I realised why it’s such an anguish to watch the recent episodes. It’s because somehow the emotions just seem so raw to me. The emotions that come out of every single character. From Renton to Dominic to Talho back to Eureka.

It is revealed that Holland has been flying a limitless LFO, which requires a large infusion of drugs. His body is obviously failing, yet no matter how much Talho wants to protect him, there’s no way Talho can want to stop him, because she knows what Holland wants and needs to do.

Dominic goes to get a replacement pilot of theEND, accompanied by Captain jurgens and his crew. They arrive at Jurgen’s hometown, which was destroyed in the war, and not yet rebuilt. When he stops over at his house to pay respect to his family who passed away. But Dominic sounds the car horn to hurry him up. It’s not that Dominic is a jerk. But I think it’s his way of expressing how he feels, for he too, has lost his family too.

Back to Eureka and Renton. They are trudging through the forest in the Nirvash, and find themself another beach. We have a scene of Maurice and Renton alone, where Maurice expresses his anguish about Eureka and what’s happening.

That very night, after ‘dinner’, Eureka goes away on her own, leaving early. But Renton and the kids go after her. Eureka asks them to stay away though. But in the end, Eureka glowing green is revealed. And she runs away.

Uh… we can guess about why Eureka is “glowing”. Maybe it has to do with her emotional state, like what happened Sakuya. Nirvash’s broken down state can also have something to do with how Renton and Eureka are not really in an optimum situation.

Anyway, we find out that Anaemone is actually not the same as Eureka. In fact, she’s man-made. Dewey’s Novak Foundation basically gathers many kids with despair sickness, and basically do medical trials on them. Basically, they need a large amount of drug for them to get back to a state where they can function normally, but not everybody can take that amount of drugs. So far, only Anaemone can. In fact, when dominic arrived, all three potential candidates die from the amount of drug injected.

We’re still not told what causes despair sickness nor what kind of effect it has though. But Dominic is obviously traumatised by what he sees. And though he wants to save anaemone, he decides that it’s not fair to subject others to what anaemone is going through, just to save her.