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Berth D in flames is the twelfth episode of *The Daichis - Earth's Defense Family*.

## Synopsis

*July 7th - Seiko’s birthday. A party is being planned and everyone promises to come home to celebrate. Dai, on his way home with his present, sees Seiko drunk. She tells her coworker she doesn’t know him, and Dai becomes shocked…*

## Plot

The episode starts with a Flower growing in the Dzhungar Desert United Nations Chinese Joint Administrative Area at the Alien Life Form Investigation Site. The news says its July 7th which is Seiko's birthday as Nozomi stated, since she turns 35 Dai calls her an old hag. Since Seiko is born on the day that lovers meet, she regrets being married to the wrong man. She hopes that Dai and Nozomi can get a taste of picking the wrong person, continues on with how they should get out of this deal and if they weren't in the Earth Defense Family then they'd all be in their own free, easy, comfortable and happy lives going their separate ways. Dai shakes his head and counterargues that that they would of been completely wiped out in times like these if aliens were to ever attack which surprises the whole family. He then makes a deal to celebrate Seiko's birthday ending with a pinky promise to not be late between him and Seiko proclaiming the consequences that "...I'll make you swallow 1000 needles!".

The next scene then cuts briefly back to the same Chinese Joint Administrative Area seen in the beginning of the episode. Ejima is seen at the school and talking about the Tanabata story that happens once a year. Ellen is seen in the early stages of her nap but its interrupted when she hears Dai's loud grunt thinking about what kind of gift he should give for Seiko's birthday. Dai then breaks his Turtle allowance with his head and doesn't believe he can afford any decent gift with this money. After Ejima goes to Dai's desk, Dai asks what kind of gift a girl would want. Ejima is then shocked that Dai had gotten a girlfriend, which Dai denies and goes on to be more specific that it is for someone much older than him. Dai's next response is asking what gift would like if it was her. After Ejima goes on a tangent about Dai's skirt lifting and teasing, she declines having any kind of gift for her and accepts what Dai currently does to her. Without any answer for any kind of gift, Dai lifts up Ejima's skirt and comes up with the idea of giving flowers to his mom.

The following scene shows a museum, Hayakawa brought Seiko here because of the numerous issues that were caused during the events of the Hachiko Plaza episode. They look at Sho Kageyama's pictures in the war. Seiko is really impressed by the photography techniques. She does not like these pictures very much because the events do not affect her as they have little impact on what people like her are currently struggling with in their own lives, these are the type of people who look at people like her in envious eyes. After Seiko's response to these pictures, Hayakawa walks to a particular picture that gives her a lot of emotions. He's impressed by the baby's smile who's unaware that a war is going around him. Seiko wipes her handkerchief and exchanges the line "But it doesn't mean the baby is happy just because he's born." Hayakawa expands on regards to being born "But it's preciscely because we were born...That we're both here right now." after that Hayakawa congratulates Seiko's Birthday and only wants her to drink once.

Next scene Dai is making a flower ring for Seiko and Ellen shows up asking why Hen is still with him and tells her that he gave birth to him which she does not believe and Dai calls her annoying loudmouth then Ellen asks for a fight then Hen runs away with the flower ring. She remarks that Hen really believes that Dai is his mother.
Next scene shows Nozomi preparing the food while Mamoru is ordering a birthday cake at the cash register and either Episode 11 flashback shows up either the wedding ring or the affair being depicted in the toilet. Mamoru then screams.
Dai and Ellen pops out the bushes and Dai continues his search for Hen. Ellen asks who its for and the way Dai tries to tell her it has nothing to do with her makes her even more curoius which lead to Dai blushing. Confesses that its for Seiko, Ellen wonders why Dai is in love which he denies that she's stinky and annoying then runs off. And Ellen then wonders why Dai is doing this in spite of this which has to do with his promise to Seiko.

## Characters

### The Daichis

* Daichi Dai
* Daichi Nozomi
* Daichi Seiko
* Daichi Mamoru

### Secondary Characters

* Shiratori Eren
* Ejima Junko
* Hayakawa Tetsuya
* Hen

## Music Timestamps

Note: Does not include time codes for OP or ED.
*Italics are for tracks that don't use an official name.*

## Trivia

* The story that Ejima was talking about in the episode was Tanabata, it celebrates the meeting of Orihime and Hikoboshi (representative of stars Vega and Altair respectively). According to legends, they can only meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar (July 7). In the case of *The Daichis - Earth's Defense Family* this would take place on a Saturday, since the series takes place in 2001. Aka, Seiko's Birthday.

## References

1. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20160823201251/http://view.yahoo.com/show/the-daichis--earths-defense-family/episode/60713079/sub-earth-s-final-day - Page Source