Recaps

After spending the night together, Galan woke to find Lia asleep on top of him and let her keep resting. In the inn, Fitz assumed the two had become closer and decided to handle the day's work himself.

• Galan recalled carrying the sleepy Lia back to the inn after the Winter Festival and later letting her slip into his bed.
• Lia woke briefly, then curled up on Galan's chest and went back to sleep.
• Galan stroked Lia's head and watched the new day's sunlight while letting her rest.
• Fitz waited for Galan in the inn's lobby, guessed he was still asleep with Lia, and chose to do the day's work himself.

Frog asked Galan to help guard his caravan on a dangerous trip to Weise after the Demon King's Army captured their previous trade route. He explained that the order was a test from a major merchant association and that, despite the risks and his injured men, he felt he had to accept it to reach his goal.

• Galan and Lia got up late and ran into Frog, who had returned that morning.
• Frog took Galan and Lia to a restaurant and asked Galan for help with a difficult problem.
• Frog told Galan that his next order required a trip to Weise along the dangerous Fallen Trade Route, now threatened by the Demon King's Army.
• Frog explained that a major merchant association had given him the order as a test and that several injured men would be unable to join the caravan.
• Frog admitted that he understood the danger but could not give up when he was so close to achieving his goal.

Galan told Frog that the merchant association was likely setting him up and urged him not to risk the trade route. He proposed that Frog strike out on his own by partnering with the potion shop where Galan worked, leaving Frog to consider a new path in business.

• Galan explained that the dangerous route and Rivale’s threat made it impossible for him to leave Äußerst or safely join Frog’s expedition.
• Galan warned Frog that the merchant association might not honor its promises even if Frog completed the commission.
• Galan suggested Frog build an independent business instead of relying on the merchant association.
• Galan proposed that Frog enter the medicine trade by partnering with the potion shop where he was working.
• Frog wavered as Galan described the opportunity to use his existing resources and channels to build a new business.

Galan suggested that Frog enter the potion trade by working with the adventurer equipment shop, giving Frog a new way to grow his business. Frog presented his experience and resources to the boss, who listened as Galan asked him to help.

• Galan told Frog that his potion-making abilities could help him succeed in the potion trade, and Frog considered shifting his resources into the business.
• Frog explained that he had noticed the shop’s popular [Recovery Potion] and believed he could make the new venture work, though moving his resources would take about half a year.
• Galan introduced Frog to the boss as an experienced merchant with years of travel along the [Fallen Trade Route], and Frog showed the boss valuable trade goods as proof of his abilities.
• The boss warned them that major trades were controlled by large merchant guilds, but Galan helped him onto his stool and asked him to consider working with Frog.

The shopkeeper agreed to cooperate with Frog to expand Recovery Potion production and sales, giving Frog a safer way to build his business. Galan realized the expanded operation would greatly increase his workload and headed to confront Fitz about sharing the burden.

• The shopkeeper weighed the risks and profits of working with Frog and decided to take the opportunity.
• Frog excitedly accepted the shopkeeper’s agreement, relieved he could expand his business without sending the mercenary group along a dangerous trade route.
• The shopkeeper and Frog agreed to discuss preparations and cooperation details later.
• Frog thanked Galan, who recognized that increased sales would require much more Recovery Potion production from him and Fitz.
• Galan cursed at the prospect of heavier work, then went to find Fitz so he would not carry the burden alone.

Galan worried that Frog and the boss’s partnership would leave him and Fitz overworked, while he wanted to spend quiet time with Lia. As they relaxed together, Lia reminded Galan that he was already strong, and he began to reconsider how he judged his own abilities.

• Galan and Fitz worried that Frog and the boss’s negotiations would increase their workload, and Galan refused Fitz’s idea of running away to stay with him.
• Galan stayed indoors with Lia, who read a book about herbs in his room while they kept warm by the fireplace.
• Galan told Lia he wanted an ordinary, peaceful life with her and pulled her down beside him onto the pillow.
• Lia asked why Galan was so strong if he wanted a quiet life, then praised how he had faced the Demon General and Rivale.
• Galan realized that surviving battles against powerful Demons showed he was more capable than he had believed.

