"A quiet night, and alone in the seashore...it's nice to have this moment once a while..." Kuro says to himself, as he's laying on a flat stone while watching the sky full of stars and a full moon. "It's been hectic so far... at least it's not a boring day..." Then, he sees falling stars on the sky, and he smiles. "The world runs by its rules, no matter how everything changes..." Then, one of the 'falling stars' suddenly heads straight to him, causing him to raise his right hand and calls out a magic barrier to block it. The 'star' collides and disappears, leaving no traces. "...Strange? That's not something like a star..." He then notices one more falling down the sea... and that's it. No after-effects at all. "...Not exactly harmful, I hope..." Standing up, he returns back to his house and goes to bed, ending another day...

"...So THAT is NOT a star..." After waking up and doing morning routines, Kuro walks to Suzu's house and plans to wake the residents, only to find them already waking up and having some... changes. After the people stops screaming in surprise, he starts talking. "This is a real-deal magic. Someone must have done something last night."

"How long would it last, Kuro?" Ikuto asks in worry.

"I'm not very sure. Every magic has their own effects and offsets. We need to find out who performed it." The magic user replies, scratching his chin while 'wondering' about the possibility. "And the purpose of using the spell..."

"Good morning, mister Kuro." The person turns back to see a woman with two girls standing behind him wearing yukatas. "How are you today?"

"I'm...fine... who are you again?" Kuro asks, not too sure who he's talking with.

The woman giggles. "Are you still sleepy? It's Hatsu."

"...What?" Kuro asks in confused, which is immediately followed by Ikuto and Suzu's shouts of disbelief. "Uh... Hatsu... Kara guy's wife?" He earns a nod of confirmation. He immediately pulls out a mirror and shows it to her. "Can you tell what's different of you?"

"...Now, now mister. It's a bit rude to do that to a woman, you know?" Hatsu replies, further surprising the 'normal people'.

"...My apology." Kuro says his sorry. He then turns to Suzu and Ikuto and says: "Well, it seems we have a complicated magic ritual to investigate... what do you want for breakfast?"

"So basically every human has turned into animals, and vice versa." After encountering more cases, Kuro concludes the situation. "Now we need to find the culprit..."

"Do you think of anyone that could do so?" Suzu asks, as she's laying on Ikuto's head.

"I think that's my question to you, Suzu. I know magic, but I don't know everyone here yet. Though, I suspected either Machi or Ayane, since both of them have the potential."

"...Why do I feel like Chikage is also on the list?" Ikuto suggests.

"Oh, do tell why." Kuro offers.

"Well, a few days ago we found a UFO-like ship in her storage. While I'm not sure if it's the real thing, her house has stored quite a lot of unusual stuffs. She might have gotten her hands into a magic book or something." Thanks to Kuro dispelling the magic in the boy, he could think of more various situations.

"HM... that's a valid point. Lead the way."

...

"Well...I have to hand it to you. You're right." Kuro comments, as the group reaches to an area near Chikage's mansion and sees the girl walking on the road with no changes in her appearance.

Nodding, Ikuto then calls the girl: "Hey, Chikage! Can we ask you something?"

The girl turns back and greets: "Oh my, Ikuto, Suzu and Kuro... Aside from Kuro, what's those outfits of yours?"

"Well, whose fault is that really, Chikage?" Kuro mockingly asks, clearly expecting the girl to confess.

Seeing the suspicious glare from the elder man, Chikage knows that she's busted. "Your assumption is correct, sir Kuro." With one swift move, she changes her outfit into a magician outfit. "I, the Sorceress Chikage, am the one who did all of this!"

Upon seeing the 'introduction', Ikuto points out: "That makes you look like a magician instead of a sorceress, Chikage."

"Fufu, I don't think so, Ikuto." Pulling out a book, Chikage explains: "Thanks to the power of this book, I have been reborn as a mighty sorceress, capable of making impossible things possible!" And to demonstrate that, she pulls out a magician hat and starts pulling out many stuffs, though none of them is her expectation. "Strange, where are the doves?"

"It doesn't have to be the doves." Kuro remarks. "But, even normal people could do that, not just sorceresses, you know."

"Eh? How could that be?" Chikage asks in surprise, not expecting Kuro to not react to her show at all.

"It's just a small trick, nothing serious." Kuro explains in just one sentence.

Chikage then notices something behind her, as she turns back and attacks on instinct, managing to swat something away. "Who goes there!?"

"Damn, your reflection is good." Ayane reveals herself, with the additions being a pair of bunny ear and bunny legs. "I have heard everything. You're going to undo the spell yourself, or I'm going to force you to do so."

Kuro then feels something directly to him, so he turns back to grab it... "I have enough experienced being body-speared, Machi. You won't surprise me." All he earns is a giggle from the flying squirrel who is the maiden girl. He turns back to the action and sees Ayane planning to attack Chikage, but the culprit has teleported behind a tree right behind her, and that causes Ayane to slam right into the obstacle.

"Fufu, I'm not the same Chikage as you know before. Now, if you excuse me..." She plans to walk away, but somehow a hole appears right underneath her. "EHH!?" She can only scream in surprise once before falling down... and right in front of Kuro, as he has his right hand ready to catch her leg right before she face-plants the ground. "EH!? Kuro, you know how to use magic?"

"Yep. Now, give me the book, please. An inexperienced person like you can't use something like that without supervisions." Raising his left hand, Kuro is waiting for her to hand him the book.

"Sorry sir, not today." She immediately throws a smoke grenade right at his face, blinding him along with the people around him, and he 'accidentally' releases his hand, letting Chikage the chance to run away.

"She's getting away!" Ayane shouts and points to the direction she sees the culprit last. Everyone else immediately rushes out to catch the magician...

Except Kuro, who just stands there looking towards the direction. "Well... let's just wait for them to catch her. It would be too easy if I just jump right in."

...

"I know you're capable of catching her, but at least give us some help!" Ayane criticizes Kuro.

"Hey, you saw me dropping her through the hole. It would be unfair to just catch her right away."

After everyone (else) caught up with Chikage, and Panako finished the deal, the elephant maid offers a tea party as an apology for Chikage's behaviour, and everyone accepted.

"Jeez, you would just end the deal yourself. I thought you said that it's dangerous?" Ikuto is also on the girl's side.

That book is not that dangerous once I got a closer look, so I just dismissed it and played along." Kuro explains his reasons for acting the way he did.

"But, to think that beautiful girl is Panako..."

"Oh don't flatter me, Suzu. I'm not that pretty." The elephant blushes up at the girl's remark.

"You want to bet that Panako?" Kuro puts his hand in one of his pockets and pulls out a picture of the maid in her human form, causing her to shriek in surprise.

"Wait! Do you have my picture? Destroy it instantly!" Ayane threatens, not wanting her to get embarrassed by her 'partly transformed' appearance.

"Don't worry, it won't be shown at all." He then gives the picture to Panako, whose face is redder than her skin. "Keep it, as a thank for the tea."

"Speaking of magic, can you teach us some spells that are used by the maidens?" Machi then changes the subject.

Kuro looks at her with a funny look and asks: "I thought you girls have your own sets of magic?"

"The more the merrier."

Kuro shakes his head then explains: "If you ask the normal magic, then it might be okay. But you're talking about the other maidens' magic, which is based on the faith of the followers. I will see what I could teach you, but no maidens' magic."

"It's fine." Machi doesn't mind.