Chapter Summaries

After the villagers were killed, Lupa asked Lowell to train her so she could take revenge and protect others. Lowell explained why he had let Aura go and described his visions of possible futures, while Himmel said the party would continue toward the Demon King regardless of what prophecy might show; Lupa ended the chapter renewing her plea to become Lowell’s disciple.

• Lupa asked Lowell to let her follow him and learn to fight so she could take revenge.
• Frieren questioned Lowell about why he had let Aura go, and Lowell said Aura had chosen her own path and might find a future at its end.
• Lowell explained that he could see fragments of possible futures, not certain predictions, prompting Heiter to ask whether the party would defeat the Demon King.
• Himmel said the party would keep pursuing its chosen path without relying on a prophecy to decide their fate.
• Lupa insisted she would not be a burden and asked Lowell to take her as his disciple.

Lowell agreed to teach Lupa, warning her that gaining power might require giving up everything. Frieren recalled an incident from eight hundred years earlier that revealed why Lowell feared becoming emotionally worn down, and he left to walk alone.

• Lowell agreed to make Lupa his disciple after warning her that he might be a poor teacher and asking whether she would give up everything for power.
• Lupa accepted, and Lowell joked that she could help care for Frieren, delighting Frieren and embarrassing Ruby.
• Frieren recalled how Lowell once confronted a girl from a destroyed village in the eastern forest, and Lowell tried to stop her from telling the story.
• Frieren explained that the girl had learned skills from Lowell before dying at twenty-three, grateful that he had saved and taught her.
• Lowell said he had asked Lupa about giving up everything because he did not want to be worn down again, then left the room for a walk.

Lupa identified the demon who destroyed her village as Qual, and Lowell explained the danger posed by the Corrupt Sage’s powerful Killing Magic. Himmel and Ruby insisted that the party face Qual themselves, while Lowell told Lupa to recover and grow stronger before beginning with practical survival training.

• Lupa described her mother’s killer, and Lowell and Frieren recognized him as Qual, the Corrupt Sage.
• Lowell warned the party that Qual’s original Killing Magic could pierce many magical defenses and made him an exceptionally dangerous demon.
• Himmel and Ruby refused to let Lowell defeat Qual for them, declaring that they would fight him as part of their journey and help Lupa seek revenge.
• Lupa thanked the party through her tears as they offered to help her avenge her village.
• Lowell urged Lupa to rest and get stronger, then told her she would start by learning to find edible wild mushrooms.

During a brief stop on the journey north, Lowell trained Lupa to become a warrior while Frieren enjoyed being waited on and Ruby struggled to study. The group finished clearing nearby monsters and resumed training before continuing their travels.

• Lowell gave Lupa a demanding daily physical training regimen, while Heiter healed her injuries and exhaustion so she could keep going.
• Ruby questioned the intensity of Lupa's training, and Lowell explained how warriors used physical conditioning and mana to grow stronger.
• Lupa and Linié cared for the sleepy Frieren, while Frieren challenged Ruby to read the magic books she had been assigned.
• Ruby insisted she would read the books herself, and Frieren eventually got up for her daily magic practice.
• Himmel reported that the nearby monsters had been cleared, and Lowell sent Lupa to practice sensing mana as the group prepared to continue training and travel.

After ten peaceful days of helping people, Himmel’s party continued north and encountered signs of a devastating attack. Lupa recognized the Corrupt Sage, Qual, as the culprit who destroyed her village, and Himmel prepared the party to fight.

• Himmel and Ruby helped save a prosperous town from organized mountain trolls, and the mayor offered to erect statues of the party.
• Frieren and Lowell declined to be included, while Himmel, Ruby, Heiter, and Eisen posed for the planned statues.
• The party traveled farther north, where Eisen detected smoke and blood and the mages sensed a powerful, corrupt presence.
• Lupa recognized the distant blaze as the work of Qual, who had destroyed her village and killed her parents.
• Himmel told Lupa the party was with her and ordered everyone to prepare for battle.

