Chapter Summaries

Galan reflected on Lia’s growth and Duncan’s hesitation about taking the First-Class Mage Exam before joining Glenn at the Adventurers Guild for a monster-subjugation request. Glenn introduced Galan to his party, including Teresia, and teased them about getting together.

• Galan reassured Duncan as Duncan admitted he still needed time to decide whether to take the First-Class Mage Exam.
• Galan met Glenn at the Adventurers Guild, where Glenn invited him to join a party subjugating monsters that had overrun Windmill Village.
• Glenn explained that the army was occupied with campaigns against the Demon King’s Army, leaving adventurers to handle the request.
• Glenn introduced Teresia as an experienced Second-Class Mage and embarrassed her by suggesting that she and Galan should be set up.

Galan joined Glenn, Theresia, and Reno for a subjugation request in Windmill Village, where their supposed allies treated them with contempt. After the other party left without discussing the plan, Glenn decided their group would let them go ahead while they gathered themselves, despite having no information about the village.

• Galan introduced himself to Reno, who recognized him as the well-known apothecary, and Theresia thanked him for helping her grandmother recover.
• Galan told Theresia he had trained as a warrior with Glenn, then asked her to call him Galan.
• Glenn introduced Sith as the captain of the cooperating party, but Sith walked away without discussing the subjugation plan.
• Sith’s teammates mocked Glenn’s group as inexperienced newcomers, and Reno exchanged a knowing look with Galan.
• Glenn explained that the guild required two parties for the commission and that a passing merchant caravan had reported Windmill Village’s fall, with no known survivors.
• Glenn decided his group would let Sith’s party take the lead and set out later, though they had no intelligence about the village.

Galan’s group traveled toward Windmill Village when Reno sensed danger and monsters ambushed them with arrows. Glenn charged into the intelligent wolf-headed attackers, and the chapter ended with him leaping into their formation and cleaving three of them apart.

• Galan, Glenn, Theresia, and Reno walked along the deserted road from Rogley to Windmill Village while Glenn and Theresia discussed how Galan had changed.
• Reno warned the group that he sensed someone watching them, and Theresia detected monsters closing in after an arrow flew at her.
• Theresia shielded the group from a barrage of arrows while Reno summoned three holy spears that drove the attackers out of the woods.
• Galan identified the attackers as wolf-headed monsters, and Glenn recognized that they were using human-like tactics.
• Glenn charged the monsters, leaped above their defenses, and cleaved three of them apart with his black greatsword.

Glenn’s group fought through a huge horde of wolf-head monsters and fled to Windmill Village, where they found ruins and only a few monsters. Galan sneaked into the village and silently killed one of them as the others remained unaware.

• Glenn and the others battled wave after wave of wolf-head monsters, while Theresia and Reno worried about their limited combat abilities and magic power.
• Glenn ordered the group to retreat toward Windmill Village, and Galan used volatile powder and a sleeping potion to delay the pursuing monsters.
• The group hid outside the ruined village and found few signs of monsters or the missing mercenaries, leaving the cause of the destruction unclear.
• Galan volunteered to handle the stragglers, slipped into the village, and killed one canine monster without alerting the other two nearby.

Galan used stealth and alchemical medicine to eliminate the monsters, impressing Glenn and Reno. Reno warned that Sith was a demon, while Sith’s party prepared to lure monsters toward Galan’s group for the commission reward.

• Galan distracted two monsters with a treated pebble, then killed them silently with his swords.
• Glenn praised Galan’s skills and tried to get some of his medicine, but Galan said he had almost none left.
• Reno complimented Galan’s fighting and warned him to be careful of Sith, declaring that Sith was a demon.
• Latte suspected the man posing as Sith was an impostor, while the woman mocked him and the blond youth watched their argument.
• Sith’s party decided to lure monsters toward the other group, intending to collect the full commission reward if they died.

Reno revealed that the Sith traveling with Latte was a demon using powerful disguise magic, and the group learned that a horde of monsters was closing in on Windmill Village. Glenn prepared to fight as the party faced the danger of the commission and Sith’s attack.

• Sith interrupted Latte and the woman’s argument, threatening to let them die if they kept making noise.
• Reno told Glenn, Theresia, and Galan that Sith was a demon who had replaced his old acquaintance and had likely caused the monster attack on their journey.
• Reno explained that advanced disguise magic concealed Sith, but he had recognized the demon because its body and eyes differed from the real Sith’s.
• Reno said Sith was unlikely to let the party return alive, and the group sensed monsters surrounding them and moving toward Windmill Village.
• Glenn drew his greatsword and readied himself to face the approaching horde.

Galan and his companions were trapped in Windmill Village by a horde of monsters while Flag and Latte moved to finish their plan. Frieren arrived and destroyed the Blood-Swallowing Pythons, leaving the group’s fate unresolved.

