Chapter Summaries

Li Yan fled with Frieren and Fern after angering Grandmaster Serie, then returned to the Royal Capital in his child form and hid in the Castle. As he celebrated Fern’s success and advised Aura and Line, Fern grew jealous when Li Yan rested on Line’s lap.

• Li Yan stole Grandmaster Serie’s secret weapon, escaped her pursuit with Frieren and Fern, and hid inside the Castle’s barrier in the Royal Capital.
• Solitär questioned Li Yan’s childlike appearance, and he explained that Serie had discovered him and was furious.
• Fern told Li Yan she had passed the First-Class Mage exam, and he and Frieren praised her.
• Li Yan scolded Aura for neglecting magic and advised her on developing Demon Scale.
• Line asked Li Yan for help combining combat styles, and he told her to focus first on Himmel’s and Eize’s techniques.
• Li Yan rested his head on Line’s lap, making Fern feel jealous.

Li Yan prepared to take Duncan to Weise to revive Duncan’s wife, then tried to collect Fern after she received a new spell. Serie caught Li Yan attempting to escape Äußerst and pursued him as he fought through her barriers with the Holy Sword.

• Li Yan met Duncan at a restaurant and confirmed he had learned Curse Reversal Magic to face Macht in Weise.
• Duncan said he had assembled a medical team for his wife, and Li Yan planned to leave with him and Frieren after picking up Fern.
• Li Yan teleported to Fern and began carrying her away, but Serie stopped them with a spatial barrier around the town.
• Serie summoned First-Class Mages to help capture Li Yan, who drew the Holy Sword and cut through the barriers while defending himself from their spells.
• Li Yan used spatial jumps with Fern as Serie pursued them, breaking his defenses and tracking him through the spells placed on Fern.

Li Yan escaped Serie’s restraint with Zanze’s help while Frieren distracted Serie in a magical duel. He fled with Fern to meet Duncan and began analyzing the tracking spells placed on her.

• Serie trapped Li Yan and Fern with Restraining Hand magic and sent Zanze and Lairen to escort them away.
• Frieren confronted Serie, and the two began fighting while Lairen returned to assist Serie.
• Zanze secretly broke Li Yan free, and Li Yan explained that he and Serie had held back because they were family.
• Li Yan bound Zanze to conceal their connection, then flew away with Fern and met Duncan at their agreed location.
• Li Yan found ninety-nine tracking and locating spells on Fern and began analyzing them as Fern apologized for causing trouble.

Li Yan removed Grandmaster’s tracking magic from Fern, then reunited with Frieren and brought Duncan to the Fortress City of Weise to seek Macht’s help with undoing Diagoldze. Macht told Duncan that Lektüre was dead.

• Li Yan took Fern to Solitär, who removed Grandmaster’s tracking and locating magic from her.
• Li Yan returned to Duncan, then used Spatial Movement to reach Frieren during her battle with Grandmaster.
• Serie discovered that Li Yan had fabricated Zanze’s memories of a red Mechanical Magic Puppet and realized he had used Frieren to distract her.
• Li Yan brought Duncan, Frieren, and Fern to the Fortress City of Weise, where Glück’s Golden Statue stood in the square.
• Duncan asked Macht whether Lektüre was still alive, and Macht answered that she was dead.

Li Yan and Frieren worked to undo Macht’s Diagoldze on Lektüre and Glück while Li Yan restored Duncan’s youth. When Frieren found the key to the spell, Duncan stood before Lektüre’s golden statue and cried, “Come back to life! My love!”

• Li Yan explained that Diagoldze could be undone, and Frieren confirmed that her own restored arm proved it.
• Duncan and Li Yan dug up Lektüre, finding her preserved as a golden statue.
• Li Yan brought Lektüre and Glück’s statues to Frieren, who studied Diagoldze and said the analysis would take a few days.
• Li Yan used Duncan as a test subject for his Eternal Youth Magic, restoring Duncan to a youthful appearance over three days.
• Frieren found the key to undoing Diagoldze, and Li Yan brought Duncan to Lektüre just as Frieren began restoring her.

