Episode 11

**Upside-Down Woman** (さかさまの女) is the eleventh episode of the anime of *Migi and Dali*.

## Synopsis

Reiko, cornered by Migi and Dali, finally begins to speak about Metry, the mother of Migi and Dali. It turns out to be the story of their birth as well...

## Plot Summary

Following the events at the Ichijo house from Episode 10, Reiko Ichijo is downstairs talking to Migi, Dali, Eiji, and Maruta, who is videotaping her. She tells them the story of Metry. Prior to her meeting Metry, Reiko had a dream of having a happy family, and so she got a pretty house and married a doctor. Everything was perfect until they took in "that maid". Reiko is initially helpful to Metry, teaching her how to style her hair. Metry begins to see her as a big sister and wants to be perfect like her. Reiko tells Metry that will never happen for her.

Reiko later learns that she has infertility, and so she convinces Metry to sleep with her husband so that she can become pregnant by him. She dresses Metry in her own nightclothes and tries to convince her that Akira will not know that someone other than his wife is in bed with him. Akira does recognize that it is Metry and becomes infatuated by her. Metry tries to convince him that he does not need her since he already has a perfect wife, but he says that he does not want perfect, he wants her. Reiko tells them she had Eiji around the same time that Metry had twins. Eventually, Metry and the twins escaped, and when she did, Reiko was released from the curse of imperfection that Metry had put on her.

After concluding her story to the four boys, she crawls up to the second floor banister to take away Maruta's video camera. Dali holds a knife to Eiji's throat, but Reiko takes the knife away from him, cutting her palm in doing so. She tells Eiji to come to her, but Eiji pushes her away and she falls to the floor. Eiji tells Migi and Dali that he remembers the night Metry came to his window; she asked him to come home with her so that he could be with his brothers. He believes that the three of them are brothers.

In scenes from the past, Metry is seen having had triplets. At that same time, Reiko had been hiding a towel under her dress to appear as though she was pregnant. Upon favoring Eiji over the two blond twins, she drops the towel and claims Eiji as her own child. Over the years, Metry and her two remaining children are kept in the hidden room, meals given to them from below the door. Once the boys are old enough to be able to reach the door lock, they use fishbones to pick the lock.

Returning to the present, Eiji asks them where their mother is now. Dali tells him that she is dead and ought to consider his current mother, prompting Eiji to go downstairs, where he finds her in a confused state with the back of her head bleeding. He guides her away to care for her saying that they need to finish this.

The scene moves to Karen Ichijo, who is crying in her bedroom from a belly ache with her father trying to comfort her. Akita leaves the bedroom upon hearing Dali yelling at Migi; Dali does not want to accept that Eiji is their brother. Akira identifies the two boys as Hitori Sonoyama and is surprised to find that they are twins. Maruta tells Akira that he is Karen's official boyfriend.

Reiko is heard screaming and Akira and the others find her in the hidden room with blood on the wall and soaking the middle of her nightgown. She is feared dead, but Karen touches her and she jumps and leaves the room, locking the others inside. She says that she is taking Eiji somewhere else where they can start over and have a perfect life. Reiko and Eiji are seen packing bags readying to leave. Eiji stabs her in the abdomen. He then takes his suitcase, containing the figurines of the Ichijo family and sets it on fire, dropping the flaming bag into the living room.

## Characters

* Reiko Ichijo
* Dali
* Migi
* Eiji Ichijo
* Maruta Tsutsumi
* Metry *flashback*
* Karen Ichijo
* Akira Ichijo