Chise and Elias are in the middle of shearing Wooly Bugs, magical creatures who eat cold from the air and grow wool with magical properties. Chise becomes distracted and is attacked by a sub species of Wooly Bug that eats warmth and steals her body heat. Elias banishes it back to its home and rushes Chise indoors to warm up. Chise reveals she knows about Elias impulse to eat humans, and the time he was tempted to eat her while in his inhuman form. Elias almost erases the memory but she refuses to let him as her memories of him are precious. Since she lost her parents and brother, Elias was the only family she had, so the thought of losing Elias scares her more than anything. Chise also reveals that both of her parents had the "sight" and could see the same creatures that most other humans cannot see. Elias admits he has no experience of emotions except for feeling cold when Chise was gone and warm when she returned. Chise recognises this as loneliness and promises to be teach him human things. While showing scenes of Chise studying her magic books, we see the books that Angelica sent her, including the story book that was the main item in the OVA episodes. Later, they are visited by a faerie acquaintance of Elias named Ashen Eye who gives Chise a “gift” for capturing and binding his fellow spirits. He traps Chise in an animal skin, transforming her into a fox.