Recaps

As Frieren and her companions prepared to guard Serie, Ubel and Lanto were drawn into a conflict with the Empire's Magical Special Forces while the Shadow Warriors assembled to assassinate Serie. The Shadow Warriors traced Frieren's group through her tracked coins, and the arc ended with Red Hair poisoned and Sein treating him at Frieren's hideout.

• Lowell showed the group how Radaal and the Shadow Warriors had spent decades living as a family in a village, and Radaal stayed behind after the adventurers departed.
• Ubel joined Lanto on a mission to retrieve confidential documents, but Noi and the Magical Special Forces captured them before they escaped from the tower.
• Sense and Falsh revealed that Frieren's party had been summoned to protect Serie at a palace ball where an assassination attempt was possible.
• Levi and Schritt passed a mission to the Shadow Warriors, who gathered to plan Serie's assassination and discussed the guards and their past encounters with Frieren.
• Frieren tracked the silver coins she had given Gazella and suspected that he and Varos were connected to the Shadow Warriors.
• Lore detected Tracking Magic on Gazella's returned coins, and Frieren realized the Shadow Warriors had traced her group.
• Wolf shot Red Hair as Frieren, Fern, and their companions fled through the Imperial Capital, and Red Hair collapsed from poison.
• Frieren used her mana to lead Sein to their hideout, where he began treating Red Hair while Fern acknowledged that she was too unsettled to act safely.

Frieren and her allies investigated the Shadow Warriors’ assassination plot against Serie while a prophecy warned that Serie would die at the National Day Ball. After the group neutralized the Shadow Warriors and found no sign of the supposed second organization, Serie refused to remain under Lowell’s protection.

• Sein healed Red Hair as Gazella attacked, and Fern used the fireworks to conceal her aerial strike on Lore, disrupting the enemy’s coordination.
• Frieren and her companions identified the Shadow Warriors as remnants of a disbanded organization, while Serie arrived in the Imperial Capital and challenged its hidden watcher.
• Sense brought the group to the palace ball to protect Serie, while Ubel and Lanto waited outside and the Magical Special Forces monitored the guests.
• Ubel and Lanto fought Iris and Lutine in a corridor as the Shadow Warriors and the Magical Special Forces waited for orders to engage.
• Serie and the emperor shared a prophetic dream, and Serie revealed that she had foreseen her own death at midnight during the ball.
• Varos and Kleis ambushed Falsh beneath the palace, while Ubel and Lanto escaped Noi and reported that their mission was complete.
• Frieren’s group learned that undercover agents had infiltrated the Shadow Warriors and that the warriors were meant to support an assassination by another organization.
• Lowell shared a vision in which Serie died after the mages were taken hostage, but Serie rejected the idea that she would sacrifice herself and prepared with the group.
• Lowell discovered that Clematis’s memories were sealed by unfamiliar magic, then left him with Iris after making him more sensitive to pain and unable to lose consciousness.
• Frieren and her allies concluded that the Shadow Warriors capable of attacking Serie had been neutralized, but Serie refused Lowell’s protection and left with Ruby and Himmel.