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Keiichi and the Goddesses have finally entered the magical
castle, and are almost instantly greeted by a barrage
of trap doors and other tricks. Sayoko is watching their
progress on a TV monitor. She is amused, but hopes she
gets a chance to deal with her rival, Belldandy, personally.
Mara, who stands by her side, has silent hopes of her
own.
When
Keiichi and the others arrive in a strange room, the
doors slam shut behind them. Skuld prepares to blast
the door open with one of her bombs, when all of a sudden,
a grenade is tossed to the ground nearby them. Realizing
the grenade does not belong to Skuld, they all duck
and cover from the explosion. It turns out the grenade
is from the school Chemistry Lab, who are under Sayoko
and Maras mind control. They prepare to throw
more bombs at them, when Skuld launches a barrage of
her own bombs at the attackers. Skuld tells Keiichi,
Belldandy, and Urd to go on ahead while she deals with
them.
The
remaining three continue through the castle until they
come to a giant wrestling ring. Before our heroes can
react, both Keiichi and Urd are taken away by muscle-bound
students to separate corners of the ring, leaving a
confused Belldandy behind. Keiichi is forced to sit
behind a video game joystick stand thats at the
side of the ring, and it is time for the Main
Event. Urd has been dressed in a bizarre video
game superhero nurse outfit, and is in the ring, preparing
to go up against a muscular man wearing a chicken costume.
It seems that it is Keiichis job to control
Urd just like a video game, and help her win the fight.
Unfortunately, Keiichi is up against the campus
video game champion (under the mind control spell) who
is controlling Urds opponent. Both
fighters are wearing special headsets that prevent them
from moving on their own free will. (They are being
controlled by Keiichi, and the video game champ, and
can only move according to the buttons they push on
the joystick stands before them.)
The
fight begins, and Urd finds she has no control over
her body, as Keiichi is just randomly hitting buttons
on the control panel before him, causing Urd to swing
her arms and legs about madly. Urds opponent sends
a powerful punch toward her, only to have Urd dodge
it, and come back with an uppercut and a special attack
move (This was all accidental, as Keiichi has no idea
what hes doing). When Urds back is turned
to her opponent, the video game champion orders the
chicken man to grab her, and throw her down to the mat.
However, this move causes the main circuit in Urds
headset to get smashed. Since the headset is what connects
her to Keiichis controls, she now has control
over her body once again. Now that she can do what she
wants, she blasts her opponent with her magic, and then
delivers a powerful attack to the video game champ who
was controlling him. Urd tells Belldandy and Keiichi
to go on ahead, while she has some fun beating on her
former tormentors.
Keiichi
and Belldandy are now wandering the halls of the castle
together. Belldandy mentions that the building is made
of pure Mind-Force, and is amazed at how large it is.
It reflects how badly Sayoko truly wanted to be the
Campus Queen. She could have forfeited from the competition
last year, and Sayoko would have gotten the title, but
Belldandy knows that Sayoko would have been disappointed
that way, as the competition is all that matters to
her.
The
two finally arrive in a large indoor garden Tea Room,
where three women in elegant dresses are waiting for
them. They are the women of the Tea Club, and the next
test that our heroes must pass on their way to Sayoko.
If Belldandy can identify all of the teas that they
serve her, they will let them both pass. The contest
begins, and Belldandy sips one tea after another, identifying
each one correctly. However, the last one she samples
causes her to mysteriously and suddenly fall into unconsciousness.
Before Keiichi can react, the three girls take her,
and run off laughing.
Keiichi
runs off after them, but he has lost sight of them.
As he stands alone, wondering where they went, he suddenly
hears Belldandys voice from behind him. He turns
around, only to find a very fat woman dressed as Belldandy
standing before him. Keiichi runs away, only to be met
by another Belldandy impostor. He is surrounded by a
group of people (some of them men) all claiming to be
Belldandy
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