• Galan’s group realized monsters had surrounded Windmill Village and decided they had to fight their way out.
• Theresia sensed an unfamiliar mage approaching, and Galan recognized Frieren flying above the village.
• Flag learned that his identity had been exposed, then ordered Latte to kill the two people guarding the road; Latte slew them with Mortal-Killing Magic.
• Flag and Latte headed toward Windmill Village as monsters devoured the bodies they left behind.
• Frieren identified the monster formation as likely the work of demons and used Destructive Thunder Magic to destroy the Blood-Swallowing Pythons.

Frieren arrived at the besieged village and cleared the monsters there, then joined Glenn, Galan, Theresia, and Reno against the horde surrounding the hut. After the group fought their way through the monsters, Glenn and Galan faced a pair of Griffon Hounds while Theresia and Reno dealt with the remaining enemies.

• Frieren destroyed the monsters in the village and descended to the hut, where she asked whether the others could keep fighting.
• Reno reminded Frieren that she had saved him fifteen years earlier, but she had forgotten him; she recognized Galan as the apothecary who had sold her Wolf-Tail Grass.
• Glenn, Galan, Theresia, and Reno joined the fight against the horde, with Glenn and Galan cutting through the front ranks while Theresia and Reno attacked from behind.
• A Griffon Hound wounded Glenn, but he pinned it and killed it as Galan continued fighting beside him.
• Glenn and Galan stood back-to-back against two more Griffon Hounds while Theresia and Reno eliminated the remaining ordinary monsters.

Glenn and Galan killed two Griffon Hounds while Frieren watched, and Theresia exhausted her mana and fell asleep under Frieren’s protection. Their respite ended when Latte arrived wounded and was killed by a demon, leaving Frieren and the others facing two demons, including Flag.

• Glenn and Galan worked together to kill two attacking Griffon Hounds.
• Theresia slumped into sleep after using too much mana, so Frieren covered her with a blanket and raised a mana barrier around her.
• Latte staggered toward the group to warn them, but a violet beam pierced his heart and killed him.
• Frieren recognized that two demons were approaching, while Glenn and Galan prepared to face them.
• The demon disguised as Sith revealed his true appearance and called himself Flag.

Frieren drew Merle away from the village and confronted her on a mountaintop, while Glenn struggled against Flag and Galan seized an opening to strike. Frieren left the battle believing in her companions, and Galan's attack was aimed at Flag's neck.

• Frieren lured Merle to a mountaintop to keep their fight from harming the unconscious Theresia, then blocked Merle's spells.
• Merle boasted of her strength and threatened to kill Frieren and her companions, but Frieren reflected on why she had trusted them with the battle below.
• Frieren told Merle that demons underestimated humans, angering Merle into promising to make her suffer.
• Flag's relentless sword attacks drove Glenn onto the defensive and left him badly battered.
• Galan took advantage of Flag's opening after a powerful blow and slashed at his neck with the Alchemy Longsword.

Galan and Glenn fought Flag after Reno exhausted his magic, but Flag’s skill and resilience overwhelmed their coordinated attack. Flag left Galan and Glenn badly injured, and the battle’s outcome remained uncertain.

• Flag caught Galan’s Alchemy Longsword in his wounded hand and forced Galan to retreat, then challenged Galan and Glenn to reveal any remaining abilities.
• Galan admitted he had hidden some things from Glenn, while Reno used the last of his magic to heal and strengthen Glenn before collapsing beside the ruins.
• Glenn gathered his battle qi and charged Flag with his Black Sword, calling on Galan to watch his momentum.
• Galan coordinated a strike with Glenn, diverting Flag’s sword and stabbing him in the chest with a short sword.
• Flag kicked Galan into the ruins, stabbed Glenn’s right hand, snapped his left leg, and flung him away.

Galan and Glenn were left severely injured after their battle with Flag, who remained standing despite a sword through his heart. As Flag prepared to kill Glenn, memories of his brother’s sacrifice renewed Glenn’s resolve, and he insisted that Flag was underestimating humans.

• Galan crawled from the ruins and asked Reno to retrieve a healing potion from his bag because Reno could not heal him.
• Glenn forced himself upright with the Black Sword despite his chest injuries, bleeding hand, and broken leg, while Flag declared him defeated.
• Flag recalled that Glenn and Galan’s teamwork had given him a moment of crisis, then approached Glenn to finish him.
• Glenn remembered his brother telling him to shout with enough impetus from the city wall, and how he had waited there for three days without his brother returning.
• Glenn told Flag that he was underestimating humans and limped toward him, but Flag knocked him down and raised his sword for a final blow.

Galan and Glenn fought Flag while Frieren overwhelmed Merle, and both demons were killed. Galan collapsed from his wounds after Flag disappeared, while Frieren remained standing after revealing her strength.

• Galan used a recovery potion to return to the fight and clashed with Flag, whose heart wound had been poisoned by Galan’s short sword.
• Galan adapted to Flag’s attacks, trapped his kick, and cut off his head with the Alchemy Longsword; Glenn smiled before passing out.
• After the potion’s effects faded, Galan collapsed in his own blood from his wounds.
• Merle realized Frieren had been suppressing her mana, while Flag’s death shook her confidence.
• Frieren pierced Merle with [High-Compression Ordinary Offensive Magic], and Merle recognized her as [Frieren the Slayer] before a second beam annihilated her.

