Chapter Summaries

After dinner, Frieren tried to persuade Serie to leave Weise, but Serie revealed she had left a Clone to manage the Continental Magic Association. Rienta and Fern prepared a lengthy late-night dish while Frieren and Serie waited beneath the maple tree.

• Serie narrowly beat Frieren in their dinner contest, while Stark began a thousand handstand push-ups after the meal.
• Frieren asked when Serie would return to the Continental Magic Association, but Serie said her Clone could handle routine business.
• Serie asked whether Rienta knew Clone Magic, and he admitted he had a Grimoire of it before escaping to the kitchen.
• Frieren explained that Rienta usually made a late-night snack for Stark and claimed it was tastier than dinner, leaving Serie speechless.
• Rienta and Fern prepared Kou Wan, then sat in the kitchen to wait more than two hours for it to finish steaming.

Rienta served a late-night meal of steamed dishes, rice, buns, and cold drinks to Frieren, Fern, Stark, and Serie. The group eagerly copied his pork-belly lotus-leaf buns, and after the meal Serie followed Rienta toward her room.

• Serie studied Rienta's wavering mana and realized his Mana Suppression had regressed because his mana had become more consolidated and weighty.
• Rienta finished steaming more than ten dishes, and Fern carried them out with rice and steamed buns while he prepared cold drinks.
• Rienta invited everyone to eat and served Stark steamed fish he had made especially for him.
• Rienta paired steamed pork belly with a lotus-leaf bun, prompting Frieren, Fern, Stark, and Serie to imitate him.
• Stark stuffed his bun with steamed crispy pork and other dishes when he saw there was not enough pork belly to share.
• After the meal, Serie took hot tea and followed Rienta toward her room.

Rienta took Serie shopping for daily necessities and ingredients after breakfast, where he gave her a spell that prevented weight gain. Back at the courtyard, Serie praised Rienta to Frieren, while Fern teased him about seeming happy around Serie.

• Serie worried that Rienta's frequent meals would make her gain weight, and Rienta suggested they go out together while the others stayed behind.
• Rienta and Serie wandered through Weise's streets and bought things until nearly noon.
• At the market, Rienta gave Serie a Grimoire containing a spell that kept her from gaining weight, and she quickly learned it.
• Back at the courtyard, Serie told Frieren that Rienta was very good, and Frieren insisted that Rienta was her disciple.
• In the kitchen, Fern told Rienta that he looked happy and suggested Serie was cute, making him blush as he denied her implication.

Rienta and Serie spoke on the roof, where she gave him Communication Magic and explained why Lernen had not come to Weise. The chapter ended with an author’s note about the writer’s hardships and plans to update again that night.

• Rienta lay awake on the roof until Serie appeared and startled him into fleeing to his Personal Space.
• Rienta returned with fruit tea, and Serie asked whether he had chosen a spell to request through his First-Class Mage Privilege.
• Serie gave Rienta a Grimoire containing Communication Magic and marked his hand with its magic array as compensation for Lernen’s discourtesy.
• Serie told Rienta that Lernen had wanted to help but she had stopped him, while Rienta admitted he still found Lernen tiresome.
• The author described financial hardship, injuries, struggles with writing and mental health, and said they would try to post again that night.

Rienta made a late-night roujiamo meal for Serie, but Frieren, Fern, and Stark joined them and prompted him to prepare more. Two months later, Frieren’s group left Weise after speaking with the lord of the Glück Family, while Dunkel stayed behind at a grave.

• Serie asked Rienta if she could come to him with questions about magic, and he agreed before making her a late-night snack.
• Rienta prepared two kinds of roujiamo, then found Frieren, Fern, and Stark waiting with Serie under the maple tree.
• Rienta gave roujiamo to Frieren and Serie, then returned to the kitchen to make more for Fern and Stark.
• Two months later, Frieren and her companions told the lord of the Glück Family they were leaving Weise, and he thanked Frieren for helping save the city and undo Macht’s Golden Transformation.
• Frieren and the others declined the lord’s offer to call Dunkel to see them off because he was visiting a grave.
• Dunkel stood by the grave and murmured Lecktirei’s name, reflecting on his own struggle.