Himmel and his companions reached the besieged town and confronted Qual, whose Killing Magic had overwhelmed the defenders. Frieren and Lowell protected the wounded while the others engaged Qual, but his attacks pierced even Ruby’s reinforced barrier.

• Himmel asked Lowell whether they could defeat Qual, and Lowell said the others were unlikely to win without him and Frieren.
• Himmel, Eisen, and Ruby attacked Qual, but his Killing Magic stopped their strikes as Lupa watched in hatred.
• Frieren blocked Qual from killing a wounded mage, while Lowell assessed the injury and told Heiter to use purification.
• Qual analyzed Frieren’s barrier magic and warned that his Killing Magic would defeat the group.
• Ruby raised her Seraphic Guardian Barrier against Qual’s dark sphere, but it pierced the flames, forcing Himmel to pull her aside.

Himmel’s party struggled against Qual and his powerful Killing Magic until Lowell abruptly ended the fight with Petrification Seal. Qual was left as a stone statue, and Himmel’s party began tending to the aftermath.

• Qual attacked Himmel, Eisen, Ruby, and Heiter with dark red beams that pierced or overwhelmed their defenses.
• Qual unleashed a vast barrage of Killing Magic, leaving Himmel’s party with nowhere to dodge.
• Lowell appeared in front of Qual and used Petrification Seal to turn him into a stone statue.
• The beams vanished, and Lowell told the stunned party that the battle was over.
• Himmel accepted the quick victory and began dealing with the aftermath.

At the victory feast, Frieren eagerly accepted a booklet of Bluffing Magic while Lowell explained how the party had countered Qual’s magic. Lupa resolved to grow strong enough to defeat Qual herself, and the chapter ended with the group settling in after the celebration.

• The town lord offered Himmel and his companions the booklet Bluffing Magic as a thank-you gift, and Frieren eagerly took it.
• Ruby asked Frieren to lend her the booklet, while Lowell told the Continental Magic Association mages that Serie could teach them how to counter Qual’s magic.
• An association mage told Ruby that Serie had taken her Cecilia Flowers to Oysast and seemed to miss her, making Ruby embarrassed and defensive.
• Lupa asked Lowell whether Qual was dead, and he explained that Qual was sealed with his consciousness suspended.
• Lowell told Lupa he would teach her to become strong enough to face Qual, and Lupa vowed to defeat him herself.

The party traveled north with Lupa dragging the petrified Qual as strength training, while Lowell explained how the demon could serve as a future practice target. Frieren entered a brief sulking spell, and Lowell comforted her despite knowing she would forget it before the party resumed its journey.

• Lupa refused to store Qual and dragged his petrified form along the road to build her strength.
• Lowell told Ruby that Qual would remain sealed for a century unless a powerful mage deliberately broke the spell, and suggested the party could use him for practice against Killing Magic.
• Ruby asked Frieren to teach her defensive magic, but Frieren sulked after recalling Ruby's old insults and complaints about tuition.
• Lowell explained that Frieren became unreasonable for about ten minutes every ten years, then comforted her with promises of honey cake.
• Frieren returned to normal and asked what the party would have for lunch, and the travelers continued north.

Ruby tried to persuade Frieren to teach her Killing Magic and defensive magic, while the party stopped in a border town for sweets and food. Frieren agreed to begin Ruby’s lessons that night as the group headed to their inn.

• Ruby offered Frieren dessert as tuition in exchange for lessons in Killing Magic and defensive magic, and Frieren tacitly accepted.
• Lowell paid for Frieren’s desserts, honoring his earlier promise to treat her.
• Linié asked Ruby to buy her an apple, while Mina asked for human flesh and accepted beef instead; Ruby bought food for both of them.
• Frieren told Ruby she would teach her the basics of Killing Magic and how to defend against it, with no tuition refunds if Ruby failed to learn.
• The party walked toward their inn after sunset, with Ruby excited to begin her lessons.

