Forward!! To the Center of Leazas!!

'''Forward!! To the Center of Leazas!!''' is the second episode of the Rance 01: OVA.

It first aired in June the 26th, 2015. The episode continues with Rance's first adventure in his search for the missing noble girl Hikari Mi Blanc in the hentai adaptation of the 2013 remake Rance 01.

Summary
The episode starts with the opening scene, showcasing the generals of the Leazas Army, including Barres Province, Leila Grecni and Rick Addison.

It continues where it left off after Rance was threatened by a Mysterious Ninja to stop investigating the case of Hikari Mi Blanc's dissappearance. Rance gets mad and counter attacks, forcing the ninja to dodge. They have a short fight where the ninja has the upperhand until Sill appears panicking because Rance is in danger and starts casting a Fire Spell to drive her away. The Ninja believes it would be too dangerous to fight outnumbered and decides to retreat, jumping above the ceiling and quickly going out of Rance's sight. Sill shows her concern for Rance, but he's mad at her for letting the ninja get away, punching her as a result. He decides to leave it for now and return to the inn, since it's already late, claiming that they will find something eventually if they keep searching. Meanwhile, in the Pub, the bartender is overjoyed by his daugther's safe return, and Pulptenks cant' get Rance off her head.

The following day, Rance tries to enter in the Leazas Castle to investigate but he's stopped by the gatekeeper, who introduces herself as Menad and tells Rance he can't go in without a pass. Rance insists but Menad remains firm and says she would have to fight him if he tried to force his way in, much to Rance's annoyance. Rance starts wandering around the town thinking what to do and concludes that it's Sill's fault so he decides to punish her. He starts searching for her in Paris Academy, but he's received by a green-haired student that tells her she was going to go to the Leazas Castle, which pisses Rance off. The girl deduces that she should have returned by now so she's probably taking a break in the park instead.

Sill is in the park where she encountered a puppy. She thinks it's cute and feeds it with a bit of her food but Rance appears and steps on it by "accident". Sill starts panicking and asks him to raise his foot but Rance doesn't care and keeps stepping on it. He stops upon seeing Sill's pass to enter to the Leazas Castle. She tells him that she got it from her teacher, but Rance gets mad because it's something extremely important that she should have given to him as soon as she received it, so he decides to punish her. Rance then has sex with her in the park, without caring if anyone is watching them.

Rance returns to the Leazas Castle and presents the pass to Menad, who is completely shocked that he actually had a pass and wonders if he stole it from somewhere. Rance refutes the idea immediately, claiming that he's a righteous Hero of Justice and that he is searching for a ninja, comment that catches Menad's attention.

Upon entering the Leazas Castle, he notices the Coliseum, a giant ring stadium where fighter battle at everyone's sight. Among the names of the contendants, he's surprised by one fighter who's name was announced as "Ninja Master" in the chart, so he guesses that it must be the Mysterious Ninja that attacked him the previous night and that knew something about Hikari.

He returns to see Menad and asks her about Ninja Master, telling her that he plans on entering the Coliseum to confront the ninja and get some clues about Hikari. He explains Menad that he's investigating the case of Hikari's dissappearance and asks her if she knows how he could get in the Coliseum. Menad claims to have a participation ticked that she can't use because she can't leave her job as a gatekeeper during the hours the coliseum matches take place, but she doesn't want to give the ticket to any random adventurer, so she asked him to help her get rid of Undead Monsters that are lurking on the Leazas Cementery on the night, in exchange of the ticket, since she could also test him if he's good enough to participate in the Coliseum. Rance is annoyed by the proposal but still agrees. ==Characters==

Trivia

 * At the beginning, it is claimed that the warriors from Leazas are famous for being the strongest in The Continent. This is untrue, since Helman's Army is the one that is known for being the mightiest.
 * When Rance steps on the dog, he gets "1UP" the more he steps on it.
 * The pass Rance presents to Menad has Hanny stamp for whatever reason.
 * In the Coliseum scene, Tomato Purée makes a cameo appearance among the croud.