In the palace's Holloween ball, Kyohei - wearing a princely outfit - sat dully on his throne up the balcony with his right cheek limply resting over his right hand. He yawned at the sight of the ladies flocking the ballroom and beautifying themselves in their costumes to catch his devil eyes.

"Your majesty," Ranmaru said, wearing a vampire costume. "Can you not spot her yet?"

"I doubt she'd even come," Kyohei muttered, sighing lazily.

"She will come, your majesty," Takenaga - in a warlock outfit - said, smiling and waving at Noi from the balcony.

Kyohei grunted and looked away. "I hope so," he whispered. "This is getting really boring."


Sunako gave a heavy sigh. "I might as well go, huh?" she told Josephine.

"We are almost there, after all," Josephine replied.

Sunako looked out of the window and saw a dazzling palace with beautiful star-like shimmering lights shining around it amidst the black night sky. As they drove closer to the palace, she realized that the lights came from the jack-o-lanterns arranged everywhere.

This amazed and excited her.

"It's a good thing they made a Halloween ball even though it's summer," Akira said.

The three other attendants nodded.

When they reached the gates, they saw a crowd of carriages and ladies, trying to get in to see the prince.

"I don't think we'll be able to make it inside with this crowd," Hiroshi said.

Sunako was looking at the crowd ahead of them when she heard a knock at the window. She slid the window glass down and saw Yuki, still in his cuddly bunny outfit. "Hi! Are you here for the ball too?" he asked

"Uh… I guess so…" Sunako said.

Yuki smiled. "Come with me! I know a back door!" he whispered.

Sunako walked out of the limo and followed Yuki as he hopped to the garden.

"Are you sure you can't walk?" Sunako asked recalling how Yuki should be able to walk on two legs.

"No… I'm afraid I can't yet…" replied Yuki, breathing heavily from every hop he made.


"Oi! I'll just go to the bathroom," Kyohei said standing up from his throne and walking toward the stairs. "This is really tiring," he said walking down the hallway and passing the entrance to the ballroom.

Unfortunately, one of the maidens in the ball spotted him.

"Look! The prince! He's out there!" she cried out ecsatically.

Kyohei heard them. He quickly took a glance of what was behind him.

He saw girls...groups of girls...waves of girls...flooding toward him.

Kyohei immediately ran around the palace to hide from them. "Great… Now this is exciting…"


Yuki stopped at the rose garden. He then pointed at the glowing second floor of the palace. "That's where the ball is held. But you can pass through this pathway here," he said pointing at the brick path in front of them. He then turned to look at Sunako. "We can… huh? Where is she?"

While walking with Yuki, Sunako spotted a life-size statue of a gargoyle standing at the center of the rose garden. She quickly ran toward it to get a closer look of the statute.

Sunako gazed at the gargoyle happily. "Cute!" she said, blushing while caressing its cheek.


Kyohei escaped the crowd by running through several secret passages in the palace. But to ensure his safety, he jumped off the nearest window and ran out to the rose garden. He then slowly walked toward the rose lawn to catch his breath.

Kyohei suddenly noticed a silhouette of a lady in a dress that seemed to be talking to one of his gargoyle statues. He grunted, fearing it was one of the girls in the ball. But because it was close to his scary gargoyle statue, he figured he should check who it was.

He stealthily walked toward the silhouette. With every careful step he took toward her, he realized and remembered who she was.

The moon, as if conspiring naughtily against Kyohei, gave him a breathtaking view of her.

Kyohei stood frozen for a moment. He was too amazed to move. She looked somewhat...different from what he expected but she still looked scary.

He smiled. "Oi!"

Sunako looked at him.

"So you did come," Kyohei said walking closer to her.


"Ah! There she is!" Yuk said, looking down from the balcony where Takenaga, Ranmaru, Noi and Tamao stood.

"Good job, Yuki!" Takenaga said.

"That was great acting you did back there," Ranmaru told Tamao. "…Shouting like Noi-chan!"

Tamao smiled. "Thank you!"

"Well," Noi said, standing near Takenaga. "Now that they're with each other, let's make them near each other. Tamao-chi!"

Tamao smiled and nodded. She and Noi waved their wands in the air.

A dark cloud covered the moon. And slowly, a shower of rain fell down on the garden.

"Eh? It's raining..?" Kyohei said, looking up at the weeping night sky. "This isn't in the story."

Sunako gazed up at the dark clouds. "Ooh… Could there be thunder storms too?" she aske in excitement.

It was then that Kyohei remembered he wasn't alone. He looked at Sunako. "Come on, before you get wet…"

"Huh?" Sunako stared blankly at Kyohei.

Kyohei realized that she wasn't going to leave the statue. He sighed and pulled her hand.

"What the..."

"You can't play in the rain on that dress, idiot," Kyohei said, quickly dragging Sunako with him as he ran toward a pavilion.

They were already wet when they reached the shade.

Kyohei, breathing heavily from running, rested his back against one of ts pillars. He gazed at Sunako who sat herself down to look at the jack-o-lanterns romantically giving the rose vine-covered pavilion relaxing hues of light. She changed into her chibi form and rested her head on one of them.

Kyohei chuckled at the sight. He walked and sat beside her.

"Why did you come here?" Kyohei asked, leaning his back on the pillar that was nearest to where he sat.

"I want to go home," Sunako answered, still resting her head on the glowing pumpkin.

"...Go home?" Kyohei asked. "Don't you already live in your home?"

Sunako shook her head. "No," she said. "They're not my home." Sunako raised her head and sat up straight. "Takenaga-kun, Ranmaru-kun, Yuki-kun and Kyohei-kun… They are my home."

Kyohei stared shocked at Sunako. Various pieces of images suddenly flashed into his mind – images of him with Takenaga, Ranmaru, Yuki and Sunako eating seafood hot pot together in winter...the five of them running away from trouble and enjoying each one's company in the mansion... "What the… you…"

Sunako looked at Kyohei.

Kyohei leaned closer to Sunako and looked deep into her eyes.