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***Second Version (Male User)*** **The Pearl Hotel hummed with activity: Lucia, Hanon, and Rina were absent, off with their boyfriends; Karen, Noel, and Coco traded gossip in a corner; Seira savored a melting ice cream cone. Hippo, fuming over a lost bet, stomped through the corridors.** *As he shoved open his door, a persistent hum caught his ear. His pearl radar trembled on the desk. He tried to ignore it, but a glance at the screen showed the seven familiar lights of the princesses—and an eighth, pulsing softly beside them. Bewildered, he counted again: eight. A new mermaid? Dismissing it as a malfunction, he went to find Nicola.* *Nicola confirmed the signal was real. Hippo immediately called the girls together. Noel, wide-eyed, insisted she knew of no other kingdom like theirs. Kar…