Chapter Text
Kiki walks passed a yellow building and stops at a wall. She looks out over at the homes below and the ocean passed it.
Kiki is still sad about how things turned out, son Jiji suggests that they find another town. One that is friendlier. Kiki does not respond. Suddenly a woman rushes up to the wall and yells to someone down below, telling them that she forgot their pacifier.
“What’s a pacifier?” San asks.
“It’s a thing babies are given,” Lisa explains. “Its for them to suck on, for comfort.”
San is confused. “What? Why not just let them chew on a stick? That’s what my mom did with me.”
“I don’t think that’s healthy for humans to do, San,” Ashitaka says.
Kiki smiles at Osono on the screen. She will be forever thankful for what she and her husband did for her.
“That’s Osono,” Kiki tells her mom.
Kokiri’s eyes light up at the woman on the screen. Kiki spoke very fondly about her employer.
The woman with the stroller walks along, not hearing her. Osono feels sympathy for the baby, knowing that it won’t stop crying as soon as it wakes up and decides to give it back herself. She asks the people inside her bakery to wait a minute until she gets back.
“What?” Eboshi asks. “That’s just poor business. The woman will just come back when she realizes she forgot her child’s pacifier. She could just hold onto it until then. The other customers won’t appreciate having to wait for such a trivial reason and they might not come back.”
“Osono has a husband that helps her bake,” Kiki says. “And people like her because she’s a nice woman.”
Eboshi shrugs.
Osono makes her way, but Kiki offers to deliver the pacifier for her. Osono is grateful and Kiki hops on her broom with Jiji. Kiki jumps off the wall and Osono is worried, but she gasps in amazement at Kiki flying.
Kokiri is proud of her daughter for her selflessness. Tombo also smiles at the scene. Kiki is such a kind girl.
Kiki flies down and she stops in front of the woman with the carriage. The baby wakes up, crying, and Kiki gives him the pacifier. Kiki and the mother laugh.
Everyone smiles at the scene.
Back at the bakery. Osono is taking orders, and Kiki returns. She tells Kiki to come in. Kiki watches as Osono works and Osono’s husband comes in carrying a tray.
“That’s Fukuo,” Kiki says. “He’s Osono’s husband.”
“So is this when you started your delivery service?” Nausicaa asks.
“Yep.”
Kiki looks at a piece of paper and then back at the counter. Osono opens the door for her customers to leave with a loaf of bread and she tells him to come again. After they are gone, Osono tells Kiki that she thought she was dreaming for a second when Kiki first flew off.
“I guess, even in this world, some humans just aren’t used to magic,” says Haku.
“Well that old man did say it’s been a long time since there’s been one in town,” Chihiro reminds him. “And Kokiri just said that Witches still aren’t very common.”
Haku shakes his head with a slight amusement. “You humans…magic is out of your lives for a few decades and you forget it ever existed.”
Kiki gives Osono a message, telling her it’s from the mother. Osono reads it:
“Thanks for returning the pacifier. Your new delivery girl is really quite special.”
Kiki prepares to leave, but Osono wants to do something to thank her. Kiki follows Osono. As they walk, Osono explains that the bakery is downstairs while their home is upstairs. Kiki follows Osono into her home and Osono asks if she wants some hot chocolate. Kiki says “Ok”.
“What’s hot chocolate?” Arrietty asks. “I mean, I know what chocolate is. It’s a dark candy that Bean’s eat. But why would anyone wanna eat it melting? Wouldn’t that make it harder? Does she mean syrup?”
Sho laughs.
“No, it’s a drink. You take some chocolate powder and you put it in hot water or milk.”
Howl conjures up a cup and hands it to Arrietty. “Here.”
Arrietty takes the cup and drinks from it. Her eyes widen.
“Wow! This is delicious!”
Sho chuckles as Arrietty happily drinks the rest.
Osono spoons chocolate powder into two cups and then pours hot water from a kennel into them. Osono gives one cup to Kiki, who thanks her. Osono also gives a bowl of milk to Jiji.
Arrietty eyes the sugar cubes on the table.
