Seirei no Moribito – ep14

Chagum would have been a very safe container to lay an egg in, if only the royal family had known the truth about what a blessing it is. Shuga is left wondering if Chagum is supposed to be a blessing, then does the Dought sign mean that he is dead instead.

Torogai goes to Musubime, and communicating with the water people, learns more about the egg in Chagum. The legend of the first Yogo emperor killing a water fiend is false. In fact, the water spirit is one who brings blessings. Chagum however, might have death ahead of him, as there seems to be a Rarunga (egg eater) that will come after him.

At the same time, Shuga seems to have come to realized that the legend of the first emperor is fals as well.

Balsa is seen reflecting on whether she killed Karbo. She still thinks she killed him, but the teacher previously had said she didn’t. Looks like the new spear is really magical.

Suddenly though, she finds Torogai trying to crawl out of a tar pit.

 Shuga is seen entering the Holy Patriarch’s tower. Seems like the guards are helping him, after Shuga had revealed that Chagum is probably still alive. Shuga basically wants to keep examining and translating the ancient texts.

Torogai recounts the story of her escape, and how she ended up in the tar pit. After hearing from the water people, she had tried to translate and note down what she learnt, when she gets attacked by the fire people.

Running away, she first encounters land entirely covered with bat dung. Much to torogai’s amazement too. Anyway, she falls through the dung, landing in a river which washes her away. But still, the fire people manages to keep up with her.

 At a fork, she hears a voice telling her the way out. But she ends up meeting a giant translucent worm. She ends up being eaten anyway, though she offers up her pet as sacrifice Lucky for her though, she ends up being passed out as shit, without being digested. Hence the appearance in the tar pit.

The episode ends with Shuga being trapped after the Holy Patriarch returns home early, and ends up keeping the key to the archives.

Thoughts

The good parts about this episode (and series as a whole), is that the producers always remember the small touches to the story, instead of just chugging on ahead with the plot. (you know, like torogai’s pet)

But some parts of this episode just zoomed by too quickly, just a feeling. But lots of the plot is spilling out now, just wondering what’s the actual story with the first emperor.