Galan and Lia spent a rare snowy day resting together at the inn, joking about beasts of burden and growing closer. After sleeping until afternoon, they went outside into the bitter cold to find something to eat, while the streets and shops remained quiet.

• Galan and Lia lay side by side, held hands, and listened to the wind during the heavy snowfall.
• Galan explained what a beast of burden was, and Lia wondered aloud how she had never encountered one in her nearly three hundred years.
• Galan laughed at Lia for taking the term seriously, then swore he would help Fitz for the rest of his life if he had been mocking her.
• Galan and Lia slept until the afternoon, then got up, washed, and prepared to leave the inn.
• Galan and Lia stepped into the cold evening streets, where the snow had stopped and the boss's shop remained closed.

Galan took Lia to Lake’s restaurant, where a meal and conversation helped her feel more comfortable expressing herself in Äußerst. On the way back to the inn, he carried her and reflected on his vanishing left hand and how much he wished their happy moments could last.

• Galan reflected that bringing the boss and Frog together had been a good opportunity, then asked Lia what she wanted for dinner.
• Galan and Lia visited Lake’s restaurant, where Lake recognized them and offered them a dessert to make up for his initial mistake.
• Galan encouraged Lia not to worry about what other diners thought, and Lia resumed eating dessert with gusto.
• After dinner, Galan carried an overfull Lia back toward the inn and thought about his nearly vanished left hand and their time together.

Galan worried that his body was beginning to disappear and decided to look for a house with Lia, but the cost left him unsure how to earn enough money. Meanwhile, Fitz celebrated a breakthrough on an ambitious potion he had been developing in the shop’s storeroom.

• Galan checked that his left hand had not turned transparent again and worried that his time in this world was running out.
• Galan told Lia they should look for a house, but her question about the cost made him consider secretly making and selling potions.
• Fitz, alone in the storeroom while the boss arranged a partnership, celebrated reaching the near-final stage of his potion experiment.
• Fitz studied the scorched-yellow potion and struggled to decide which medicinal ingredient to add last.

Fitz used the rare herb he had risked everything to obtain to complete his Rejuvenation Potion, and the mixture turned an unfamiliar purple. Unable to face the possibility of failure, he drank it, leaving the result unknown.

• Fitz recalled selling his possessions to obtain the herb and losing the guards who had protected him from a Greater Demon.
• Fitz added the preserved herb to the boiling potion, which changed from scorched yellow to gold and then purple.
• Fitz feared the unfamiliar purple potion meant failure and accepted that he might die.
• Fitz filled a bottle with the potion and drank it without hesitation.

Galan and Lia looked for vacant houses while enjoying the sunny day, and Fitz woke in a child’s body after drinking his potion. Fitz remained unsure whether he had succeeded in restoring his youth or merely extending the medicine’s effects.

• Galan decided to continue house-hunting with Lia, despite worrying about the cost and considering asking Frog for money.
• Lia and Galan stopped for roasted sweet potatoes, teased each other in the sunshine, and then continued toward a promising house.
• Fitz woke in a heap of clothes after losing consciousness and realized that most of the day had passed.
• Fitz examined his smaller body in a mirror and wondered whether he had successfully returned to childhood.
• Fitz recalled the purple potion and concluded that it had not overridden the herb’s original effects.

Fitz tested whether his potion had reset his body’s age, and the experiment confirmed that it had not. Meanwhile, Galan’s attempt to view a house ended in embarrassment, and he ran into an angry child at the inn.

• Fitz cut a piece of flesh from his arm and tested it in a reagent designed to reveal whether the herb’s effects had merely been prolonged.
• The flesh decayed and vanished without hatching again, and Fitz reacted with wild joy at the result.
• Galan failed to prove he could afford a house and was turned away by the agent.
• Lia secretly bought roasted sweet potatoes and shared one with Galan at the inn.
• Galan walked into a messy-haired child, who angrily accused him of deliberately ignoring and running him over.

Fitz, transformed into a child, reunited with Galan and revealed that he had developed a Rejuvenation Potion. He then told Galan that further adjustments could produce a potion of immortality, leaving Galan stunned and imagining a future with Lia.