Osono sits down with her mug and asks if she is right about her being a Witch in training. Kiki says she loves it here, but people in this town don’t seem to like Witches. Osono says it depends on the people, using herself as an example of someone who just met her and already likes her.
San nods at that. It is true, there are many types of humans. Some who are greedy and evil like Muska and Asono. Those who are still somewhat descent and can change, like (she begrudgingly admits) Eboshi, and some who are kind like Ashitaka, Sheeta, Pazu, Tombo, Kokiri, Sheeta, Howl, Markl, and Kiki. The rest…they seem nice, but she will wait until she sees their movies so she can know them better.
Osono winks at Jiji, he chokes on his milk.
The audience chuckles.
Jiji frowns.
Osono asks Kiki where she and Jiji are staying. Kiki doesn’t answer, but Osono realizes what she means. Osono tells Kiki that she can stay in the spare room in the attic. Kiki excitedly accepts and they introduce themselves to each other.
“Osono seems really nice,” Sheeta tells Kiki.
“She is. She’s really great.”
Kokiri smiles. “When we get back, I’m going to get her something nice as a thank you gift.”
Osono leads Kiki to the attic. She tells her it might need some dusting, but when she actually sees it she realizes it’s worse than she thought.
Nausicaa crunches her nose. “Yeah, no kidding.”
Osono says that if she wasn’t pregnant she would help her clean, but Kiki says she can handle it.
“You had to clean that all by yourself?” Chihiro asks.
“It was fine,” says Kiki.
“It was quaint,” Jiji says.
Kiki shakes her head. “Jiji…”
“So, did you get to see the baby?” Pazu asks. “I mean, she looks pretty far along now so I assume if this was a year ago…”
Kiki nods. “Her name is Keiko.”
“She’s really cute,” adds Tombo.
Osono tells her that the bathroom and water is downstairs and to go to her if she needs anything. Kiki thanks her and then looks around the dusty room. Jiji comments that it is quaint. Kiki uses her broom to wipe some dust off the bed. It makes a dist cloud and she coughs. Jiji looks at the prints on the ground from his paws and Kiki’s feet. He tells her that if she wakes up tomorrow and sees a white car, it is him.
Calcifer bursts out laughing.
“Oh, I like you. Kitty!”
“Why thank you, Star-Child,” Jiji says to Calcifer.
Kiki opens up a window and Kiki cheers that they can see the ocean from there. There is an announcement going off in the background, and Kiki starts to become saddened again. Jiji again asks her if they can find a new town.
“I’m glad you stayed,” Tombo says. “Uh, both of you.”
Kiki blushes. “Thank you.”
Kokiri leans into Kiki and whispers to her.
“I can tell things between you two are a bit awkward. Honestly, I’m not judging you.” Kiki frowns at her mother’s words. “You know, I acted the same way when I first met your father.”
“Me and Tombo are not…you and Dad, Mom,” Kiki says.
“That is true. But I’m going to ask you something that my mother once asked me,” Kokiri says. “Imagine another girl coming up to Tombo and flirting with him. Imagine him flirting with her. How does that make you feel?”
As soon as her mother says that, Kiki immediately feels uncomfortable, jealous, a bit angry.
‘The only girl Tombo should flirt with is me.’ Kiki’s eyes widen in realization. ‘Wait, do I…like Tombo?’
The announcement talks about an airship that might be flying over them soon. Jiji notices a white cat. She rebuffs him and Jiji calls her a snob.
Jiji smiles at the scene.
“We’re actually good now.”
“Define good,” Lisa asks, teasingly.
“They are expecting kittens,” Kiki blurts out.
Jiji is baffled. “KIKI!”
“Congratulations,” Ashitaka says to Jiji.
“Well, thank you.”
It is night. Kiki sleeps in her new bed. The moon’s light shines through, a siren goes off, and the news report is still going from her radio. Kiki tells Jiji that she won’t leave the town because she wants to find more people who will like her like Osono.
“Good for you, Kiki,” Lisa says. “No good comes from quitting just because things get a little tough. But, I think not causing traffic jams will help.”
Kiki frowns. “I got that.”
