Made in Abyss Chapter 060

Gold is the sixtieth chapter of the Made in Abyss manga series.

Synopsis
With the village falling apart, an exhausted Faputa leans against a still stable rock while debris falls around her. As the environment crumbles, she is hit on the head by the debris just before the ground under her also breaks apart and she finds herself in a free fall.

Whilst falling, she has a flashback of asking Maaa and Majikaja to bring the trio out of the village. She wonders if she would still have some power left if she had eaten Maa and Majikaja earlier, but she no longer cares, as her purpose for existence is complete. Suddenly, Reg’s arm extends from the ground below to catch her fall as more debris falls onto them.

The scene shifts to Riko and Maaa, who are in the midst of the village falling apart. Riko, seemingly still weakened from the use of her whistle, hands Maaa a doll which bears similarity to the one taken from Maaa during the Balancing and apologizes to Maaa that the replacement doll she made for her is not finished yet. With tears in their eyes, Maaa takes the crude doll and holds Meinya and Riko close with a hint of satisfaction in her expression.

Cutting back to Reg, Majikaja's container has become completely immovable and, as they embrace their demise due to the village’s destruction, they resolve themself to at least finish the final request of Faputa. Majikaja exits their container in their true gaseous body and enters Faputa, who is still unconscious, via her mouth. This allows Majikaja to take control of Faputa's body and defend the group from the falling debris as the village comes to its end.

After a bit of time has passed, a Turbinid-Dragon is shown trying to get up from the ruins of the outskirts of the village, but it is stomped to death by another one of its kind.

Meanwhile, the remaining members of the group have taken refuge in cave-like ruins. As Faputa slowly wakes up again, she takes notice of Vueko. Nanachi asks Riko if she is doing alright, which Riko affirms while holding the doll she had made for Maaa. Even though they have all disintegrated, she will never forget the villagers for saving them, to which Nanachi agrees they will remember, too.

Vueko tries to verbally communicate with Faputa, but Faputa tells her that there is no need for Vueko to try to speak, as she can hear them anyway. Faputa tells Vueko that she did not know of her existence until Belaf showed her in his memories via his scent. Faputa tells Vueko that she wants to learn more about the mother she never got to know. As Faputa questions whether she truly resembles her mother, Vueko clarifies that while not in personality, Faputa's smoothness and warmth are similar to her mother's.

Faputa tells Vueko that despite thinking that she had inherited everything from her mother, the memories of Vueko's existence are where nowhere to be found within her. Faputa assumes that Irumyuui didn't even want to part with the memory of Vueko; to the point of not even letting her daughter, Faputa, have them.

Vueko's final thoughts drift to old memories, remembering a conversation with Wazukyan, where  he said that the City of Gold in the 6th Layer could turn even turn trash into Gold. Her final thought is how ironic it is she recalls this now. As her consciousness becomes to grow weaker, Vukeo addresses Faputa as Irumyuui and tells her how happy she was to have encountered Irumyuui, and the change she had due to meeting her. Vueko then passes away. Faputa is saddened by Vueko's passing, which confuses her, due to Vueko belonging to her mother and not her.

Afterward, the group ventures out once again, as there are no signs of the beasts nearby. Faputa begins digging a grave for Vueko and making a tombstone for the ones that have passed away, saying that Gaburoon told her to do this when someone dies. This saddens her even more as she remembered that Gaburoon was also destroyed. Reg asks her to come along with them, but she retorts by saying that he can't even remember their promise. Reg is saddened by this and says that even after all this time he can't remember their promise. He feels bad for it, to which Faputa gets frustrated and says it means that she basically has no relation with Reg anymore.

Reg counters this by rhetorically asking her if his former self ever saw this mopey side of Faputa. He continues on with expressing that his current self has seen how fearsome she was, her sadness, and her beauty. He wants to go on an adventure together with her. After a brief exchange over Faputa's relief of Reg showing this level of determination for her, she then turns her attention to Riko, telling her that Prushka is saying Riko's role was caring about the people she met.

Riko is shocked that Faputa can hear the voices of White Whistles. Faputa then decides to head off on her own, and Reg questions her if she won't come with them. She replies that she will think about it before holding on one last time to Reg's head, and afterward begins to head away onto her own path.

As Faputa looks back one last time, before moving forward and toward a light. As she leaves, we hear Vueko's last words: "Never to return beyond the yearning for home within the true darkness, there certainly was a light that no one could find. But not a single person could take hold of it. The gold that was born of you is free from the yoke called value, and is now about to set off, despite knowing that love itself is a curse. Despite knowing that the path leads only to darkness. But that is probably why it is so very dazzling."

Adapted To

 * Season 2 Episode 12: Gold

Character Appearances

 * Belaf
 * Faputa
 * Irumyuui
 * Maaa
 * Majikaja
 * Meinya
 * Nanachi
 * Reg
 * Riko
 * Vueko

Bestiary Indexing

 * Meinastilim
 * Turbinid-Dragon
 * Unknown Creatures