Kandy Kane Kavern

**Kandy Kane Kavern** (キャンディ・ケイン・キャバーン, *Kyandi Kein Kyabān*) is a cave Dungeon in ALfheim Online, and the location of the Hall of History.

## Synopsis

### Fairy Dance Arc

#### Episode 15

Due to figuring out that Kirito was her real life brother, Leafa decided to mess with him by sending him on an annoying wild goose chase, as she was convinced that he was in the game to mess with her. After getting fed up with this, Yui decided to set her right while Kirito was logged out of the game, and decided to take divert the journey through Kandy Kane Kavern in order to make it to the Sylph-Cait Sith peace conference before it ended, in order to recruit both armies in their crusade to rescue Asuna at the top of the World Tree.

#### Episode 16

After hours of wandering, Kirito and Leafa hear a lost child somewhere deep within the cavern. When Kirito asks if they should help the child, Leafa says that the voice was coming from the Hall of History, which is presented by an Animatronic Gandalf that teaches children dodgy history fact, so the child is "basically already dead". The child then gets a question about the moon landing "wrong" and gets mauled to death by some bears.

After a brief conversation between Kirito and Leafa, Yui suddenly warns them that a group of 12 players was approaching them. After killing the Salamanders pet bat Squeaker, they rush to the capital of Kandy Kane Kavern, Kandy Kane Kapital. However, before they could reach the gate, Kirito accidentally locks them out by spelling the name of the city wrong. With no way to reach the city, or any way to retreat, the duo is forced to fight the Salamander party.

Kirito asks Leafa to take the role of a support so that she could heal him when he took damage so that he could go all out head-on against the Salamanders. However, when he asked Leafa to shield him, Leafa feigned ignorance, allowing the mages cast Fireball, dealing heavy damage to Kirito. As Kirito continued to struggle, Yui tells Leafa that she has found something in the game's code that can help Kirito and pleads with Leafa to put everything the latter has into protecting Kirito while the former initiates the code.

At first, Leafa doesn't want to help Kirito, as she sees this as the perfect opportunity to watch him suffer, but Yui convinces her that only Leafa can take the first step to Leafa is the only one who can make the first step to repair their relationship. Yui asks her to help once more, calling her "Auntie Sugu" for good measure, which Leafa thinks is cheating.

Finally given into Yui's plea, Leafa casts Butterfly Shield, shielding Kirito from some Fireballs. Thanks to Leafa, Yui manages to execute her code, turning Kirito into the Gleam Eyes. Initially the Salamander commander reassures his men that Kirito was just using Illusion Magic and couldn't hurt them, but Kirito begins to slaughter the army, eating some of them alive, proving the commander wrong.

Awhile later, Kirito and Leafa rushed out of town after hearing about the Salamanders' plan to attack the Sylph-Cait Sith peace conference, leaving the burning ruins of Kandy Kane Kapital behind them.

## Differences from the Original

Do to the fact that ALO wasn't an educational kid's game in the original, the cavern that Leafa and Kirito wander through wasn't called Kandy Kane Kavern. It was called the Legrue Corridor.

## Trivia

* The map of Kandy Kane Kavern that Kirito looks at is map of Wave Echo Cave from the Dungeons & Dragons adventure Lost Mine of Phandelver.