“Also, try not to spit water in people’s faces.” Souske turns to Ponyp, who sticks her tongue at him.
“Spit water?” Kiki asks.
“You’ll see,” says Souske.
“They had it coming,” says Ponyo.
Jiji is asleep and Kiki turns off her radio. Kiki goes to sleep and the scene goes black.
The next morning, a ship sails in the water and a horn goes off. Kiki turns in her sheets. Jiji moves to stay under them.
The audience chuckles.
Kiki wakes up and gets out of bed. She goes outside, runs down the stairs, and uses the restroom. A flushing sound is heard.
Kiki blushes while the rest of the room laughs.
Kiki is startled and retreats back into the bathroom as Fukuo walks by. He whistles and stretches before going into a room under the stairs. Once he is gone, Kiki runs up the stairs and back to her room. She sighs.
“Are you scared of him or something?” Pazu asks Kiki.
“No,” Kiki says. “We just didn’t really talk last night, is all. I wasn’t sure what he thought of me.”
“Kiki, if you’re going to be staying at someone’s house you should get to know all the tenants,” Sophie says, calmly.
“I know. I just…didn’t.”
Kiki counts her money on her bed and asks Jiji how much he thinks it would cost to buy a phone, saying they will need one. Kiki opens the window and spends some time brushing her hair. So much time that the sun shines brighter.
“Is it necessary to take that much time on hair?” Markl asks.
“Yes,” all the girls (except Sun) plus Howl say.
Fukuo throws logs into a fire in the oven and he and Osono prepare for the day. Osono carries trays of made bread while Fukuo puts trays of dough in the oven. Kiki barges in and says good morning. Osono asks if she slept well and Kiki offers to help carry the bread. Fukup notices Jiji and shows off by spinning trays, to Jiji’s astonishment.
“He’s not much of a talker, is he?” Pazu asks.
“No, not really?” Kiki says.
Kiki has told Osono that she intends to start a delivery service. Kiki says that right now she only has one skill, flying, so a delivery service sounds like a good idea. Osono says that sounds right. Kiki’s Flying Delivery Service, and offers to be her first account since she lives here. Kiki is excited about that and tells Osono that she was thinking about getting a phone, but she tells her not to waste her money and suggests using her phone.
“A good business practice, everyone,” Eboshi says. “Don’t waste money if you don’t have to and allocate your resources responsibly.”
Osono tells Kiki that it will take a while for her to get regular customers so she offers her a deal. Since she is expecting a baby and can use some help. If Kiki watches the store once in a while, she will let her have the room and the phone as well as a free breakfast. Kiki accepts that deal and promises to work very hard.
“So how is your service coming along?” Nausicaa asks.
“It’s great,” Kiki says. “Yeah, it took a while and there were a couple of hiccups (which you might see here) but pretty much everyone in town uses me now.”
Eboshi smiles. “Maybe if you get a couple more witches, or maybe flyboy, you can start operating throughout your…province? How much to you charge? How much to other services like you charge? What’s the price of the items you deliver? What’s the state of your economy? Those are all important things to consider.”
Kiki’s mind short-circuits. “I…”
“Now now, she’s still a bit young for that,” Kokiri says. “And she still has plenty of witchcraft to learn.”
“But maybe I could also learn some more about business too,” Kiki says.
“I could offer to help if you-” Eboshi is interrupted by Kokiri.
“No. Not you…I mean, you lived hundreds of years ago before us, and in another country. Things might be different.”
Eboshi narrows her eyes at the Witch.
Kiki tells Osono she is the greatest and runs off. Osono laughs and Fukuo winks at Jiji, who ducks his head.
Later, Kiki is seen helping out in the bakery, taking customer’s orders.
She scrubs the floor of her room and calls Jiji in when she is done. She runs out the door so that she and Jiji can go shopping. Kiki runs across the street, nearly gets hit by a car, and manages to make it to the other side.
“KIKI!” Everyone in the room shouts. Kokiri and Tombo are the loudest.
“Sorry! Sorry!”
“That’s the second time you nearly got hit by a car!” her mother scolds.
