12 Days of Xmas Day 6: Burning Down Her Own Mansion

In Monster episode 14, Eva sends off a married businessman after a night of intimacy then notices her gardener saw him leave and knows of her dealings with numerous men so she asks him if he has the confidence to make her happy. (His wife hangs around with different men and hasn’t come home for a while.) The next day, Eva invites him out to dinner at a classy restaurant and he wakes up in the middle of the night next to her in her bed.

The day after, a drunk again Eva describes Tenma as “the man who ruined my life” and tells him he killed her father (an erroneous claim). He questions why she still displays framed pictures of him, suggests she still loves Tenma in her heart and asks if he can replace him. She falls to her knees, cackling that he shouldn’t be that confident after sleeping with her only once since she was just using him to pass the time. As he ashamedly walks out, he lets her know about the party he’s having on Christmas Day with her daughter and tells her she can come if she likes.

As the man is setting out the food for Christmas dinner, her daughter assumes that her mother is coming back home. That turns out to be the case to the man’s surprise. Eva arrives to their place later and as she is about to knock on the door, she hears giggling prompting her to look in the window. Angered by seeing the family happily enjoying themselves, her hands crush the present she brought and then burns down the hospital director’s mansion she had been living in while cursing the gardener’s work.

That short moment of destructive passion allows Eva to put her old life behind her in order to set herself on a new path, determined to find Tenma. She meets Inspector Lunge in his office the next day wanting him to redirect his focus onto pursuing him. Luckily for her, Lunge’s wife and daughter recently left him and he had been dropped from all his cases. She no longer is drinking and romancing her heartache away and is instead actively focused on tracking her former lover and making him suffer as much as she has.