Nanase Haruka had a hard time choosing between Makoto and Nagisa. Makoto's voice is warm and friendly but Nagisa's vioce is upbeat and bubbly. Both voices are very attractive. Mokoto and Nagisa were watching him think, looking at him expectantly. "I can't choose between you two at all." Haruka finally stated. Both looked a little disappointed until Nagisa looked like he had an idea. "Haru-chan? Do you mind if I sing to you? I heard the legend that if a merperson sings to a human they will be drawn to the voice." "You can't honestly believe that old wives' tale." Makoto replied annoyed. Haruka heard that rumor too and wanted to know if it was factual. "Sing." Nagisa took a deep breath and started to sing:
Sekai de ichi-ban OHIME-SAMA
Sou iu atsukai KOKORO-ete
Yo ne?
Sono-ichi
Itsumo to chigau kami-gata ni kiga-tsuku koto
Sono-ni
Chanto kutsu made mirukoto, ii ne?
Sono-san
Watashi no hito-koto niwa mittsu no-
Nagisa stopped as he felt Haruka hug him tightly and start to nuzzle him. Soon after Haruka gained control of himself and staryed to blush. When he gained composure, he said "I guess what they said was true." Makoto was still in shock. "I can't believe this happened." "Why don't you prove it and sing yourself. If he clings to you, it's true. If not. either you did it wrong or Haru-chan just loves me." That got both Makoto and Haruka to glare at him. "Well, here goes nothing..."
Just be friends All we gotta do Just be friends
It's time to say goodbye Just be friends
All we gotta do Just be friends
Just be friends
Just be friends…
Ukandan da Kinou no asa hayaku ni
Wareta GURASU Kaki atsumeru youna
Kore wa ittai nandarou Kitta yubi karashitataru shizuku
Bokura wa konna koto Shitakatta no kana
Wakatteta yo Kokoro-
"Yeah it's true!" Nagisa said as he saw Haruka nuzzle Makoto. Both were blushing when it was over. Luckily Makoto remembered something."Haru-chan do you want your reward for helping me yesterday?" He then put a little ball shaped object in Haruka's hand."You didn't have to go and get me a pearl. I don't wear jewlery." Haruka said after looking at the thing in his hand. Nagisa then explained "No, Haru-chan you don't wear it you eat it. It's magic, if you eat it you will be able to live under the water with us." Haruka looked skeptical at the pearl.
"So if I eat this pearl, I can live with you forever?" Haruka asked. Makoto and Nagisa nodded and smiled. There was nothing keeping Haruka on the land. He was an only child with no contact with his parents abroad. His grandmother passed away two years ago. Haruka put the pearl in his mouth and was about to swallow when he remembered something very important. "If I go under the water, will I still be able to eat makeral. It's my favorite food." The two mermen looked like they were going to laugh. "Good one Haru-chan! Eating fish of all things!" Makoto saw that it might have been true after looking at Haruka's face. "Haru-chan, we oversee both fish and merpeople in our regions. You can't eat them." "Then what do you eat. I don't want to starve."
"We don't eat fish but we do eat the clams and oysters in the sea. Also we have seaweed and kelp." Nagisa explained. Haruka was not too pleased that he would have to change his whole diet and try totally different foods. "If I went down with you, could I come back to the surface." As much as the Cardinals were attractive and kind, there was absolutely no way he was going to stay without his favorite food.
"You could leave at any time. We wouldn't try to stop you. And you could always come back to us." Makoto assured. Nagisa agreed with him "We would be sad but we don't want you to be sad, Haruka's-chan." Haruka then decided that there would be nothing to lose if he went down with them. Haruka tilted his head back and swallowed the pearl. "I'll go with you guys, but only for a while."
"Take our hands an we'll take you to Mizukami right now." Nagisa said. Haruka reached out and took Makoto's hand with his right and Nagisa with his left. They slowly led him into the deeper water.
