Seirei no Moribito – ep11

Surprisingly, Tohya and Saya had seperated. Somehow Saya ends up in a coma, and it’s up to Tanda to do something about it.

Tohya is seen throwing 3 gold coins into the river, mumbling about loneliness.

At the same time, it appears that Saya had collapsed. Apparently, it had happened straight after she drank some flower wine. Tanda had arrived at her side, while Balsa goes forth to look for Tohya. She doesn’t find him at his new rented house, but finds him near his old house instead.

It seems that what happened was that somebody had asked for Saya to be his bride. The matchmaker had provided 3 golden coin as the betrothal gift. Only when Tohya mentioned that he had hesistated, and only agreed when Saya said she had agreed, did everybody realise that the match maker had tricked everyone.

In the end, it seemed that Saya’s soul had left her body. Only solution is for Tanda’s soul to leave his body, and to call Saya back.

Balsa was hesitant, as torogai had told him not to perform the spell previously. In the end though, things went well, and Saya is revived, especially after she hears that Tohya came back for her.

One problem though, Tanda doesn’t know how to return to his body. But somehow though, Tanda and Balsa are on the same wavelength. Both end up talking about 2 years back, where they had argued and Tanda had scolded her about killing people, and Balsa had stormed out.

Tanda ends up leaving the hut and arriving in Nayugu outside. Stunned, he goes back inside. He happens to see a moth who manages to fly out to Nayugu after touching the flower mind, and connects that it must be the solution. Except, he can’t get his body to drink it.

It was then, he realise he can connect with the egg in Chagum as well. Touching it, he finally manages to pass the message to Chagum, who informs Balsa. Balsa feeds Tanda’s body with the wine, finally managing to wake him up.

The end of the episode sees Tanda musing about how surprising it was that Saya did like Tohya. Barsa admits she didn’t know, but now looking back, she is not surprised. Chagum hints that its the same for Balsa and Tanda, causing them to blush.

Thoughts

Some parts as well as the pacing seemed weird to me this time round. However, the focus on the relationship between Tohya and Saya was very sweet. At the same time, it was a good opportunity to reveal more of the history between Tanda and Balsa. We are also beginning to see more of Tanda’s powers now.

Having seen a glimpse of Nayugu, I wonder what’s in store.