Made in Abyss Season 2 Episode 11

Value is the eleventh episode of the Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun anime series.

Synopsis
With Reg knocked out, Faputa carries him back and instructs Juroimoh to hold him down so he can't interfere if he wakes up. Turning to Riko, Faputa blames her for Reg having forgotten about her. Vueko, scared for Riko's safety tells Wazukyan to let her go, but he informs her she would just get killed if she were to try to help. The villagers try to protect Riko, but Faputa is too fast for them and launches an attack against Riko.

However, before it connects Gaburoon blocks Faputa's attack causing their body to be destroyed. In shock, Faputa questions why he protected Riko and Gaburoon informs her that she would have lost Reg forever is she were to hurt Riko; hence he protected Faputa's future and becomes dysfunctional.

The now conflicted Faputa reaffirms to herself she has no way of stopping now for the villagers had deceived her mother. However, before she can start her next rampage. Faputa is knocked back by an unseen force. As she angrily looks around, she spots Belaf and Nanachi who both have arrived on the scene; much to the relief of Wazukyan.

A short exchange between Nanachi and Faputa follows in which Nanachi also asks Riko to leave it to them to deal with Faputa, and Belaf advances towards Faputa. Faputa notes that the smell of her mother is strong on Belaf and decides to kill him first. As Faputa starts tearing through Belaf, he has an inner monologue of having a gift for Faputa which he hopes for her to accept due to understanding now that when he begged Irumyuui to take everything from him, she left this behind because she wanted Faputa to see it.

Faputa shatters Belaf's head apart and thus his "gift" is set onto Faputa, in a smoke-like mist, being the feelings and memories he held of Ganja's past. Belaf thanks Faputa for being with him in his final moments and tells her she will have to decide her own value during end of her destiny and he encourages her to move forward without fear as he wants her to continue her adventure. Afterwards, Belaf passes away.

With that, Faputa is even more conflicted and haits her assault. Nanachi instructs the villagers to take Riko and escape underground, due to the village barrier being broken, while they will try to wake up Reg they get a glimpse of Wazukyan and theorize he might have hoped for a scenario in which Faputa had given a cradle to Reg to be used on Riko to create a mobile village with Riko as a base.

Meanwhile, Vueko is saddened by what happened to Belaf but Wazukyan is relieved as Belaf has shared his feelings with Faputa, and thus Faputa most likely wouldn't kill Vueko now; though he assumes he would be in real trouble now. Wazukyan apologizes to Vueko before warping her in the rest of his body and leaping down with her.

Faputa, in distraught by Belaf's parting gift, tries to reaffirm again that she is the fire that will burn everything to cinders even after what she just witnessed but has exceedingly more trouble in doing so than before. Then, Hermit Rats show up next to her feet reminding her of the one she saw in the memories. Faputa tells them to get away as it is dangerous but one is quickly snatched up by an unknown avian creature and both her and Nanachi realize with the village barrier gone creatures have made it inside the village now; with Turbinid-Dragon making its way inside.

As the creatures make their way inside the village, they start attacking the shocked villagers. Moogie, seeing how their fellow villagers are decimated and shaken by the events unfolding, says that it is over for them and all will come to an end now. She is pulled out of her shock by Maaa who carries the unconscious Riko and gives her new purpose to at least save Riko.

Faputa, who witnesses the creatures killing the villagers, becomes upset at that, as she interprets it as them taking away her duty to destroy the village and eliminate the villagers, and starts attacking them.

This causes the creatures to start attacking her as well and she starts getting more and more mutilated by them to the point of being eaten and vomited out by a creature. As the villagers watch Faputa fight the creatures, and getting more and more ripped apart, they question why they care for her well-being even though she is trying to kill them.

As Faputa is about to be attacked by a Turbinid-Dragon, Gaburoon tries to shoot at it with a broken arm. Faputa is happy that Gaburoon is still functional and tells Gaburoon to hurry to get up and move because she doesn't want them to get completely destroyed. Gaburoon apologizes to her for having not been able to protect her and has an inside monologue of not having regrets, though having deep regret for they won't be able to learn how Faputa, being born holding vengeance, obtained something irreplaceable and called it "value". Gaburoon tells her the days they spent together were their precious "Haku" just before the Turbinid-Dragon crushed them with its leg and destroying them completely.

Faputa is shocked and angered by that, but a blast from the Turbinid-Dragon sends her flying. Afterwards, she is too dangerous to move and contemplates what value lies in her immortality if she is unable to move anymore. As she lies on the ground, the villagers begin approaching her and feed the value of their bodies to her to save and regenerate her.

At first, Faputa is greatly irritated by this; spiting the villagers with internally monologuing that all they do is want. This continues with her going over that she always knew she was born with the duty to annihilate them. However, things she doesn't know keep increasing with even people she thought to know having unknown sides to them. However, she slowly starts to feel heat that tells her that something beyond that duty lies hidden and value she not yet understands can be found there.

As her inner monologue continues one of the villagers is snatched by a creature, but before it can eat its prey a now fully regenerated, more powerful Faputa rips parts of its head and the upper body of the villagers away and eats both.

Faputa lets out a scream, rattling the creatures and onlookers. As she recalls the memories she witnessed, Reg's words for her and the inner monologue of Belaf before his death, she steps forward having gained a stronger looking form with longer hair and a symbol in her eye and inner monologues "Don't decide for Faputa. What value means is for Faputa to discover, Sosu".

Adapted From

 * Volume 10, Chapter 56: A Gift
 * Volume 10, Chapter 57: Value

Bestiary Indexing

 * Hermit Rat
 * Fuzosheppu
 * Meinastilim
 * Turbinid-Dragon

Character Appearances

 * Belaf
 * Gaburoon
 * Faputa
 * Irumyuui
 * Juroimoh
 * Maaa
 * Meinya
 * Mepopohon
 * Minor Characters
 * Moogie
 * Nanachi
 * Pakkoyan
 * Prushka
 * Reg
 * Riko
 * Shurekaka
 * Vueko
 * Wazukyan

Background Music

 * Old Stories
 * Sëgûr
 * Ryūsazai
 * Eyes of Irumyuui
 * Tori x Onkyō
 * Juroimoh Mutation
 * SAN-KEN
 * Counterpoint of Abyss
 * VOH ft. Takeshi Saito