This article contains spoilers from To Your Eternity Season 2, episode 5," The Holy Man’s Voyage", currently streaming onCrunchyroll.
Episode five ofTo Your Eternityseason two, “The Holy Man’s Voyage”, shows us the expedition Fushi takes with Kahaku, Prince Bon, and the rest of the Uralis regime, including the servant Todo, who is secretly in love with the prince, and the stowaway Princess Pocoa. While traveling, the troupe makes stops at various villages and cities, warning them about the Nokkers, providing Fushi-made supplies, and trying to gain supporters in Fushi’s favor.
Fushi gets a front row seat to the devotion Prince Bon inspires, and he is starting to notice something being slightly off with the prince.Bon seems to know when the Nokkers are comingat the same time the Beholder warns Fushi, the immortal not knowing that Bon can also hear the man in black. While inching closer to Bon’s greatest secret, Bon learns something of even more importance about Fushi.
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Bon Learns About Fushi’s Revival Powers
During their expedition, the group was called to a castle to try and save a dying princess named Anna. Fushi entered, and his empathy let him know right away there was no saving her, even though the king has already begged for salvation from the Church of Bennett and eastern shamans. Fushi was his last hope, and he ran from the room, taking March’s form and hiding in a tree.
Kahaku tries to comfort Fushi, saying that death allows the spirit to do what their ailing body won’t allow, but Fushi confesses that he wants nothing more than to die, so he can once again join his friends.Bon appears and also tries to comfort Fushi, mostly telling him he shouldn’t talk like that while in the form of a young girl who obviously wanted to grow up. With Bon’s instance, Fushi returns to the princess' bed chambers to learn she has already died.
Bon tells Fushi to show the king the extent of what his power allows, and Fushi takes the form of Princess Anna, then pulls away from it, leaving the body to fall into her father’s arms. Fushi apologizes for his failure, and they leave. Prince Bon stays behind to offer his condolances, so he is the only one who hears the cries of happiness when the princess wakes up.
To his horror, Bon learns that as long as Fushi provides a body, the spirit can return and occupy it, successfully bringing people back ot life. He struggles with whether to tell Fushi or not, agonizing over it whilelooking at the ghosts of Tonari, March, Gugu, and the great bearhaunting the immortal. Angrily, Bon acknowledges the Beholder, who also knew about this ability and chose to not share it with Fushi.
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Bon asks Fushi point-blank that if his friends came back to live, would Fushi stay with Bon or go with them. Fushi gives him the obvious answer of leaving with his friends, and that steeles Bon’s resolve to keep his mouth shut. He needs Fushi to stay with him to become king, so he will join the Beholder in being just another person manipulating Fushi. No matter how much the idea bothers him.
Meanwhile, Todo, the hired ‘chair’ of Prince Bon, is demoted from his position after Fushi outs his love for the prince. Fushi has been using Todo infatuation with Bon to try and understand how love works between two lovers and has continuously turned to a blushing Kahaku for some insight, unaware of the Guardian’s own feeling for Fushi.
While on break in a city, Fushi sees a doll in a store that he just adores. He learns to make it, and Kahaku gifts him a romance novel about learning to fall in love with someone despite appearances,the king of subtlety that he is. Todo goes into a store to buy embroidery supplies to make the prince another handkerchief since his old one got dirty, and the man behind the counter calls Todo Iris and is identified as Todo’s father.
Iris, Servant of Prince Bon
At lunch, Princess Pocoa asks why Todo pretended to be a man, and the newly dubbed Iris explains that she originally went to the castle to interview for a position as the queen’s maid, but Bon instantly hired her as his chair because of her sturdy size. Kahaku comments on that being dispecible, but Iris just blushes and says she didn’t want to ruin a good thing by revealing her gender.
Later that same night, Fushi is reading Kahaku’s novel while cuddling his new doll when Bon shows up to comment on the toy. Fushi happily claims the doll as his lover, and Bon stares at him blankly for a second before clairifying that no, you’re lover has to be a human being, Fushi.
After a hilarious conversation, Prince Bon just asks why Fushi liked the doll so much. Fushi says that it’s adorable and casually mentionshow much March would have liked it. Bon looks upset by this news, and when Fushi goes off with Kahaku for a private moment, the prince lovingly settles the doll on Fushi’s pallet, commenting about how lucky it was. As the prince walks away, the ghost of March can be seen crouched by the doll.
Kahaku has finally plucked up the courage to tell Fushi how he feels about him - firmly rooted in his own assumptions of gender idenity which would be a rivetting conversation if Fushi hadn’t just learned that a doll cannot be his lover - andfull on proposes to the immortal. The episode ends before Fushi replies, and now the audience has to wait until Sunday to find out how it will end!
