Tohru's love potion bit fails in the best way possible, and you spend the whole opening act watching Kobayashi treat her own girlfriend like a problem to manage. The OVA knows exactly what it's doing: it's not here to escalate anything, just to sit in the quiet awkwardness of two people who already chose each other pretending the choice still matters. The hot spring sequences feel less like fanservice and more like documentary footage of a household that actually functions. Kanna gets real character moments instead of being treated like a prop. This is what Dragon Maid does better than almost anything else on TV: it lets mundane domesticity be enough.

Hoping to take her feelings for Kobayashi further, dragon maid Tohru brews a love potion and hides it in homemade chocolates for Valentine's Day. Kobayashi catches on to the trick almost at once. Later, though, she eats some of the spiked sweets by accident, believing they are chocolates Kanna was given, and the liquor mixed into them neutralizes the potion. Makoto then brings the whole group along on an outing to a hot spring inn, and there Tohru offers Kobayashi chocolates with nothing added. The OVA is a single light episode of comedy, fantasy and romance, originally released unaired as episode 14 alongside the seventh home video volume of the series.