Rance 01:Walkthrough

Introduction
The story begins with Rance receiving his latest job from Keith at the guild: locate Hikari, the daughter of a prestigious family in Leazas. When you arrive, Rance sends Sill off to gather information by infiltrating Hikari's school as a student. Too late he realizes that she has all their money.
 * Play through the initial tutorial as you follow the road to the town.
 * You can stroll around Leazas for a little while if you like, but it won't get you very far - you can't track Sill down at the academy, nothing of interest is happening at the bar, and the town square just gives Rance a couple of (CG-less) peeping opportunities.
 * Eventually night will fall, so make your way to the inn.  The innkeeper Nami doesn't know anything about Hikari, but she does still expect to be paid for the night; Rance puts up his sword as collateral, leaving you weaponless for the moment.  Poke around your room and try unsuccessfully to score with Nami if you want, then go to sleep.
 * The next morning Nami wil suggest the item shop as a possible source of info, adding it to the map, so make your way there.
 * Patty the shopkeeper doesn't know anything about Hikari either, but she suggests that her friend Millie at the weapon shop might.
 * Millie likewise has no specific information, but does refer to a band of thieves who've been kidnapping girls; she says the man who runs the bar in town had his daughter taken by them.
 * He confirms this when you go talk to him.  Figuring he can kill several birds with one stone (get paid, rescue a girl, follow up a lead on Hikari), Rance offers to help.  The barkeep gives him 100G as a down payment.
 * For whatever reason, you can't use this money to pay Nami and get your sword back, so equip yourself at Millie's shop.
 * You can go to the academy and shake Sill down for an additional 50G (she spent the rest on her entrance fee), although this still isn't enough to buy very much.
 * Around this time you'll start running into a girl (Kanami) after leaving an area.  She seems to panic and run away when she sees Rance.
 * The first time, Rance makes a note to ask her out the next time he sees her.
 * He doesn't have any more luck the second time; once she's out of range, Kanami expresses shock that Rance could detect her.
 * The third time, he manages to talk to her.  Realizing that he's just a lecher, and not some highly-trained enemy agent, she asks him to meet her in the park at night.
 * If you go to this meeting, Rance tries to put the moves on her; suddenly, she disrobes into ninja garb, puts a knife to his throat, and warns him to drop his investigation of Hikari.  She then leaves - with your purse.

The Thieves' Hideout

 * Head outside the city to go to the thieves' hideout.  Note that going there during the day or night will force you into an engagement with lookout thieves, and will be hard to win.  If you go during the afternoon they'll be at lunch, at which point you can enter easily.
 * Once you're in, there will be a room that has an enemey that acts as a doorkeeper to the lower levels of the hideout.  He must be defeated to proceed down the set of stairs.
 * If you visit the warehouse several times you'll get a wine bottle that you can give to Nekai Sis (Thief Leader's second in command) for an H-scene.  You can also go further in the warehouse to see British trapped in cement.  You can search around the area and get an elixir (do NOT use it, you will need it for another quest later on.)
 * This quest will eventually make the elixir drinkable, and you can use 1 of 3 chants for different effects:
 * Super Brute: +160 Max HP
 * Supply Revision: +2 Chip Slots
 * Thirteen Main Street: 3x Attack Power when unarmed (not using any chips)
 * Further in there is the Thief Leader's room, which is not accessible unless you have a key, which the Thief Leader's second in command does.  However, she won't give it to you unless you fetch her some grapewine that's in the area.  She'll hand over the keys once you find it and deliver it to her.
 * You also get an H-scene for giving her the other wine bottle [needs clarity on bottle name]
 * Head to the Thief Leader's room and beat him.  You'll have an H-scene with the bar owner's daughter.  Head back into the town bar and they will reunite, and you will also be rewarded with gold as well.
 * After a certain time, Kanami will attack you again for ignoring her warning of dropping the investigation of Hikari.  Defeat her, and she'll run towards the castle.  Rance runs after her, only to be blocked by the guards (who scoff that a ninja would be in Leazas).
 * In order to go through the castle, you will need a Castle Passage Note to go through (which, coincidentally, Sill has from her academy).  You will need to make sure that Sill is NOT at the academy (and encounter Sill's "friend" instead, who is actually Maris Amaryllis in disguise).  Go to the park at noon time where you will find Sill feeding a dog.  You will be able to get the Castle Passage Note from her there.
 * If you are level 13 at this point, you should have received an ALICEMAN copper coin (Every 3 levels after level 13 will award you another coin).  Present it to the holy statue outside the city and you can choose one of the following:
 * All-or-Nothing: Critical Damage UP
 * Super Regen: 15% HP Regen after battles (Highly recommended you choose this first to last longer)
 * Strong Hips: Able to travel even at 0 HP (instead of dying)
 * Strengthen Immunity: Status Ailments are shorter
 * Battle Enthusiast: 20% increased Exp
 * Miser: 20% increased GOLD
 * Around this point you should already have access to the info store (after some dialog between the other places).  Generally you can ask the robot for girls you can H, and it will list the specs of all of them (Attacks, special moves, lucky numbers, and when to engage them.)
 * The robot also sells 3 items that you can repurchase once used:
 * An anywhere door screen(Allows you to access your storage box while inside a dungeon)
 * Save Lion (Allows you save while inside the dungeon)
 * Weekly Hit Points (Allows you see how much HP the enemy has.  It is shown through the Battle Log at the start of battle.)  This item can also be consumed to restore 50% of your HP.
 * The robot will also have new options depending on how far you have gone through the game.
 * At some point after rescuing the bar owner's daughter, if you go at night you will meet with Hazuki, who's a dealer at the casino inside Leazas Castle.  One of the dialogue options allows you bet 100G on a 50-50 gambling game.  Keep doing this several times and she'll offer you to play at higher stakes and hands you her business card.

