Recaps

Li Yan left the past after saying goodbye to Flamme and parting from Serie, then returned to his own time. He headed for the chest he had buried a thousand years earlier and sensed its sealing magic beneath an old tree.

• Li Yan said goodbye to Flamme at the Goddess's Monument and opened a Spatial Gate to visit Serie before leaving the past.
• Li Yan returned Serie's key and panties, removed his tracking magic, and left her castle as her restraints began to weaken.
• Li Yan buried the panties in a gold treasure chest beneath the mountain and sealed it before returning to the Goddess's Monument.
• Li Yan recited the monument's magic and returned to his own time, waking after three days with Solitär beside him.
• Li Yan walked down the mountain with Solitär and detected the chest's sealing barriers beneath a massive old tree.

Li Yan recovered the Golden Treasure Chest he had buried a thousand years earlier, then released and killed Rea, one of the Seven Sages of Destruction. He returned home with Solitär and was welcomed by Aura, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xue.

• Li Yan and Solitär dug up the Golden Treasure Chest, but Li Yan stored it away before Solitär could open it.
• Li Yan used Earth-Rending Magic to reveal Rea sealed beneath the Goddess's Monument and freed her from the Sealing Magic.
• Rea tried to escape and attack Li Yan with Space Magic, but his Spatial Barrier trapped her and he killed her with the Holy Sword.
• Li Yan took Solitär through the Spatial Gate and returned home, where Aura, Xiao Wu, and Xiao Xue welcomed him.
• Li Yan asked Xiao Wu for snacks and told Xiao Xue he wanted apple juice, gently touching their mechanical bodies.

Li Yan opened a thousand-year-old treasure chest and was caught by Serie with the panties he had kept inside. Serie restrained him while he tried to keep Fern from learning why she was angry, and the chapter ended with him asking Serie to cast a silencing spell before she hurt him again.

• Li Yan opened the golden treasure chest and found the fragrant panties preserved inside.
• Serie entered Li Yan's room, recognized the scent, and pulled the panties from his pocket.
• Serie restrained Li Yan with sealing magic and vines after revealing she had not truly let his past offense go.
• Frieren and Fern arrived, but Li Yan refused Fern's offer to help so she would not learn the truth.
• Solitär challenged Serie, but Li Yan ordered her and the others out, leaving him alone with Serie.
• Li Yan asked Serie to cast a silencing spell, then cried out in pain.

Serie punished Li Yan for his revenge against her a thousand years in the past, then treated his injuries with a restorative Magic Potion. Li Yan recovered under Frieren and Fern’s care and quietly planned to defy his master and Grandmaster again.

• Serie confronted Li Yan about the past and whipped him after he tried to blame her for his revenge.
• Frieren and Fern tended Li Yan’s wounds, while Frieren speculated that he had made a move on Serie.
• Serie brought Li Yan a restorative Magic Potion and explained that their grudges would be settled once he recovered.
• After Serie left, Li Yan began planning his next act of defiance.

Li Yan learned that Tod, the Demon End Saint, was developing a curse that could cover the world and ordered Himmel and the Hero of the South to find her. After Aura confirmed that Tod’s magic could destroy the world, Li Yan resolved to kill her.

• After receiving reports that the Demons had been unusually quiet, Li Yan suspected Tod’s world-spanning curse was behind it and ordered Himmel and the Hero of the South to seek her out.
• Fern asked about Tod, and Solitär explained that Tod was beautiful in her mana and magic but rarely fought, usually relying on her subordinates and Rivale.
• Li Yan questioned Solitär about her undercover work, and she defended herself by saying the Greater Demons were too dangerous to investigate closely.
• Li Yan summoned Aura for information about Tod, and Aura warned that Tod rarely harmed humans but reacted with delight when she heard Tod had developed her destructive magic.
• After Aura confirmed Tod’s magic could destroy the world, Li Yan declared that Tod had to die.

Himmel and Eize began gathering priests for their campaign against the Demon saint Tod, while Li Yan took his friends to a swimming pool in the Royal Capital. The group reunited with several familiar mages and met their idols Aura and Line, while Li Yan still struggled with the effects of Eternal Youth Magic.

• Himmel and Eize discussed hunting the Demon saint Tod and agreed they needed reliable priests skilled at breaking curses.
• Li Yan invited Aura, Solitär, Frieren, Fern, Edel, Lawine, Kanne, Übel, Methode, and Serie to swim at a private pool.
• Kanne and Lawine recognized Aura and Line from The Great Detective and eagerly greeted them.
• Methode admired the younger girls, while Edel and Übel reacted to the gathering and Aura's presence.
• Serie teased Li Yan about starting a harem, and he complained that Eternal Youth Magic still made him look like Fern's little brother.

