The Midasan prince is known for killing sirens, and Lira thinks that the Sea Queen will be pleased with her if she brings her the prince’s heart for her birthday. She is confronted by two mermaids who convince her to seek out the Golden Prince. Lira, embarrassed by the prospect of killing a common man instead of a prince, swims to the edge of the Diávolos sea to sulk. The family throws a ball in his honor, hoping to persuade him to give up his adventurous life on his pirate ship in favor of preparing to one day become king. Elian and his crew return to Midas, Elian’s homeland, where his parents and his sister Amara greet him with pride. The crew watches as she turns to sea-foam on the deck. With his magic knife that sucks in the blood of those it kills, he kills the siren.

He is a siren-hunting pirate, and his crew has just caught a siren. The Midasan Prince Elian sails on the pirate ship Saad with his loyal crew.

The Sea Queen then tells Lira that she must hunt for the heart of a regular sailor for her birthday, taking away her glory as “The Prince’s Bane,” the siren known for killing only princes. Lira offers to take Khalia’s punishment to protect her from the Sea Queen’s wrath, and the Sea Queen beats her and crushes the heart she stole. When they return from their hunt, the Sea Queen isn’t happy and decides to punish them both-Lira for hunting too soon, and Khalia for not stopping her. She only steals hearts from princes, and since the ship is the only vessel on which the Adekarosin prince sails, she decides to take his heart while her cousin takes the queen’s. Though Lira is still two weeks away from her birthday and therefore not supposed to steal a heart, she notices that there’s a prince aboard the ship. They stalk a human ship, and when they are close enough, they begin to sing their hypnotic siren song, which will lure their human victims into the sea and to their deaths. Lira, a young siren, is tasked with taking her younger cousin Khalia out to hunt for a heart for her birthday.

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