Rance 02: The Rebellious Maidens

This is the second game of the Alice Soft Rance series.

Characters
Main characters

Rance - Travelling warrior and adventurer, taking any jobs, "in the name of Justice," (but only if well paid). Can't use magic and isn't very bright but is extremely strong as a warrior. However, he is perverted to the core and has a dream of creating his own harem.

Sill - a slave of Rance who helps him in his adventures as a partner in battlefield and in bed. She was kidnapped by bandits and then sold to Rance, and since then she has been travelling together with Rance. Is very weak in terms of strength but good at magic. Even if she is treated pretty badly by Rance (who use her as baggage carrier, trap decoy and night partner), she still has obvious feelings for him and is ready to follow Rance wherever he goes.

Four sorceresses

Maria Custard - First maiden that Rance meets. She has on her a cursed ring, wears glasses, and has blue hair. After her curse is broken, she joins Rance in his quest to release her mates. She is always angry at Rance, believing that he cannot act as a main hero because he is so evil and perverted.

Mile Yorks - The youngest maiden; dresses in a china dress and has violet hair. Can summon monsters to help her.

Eleonora Ran - Redhead sorceress who is responsible for abducting young girls from town. Cruel and lewd due to the ring's power but actually very shy and kind when curse removed from her.

Masou Shizuka - The leader of the four with green hair and witch's clothes. She is the only one who actually detected what magic rings were doing to them and tried to stop it. Tried to use the ring's power to get revenge on Ragithis for killing her father.

Other characters

Ragithis - An old mage who trained four maidens. Dead at the beginning of the game but remains as a ghost who doesn't appear to be giving up soon.

Mily Yorks - Mile's older sister. A tough warrior and glamor girl. Went to the labyrinth to save her sister but joins Rance after her party was wiped out by Hanny's. Rance uses her as a hostage to defeat Mile.

Bard Risufi- A swordsman that Sill saves and then travels with after being separated from Rance. His arm is cut off by Ran when they finally reach her.

Story
Ten years prior to the story, four young girls in the town of Custard were appointed as disciples to an old mage named Ragithis. They were to be raised as mages and work as the town's guardians after their training completed. However, after the ten years, the girls suddenly rebelled against Ragithis and killed him, and during the harsh magic battle the entire town was entombed underground and a barrier spell was put on it, preventing everyone from going out.

This is when Rance appears. With Sill on his side, he takes the job of defeating the magician maidens and saving the town. But, after some research, he finds out that the actual villian was Ragithis himself, who put four magical rings on four maidens. The rings give a great boost of magical power to its bearers, but are also able to steal magic power from virgin sorceresses. After collecting a total amount of magic power equal to that of of 40 maidens, the rings are able to grant a magician unlimited power. The leader of girls, Masou Shizuka, figured out Ragithis's plan and rebelled against him to prevent his plan from succeeding. However, it was too late - cursed rings could not be removed and the curse began to drive the maidens insane. They are now sheltered in the labyrinth beneath the town and are abducting young girls from the town and killing everyone who tries to go into the labyrinth to stop them. The only apparent way to release them from the curse of the rings is to steal the maidens' virginities from them, and the only man up to this job is, of course, Rance.

Trivia
Funny fact - a girl depicted on the game's package of Rance 1 and Rance 2 not presented in the actual game.