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It
is a typical morning at the house, as Peorth has once
again awakened Keiichi by playfully throwing herself
upon him, and trying to seduce him into revealing his
hearts true desire. Despite her best and most
sexy efforts, he still rejects her. Peorth stands alone,
contemplating why this is so. She then comes to the
realization that Keiichi does not know how to express
love. After all, what other explanation can there be
when he has lived with Belldandy for so long, and has
not yet expressed his true passion for her? Peorth decides
she will personally end Keiichis suffering.
Sneaking
into Urds bedroom, Peorth swipes some of the Goddess
magical pills, namely the Seeds of Love (a pill that
makes you fall in love with the first person you see).
Peorth decides to improve the tablet by
making it so that it will cause Keiichi to fall in love
only with her. That way, he can finally express his
hearts desire of physical love through
Peorth. Dubbing the pill The Crystal Teardrop
of Love, Peorth prepares to make her move, only
to be stopped by the arrival of Belldandy. Although
Belldandy understands that Peorth is only trying to
fulfill her contract and grant Keiichis wish,
she feels that the fourth Goddess is being a burden
to him. Peorth coldly shrugs the notion off, reminding
Belldandy that she has not fulfilled her job of granting
his hearts desire, as there is obviously something
else in his life that Keiichi wants. And since Belldandy
seems to be incapable of doing so, Peorth has determined
she will grant his deepest desire, no matter what cost.
Outside
the house, Keiichi is working on a motorbike, but he
is sweltering in the summer heat. Just then, Peorth
arrives with a glass of soda for him. Keiichi is naturally
suspicious, thinking the drink is tainted with something,
knowing how shes been tricking him and throwing
herself upon him at any given opportunity. Peorth breaks
into an overly melodramatic speech of how heart-broken
she is over Keiichis refusal of her. Softening
up, he finally accepts the drink. Little does he realize
that before she hands it to him, she secretly slips
the Crystal Teardrop of Love pill into the
drink. As soon as Keiichi is finished with it, the effects
of the pill cause him to fall into unconsciousness.
When he awakens, he will officially be in love with
Peorth, and she will finally be able to grant his hearts
desire. Unfortunately, as Peorth and everyone else is
about to discover, it seems that she made a grave miscalculation
when she concocted the formula for the potion
The
trouble beings a while later when Megumi arrives to
see the photos that Keiichi had taken. Seeing her brother
asleep under a tree, she wakes him. As soon as Keiichi
opens his eyes, a strange sensation suddenly overcomes
Megumi. She collapses to her knees, and confesses her
passionate love for her brother. It seems that Peorths
tampering with Urds potion now causes anyone who
looks at Keiichi to fall in love with him. Keiichi is
obviously frightened by his sisters sudden passionate
and aggressive behavior toward him, and ducks for cover
inside the house, trying to keep Megumi out. The situation
only turns worse when Skuld approaches, wondering what
all the noise is about. As soon as she looks into Keiichis
eyes, she falls madly in love, just like Megumi. Poor
Keiichi can only stand there helpless, wondering whats
going on.
At
that very same moment, Urd is doing an inventory check
on her supply of potions. She had noticed Peorths
strange and sneaky behavior earlier that day, and sure
enough, she notices that one of her Seeds of Love pills
is now gone. Urd steps outside to look for Peorth, only
to find Keiichi out in the hall, with both Megumi and
Skuld hanging all over him. Of course, as soon as their
eyes meet, Urd is taken by feelings of passionate love.
Fortunately, she is able to control herself, and turn
away from Keiichi so the spell is instantly broken.
Seeing how her younger sister and Megumi are reacting
toward him, Urd theorizes that Peorth was trying to
tamper with her Seeds of Love formula to somehow win
Keiichis trust, but something went wrong, and
now the effect of the pill has been altered, which is
why everyone is acting so strangely around him.
Meanwhile,
outside the house, Belldandy is hanging the laundry
and thinking back on Peorths words earlier. She
wishes to give Keiichi anything he desires, but wonders
if perhaps there is something she cannot provide. When
she steps inside, she finds the hectic scene between
Keiichi, her sisters, and Megumi. When he sees Belldandy
enter, Keiichi quickly turns his head away, not wanting
to get her involved as well. Of course, he happens to
turn his head directly to Urd, who is instantly taken
in by Peorths accidental love spell, and is this
time unable to fight it.
Keiichi
tries to explain to Belldandy about what happened, and
why he doesnt want her to look at him. This only
causes the gentle Goddess to hold him, and ask why it
would be so horrible for her to fall in love with him.
Keiichi understands that Belldandy is the one woman
he wants to be in love with, and turns to face her,
stating that he is willing to face any hard times that
lie ahead as long as she is with him. To his surprise,
the spell does not take any effect on Belldandy when
he turns to her. Since there is already love between
them, the spell is futile. As the two lovers embrace,
a force of energy flies out from the Goddess body,
which spreads throughout the entire city. This energy
restores Megumi, Skuld, and Urd back to normal.
That
night, as Keiichi and Urd sit outside the house, Keiichi
still wonders why the spell had no effect on Belldandy
when he looked at her. As for Peorth, Urd slipped her
a different love potion in an act of revenge, and the
troublesome Goddess spends a romantic evening expressing
her true feelings to a ceramic statue.
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