“I know, I know,” Kiki says. “It was never this dangerous back home.”
Kokiri sighs. “I know, but this town is not like home. It’s bigger. There is more traffic.”
Lisa turns to Souske and Tombo. “And that is why you would never jaywalk, kids. You put yourself in danger and have the potential to hurt others.”
Jiji scolds Kiki and Kiki says she won’t do it again, but comments that they are still alive at least. Kiki then sees a trio of girls chatting as they walk toward her. Kiki just walks passed them with an angry expression. She passes by a store window and sees her reflection. She wishes that she had something pretty to wear, calling her dress ugly.
“I know, Mom,” Kiki says before Kokiri can speak. “It’s traditional Witch dress code. I get it.”
Kokiri nods in approval.
Kiki goes to a store and browses. She looks at a frying pan and comments that it is expensive. Jiji notices a picture of a cat on a mug and calls it him.
The audience chuckles at Jiji’s antics.
“Oh hardy har har, laugh at the cat,” Jiji says. “Remember, I’m a black cat, I can give any one of you bad luck if I wanted.”
“Take it from me, everyone,” Kokiri says. “That’s just a myth.”
Jiji frowns. “Gee, thanks Kokiri.”
“Hey, where is your cat?” Ponyo asks Kokiri.
Kokiri pales. “What?”
“Kiki has a cat,” Ponyo says. “The other Witch had a cat. Where is your cat?”
Kokiri stares at Ponyo. her mouth twitches. Lisa puts her arms on Ponyo’s shoulders.
“Um, Ponyo, I don’t think that’s an appropriate thing to ask someone.”
“No, its ok,” Kokiri says. “Well, Ponyo. You need to understand that we get our cats when were young. And…they just don’t live as long as people do.”
Ponyo is confused for a moment, but then her eyes widen realizing that her cat is dead. Kiki pets Jiji and they both look down.
“Oh…I’m sorry, I didnt mean to say that,” Ponyo says.
“No, it’s fine. It happened a long time ago. Before Kiki was even born. I could have gotten another cat, but I chose not to.” Kokiri frowns. “But Kiki, I’m glad that your paying attention to how much things cost now.”
Kiki pays for her groceries and other belongings. She looks cautiously at the money in her hand. She gives the wad of cash to the person at the register and only gets a few cents and a receipt back.
Kiki leaves the store carrying her bags. Jiji asks how much money is left and Kiki says all they can afford to eat right now is pancakes.
“You really should have managed your money better,” Eboshi says. “Like a frying pan. Couldn’t you have just asked Osono if you could borrow hers?”
“I wanted to be more sufficient and not rely on her for everything,” Kiki says. “She was already letting me use her phone and spare room. I didn’t want to keep mooching off her. Besides, I knew I was going to start working soon.”
“You could have used her things until you got your first paycheck, Kiki,” Kokiri says. “You need to learn to save your money.”
Kiki sighs. “I know, Mom.”
Kiki stops by a window and looks at a pair of red shoes that got reduced in price from $13.50 to $9.88. She calls them beautiful.
Chihiro chuckles.
“A Witch, being into red shoes.”
Her parents, Lisa, Souske, and Ponyo chuckle too.
Kokiri, Kiki, Jiji, and Tombo frown. That was such a bad stereotype.
“I don’t get it,” says Sheeta.
“Me either,” says Pazu.
Nausicaa, San, Howl, Markl, Calcifer, Sophie, and Ashitaka feel the same way.
“I think she is making a joke about witches being into red shoes because of a movie,” says Haku.
“The Wizard of Oz,” says Sho. “The main villain is the Wicked Witch of the West who is after Dorothy Gale’s ruby slippers. It premiered in 1939. However, the book it was based off of was released in 1900. And in the original book, the shoes are silver, not ruby. It’s just that the Wizard of Oz was one of the first to include color instead of being a black-and-white film so they wanted to take advantage of that as much as possible. They also made the Witch of the West green.”
“Yes!” says Kokiri. “That movie caused a lot of stereotypes in our world. The Witch Council sued the studio over it. That movie also left people with the impression that Witches melt when we touch water.”