Ruby and her companions returned to Oysast and brought the stone statue of Qual to the Magic Association’s new headquarters. Ruby proudly reported their victory to Serie, who teased her about calling Frieren “Master,” leaving Ruby flustered.

• After more than ten days of travel, Ruby’s party reached Oysast, where the city guards stopped them over Qual’s dangerous-looking statue until Ruby showed her first-class mage badge and promised to deliver it to headquarters.
• Ruby led the group through the magic-filled city to the Tower of the Firmament, where a guard recognized her and let them enter after an inspection.
• Mages in the tower recognized the statue as Qual and praised Ruby for defeating and sealing the demon.
• Ruby brought her companions to Serie’s room and proudly announced that they had defeated Qual and brought him back.
• Serie revealed that Sela had told her Ruby called Frieren “Master” while away, and Ruby stammered as her companions reacted with amusement.

Ruby returned to Serie and became caught between Serie and Frieren as they teased her over being their apprentice. Serie then questioned Ruby’s claim that she had defeated Qual and warned her not to boast again.

• Frieren claimed Ruby was practically her apprentice, and Ruby hurriedly tried to appease both masters.
• Ruby promised Frieren desserts, and Frieren eagerly went to read books while Serie asked Ruby to report on her journey later.
• Serie questioned Ruby’s claim that she had defeated Qual and offered to test it by undoing the petrification seal on the statue.
• Ruby confessed that Lowell had defeated Qual, and Serie warned her to stop boasting in her name or fight Qual herself.

Lowell left Qual in Serie’s custody as a sparring target for the Magic Association’s mages, then persuaded her to take in Mina for care and study. Serie accepted both, and Ruby led the group to their guest rooms.

• Lowell asked Serie to keep Qual imprisoned and let her mages practice against him, while warning them not to kill him because Lupa needed him alive.
• Lowell asked Serie to care for Mina and observe whether the demon child could learn to coexist with humans.
• Serie objected to being treated as a caretaker, but Lowell persuaded her by presenting Mina as a valuable research subject.
• Serie agreed to keep Mina and Qual, then told Ruby to take the group to their rooms.
• Ruby led everyone out, and Lowell remarked to Frieren that Serie had shown them consideration by offering guest rooms.

Lowell suggested that Linié train her physical strength, while Ruby arrived battered from sparring with Serie and asked him to fight her. Lowell agreed and left with Ruby, telling Frieren and the others to explore the city for the next few days.

• Lowell told Linié to test the strength of her axe strikes and train alongside Lupa, and promised her apples if she followed his advice.
• Ruby entered the guest room dusty and disheveled, explaining that she had sparred with Serie and accidentally blown things up while practicing a new spell.
• Ruby told Lowell that Serie had ordered him to come fight her and pleaded for his help.
• Lowell agreed to go with Ruby and told Frieren to inform Himmel and the others that they could explore the city for the next few days.
• Frieren stayed in bed while Linié continued massaging her.

After five days in Oysast, Serie and Lowell ended their fierce duel when Serie was knocked beyond the tower’s barrier, and she sent Ruby to repair the damage. Lowell returned to the inn that night, checked on Lupa and Linié’s training, and gave Frieren a flower wreath he had taken from Serie’s hidden garden.

• The party waited in Oysast while Himmel helped people around the city, until Serie and Lowell’s duel ruptured the sky above the Tower of the Firmament.
• Serie landed outside the tower’s barrier and conceded the match, then returned inside as Ruby hurried to check on her.
• Serie ordered Ruby to repair part of the tower’s damaged third protective barrier, and Ruby reluctantly went to work.
• Lowell returned to the inn at night and praised Lupa’s physical training and Linié’s improved tile-splitting record, giving Linié the promised apples.
• Lowell placed a flower wreath from Serie’s garden on Frieren’s head and told her where he had found it; Frieren kept it on as she resumed reading.

