Episode 5

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**The Girl Flautist** (笛を吹く少女, *Fue o Fuku Shōjo*?) is the fifth episode of the Wonder Egg Priority anime series.

## Synopsis

Ai, Neiru, Rika, and Momoe meet through the Wonder Eggs and deepen their friendship.

Of the four who fight battles every day, Neiru has been involved in more battles than anyone else, and has met girls with a variety of feelings.

Neiru has a tendency to take things calmly and logically, so she has a hard time understanding the feelings of these girls.

One day, Neiru, Rika and Momoe go to Ai's house for a visit...

## Plot

On a bridge in the Egg World, Neiru Aonuma is protecting a girl named Ayaka from her Wonder Killer, Yodare. Neiru uses her weapon to blow up a few cars that surround Yodare, the smoke provided by the explosions allow the two girls to climb up the bridges frame. As Yodare taunts them, Neiru turns her weapon into a sniper rifle that she uses to blow off Yodare's left arm. He is knocked onto the ground by the impact, and Neiru fires another round that destroys his lower body. Neiru manages to reach the peak of the bridge and drops down on top of Yodare to stab him through the chest, killing him. Ayaka goes to thank Neiru, telling her it was nice to have someone protect her. Ayaka disappears as fireworks go off in the sky.

The next day, Neiru, Momoe Sawaki, and Rika Kawai go to visit the home of Ai Ohto. Tae Ohto is delighted to see her daughter bring home so many friends, she also recognizes Momoe as Shuichiro Sawaki's niece due to their shared last name. The four girls go to hang out in Ai's room, where Rika creates a theory that Ai's deceased friend, Koito Nagase, was secretly dating her teacher, Shuichiro. Momoe refutes the claim, saying that he is so nice that he adopts plenty of rescue cats. Rika brings up the possibility that Koito was pregnant before Momoe tells everyone to stop. Rika continues to indict Shuichiro, speculating that he thinks Ai has some sort of dirt on him. Ai goes to return the tray to the kitchen, but when she passes by the door to the kitchen, she sees her mother talking to Shuichiro. Ai leaves before she is seen.

In a flashback, Shuichiro sketches a picture of Ai while encouraging her and telling her that her eyes are charming. He says he will paint a painting using the sketch, and that he wants Ai to have confidence once he is done with it. When Ai and Koito walk home later that day, Koito mentions that Shuichiro is planning to submit the painting into an art contest and that he wants to become an artist. She tells Ai to decline the painting if she is not confident due to Shuichiro's future being on the line. Later, Ai spots Koito being sketched by Shuichiro as well.

The girls continue to converse as they play a game. Rika compliments Ai's mother while berating her own, Ai appreciates the compliment and says that her mother always does things perfectly, but also cites it as the potential reason for her father leaving. Rika suggests that capable women spoil men while looking at Neiru. Rika begins to tickle Neiru after she calls her an anachronistic fool, causing her to break into laughter.

Back in the Egg World, Neiru protects a girl named Aoi. Neiru shows visible annoyance towards Aoi, telling her not to touch her. She spots Aoi's Wonder Killer, a trio of three octopus like creatures, and fires a round at the blue one to knock it away from the others. As Neiru takes aim at the remaining two, Aoi begins to lecture her on the fleeting nature of beauty. As Aoi's lecture continues, the Wonder Killers begin to bounce off the beams of the bridge at high speeds, forcing Neiru to retreat. Neiru lands a few hits with her weapon, but the Wonder Killers quickly rebound and return to action. Aoi asks Neiru why she does not die right now so she could die at her most beautiful, but Neiru ignores her.

Ai, Neiru, Rika, and Momoe walk together to a powered down arcade situated near the location they buy eggs at. As the four girls eat snacks in the arcade, Acca reminds them that outside food is prohibited. They do not take the reminder seriously, and instead request that they activate the arcade as a form of group therapy. Acca concedes, and allows them to play one game of bowling. During the game, Ai comments on how much stronger she has gotten due to the use of the Wonder Eggs. Momoe opens up about her friend she is trying to save, Haruka. Momoe was close to Haruka due to the fact that she was willing to see her as a girl. One day, Haruka suddenly took her clothes off in front of Momoe in the school infirmary. Momoe was frightened and confused by her actions, and ended up pushing her away. Acca tells the girls to buy eggs and leave after finishing their game, but when he goes to turn off the arcade Ura-Acca intervenes and says there is no harm allowing them to play.

Once the girls finish playing and go to buy eggs, they once again insist they stay a little while longer. While resting, Rika suggests that they should stop buying eggs, citing that they should not feel fully responsible for the deaths as they did not directly cause them. When Rika is told by Ai to stop, she claims that Ai should feel the least responsible out of everyone else due to the fact that Koito did not even talk to her before dying. Ai refutes the claim, saying she wants to find the truth as to why Koito died. The argument reaches it apex when Rika brings up the possibility of Koito not wanting to come back. Neiru gets up to leave, and reveals that her sister stabbed her in the back and when she woke up in the ICU she was told her sister had ran away and jumped off a bridge. The scars ache when she tries to forget about her, so she buys eggs as she has found the pain has faded since she has started.

Back in the Egg World, Neiru struggles to defeat the Wonder Killer as she is unsure of which one to hit. Neiru comes to a realization and fires her weapon at Aoi's hair, cutting most of it off. This defeats the Wonder Killer, when Aoi asks how Neiru knew to fire at her, she simply says she had gotten on her nerves. Neiru deduces that Aoi actually regrets her suicide, as no one would be able to call her pretty again. Aoi sheds a tear before disappearing.

All the girls return to buy eggs the next day, much to the delight of Acca and Ura-Acca.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Neiru Aonuma
* Ayaka
* Momoe Sawaki
* Rika Kawai
* Ai Ohto
* Tae Ohto
* Shuichiro Sawaki
* Koito Nagase
* Aoi
* Haruka
* Acca
* Ura-Acca

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