Chapter 136.2

Rejected Life (2) (こばむいのち②, Kobamu Inochi) is the second part of the 136th chapter of the To Your Eternity manga.

Summary
The Nokker imposter taunts Hirotoshi causing him to lunge at her with a sword. However, the imposter is quickly able to knock the sword out of his hands and kick him to the ground. Fushi runs to his side but stops as the imposter holds a knife to Hirotoshi's throat.

The imposter says that she's the only one who wants to save Mimori's heart and that she gives Mimori a good excuse to not live. Bonchien suggests she has another goal and Yuki asks what she plans to do with Mimori's body. The imposter tells them, again, her goal is world peace. Fushi asks how stealing people's bodies is world peace and the imposter tells him before they, the Nokkers, stole bodies but now the they're just dwelling inside humans. She further explains that be dwelling, she brings peace to the world, specifically Mimori's world.

The imposter describes how Mimori's mother abandoned her to chase after men. Her mother was almost never home and Mimori gave up on trying to make friends as her mother would move from place to place to be with random men. One day, Mimori realized how unfortunate she was when her mother didn't come to her school's field day. Her classmates asked her where her parent's were and then pitied her. She saw how an injured child got affection from his mother and Mimori decides to injure herself by jumping off a wall. Mimori injures her arm and at the hospital she waits for her mother to pick her up, but she doesn't come. Mimori decides to walk home and finds a man leaving her house. Inside, Mimori hands her mother the hospital bill and her mother scolds her for the hospital bill and making her life harder. The night, Mimori cried all night. As she cries, her mother tells her to be quiet as she's sleeping. That's when Mimori decided she wanted to die.

The imposter then explains that was when she entered Mimori's body. Whenever Mimori's mother would be in a bad mood, the imposter would take over. When the imposter was in charge, Mimori would have no memory of what happened. Fushi questions what the imposter was trying to accomplish by doing this. Again, the imposter tells him that it's to save Mimori from her suffering. Fushi tells her she should've done more for Mimori and prevent her from dying. However, the imposter tells him that Mimori's heart was long gone by then and that she will always support dying. Hirotoshi yells out that that's not peace and that dying that way will bring no one happiness. The imposter throws the sword back to Hirotoshi and motions for him to fight her. Fushi tries to stop him from fighting but Hirotoshi begs him to leave it to him. The imposter comments that it sounds like he just can't accept Mimori's suicide and points out Mimori didn't live or die for him. Hirotoshi acknowledges he's acting on his own selfish feeling but exclaims he's determined to become a true hero. Suddenly, the imposter kicks Hirotoshi, sending him flying back, while telling him to show her what he's got. Mimori's ghost cries as she watches this.