Li Yan organized a poolside water volleyball tournament, and the Demon team defeated the new generation team. The magic elite team’s match began with Frieren repeatedly getting hit in the head by the ball, leaving Fern convinced they had no chance.

• Li Yan divided the players into four teams and recruited Zanze to help referee the tournament.
• Aura, Line, and Solitär’s Demon team faced Edel, Kanne, and Lawine’s new generation team, with Line copying Edel’s shot and Solitär using a spinning ball to score.
• After half an hour, the Demon team defeated the new generation team through their superior physical abilities and reactions.
• Frieren tried to serve against Methode, Übel, and Laufen’s close-range mage team but hit herself in the head with the ball.
• Serie tossed the ball for Frieren again, and Frieren was struck in the head once more, prompting Fern to lose hope in their chances.

Serie’s volleyball match ended in a victory for the Demons team, whose members earned the right to have their wishes granted. Li Yan congratulated Solitär, Aura, and Line and asked what they wanted.

• Serie’s team played volleyball against the close-range magic team, but Fern could not make up for Frieren’s poor play and her side lost.
• During the break, the players enjoyed desserts before the Demons team faced the close-range magic team in the final.
• Aura served forcefully, and Line blocked Übel’s return to score the Demons team’s first point.
• Übel, Laufen, and Methode battled Solitär, Aura, and Line until the Demons team won the final by five points.
• Li Yan congratulated Solitär, Aura, and Line and asked what wishes they wanted granted.

Li Yan granted Solitär’s wish to visit the aquarium with him, while Aura failed to settle on a wish and Line remained undecided. At the aquarium, Solitär enjoyed seeing and studying marine life, and Li Yan took her to a nearby seafood restaurant after their visit.

• Aura wished to make Li Yan her pet, but he denied her request and rejected her attempts to bargain for more wishes.
• Solitär asked to visit the aquarium alone with Li Yan, and he granted her wish; Line hesitated over what to ask for.
• After the pool party, Li Yan found Solitär waiting, and they left together for the aquarium.
• Li Yan and Solitär explored the aquarium, watched the animal performances, tried the touch pools, and experienced a magical virtual-reality attraction that inspired Solitär’s research.
• Solitär joined a behind-the-scenes tour, and Li Yan took her to a nearby restaurant for seafood.

Li Yan took Solitär on a seafood outing and then spent private time with her before accompanying Aura to the Royal Capital’s largest arcade. Their fighting-game match left Li Yan facing Aura’s powerful Schlacht and a copied Heiter, with the outcome unresolved.

• Li Yan realized Solitär was sad because their time together had ended, so he took her to a hotel and spent more time with her.
• Aura asked Li Yan to visit the Kuku Dog Arcade with her and challenged him to a fighting game where the loser had to obey the winner.
• Aura beat Li Yan’s first character, the Hero of the South, with the Demon King, but Li Yan defeated her God of War Rivale using Heiter.
• Aura’s Schlacht used Foresee the Future to damage Heiter and reduce the accuracy of his next three attacks.
• Aura revealed Schlacht’s ultimate, You from the Future, which summoned a copy of Heiter and left Li Yan facing two opponents.

Li Yan beat Aura at a game by pulling her stool out from under her, then helped her win a crocodile plush at a claw machine. They competed at the basketball machines, where Li Yan used his Future Sight to score 30,000 points and left Aura far behind.

• Li Yan pulled Aura's stool away during their game, letting Heiter defeat Schlacht, and Aura accused him of cheating.
• Aura tried the racing simulator and dance machine before turning to a claw machine, where she repeatedly failed to grab a crocodile plush.
• Li Yan took over the claw machine, used Future Sight to win the crocodile plush, and gave it to Aura.
• Li Yan and Aura competed to beat the basketball machine's high score, with their points close through the earlier stages.
• Li Yan used Future Sight during the final stage of moving hoops and finished with 30,000 points, leaving the watching children astonished and Aura far behind.

Li Yan took Line and the others to Demon territory so she could revisit her homeland, then headed for the Demon King's Castle to check on Himmel and the others. There, Himmel and the Hero of the South confronted the Demon saintess Tod, whose deadly curses surrounded them.

• Li Yan teased Aura after beating her at arcade games, then asked Line what she wanted for her wish.
• Line wished to return to Demon territory, and Li Yan opened a Spatial Gate; when Aura refused to go, he carried her through with Line.
• Li Yan, Line, Aura, Frieren, Solitär, and the others arrived at Willis High Mountain and prepared to travel to the Demon King's Castle.
• Line chose to visit the Demon King's Castle, and Li Yan opened another Spatial Gate to take the group there.
• Himmel and the Hero of the South confronted Tod, while the Royal Capital's priest warned them that magical curses had been laid around them.

