The next morning, the two girls are in the middle of a conversation about how much fun they're having together. They're talking about the fact that they've both had to close their shops because of the pain in their shoulders. Apparently, the pain is caused by a condition called "disease" , which means "swell" in Latin. It's a pain in the back of the neck caused by the muscles in your neck. The two girls don't know how to explain the pain to each other, but they do know that the pain isn't caused by magic, but by the curse of the village. Apparently the village has been cursed, and the healing magic that's supposed to cure the pain hasn't been working for a few months. The girls wonder why the leader of the dark elves, Kelebril, has come to visit them recently, and why the engagement has been annulled. They also learn that the village is cursed because the person who curses the village curses herself. They decide to go to the village to ask the woman who cursed them to "lift the curse" on them.