Me: Everyone! It was my birthday yesterday!

Hanon: How did it go?

Me: Good, we went to an escape room.

Monika: Can you talk about your story?

Me: Oh yeah. I also had to write a short story for English today. But that's besides the point. JSYK, when dialog is in japanese quotation marks, the character is speaking English instead of translated Japanese. For short hand, in the songs, I'll just use the character's initials, since each letter is the initials of only one pearl. The link is document/d/15CDrnlGGdZefnnKa7_XRaqJck7cPTn5vWbb0SHBhr1Q/e. Pichi Pichi Voice Live Start!


(Xuffie places down the X Crystal, ready to start the recap. An interface shone out of it)

Xuffie: Xuffie's log. Week 4. Masahiro asked Rina out on a rendezvous. However, at that time, Rina didn't know about his connection to the Awami Cave, a cave of a legend. When Rina finally found out, they stayed at the cave before being attacked by Kiha and Lanhua. Luckily, Masahiro also had an idol forme when with Rina. Now we got 11 pearls! I wonder where the twelfth pearl is.

(The screen faded to black)

A girl was studying the Prophecy of the Pearls. She looked at a navy blue pearl she found and she had a thought. She looked at a calendar. The day is marked January 1st. She got out a map of the ocean currents. She studied it for a few seconds and traced out what you would assume was a path. She did the math on what you would assume was the time it would take for something to drift along the path. She got out a piece of paper and drew what you would assume was a map. She grabbed a bottle and put the piece of paper in it. She left her house to go to a nearby river. She dropped the bottle in the river. She smiled.

Intro

Lucia, Hanon and Rina were at the beach. "It's such great weather today! The ocean air feels so good." said Lucia, "But I'm still kinda bored." "Typical Lucia. She's totally bored with the turn of spring." said Rina. "Not to mention that she wants to be with Kaito-kun." said Hanon. "Hey!" said someone. It was Seira! "Don't forget about me!" she said. "And us!" said Hippo and Yuuri. "I'm also here!" said Mikaru. "Oh! Hey!" said Hanon. "I wonder where Xuffie is?" said Lucia. "Xuffie is recording a database." said Mikaru. "Yoshino and Emi are background characters so we don't have to worry about them" said Hanon. "Where's Zoe-san?" said Hippo. "Zoe is participating in a go-kart derby" said Lucia. "She must like riding her go-kart around" said Rina. "Hey, what's that?" said Seira. The seven of them went to pick it up. "It's a message in a bottle" said Rina. Lucia got it out. "It's a map!" she said. The map showed a picture of Britain with the letter E pinpointing London. "What does this mean?" said Yuuri. "Let's take it to Xuffie." said Lucia, "She knows lots of stuff!"

Episode 5: Expect quirky klutz: Navy blue in London! Fun and games with japes

Lucia walked up to Xuffie. "Hey Xuffie." she said, "We found this while we were at the beach and we were wondering if you know what this is." She gave the map to Xuffie. Xuffie studied it. "It looks like a map to another pearl!" she said. "The twelfth pearl?" said Seira. "It's in Britain?" said Rina. Xuffie touched the X Crystal, and a map of Britain appeared out of it. She overlayed the piece of paper over the X Crystal map. "It's in London!" said Xuffie. "London? Where's that?" said Lucia. "It's the capital of England.'' said Mikaru, "England is a country in Britain." "What's the difference between England and Britain?" asked Hanon. "England is part of Great Britain, which in turn, is part of the United Kingdom." explained Xuffie, "Britain plus Ireland plus the islands around it equals the British Isles." "Then it's settled! We're going to Britain!" said Yuuri. "I'll go tell Karen-san!" said Hippo. He left. "Actually, I have a confession." said Lucia, "I don't know how to speak English" "You don't?" said Seira, "Your ocean borders America!" "It's a long way there!" said Lucia, "My ocean is one of the biggest!" "And England is much farther" said Hanon, "I guess we would have to go on a plane" "I never been on a plane!" said Rina. "Me neither!" said Lucia. Just then, Hippo came in, soaking wet. "Let me guess, Karen was in the bath" said Rina. Hippo nodded. "Karen-san is just coming in now" said Hippo. "I was wondering. In the last scene, you were in your swimsuit, but now you are in your regular clothes." said Xuffie. "Oh, we changed our clothes offscreen" said Hanon. "What are you talking about?" said Nikora. "Onee-chan!" said Lucia, "Let's go to England!" "Well, if you want to, then okay" said Nikora, "Rina, please don't hold onto that knife" Rina threw it away, which was a bad move because it stabbed Hanon. "Rina! You killed Hanon!" said Lucia. "It was an accident!" said Rina. "You obviously don't know how to throw a knife" said Hanon. "Hanon! I thought you were dead!" said Seira. "I have a recovery center remember?" said Hanon. "Oh, right." said Seira. "None of you should be throwing knives anyway" said Nikora. "Sorry" said Rina.

