The Beast and the Sword Book 2: The Changes

Page 42: Meet the Borrowers

(Fourth Opening Theme: That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime OP2-Meguru Mono Performed by Takuma Terashima)

Everything was chaos the minute Yami reported the Princess and the Familiars had gone missing, along with the Magic Knight members. Needless to say that Yami had been getting an earful from the other Captains as they had been called on immediately after Yami had reported it. As the research team had been examining the item in question, Yami had been getting an earful from his comrades... Even Yukiko and Cadfan.

"How could you have let the tresspaper kidnap the princess, your own squadmates and even a member of the golden dawn?!" Nozel said.

"SERIOUSLY YOU LOST PRISM AND PLUCK AT THE SAME TIME!" Cadfan exclaimed.

"REALLY YAMI?! ONE JOB!" Yukiko added. "YOU HAD ONE JOB!"

"KEKE--Typical." Jack said.

"How many times have I gotta tell you--" Yami said, "--Whoever the Spatial Mage was, knew they would be in that room and laced that room with his magic so he could get in. I couldn't have known he was in there."

"And for all we know they could be from the Eye of the Midnight Sun!" Charlotte said.

"Once again Foreigner you somehow managed to screw it all up like the Dungeon Mission." Nozel said.

"Guys, come on, don't fight!" Rill said getting between them.

"Rill is right, this will not solve anything." William added as he was the only calm headed one in the room.

"He's got a point--" Yami said, "--So you can ridicule all you want, but it ain't gonna get you anywhere."

"Don't think we're done with this, Foreigner." Nozel said.

Soon enough Samlet, Hannah and Ringo came into the room in a hurry as they looked to be a bit distressed. "We have a problem!" Samlet said.

"What is it?" Nolan asked.

"The item the man had--It's on the same level as the Devil's Board!" Hannah explained before she showed them an illustration of the book she was holding; it had shown the drawing of the item.

"The Little Plant?" Rill read, "Hang on I've heard about the rumors about this item."

"Do you know what it does?" Charlotte asked.

"According to the horror story revolving around the item--" Ringo explained, "--It emits a purple smoke that when inhaled, it'll make anyone within range shrink to the size of a doll figure!"

"Is that so?" Nozel said.

"Wait, then that means--" Rill said, putting it together.

"THEY ALL SHRUNK!?" Yukiko exclaimed in a panic. "OH NO! THIS IS NOT GOOD! THINK OF THE DANGERS THAT COME WITH BEING SMALL! THEY COULD BE CRUSHED, EATEN BY A BEAST OR EVEN SWEPT AWAY BY SWERER WATER!"

Cadfan had shouted, "OR CAUGHT BY THE WIND!"

"WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP?!" Jack shouted as it made them both freeze when he activated his magic.

"I would've gone with something calmer but that works." Nolan said nonchalantly.

"Is there a way to undo it?" William asked.

"I did some digging in the library--" Ringo said as he had gotten out the documents and placed them on the table, "--From what I understand, a Mage from 90 years ago, give or take, found a way to reverse the effect. All the person who was affected has to do is make a pastry called Upelkuchens. One bite of it will return them to their original size."