Chapter 28

The Megalith which Rends the Earth (大地割る巨石, Daichi waru Kyoseki) is the 28th chapter of the To Your Eternity manga.

Summary
The Beholder appears as Fushi is eating at the banquet. The Beholder warns Fushi that the Nokkers are here and have laid their root in the ground and surround Rean's mansion. In thirty seconds they will destroy the building. The mansion begins to shake and Fushi yells at everyone to run outside. A piece of the ceiling is about to fall on Meer and Fushi saves it and passes it to a guest to run with it outside. Fushi transforms for the first time in four years into Oniguma to stop the ceiling from falling onto the running guests.

Meanwhile, Rean screams for help as Gugu hangs on to the side of the crumbled balcony. Gugu hangs on to a vine and one vine wiggles up to him and pokes him in the arm. Guests gather and manage to pull up Gugu. Gugu asks what's happening and no one is sure. He dashes inside the collapsed mansion as Reans yells at him not to before realizing her parents are missing. Gugu finds Fushi, as Oniguma, still holding up the ceiling. Fushi apologizes because the Nokkers came here for him. He tells Gugu to rescue Rean's injured parents. As Gugu runs out with Rean's parents on his shoulders the ceiling collapses. Rean is relieved that her parents are safe. Gugu turns to go back but Rean stops him begging him not to go. Gugu cuts her off and runs back in before she can tell him she loves him. Gugu calls out for Fushi and finds him under some rubble, back in the Nameless Boy's form. Gugu pulls him out and they look around for the Nokkers. All of a sudden the Nokker, in the form of Oniguma, made with the rubble of the mansion appear above them. It attacks them and they quickly dodge it. Gugu notes that the Nokker can't stretch its limbs like before. Gugu blows his flames at the Nokker but it doesn't work. They figure it's due to the Nokker using the mansion's stone rubble as armour. The Nokker sends a crack through the mansion's floor making Gugu fall through. Fushi quickly rescues him and they hang to the side of the crack. Gugu lets go of Fushi so that Fushi can transform into March and climb up. Once up, Fushi transforms back into the Nameless Boy and uses his rope to save Gugu before he falls further.

Fushi asks Gugu what to do. Gugu points out that there's something under the stone skin of the Nokker. He tells Fushi to climb onto the Nokker and look for a gap. Fushi transforms into March and the two climb on the Nokker. Fushi summons arrows and they use it to pry apart the stone skin. After prodding the Oniguma Nokker's arm, Gugu finally makes a gap exposing the Nokker's flesh. Thinking it'll burn well, Gugu blows his flames at the flesh and the arm combusts off. Fushi and Gugu cheer at their progress but suddenly the Nokker shoots a vine out its back to the mansion's wall.

Chapter Notes

 * Fushi transforms for the first time in four years in this chapter.
 * The Nokkers learn to use external resources in battle. In this chapter they use the mansion's rubble as armour.