Episode Title:
Labyrinth Dragnet
Episode Description:
Reina’s mother, retired adventurer Ada the Sommelier, is grateful the Survivors saved her. Reina asks to become Zem’s disciple but he refuses, revealing his past experience gave him a phobia of young girls. Ada decides to train the Survivors against Stepping Man’s skills; Light Body for flight and Heavy Body for strength. After encountering Stepping Man again Nick also doubts it is Olivia. Suspecting Stepping Man is using a magic artefact Nick asks Leon’s advice and learns the most likely artefact is an Illusion King Gem. It’s illusions are easily broken by confronting the user by name, meaning Olivia is definitely not Stepping Man. Olivia later attacks them, believing Nick is Stepping Man. After determining that neither of them are Stepping Man Olivia admits Stepping Man was her adventurer title before she became a reporter, meaning Stepping Man is using her title and skills to frame her. Examining a dead girl, one of Stepping Man’s victims, they find an Illusion Gem fragment designed to obscure her identity. With the fragment removed she is revealed as Martha, a blacksmiths daughter who was receiving treatment for Yellow Demon Sickness. Zem believes he knows who Stepping Man is.
