Episode 6

**Who Killed the Parent Bird?** (誰が親鳥殺したの?) is the sixth episode of the anime of *Migi and Dali*.

## Synopsis

Migi continues to be held captive in the Ichijo home, treated like a toddler by Mrs. Ichijo. Meanwhile, the twins continue their investigation to determine who killed their mother.

## Plot Summary

Migi continues to be held captive in the Ichijo home, locked in a hidden room, while Dali continues to hide in the house. Hungry, Dali accepts the Fidelite's offer to eat dog food.

Mrs. Ichijo continues to treat Migi (assumed to be Hitori) as an infant, giving him a bottle, a pacifier, and changing his diaper. Migi aims to become the perfect toddler to gain her affection and try to gain information about the family's secrets. After demonstrating that he can walk like a toddler, he is allowed out of the hidden room and given a seat at the dining table. He claims to be a 5 year old, and Eiji and Karen are told to treat him like a younger brother. Migi asks many questions, including why his hair color is different than everyone else. Eiji tells him that once he is 10 years old, his hair will darken. There is discussion about whether or not Eiji wets his bed at night, and both Eiji and his mother deny that this ever happens.

After claiming that Hitori has been behaving as a perfect 5 year old, he is told that he will be permitted to return to the Sonoyama home with his adoptive parents. That night, the twins worry that leaving the Ichijo house will prevent them from solving the mystery of their mother's death. Dali enters the room where Migi has been held captive, and he reads for the first time the message that their mother wrote on the wallpaper, bringing Dali to tears.

In trying to determine which of the Ichijo family members killed their mother, Migi tries to use the wallpaper as a Ouiji board, which gives Dali the idea to attempt to spook the members of the Ichijo family by having Migi dress up as a ghostly apparition of their mother. He appears first to Mr. Ichijo, who hugs her and calls her by name, saying that he searched everywhere to find her. The twins learn for the first time that their mother's name is Metry. They speculate that he is unlikely to have killed her, assuming that Metry must have been his mistress, leaves them to speculate that Mr. Ichijo is their father.

They appear next to Mrs. Ichijo, who initially shrieks as if she has seen a ghost but then acts as if she is alive stating "you finally came to steal it." She then finds a sharp scissors and goes around the home stabbing at things. As she is about to stab at the couch where the twins are hiding, Mr. Ichijo finds her and prevents her from acting, allowing the twins to escape to the kitchen. There, they find Eiji, who recognizes Metry and reacts as if she were a ghost. His pajamas appear soiled by urine, and he is later seen hiding under the covers of his bed trembling.

Hitori is returned home to the Sonoyama home with celebration with Akiyama making a surprise appearance. Hitori goes to his bedroom looking gaunt, and his parents feed him cherry pie, Akiyama looking on with tears in his eyes.

## Characters

* Migi
* Dali
* Fidelite
* Eiji Ichijo
* Karen Ichijo
* Reiko Ichijo
* Akira Ichijo
* Youko Sonoyama
* Osamu Sonoyama
* Shunpei Akiyama