Dying Flowers Look Up at the Birds

Dying Flowers Look Up at the Birds (Ikinone Haru Hana wa Tori wo Aogu, 息の根はる花は鳥を仰ぐ) is the sixth episode of the Somali and the Forest Spirit anime series.

Overview
Uzoi does not follow through with her attempt to kill Somali. Haitoru reveals the true background behind meeting and raising her. Electing to die to atone for what he done, Uzoi saves him and wants him to live.

Characters

 * Somali
 * Uzoi
 * Golem
 * Haitora

Summary
Golem asks Haitora to explain his circumstances. Travelling with Uzoi they could not find any answers until a fortune teller told them that only new blood could cure corrupted blood. Uzoi must have remembered this hence why she means to murder Somali.

Shouting out, she manages to repel Uzoi due to her enhanced hearing and Somali runs having promised to stay with her dad forever. Caught, she staggers back and falls into the stream. Uzoi rescues her and they sit silently together before Uzoi apologizes and explains how Haitora is human.

Golem arrives and Uzoi tearfully states she wanted to be with Haitora forever.

Haitora reveals details of his past, how he lived with his family before his village was attacked by 'grotesques'. His comrades and daughters friends were caught and people who resisted had their limbs cut off, or devoured on the spot.

During this past event, taking refuge in a cave in the forest, Haitora decided to head outside out of necessity. Finding Uzoi's mother, he killed her and had to become like them where they had to eat her to survive. His wife and daughter consuming the flesh caused them to turn into feathered beings and pass away from the transformation.

Haitora was found by the young Uzoi but presently does not feel he deserves to be her family. Uzoi has overheard this and feels he has been lying to her the whole time.

As they continue travelling through the desert, they happen across a dragon twister. Uzoi and Somali are blown away, with Golem assessing they must wait until they are able to follow them.

Somali raises what Uzoi said, that family based on a lie cannot become real, but love is never a lie. Golem says that Haitora must face the person to whom he owes atonement, even if this deepens the scars.

He then locates Somali and Uzoi who are being chased by a canterbird. Although Golem opts to be the decoy, Haitora uses himself and draws the creatures attention. He considers after raising Uzoi, that the only way to atone was to risk his life for hers. He trips in the sand and as he lays having accepted this is fine, Uzoi appears to slice the canterbird's tendrils away from Haitora. Golem's flare results in it flying off.

Angrily telling him not to die to get out of this, Uzoi wants to know why he stayed with her all this time and did he not realize she might kill him if she learned the truth. Replying that he didn't care, Haitora tells her she is the only thing he lives for and would have given up his life anytime she asked for it. Uzoi tells him to survive, to stop thinking that he needs to die to make it right.