Li Yan and his companions entered the Demon King's Castle while the Hero of the South and Himmel fought the demon Saintess Tod. Li Yan killed Tod with the Holy Sword, and the group left the castle without deciding to claim it.

• Li Yan arrived at the Demon King's Castle with Aura, Line, and the others while the Hero of the South and Himmel battled Tod and her demons.
• Fern and Solitär attacked demons that ambushed Li Yan's group, while Frieren warned that Tod's widespread Curse Magic was difficult to analyze.
• Tod's curses weakened Eize, the Priest, and the Hero of the South's mechanical body as Himmel fought off Greater Demons blocking the heroes.
• Li Yan used Spatial Movement to reach Tod and beheaded her with the Holy Sword, prompting the Hero of the South and Himmel to rout the remaining demons.
• Li Yan suggested taking over the Demon King's Castle, but Frieren, Fern, and Line warned of the consequences, and the group left the question unresolved.

Li Yan and his companions joined Methode and Genao’s mission to defeat a Demon General who had slaughtered villages. While Li Yan and Genao went to guard a village’s corpses, Frieren and the others investigated the Demons, and Methode traded Frieren a grimoire for permission to stroke her head.

• Li Yan met Methode and Genao and offered to help them defeat the Demon General Reyferdi, who had killed Genao’s former partner and slaughtered villagers.
• Reyferdi learned that a child and four mages were approaching, but decided to wait for them to split up before attacking.
• Li Yan sent Aura and the other Demons back to the Castle, then accompanied Genao to guard the villagers’ bodies while Methode, Frieren, Fern, and the others searched for the hidden Demons.
• Frieren warned Fern not to use long-range Detection Magic and refused Methode’s request to stroke her head.
• Methode offered Frieren a grimoire containing an eggshell-cracking spell, and Frieren accepted it in exchange for letting Methode stroke her head.

Frieren and Fern fought two tactically skilled Demons in a fog-covered forest while Methode battled the other, and Frieren left Fern to face the priest Demon alone. Meanwhile, Li Yan and Genao waited among the ruins as Reyferdi arrived, leaving Li Yan warned about the Demon’s four weight-controlling swords.

• Methode hugged Frieren, and Fern tried to pull Frieren away before they sensed two Demons approaching.
• The Demons used mist and attack magic to split the group, leaving Methode to fight alone while Frieren and Fern faced the priest Demon together.
• Frieren explained that Demons commonly used Flight Magic in combat and told Fern to handle the priest Demon as a First-Class Mage.
• Fern blocked a surprise attack with Frieren’s warning, but admitted she had not detected the priest Demon herself and was frightened by his strength.
• At the ruined village, Li Yan imagined arranging partners for single First-Class Mages while Genao waited for the approaching mana fluctuations.
• Reyferdi arrived and recognized Genao, and Genao warned Li Yan that Reyferdi’s four Mana Greatswords could shift between feather-light speed and overwhelming weight.

Genao fought Demon General Reyferdi while Li Yan watched, then Li Yan intervened and killed Reyferdi. Genao approached a little girl who appeared to have survived the village’s destruction, but Li Yan’s warning made him use mana Detection Magic as she suddenly rushed toward him.

• Genao clashed with Reyferdi, whose strength drove him back and whose tough body survived Genao’s Thousand Feathers Invasion.
• Reyferdi counterattacked, but Li Yan appeared in front of Genao, blocked all four swords with his Holy Sword, and killed Reyferdi.
• A little girl emerged from the ruins and said Reyferdi had been killed by a human.
• Genao assumed the girl was a village survivor and invited her over, but Li Yan questioned how she had survived and evaded the Demons’ mana detection.
• Genao used mana Detection Magic on the girl, who suddenly sped up as she ran toward him.

Genao killed a disguised Demon, while Fern defeated a fog-shrouded Demon using a carefully timed double attack. After the group left the village, the Lionheart King learned that the Alorath Kingdom and Stella Kingdom had plotted to assassinate Serie, Frieren, Fern, and other influential figures.

• Genao recognized the little girl as a Demon and killed her with a strike from his wings.
• Fern followed Frieren’s advice, exploited the priest-dressed Demon’s lapse in mana detection, and killed it with two attacks along the same trajectory.
• Methode emerged from the fog, and Fern explained that her opponent had used fog to hinder vision and mana detection.
• Li Yan said goodbye to Methode and Genao, then took Frieren through a Spatial Gate after Frieren embraced Methode.
• Lionheart Hidden Guards told the Lionheart King that the Alorath Kingdom and Stella Kingdom had hired magic assassins to target Serie, Frieren, Fern, and other important figures.

The Lionheart King ordered assassinations against the rulers of any nations involved in targeting Ancestor Fern. At Li Yan’s home, Serie sought refuge from assassins and settled into a sleepy breakfast visit with Frieren and Li Yan.