• Fitz appeared at the inn as a child, and Galan recognized him after realizing he knew Fitz's name and mannerisms.
• Galan followed Fitz upstairs to his room, leaving Lia to return to her room and wait.
• Galan congratulated Fitz on developing the Rejuvenation Potion.
• Fitz told Galan that he could make a potion of immortality by adjusting the potion's effects.
• Galan imagined that the potion might let him live with Lia forever, then apologized in case his reaction had made Fitz uncomfortable.

Fitz told Galan he planned to leave Äußerst and promised him a portion of the Elixir of Immortality once he refined it. He asked Galan to look after the shop boss, while Galan revealed he might also leave within two years.

• Galan guessed that Fitz intended to leave, and Fitz confirmed it.
• Fitz promised to give Galan part of the Elixir of Immortality in repayment for his help.
• Fitz asked Galan to look after the shop boss after he left, but kept the reason for his departure private.
• Galan agreed to help, explaining that he might leave for somewhere far away within two years.
• Fitz accepted Galan's answer and said he would work harder to refine the elixir sooner.

Fitz left the city after finishing the Rejuvenation Potion, promising to develop the Elixir of Immortality for Galan and send it to him. When Galan told the boss, the news brought back the boss’s painful memories of losing his wife to Demons.

• Galan asked Fitz if he would take Lia with him, and Fitz said they were destined to meet again.
• Fitz asked Galan to tell the boss that enemies had found him and forced him to leave suddenly.
• Fitz departed, saying he had things he could not escape and would do his best to make the Elixir of Immortality for Galan.
• Galan told the boss that Fitz had left, and the boss rushed to chase him before realizing he was already gone.
• The boss remembered planning a future with Fitz and recalled how his wife had stayed home waiting for him before Demons killed her.

The boss found the murdered girl and realized Fitz’s explanation for leaving had been a lie, but he accepted that Fitz had chosen to go. Fitz watched the shop from an alley before leaving the city, while Galan returned to the inn and found Lia reading.

• The boss silently grieved over the murdered girl and recognized the flaws in Fitz’s excuse for leaving with the shop’s supplies.
• The boss walked back to the shop, and Galan told him that Fitz might return within two years, though Fitz had never promised to do so.
• Fitz watched the boss return to the shop, then left for the city gate carrying his enormous pack.
• Galan returned to the inn and found Lia reading; she admitted she had overheard part of his conversation with Fitz.

Galan learned that Fitz had left the boss’s shop, leaving Frog worried about protecting the potion business from rivals. Galan offered to help for now but warned Frog that he might leave Äußerst in the next couple of years, and Frog asked whether he would return.

• Frog complained that Fitz had left without warning and worried that hiring another apothecary could let a major merchant guild steal their potion-making methods.
• Galan agreed that the business needed to protect its core technology and listened as Frog vented his anger at Fitz.
• Galan offered to fill in and help make potions while he remained in Äußerst.
• Galan warned Frog that he might travel somewhere far away within a couple of years, explaining that he had regained most of his memories and wanted to confirm parts of his past.
• Frog asked where Galan was going and whether he would come back, revealing that he valued Galan as a friend.

Galan reassured Frog that he would return someday, though he privately doubted he could. When Lia brought them her charred homemade cookies, Frog was forced to taste one, while Galan escaped with a few cookies in hand.

• Galan told Frog he would come back, and Frog warned him not to leave without sending word.
• Lia brought Galan and Frog cookies she had baked, which turned out to be nearly black with carbonization.
• Frog tried to make Galan eat the first cookie, but Galan insisted Frog should try it himself.
• Frog asked whether Lia had tasted the cookies; she said she had not, so he reluctantly ate one and was left in despair.
• Galan claimed he needed to make potions for the shop and left, accepting a few cookies from Lia as Frog slumped in his chair.

Residents and adventurers in Äußerst searched the sky after reports of a Heavenly Vein Dragon, and Galan and Lia watched from a window. Galan wondered whether Serie could take them up to it, and Serie immediately spoke to him through a remote connection, leaving him accusing her of reading his thoughts.

