Since I enjoyed the first five episodes of this season, but the sixth episode was unbelievably bad, I expected this episode to also be bad. And it completely met my expectations. Maybe even exceeded them in how bad it is.

Do I think Bommy (Director Bear) could move Hakkon? Yes, I do. He's probably exceptionally strong even for a bear. Do I think he could carry Hakkon around all day like Lamis does? I don't know what his blessing is, if anything, but I think one of the cornerstones of this anime is that only Lamis can easily handle Hakkon, so Bommy shouldn't be allowed to do this. And since this is the labyrinth stratum, Hakkon could have just created wheels like he did the last time he was there, so there was an easy alternative.

And Kikoyu has the ability to talk with Hakkon directly? Up until now, only Lamis seemed to understand his inner thoughts, but she was just guessing.

The point is that, with regard to Hakkon, Lamis had two unique powers in this world. One was the ability to carry him with her all the time, and the second is to understand what he is thinking. It seems unthematic that in the very first episode where Lamis is missing, her two unique Hakkon-related powers were immediately replaced by others. In one case, a superior version.

One other complaint. That part about the dirt ball not passing through the barrier doesn't make any sense. First, maybe I'm just misremembering, but I don't think that barrier existed before. There's no barrier like that around the town in the clearflow lake stratum. There's no barrier like that around the ghost town in the haunted stratum. Also, it would be inconvenient if you couldn't bring any monster materials back from the labyrinth.

But anyways, if that barrier did exist, then it seems like Kikoyu wouldn't have been able to take the dirt ball into the maze in the first place. The way she survives is by filling the ball with monster corpses.