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?

See, puns are okay when I do it. Anyway, this is one of the shows I’ve been looking forward to.