Miguel is one of 15 young boys selected to join the ranks of Zaibach's Dragon Slayers, an elite squad of Guymelef pilots. He was captured by Freid after his guymelef was damaged during a failed ambush on Escaflowne, and was imprisoned for questioning. Zongi does so, successfully, and hypnotizes Miguel into (falsely) identifying Allen Schezar and Van Fanel as traitors conspiring to overthrow the Freid monarchy. Zongi, at this point, decides on his own that Miguel is too much of a liability to be allowed to live, and strangles him to death in the shadows of his hiding place.