Chapter Summaries

In Havis, Fern tried a spell that let her eat without gaining weight, and the food made her body warmly radiate heat. Frieren cuddled against Fern like she was a heater, while Fern eventually let her stay close.

• Fern braided Frieren's hair tightly because she was angry, and Lowell promised to take them to the hot springs to persuade her to cook for him again.
• Lowell took Frieren and Fern to Havis's largest restaurant, where they enjoyed a lavish lunch.
• Fern explained that Lady Ruby had taught her a spell that prevented weight gain, and she happily confirmed it worked after eating many dishes.
• Lowell suspected the spell converted food into physical heat, and Frieren touched Fern and discovered that she was unusually warm.
• Frieren hugged Fern for warmth, and Fern stopped resisting and let her cling to her.

After Liletta reported killing her targets, Lowell, Fern, Frieren, and Liletta soaked in the inn’s hot springs. Liletta fetched popsicles for Frieren and Fern but took them without paying, leaving Lowell to settle the bill.

• Liletta told Lowell she had found and killed the targets, and he praised her for earning a new black glove.
• Fern questioned whether killing other Demons troubled Liletta, and Lowell explained that Demons generally cared little about their own kind.
• At the hot springs, Liletta removed her conjured clothes after Fern and Frieren pointed out that soaking in them looked strange.
• When Frieren wished for a popsicle, Liletta started to leave the bath to get one, but Fern stopped her and explained that she should dress and wait until after the soak.
• After bathing, Frieren and Fern ate popsicles, and an inn waitress told Lowell that Liletta had taken them without paying, so he paid for them.

Fern found Frieren asleep in a pile of books and magic tools after she and Lowell spent the previous night shopping, then joined them for lunch. The group planned another hot spring visit after learning Fern and Liletta had already completed the commission, while Lowell reflected on how Demons could adapt to rules and hinted that he wanted humans and Demons to coexist.

• Fern found Frieren buried asleep in the pile of books and magic tools, and Lowell explained that they had bought the items while shopping the night before.
• Fern pulled Frieren from the pile, helped her to bed, and braided her hair; Frieren declared that Fern's gentler braid showed she was happy.
• Lowell proposed starting the day's commission, but Fern said she and Liletta had already completed it, and Lowell cautioned her to stay safe.
• Frieren suggested another hot spring visit, and Fern agreed to collect Liletta after lunch.
• Fern described Liletta as obedient and focused on learning Lowell's rules, and Lowell explained how clear guidance could help Demons become manageable and find useful roles.
• Lowell told Frieren that Mina had passed the Second-Class Mage exam with Flower Field Magic and said he wanted humans and Demons to coexist.

Fern, Frieren, Lowell, and Liletta crossed into the Northern Plateau, where Fern fought off powerful monsters throughout their three-day journey. They stopped at a Travelers' Home, where Fern agreed to clear the nearby monsters and learned why its owner refused to leave his hometown.

• Lowell joked his way through the checkpoint, and Fern and Frieren presented their First-Class Mage papers before the group continued north.
• Fern sensed and swiftly defeated six monsters attacking them on the Northern Plateau.
• Over the next three days, Fern fought a giant earth monster, a five-headed python, and a giant bat, gaining experience while Frieren and Lowell mostly watched.
• At sunset, the group reached a Travelers' Home, where its owner asked them to clear the monsters threatening the area, and Fern agreed.
• Fern asked the owner why he stayed despite the danger, and he said that no one would willingly give up their hometown.

Lowell, Frieren, Fern, and Liletta rescued a father and daughter from a powerful flying Demon on the Northern Plateau. After defeating it, they invited the pair to travel with them toward the next town, and the group continued across the wasteland together.

• Lowell's Future Sight warned him of danger, so the group hurried to a carriage where a three-eyed Demon was about to attack a man and his daughter.
• Fern drove the Demon back with magic, and Liletta intercepted its airborne strike before helping Fern bring it down.
• Frieren explained that the creature was a Demon and warned Fern that Demons could fly and that ugly ones were generally strong.
• Liletta said she had saved Fern because the others seemed to think more highly of her when she helped them.
• Frieren arranged for the father and daughter to travel with the group in exchange for a ride to the next town.
• As they continued across the wasteland, Liletta quietly recited her oath, and Fern slowed to walk closer to her.