The Castle

 * Once you enter the castle grounds, a new isometric map is before you. The guest room of the castle replaces the functions of the inn outside the castle.
 * In order to get into the casino (Hong Kong Macao), you need to bring with you the business card that Hazuki gave you at the bar to go in.  You'll need at least 500G to challenge her.
 * (More walkthrough to come)
 * If you challenge  Hazuki, you will reach a moment in which she will cheat so that you do not win. After you noticed it, stop playing and attempt to leave. A girl will approach to you but will soon be separated from you.
 * Go to the park at night in order to find her. She is Aki, and she will ask you to save her sister Yuki.
 * Go to the prision inside the castle at morning so that you find that the guardian is a little kid, who will stop you.
 * Go back and talk with Menado about that girl. She will tell you that the kid gets sleepy if hears a boring talk.
 * Go to the prision and talk about nonsense things. Once that the girls is asleep, you can get kind of a H-scene. After that, you are required to follow a pattern of cards that enable you to reach the cell in which Yuki lies. You get a H-scene after the meeting.
 * Another venue here is the coliseum.  When Rance sees the rankings and sees "Ninja Master", he is reminded of Kanami and wants to punish her, so he decides to join the tournament.  Unfortunately he does not have a Invitation which is exclusive given by the King.  At this point, you will get a new explore location, the "Throne Room".
 * In the Throne Room, you will meet with the King and Queen of Leazas, where the King is rather crazy.  Choosing to "Attack the King" or "Attack the Queen" twice will make Rance attempt to do those tasks, only to be slashed at by a guard, dealing 555 damage.
 * Talk about wanting to participate in the Coliseum several times.  The king will babble on, and a new option will appear (Keep talking with the king until Noon/Night).  Once that option appears, just leave and go outside the castle.  Go to the I, NET (Info shop) and you will see a new option appear that allows you to obtain information on how to get a Coliseum Invitation (this info is free).
 * The robot will tell you to talk to Menado, the girl who is guarding the castle gate.  Apparently, she has one of those, but can't use it as she's part of the Leazas guard now.  Rance will ask her for it, and she agrees under one condition: to exterminate the zombies in the graveyard.  You will get a new location outside the castle called "Heroes' Graveyard", which can only be accessed at night.
 * At the Heroes' Graveyard at night, you and Menado compete to see who can kill the most zombies.  Rance, as always, uses underhanded methods.  You spring traps (blue cards) at every opportunity you get, finally forcing Menado to face a Zombie Elf.  Your traps will also force Menado to be in trouble, allowing you to fight the Zombie Elf (540 HP).
 * Once you defeat it, you can keep trying to "Attack Menado", and it will say that Rance needs to distract her.  Talk to her once, then choose "Attack Menado" again to get an H-scene where he fucks her in the graveyard.
 * At this point, since she has fallen head over heels for you, you can go in and out of the castle without the Castle Passage Note.
 * At some point you will read in the newspaper (at the inn) that the group of thieves remnants are causing trouble.  Once you go into the weapon store you will see Milli get attacked by them.  Rance automatically kills them.
 * Later on, when you go to her store again, she leaves a note saying that she has gone somewhere and won't return for a few days.  Head over to Patty's store and ask Milli's whereabouts.  She'll panic and tell you that Milli is heading for the lake (You should have passed by this at some point when you were grinding outside, or even tried fighting the Lake Monster and dying easily).  Talking to Patty several times will have her give you a golden hanger, which does over 1000 damage.  While this is not needed to beat the Lake Monster, it will certainly help if you are underleveled.
 * NOTE: You will have 2 days from after seeing the event where she's absent from her store to rescuing her at the lake.  After those two days are up you won't get a chance to do this again.
 * Go to the lake and you will see Milli.  Defeat the Lake Monster and Milli will explain why she's indifferent to everything (She was unlucky when she was little, with her dad hanging himself from debt, and her mother and siblings died to sickness.  She wished on a shooting star to become happy, and it said "Let it be so."  Afterwards, anything that she thinks will bring her harm are forced to avoid her.  Everytime she was to compete or set a goal, she will inevitably win or achieve it due to this "Fortune".)