Galan woke after nearly a day of sleep with Lia resting beside him, and learned how frightened she had been when he was brought back wounded. As Lia embraced him and admitted she worried about him, Galan began to wonder whether she had fallen in love with him.

• Galan woke to find Lia asleep against him, and Duncan told him she had stayed by his side after he was brought back covered in blood.
• Duncan said Glenn had also survived and recovered enough to ask for a drink despite losing a leg.
• Duncan warned Galan that he had pushed himself too hard again, and the two exchanged smiles.
• Lia woke and clung tightly to Galan, visibly upset by his injuries.
• Lia asked Galan not to get hurt again because she would worry, and Galan wondered when her feelings for him had begun.

While Lia cared for Galan as he recovered, Duncan told him that Lia loved him and urged him not to ignore her feelings. Duncan revealed that a secret letter from the Empire would make him leave early, and Galan was left considering Duncan’s warning about lifelong regret.

• Lia served Galan nourishing soup and insisted that he rest despite his claim that he was nearly recovered.
• Galan realized Lia’s worry for him was genuine and reflected on how obvious her feelings had become.
• Galan noticed Duncan’s extensive notes in History of Magic and asked whether he was leaving.
• Duncan explained that a secret letter from the Empire required him to return early and apologized for not finishing his teaching.
• Duncan told Galan that Lia liked him and worked hard at magic partly to help him, then urged him to respond to her feelings.
• Duncan recalled regretting that he had been happy to receive a decoration when Lecktire died, and warned Galan not to let hesitation cause lasting regret.

A fading man said goodbye to a golden-haired girl and told her to go south to Rogley, where they would meet again, while keeping their past and the future secret. In the present, Glenn woke and shared wine with Galan, who doubted the legendary Emperor's Wine would still be drinkable.

• The fading man told the golden-haired girl that he was leaving and that she should find him in Rogley after waiting a few decades.
• He warned her not to mention their past or reveal future events when they met again, and the two tried to embrace before he vanished.
• The girl left the alley and entered the crowds celebrating Himmel the Hero's party defeating the Demon King.
• Glenn woke and received a bottle of wine from Galan, then eagerly drank it and talked about wanting to taste the legendary Emperor's Wine.
• Galan sat beside Glenn, said the Emperor's Wine had probably gone bad underground, and drank from his own bottle.

Galan and Glenn discussed their survival after the battle with Flag, then Glenn explained how his brother’s death in a Demon raid shaped his life and his pursuit of revenge. He asked Galan what Galan was living for.

• Galan and Glenn remembered Frieren’s help against Flag and agreed they wanted to share the guild reward with her.
• Glenn asked why Galan seemed troubled, and Galan avoided explaining his own reason for seeking him out.
• Galan questioned why Glenn lived in a crude room despite his earnings, and Glenn said he donated his money to a local church that cared for homeless children.
• Glenn revealed that he had grown up in the church after monsters killed his parents and a Demon raid killed his older brother.
• Glenn said revenge on the Demons was now his sole reason for living, then asked Galan what he was living for.

Galan asked Glenn for advice about Lia’s inexplicable affection and struggled to understand his own feelings for her. After Glenn urged him to consider reciprocating, Galan asked where he could find a skilled magic-wand craftsman.

• Galan wondered what he was living for and admitted he could not find meaning in his life.
• Galan asked Glenn about pets and romantic feelings, then described Lia’s growing affection for him.
• Glenn concluded that Lia trusted and loved Galan deeply, and that Galan had feelings for her too.
• Glenn urged Galan to stop agonizing and consider living for love, and Galan asked about a skilled magic-wand craftsman.

Galan visited Oris’s wand shop to buy a wand for someone else and chose an ebony wand with a unicorn horn core, which suited Lia’s talent for wind magic. He left with the choice made, while Oris’s unusual scrutiny of him remained unexplained.

• Galan found Oris’s shabby wand shop and reunited with Theresia, who had recovered from her injuries.
• Theresia explained that she had brought her damaged wand to Oris for repairs after overloading its core during the last battle.
• Galan told Theresia he was buying a wand for someone else and asked her to keep his warrior identity secret.
• Oris presented several wands, including an ebony wand with a unicorn horn core that had a strong affinity for wind magic.
• Galan immediately chose the unicorn-horn wand, guided by Lia’s talent for wind magic and an intuition he could not explain.

Galan bought an ebony wand with a unicorn core for Lia and learned from Theresia that giving a wand was a major, personal occasion for a mage. After discussing his feelings for Lia, he left for home, wondering how she would receive the gift.

• Galan told Theresia he had bought the wand for Lia because it suited her wind magic, while Oris watched them leave and wondered whether Galan was a warrior.
• Theresia explained that a wand was often a mage’s only one and was usually given by a master or respected family member, prompting Galan to consider holding a ceremony for Lia.
• Theresia asked whether Galan was giving the wand to a girl he loved, and Galan admitted he was giving it to someone he liked.
• Theresia assured Galan that Lia would appreciate a gift from someone she liked, then parted from him at a fork near the central square.