Lowell used gravity magic to give Lupa, Himmel, Eisen, and Linié extra training weight as the party continued north. After they defeated Mountain Trolls near a town, the group accepted a reward and dinner, where Linié declared herself Lupa’s senior sister and tried to look after her.

• Lowell cast a weakened gravity field on Lupa, then added Himmel, Eisen, and Linié when they asked to train under the extra weight.
• The party defeated a band of Mountain Trolls that had been harassing a trade route through a mountain valley.
• The town lord offered to commission statues of the party, and Himmel, Ruby, Heiter, and Eisen demonstrated their chosen poses.
• The lord gave the party ten gold coins and a grimoire, which Frieren took after discovering it contained a dust-removal spell for statues.
• At dinner, Ruby rebuilt Frieren’s collapsed burger tower, and Linié made Lupa a sandwich while claiming she was Lupa’s senior sister.

The party spent another day clearing monsters before surprising Ruby with a birthday celebration at the mansion. Ruby received a Cecilia Flower brooch and promised to remember everyone else’s birthdays, while Frieren admitted she had forgotten her own.

• Himmel and Ruby practiced a flashy Combination Technique while the party cleared monsters around town.
• The party returned to the mansion, where Ruby found a banquet prepared instead of an ordinary dinner.
• Frieren used Flower Field Magic to create a starry sky and a field of flowers, and Himmel gave Ruby a brooch for her birthday.
• Heiter, Eisen, and Lowell presented Ruby with blessings, Hamburg Steak, and desserts, and she thanked them tearfully.
• Ruby asked everyone for their birthdays, and Frieren said she had forgotten the exact date of hers.
• Ruby pinned on the brooch and joined the celebration while Frieren returned to eating dessert.

Ruby punished Frieren for sneaking dessert from her birthday party by making her eat raw onion, then forgave her. After Ruby left to find Himmel, Lowell comforted Frieren and promised to buy her a double sundae with nuts and chocolate sauce.

• Ruby ate pudding in front of Frieren, who apologized for sneaking dessert and asked to share.
• Ruby refused Frieren’s offer to teach her magic and insisted that Frieren face the wall as punishment.
• Ruby presented Frieren with raw onion and made her eat every slice before she would forgive her.
• Ruby forgave Frieren and left to find Brother Himmel and practice magic.
• Lowell gave Frieren a handkerchief and promised her a double sundae with nuts and chocolate sauce.

Himmel's party searched the Shuvia Mountains for Earl Tahe's treasured sword and found it in the hands of a demon general. Himmel declared that they would seize it, then launched the opening attack.

• Ruby complained about Earl Tahe's demand and the freezing conditions as the party continued searching the mountains.
• After more than twenty days of searching, Himmel's party reached a mountaintop and spotted a demon swordsman holding the sword they sought.
• Himmel formally challenged the demon general and said they had come to seize the sword.
• The demon general argued that the sword belonged to the demon race, then accepted Himmel's challenge.
• Himmel rushed forward and thrust his sword toward the demon general's throat.

Himmel, Eisen, Ruby, and Heiter fought the demon general on the Shuvia Mountains summit over the precious sword, but his superior strength and swordsmanship kept them on the defensive. As their stamina and magic dwindled, Frieren slept nearby while Lowell watched and Lupa and Linié observed.

• Himmel opened with Meteor, but the demon general blocked his thrust with a sheathed sword and forced him back.
• Eisen attacked with Mountain-Splitting Slash, and the demon general stopped his axe with the scabbard before dispelling Ruby's ice spears with sword qi.
• The demon general attacked Himmel and Eisen, parrying their coordinated strikes and countering with powerful blows.
• At Eisen's call, Ruby cast ice-binding chains, briefly slowing the demon general before he rushed toward her.
• Ruby escaped with high-speed movement magic and harried the demon general with small spells while Heiter supported the group with holy light.
• After nearly a quarter of an hour, Himmel's party had fallen behind as the demon general wore down their strength; Frieren slept, Lowell watched, and Lupa and Linié observed.