 * After getting the Coliseum Invitation, you will start from 10th place, and can only challenge people 1-2 ranks higher than you.  Also, you can only challenge once per day.  When Rance gets 8th place, the 6th place opponent (named Jean) will come to you and attempt to fix the match between you and him in return for gold.  Of course, you are not obligated to honor the promise in any way, so take all the gold you can from him, then win against him.  Afterwards, you will see the champion, Yuran, come by and you two will talk a little.  Jean will also come and ask about Yuran to become his wife.  Yuran refuses, saying that she'll only think about it once she's defeated by him.  Rance, hearing this, decides to aim to be the champion and have sex with her.
 * Once you get to rank 6th, you will see a scene where Kanami and Menado eat lunch together.  Kanami talks about her troubles with Rance, and Menado talks about her relationship with Rance (both don't know they are referring to the same person).
 * Once you challenge rank 4th, Ninja Master, it turns out it was somebody else.  Defeat him, and Maris will come and invite you to Lia's room.  Lia will ask that you exterminate ghosts at their holiday mansion (located outside the castle).
 * If you go to the Coliseum again afterwards, you will meet Ninja Master who's actually a Leazas Guard.  He'll give you a scroll which changes an individual's personality.  Rance plans on using it on Sill later.
 * Have the scroll in your inventory when you call out Sill at the Academy.  There will be an option where you can use the scroll on her, and you will get another H-scene with Sill on top of Rance.
 * Once you get to 2nd place, you will have another chat with Yuran.  You also get to see her demonstrate her sword skill, the Phantasm Sword. 　Rance thinks that skill will be hard to beat, so afterwards head to the Academy and call out Sill, and you can ask about how to win against Yuran.  Sill suggests using something slippery so that the her sword slips through.  Rance thinks of going to the Beachhouse Shop to get something slippery.
 * Head to the Beachhouse and ask Patty for something slippery.  She'll first suggest pomade, then purslane, which is a slimy grass that is tasty when eaten.  She'll offer it at 30000 GOLD because the harvest for this is bad this year (apparently it's 3 GOLD per kilo).  She also mentions that the castle grows a lot of these.  Afterwards, the Purslane will show up as a purchasable item.
 * Head to the castle gate and Rance will ask Menado about purslane.  Apparently the maid just gathered some and is at the kitchen.  A new location will appear.
 * Head to the kitchen and you will meet Haiji, an unfriendly-maid working there.  You will also see the purslane that you need, but you be refusted to take anything from here.  You can head back to Menado and talk to her about it.  She'll mention how someone is stealing bread from the kitchen at night.
 * Head back to the kitchen and talk to Haiji about a bread-stealing thief.  She'll mention about how even the thief has circumstances.
 * Go visit the kitchen again at night and you'll catch Haiji red-handed hiding bread under her skirt (she tries to talk her way out of it that she found out she was a man.  Rance figures it out easily ("Nobody has THAT big of a magnum!").  She then tries to make an excuse that she's stealing bread for her family (The true reason is that Haiji wanted to eat tasty white bread, instead of the black bread given out to maids.)
 * An option will appear for you to ask about purslane, and Rance can threaten to tell on her for some of it.
 * Once you have the purslane, go back to the coliseum and use it in battle.  Please note that its only effective for a couple of moves, so it is best to use it when she's using the Phantasm Sword skill.  For a time after you use it, her attacks will be pitifully weak, allowing you to defeat her easily.
 * While it's possible to defeat her without using purslane, you will miss out on getting the H scene with Nami.
 * Once you have defeated her, you can go back to the inn and try to attack Nami.  She'll still defeat you, but Rance figures out he can use purslane again.
 * Unfortunately, you can't get Haiji to give you some more (you can however, H her for not learning not to steal bread).  You will have to actually earn 30k gold and buy it at Patty's Beachhouse shop.
 * If you go to the empty room in the castle at noon, you will find a maid there. You can get an H-scene if you have in your inventory the "third class gift" that Milli gives as a lottery reward.

