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  Volume 1 Chapter 3 - A Man's Home Is His...Temple?  
 


Keiichi begins to set up a tent so that he and Belldandy have a place to pass the remainder of the night. As Belldandy watches, she realizes that it is going to rain while Keiichi realizes he has only one sleeping bag. He imagines sharing the sleeping bag with her when the rain starts coming down. To make matters worse, Belldandy has fallen into a deep sleep due to her role in granting Keiichi's wish combined with her other power usage.

The tent is full of holes, so Keiichi gets back on the bike, puts Belldandy in the sidecar, and pulls the cover over it. As he races through the night desperately looking for a place to crash out of the rain, he comes across an old temple. He takes Belldandy inside and falls asleep on the floor with her.

The next morning, Belldandy awakens first wondering where she is. Keiichi awakens moments later and she gives him a cheery morning greeting. Keiichi is shocked to find that he and Belldandy spent the night together in the same futon and screams. The temple priest comes in (looking a lot like Mr. Clean) assuming Belldandy screamed and begins to carry Keiichi away thinking he'd made a mistake in assuming the pair to be lovers. Belldandy assures the priest that she didn't scream and that everything was OK.

At breakfast, the priest remarks that Belldandy appears to be a foreigner and he wonders what she is doing in Japan. She starts to tell him that she's there because of Keiichi's wish but Keiichi prevents her from revealing that she's a goddess. He tells the priest they are there for sight seeing.

Later on the temple grounds, Keiichi and Belldandy do chores together. Keiichi tells Belldandy that she can't go around telling people she's a goddess. She replies that she can't tell a lie and doesn't feel anything negative about the temple and that she feels it is OK for them to be there.

Keiichi, who's on the roof making repairs, slips and begins to fall off. Belldandy casts a spell and stops him at the roofs edge. She then leaps up onto the roof to make sure he's OK. Keiichi assures her he's fine except for a scraped elbow. Belldandy has the cure for that as she plants a very long kiss on the elbow which Keiichi enjoys. This causes the elbow to heal immediately much to Keiichi's surprise.

The priest sees the couple on the roof and wonders if he imagined seeing Belldandy jump from the ground to the roof. He fears that maybe Belldandy is a demon in female form and is determined to discover the truth since her true form should appear at night. He falls asleep outside their door and when Belldandy awakes before dawn, she kindly covers the priest in a blanket.

The priest awakens after daylight and begins to look for Belldandy. He finds her sitting on a rock, surrounded by small birds, and with a joyous look on her face as she tells them all good morning. He is further surprised when he discovers she's already made breakfast and it is the best he's ever had. The priest then sees that the shrine in the temple has been polished brilliantly. It is then that he realizes that she's no demon .

The trio have breakfast together. Afterward, the priest has Belldandy and Keiichi meditate as if to train. Keiichi isn't thrilled about it and gets a smack from the priest who says Belldandy's meditation is perfect.

The next day, the priest is gone but he's left them a note saying he's gone to India to continue to study but that the couple can use the temple as they see fit.

 
     
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