人魚を鉄の檻に閉じ込めて商人に売り渡し、人魚は最後の蝋燭を自らの血で赤く染め上げて去った

Although they had once been kind-hearted, the elderly couple's souls were stolen by the temptation of large money and greed, and they coldly locked the screaming and begging mermaid girl in an iron cage, selling her to the merchant. In her extreme grief, the mermaid girl stained the last remaining white candle red with blood flowing from her own fingertips before she was taken away.