Duncan reunited with Lektüre after Frieren restored her from gold, and Li Yan left Weise with Frieren and Fern. Serie tracked Li Yan down and returned with him to the Royal Capital, where she discovered Aura and Line Mouri at his house.

• Frieren restored Glück from gold, and Macht spoke with his old friend about Weise’s prosperity.
• Frieren restored Lektüre, and Duncan tearfully reunited with her as the medical team began treatment.
• Serie revealed she had tracked Frieren and ordered Li Yan to return with her, while Li Yan agreed to go home.
• Serie accompanied Li Yan to the Royal Capital and kicked him for having kept her arrival secret.
• Serie found Aura and Line Mouri at Li Yan’s house and questioned why he was keeping two female celebrities.

Li Yan tried to correct Serie and Frieren’s mistaken assumptions about Aura and Line, then massaged Serie’s feet before Fern demonstrated the legendary stain-removing spell she had learned. The spell cleaned Li Yan’s clothes and left Serie lamenting that her precious magic had been used.

• Li Yan told Serie that Aura was his pet cat and Line was the cat caretaker, but Serie and Frieren decided he was keeping them as mistresses.
• Li Yan gave Serie a foot massage at her command, and she stopped him when his technique became too much for her.
• Li Yan asked Fern what magic she had requested from Serie, and Fern described a legendary spell from the Mythical Era.
• Fern used the spell to remove stains from Li Yan’s clothes and leave them smelling of flowers, delighting Frieren and upsetting Serie.

Li Yan took Serie, Fern, and the others to the Amusement Park to try its new AI Game attraction, after spending a week caring for the newly idle Serie at the Castle. The group split up for different rides, and Serie discovered that she enjoyed the roller coaster.

• Fern offered to wash Li Yan’s clothes, and Frieren asked her to wash hers as well.
• Serie spent a week lounging at the Castle, drinking cola, watching movies, and asking Li Yan to massage her legs while Frieren urged her to cut back on cola.
• Li Yan invited everyone to visit the Amusement Park’s new AI Game attraction, and they agreed to go that afternoon.
• At the park, Li Yan sent Line with Aura, Solitär, and Frieren to gentler attractions while he, Fern, and Serie chose the thrilling rides.
• Fern and Li Yan took Serie on a roller coaster, where Serie enjoyed the ride and asked Li Yan what else was fun.

Li Yan took Fern and Serie around the amusement park, where they tried several rides before joining Frieren and the others. He then led the group to the luxurious Fragrance-Gathering Pavilion for dinner, where they ordered an enormous feast.

• Li Yan rode the drop tower with Fern and Serie, and Serie admitted she enjoyed the free fall despite calling the ride scrap metal.
• Li Yan took Fern and Serie on the giant pendulum, which left Serie feeling nauseated; Fern brought ice cream and suggested the log flume.
• Serie tried the log flume and later rode the carousel on a white unicorn.
• Li Yan met up with Frieren and the others and took the group from the amusement park to the Fragrance-Gathering Pavilion.
• Li Yan ordered a lavish meal, while Frieren and Aura discovered that the restaurant's menus were made of candy.

Li Yan and the others enjoyed a lavish dinner, while Serie remained content to avoid her work at the Magic Continent Association. When Lairen asked Li Yan to persuade Serie to return, Li Yan refused, leaving the association’s affairs in Lairen’s hands.

• Li Yan, Serie, and Fern discovered that the menu’s pictures could be eaten, then Frieren eagerly devoured the roast suckling pig while Fern wiped the grease from her face.
• Aura used her magic to make shrimp and crab fight so she could eat them without peeling their shells, while Line efficiently peeled seafood by hand.
• A month after Serie arrived at the Castle, Lairen visited and asked her to return to the Magic Continent Association, but Serie said she would stay home and offered to pass the presidency to him.
• Lairen hinted that Serie had missed Li Yan, but Serie kicked him before he could reveal more about the past.
• Li Yan refused to persuade Serie to return to work and told Lairen to handle more of the association’s responsibilities himself.

