When we last left off, Akira had jumped in harm’s way in order to protect an android of all things, but fine, chalk it up to instincts. Let’s just accept that his body moved before he could think logically. But even as he’s bleeding out, he tells Yugure not to kill the mafia boss who is hellbent on enslaving her for his own selfish ends. He’ll probably end up issuing orders to kill him and Amoru too. Why would he spare them? No, it’s not that I want to see Yugure butcher her enemies. I’m not asking for anyone to die. But the last thing I would do in a dangerous situation is to put conditions on what my savior can do. “Oh no, my house in on fire! Please save me, heroic fireman! But please, can you not break down my door or get my house wet? Can you just put the fire out without doing either of those things? Gee, thanks.” It’s ridiculous.

The cold opening tells us nothing we don’t already know: Yugure understands perfectly what a marriage is, she’s devoted to Akira and Akira only, and she loves the fact that he’s loyal to the one he loves even though it’s not her. Nevertheless, Yugure goes on a date with Kalcrom just to make Akira jealous. Before anyone else can properly react, Fides also shows up to drag Akira on a date as well. Yay, we have ourselves a double date. Aren’t you excited? I’m totally am. In the end, Yugure ends up being more jealous of Fides than Akira is of Kalcrom. To top it all off, they even allow Amoru to tag along. Sigh, this isn’t exactly what I had in mind when I was looking forward to a post-apocalyptic story about AI and androids.

Honestly, I am kind of disappointed in this week’s episode. When we last left off, Amoru had betrayed Akira and Yugure, but she was the only one to get captured by Marlum, the flamboyant version of Caniss. They look exactly alike because they’re cousins, okay? Don’t you look exactly like your cousin as well? I sure d-… no wait, I don’t. Not one bit. But I digress. Anyways, Akira naturally wanted to save Amoru, but this flied against Yugure’s “operating principles,” so she refused to help. As a result, Akira accused her of being a heartless android.

When we last left off, an android who is a dead ringer for Towa comes to Akira’s rescue. She even wants to marry him. She’s not Towa, though. She’s Yugure. And although she might be able to shed some light on so many mysteries, according to her, it’s all classified. Why does she look like Towa? Why does she have the exact ring that Akira gave Towa over 200 years ago? What happened to Towa? Why does she want to marry him? Hell, what happened to this world? All reasonable questions to ask, but Yugure stays completely mum. Perhaps she’ll answer those questions after he marries her, but for our protagonist, his previous life still feels like it was just yesterday. He can’t just erase his feelings for Towa in so short of a time. He needs time to cope with her loss. Well, he doesn’t exactly get that luxury.

Someone has been waiting for Akira to wake up as we see a mysterious hooded girl observing Akira from afar. She’s likely an android tasked with watching over him, but she doesn’t introduce herself just quite yet. Instead, a pair of villagers — a father and daughter duo — quickly find Akira and take him back to their village when he collapses. Wia and his daughter Idhi seem rather deferential, referring to to our protagonist as the Wise One. Hell, they practically worship him. Initially, I figured that it would totally make sense for the villagers to speak a language that Akira can’t understand. After all, we don’t know how much time has passed. But all of a sudden, Akira an converse with the villagers without a single issue. How? Why? Was knowledge of their language somehow ingrained in him when he was sleeping inside that medical capsule?