Kaede joins the VR RPG New World Online and creates a shield-wielding character who can't do anything except defend. This proves unexpectedly useful.
Maple heads to her first player-versus-player event, where her defensive ability proves so powerful that onlookers wonder if the game is broken.
Maple and Sally hear about a quest in the forest and head there to obtain a rare skill. Later, they proceed to Level Two, but Maple is knocked out.
The event begins and Maple and Sally earn a few medals in a hidden dungeon. Later, a powerful avian boss pushes Maple's defenses to their limit.
Maple, Sally and Kasumi's fight is interrupted by a fall into an underground dungeon, where a cursed chain forces them to fight for survival together.
Maple and Sally agree to establish a new guild and start hunting for a property. Deciding on a place, the pair must now recruit reliable members.
Thanks to Maple's help, May and Yui gain some super skills. Later, Maple assists a mother in need and gets a boost to her already-formidable defense.
The guild joins the third event, in which participants collect bells by hunting adorable cows. Maple soon gets lost and must face a boss on her own.
Before the guild competition begins, Sally notices that the Order of the Holy Sword's Frederica is spying on them and challenges her to a duel.
Sally goes hunting for more orbs, but soon finds herself outnumbered by Frederica's forces. Maple rushes to her aid, leaving the base vulnerable.
Mii, leader of the Flame Emperors, uses a barrage of flaming blasts to keep Maple at a distance. Maple can't fight back and things don't look good.
Maple manages to survive Payne's attack with only one hit point remaining. But he keeps up the assault, forcing her to try a desperate counterattack.
While exploring a nighttime world, Maple sees Mii don a disguise and sneak into a back-alley shop. One week later, Kasumi tests a powerful new weapon.
After a cold keeps her from advancing to the next level with her guildmates, Maple tries to catch up to them by taking on a powerful boss by herself.
Maple joins forces with Mii in a forest filled with ghost-like monsters. With Maple’s support, Mii unleashes an extraordinary show of strength.
As she and Maple battle their way up the tower, Sally finds a creative — but slightly gross — way of avoiding the ghostly monsters on the fifth floor.
After arriving in an idyllic area teeming with monsters, Maple and Sally offer to help their guildmates find and tame suitable monster companions.
While searching for the perfect monster companion, Kanade encounters a slimy entity with an impressive ability. Mii and Maple help Iz with a quest.
Frederica drops by Maple Tree’s base to show off her new monster companion. Later, Maple and Sally find a curious crystal while exploring some plains.
Maple gets off to a strong start in the preliminary round of the eighth event, but things take a surprising turn when monsters begin fleeing from her.
After battling as two teams to earn more medals, the Maple Tree members set up an underground base for protection against the monsters of the night.
As the second day of the event begins, Maple and her guildmates are suddenly teleported to separate locations. Sally teams up with an unexpected ally.
In a bid to acquire as many medals as possible, the four newly formed parties head out into the night to slay the powerful monsters in the dungeons.
A huge monster appears on the final day of the event, causing the other players to run for their lives. Maple and her companions move to protect them.