Frieren and her companions reached a village in the Ernst Region, where they learned that a strange Magical Beast was damaging crops and killing animals. They accepted the innkeeper’s request to deal with it and asked what reward she could offer.

• Frieren explained that the Ernst Region was a peaceful gateway between the Northern Plateau and the Imperial Territory, and that the Empire was the Northern Lands’ strongest country.
• At the village inn, Rienta mistook a piece of hard bread and cups of water for the house specialties, so the group decided to cook for themselves.
• The innkeeper asked the adventurers to deal with a tough Magical Beast that was destroying crops and killing livestock but had not attacked anyone.
• Rienta asked why the Norm Knights could not help, and Frieren explained that the region’s overlapping spheres of influence made intervention difficult.
• Frieren accepted the request and asked what reward the innkeeper could offer, while Rienta said a Grimoire would be best.

Rienta, Frieren, Fern, and Stark investigated a Golem destroying crops and discovered it was a cooking Golem whose spoiled basket had left it unable to finish an old order. After Frieren shut it down and the group enjoyed a meal with the shopkeeper, they continued toward the Imperial Territory, with Frieren testing the paper-airplane magic she had received as a reward.

• Rienta and Frieren searched the storeroom and accepted a Grimoire about magic that made paper airplanes fly far as payment for the request.
• Rienta and the others staked out a pumpkin field and encountered a Golem made by Flamme that was chopping up the crops.
• Frieren approached the Golem without being attacked and recognized that its rotten basket had prevented it from preparing a long-ago ordered dish.
• Frieren ordered the Golem to cease operation, and Rienta stored it in his Personal Space before the group returned to the inn.
• Rienta and Fern prepared a late-night meal for the shopkeeper, who had been unable to eat properly because of the Golem.
• The group left for the Imperial Territory the next morning, and Frieren demonstrated that her paper airplane flew unusually far.

Rienta, Frieren, Fern, and Stark accepted an herbalist’s request to discover why unfamiliar fruits and leaves sometimes fell from the sky near the Viesen Mountains. After a day of questioning villagers yielded no answers, Stark mentioned sightings of a dragon, and Frieren proposed waiting for a clear day.

• An herbalist stopped Rienta and his companions on a mountain path and asked Frieren to help investigate strange fruit that had fallen from the sky.
• The herbalist showed Frieren a fruit that seemed to come from a cold region, though a villager had found it in the nearby woods.
• The herbalist offered recipes for magic potions as a reward, and Rienta and Frieren accepted the request.
• Rienta, Frieren, Fern, and Stark questioned villagers throughout the day but found no useful information.
• Fern noted that the weather had been cloudy since their arrival, and Frieren explained that the Viesen Mountains made it unstable.
• Stark reported that someone had seen a dragon flying overhead, and Frieren suggested they wait for a clear day before investigating further.

Rienta, Frieren, Fern, and Stark discovered a Sky Vein Dragon and gathered plants from its back for a herbalist in the Viesen Mountains. After receiving three potion formulas as a reward, Rienta secretly kept the Clothes-Dissolving Potion formula and resolved to learn it.

• Rienta mused about how elves and demons spent their long lives before Stark spotted a dragon flying beyond Detection Magic's range.
• Frieren identified the dragon as a Sky Vein Dragon, and the group flew after it and gathered seeds and tree fruits from its island-sized back.
• Frieren recalled Himmel once saying he hoped to visit a Sky Vein Dragon, and that Frieren might someday reach one.
• The group gave the gathered plants to the herbalist, who thanked them and handed over three magic potion formulas.
• Rienta kept the Clothes-Dissolving Potion formula for himself, while Frieren and Fern received formulas for Stamina Recovery Potion and Blood-Replenishing Potion.

While waiting for their Imperial screening, Frieren led Rienta, Fern, and Stark to a Goddess's Monument she had failed to study during her journey with Himmel. They found it broken and bearing unfamiliar inscriptions, including one Rienta identified as “Excalibur Morgan,” and Frieren and Rienta began analyzing the monument.

