Thereupon the Princess said, “At the time when you were sending letters to me, my elder brother who gave me food and clothing, and I, and the Minister, having embarked came away. My elder brother who provided subsistence for me was lost. You must make inquiry about it in a thorough manner.”
Then the King having made inquiry and looked [into the matter], getting to know that the Minister threw him into the sea, [found that] unless he beheads the Minister there was nothing else [to do]. Because of it, he commanded them to behead the Minister. After that they beheaded him.
Then, this Princess first marrying the Prince himself, he appointed the Prince to the sovereignty.
Well then, when they are there no long time, the two persons went to the sea to bathe. At that time that fish having come, seizing the Prince’s leg asked, “Where is the charge you undertook for me that day?”
This Princess having heard it, asked, “What does it say?”
Thereupon the Prince said, “When I was falling into the sea that day, this fish, taking me on its back, asked at my hand, ‘What will you give [me] to put you on shore?’ Then I said, ‘From the things that I obtain first I will give a [half] share.’ That share it now asks for.”
At that time the Princess having given into the Prince’s hand the sword that was on the shore, said, “It is I whom you obtained first. Because of it, having split a [half] share off me give it to the fish.”
Then the fish said, “No need of it for me. This Prince one day has expended one thousand (sic) four hundred masuran over a dead body. Please say you do not want that debt. [I was that dead body].”
Thereupon the Prince said, “I do not want the debt.”
After that, the fish having completely let go went away. The Prince-King and the Princess-Queen, both of them, [after] bathing came to the palace.