Edible Herbs and the Oni's Dwelling

Edible Herbs and the Oni's Dwelling (Kusabira to Oni no Sumika, くさびらと鬼の住処) is the second episode of the Somali and the Forest Spirit anime series.

Overview
As they camp, Somali lightly scrapes her knee. Shizuno offers medical aid at his home, and teaches Golem medicine as Somali helps Yabashira with house duties.

Characters

 * Golem
 * Somali
 * Shizuno
 * Yabashira

Summary
By a campfire, Golem contemplates his wrist which has fragments chipping away. Somali wakes up in the morning and has caught a fish for breakfast. Spotting some rabbits and keen to play with them, in her excitement she trips and scrapes her knee. Golem notes they are out of medicine at which point Shizuno appears and offers some. Golem was aware he was watching them and knows him as an oni.

Shizuno takes them back to his home to help alleviate the injury further, where they meets Yabashira as well who flings a fruit at them after missing Shizuno. Agreeing to teach Golem about medicine, Shizuno feels bad after Golem really does break a piece of himself off for medicine studying purposes.

As the lessons are underway, Yabashira and Somali enjoy tending to the home where Somali is keen to help since Golem does everything for her. At night after Somali is sent to sleep, Golem explains to them that he has left the forest to find Somali's parents and return them to her.

There is a reason he needs to hurry, Golem removes his jacket to reveal parts of him have crumbled away particularly on his entire right arm. Golems live for precisely 1000 years, and he has lived 998 years and 253 days.

In the morning, Yabashira gifts some sweets onto Somali for her journey as he and Shizuno wave goodbye to her and Golem.