Chapter 143

Binding Earth (1) (むすぶつち①, Musubutsu Chi) is the first part of the 143rd chapter of the Fumetsu no Anata e manga.

Summary
Fushi rummages through Mizuha's belongings while the classroom is empty. He plans out that he'll finish getting rid of Izumi's pictures, then form a peace treaty with the Nokker's boss, then figure how to make Mizuha want to live again.

After finding Mizuha's keycard, Fushi, as a messenger bird, spies on Mizuha while she's in her home economics class. Suddenly, Mizuha trips over Saki's foot, knocking some cutlery along with her. A shard of glass pierces her hand and Nokker Funa escorts her out of the class while telling Saki that she went too far, which Saki denies doing.

Nokker Funa helps Mizuha wash her hand off in the sink and her wound heals on its own. Nokker Funa tells Mizuha she's lucky that she was the health officer. Fushi notes that when the Nokker is in charge, she can heal herself. Suddenly, Nokker Funa lifts Fushi's cover and tells him if he shows up looking like a bird he'll be marked as absent. Fushi is shocked that she found out his disguise and Nokker Mizuha just laughs. Nokker Funa jokes that if he doesn't come to school, they'll make him into curry. Just then, Yuki appears behind them and asks them if they think humans and mutants can get along. Nokker Funa is confused while Nokker Mizuha answers yes right away and Yuki agrees and asks them to shake his hand then. Nokker Mizuha shakes his hand saying they're friends and Yuki celebrates saying he's always wanted non-human friends. Yuki cheerfully floats away as Fushi, confused, wonders if that was what Yuki meant by a peace agreement. The break bell rings and Nokker Funa and Nokker Mizuha head back to class, Nokker Funa coyly looks back at Fushi and tells him "bye-bye." Fushi enters Mizuha's apartment with the keycard and finds the computer Izumi was talking about. Fushi wonders what Izumi meant by getting rid of the pictures in it and attempts to break open the computer to no avail. He decides to just take the whole computer and tosses it into the river. Aiko, who so happened to be there cleaning up the river as a volunteer, scolds Fushi for illegal dumping and environmental destruction. She tries lecturing Fushi but he runs off telling her to deal with it. Yuki spots Fushi and Fushi asks him what he was doing today with Nokker Funa and Nokker Mizuha. He points out that a handshake doesn't mean anything. However, Yuki boastfully tells him that the mere fact that she shook his hand means that he can communicate with her. Fushi doesn't reply and asks if he needs something. Yuki whips out an earthenware pot and tells him he's brought a message. Fushi asks if it's a message from Iddy, but Yuki informs him the message is from him. He then tells Fushi that you don't need to be part of the Doki to make an earthenware pot.