Kanami, Go! East! (Episode)

'''Kanami, Go! East!' is the fourteenth episode of the Log Horizon 2'' anime and the first episode of the Go East arc, corresponding to volume nine of the light novel: Kanami, Go! East!.

Synopsis
In Minami, Kazuhiko and KR are talking, discussing Indicus and Nureha. Kazuhiko says Nureha is a replacement for Kanami and wonders what the former Tea Party leader is doing now since she quit the game two years before. KR informs him that Kanami is on the China Server and heading for Yamato. He explained he went to check out that server after the Catastrophe to gather information by using Soul Possession to possess a white horse and ran into Kanami and her party. After stating that she hasn't changed a bit, he tells Kazuhiko of his time on the China server.

Meeting Kanami
Kanami, Coppelia, Elias Hackblade (whom she calls Eri-Eri), and Leonardo (whom she calls Froggy-nardo) were surrounded by monsters called Daylight Shades in what Leonardo says is a raid-rank event. Kanami is excited and says it's awesome, though the others don't seem to agree with her. Coppelia says there's a break in the enemies and a white horse comes running through. Kanami and Coppelia ride the horse while the two guys run behind, thus escaping.

Afterwards, while camping nearby, the white horse tells Kanami that he is KR. She tells him she got back into the game when she was in Rome. When asked why she's in China, she announces "Heading to Japan!" and points in the wrong direction. She says she wants to find out why the Catastrophe happened, to which Leonardo says that it probably has to do with the Homesteading the Noosphere expansion. Due to the expansion only going live in Japan, due to time zones, it seemed like the best place to get answers.

Sekek Village
In Sekek Village they come across a boy who's inflicted with something which makes him feral, attacking everyone. His status was displayed in two layers, a regular Lander one and red one that appears and disappears. Leonardo and Elias fight him and Leonardo stuns him with Paralyzing Blow.

While Coppelia tries to heal the boy, the others talk to an old man in the village. He says that normal people would suddenly turn into beasts. He calls them plague demons. Kanami thinks of Shiroe saying to gather all the information. They're told a trader will be coming to the village in a few days and Coppelia states that they need supplies and information so they wait.

Leonardo seems to be popular with the kids as they climb on him and ask why he's a frog. He explains about the heroic frog ninjas, which the kids don't understand, asking what a hero is and is it yummy. Meanwhile, Kanami teases KR, saying that he is popular with the mares in the stables. KR nibbles on hay and tells her about Shiroe being the center of something called the "Round Table".

Lelang Wolf Cavalry
Several days later, the trader's caravan arrived. A Cleric named Chun-Lu, from the guild Lelang Wolf Cavalry, states she was unable to protect the other members of the caravan. She says her guild has protected the People of the Land on their travels since the Catastrophe. She feels guilty that she wasn't able to protect them and Leonardo wonders why, since they were just NPCs anyway.

The Lelang Wolf Cavalry had tried to do a 96 man Legion Raid to wipe out the gnoll army at Tone's Grave.The raid team was wiped out. Chun-Lu states that the layered status and a black dragon were seen on the battlefield.

An Army Advances
KR reports that the gnoll army is heading through the zone they had just passed, five hundred of them,

heading towards the village they had stayed in. Kanami gets excited, much to Leonardo's confusion. She wants to save the town and then go to Tone's Grave. Leonard tells her she's crazy; if a legion raid was defeated, how do they stand a chance? She says they won't had a brawl, they'll just go in and kill the boss, and then run. Kanami tells KR to figure out how to do it. Leonardo says he can't. Kanami insists that they're needed so they must do it.