While wandering around in a peculiar dark dungeon far away from the guild at the open grass cliffs, I ran into a friendly Lepardas who was on his own mission to save a friend of his from the depths of the swamp at the end. ''I can help you if you like!'', I told him. ''You would? Oh, thank you, Hellgar. We'll make a great team together!''. So, we continued together through an increasingly narrow and damp tunnel. ''Look!'', I said, pointing with a paw at the distance, ''Over there! There's a small stream of water flowing down!''. The cat looked at me: ''I thought you were afraid of water?''. ''Yeah, but we have to get past it if we want to reach the swamp below. I wouldn't like tumbling down those steep cliffs and hurt myself, would you?''.

Lepardas agreed, so we carefully went around the waterfall. After we safely crossed the stream leading up to it, I suddenly stopped. ''Hey, pal. What's taking you so long?'', the cat asked. I wanted to reply, but Lepardas already found out the reason why I froze in my tracks -- a tiny, peculiarly shaped spray bottle, sitting out in the open, here deep down in the dark stony moss-covered depths, peeked my interest. Lepardas didn't dare touching it, but I was brave enough to give the thing a little push. The yellow-colored spray moved over a tiny bit, and after it did, a strange substance suddenly sprang from the tip of the item. The foggy stuff entered our noses. It was as sweet as could be! ''BWLEECHH!'', Lepardas groaned, ''this smell is worse than Perap after he's taken a mud bath! And that is saying something''.

Finally, the fumes disappeared, but I immediately noticed things around us had become much different-looking from before we activated the spray -- much... larger. ''...! Oh, wowza!'', I exclaimed, it echoing throughout the mossy chambers of the dungeon, ''We're so... small!''. I looked at my paws and little snout in a nearby puddle. My tail was now much shorter and it lacked the fork shape it used to have. My paws were stubbier and my ears and belly felt oddly tingly, and were much closer to the ground. I looked at Lepardas, just as he said: ''Uh-oh...~ We... prolly shouldn't have done that...///''. Before me was a young Choroneko adorned with a white diaper around his lower body. I looked in the puddle's reflection once more and saw that I myself meanwhile had turned into a Delvil, also wearing a soft, white-colored, crinkly undergarment. ''We've devolved!'', I said, with a mix of awe and worry in my voice, a slightly higher-pitched one from moments ago. ''I see that'', Choroneko replied, looking at his own body, wrapped in the training-pants style diaper.

The cat, regressed to a kitty, stood up and attempted to stand on all-fours like he had trained himself ever since becoming a Lepardas. Alas, he couldn't do it. ''I think we have to abort our mission for awhile until we've gained our strength back, eh... Delvil'', he said, disappointed. ''Yeah...'', I replied, ''do you know the way out?''. ''Believe me, I've come to this cave system enough times to practically create an accurate image in my head to find the exit'', Choroneko revealed, ''the mission will have to wait. Come with me. I... eh... I think those rocks under the big waterfall aren't the ~only~ thing that'll be all wet once we're back to your guild. And, just to be safe, let's take THIS... 'thing' with us so the Guild Master over at your place can study it and possibly reverse our predicament''.

I was pretty certain both of us would be dungeon 'crawling' for quite some time after what had just happened to us.

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