In the Northern Plateau’s grain-growing town, Frieren and Lowell heard that Fass was close to finding the legendary Emperor’s Wine and met him on the street. Adonis suggested the wine had likely been sealed with powerful magic, and Fass asked the group to help find it, leaving Lowell weighing the request.

• Frieren explained that the town’s protected farmland supported a long tradition of brewing, and Fern recalled Heiter’s interest in Emperor’s Wine.
• Fass recognized Frieren and Lowell as old companions and learned from Fern that Heiter was still young and fond of wine.
• Fass announced that he had located Emperor’s Wine and asked the group to help retrieve it for Heiter.
• Adonis and Elder appeared, and Adonis reasoned that the wine had probably been sealed or hidden with powerful magic.
• Fass offered to pay for their help, while Lowell looked between him and Adonis and considered the request.

Fass led Frieren, Lowell, Fern, and Adonis to the underground ruins where he had searched for the Emperor’s Wine for over two hundred years. They discovered the legendary wine tasted terrible, but Fass shared it with the town, turning his disappointment into a celebration while Frieren decided to take a bottle back for Heiter.

• Fass led the group through his hand-dug tunnel and showed them an ancient stele linking the Emperor’s Wine to Millialdai.
• Adonis and Frieren found the barrier on the ruins’ stone door too powerful to open quickly, so Elder passed through the rock wall and made an entrance.
• Fass found rows of sealed bottles in the ruins, but Adonis and Fass discovered the Emperor’s Wine tasted awful.
• Frieren forced Lowell to taste the wine, and Lowell made her try it in return; both confirmed it was terrible.
• Fass distributed the wine to the townspeople, who laughed and celebrated as they drank it, while Adonis watched and reflected on the absurdity of his search.
• Frieren, Lowell, and Fern watched the celebration from the shadows, and Frieren decided to take a bottle back for Heiter.

After reaching the Norm Trading Company’s fortress city, Frieren, Fern, and Lowell were summoned to meet its president, Norm. He falsely claimed Frieren owed an old debt, then admitted it had already been repaid and revealed he wanted to ask them for help.

• A month after leaving the Bia Region, Frieren, Fern, and Lowell reached the Norm Trading Company’s fortress city.
• A clerk recognized Frieren and Lowell from portraits and escorted their group to company headquarters at the president’s request.
• President Norm demanded repayment of a loan from eighty years earlier, and Frieren protested that Himmel and the others had borrowed the money.
• Lowell placed a huge piece of Anti-Magic Ore on Norm’s desk, causing Norm to abandon his pressure tactic and apologize.
• Norm admitted that Himmel and Ruby had repaid the debt and said he had summoned Frieren and Lowell to ask for their help.

President Norm persuaded Frieren, Lowell, Fern, and Liletta to help revive the Northern Plateau’s failing trade network by locating silver ore at a mine. Frieren revealed the ore’s location, miners began digging, and Liletta helped clear the rock face.

• President Norm explained that the Norm Trading Company had lost troops and caravans to Demons and asked Frieren and Lowell to find silver ore to restore supplies.
• Frieren called out President Norm’s plan to use an IOU to pressure them, but agreed to help because of the old president’s kindness.
• At the mine, Frieren used Ore detection magic to identify a promising silver vein about thirty meters into the rock.
• President Norm ordered the miners to dig where Frieren pointed, and they set to work enthusiastically.
• Lowell praised Frieren’s flashy display as Bluffing Magic, while Fern noted that Ore detection magic had no such effects.
• Liletta drew her sword and broke away rock with its flat, saying she would help those who needed help.

Genau returned to his ruined hometown after Demons destroyed the village, where he found his childhood friend En dying and learned the Norm Knights had also been killed. After Frieren and Fern arrived, the group realized the Demon responsible for the attack might still be alive, and Frieren prepared to hunt it down.

• Genau killed a kneeling Demon and searched the ruined village, then found En gravely wounded and carried him toward the church.
• En died on Genau's back, and Genau laid him among the villagers and knights in the church, where Methode confirmed there were no survivors.
• Genau sensed two approaching mages, and Frieren burst into the church before recognizing Genau and stopping her attack; Fern followed.
• Genau showed Frieren and Fern the dead Norm Knights and explained that their captain had been killed in one sword strike, unlike the weaker Demons he had defeated.
• Genau concluded that the Demon who led the attack was probably still alive, and Frieren agreed to pursue it with him.

