Episode 8

**Final Bullet** (ファイナル・バレット *Fainaru baretto*) is the eighth episode of the anime Birdie Wing.

## Plot

The Death Match between Rose and Eve concludes, and the consequences from them resonates throughout Nafrece. The Fates of Eve, Rose, Vipère, Klein, Lily and the kids are decided.

## Summary

The Memories of Rose's past mistakes come up. The clank of the ball dropping into the hole, and the roar of celebration by a rough-looking crowd. Rose handcuffed to a bed. Her screams as her hand is cut off. Leo rushing her to the local clinic in the slums where Eve was taken. her arm is bandaged and the bleeding is stopped as Leo admonishes her. saying he saw this coming a long time ago. He excoriates her for falling in with the mob for easy money, and now she's paid the price for losing her last match. Leo tells her that she's crushed the talent he spent developing in her with her own actions, and that he wants that time back. He tells her he's through with her and that there's someone else who shows promise and he will devote his time to their development. She demands to know who it is but he refuses to tell her as he walks away.

Back in the present, Rose screams as her prosthetic arm explodes to the shock of Eve and Vipère. Rose tells them that it is the price she paid for her life in the underworld. Despite the loss, Rose insists the match continue, determined to win now more than ever. Up in the Tower, Catherine wants to call off the match with Rose down an arm, but Nicolas insists on adhering to the rules they set out, that the match continue until there's a winner. Catherine at least asks for a delay until Rose's arm can be repaired, but he also refuses that request, commadning the game continue. Although Anri is worried, Rose insists she can keep going,. Vipère explains that all of her power shots came from the prosthetic, which she no longer can utilize. Despite that, Eve recognizes that "her eyes aren't dead yet." Eve understands that Rose won't stop and both are determined to destroy the other.

Back at the bar, Lily and the grils watch as the demolition crews get closer and closer, with the crews working overtime to level the area for the casino construction to begin. Lily begs her sister to leave before they start on their block, but Klein refuses, saying that Rose assured her that Eve would return before they started tearing their home down. Klein tells her to believe in Eve coming back before it's time to go. As Rose prepares for her next shot, Vipère tells Eve not to go easy on her because she's handicapped, but Eve knows that Rose is at her most dangerous now because she's wounded. Rose recalls Leo's last words about his new protege, and her first meeting with a younger Eve, asking her to show her best shot, which she demonstrates by launching a ball at a nearby brick wall, destroying a brick with the shot. Rose offers her the opportunity to work for her, which Eve declines.

Rose remembers that the next time she saw Eve was the day she walked into her office asking for her help to take on Aoi at the Junior Championships. She tried to talk her out of it, reminding her that they were criminals who didn't live by the rules and regulations that Aoi lives under, but realized that this was the chance to get Eve away from the Underworld's grasp once and for all, setting in motion her plan that led to this match. She tells Anri to watch her shot as this might be her last one, declaring that she will win the match. Her shot launches perfectly, landing on the pin and rolling right to the hole, but at the very end, just misses falling a foot off the pin. Eve asks for her pitching wedge for her final shot, surprising Vipère, who hands her the club and steps back. Eve launched a Heavenly Red Bullet into the skies.

At the bar, the demolition crew has arrived, and Klein tells Lily and the girls to stay close as they leave the bar, As they watch the back hoe approach to destroy their home, Vipère and Eve pull up and put everyone in the car, taking off into the night. They ask where they're going, and she tells them they're heading to a hotel then wherever they want to go as she holds up a giant suitcase filled with money. At the hotel, Vipère presents everyone with new identity cards that won't be questioned, also making Klein, Lily and the girls one family. With these and the winnings, Klein buys a bar called "The White Hart" and enrolls Jessica, Emily, and Charlotte in school.

On the phone with her, Eve asks Vipère how she obtained them, and she tells her not to worry, that they were a present from her as a thank you for helping her also escape her underground life. Eve thanks her, but Vipère tells her that she should be thanking her as she hangs up. Nicolas' henchman appears with champagne and she tells him she's officially retired from golf betting, as they kiss aboard the yacht she and Eve had been looking at before the match.

Klein and Lily are poolside getting their lives in order as the girls splash in the hotel pool. Lily ponders what's next for them and Eve. Klein tells her that Eve can pursue her golf dreams now, without the shadow of the mafia hanging over her. As they talk, Eve meets up with an angry Anri, who warns her that Catherine was so mad at losing the golf match that she puts hits out on her, Eve, and Rose, and that she needs to leave the city if she wants to live, because she's running for her life as well.

Eve obtains a passport and heads to the Train station to get out of the city, and protect Klein, Lily and the kids from Catherine's wrath. Klein and Lily show up at the station after getting a call from Rose warning her, they bring Eve her things and some of the money, telling tell her to stay safe, They say their goodbyes and make her promise to come back some day as the train pulls out of the station. As she sits by the door to the train, she recalls her life with Klein, Lily, and the girls. the only family she's known for the last three years, sobbing as she remembers them.

Out on the docks, an exhausted Rose lays against a Mooring pile, recalling Eve's final shot as it arced to the pin and in the same manner that Rose tied the match on the second hole, bounced her ball off Rose's into the hole for the win. As she chuckles ruefully, Leo pulls up. She asks him what was the difference between her and Eve. Leo tells her that while she loved beating weaker players and making petty cash, Eve always strived to be a better golfer by playing up to stronger competition. She asks why he left her, and he tells her that he could only go so far with bringing out her full potential, and that when her true potential awakens, the golf world will drown in a rain of bullets from her.

As they speak, Eve is on a plane about to depart for Japan, as she recalls Aoi wanting her to promise that they would play together for real, without any special intervention. Leo tells Rose not to contact him again and drives off. Rose lights a final cigarette as Catherine's hitman arrives to finish her off. In her final moments, Rose imagines an alternate life where she conquers the golf world with Leo as her mentor and caddy. She tell Eve to "go to where the sun shines, to the world I turned my eyes from" as she is killed.

## Characters

* Eve
* Rose Aleon
* Vipère
* Anri
* Leo Millafoden
* Klein Clara
* Lily Lipman
* Catherine

## Matches

* **Eve** (w/ Vipère) vs. Rose Aleon (w/ Anri)

## Trivia

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