• Frieren took the group through Kino Mountain Gorge to find a Goddess's Monument and explained that she wanted to redeem herself for not examining it properly before.
• Frieren recalled that she and Himmel's party had gotten lost near the monument and that she later lost a week's worth of memories after examining it.
• Two days later, the group found the monument broken, and Frieren confirmed that the inscriptions at its base had not been there during her previous visit.
• Frieren translated the first inscription as “Fiala... Tor...,” while Rienta identified the second as “Excalibur Morgan,” the name of a move similar to a spell.
• Rienta asked Fern and Stark to keep watch, then joined Frieren in casting analysis magic on the Goddess's Monument.

Frieren emerged from analyzing the Goddess's Monument and found herself back with Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen, unable to explain what had happened. Rienta woke in Serie's palace, discovered that his communication magic was draining his mana, and attacked Serie before trying to escape, but Serie confronted him outside.

• Frieren canceled Analysis Magic and found the intact Goddess's Monument, with Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen beside her.
• Frieren tested Himmel to confirm he was real, then asked his age; Himmel said he was twenty-three.
• Rienta woke in Serie's palace and tried to contact her with Communication Magic, but his mana rapidly ran out and recovered.
• Serie questioned Rienta, who summoned several kinds of magic and launched a torrent of blades and swords at her.
• Rienta fled toward the palace exit, dodged Serie's mana beam with Intangibility, and escaped the palace.
• After running less than a hundred meters, Rienta stopped and found Serie waiting at the entrance, asking why he had stopped running.

Frieren realized that she had traveled back in time after touching the Goddess's Monument, but feared that asking Himmel and the others for help could alter history. After the party escaped the forest, they found wrecked carriages and a dozen corpses on the road.

• Himmel led Frieren, Heiter, and Eisen through the forest using markers, but they got lost again.
• Frieren decided not to tell the others about her time travel, worried that changing history could erase Rienta, Fern, and Stark.
• Heiter scolded Frieren for the party's detours, and Frieren surprised everyone by apologizing.
• Frieren used Detection Magic to guide the party back to the main road, hiding her unfamiliarity with the era's undeveloped Flight Magic.
• The party discovered two destroyed carriages and about a dozen corpses beside the road.

Himmel's party encountered Zart the Afterimage, who used Space Transfer to send Frieren plummeting from the sky and demanded that the others surrender their weapons. As Frieren tried to work out how she had defeated him during her lost week, Himmel faced Zart's threat and recalled a wounded young Demon pleading for help.

• Himmel's party found the remains of people wearing Imperial soldier uniforms and prepared to bury them.
• Zart appeared behind the party, identified Frieren as the one who caused the space-time fluctuations, and introduced himself as a subordinate of Grausam the Miraculous.
• Himmel attacked Zart, but Zart transferred himself away and then transported Frieren thousands of meters into the sky.
• Frieren recognized Zart's Space Transfer and considered how she could defeat him without revealing magic from the future.
• Zart told Himmel to drop his weapon and threatened Frieren, while Himmel remembered a wounded young Demon crying out for her mother.

Himmel recalled the Demon girl’s betrayal and recognized that Zart the Afterimage was lying, but he and his companions resumed fighting after Frieren attacked from the sky. Frieren countered her fall with a massive mana blast and reached the battlefield, where Zart struggled against her and the close-range assault.

• Himmel remembered how the Demon girl had killed the village chief and his wife, and how Frieren had explained that demons used “mommy” as a survival trick.
• Himmel told Zart that he knew Zart was lying, then set down his sword as Heiter and Eisen lowered their weapons.
• Frieren’s pitch-black beam struck Zart’s position, but Zart used Space Transfer to evade it.
• Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen took up their weapons again after Himmel recognized Frieren’s attack as her answer.
• Frieren countered her fall with a huge mana blast, landed near the battlefield, and forced Zart to dodge while Himmel and the others kept him occupied.

Rienta encountered Serie after she awoke, then discovered Purple Vine Flowers that had supposedly gone extinct growing throughout the forest. He prepared lunch for Serie while wondering whether he had traveled back in time, leaving the cause of the flowers and Serie’s lost memory unresolved.