“Because in the original book, the Witch was supposed to be incredibly old so that she was basically just dust,” says Sho. “In the movie, they just had her go “I’m melting! I’m melting!” for no reason.”
Kokiri smiles. “Yes, thank you, Sho!”
“Wow, Sho,” Arrietty says. “How do you know all this?”
“I watched the movie then I read the book,” Sho explains. “I also did some research on it myself. I had plenty of time because of…you know.”
Chihiro bows apologetically.
“Sorry for stereotyping.”
Kiki and Kokiri nod in approval.
“Those shoes were pretty, though,” Kiki mutters.
Tombo and his friends are in a car being driven by a man down the street.
“That one kid is hanging off the side,” Lisa says disapprovingly. “And there are too many kids in that car in general. That is not safe.”
Tombo sees Kiki and asks his friends to pull over. When they do he calls Kiki “Witch” and asks why she isn’t flying around today. Kiki takes this as insulting her and walks away mad. Tombo calls out that he didn’t mean to insult her as his friends laugh.
Tombo puts his hands in his face and groans.
“I should have just asked her for her name.”
Pazu pats him on the back.
“It’s ok. Everyone makes mistakes.”
“You got along with Sheeta the minute you met her,” Tombo points out.
“I was also going to leave her with Muska until Dola snapped me out of it,” Pazu reminds him. “But you and Kiki seem fine now. So I can’t wait to see how that happens.”
Tombo looks at him and smiles.
Kiki returns to the bakery and Osono meets with her. She tells her that she has her first customer, making Kiki excited. She rushes upstairs and nearly trips as she places her bags on the table. She roughly takes out one item and puts it away, allowing other items to spill on the ground. She grabs her broom and rushes out.
Kiki runs into the bakery and sees a woman in a white coat. Osono introduces Kiki to her as her first customer. The woman calls her charming and Kiki tells her her name. The woman says that Osono has told her good things about her and asks if she can deliver a birthday gift for her nephew by tonight. It is a birdcage with a stuffed cat in it. Jiji says that’s him.
The audience laughs.
“Are you going to say that every time you see a black cat?” Calcifer asks.
“What?” Jiji asks. “That IS me.”
“No, it’s a black cat, period,” Tombo says amused. “All you black cats just happen to look alike.”
Kiki, Kokiri, Markl, Howl, Yakkul, San, and Jiji gasp.
“That’s racist!” Jiji shouts.
Kiki, who bought a map from the store and brought it with her, asks the woman to point on the map where her nephew’s house is. The woman does so and asks if it is too far, but Kiki says she can fly there straight from here. The woman asks how much her services cost, but Kiki says she hasn’t set a price yet. The woman gives her some money and asks if this is good. Kiki takes it and says that it is.
“How much did she give you?” Kokiri asks.
“About twenty dollars,” Kiki says.
“And what is your times/worlds equivalent to that in grains of gold?” Eboshi asks.
“It’s enough for a girl her age,” Kokiri says.
Tombo rides his bike down the street. He stops as he sees Kiki leaving the bakery with her delivery. He turns his bike around and rides toward Kiki. His butt is visible on the screen.
Tombo blushes.
“Uh, you were kinda being a stalker there,” Nausicaa points out.
“I know, I’m sorry.”
Nausicaa nods. “Good.”
He rides up to Osono who is watching her fly off. Tombo says she is the most amazing girl, and Osono agrees. Tombo asks what she can tell him about her, and Osono looks at him like “What?”.
“Yeah, I know,” Tombo says. “Creepy, stalker, should have talked to her like a person, I get it now.”
“Good,” all the girls say.
Kiki flies over the city. She flies higher and higher over the city and Jiji asks how high she will go. Kiki justifies that she doesn’t want to be stopped by that traffic cop on her first delivery and takes out her map. An airplane flies under them and Jiji tells her not to look down. Kiki looks at her map and pinpoints the house of the woman’s nephew. It is just passed the cape. She places the map back in her shirt and drops herself lower before flying.
Ponyo laughs.
“That looks fun!”
Haku smirks. “It is.”