Li Yan took Solitär to an ancient stele and used its magic to return to the past, where he awoke beside Flamme as a child. He reunited with her but sensed an unexpected spatial disturbance nearby.

• Li Yan brought Solitär through a Spatial Gate to a mountain stele believed to contain the Goddess's magic.
• Li Yan recognized the stele's spell as Return Magic and asked Solitär to protect him while he used it.
• Li Yan woke as a child beside Flamme and held back from telling her that he came from the future.
• Flamme comforted Li Yan, and he got up when he sensed a spatial disturbance nearby.

Flamme fought Rea, the Shadow of the Moment and a Sage of Destruction, after Rea sensed the group’s disturbance in spacetime. Rea broke Flamme’s Spatial Seal and brought down a mountain, but Flamme prepared a powerful counterattack while Li Yan watched from behind a stone monument.

• Rea appeared and introduced herself as the Shadow of the Moment, then evaded Flamme’s Destruction Thunder Magic with Space Magic.
• Flamme set Li Yan down and warned him to stay back as she battled Rea with spells and tried to predict her movements.
• Flamme trapped Rea in a Spatial Seal, but Rea destroyed it and said she had studied Space Magic for a thousand years.
• Rea vanished and summoned a huge mountain above Flamme and Li Yan, intending to crush them.
• Flamme summoned enormous blue magic circles as the mountain fell, while Li Yan decided she might handle the danger herself.

Flamme and Li Yan fought Rea after she attacked them, then trapped her with combined Spatial Sealing Magic and prepared to seal her permanently. Rea recognized Li Yan as someone from the future, and Li Yan secretly used mana stored in his soul to reinforce the barrier as Flamme cast her strongest sealing spell.

• Flamme destroyed a mountain with Multiple Elemental Explosive Magic and protected herself and Li Yan from falling rocks with Defensive Magic.
• Rea ambushed Flamme, but Flamme blocked her attack with layered defenses and blasted her away with fire-based Explosive Magic.
• Rea deduced that Li Yan came from the future, and Flamme decided she had to stop Rea from escaping with that knowledge.
• Flamme and Li Yan combined their magic to trap Rea in a Spatial Seal, and Flamme began casting Seal of All Souls.
• Li Yan used mana stored in his soul to reinforce the Spatial Seal with Ten Thousand Spatial Chains as Flamme prepared to complete the sealing spell.

Li Yan and Flamme sealed Rea, after which Li Yan revealed that he had come from the future. He described Flamme’s future husband and demonstrated future magic, then stayed with her for the night instead of returning to his own time.

• Rea roared as the Sealing Barrier bound her to a cross and turned her into a stone statue.
• Li Yan told Flamme that touching the Stone Stele had transported him from the future, and Flamme asked whether he had found a girlfriend.
• Li Yan described Flamme’s future husband as handsome, powerful, and the killer of the Demon King, while Flamme listened with curiosity.
• Li Yan demonstrated several future spells, and Flamme warned him not to use magic that did not belong to their era.
• Flamme built a wooden house, and Li Yan began preparing dinner while telling her that her future husband could cook the meals she liked.

Li Yan reunited with Flamme in the past and treasured a warm evening and morning with her, cooking meals and promising to protect her forever. After breakfast, Flamme asked where he planned to go if he did not return to the future.

• Li Yan prepared Flamme's favorite dishes, cried as he told her how much he had missed her, and promised to protect her forever.
• Li Yan and Flamme shared dinner beneath the moonlight without discussing the future, then talked about magic and research while Flamme chose not to develop future magic prematurely.
• Li Yan fell asleep beside Flamme, afraid he might return to the future and lose this time with her.
• Flamme woke after a restless night thinking about Li Yan's words concerning her future, and Li Yan made her millet and red date porridge for breakfast.
• Flamme enjoyed the porridge and asked Li Yan where he planned to go if he did not return to the future.

