Episode 6

**Rebellion's Cry** (反逆の狼煙 *Hangyaku no Noroshi*) is the sixth episode of the anime Birdie Wing.

## Plot

Eve's VR Entounter with Aoi is cut off by Lily who brings terrible news regarding Klein's bar and Eve must join forces with a rival to see that her family is saved from being homeless and potentially broken up.

## Summary

Picking up immediately after the end of the previous episode, Lily explains that the slums where Klein's Bar is located is being redeveloped and all of them, Lily, Eve, Klein, and the orphans who they care for, are going to be homeless in about a week. Demolition on some of the other tenements in the neighborhood has already begun as Klein and the orphans watch helplessly.

While demolition continues, the orphans play with toy construction vehicles until a construction worker chases them off. Inside the bar, Klein explains that although she, Lily and Eve will be all right, the orphans are immigrants, and would most likely be deported back to the country where their families came from. Lily asks about what will happen to them, after paying every cent they had to Carrosa for "rent" and protection, while Eve wants to know why they can't move somewhere else. Klein explains that they can't afford to move, while Lily says that no one would want to rent them a place to live. Klein tries to lighten the mood by suggesting they move to the Mountains and live off the land, but Lily thinks they'll get caught. She suggests to Klein that they ask someone named Norman if they can return to his place and live there while they work, but Klein tells her all the illegal businesses are getting shut down due to the development project, a casino.

Eve realizes that the golf match she played against Vipère involved a land deal for a casino, and she runs off, telling the Orphans that she needs to go to work. She runs to Rose's store and confronts her over the match. Rose tells her that the casino was getting built regardless of her involvement in the golf match. She then reminds her that her playing in the Under-15 Jr. Championships came with a price, namely the match against Vipère. As she dismisses Eve, she tells her that Madame Catherine wants Eve to be her Ringer for future golf bets, which would likely result in a place to live for her and her family. However, Rose warns her that doing so would put her under mafia control, a position she might not be able to get out from under.

After leaving Rose's office, Eve sits along the loading docks, determined not to let everyone go homeless and get split up. As she stands up, Vipère pulls up in her car, arriving for the meeting Eve arranged. The two rivals end up parked along a mountain road overlooking the city and the demolition work, as Eve asks her about finding a golf match that will pay enough to help her get everyone out of town, even asking Vipère to loan he the money. Vipère tells her that she has nothing left after Nicolas sent his thugs to kill her for losing the match, which she manages to escape from. When Eve asks her why they didn't kill her, which Vipère can't answer, and speeds off, leaving Eve behind on the side of the road.

The next morning, City Councilman Stein, whom Catherine bribed to insure she got the Casino Contract, is killed when his car is blown up with an RPG. As Catherine is woken up by a phone call telling her Stein has been killed, one of her henchmen rushes into her bedroom to inform her that a forced City Council meeting has awarded the casino rights to Nicolas' company. Nicolas gloats about his power play to Catherine, then offers to let her have a percentage of the profits as a further insult, which infuriates Catherine to hang up on him. He then tells his assistant that he had planned this all along as a way of getting back the money he lost on the previous bet, intending to repay his debt.

Back in Japan, Aoi is in the middle of the post-championship press conference as a reporter asks her what hole she was on when she realized she had the championship sewn up, but Aoi confuses him when she mentions being focused on watching Eve play her round, embarrassing Shinjo. While she is between media appearances, Shinjo admonishes her about Eve, but she's focused on watching for Eve to log back into the Virtual Golf room. Eve and Lily are back at the golf hole by the train tracks, hustling another regular for money. Lily is worried that Eve is over doing it, while Rose watches from the sidelines, keeping close tabs on her.

Vipère is sitting at a cafe by the Marina when Nicolas' assistant arrives and has a seat in the table behind her, his back to hers. He fills her in about Nicolas' plan to have another golf match with Catherine to secure the casino, and Vipère offers to handle the golf match in exchange for showing him some of her more "Special Techniques," which he easily agrees to, kissing her to seal their deal.

At the penthouse, Catherine is delighted to see that the "Big Boss" has decided to settle the dispute between her and Nicolas with another golf match at Catherine's underground course as Rose arrives. Catherine tells her to get Eve to play for her again, but Rose informs her of Eve's dilemma regarding the construction and her home, telling her that she considers both of them her enemy now and intends to finish the fight they started with her. Vipère and Eve meet along the Docks again, where Vipère tells her about the golf match and the payout, which is she tells her is enough for Eve to buy a yacht with her half of the payout. Eve agrees to work with Vipère as long as Lily and Klein are kept out of it but continues to call her, "Snake Woman," much to Vipère's annoyance.

Rose shows up to the bar while Klein and the Orphans are packing, and Lily is preparing to sell her Gunpla models. Rose tells her Eve will be away for a little while and not to leave until the last minute. Rose runs after her and tries to get her to tell her what she's up to with Eve, but she waves her off as she continues to walk away. Klein is concerned with what could happen to Eve if the Mafia gets their hooks into her.

Eve spends the next four days preparing for the match with Vipère, spending every chance to work out and hone her golf skills. As the two of them are in Vipère's safe house, Eve tells her that the rigorous training she's doing is nothing like what she went through with her former golf teacher. Vipère is shocked to learn that this stamina she has comes from her training she began three years before. Eve then tells her that she doesn't remember much of her childhood, she only can remember when she first met Klein and Lily.

In a flashback, we see when Klein and Lily first met Eve, who only knows that her full name is Evangeline. She had been in some kind of accident with head trauma, causing her to suffer from a major case of amnesia. She ended up with Klein and Lily, and when her head injuries healed up, a man named Leo appeared and promises to take care of all their living expenses in exchange for her becoming his golf protege, but he disappeared after three years, forcing Eve to start hustling for money to survive, telling Vipère that when she met the girls, Klein was 14 and Lily was 10, implying that they were being exploited, most likely by Norman. She tells a shocked Vipère that she hustles golf for money so that Klein and Lily don't have to go back to their former life, but in agreeing to help Vipère, she has to put aside her feelings for Aoi, in order to protect her friends.

Nicolas arrives at Catherine's for the match, and Catherine tries a backhanded compliment by admiring his willingness to show his face after he tricked her, to which Nicolas reminds her that the only person she should be mad at is herself. Catherine assumes that Vipère will be playing for him again, but he says no, that he brought someone special, as the elevator doors open and Eve steps out with Vipère behind her. Catherine then introduces her own special golfer for the match, who turns out to be Rose.

## Characters

* Eve
* Lily Lipman
* Klein Clara
* Rose Aleon
* Vipère
* Catherine

## Trivia

* The Golf Ball Logo featured in the Opening Credits is Eve's Red Wing Logo ball.