Episode 7

**Purple (Aoi) Bullet** (葵色の弾丸 *Aoi-iro no Dangan*) is the seventh episode of the anime Birdie Wing.

## Plot

Eve and Rose Face off against each other as their golf battle to the death gets underway. Meanwhile, a face from Eve and Rose's past shows up in Klein's bar.

## Summary

One Year before the events of this episode, Anri is complaining about Eve muscling in on Rose's golfing territory. Rose tells her not to worry about her, since she's only been hustling bets for six months. Anri wonders why they don't crush her like their previous opponents, but Rose tells her that she's not "ripe for the picking yet," and that when the time comes, Eve will learn that she can't beat her.

Back in the present, Rose admits that she set up the match to face Eve. Vipère tries to taunt Rose about no longer actively golfing, but Rose counters that Vipère wasn't worth her time in the precious match. Eve tells her that no matter the match, she'll beat Rose.

The participants make their way to the tee box, as Catherine and Nicolas set the parameters of the match. Same rules as the previous match, one hole, match play with subsequent holes sudden death until there is a winner. Nicolas ensures that Catherine's layout man doesn't put out holes that favor Rose, which she reluctantly agrees to. The course begins to set up for the first hole, par 4, 387 yards. Eve wins the coin toss and tees off first, sending her Blue Bullet screaming down the fairway. However, as Rose prepares to hit her tee shot, Vipère tells Eve about the last time she saw Rose play, about four years ago. She tells her she hits like Eve, with brute strength.

Eve is shocked to see Rose fire her tee shot, the Crimson Red Bullet 14 yards ahead of her shot, realizing that her teacher Leo also trained Rose to play, which Eve confirms then promises to end her life by winning the match. Although Vipère is worried, Eve is not and is fired up to win, sending a Combo Blue Bullet onto the Green with her second shot. Rose matches the shot and nearly sinks her shot, but it bounces off the flag and both settle for Birdies, sending the match to Sudden Death.

The 2nd Hole is a 158-yard, Par 3 short hole surrounded by a giant water trap. Eve hits a Heaven's Red Bullet that arcs dead center onto the top of the flag, bouncing off and landing about 3 feet from the hole. Rose's shot, however, tags Eve's Ball and nearly rolls in for the Ace, however the momentum dies and the ball pivots at the last second. Rose offers to call the hole a draw and move on, which Eve agrees to. And the Match continues, hole after hole, with Eve and Rose match shot for shot through the next few holes.

Back at the bar, while Lily and the girls are watching the demolition crews getting closer, Klein is packing up the last of the liquor, a customer walks into the bar. As she tells the person that they're closed, she looks up and stops cold as she recognizes Leo, Eve's Golf Teacher. He sits down asking for a drink after flying in, offering to buy the rest of the bar's liquor stock. Klein asks him why he trained Eve to play golf. He says a certain man asked him to, but then starts to say that he wanted to see something but doesn't elaborate. He then asks Klein if Eve is working for the Mafia now. Klein tells him she's adamantly refused to do that, which he responds by telling her that she will come home.

After seven holes, both Eve and Rose have matched each other, remaining tied. However, on the 8th Hole, Catherine decides to take advantage of Eve's playing style and adds a mountain hazard to the Par 4, 470-yard dogleg hole. Rose realizes that Catherine cheated on the hole, counting on Eve's inability to hit only straight shots to win Rose the hole. But Eve unveils the newest bullet in her arsenal, the Purple Aoi Bullet, which slices perfectly around the hill hazard and carries for nearly 250 yards. Everyone is shocked by the ball's trajectory, and Eve reveals that she had Aoi teach her how to slice the ball during their VR date.

On her shot, Rose's ball falls short, and Vipère realizes that something happened to Rose on her tee shot, but can't figure out what's wrong, her second shot reaches the green but is wildly inaccurate. Eve's shot hits the flag and caroms off, forcing both to birdie the hole and move on to the 605-yard, Par 5 9th hole. Vipère tells Eve that Rose is losing strength in her shot and that she can end the match her. As she lines up her tee shot, she thinks of her family, Klein, Lily, Emily, Charlotte, and Jessica, firing off her Screaming Blue Bullet, which lands nearly halfway down the fairway. Catherine is overcome by the shot and faints. As Rose lines up her shot, she hears the last conversation she had with Leo before she left him. She pulls back her driver and as she makes contact with the ball, sending it the same distance as Eve's ball. Suddenly, Rose, who was holding her forearm after the drive, scream out in pain as her right forearm explodes. Her Right Hand and Wrist break off from her arm, her driver still gripped in the hand as it lands at her feet.

## Characters

* Eve
* Rose Aleon
* Vipère
* Anri
* Leo Millafoden
* Klein Clara
* Lily Lipman
* Catherine

## Matches

* Eve (w/ Vipère) vs. Rose Aleon (w/ Anri)

## Trivia

* The Logo featured on the ball in the opening credits comtains Vipère's Dual-Snake Logo.