This article contains spoilers from To Your Eternity Season 2, episode 3, "The Awaited", currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
Episode three of To Your Eternity's second season can be viewed as the kick-starter to the rest of this season's arc. Fushi has met up with the latest of Hayase's successors, Kahaku, and the Guardians have grown in strength and popularity since Hisame's time. Fushi had been lying up in bed when Kahaku introduces himself. Hayase's successors are always female because they're supposed to carry Fushi's child, but Kahaku's mother died before giving birth to a daughter, leaving him to inherit the Nokker. He does give Fushi the courtesy of affirming his heterosexuality, and then asking if Fushi would join the Guardians who have been systematically fighting the Nokkers all over the land.
Mercenaries break into the room as Fushi hides, claiming to be after him for the reward money put on by the Church of Bennett who have dubbed Fushi a heretic. Seeing how he's attracted so much attention, Fushi agrees to travel with the Guardians, but he's unsure whether he wants to stay with them or not because Fushi is still trying to find people who understand him, and who could be his friends. While traveling, Fushi comes to the realization that as an almost all-powerful immortal, people worship him. He has worshipers and haters alike, and he doesn't really know what to do with all of that attention. Kahaku recommends shape-shifting out of his default boy form into something else. After trying out different forms, Fushi settles on Parona, and Kahaku, to his embarrassment, reaffirms his heterosexuality with the shape-shifter who can indeed turn into a woman.
Fushi's Done Wandering
As they make their way through the countryside, they end up being trapped by Prince Bon of Uralis, who is an extremely flamboyant man who sees things and talks to the air, and all of his guards seem okay with that. Fushi easily escapes the trap and demands Bon explain what he plans to do with them if Fushi decides to come which scares the prince half to death. Considering Fushi can't die and being in
Fushi eventually consents to going with them as long as the Guardians traveling with him aren't hurt, and they all enter the capital city of Uralis. They are presented to the king who gently reminds Bon that no matter what he does, he will never be the crown heir to the Uralis throne, and Fushi and Kahaku are dressed up and taken to dinner with the royal family.
Kahaku has warmed up considerably to their 'captors' and blatantly asks Bon for the Uralis army to fight the Nokkers. He also casually mentions that Tonari's diary being a proven artifact that the Guardians regard as part of their doctrine, which angers Fushi because the only way they could have gotten that diary was if they stole it from him when he was in Tonari's form. Having enough with all of them, Fushi resolves to leave the castle and would have succeeded if Bon hadn't found him right away in the form of a mole.
Prince Bon
Having heard that Fushi the Immortal has been successfully captured, followers of the Church of Bennett arrive at the castle to take him into custody, and Bon sends them away without revealing Fushi's little mole presence in his hair. Bon sees Fushi to his bedroom, but as soon as the door is closed, Fushi flies out the window as a bird - and Bon catches him just as easily he did the first time.
Fushi finally screams at Bon about how he can't bear to see more people he cares about die via the Nokkers, and if it comes down to it, he will gladly surrender himself to them and return to being an orb. The Beholder, always watching, reminds Fushi that doing that would only result in Fushi starting over without the memories of those he loves, but Fushi is still resolute. Bon comforts him in promising to show Fushi a new world and to only decide if he's giving up after he's seen it. Not one of Fushi's loved ones died this episode - probably because he doesn't really have any at the moment, but the set up for the rest of the arc is thoroughly underway.