The next day, the Mermaid Princesses, Masahiro, Xuffie, Yoshino, Emi, Zoe, Mikaru, Hippo and Yuuri (and also Nikora and Rihito) were at the airport. "I still think we should've used my X Crystal" said Xuffie. "Me too." said Yuuri, "I'm scared of flying!" "Don't worry, it'll be fine" said Hippo. "The flight is going to be 12 hours long." said Xuffie. "I'm okay with that. I got a textbook inside my light novel." said Noel. "Besides, I could just sleep throughout the trip." said Mikaru. The intercom started speaking. "This is the final boarding call for Flight JAL 43 to London. Please proceed to Gate 5 immediately." "That's our flight." said Xuffie. The 17 of them left. When they got on the plane, Lucia sat next to Hanon. "I bought this for you." said Hanon. She gave Lucia a English-Japanese Dictionary. "Although, I already know English" said Hanon. "You do?" said Lucia. 「It's one of the three languages I speak fluently!」said Hanon, in English. Lucia stood there in confusion. "What I meant is "It's one of the three languages I speak fluently!"." said Hanon. "So you're trilingual." said Lucia, "What's that other language you're fluent in?" "Portuguese" said Hanon. "Oh, can I hear you speak it?" said Lucia. "Estou falando portugues agora" said Hanon, in Portuguese. "Wow! That's so cool!" said Lucia. Pause. "I'm bored." said Lucia. "There are video games on the TV" said Hanon.

Twelve hours later, they arrived at the airport. "Here we are!" said Hanon. "This looks so amazing!" said Rina. "Uh, how am I supposed to know which bathroom is which?" said Seira. "Welp, I guess I have to take Seira to the toilet most of the time" said Hanon, "And Lucia" "Okay, so what now?" said Karen. "Nikora, Rihito, is it okay if we walk around the city for a bit?" said Xuffie. ["Sure." said Nikora. "I'm okay with that" said Rihito.] The Mermaid Princesses, Masahiro, Xuffie, Yoshino and Zoe left. Well, they were about to until Mikaru said, "I want to go with you!". "Fine, you can" said Rina. So later, the 12 of them were walking around London. "Wait, does anyone know where this pearl actually is?" said Karen. "I have no idea." said Seira. "Where even are we?" said Mikaru. "It feels like we're walking around in circles on a ferris wheel" said Hanon. The camera zoomed out to show that they are in fact walking around in circles on a ferris wheel. "How did we even get up here!?" said Coco. "My bad!" said Xuffie. "I have no sense of direction whatsoever!" said Lucia. "Well we better get off here" said Rina. "T+0. Longitude+0. Latitude+0. Altitude-67.5m" said Xuffie. The twelve of them teleported in the river below. "Okay, that was weird" said Hanon. "Mikaru, why aren't you drowning?" said Yoshino. "I'm part Panthalassa." said Mikaru, "Or at least, my past life is" "I should say the same for you." she added, "Why do you have a mermaid forme?" "Hey, there's something on the back of the map." said Hanon. They took out the map and turned it over. "It's written in hydrophobic material!" said Xuffie, "The message can't get wet" "But the paper itself can" said Noel. "What does it say?" said Mikaru. "75 Uapams Street" said Xuffie, "It's an address." "You see, in most other parts of the world, all streets are named." explained Noel. "Looks like we have to go to that address" said Lucia.

