I think you're right, that Suillus looks like S. tomentosus which grows with two-needle pine and I see a bunch of two-needle bundles in your photo.
C. ochraceus is a complex but one of them is supposed to parasitize S. tomentosus so you've probably got whichever that one is.
Nice find, the host/parasite pairings for boletes are usually species-specific so if you can ID either mushroom to species, you'll know what the other one is as well.
Agreed, I was worried the same would happen to Allen Tudyk but then I watched three Allen Tudyk shows in a row and realized it's actually really hard to get sick of him for some reason.
At the beginning of the the episode we're back to "maybe everything will be fine if I pretend this isn't happening". The problem with Yoshiki's thought experiment is that it isn't actually a good analogy to the situation: Nonuki isn't an exact copy of Hikaru, it has its own personality, values, and memories, it's just pretending to be Hikaru. Which becomes clear by the end of the episode when Nonuki once again tries to murder someone.
There's no explicit reason AFAIK but Nonuki said "impurities" try to latch on to a person out of loneliness and Yoshiki's sister looked at the wig ghost which may have made it try to latch on to her the way the long-necked lady did when Yoshiki's looked at her.
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