Episode 7

**"Bear Hunting, a Queen, a Bath, and Monsters"** (Kuma kari to, ōjo to, o furo to, kaijū, *熊狩りと、王女と、お風呂と、怪獣*?) is the 7th episode of In the Land of Leadale anime series. It aired on February 16, 2022.

## Synopsis

On her way back, Cayna encounters Kartatz, who was in the area repairing a bridge, and they return to the Felskeilo capital together. She takes up an adventuring quest to hunt horned bear meat for a high-class restaurant, but gets unexpected company from Lonti and a friend of hers called Mye, who asks to accompany her. Quickly guessing that Mye is really Primo's sister, Cayna gives her permission, and in the forest, she awes the two girls with her magical powers, including by using them to construct a hot bath out of nothing. The next day, at the Adventurers Guild, the leader of the Felskeilo Knight Corps, Shining Saber, encounters an adventurer named Cohral. They both recognize each other as fellow players from Earth who got stuck in the world of *Leadale* for years. At the Royal Academy, Lopus unsuccessfully tries to recreate Cayna's method of potion-making; but when he dumps the failed concoction into a refuse pit. Somehow a gargantuan penguin-like monster - an Event Monster from the game - is called into being and embarks on a rampage.

## Summary

Riding on her wagon back to town, Cayna rides into her son, Kartatz who was repairing a bridge that lead to the town. Apparently, since the bandits around there were defeated, he and his workers were hired to fix it. He also mentions that the Felskeilo knights were dispatched to deal with the remaining bandits and learns that Cayna turned in the bandit leader. Cayna also mentions that she'll punish Mai-Mai when she returns back there and that she was impressed by Caerick and Caerina. Hearing this, Kartatz prays for his sister and wonders what happened between Mai-Mai's children and his mother.

Finally back in Felskeilo, Cayna meets with Arbiter and Elineh to be paid her reward money for a successful mission. After this, Cayna heads to the Adventurers Guild with Li'l Fairy. At the guild, Cayna chooses a quest to acquire horned bear meat and is left perplexed by the quest's requester being a black white-tailed rabbit. It's clarified by Kee that the place is a restaurant that her children frequent. On her way out of the guild, Cayna bumps into a knight who dissuades himself that she was the same lady who ran across the river. Outside of the guild, Cayna is approached by Lonti who was accompanied by a lady named Mye, by the docks, she's formally introduced. They ask Cayna to be Mye's personal bodyguard for a while and despite believing Mye to be a runaway of the sort, she accepts. Cayna then invites the two to help her with the quest that she recently accepted, which would make it more difficult for people to find her if she is in fact a runaway.

They soon reach the forest where the quest target is and that night, Lonti and Mye enjoy a simple dinner with Cayna whose Cerberus frightens the two. The moment Cayna finishes her food, Cayna heads off into the forest after telling the two why she's there and moments later an explosion could be heard and felt. Both Mye and Lonti head out to investigate it and find that Cayna created a make-shift bath by the nearby lake. The group then bathes together and during it, Mye unintentionally reveals her affection for Skargo and Lonti reveals that Mye is really the princess.

Afterward, Cayna summons her White Dragon, whom she shows is tame to Lonti and Mye. Cuddled around the dragon, the group talk about the Knight Leader mentioning that there was a dragon that protected an ancient ruins somewhere. Cayna then learns more about the Knight Leader who is a Dragoid. They then talk about Primo and learning that Cayna can walk on water, Mye asks to learn it to, but Cayna deems it impossible for someone like her. However, Cayna proposes that if Mye completes a trial she'll be able to do it, but Lonti and Mye politely refuse.

The following day, Cayna hunts a horned bear and plans to return back to the town. Back there at the Adventurers guild, the knight Cayna bumped into contemplates over whether or not he should approach and ask Cayna about something. At that moment, the Knight Leader Shining Saber arrives and the night recognizes him as a member of the Silver Moon Horseman Guild, from the Leadale game. The Knight who is known as Cohral, embraces Shining Saber and tells him of how he became trapped in the game.

Meanwhile, Lopus tries to recreate a potion that Cayna created, but fails. He then disposes of it in a garbage pit in the back of the school, which causes a gargantuan penguin-like monster to be summoned.

## Characters

* Cayna
* Kartatz
* Arbiter
* Elineh
* Li'l Fairy
* Kee
* Myleene
* Lonti Arbalest
* Primo (Flashback)
* Lopus Harvey
* Cohral
* Shining Saber
* Almana

## Adaptation Notes

* Light Novel Volume 2
	+ Chapter 2: Golems, Players, the Role of the Transcendental, and a Guardian Tower
	+ Chapter 3: A Bridge, Laundry, a Queen, and a Bear Hunt
	+ Chapter 4: A Reunion, a Monster, Subjugation, and a Clue

## Trivia

* Caeyna can't get the restaurant's name right.
* Caeyna is ignorant of the fact her dragon is male; considering she couldn't figure out that she accidentally showed Mye and Lonti the proof by having her dragon take a begging pose like a dog