Episode 23: Love Fever

Template:Episode Details **Love Fever** (恋の微熱 Koi no Binetsu) is the twenty third episode of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch.

## Plot

A recent battle between the Mermaid Princesses and a Dark Lover has caused Kaito to catch a fever. Worried, Lucia stays at Kaito's home to nurse him back to health. Taki gives Lucia a ball that will bring her luck to nursing him.

## Summary

Lucia, Hanon and Rina are watching Kaito surfing on a Sunny day while listening to music. Lucia is impressed and believes Kaito is cool as always. Rina disagrees with Lucia and Hanon states that he is the best of their town. Suddenly the entire beach is freezing and Kaito falls spinning on the ice. He becomes unconsious.

Lucia and her friends transform into idols and spot Maria. The person who caused this mess. Lucia transfers a speech for Kaito angrily and then they sing Super Love Songs! which makes Maria freeze instead of the singing sphere of the mermaid princesses. She teleports away.

The next day at school, the trio realizes Kaito has not come to school and the reason is probably Maria's attack. Rina says that this is probably a human thing. Lucia sets out a walk to Kaito's house after school. Hanon advices Lucia not to visit him because she will probably make things worse. Rina agrees with Hanon which makes Lucia pissed.

After school, Lucia tells the girl she has all medicine he will need. Hanon repeats her advice and both goodbye Lucia. Lucia knocks Kaito's door. He asks who is it and Lucia answers it's her. He opens the door while he wears no shirt. Lucia shouts him why he is half naked. Kaito says that it is his house. Lucia tells him he should wear his clothes fully. He said he was sweating. He suddenly felt dizzy and landed on Lucia which made Lucia nervous. Inside his house, Lucia drops a towel inside a bowl of hot water and places it on Kaito's forehead. He asks him some questions ending it with what he would like to eat. He says he would like some stew. She opens his fridge but she spots nothing to make a soup.

At home, she is equipped with food she will need for his stew while singing Koi wa Nandarou. However, when Hippo checks on what she got, he notices she got too much but Lucia says he is wrong and Hippo claims Nikora will be mad if she realize she got that much food. Lucia says she won't if he covers her. When she is about to head off. Madame Taki gives her a pearl and he won;t come with her. Lucia asks what is this perl and she is said it is a crystal charm. Hippo says this crystal will not let her get along with Kaito which makes Lucia pissed. He covers it by saying they will form a love. However, Taki tells her the truth and that if she holds that pearl while she is nervous she will calm down in no time. Lucia heads off with the crystal and Hippo asks if that will be okay to do. Back to Kaito's house, Lucia is cooking his stew and she also made him a salad. She started feeling nervous when she imagined them as a couple feeding him her soup. She remembered the crystal Taki gave her and touched it. She felt more relaxed. She drops it to the bench which touches the stove. When she finally setted the table. She tells him not to be shy and eat it all. The crystall ball starts heating up that made Lucia feeding him but Kaito refuses

At the hotel, Hanon is feeding her Kura-chan and she eats. Hanon states she is cute. At Taki's room Hippo is really worried about Lucia and Taki tells him to calm down. Taki explains him the ball's magic. When the current owner is feeling mentally down, the ball shall turn red and get them up directly. When stimulated, it turns blue and cools them down. Hippo says that if Lucia is stimulated she won't confess to the surfer. Taki fixes him and says only if Lucia does not misuse it. Hippo asks Taki what she meant and why is she silent. Taki says if the crystal ball comes near a fire when cold or water when hot, the owner's feelings shall get mixed. Hippo is really shocked by that and Taki tells him that somethign like that would never happen. Hippo trust her but they are not properly correct. The ball has already touched the active stove. Lucia asks Kaito if he wants any more stew and he says he would like to take a nap. She forbids him to take a nap because she made the entire stew for him. She fills the bowl with more soup and drops the spoon to the ball. Which makes the ball drop into water with cubes. It makes Lucia sad quickly. She starts crying and saying her soup was not nice and he is just being nice. Kaito tries to cool her down. Hippo keeps saying he is worried and Taki calms him down again claiming nothing will happen. Taki tells him he should be worried abt when the crystal ball breaks. Hippo closes his eyes because he does not want to imagine what will happen next. He asks what will happen to Lucia. Taki dramatically asnwers the ball will go berserk. The crystall ball breaks and Taki's ball start glowing. Taki informs Hippo the crystal ball is destroyed. Hippo jumps shocked and the crystall ball becomes gold. Kaito asks her if she is ok and the phone starts ringing. Kaito answers it and Hippo asks him if he can talk to Lucia. Lucia takes the phone mad and tells Hippo not to annoy them more. The conversation ends here. Kaito asks who was it and Lucia says an annoying worker from their hotel. Lucia hugs him crazily and acts weird around him.

At the hotel, Hanon is having a bath and sings Ever Blue. Hippo interrupts her bath and she pours him a whole ton of water. He tells her Lucia is in great danger. He confirms she will probably confess Kaito and made Hanon worry. At Rina's house Rina is watching some comedy on TV and turns off the TV saying their comedy is boring. Her phone starts ringing and asks who is it? Hanon asks her to come with her in Kaito's house and tells her she is worried. Rina believes it is because of Lucia and she gets out of her house.

Back to Kaito's house. Kaito and Lucia head to his bed and he will sleep. Lcuai thought her soup already made him feel better. She asks him if he would liek to sing him a lullaby. He refuses. Lucia starts acting crazy again and starts crying then happy again. Hanon and Rina run to Kaito's house. They wonder what is happening to Lucia right now. Hanon spots Eriru trying to set a trap for the mermaid princesses. tehy transform into idols and ask her what is she doing. She replies she is trying to set a trap for them and realizes she betrayed herself. Lucia puts Kaito to bed and Kaito feels like his fever is getting higher. She aks him why he kissed her so many times. She talks to him about her first kiss was stolen by him and asks herself what's with her and her feelings are not controlable. Lucia says she does not care if she turns into bubbles. Lucia tried to confess him and tells him she is the one who he has been searching for. Hanon and Rina sing Legend of Mermaid which makes Eriru go crazy. She tries to tell him who she really is but she kisses him instead and faints. Hanon and Rina beat Eriru and she goes away.

The next day at school, Lucia wakes up at the nurse room and asks her self what happened to Kaito's house she remembers only up to Kaito's stew. Kaito visits Lucia at the school' hospital and tells her what happened yesterday. He said it was obivous to get sick if she pushes him down and kiss him. Lucia blushes so much and she does not remember a thing.

## Characters

* Lucia
* Hanon
* Rina
* Hippo
* Madame Taki
* Kaito
* Maria
* Kura-chan
* Eriru
* Nikora (Mentioned)

## Trivia

* This is the first episode where Hanon has a bath singing Ever Blue and then Hippo interrupts it, the other is Episode 41.
* This episode was omitted from the Hebrew dub.
* This is the first episode of the Greek dub where Super Love Songs! is sung correcly.
* In the Italian dub and Cantonese dub, scenes of Lucia pushing Kaito onto the bed and her conversation with Kaito about kissing each other were cut. Also in the Cantonese dub, Super Love Songs was replaced by two solos of Hanon.