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As the issue opens,
Peorth is reading one of Skulds 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 hearts 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 Peorths 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
Peorths
dreams of a romantic film-going experience are shattered
when the tickets Belldandy produces turn out to be for
a childrens cartoon. The Goddess is bored to tears
by the movie, but everyone else is strangely entranced
by it, so shes 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 shes 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 cant swim, and didnt 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 cant swim. The sight of seeing Belldandy
in a sexy swimsuit, doing a graceful dive into the pool
quickly changes the boys 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 Keiichis
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 hearts
desire
Peorth
sees her chance to act when Belldandy and Skuld leave
Keiichi to buy some drinks. As soon as hes 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 Keiichis 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 Peorths
dreams of saving Keiichis 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 dont
think the passionate Goddess is going to be giving up
anytime soon. Though defeated, the war is far from over
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