Episode 27: The Heart That Believes

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**The Heart that Believes** (信じる心 Shinjiru Kokoro) is the twenty seventh episode of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch.

## Plot

The purple mermaid introduces herself as Caren the mermaid princess of the Antarctic Ocean and younger twin sister to Noel, whom Rina was with when she was captured. Rina then experiences a guilt trip as she remembers how she was forced to abandon her friend when Gaito attacked. The Black Beauty Sisters are introduced in this episode.

## Summary

Lucia, Hanon and Rina thanked Caren for saving them from the Dark Lovers. Lucia was happy that "*a new member would be joining their team*". But Caren told them she would not join them, she explained how she was the mermaid princess of the Antarctic Ocean and the younger sister to Noel. Rina was shocked as Noel was the mermaid that sacrificed herself to save Rina. Later, Lucia and Hanon asked Rina about Caren but Rina was very upset.

Later, Lucia and Hanon had decided to ask Hippo about Caren and Rina’s past. Hippo explained that Caren and Noel were twin mermaids, but Noel was captured and brought to Gaito’s castle and Caren became angry because of this. Rina was sitting near the shore alone and had quick flashbacks of Noel sacrificing herself for Rina’s sake and cried.

It turns out that the mermaid servants of Caren’s kingdom had somehow misinterpreted or misheard the story and told Caren that Rina had abandoned Noel and escaped to the human world. And Caren has had a hatred for Rina ever since.

Meanwhile, in Gaito’s castle, Gaito was having a conversation with two seemingly new water demons. The two of them told Gaito about *how grateful they were to finally meet him*.

Lucia and Hanon eventually found Rina near the window staring outside at the rain. Hanon tried to get more information out of Rina, but she told them to go away again. Hanon also found Tarou in the lobby playing the piano as usual. He told her that he had seen a mermaid with purple hair outside the hotel. Hanon became slightly worried that Caren might really be the mermaid from Tarou’s memories. Tarou simply joked that his story was so ridiculous that Hanon wouldn’t be able to believe him , yet Hanon disagreed and told him that she believed in his stories about mermaids. Tarou just told Hanon that he wants to be left alone for a bit and Hanon becomes more worried.

Lucia was heading to take a bath in the hotel and ran into Kaito as well, and Kaito suggested for them to take a bath together, making Lucia to panic and blush. (As she thinks Kaito’s idea of bathing together was *literally* bathing with each other. And also because Kaito would know she is a mermaid) She then found out that the baths have split sections for guys and girls. Lucia asked Kaito for advice about what to do if a friend is hurt badly but she doesn’t want to tell her anything, Kaito suggested to not force her friend to tell her what’s wrong and just try to be by her side. Lucia thanked Kaito for his advice.

After Lucia finished bathing and went back to their room, she asked Hanon about Tarou. Hanon said that both Rina and Tarou had something serious on their minds that they don’t want to talk about, and that they should try their best to make sure their feelings can reach them. Hippo panics because there was a pearl reaction shown on his pearl radar and Caren was probably nearby.

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Caren was outside of the hotel and was listening to Tarou’s piano, the two water demons showed up behind her and captured her. Rina was still outside near the shore and noticed Caren trapped in a light ball sort of cage. She was just about to jump in the water and save her, but Lucia and Hanon stopped her first and made sure she was not going alone.

In the water, the two water demons were admiring Caren and mocked her that they would use her as the bait to lure out the three other mermaids. Lucia, Hanon and Rina tried to rescue Caren and were surprised by the new water demons who introduced themselves as the Black Beauty Sisters, Sheshe and Mimi.

The trio transformed into their idol form and tried to defeat the Black Beauty Sisters but their song didn’t seem to even hurt the sisters. They were very confused and Caren just told them to escape while they still can. The Black Beauty Sisters seemed bored of their performance and said it was their turn to perform. Revealing to the mermaids that they can sing as well, they were shocked because of this and didn’t have much time to react before the Black Beauty Sisters started singing.

The Black Beauty Sisters had sang their song Kuro no Kyōsōkyoku and the mermaids began to experience immense pain and headaches. When the sisters had finished singing, the mermaids were losing strength and were almost defeated. Caren knew they would fail if she didn’t help so she threw her shell necklace containing her pearl at the mermaids, even though she had been saving the power in her pearl to save Noel. The pearl created a blinding light that distracted the Black Beauty Sisters. Caren told them to run away and she soon fainted. Rina tried to go back and rescue her but Lucia and Hanon dragged her back to the shore. Rina yelled at them to let her save Caren, but Hanon and Lucia didn’t allow her to.

When they got back to the shore, the light from Caren’s pearl was beginning to fade. Rina cried about how they didn’t save Caren and held the pearl in her hand and whimpered Caren’s name.

## Characters

* Lucia
* Hanon
* Rina
* Caren
* Hippo
* Gaito
* Sheshe (Debut)
* Mimi (Debut)
* Taro Mitsuki
* Kaito
* Noel (Mentioned, pictured)

## Trivia

* This episode marks the Black Beauty Sisters' first appearance as well as their first image song.
* In the Greek dub, Hippo incorrectly claimed that Noel is the younger of the two sisters.
* This is the first of the two episodes where Miriam Valencia voiced Noel in the Castilian Spanish dub. The other one is Episode 28.