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Episode 20 -	Friends
	tomodachi - mitsume au hitomi, tsuna ga reta te -
	[Friends - Eye to Eye, Hand in Hand]
First aired -	14th February 1997

Having finally learned that she is actually Pixy Misa and she has been unknowingly attacking her best friend Sasami, Misao feels she has nobody to whom she can turn, and runs away from home. She reaches a park outside town and stops at the foot of a tree. As she weeps in guilt and sorrow, Rumiya watches from the branches above, blaming himself for hurting Misao so badly. Suddenly, Misao cries out in pain. Rumiya realises that her forced transformation back into Misao has caused her Pixy Misa side to become uncontrollable, and she could change back any moment. Knowing that saving her is beyond his magical power, Rumiya rushes home to get Ramia's help.

At the site of Sammy and Misa's last battle, Ryo-Ohki explains to Sasami that Misao must have been acting under the influence of an evil magical spell. Sasami suspects that Misa was created only because of the existence of Pretty Sammy, and that if she had never accepted her magical baton, none of it would ever have happened. Ryo-Ohki is forced to admit that that is a possibility. Angry with herself for allowing her best friend to come to harm, Sasami throws down her baton and runs off to find Misao.

On Juraihelm, Tsunami prepares to leave for Earth to sort out the situation. The royal council warns her that she is forbidden to interfere with her chosen representative, and doing so will disqualify her from becoming queen. Tsunami is prepared to give up that chance in order to help Sasami, but changes her mind when reminded that Sasami has found the strength to overcome every challenge so far.

While Sasami searches the town, Misao wanders the streets alone, lost in her grief. Miyuki, her next-door neighbour, spots her and goes to help her. Misao tells her that she has been lying to her best friend without knowing it, and thinks Sasami will never forgive her. Miyuki suggests that Misao talk to Sasami, sure that she will understand. Misao is still uncertain, and continues walking through the moonlit streets. Eventually, she comes to the school gymnasium, and the locker room outside where she and Sasami first met. She opens the door and finds Sasami waiting for her. Still unable to face her, she turns to run, but suddenly begins changing back into Pixy Misa again. Ryo-Ohki appears and tells Sasami that the evil magic in Misao's heart is taking over her, and that good magic alone is not enough to save her. He tells her that because magic responds to a person's feelings, she may be able to reach Misao and erase the evil magic spell. He produces Sasami's baton, and she transforms into Pretty Sammy. The bright glow from her baton engulfs her and Misao, and when Sammy opens her eyes, she finds herself in a strange landscape, the metaphysical representation of Misao's feelings.

Deep in Misao's heart, Sammy encounters both aspects of Misao's personality given form - Pixy Misa, and Misao's original self, imprisoned and unconscious in a glass bubble. Sammy orders Misa to release Misao, but Misa insists that because she is the product of Misao's sadness, she and Misao are one and the same. Misa goes on to tell Sammy that because she is always covering for Misao, she is only making it worse, making Misao envious while she, Sasami, satisfies her own superiority. Sammy protests, and tells Misao that she has always admired her for struggling on in spite of all the problems in her life. She pounds her fists against the glass bubble and begs Misao to wake up, but still she doesn't respond. Sammy tells her that even if she stays as Pixy Misa forever she will still love her. These words finally get through to Misao, and she awakens. Misao tells Sammy how sorry she is for all the suffering she has caused, and Sammy tells her that no matter what they will be friends forever. At last, the glass bubble imprisoning Misao shatters and Pixy Misa disappears. The magic spell that Ramia placed on Misao is freed, and it takes on the form of several wicked-looking white serpents. Sammy and Misao grasp the magical baton and chant the words of the Pretty Coquettish Bomber spell together, wiping out the evil magic once and for all. As the scene fades around them, Misa appears as a last fleeting image, and Misao bids farewell to her "other side".

The next morning, Sasami's parents find Misao and Sasami asleep together, still holding hands, in the locker room. Rumiya, ashamed of himself, flies away. Shigeki, Misao's father, returns to his work overseas, but promises to come back home to see his daughter soon.

Some time later, Sasami goes to visit Misao. When she arrives at her apartment, she is shocked to find Pixy Misa waiting for her, but this time it is only Misao in a blonde wig and a costume she made to cheer herself up! Sasami asks her if she is sad because she missed out on seeing her father, but Misao insists that she is all right because her best friend is by her side.

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