Ryuunosuke invites Lum, Shinobu, Ataru, and Shuutarou to an island her father bought for 300 yen and where they now run their beach café. After a shift Ryuu takes a bath and senses someone snooping, but when she tosses a bucket, it’s at a girl she’s never seen holding a bunch of sea urchins. The bucket goes right through her and she vanishes into thin air.
This girl turns out to be Shiowatari Nagisa (voiced by Murase Ayumu), the only child of Ryuu’s dad’s best friend. They both became ghosts after eating too much sea urchin shaved ice. Before that, both her father and Ryuu’s promised to marry them together, making Nagisa Ryuu’s fiancée. Ryuu, being straight, doesn’t want to marry a girl, but every time she tries to tell Nagisa she’s actually a woman she’s interrupted.
Eventually Ryuu’s dad knocks her out and lets Nagisa kiss her, only for Nagisa’s ghost head to go right through Ryuu’s. It looks like Nagisa will remain a ghost forever, but her dad brings up an oddly convenient legend of a giant sea urchin laying its eggs by the light of the full moon and tearing up due to the pain. When Nagisa touches that urchin’s tears, she assumes physical form.
Nagisa uses her new solidity to chase Ryuu down and wall slam, her, leading Ryuu to finally lift up her shirt to show her that she’s a woman. But that doesn’t matter to Nagisa, and when she leans in for a kiss, Ryuu feels her chest, and … it’s the chest of man. Just as Ryuu is a girl raised as a boy, Nagisa is a boy raised as a girl! Not only that, he maintains his solid form even when morning comes, so another appearance down the road is likely.
Having an opposite of Ryuu makes me wonder: what if there was an opposite Shuutarou, who was afraid of light and wide open spaces? An opposite of Ataru, who was a perfect gentleman? That aside, the slighter second part of the episode involves Ten meeting a fairy who will make his dream come true if he finds his magic parasol.
After quite a bit of flying around, Ten ends up with the parasol, but the fairy was speaking literally, and ends up making Ten’s most recent dream—a chaotic nightmare involving dragons, a city aflame and a giant leg—a reality, trashing the Moroboshi home for the umpteenth time. The moral is, be careful which magical creatures you help!
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