They went to the said address. "We have the address. Couldn't we just teleport there?" said Mikaru. "It had an address, not coordinates" said Xuffie. Lucia rang the bell. A red haired woman answered the door. "Sheshe?" said Rina. "Oh hey!" said Sheshe, "What are you doing here? Did you come for the funeral?" "What's a funeral?" said Hanon. Rina whispered to Hanon. "Oh, whose is it?" said Hanon. "It's… Sister Mimi" said Sheshe. "Oh no! Sorry for your loss" said Noel, "How did she die?" "She got killed by a haunted raping arsonist" said Sheshe. "What's an arsonist?" said Mikaru. "What's rape?" said Seira. "What's a ghost?" said Coco. "I don't sense an extra pearl reaction" said Xuffie. "So, you're not a pearl" said Rina. "No I'm not" said Sheshe. "So this is not an address?" said Lucia. "Lucia, you're holding that upside down" said Sheshe. "Wait, what?" said Lucia. Lucia turned the map upside down. "Everyone! The pearl isn't at 75 Uapams Street." said Lucia, "It's at 75 Sweden Street!" "Sorry, wrong address" said Xuffie. "It's okay. I have to prepare for the funeral" said Sheshe. "Don't water demons turn into bubbles after they die?" said Xuffie. "I know. It's a funeral without a corpse" said Sheshe. "Okay, bye!" said Hanon. The pearls plus Mikaru left.

Later, they reached the house. "The pearl should be somewhere around here" said Xuffie. "Okay" said Lucia, "Here we g-" Just then, the door opened. The girl who opened the door has a pink headband and chestnut-brown hair. She was wearing an English school uniform and a navy blue shell necklace. 「Hello. My name is Ema.」she said. "What did she say?" said Lucia. "She said that her name is Ema." said Hanon. 「My name is Lucia」said Lucia. ("Is that how you say it?") 「You don't understand English, huh?」said Ema. Lucia took out the dictionary and tried to translate what Ema said. Responding to what she badly translated, Lucia said, 「ジャパニーズ・スピーク・シング・キャン」 Ema took the dictionary and tried to respond. "Moshi anata desu kokoromiru ni tazuneru moshi watashi no nihongo desu yoi, sorekara iie." "They have no experience in each other's languages whatsoever" said Rina. "Clearly they need an interpreter" said Xuffie. "I can do it!" said Hanon. An anvil fell on her. "Well isn't that just great" said Seira.

Eyecatch: Ema

"Well without Hanon, who's going to be the interpreter?" said Zoe. "I can speak English" said Rina. "So can I" said Masahiro. "And my X Crystal has a built-in translator" said Xuffie, "It activates with the word cat." The X Crystal shone slightly. "Now you could all understand what they're saying" said Xuffie. 「So, have you heard about the Prophecy of the Pearls?」said Rina.「Yes, I have. I sent a message in a bottle because of it.」said Ema.「Well we got that message in a bottle.」said Masahiro. 「And it told you to go here.」said Ema. 「Yes. We're eleven of the pearls, not counting Michal of course.」said Masahiro. 「So I'm the twelfth.」said Ema. "Is it weird how we're literally reading off the subtitles?" said Karen. "Well many of our overseas fans do that" said Noel. "Shut up!" said Seira. 「You're the navy pearl.」said Masahiro. 「Apparently I am」said Ema.「Keep in mind that the transformation phrases are in English so you can understand.」said Rina. 「That's so convenient」said Ema. 「So there's this guy who wishes defeat for everyone」said Masahiro. 「And nineteen pearls must join together to defeat him.」said Ema. 「Twenty-six. It doesn't count the Mermaid Princesses」corrected Rina. 「One for every sea, right?」said Ema. 「Exactly」said Rina. 「Why don't you stay at my house for today.」said Ema. "She wants us to stay at her house, right?" said Lucia. "Yeah." said Rina. "I'll just call Onee-chan to see if it's alright" said Lucia.

