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In VIVANT\u0026#39;s episode 24, the flashback places the boy Adiel about five years after Tent\u0026#39;s founding, when Beki (Kento Hayashi) and his group flee into the Ad Desert pursued by a Kazakh organization. Cut off from water and food, they prepare for death until Adiel arrives with water drawn from the cave where he later hid the disk.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the broadcast, Nishida wrote on Instagram that he had watched the first season and called working on the show a treasure. Viewers\u0026#39; comments, as gathered in the report, focused on his resemblance to the adult Adiel and on his face.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Ichisaki Nishida lands the young Adiel role right after playing a son in Kaze, Kaoru, and the VIVANT flashback gives that casting a purpose: Adiel's past is now tied to Kento Hayashi's Nogoon Beki.","twitterPost":"Ichisaki Nishida's young Adiel is framed around saving Kento Hayashi's Nogoon Beki, so VIVANT's flashback ties Adiel's past directly to the present cast.","threadsPost":"VIVANT gives young Adiel a job in the flashback: carrying water from a cave to keep Kento Hayashi's Nogoon Beki and his group alive in the Ad Desert. That makes Ichisaki Nishida's scene a link between Adiel's boyhood and the present-day cast rather than a standalone reveal.","newsletterBlurb":"VIVANT's episode 24 showed Adiel as a boy, played by 16-year-old Ichisaki Nishida, who appeared in the Kaze, Kaoru finale. The flashback has the young Adiel bringing water to Nogoon Beki's group in the Ad Desert. 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