Frieren, Fern, Methode, and Genau prepared to investigate demons after the village attack while Genau secured the building holding the dead. As the group readied to leave, Methode continued analyzing the sword found beside a knight’s body and suddenly seemed to remember something.

• Methode examined the sword’s movements and wondered whether the enemy had used two swords, while Frieren and Fern reviewed Genau’s map of possible demon hiding places.
• Frieren sent Stark to bring dinner to Genau, who had reinforced a barrier around the stone house containing the villagers’ and knights’ bodies.
• Genau explained to Stark that the dead could not safely be buried because monsters would dig them up, and said the people of the Northern Plateau would eventually have to accept cremation.
• Back in the room, Frieren, Fern, and Methode discussed their assignments; Methode said she had come on Lady Serie’s direct order and that she wanted to help her.
• Methode resumed studying the sword and its faint marks, then opened her eyes as if she had suddenly remembered something.

Methode recalled how Genau had warned her about his indifference to people dying as Frieren’s group prepared to hunt the Demons. The Demons’ leader, Leifuerdi, planned to exploit human concern for the dead by waiting for the party to split up, and Genau volunteered to stay behind in the village.

• Methode remembered meeting Genau as his new partner and hearing him warn her not to expect him to save her in battle.
• Methode told Frieren’s group that four Demons had attacked the village and that one might be a general who fought with four swords.
• Frieren explained that Demon generals were formidable warriors, and that the knights’ lack of experience against such an opponent likely led to their quick defeat.
• At the ruined castle, Yun told Leifuerdi that five people were approaching, and he ordered her to wait until they split up.
• Leifuerdi explained that the Demons had left corpses to prompt humans to guard them, while Yun asked to meet a Demon who understood humans.
• Genau volunteered to guard the bodies in the village so Frieren, Fern, Methode, and Stark could pursue the Demons.

Frieren, Fern, and Methode headed north to investigate a stronghold while Stark stayed behind with Genau in the village. On the road, Methode offered Frieren a grimoire in exchange for permission to pat her head, and Frieren eagerly agreed.

• Frieren planned to investigate the northern stronghold, while Genau stayed to await the Norm Knights and Stark chose to remain with him.
• Stark challenged Genau’s claim that the bodies were merely corpses, and Genau admitted he had grown numb to death and was unsure what meaning his vigil held.
• Frieren, Fern, and Methode traveled north, and Frieren warned them not to use wide-area mana detection in case it revealed their position.
• Methode asked to pat Frieren’s head and recalled that Serie also disliked being patted; Frieren refused, with Fern backing her up.
• Methode offered Frieren a spell grimoire about keeping eggshells out of cracked eggs, and Frieren accepted it in exchange for letting Methode pat her head.

Frieren, Fern, and Methode were ambushed by two powerful flying Demons who used mana-summoning mist to obscure the forest and separate the mages. Methode engaged one Demon, while Frieren left Fern to face the other, reassuring her after she barely blocked a concealed attack.

• Methode embraced Frieren while Fern tried unsuccessfully to pull her away, until all three sensed two hostile waves of mana.
• Nebel and Zolida revealed themselves in the sky, and Nebel cast Mist-Summoning Magic that engulfed the forest and hindered vision and mana detection.
• The Demons attacked through the mist, separating Methode from Frieren and Fern as the two women dodged the incoming strikes.
• Frieren explained that Demons could fly as a racial ability and recognized their aerial attacks as a familiar fighting style.
• Frieren told Fern to handle one Demon because Fern was the First-Class Mage, and Fern barely blocked a concealed mana beam after Frieren warned her.
• Fern judged her opponent far stronger than herself, but Frieren reassured her that she could win.

Stark and Genau waited in the village when Leifuerdi, the Demon who had killed Genau’s partner, arrived to attack them. Genau revealed a magic that created black-gold metal wings, and Leifuerdi paused to examine them.

• Stark returned with a fish, and Genau explained that Leifuerdi of the Divine Skill had killed his partner using four magically controlled swords.
• Leifuerdi smashed through the village wall and confronted Genau and Stark, demanding their names.
• Genau warned Stark not to block Leifuerdi’s sword strikes head-on, and they dodged his first four simultaneous slashes.
• Stark deflected Leifuerdi’s next attack while Genau revealed Black-Gold Wings Magic and summoned a pair of metal-blade wings.
• Leifuerdi halted his swords and called Genau’s wings interesting.