After an agreement from Nikora, the pearls went inside Ema's house. "Wow! This looks so nice" said Lucia. 「My parents died when I was little, so I live alone with my cat」said Ema. The X Crystal shone. 「You shouldn't have said that」said Rina, 「The word cat turns off the X Crystal interpreter」The X Crystal shone and the translator turned back on.「So there's only 25 pearls now」said Ema. 「No, still 26. Hanon built a machine that can bring her back from the dead.」said Rina. 「You haven't introduced yourselves yet.」said Ema. 「Oh. My name is Rina」said Rina. 「My name is Masahiro」said Masahiro. 「The purple haired girl is Caren. With a C」said Rina. "It's spelt with a K now" said Karen. 「The dark blue haired girl is her twin sister, Noel.」said Masahiro, 「Then there's Coco and Seira.」 "Where is Coco?" said Rina. "Apparently, she forgot to go pee at the airport." said Yoshino. "Really? She couldn't use a public bathroom?" said Noel. "Well, the signs were in English so she wouldn't be able to figure out which is which." said Xuffie. 「You haven't told me your name yet.」said Ema. "My name is Xuffie" said Xuffie. 「Your name is Xuffie, right?」said Ema. Xuffie nodded. "Good job. You can read the subtitles." said Xuffie. 「The backwards text?」said Ema. "It's text that only the twenty-six pearls can read." said Xuffie. "Then how can I read it?" said Mikaru. "And the ones who help the pearls" said Xuffie. 「I'm Zoe」said Zoe, 「That girl is Yoshino」 "Zoe, you can speak english?" said Lucia. "I wonder why you can't, itoko-chan." said Coco. "I have a condition where whenever I get struck by lightning, I become fluent in English, but forget Japanese." said Lucia. "You were speaking English for a month last time" said Zoe. "So you can only understand one of those languages at a time?" said Noel. "That's basically it." said Lucia. A bengal cat walked up. 「Oh! Everyone, this is my pet, Kitty」said Ema. Kitty meowed. "She's so cute!" said Coco.

"Okay, that's 12 pearls down, fourteen to go." said Lucia. Rina walked towards a map. 「Ema, what's this?」she said. 「I've been studying the prophecy for a while.」said Ema, 「I also know about mermaid mythology.」「Mermaids, huh?」said Rina. 「I figured if the mermaids read the note underwater, they would find my address and find my pearl.」said Ema, 「You're mermaids right.」「Not all of us.」said Rina, 「Xuffie is a time spirit from the future and Yoshino is a human who is the reincarnation of a mermaid.」「Michal is the daughter of a member of the Panthalassa clan.」said Masahiro. 「I heard that when the Panthalassa prince died, one of the Mermaid Princesses wanted to die with him.」said Ema. 「That was Seira's past life.」said Rina. 「I'm confused. Why is Seira a mermaid, but Yoshino isn't?」said Ema. "My past life can't reincarnate into a mermaid because her pearl is broken." said Yoshino. "As long as we don't say the english word for "neko", then there isn't a language barrier" said Xuffie. "So that's what "cat" means?" said Lucia. The X Crystal translator turned off. Xuffie sighed, then said, "Cat" The translator turned back on. "Okay, when Hanon, Rina or Masahiro isn't here, nobody must say cat" said Xuffie. The translator turned off. Xuffie facepalmed. "Cat" she said again. The translator turned on again. "I wish Hanon was here" said Noel. "Don't worry, she'll be here in three days" said Xuffie. "Can't you teleport her here?" said Mikaru. "No, I can't teleport someone who is not next to me" said Xuffie. "I guess that makes sense" said Lucia. "Well, I guess we'll have to wait." said Zoe. Awkward silence.「So, is there anything we could do here?」said Rina. 「There's an ice cream store near here. I usually go there in my spare time」said Ema. 「Then let's go」said Masahiro. Ema, Rina and Masahiro left.

