Since helping Sophie with the festival, Meg has collected a lot of tears in her bottle. She is becoming overconfident since she didn’t expect collecting these many tears to be this easy. That is, until Faust forbids Meg from using magic for a day. Sure, it will make Meg’s job of filling the bottle harder, but it allows her to find the answer to the meaning of those tears.
At the start of the episode, Meg was making creepy laughs. Believe it or not, she filled the bottle faster than last time, gaining 40 years. Meg boasts about how easy it is to get them as Faust storms into her room to tell her to stop making those noises. It’s funny how her animal familiars wrote a note telling how annoying Meg is, which is quite amusing.
Meg seems amazed that an animal can write a letter. She thinks it’s the white owl as she teases it. Fause notices how many tears Meg has collected. Meg earned them by helping people, but she can’t tell why she did it as she acts conceited. That is when Faust tells her she can’t use magic for a while.
Even Fine seems to have an issue with Meg getting that many tears quickly. After all, Meg isn’t treasuring them like she did for the first couple of tears, but it’s becoming more superficial. They get into a minor disagreement as Meg is not confident she can treasure every one of them. Of course, Fine has to meet a friend and tells Meg to make up with Faust.
Eventually, Meg meets the three people out of the 40 she helped. It involves a lady whose pocket watch stopped working and a man struggling with his current job. After talking to them, Meg started to remember what she did for them, but of course, she felt conflicted as she treated them superficially compared to the first couple of people she helped. Perhaps this is why Faust told her to stop using magic, or Meg would become useless. It’s up to Meg to find the answer, which becomes obvious.
Eventually, Meg finds an old lady looking up to the stairs. Meg carried the old lady up. At least she got a nice view before the old lady mentioned that Meg was Faust’s student. She, of course, praises Meg, and she mentions that the townspeople praise her too. She thinks of this as a reward from the town of Lapis for someone who worked hard. Someone by the name of the Witch of Lapis. Does that ring a bell? Even the salaryman whom Meg helped and gave a gift to her refers her to this as he tells her to be proud of herself.
In the last fourth episode, when Sophie asks about it, Meg mentions that she has no nickname. It’s because Meg hasn’t earned a reputation for herself yet. Eventually, when Faust comes as she is looking for Meg to do the cooking, she mentions the nice nickname the townspeople gave her. It’s only when Meg remembers what Sophie said that she realizes she finally received recognition for her hard work. After receiving the nickname “The Witch of Lapis,” Meg realizes she finally has a nickname. Of course, after the credits, a lady seems interested in Meg. We’ll see why next time.
(Also known as Once Upon a Witch’s Death)
@yon Lots of interesting developments, I wonder, what do you think, besides Meg's laugh.