• The Lionheart King ordered his shadow guard to assassinate the leaders of any countries plotting against Ancestor Fern.
• The Lionheart King looked at a family photograph of young Ancestor Fern and worried that she might destroy the nations if she learned of the plot.
• Serie arrived at Li Yan’s home, saying assassins had been bothering her and she wanted a quiet place to stay.
• Serie explained that the assassins’ memories were rigged to self-destruct, while Li Yan wondered which country had sent them.
• Frieren came downstairs sleepy and rested her head on Li Yan’s lap so he could fix her hair, prompting Serie to envy her gentle treatment.
• Li Yan finished styling Frieren’s hair and took away her pillow when she tried to bring it with her to wash up.

After Fern was wounded by an assassin using the incurable venom Colorless Funeral, Li Yan learned that only a long-term magical solution might save her. He ordered the Lionheart King to prepare for war against every nation, while Serie found a way to awaken Fern briefly for a final conversation.

• Xiao Wu and Xiao Xue reported that Fern had been attacked, and Fern collapsed in Li Yan's arms after returning with a wound.
• Serie identified the venom as Colorless Funeral, and the bishop confirmed that healing magic could not cure its symptoms.
• Li Yan ordered the Lionheart King to preserve the assassins' bodies and declare war on every nation if their origins could not be discovered.
• Li Yan learned that Fern's poison could be frozen with magic, though a cure might take thousands of years to develop.
• Serie told Li Yan she could use an awakening spell to wake Fern once so they could speak.

Li Yan destroyed the kingdoms responsible for poisoning Fern, but Serie could only awaken Fern briefly before the poison took her. Fern said goodbye to Li Yan and Frieren, who wept as Fern’s fate remained uncertain.

• Li Yan launched a war against the nations, destroying kingdoms and killing royal families and powerful nobles while sparing commoners.
• The Lionheart Kingdom unified the world, and Li Yan returned to the capital after killing the masterminds behind Fern’s assassination.
• Serie awakened Fern for three minutes, warning Li Yan and Frieren that the magic would soon wear off.
• Fern comforted Li Yan and asked Frieren to take care of him as she prepared to sleep again.
• Frieren shed tears as she remembered Fern growing up.

Fern succumbed to Colorless Funeral and fell into an endless sleep, leaving Li Yan and Frieren devastated. Li Yan then directed the unified Lionheart Kingdom to develop magic technology, potion research, and Goddess Magic in hopes of waking Fern and preparing for future threats.

• Fern told Li Yan she might become a statue and asked him to visit her, then confessed that she loved him romantically before falling asleep again.
• Li Yan left Fern's room and found Frieren and Serie waiting outside; he comforted Frieren as Fern remained asleep.
• The Lionheart Kingdom unified the world, dividing it into numbered areas and requiring residents to receive Lionheart ID Cards.
• Li Yan instructed the Lionheart King to develop magic machinery, establish potion academies to find an antidote to Colorless Funeral, and study Goddess Magic.
• Li Yan dismissed the Demons as a minor threat and said the kingdom's future forces could use them as a testing ground.

Two thousand years later, Frieren brought a KFC kids' meal home to Li Yan and Serie in the modern Royal Capital, where mechas tested weapons against the remaining Demons. Li Yan's family gathered at Castle, and a mysterious winged girl watched them from the night sky.

• Frieren walked through the neon-lit Royal Capital to buy the KFC kids' meal Serie wanted, while Li Yan and Serie argued over the order by phone.
• Himmel and the Hero of the South took the Blood Lion No. 3 mecha to test it against the Demons Left-Wing Unit in the Northern War Zone.
• Frieren returned to Castle, where Li Yan held young Fern, whose Colorless Funeral Venom had been cured and whose age had regressed through Immortality Magic.
• Flamme welcomed Frieren home, while Serie chased Frieren after learning she had forgotten the jasmine milk green tea, then turned her attention to Li Yan.
• A white-winged girl watched Castle and remarked that its residents' mana nearly surpassed her own.

Li Yan helped Flamme and Fern adjust to life after their return, while Serie avoided resuming her work at the Continental Magic Association. The family spent the day gaming and teasing one another, and Fern asked to sleep beside Li Yan that night.

• Serie complained that she did not want to return to work at the Continental Magic Association, and Li Yan explained that Flamme and Fern needed time to adjust to the changes of the past three thousand years.
• Flamme took Frieren to visit the Continental Magic Association, while Serie stayed home and seized the tablet to play Golden Spatula.
• Li Yan advised Serie during her game, and Fern joined them in his arms as Serie squeezed in to claim part of his lap.
• Fern asked to sleep with Li Yan because she was afraid of the dark, and he agreed and kissed her cheek.
• Serie objected to Li Yan showing Fern affection, then wiped her cheek after he kissed her too.