulfilling life.
**[14:10] Beholder**
Fushi seems to have sensed something
noble about this old woman.
**[14:18] Fushi**
*Fulfilled...*
**[14:20] Fushi**
*I wonder if I'll feel that way someday.*
**[14:25] Beholder**
But the old woman was in the midst
of losing that noble something.
**[14:34] Fushi**
Pioran!
**[14:38] Fushi**
You have to hold on tight.
**[14:41] Pioran**
Shut up!
**[14:42] Pioran**
I told you, my back hurts!
**[14:44] Pioran**
Fool! Scumbag!
**[14:51] Pioran**
Have you baked the breakfast potatoes?
**[14:54] Fushi**
Huh? We just ate them earlier.
**[14:56] Pioran**
I haven't eaten!
**[14:58] Fushi**
Yes, you have!
**[14:59] Pioran**
I have not!
**[15:04] Beholder**
That change came slowly.
**[15:08] Pioran**
Why do you carry me?!
**[15:10] Pioran**
You think I'm useless, don't you?!
**[15:12] Pioran**
Let me down!
**[15:13] Fushi**
What else can I do?
**[15:15] Fushi**
You keep falling off the donkey.
**[15:17] Pioran**
I get it! I'm dead weight, aren't I?
**[15:19] Pioran**
I'm old and senile! Leave me behind!
**[15:22] Fushi**
I wouldn't do that.
**[15:25] Fushi**
Wait! Where are you going, Pioran?
**[15:28] Fushi**
It's midnight!
**[15:29] Pioran**
The Yanome will come after
us if we sleep out here!
**[15:32] Fushi**
The Yanome aren't coming.
**[15:35] Beholder**
Fushi doesn't seem to understand
why this has happened.
**[15:41] Beholder**
Even though I'd told him that that's
how it is, he wouldn't accept it.
**[15:47] Beholder**
He'd simply continue taking care
of the old woman in silence.
**[15:51] Pioran**
Just kill me already!
**[15:53] Pioran**
I deserve to die! Kill me!
**[15:57] Observer**
It must have felt to Fushi as though this
person, Pioran, was slowly vanishing.
**[15:57] Pioran**
Kill me!
**[16:07] Observer**
And Fushi himself slowly changed.
**[16:12] Observer**
He came to smile frequently.
**[16:17] Observer**
His refreshing expression may have been that
**[16:22] Observer**
of the joy of having gained a new experience,
**[16:28] Observer**
or a desperate struggle to
provide for the withering.
**[16:35] Pioran**
Fushi, I'm happy I got to meet you.
**[16:50] Pioran**
It's going to rain.
**[16:53] Pioran**
Could you bring in the potatoes
and fish that you left out to dry?
**[16:57] Fushi**
Okay.
**[17:03] Fushi**
I'll be right back.
**[17:06] Fushi**
Stay in bed so you don't get cold.
**[17:37] Pioran**
Hey, you. The one following Fushi around.
**[17:42] Pioran**
The black thing.
**[17:45] Pioran**
Take me right now.
**[17:49] Pioran**
And if you can,
**[17:53] Pioran**
let me be reborn into something that
can be more useful to Fushi.
**[18:01] Pioran**
If you care about him, do as I say.
**[18:17] Beholder**
Your soul is made to be a whole
only when it is with your flesh.
**[18:24] Beholder**
If your body changes, that which
makes you who you are will also change.
**[18:31] Beholder**
Do you still wish for it?
**[18:35] Pioran**
Yeah.
**[18:38] Beholder**
Very well.
**[18:41] Beholder**
Close your eyes and picture
what you want to become.
**[18:46] Beholder**
I'll come for you before
you're taken by paradise.
**[21:26] Fushi**
*What am I supposed to do now?*
**[21:32] Fushi**
*I know.*
**[21:34] Fushi**
* I need to make sure I*
* don't forget about today.*
**[21:38] Fushi**
*About Pioran.*
**[21:47] Pioran**
*What is your dream, Fushi?*
**[21:51] Pioran**
*Do what you want to do, like I did!*
**[22:02] Fushi**
Thanks, Pioran.
**[22:34] Fushi**
*I was happy, too.*
**[22:44] Beholder**
For a while after, there was nothing
more for me to say about Fushi.
**[22:53] Beholder**
And then, several decades passed.
**[23:10] Fushi**
Ow...
***SIGN*** Series 2
Planned for Fall 2022