• Residents and adventurers gathered in Äußerst to look for the Heavenly Vein Dragon, but most left when they could not find it.
• Galan and Lia watched the commotion, and Lia said she had seen a Heavenly Vein Dragon only once because their numbers had sharply declined.
• Galan held Lia back from falling as she leaned out the window, then wondered whether Serie could take them onto the dragon.
• Serie spoke in Galan's head as soon as he thought of her, startling him and nearly causing Lia to fall.
• Galan accused Serie of using magic to read his thoughts and violating his privacy, and Serie asked why he seemed to have a problem with her.

Serie agreed to take Galan and Lia onto the Heavenly Vein Dragon, but assigned Galan a task to find a particular magic stone. Galan and Lia used a Teleportation Array to arrive aboard the dragon.

• Serie told Galan to come to her Palace the next morning and agreed to take him and Lia onto the Heavenly Vein Dragon.
• Galan invited Lia on the trip, and she eagerly accepted.
• Galan saw that Serie had sent him a drawing of a magic stone to find during the journey.
• Galan brought Lia to Serie's Palace, where an old man led them to a Teleportation Array.
• Galan took Lia's hand and stepped into the array, which transported them onto the Heavenly Vein Dragon.

Galan and Lia explored the Heavenly Vein Dragon after arriving through Serie's teleportation array, discovering its ancient plants and vast landscapes. Galan warned Lia to stay close as they set out to investigate the wilderness.

• Lia reached for unfamiliar berries, but Galan stopped her and warned that they were heart-eating fruit that could sprout inside her.
• Galan realized the Heavenly Vein Dragon's pristine ecosystem might hold rare ancient medicinal ingredients and felt renewed excitement about exploring.
• Galan and Lia reached a cliff and saw forests, plains, mountains, and rivers stretching across the dragon's body like another continent.
• Galan warned Lia that rare monsters might live there and told her not to wander far from him, and Lia promised to listen.

Galan and Lia followed Serie’s map through a forest to find Magic Stones, but a regenerating vine monster attacked them. They fled toward the marked location, leaving Galan worried about the creatures and whether they would make it back safely.

• Galan and Lia followed Serie’s map and wondered why she had placed the teleportation array far from the Magic Stones.
• A vine-covered monster sprang at Lia, and Galan pulled her behind him and cut the creature in half with his saber.
• Galan discovered that the monster could survive being cut apart and suspected more creatures were gathering nearby.
• Galan took Lia’s hand and ran toward the marked location to escape the approaching monsters.
• Galan worried that the forest would make collecting the Magic Stones and returning safely difficult.

Galan and Lia gathered magic stones in the forest before Lia persuaded him to take her exploring. They emerged into a vast flower-covered meadow beside a lake, where they quietly admired the scenery.

• Galan and Lia found magic stones underwater and collected them without encountering more monsters.
• Lia complained that their trip had become a dangerous stone-gathering task, then asked Galan to explore somewhere else.
• Galan agreed to continue beyond the forest, warning Lia they would turn back if they met danger.
• Galan teased Lia about already being his girlfriend, then carried her on his shoulders as they hurried out of the forest.
• Galan and Lia reached a meadow filled with flowers and gazed at the scenery beside a lake.

Galan revealed to Lia that he had come from the future and was beginning to disappear as the magic that brought him to the past wore off. He reassured her that he would return to the future and that they would be closer there, then held her as she asked him to swear he was telling the truth.

• During a snowball fight, Galan drifted into thought, and Lia grew worried about his recent behavior.
• Back in their room, Galan showed Lia his nearly transparent hands and explained that he did not know when he would disappear.
• Lia became distraught at the thought of Galan leaving her behind, and he explained that he had arrived from the future by accident.
• Galan told Lia he would return to the future when the magic wore off and said they would have a closer relationship there.
• Galan comforted Lia beneath the covers, and she asked him to swear he had not lied to her.

A year passed as Galan's body became increasingly insubstantial, and he struggled with the prospect of leaving Lia when he returned to the future. He then received a box and a letter from Fitz confirming that Fitz had fulfilled his promise.

• Lia chipped a cleaver while cooking, and Galan offered to buy a replacement.
• Galan hid the worsening condition of his body from Lia and left the inn.
• Galan recalled that Serie expected him to return to the future that year, but he did not know how to tell Lia.
• Galan found a wooden box and a letter from Fitz in the mailbox after sensing someone watching him.
• Galan read Fitz's note saying he had fulfilled his promise and put the result in the box.