Episode 3

**"The Daughter, an Arena, a Blast, and an Uppercut"** (娘と、闘技場と、爆走と、アッパーカット, *Musume to, Tōgijō to, Bakusō to, Appākatto*?) is the 3rd episode of In the Land of Leadale anime series. It aired on January 19, 2022.

## Synopsis

Following a summons to the academy, Cayna is reunited with her 2nd child Mai-Mai. Later Cayna accepts a quest from the Adventurer's Guild to investigate a ghost haunting the local coliseum, where there's more to that place than meets the eye.

## Summary

Experiencing a headache due to the hangover that she's experiencing, Cayna is called out by some of the townsfolk as "The lady who crossed the river". Later when Cayna visits both Elineh and Arbiter, Elineh calls Cayna the same line spoken around town, much to her dismay. She asks the two for information on towers like the Silver Tower. Elineh mentions the Tower located in a lake. With that in mind, she asks the two to be on the lookout for any information for any other towers. Later at the Adventurer's Guild, Cayna receives a summons from Mai-Mai, to which, Cayna happily thinks it'll be a good chance for her to finally meet her.

At the academy, Cayna is led to Mai-Mai's office by Lonti and once they enter the office, Mai-Mai immediately hugs and embraces her mother. Pinching, Mai-Mai to be released from her grasp, Cayna snaps Lonti out of her shock and confirms to her that she's the mother of "Headmaster" Mai-Mai. After Mai-Mai has Lonti excused from her office, she introduces Cayna to Lopus Harvey, Mai-Mai's 2nd husband, and the professor of alchemy within the academy. It's explained that he's the reason why she was summoned there as he was curious about the potion she submitted for the Adventurer's Guild Quest that she completed. As it turns out, the one who submitted the quest was a student in his class. Lopus explains that the potion is an artifact-level potion that was created with out-of-date methods. Cayna is then roped into showing his class how to make a high-class potion for his class and when she does everyone, excluding Mai-Mai is shocked.

Afterward, Cayna accepts a quest to investigate a haunted coliseum and learns the details about the quest from the guild receptionist. She then visits the coliseum and unbeknownst to her at the time was being tailed by Primo. After talking about the coliseum's history for a bit with Key, Cayna then pulls out of her inventory the Eternal Flame blade and then summons Cerebus to patrol the area. Eventually, Cerebus returns with Primo as Cayna cooks some meat in a campfire that she started. Enjoying some of Cayna's meat, Primo explains that he was following her to figure out who she really was. He then recounts, how she caught him the other day, her relation to Skargo, Mai-Mai, and Kartatz, and finally how Lonti looks up to her. The last bit Primo blushes on as Cayna realizes what it's all about.

By nightfall, the ghost appears and Cayna's Guardian Tower ring starts to illuminate and she realizes that the place is really a Guardian Tower. With the help of her ring, Cayna uses it to transport inside of the tower. Within the tower, Cayna sees that she's in a small dome-shaped room with a wilted tree planted on a pedestal. Feeling bad for the tree, Cayna revitalizes it with her MP which causes the room to light up and change the walls to a sunny cloudy day. The Guardian of the tower also appears in front of Cayna to greet her and then inform her what tower number she's in and the name of its owner Kyotaro. When the guardian asks for Cayna's name, she gives it and asks it what happened to the tower's previous owner Kyotaro. The Guardian states that he hasn't returned there in quite some time and that he probably never intends to. Furthermore, the Guardian relays to Cayna, Kyotaro's final message. In it, it's mentioned that there were only 12 Skill Masters, but Cayna recalls there actually being 13. This leads Cayna to believe that she wasn't counted because she died in the real world. There's also the fact that the Ledale online game service most likely ended sometime after she died and she's in a future where all of the game players left. The Guardian continues its explanation about why it came to haunt the coliseum due to sensing another guardian ring a few days before. With that, the Guardian bestows Cayna the ring to the Tower and names her its new master. For her first order, Cayna asks that the guardian not bother the people when they use the coliseum above.

Meanwhile, Primo is found by his escorts. Afterward, a mopy Cayna laments being the last player left in the game on her bed in her room at the inn. Upon hearing that she's been holed up in her room for two days by Agaido, a frantic Skargo rushes to his mother's aid only to receive an uppercut by her for being too weird. Right after Cayna casts an Isolation Barrier around herself, Mai-Mai then arrives and has some of her subordinates take Skargo from the scene.

## Characters

* Cayna
* Key
* Skargo
* Kartatz
* Mai-Mai
* Lonti Arbalest
* Lopus Harvey
* Elineh
* Arbiter
* Agaido
* Kenison
* Primo
* Kyotaro

## Location

**Felskeilo Kingdom**

* Felskeilo Academy
* Adventurers Guild
* Colosseum

## Adaptation Notes

* Light Novel Volume 1
	+ Chapter 4. A Daughter, an Academy, a Tower, and a Summoned Beast

## Trivia

* Cayna has *no* clue where the bottle for her potion came from; even if Harvey asked her, she can't just say it a side-effect of her crafting it (no telling what messes that would cause if someone tried copying her Player ability).
* Realistic Outcome: Cayna falls into a depression upon learning she has no fellow players or friends stuck on Leadale with her; with only her obnoxious foster children around.