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  Volume 12 Chapter 69 - The Dating Game  
     
 

As the issue opens, Peorth is reading one of Skuld’s romance mangas, trying to figure out the dating rituals of mortals so that she can better entice Keiichi. When Keiichi comes home, the passionate Goddess races down the hall to greet and embrace him at the door. The poor man has had enough of this, and asks when Peorth plans on going home. She reminds him that she can only leave when she grants his heart’s desire. Keiichi sighs and wonders to himself if Peorth has a desire of her own. The passionate Goddess is delighted to hear this, and believes it means Keiichi wishes to grant one of her personal desires. Now that she has him trapped with no means to escape, she requests that Keiichi go out on a date with her. The boy is stunned speechless by Peorth’s sudden request, and before he knows it, the date is set.

Keiichi is forced to break the news to Belldandy that he got tricked into going on a date with Peorth. Although he expects the worst, he is quite shocked by how delighted she is by the news. It seems Belldandy has misheard him, and thinks the date is for all of them. As Belldandy plans to make a picnic lunch for everyone on the upcoming day, our hero can only wonder to himself how this “date” tomorrow is going to turn out with all of them together.

The next day, Peorth is waiting by the city fountain, prepared for a romantic day alone with Keiichi. She has studied and memorized every romance manga she could get her hands on, and feels she is ready to make Keiichi express his love once and for all. When Keiichi finally arrives, Peorth turns to greet her date, only to be met by the sight of him being accompanied by Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld. Peorth is naturally upset by this unforeseen turn of events, but decides to herself she can work around it by losing the three other Goddesses somewhere, so she can truly be alone with Keiichi. And so, the “mass date” begins, and Peorth decides their first destination should be a romantic movie. Unfortunately, Keiichi does not have enough money for tickets for all five of them. Belldandy comes to the rescue, revealing free movie passes that she received by renewing the newspaper delivery service…

Peorth’s dreams of a romantic film-going experience are shattered when the tickets Belldandy produces turn out to be for a children’s cartoon. The Goddess is bored to tears by the movie, but everyone else is strangely entranced by it, so she’s forced to sit all the way through it. After the movie is over, Peorth decides she must make her move, take Keiichi, and get him away from all the others so that they can finally be alone together. She takes Keiichi by the arm, and runs clear across the city, hoping to lose them. Of course, when they stop to catch their breath after running, Belldandy magically pops up, wondering why they ran away. As Peorth ponders another way to lose them, Belldandy produces yet another free pass that she won in a raffle – this time to an aquarium.

Once again, the trip turns out to be less romantic than Peorth planned, since Keiichi seems more interested in giving Belldandy and Skuld a personalized lesson in mollusks than in spending time alone with her. The fourth Goddess decides she’s had enough of this, and summons her “Wafting Rose Attack” spell, which fills the room with swirling rose petals to distract everyone. While everyone is distracted, Peorth grabs Keiichi, and takes him to a secluded place to be alone. Just like before, Belldandy instantly tracks them down, breaking the mood.

By now, Peorth is more than just a bit peeved over how her rival always seems to pop up whenever she gets a moment to be alone with Keiichi. Urd reminds her that Keiichi and her sister share a special bond, and that Belldandy will always find him, even if he was lost in a crowd of a million people. If this is true, Peorth decides she will have to try a different form of attack to get what she wants. She suggests to the group that they spend the rest of the day swimming. Of course, Belldandy has a free pass to the local swimming pool park that she won through a radio station. Even though Keiichi can’t swim, and didn’t bring a bathing suit (Peorth is only all to eager to help here, magically producing a bathing suit upon him right in the middle of public.), they decide to try out her idea.

At the Aqua Blue swim park, Keiichi sits alone on a fold out poolside chair, wondering to himself why he came here if he can’t swim. The sight of seeing Belldandy in a sexy swimsuit, doing a graceful dive into the pool quickly changes the boy’s mood. Of course, this does not go unnoticed by Urd and Skuld, who immediately begin to harass him. At that same moment, the scheming Peorth is concocting another plan to earn Keiichi’s trust, and pull him away from Belldandy. Realizing that Keiichi cannot swim, she plans to make so that he falls into the pool, she saves him (performing mouth to mouth, of course), and Keiichi will be so grateful, he will be hers, and she can finally grant his heart’s desire…

Peorth sees her chance to act when Belldandy and Skuld leave Keiichi to buy some drinks. As soon as he’s alone, Peorth summons a spell, which causes the chair that Keiichi is reclining on to tilt forward, sending our poor hero stumbling forward, and falling directly into the pool. At the soda machine on the other side of the park, Belldandy senses that something is wrong, and knows that Keiichi is in danger. Calling upon her power, Belldandy uses her magic to cause the water in the pool to rise up, and fly out of the pool in all directions, so that the pool will be empty, and Keiichi will be safe. Once the pool has been completely drained of water due to the spell, and Keiichi’s life has been saved, everyone discovers that poor Peorth has been knocked unconscious due to being struck by the wave of water that went flying out of the pool. It seems that Peorth’s dreams of saving Keiichi’s life has backfired, as Belldandy has to wind up saving hers…

That evening, as the five walk home from their long day, Peorth (who is still weak from being knocked unconscious by the giant wave) can only curse her luck of how everything that she planned seemed to go wrong. But don’t think the passionate Goddess is going to be giving up anytime soon. Though defeated, the war is far from over…

 
     
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