Episode 17

"The Defeated" is the seventeenth episode of the Fumetsu no Anata e anime series.

Synopsis
Hayase, who defeated Fushi and won the tournament, makes a surprising proposal to the islanders of Jananda. Hayase takes the sleeping Fushi and finally plans to make him her own. Tonari and her best friends Mia, Oopa and Uroy come to rescue Fushi, boldly challenging the obsessed, nearly invincible Hayase.

Characters
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Summary
A victorious and obsessed Hayase informs the shocked crowd by fabricating a tale about how she was the one who had "discovered" Fushi four years ago in a feral state and that it was from her that he learned human speech as well as autonomy and sentience. She then entrusts the future of Jananda Island to Tonari, while she takes Fushi to a hidden bedroom where she begins to assault his limp human form. Tonari and her group come to try and save their immortal friend, but end up being caught by the guards who now follow Hayase.

Furious at being interrupted during her most intimate moment with such a rare being, Hayase seemingly kills Tonari's owl companion Rigard, and orders her and her friends to leave or die at her hands. She is surprised and impressed when Fushi, who threatens to kill her at knife-point, tells her that the boy she was assaulting was just an empty shell, having managed to transfer his conscious sense of self into the form of the mole he had attained earlier. He agrees to allow Hayase to do with him as she pleases, only if she releases Tonari and the others.

Hayase "agrees" to his terms, but has Tonari and the rest drugged and imprisoned down a well. Surprisingly, Tonari regained consciousness in a mere five minutes as the Morning Glory is effective for two whole hours. Fushi meets Pioran and at port, and assures her that he will not let her die, too. Hayase shows up suddenly and calmly states that Pioran will be dead of old age by the time they next meet. She has her guards knock Tonari, Mia and Oopa out cold with the Morning Glory poison, and does to the same again to a furious Fushi.

Tonari wakes up to find herself locked up on Skyfish's ship which has already departed from the island. She requests help from her boss and gets off the ship. Although they are spotted by Hayase's guards, Captain Skyfish does not hesitate to lend a helping hand and take care of the guards. With the goal of saving Fushi in mind, she sets out on her own journey back to Jananda Island on a small boat, alongside Ligard.