Li Yan realized he could see the future and could change the past as long as he avoided disrupting its red lines, so he chose to stay in the past and travel with Flamme. After they parted ways, he secretly watched Frieren in her village before heading to find his Grandmaster.

• Li Yan saw the future through his soul and buried Leia's statue beneath concealment barriers so Demons would not find her.
• Li Yan and Flamme fought Monsters near the Goddess's Monument, then stayed in a village while Flamme studied magic.
• Li Yan used Space Magic to travel to the Elf Forest and watched Frieren from above, avoiding contact because Future Sight warned that meeting her could complicate the future.
• After watching Frieren celebrate with her clanspeople, Li Yan opened a Spatial Gate to visit his Grandmaster's Castle.
• Frieren sensed a fluctuation of mana and looked up, but saw only the stars.

Li Yan arrived at Serie's castle and challenged her to a magical duel, revealing advanced magic from a future age as they traded attacks. He left Serie furious after stealing a trophy and threatening to put it on his head.

• Li Yan dodged Serie's flaming arrows and said he had come to challenge her to a fight.
• Serie attacked Li Yan with Shattered Stars, but he blocked the barrage with unfamiliar Octagonal Defensive Magic.
• Li Yan destroyed Serie's giant stone men and Thorn Vines with Upgraded Normal Attack Magic, prompting her to suspect he came from the future.
• Li Yan concealed himself in mist and sent clones to attack Serie, who dodged and raised layers of defense.
• Li Yan used Thieving Magic to steal a trophy while Serie defended herself, then taunted her by waving it and threatening to put it on his head.

Li Yan overpowered Serie by exploiting her attachment to Flamme and trapping her with Anti-Magic Stone, then humiliated her with a goose-feather tickling attack. He saw that the future remained on course and that Serie would not retaliate against him lethally.

• Li Yan threatened to expose Serie’s stolen trophy unless she spoke cutely and wore a maid outfit, and Serie refused the outfit.
• Serie attacked Li Yan after he threatened to show the trophy to Flamme, but he dodged her strikes and lured her into layered seals.
• Li Yan bound Serie with Anti-Magic Stone chains and told her he understood her pride, loneliness, and desires.
• Li Yan tickled Serie’s feet with goose feathers, making her laugh and cry as she vowed to take revenge someday.
• Li Yan confirmed the future had not changed and concluded Serie would not deal him a ruthless blow.

Li Yan tormented Serie while she was restrained, recording her humiliation and demanding that she beg for mercy. After she began to cry, he felt guilty, but refused to release her when she claimed to forgive him, leaving her to ask what else he wanted to do.

• Li Yan used Image Recording Magic to record himself playing a song on Serie’s thigh, then threatened to send the footage to her apprentice, Flamme.
• Li Yan struck Serie repeatedly to take revenge for beatings he had suffered in the future, until her tears made him stop.
• Li Yan apologized and tried to wipe Serie’s tears, but she angrily listed the ways he had humiliated and hurt her.
• Serie said she forgave Li Yan and asked him to let her go, but he refused because he expected her to attack him.
• Serie calmly asked Li Yan what else he wanted to do.

Li Yan left Serie restrained in her castle while he visited Flamme and cooked a lavish dinner, then returned to feed Serie when she called to say she was hungry. Serie was captivated by the snow ice shrimp and asked how he had made it taste so good.

• Li Yan told Serie that her seals and restraints would come undone in three days, promised to bring her food, and left her in the castle.
• Li Yan returned to Flamme with rare ingredients and cooked a feast while she watched and sampled the dishes.
• Serie disturbed her restraints to call Li Yan, so he opened a Spatial Gate and learned she was hungry.
• Flamme helped Li Yan pack food for Serie, and he returned to the castle with a lunchbox.
• Li Yan refused to untie Serie and fed her a snow ice shrimp, which amazed her with its fresh, sweet taste.