Drake and the rest went to different places. This time, he allowed Stryx, Noctheria, and Zephyr to transform into their human forms, so now Kaidros is the father of all four of them—he's the big brother, and they are his triplet siblings.
As for why Drake allowed this, it was because they were going shopping. They had to buy some clothes that looked fashionable enough, and Kaidros had exchanged for multiple gold coins.
The only thing Drake was grateful for—but also had his heart pricked by—was that a lady wasn't with them to go shopping together. He heard that ladies are like energy generators when they go shopping; they can shop from morning till night looking energetic, which Drake doesn't want to experience.
But thinking about it, he had never gone shopping with a lady, because he got rejected by all of them. The act of asking a girl to be his girlfriend resulted in ninety rejections, while asking girls to go shopping with him carried an infinite rejection aura.