The Haunted Mansion

 * Go to the haunted mansion and try to go up or down the mansion.  You will not be able to go up (barrels will keep rolling towards you) and you will not be able to go down either because it's locked.
 * Beware that these monsters are several times stronger than most of the monsters you encounter outside the city and the graveyard.  You may need to level up a bit before tackling this area.
 * Head back to Lia's room and you will give her a status report on the mansion.  Once you leave, she'll have Kanami leave written instructions on how to open the door inside the mansion, as well as the key for it.
 * Head back into the parlor room inside the haunted mansion.  This time, you will see a piece of paper on the table.  Read it and it will tell you how to open the door to the stairs below.
 * Also, if you inspect the fireplace several, times you will engage in a fight against 3 monster. If you managed to defeat them, you will get a powerful sword.
 * You can get the "fire leaf" (required of a H-scene with Patty), if you enter in the "bookshelf room". However, the H-scene is only available after  previous dialog about fireleaf  with Patty.
 * Once downstairs, select the card that says "Mysterious Presence" and you'll meet with the former thief leader's second in command, Nekai Sis.  She'll be selling you keys to get into rooms in this area.  The first key will be the "Frog Room", which has a naked girl being tortured.  Rance joins in in an H-scene.
 * Afterwards, you'll see that you're being watched by Lia and Maris, and that she plans on making you her pet once you are finished.
 * Go to the "Mysterious Presence" again and she'll sell you the "Cow Key" before leaving the area.  This time, go to the Cow Room and you'll see yet another girl being tortured.  Rance H's her.
 * If you revisit the room again you'll get the "Unlucky Glasses" item for Milli.  This only occurs when you talked with Willis about destiny and she mentions the glasses.
 * Keep going and go into the "Squid Room".  You'll see another scene where Lavender (the ghost girl) is being tortured again.  Keep looking around the room and you'll find a small key to something.  Take it.
 * That key is for the diary from the ghost girl, which is in room of the second flor. In order to get there you need to get the red hammer (Found in the store from Patty). Then, once you reach the floor, you will fight the gorilla that was throwing the barrels.
 * After the fight, the first room you will see will allow you to get a powerful shield if you decide to enter several times.
 * In the second room of the floor, you can find the diary from the ghost girl, if you inspect several times the bed. In order to open it you are required to have the key from the "squid room".
 * The diary will inform you about the time at which the torture for the ghost girl lasted. Go to the first floor and enter in the "clock room", then manipulate the clock with a hand. After the scene, the basement door will be opened.