Genau and Stark battled Leifuerdi, who exploited their concern for a disguised Yun to stab Genau. As Leifuerdi prepared to finish him, Stark rose to block the swords, leaving the fight in a standoff at dawn.

• Genau and Stark fought Leifuerdi, and Stark deliberately endured a wound to create an opening for Genau to cut deeply into Leifuerdi’s tail.
• Leifuerdi taunted Genau about his dead partner and revealed a child hiding among the ruins, distracting Genau long enough to throw a sword toward her.
• Genau shielded the girl from the sword, but she revealed herself as Yun and stabbed him in the chest; Leifuerdi then cut Yun down when she celebrated.
• Leifuerdi began healing his tail and advanced on Genau, who reflected on his dead partner and Serie’s words as he lay bleeding.
• Stark rose and blocked Leifuerdi’s four swords with his axe, forcing them aside and leaving all three facing one another as dawn broke.

Fern fought Nebel inside his mana-sensing fog while Methode battled Zolida and analyzed the spell sustaining it. After Methode dispelled the fog, Fern and Frieren killed both demons with precision attacks from beyond their range of perception, and Frieren praised Fern as she admitted how exhausting the fight had been.

• Nebel used his fog to track Fern’s mana and attack her, while her spells failed to penetrate his shield.
• Frieren watched the fight from high above as Methode exchanged attacks with Zolida and searched for a way to dispel the fog.
• Methode analyzed the fog’s mana structure, then cast Mist-Dispelling Magic across the battlefield.
• Fern sniped Zolida from extreme range while Frieren’s attack pierced Nebel’s forehead.
• Frieren joined Fern, praised her accuracy, and heard Fern complain that she never wanted to fight that hard again.

Genau and Stark defeated Leifuerdi by exploiting his weakening swords and sacrificing themselves to land a final attack. After Methode healed the survivors, she and Genau left north while Frieren and Fern continued their journey, with Frieren keeping a priest’s place open for someone they hoped to meet again.

• Stark and Genau broke Leifuerdi’s swords, but Leifuerdi pierced both men in the abdomen with his extended arms.
• Genau restrained Leifuerdi while Stark struck him with the Light of the heavens slash, destroying Leifuerdi and leaving all three fighters gravely wounded.
• Methode treated Genau and Stark, and Genau confirmed that Stark was impressive.
• Methode offered to join Frieren’s party, but Frieren declined and said she wanted to keep the priest’s place open for someone they might meet again.
• Genau thanked Frieren for her help, then left north with Methode while Frieren and Fern set off in another direction.

Lowell arrived in time to save Gutkind and confronted Leifuerdi and his three subordinates, whose attacks could not harm him. He accepted their surrender under strict rules, then healed Gutkind and waited for Genau to arrive.

• Lowell appeared between Leifuerdi and the wounded Gutkind, and Leifuerdi lowered his swords and offered to surrender.
• Lowell exposed Nebel, Zolida, and Yun, then invited them to attack him; their magic and sword strike left him unharmed.
• Lowell explained the gap between his strength and Leifuerdi’s, and Leifuerdi surrendered sincerely and asked why Lowell helped humans.
• Lowell placed stone rings on Leifuerdi, Nebel, Zolida, and Yun and laid down rules against killing, eating people, and other misconduct.
• Frieren, Fern, and Liletta arrived, and Lowell healed Gutkind while wondering why Genau had not shown up.

Genau arrived at the devastated village, where Lowell had saved Gutkind and arranged new roles for the four captured Demons. As the villagers began recovering, Methode reunited with Frieren and the group faced a new day of trouble.

• Genau inspected Gutkind and the children, then agreed to let the Norm Knights help the villagers and thanked Lowell after Methode prompted him.
• Lowell assigned Nebel, Zolida, and Leifuerdi to the northern border and sent Yun to study humans with Solitär at the academy, asking Genau to deliver them.
• Gutkind challenged Leifuerdi to fight again after he healed, but Leifuerdi refused because he could not kill him; Nebel and Zolida offered to spar instead.
• Methode embraced Frieren while Fern tried to pull her free, and Lowell joked about being a powerless husband before Frieren showed off a magic book.
• Fern objected when Lowell praised Frieren's egg-cracking magic, and she backed away when Methode called her cute; the villagers then began emerging to clean up the ruins.