...Is Ba'ul doing all right?
Sure he's not getting too tired?

No, he's fine...
But he's uneasy.

What's wrong?

The apatheia within him
isn't enough to undergo
spirit conversion yet.

But he knows that someday, he
will need to give up his current
form and become a spirit.

Well, humans are all going to die
sometime, but we don't spend
every day worrying about it.

I imagine some
people do.

Are you saying Ba'ul
is that weak?

He's far more delicate
than you, Yuri.

Dying, in his case, isn't exactly
death like we normally think
of it though, right?

But it does mean that his
consciousness will disappear, and
be replaced by something new.

So, it's basically a fear of the
unknown. That part of it is actually
not too different from us.

The other Entelexeia have accepted
that they must become spirits.

They feel it is their duty to maintain
the stability of this planet.

Ba'ul's got a mission of his own though, doesn't he?

I mean, what about his commitment
to destroy all of the Hermes blastia?

The determination necessary for
destroying blastia and becoming
a spirit are very different.

Ba'ul...still lacks the resolve
to give up his identity as an
Entelexeia.

I think lacking it is a lot
healthier, if you ask me.
And I certainly understand.

He seems pleased that
you understand him.

Still, I worry about him
going on like this...

Do you want him to
become a spirit, Judy?

No, not in the least.

But, I wonder what the Entelexeia...
what the spirits themselves must think...

What's going on?

I'm not sure... Ba'ul and the
spirits are communicating.

...Or something like that...but
without using their voices.

...Yes.

What happened?

He says we shouldn't worry about him.

But what was all that?

Hmm... The spirits
said something to
calm him down.

Maybe they told him how easy they've got it.

Yeah, probably.

At any rate, it's impossible for
him to become a spirit now.

We're going to have to go on depending
on you until the journey's over, Ba'ul.

He wants you to know you can count on him.