A secret revealed

"Ah, hello? Ehecatl?" Tohru said as the call went through, using Quetzacoatl's nickname.

"Eh? Miss Tohru?" Came the soft voice of her dragon friend from the Neutral Faction. "How long has it been?"

Tohru went into all of it - how she'd been stabbed, ended up in the human world, been saved by the drunken Kobayashi, and how she'd come to be living with her as her maid.

"Sounds like you've been enjoying yourself." Quetzacoatl replied after Tohru had finished catching her up. "Is living with humans fun?"

Tohru could only smile to her self in response. "Yes." She said with complete confidence. "Oh yeah, before I forget, I've been smelling something that reminds me of magic recently, but not quite. I've been wondering if you had any ideas?"

"Hmmm, nothing comes to mind. Why don't you think it's magic?"

"Because I'm pretty sure I would have noticed something if it was. I thought the house just needed a deeper clean, but it's been nagging at me since I finished today..." the blonde dragon maid sighed.

"Hmmm, I'm not sure, if that's the case. Oh, right! I almost forgot. Did you get my present?"

"...What present?"

"Hmm, did it not arrive? I made sure to send it through that world's couriers..."

"There was someone delivering packages the other day - but Miss Kobayashi didn't sign for it since she didn't order anything."

"Oh dear, it is a rather powerful artifact I had discovered. I could have kept it, but I figured it would be safer on your side, with less magic in the air."

"I see..." Tohru cradled her chin as she pondered. "Well, I should be able to track him down later via his scent. I'll go find him after taking care of the laundry. Thanks!" She said cheerily before ending the call with Quetzacoatl, moving to take the delicates out to dry (why did Mistress insist she couldn't mouth wash them!? It was so much more effective!)

After setting up the clothesline, she looked up at the sky, spotting the large covering of rain clouds and the flash of lightning. "The laundry won't dry in this weather, and the rain will make tracking the guy down harder..." Having come to a decision, she converted into her dragon form and charged up a massive blast of energy, blasting a massive hole in the clouds!

"Huh? What?" Ethan came to, the loud noise waking him up. When he turned to the Cube, however, he could only see Kobayashi walking about her office space. She seemed to be looking out the window. "Tohru... I'm gonna have to teach her a lot of things."

Spotting his clock for the first time, he realized it was almost noon. "Rrrgh, didn't mean to sleep that late..." He grumbled as he got up to make himself breakfast... or given the time, lunch. Brunch, maybe?

As he finished preparing himself a few pop tarts and grabbing a banana, he continued to watch the Cube focus on Kobayashi. It seemed she went about her day as normal, a boring office job. He couldn't help but realize he'd forgotten to shrink her chest back down, and there had been plenty of whispers about the redhead getting herself a boobjob. "Probably going to have to do something about that later..."

Speaking of, he hadn't seen the dragon girl in a bit. Guess the cube could only focus on one subject at a time. Leaving himself a mental note to check that out later, he searched and found a way to look at Tohru. the blonde seemed to be walking down the roads in her day clothes, nothing too interesting... until he saw her enter an apartment building. "That looks kind of familiar..." He said with worry as it looked a lot like his complex.

He jumped as he received confirmation as there was loud knocking on his door, in perfect time to the otherworldly dragon's own rapping of her knuckles. "Hello~? Delivery driver?"