“Yep,” says Nausicaa. “Hey, do you guys wanna have a race when this movie is over?”
“Yeah!” Kiki yells.
Haku shrugs.
Kiki says she is beginning to like this town more and more, but Jiji says he is getting sick to his stomach.
Kiki continues to fly over the city. She sees a flock of wild geese and they fly over her. Kiki flies around them.
“Careful,” Sho says. “Their wings are strong and geese can be pretty aggressive.”
“What he said,” says San.
“Don’t worry, I was fine,” says Kiki.
Kiki says “Hi” to them, but the geese just honk loudly.
San and Yakul tense up, knowing what that means.’
‘Oh Shishigami,’ San thinks. ‘This poor girl can't catch a break.’
Kiki thinks they are upset, but Jiji translates and says that a gust of wind is coming and to fly higher.
Kokiri’s eyes widen.
“Wind?”
The wind suddenly blows all the geese away, breaking their V. The wind also hits Kiki and she holds onto her broom by its handle.
“Kiki!”
“I’m fine!” Kiki shouts. “And alive. Also, I made my delivery. It was a minor inconvenience.”
Haku nods. “Wind can be a hassle.”
The wind causes the cage with the gift to drop. Kiki gets back on her broom and flies after it. She catches the cage before it hits the ground but also hits the trees as a result.
Everyone cringes and Kiki buries her face in her hands.
In the tree, Kiki has been saved by a bunch of branches, and a bird caws angrily at her. Kiki realizes that she almost hit the bird’s nest and tries to apologize, but the bird attacks her with its talons. Kiki flies away but the bird continues to chase after her. Kiki tries to say she wasn’t trying to steal her eggs, but the bird doesn’t listen.
“Wow, that is one aggressive mama bird,” says Tombo.
Kiki nods.
The bird finally leaves her alone, and Jiji says that what happened was her own fault since she didn’t listen to the geese. Kiki looks up in amazement at them, but Jiji point’s out that the toy fell out.
“Ok, that’s a problem,” Aiko says.
“I would not pay for that delivery,” says Yuko.
Kokiri glares at the two.
“I mean…I’m sure Kiki will do better,” says Yuko.
Kiki flies back to the trees but all the birds fly out. Jiji comments that they are calling her an egg stealer and says that he wouldn’t go back down if he was her. But Kiki says that they have to. The birds all ambush Kiki and bite apart her broom. Kiki shoos them away with the cage and manages to fly away from them.
Howl goes “tsk-tsk-tsk. What a shame.”
Jiji calls this an insult, recalling that there was once a time when crows served Witches but Kiki reminds him that was a long time ago. Jiji suggests that they go in when it gets dark, but Kiki says that means they won’t be able to make the delivery in time.
“Just have Jiji explain that you just want to get a toy back,” Sheeta says.
“They wouldn’t have listened,” Jiji says.
“Just out of curiosity, why DON’T crows obey Witches anymore?” Sophie asks.
“Oh, they were being mistreated so they unionized and revolted,” Howl says.
Everyone except Haku looks at the witches and wizard in the room confused.
Kiki decided to buy some time by having Jiji replace the toy until she can find the real one.
The audience laughs.
“Did that actually work?” Pazu asks.
“More or less,” says Kiki.
Kiki tells Jiji not to move (or breathe). She flies down to the house and a boy runs up to the door. He takes the cage from Kiki, knowing it is his gift from his aunt. But he is unimpressed when he sees Jiji/the cat toy inside and says it is dumb. He shakes the cage, to Kiki’s concern, and runs off.
“My condolences, Jiji,” San says.
“Thank you, San.”
The boys mother notes that Kiki was late. Kiki apologizes and asks for her signature. The boy asks if he can put the canary in the cage, and the mom says not to let them fly out. Kiki flies away as fast as possible to find the real toy.
Jiji, still pretending to be a toy, hits the ground. The boy tries to grab the bird and put it in a cage and Jiji gets nervous when he notices the big dog and begs Kiki to hurry. The dog wakes up.
“Ok, on a scale of one to ten, how bad was this?” Aiko asks.
“What’s one?” Jiji asks.