• Rienta claimed he had come to find ingredients, and Serie canceled her clone after he served her tea.
• Serie told Rienta she had memorized his mana and warned him not to run away as he headed into the forest.
• Rienta found a Purple Vine Flower described in Ewig’s Grimoire and saw more growing across the forest, despite the flower being extinct.
• Rienta considered whether Seed Mice had preserved the flowers or whether he had traveled back in time.
• Rienta prepared a lavish lunch for Serie, who praised his cooking and was invited to taste the dishes.

Rienta and Serie shared a meal, then Rienta began building a log cabin beside Serie’s Palace. By evening, the cabin’s structure was complete, and Serie praised its style before directing him to make dinner.

• Rienta served lunch, and Serie calmly told him that Flamme had died and Frieren had delivered her final letter.
• After tea, Rienta headed into the forest to gather timber and build a log cabin while Serie watched him with Detection Magic.
• Rienta prepared building materials, laid out a bluestone path, and began making a fence as Serie observed.
• By evening, Rienta had assembled the cabin’s structure and furniture, then asked Serie what she thought.
• Serie called the cabin stylish but interrupted Rienta to ask what he was making for dinner.

Himmel, Eisen, and Heiter realized Frieren was hiding extraordinary magic when Zart of the Afterimage dropped a massive section of cliff on them. Frieren destroyed the falling cliff and killed Zart, leaving her companions to suspect that she came from the future.

• Himmel and Eisen wounded Zart while Frieren's mana attacks interrupted his Space Transfer.
• Zart used Space Transfer to drop an enormous section of cliff from the sky, and Frieren warned the others not to let him touch the cliff.
• Himmel told Frieren he knew she was concealing powerful magic, and she asked her companions to keep what they were about to see secret.
• Frieren unleashed immense mana and destroyed the falling cliff with a beam, killing Zart as he realized she was from the future.
• Heiter, Himmel, and Eisen watched Frieren fly and concluded that she was probably from the future.

Frieren confessed that she had come back from eighty years in the future, and Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen believed her. The party continued toward a nearby town to investigate how she could return, while Himmel insisted they would keep fighting the Demon King regardless of what the future held.

• Frieren told Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen that she had come back from eighty years in the future, and they accepted her explanation.
• Frieren complained about the hard bread, and Himmel promised to treat her to good food in the next town.
• Heiter asked whether the party had defeated the Demon King, but Himmel argued that they would fight on whatever the outcome.
• Eisen caught fish and cooked stew, and Frieren said she had no idea how to return to her own time.
• Himmel suggested that the party investigate the nearby town's church and mages' association for clues and promised to buy Frieren something good.

With no leads on their search, Frieren, Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen asked around at a tavern, where Himmel accepted a merchant-escort commission. As they traveled together the next morning, Frieren thanked her companions for their help and admitted that Himmel had given her motivation.

• The group found no useful information at the church or Mage Association, so Himmel suggested asking around at the tavern.
• The companions questioned the tavern patrons, but Heiter got drunk and learned nothing; Himmel returned with a merchant and admitted he had accepted an escort commission.
• The next morning, Himmel and the others escorted the merchant along the main road, and Frieren said she did not mind the detour.
• Heiter and Eisen asked Frieren why she was traveling, but she refused to share details that might affect the future.
• Frieren thanked Heiter and Eisen for helping her and told Himmel that he had given her motivation.
• Himmel proudly said his bronze statues would pass his beauty down to future generations, prompting Heiter and Eisen to tease him about his vanity.

Frieren, Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen fought off a coordinated group of Magical Beasts during their merchant escort commission. After safely delivering the merchant, the party continued toward the next town while helping Frieren find a way back.

• Frieren detected nearby enemies, and Himmel blocked an arrow before several Magical Beasts confronted the party.
• Himmel charged the attackers while Frieren used era-appropriate Offensive Magic and cast Rho Aias to shield him and Eisen from a barrage of arrows.
• Frieren detected Magical Beasts behind them, and Eisen and Heiter moved to fight the rear attackers while Himmel and Frieren held the front.
• The party defeated the encircling Magical Beasts and escorted the grateful merchant safely to the village.
• The merchant paid Himmel, and Frieren thanked him after he praised how well she had fought alongside the party.
• The party set off for the next town, with Frieren still needing help finding a way back.