Yeah. I hope they will get rid of the mom quickly. Perhaps she will redeem herself by jumping between some deadly strike and Zed. That would certainly be cliched, but whatever, as long as she disappears. She's ridiculous with those life sucking tentacles, and as long as she just keeps terrorizing the countryside like some Jabberwocky, the story can't move on.

And what's the deal with the prison? The dude can summon the most powerful key spirit, but he can't get out of a prison without the help of a healer girl?