Class 4-3 decides on what they're going to do for the school festival: a chorus number with lyrics written by Misao, who will also being playing the piano. However, Sasami knows that Misao still wants to see her father, Shigeki, who had to leave Japan again before they could reunite. Thus, it's up to Pretty Sammy to bring him back so he can see his daughter perform at the festival.
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At school, class representative Eimi is getting rather frustrated at the fact that 4-3 is the only class that still hasn’t decided what they’ll be doing for the school festival. Konoha suggests they do a play, but Eimi rejects it because she only wants to use it to get close to her crush Hiroto. Mihoshi then suggests that the class do a simple chorus number, which, despite Eimi’s protest over deciding so suddenly, is unanimously approved by the rest of the class (including Konoha as soon as Hiroto says he supports it too). Kenji mentions that the chorus will need music, and Misao, in a change from how shy she was previously, goes out of her way to ask to play the piano.
Misao is playing “Misao”—the song written by her father— on the piano in the music room and impresses everyone in her class. Kenji says lyrics can be written for the song and sung by the whole class, and even Principal Miura gives a thumbs up to the idea. However, Misao says she can’t use the song because it’s incomplete. Eimi then takes a look at the song’s composition sheet and tells her that it’s actually complete. Misao investigates herself and finds out that her father had completed the song before he left Japan again, even leaving a tiny note under the one she wrote earlier and reciprocating her desire to see him.
At home, Sasami tells her parents that Misao will be writing the lyrics for the song that the class will be singing, though she wishes that her father would be there to listen. Ginji and Honoka enthusiastically tell her that they can help with that, but once Sasami tells them that Misao’s father is currently overseas, they change course and say they can’t help because they’re broke. When she’s sitting in her room, Ryo-Ohki tells her that she can’t go overseas “at the drop of a hat”, but Sasami suddenly gets an idea and runs outside with Ryo-Ohki. She begs him to teach him some sort of teleportation magic to go overseas, but Ryo-Ohki says that it’ll only work if they know exactly where Shigeki is.
Thus, the two of them visit Washu’s home and Sasami asks if she can find where Shigeki is, but Washu—one of the few people that know about her alter ego—says that she only does favors for Pretty Sammy. Sasami takes a moment to transform into Pretty Sammy, and Washu happily accepts the request. She gets in touch with an American agent named James who tells her that Shigeki is currently located somewhere in Venezuela, though he’s not sure exactly where. Washu turns around to gloat to Sammy, but she and Ryo-Ohki are already gone.
Ryo-Ohki tries one last time to dissuade Sammy from using teleportation magic, saying that it’s very difficult and even Tsunami can’t do it right, but Sammy wants to go ahead with it. Ryo-Ohki then tells her to imagine where she wants to go and call out “Pretty Teleport”, and she does so, causing her to fly into the sky… and promptly crash into the ocean. However, Sammy vows to keep trying to use teleportation magic.
Over the next few days, while the class practices the chorus (and discovers Eimi’s awful singing) and Misao writes the lyrics for the song, Pretty Sammy keeps trying to use teleportation magic, but even after 43 tries (with the last one causing her to end up in a city sewer), she still can’t use it properly. It’s now only three days until the school festival, and Ryo-Ohki tells her to give up on trying to use teleportation magic, but he suddenly gets an idea: instead of teleporting themselves to Venezuela, Sasami can simply teleport a written letter to Shigeki. That night, Sasami writes the letter explaining the situation to Shigeki and asking him to return, and, as Pretty Sammy, uses Pretty Coquettish Bomber to send it to Venezuela. It works, and the letter arrives on Shigeki’s piano just as he finishes a performance.
The day of the festival arrives, and though Misao suddenly gets slightly nervous, Sasami's encouraging words get through to her. Once they assemble on the stage in the school's auditorium, Misao initially thinks her mother was too busy to make it, but she brightens up as soon as she sees her enter. However, unbeknownst to anyone, Rumiya, despite having previously made his goodbyes to Misao, is watching from above in bird form.
Misao begins playing the piano, but she unexpectedly makes a mistake. She pauses to promise her father that she’ll do her best for both her mother and for her best friend Sasami and happily continues playing while Tsunami, Ramia—now with white hair and still unresponsive—and Rumiya continue watching along. A brief memory of Shigeki leaving his family to pursue his career in music and Misao having a nightmare is shown before Kotoe suddenly sees that Shigeki has returned from overseas. He tells her that he’s been a nuisance to both her and Misao and that he’s a failure as a father.
After the class finishes the chorus, Sasami and Misao find both Shigeki and Kotoe waiting outside, and Misao rushes to her father and hugs him. She tells her parents that she wants to be a pianist just like her father and will work hard to become one. She tells them how much she loves them; meanwhile, Rumiya flies away after watching Misao reunite with her parents and wishes eternal happiness upon her.
Ryo-Ohki catches up with Sasami, who says that all of this was thanks to him and her magic. However, Ryo-Ohki thinks that it was really because of the feelings that Sasami had for Misao. He tells her that magic is a make-believe technique; it can’t be used to make people happy by itself, but it can be used to help them along the way to becoming happy. Sasami agrees and says that she is glad that she became a magical girl.
With Pretty Sammy having performed one last good deed, the balance of Gemini has been completely restored, thus officially making Tsunami the queen of Juraihelm.
Trivia
- This episode marks Principal Miura's first appearance since the episode Team Lovely Madams, though he hasn't had a speaking line since the episode All I Want is You.
- This episode is the first to include a shift in the balance between Gemini since the episode Farewell Team Lovely Madams!.
- During the scene where Sasami is talking to her parents about how Misao is writing the lyrics for the chorus, Honoka is playing a video game, the sound effects of which clearly imply that she's playing the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man, though she's not holding a 2600 controller.
- This is the third episode in a row to use a unique title sequence: this one having a background being the composition sheet of the song Misao is playing.