Sakura and her gang are at a water park, suggesting to
the audience that it's summer in Reedington. Except that it's not
Reedington because this episode wasn't originally available as a united
states or canadian dud. This means that I had to watch the alternative
dub of this, which is a version closer to the original, which comprises
of several differences from the version where the characters and
locales are given westernised names. Here, their local town is Tomoeda,
and all of the characters, apart from Sakura and Kero, are named
differently. Onward with the episode, one of Sakura's friends is having
difficulties with her locomotion in a body of water. She is unable to
even stay afloat, quickly sinking despite the human body having positive
buoyancy.
There is
one flaming point of light in her life though: Sakura. As her fellow
student and friend, the main character teaches her to swim and the
lesson goes without a hitch. The learnt ability turns out to be solid
gold. The water of the premises start reacting to Ariel's (Eli, in this
version that's how he's named) command and soon the bathers find
themselves in need of vacating the pool. Sakura's friend is the last one
behind, but since she's no longer helpless in the water, she eventually
swims her way to safety. All is well in the end, while ruby questions
Ariel/Eli about his methods of testing Sakura's spunk and problem
solving skills. The leading protagonist assures her in a way that
implies that he wouldn't let anyone come to harm if Sakura's timely
intervention proved not to be enough, but the episode doesn't give away
that card, leaving it up to the viewer to assume the goodness in the
dark-clad kid.
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