Three days later, the Pearls were at the Shakespeare's Globe theatre. "I wish Hanon was here with us." said Rina. "Yeah me too" said Lucia, "But let's just enjoy ourselves for now" "Hanon's going to want to do all the things we've done while she is away" said Noel, "Personally, I liked the British museum the most." "I liked Regent's Park more." said Seira. The curtains closed. "Oh! An intermission" said Rina. "Let's go get some ice cream." said Lucia. "Okay." said Seira. Just then, they heard the sound of a portal opening. "Oh no! It's Kiha!" said Xuffie. "Let's go!" said Noel. The 11 pearls left. "Pink Pearl Voice!" "Green Pearl Voice!" "Purple Pearl Voice!" "Aiiro Pearl Voice!" "Yellow Pearl Voice!" "Orange Pearl Voice!" "White Pearl Voice!" "Red Pearl Voice!" "Sakura Pearl Voice!" 「Navy Pearl Voice!」 Ema's idol forme has a long ruffled navy blue dress and red and white bracelets on her arms. The eleven of them went up to Kiha and Lanhua. "So you finally came" said Lanhua. 「So this is Kiha and Lanhua」said Ema. Rina nodded. 「Kiha has a raygun which can remove people from existence and Lanhua can make anyone dance.」she said. 「That doesn't sound so bad」said Ema. "You know I can understand you two!" said Lanhua, "I can do more than that" "Rina's right. The worst your songs can do is stun" said Noel. "How dare you ridicule me!" said Lanhua. Lanhua threw her sensu at the pearls. They all dodged. "Kiha-sama! Attack them!" said Lanhua. "First, I'll make sure they won't resist." said Kiha. He threw a double boomerang at the pearls. The pearls dodged. "Ugh! Stay still!" shouted Kiha. He threw the boomerang again. Xuffie caught it with her X Crystal Microphone. "Give it back!" said Kiha. Xuffie threw it next to Kiha so it will hit him from behind. Kiha opened a portal to make the boomerang dodge him and aim at the pearls. They dodged. Lanhua threw the sensu again. The pearls dodged. "Oh, tired already?" said Kiha. Kiha got out his K Destroyer. Just then, "Mizuiro Pearl Voice!" It was Hanon! "Hanon! You're back!" said Lucia. "Missed me?" said Hanon. "Dammit! It's that mizuiro baka!" said Kiha. "I may be a mizuiro baka, but I can outsmart you with the element of surprise!" said Hanon. "And how are you planning on surprising me?" said Kiha. "Observe" said Hanon, "Pichi Pichi Voice Live Start!"

Oto tatezu ni iro kaeteku
Rainbow colours pass by, slowly making my heart feel happy
Unlocking mysteries in my memories

Mas mais para além do mar alguém partilha essa dor
Hora dareka ga naiteiru ki ga shite("Why does this have more effect!" cried Kiha. "I don't know!" said Lanhua.)
And their heart is filled with so much crying pain

Eu suplico ajuda-me
Nanika ga shiraseru destiny
I want all the pain to depart
Sempre me conseguiram guiar!

Sore wa EBAA-BURUU kagayaku
Protecting all the love surrounding me(Kiha and Lanhua continued to struggle.)
Vou reunir, o meu poder
Para o futuro hoje proteger!

(HLRKNCS)Aisubeki hito ga ite
(HMXZ)Aisubeki basho ga aru
(HE)So if you stand by my side("Let's retreat for today." said Kiha. They disappeared)
(HLRMKNCSXYZE)Os sentimentos mais puros que eu posso ter!

"Pretty Sugar Pitch!" "How about an encore!"

Credits

That night, Lucia and Rina were talking in a hotel building. "After all that, I still can't speak English" said Lucia. "Yeah, I had to be your interpreter" said Rina. "But I'm getting better." said Lucia, "I can practically say an entire sentence" "Hey, what if I remember some things, then write down their names in English the next time I get struck by lightning" she said. "So when you start speaking Japanese again, you can remember the list of words and know what they are called in English." said Rina. "Maybe I can write the Japanese words first so I can speak Japanese even when I get struck by lightning" said Lucia. "That's a great idea." said Rina, "Although the chances of getting struck by lightning twice is low." "Maybe Hanon can make a lightning bolt for me so I can shock myself any time." said Lucia. "You may not look like it, but you can think of good ideas" said Rina. "Tomorrow is the day we go back." said Lucia. "Yeah." said Rina. "We might not see Ema for a while" said Lucia, "We need her. She's one of the pearls" Rina thought about it. "I got Ema's phone number." said Rina, "Want to call her and ask her to come with us?" Lucia nodded.