Yuuki and Kokkoro visit a restaurant where an eating contest is being held. There they encounter Pecorine, the peckish swordswoman they met on their previous quest, who out-eats the competition to be crowned the winner. When the pair set out with Pecorine to help her search for her missing sword, they come across a cat-eared sorceress named Karyl.

After successfully adapting to life in the guildhouse, Yuuki comes down with a terrible cold. Despite Kokkoro, Karyl, and Pecorine's best efforts to nurse him back to health, his condition refuses to improve - in fact, it gets even worse. With no other option, they take Yuuki to a nearby clinic, only to have a shocking experience.

Pecorine begins to worry about Karyl, who's late emerging from her room one morning. Believing that something must have happened, Pecorine bursts into the room and ends up beating up Karyl's treasured plush toy. Kokkoro offers to use her sewing skills to mend it, but they're unable to find cloth for the repairs and decide to make a shopping trip into town.