“Good.”
“Ah, then I would give it a three.”
Kiki flies back to the forest and looks around on foot. She knows that she hit the trees close by so it has to be there somewhere. Kiki comes across a cabin in the woods and she gasps as she sees the toy in the window.
“And now Kiki has to figure out how to get it back from some crazy loner who lives in the woods,” muses Aiko.
“No, it was fine,” Kiki says. “Ursula was nice.”
Kiki calls out to the owner of the house and finds a lot of art supplies. Kiki calls again if there was anyone there, and the person (Ursula) shouts that she is on the roof and tells Kiki to come up. Kiki climbs the ladder and sees her drawing the crows. Ursula asks Kiki what she wants and Kiki says she needs the cat toy back. Ursula is more focused on drawing the crows, telling them to hold still. She asks Kiki why it was in the forest and Kiki says that is where she dropped it and asks, again, if she can have it back. Ursula is set on finishing the drawing.
“Lady I was in big trouble there!” Jiji shouts.
“Don’t worry,” Kiki says. “I told her and she helped right away,” Kiki says.
“Then why did it still take so long for you to get there?” Jiji asks.
“Uhhh…well….”
Ursula goes back into the house, having been told by Kiki why she needs it in such a hurry. She gives Kiki the toy back, but Kiki sees that the head is falling off (due to the crows).
Jiji slumps.
“Oh.”
“So I take it you had to give the money back?” Eboshi asks Kiki.
“No, Ursula just sowed it back on.”
Kiki says she can’t deliver it like this and Ursula works out a deal.
As Ursula sows the cat’s head back on, Kiki scrubs her floor. Ursula muses that being on her own at thirteen is exciting. She says it’s impressive that Kiki is completely independent at such a young age and a Witch. Kiki asks how it’s going and Ursula promises that it will be as good as new.
Back at the boys house, the canary is in the new cage and the boy is told by his mother to turn off the TV and take a bath. But the boy is mesmerized. He doesn’t listen, even when his mom tells him his guests will be here soon for his birthday. He still doesn’t listen, until his mom raises her voice.
Chihiro and Lisa roll their eyes, remembering when Chihiro, Ponyo, and Souske were like that. Although Souske was more into reading books than cartoons.
The boy turns off the TV and rushes to the bath. Jiji continues to lay there, motionless as the dog awakens.
Everyone (except Kiki and Jiji) looks at the screen with worry, afraid of what might happen to Jiji. Historically cats and dogs have a bit of an issue with each other.
Jiji sweats in nervousness and the dog sniffs then licks him before curling around him.
It becomes dark and Ursula finally says she is done. Kiki runs out of the house and thanks her. Ursula says she better gets Jiji before it’s too late. Kiki tells her she hasn’t finished inside yet, but Ursula says she has done enough and encourages her to go.
Kiki looks down. And then she looks over at Sheeta and Pazu.
“Kiki, what is it?” Sheeta asks.
“How did you two do it?” Kiki asks. “Living on your own at such a young age without any mistakes.”
Sheeta giggles. “Who said there were no mistakes?”
“It was trial and error, just like you,” Pazu reassures. “You are doing fine.”
Kiki smiles at them.
Kiki tells Ursula thanks again before flying off. At the boys house, he is having dinner with his relatives. The boy jokes that the dog loves the toy more than him. The mom says that he won’t leave the stuffed cat alone.
The dog takes Jiji to the front door as the relatives talk about how the dog is old and how the boy needs to send his aunt a thank-you note. The mom tells her son to open the door for the dog, and the boy tells him to close the door when he is done before going back to his party.
The dog goes outside, carrying Jiji. The dog drops Jiji and he runs into Kiki’s arms (who emerges from behind a car). Jiji tells Kiki that the dog helped him escape and says they can just give him the toy. Kiki gives the dog the toy and the dog goes back inside the house, closing the door behind him.
“Wow, animals are a lot smarter than I gave them credit for,” says Eboshi.
“Now, don’t forget to have your first customer write a review so more people hire you,” Aiko says.
“This has already happened to me,” Kiki reminds him.
“Oh, yeah.”