Chapter Summaries

Lowell, Frieren, and their companions visited Serie at Oysast Tower, where Lowell teased her by pretending her apprentice Ruby had died. After revealing the truth, he showed Serie Linié and Solitär and challenged her to raise them; Serie dismissed the idea and pointed them onward.

• Serie asked Lowell whether the members of his hero party had died, and Lowell claimed that Ruby and the others were dead.
• Frieren laughed at Lowell's lie, and Serie recognized that Lowell was deceiving her.
• Lowell admitted Ruby was alive and said she would probably defeat the Demon King, explaining that he had only wanted to see Serie's reaction.
• Lowell introduced Linié and Solitär as demon girls he had raised and challenged Serie to do as well.
• Serie rejected the idea of raising children and pointed the group in a direction below the tower.

Lowell and his companions watched eight First-Class Mages train against the captured Qual, while Linié comforted Lupa as she faced the Demon who destroyed her village. An elf mage appeared, sealed Qual with Ice Coffin Seal, and announced that she was taking him away.

• Lowell and his companions descended into the tower’s underground training ground and watched eight mages coordinate their attacks and defenses against Qual.
• Lupa reacted with hatred to seeing Qual, but Linié held her hand and calmed her.
• Frieren praised the mages’ skill with Ordinary Attack Magic, while Solitär remarked on Qual’s role as a training tool.
• After the battle reached a stalemate and Qual’s mana began to run low, an elven mage emerged from the shadows and sealed him in ice.
• The elf told Lowell and his companions that training was over and that she was taking Qual away.

Lowell and Frieren met the mage who had taken charge of the training ground and learned that Mina was resting nearby. Seeing Mina peacefully in a garden with a wreath like the one she had received from the Village Chief’s daughter, Lowell left without disturbing her.

• Lowell recognized the departing elven mage as possibly Minusi, the “Rebellious Witch,” but decided it had nothing to do with him and Frieren.
• A mage informed Lowell and his companions that Serie had allowed them to do as they pleased and pointed them toward Mina’s room.
• Lowell and the others found Mina sitting in an indoor garden with two mages, listening to them discuss herbs; her horns were visible and she wore no restraints.
• Mina glanced at the group without showing any emotion, and Lowell noticed that her flower wreath matched the one the Village Chief’s daughter had given her.
• Lowell led Frieren away without asking about Mina, and Frieren understood why he had chosen to leave her in peace.

Frieren and her companions arrived at a village and reunited with the elderly dwarf Voll, who guarded its entrance. After he tested Lupa with a sudden sword strike, Voll explained that he kept watch because he had promised his late wife he would protect the village until she returned or he went to find her.

• Frieren greeted Grandpa Voll at the village entrance, and Lowell told Lupa that Frieren was still young despite her great age.
• Voll pretended to be confused and hard of hearing, then suddenly attacked Lupa with his sword; she blocked the blow with her spear.
• Voll praised Lupa's vigilance, and Lowell embarrassed her by teasing her about a private moment with Linié.
• Solitär asked why Voll continued guarding the village, and he said he had promised his wife he would protect the village she loved while waiting for her return.

Lowell and his companions helped a village by killing the wolf-like monsters threatening it, and Frieren received two unusual folk-magic books as thanks. At camp, Frieren’s attempt to preserve a steak with newly researched magic instead burned and froze it, so Lowell took over dinner.

• Lupa and Linié hunted down the wolf-like monsters near the village, earning the villagers’ gratitude.
• The Village Chief gave Frieren two folk-magic books: one for catching broadly defined birds and another for slaughtering pigs and preserving meat.
• Solitär questioned the village children about their games, fears, and ideas while collecting observations about them.
• At camp, Frieren tried to develop constant-temperature preservation magic, but her first spell set Lowell’s steak ablaze.
• Frieren used cooling magic to extinguish the flames, freezing the steak solid, and Lowell began grilling dinner again.

Lowell sensed an unseen danger near the border village and quietly arranged for Lupa to take the night watch. As he and Solitär discussed a being that could evade mana detection, Lowell left Lupa to face the danger without warning her, and a mountain storm approached.

• Lowell told Lupa she would take the night watch, and Frieren noticed that his behavior was unusual.
• Linié asked for apples, and Lowell bought every apple from the village vendor before the group settled in an abandoned hunter's cabin.
• While Frieren and Linié slept, Lupa kept watch as Lowell and Solitär discussed an unseen attacker who could evade magical senses.
• Lowell said that warriors like Lupa had to confront such dangers eventually, and Solitär accused him of coldly sending her into danger without warning.
• The night deepened as a mountain storm approached.

Isa led the Shadow Warriors in an ambush on the cabin, ordering Mark to attack Lupa first. Lupa blocked Mark’s surprise strike and disarmed him, but he caught his falling dagger as she warned the cabin of the attack.

• Isa rejected his companions’ doubts and confirmed that the Shadow Warriors would attack Frieren and the others.
• The hawk-eyed man spotted Lupa guarding the porch, and Isa warned that she was a deadly fighter despite her appearance.
• Isa ordered Mark to create an opening while the other Shadow Warriors prepared to support him.
• Mark attacked Lupa with a poisoned dagger as she yawned, but she blocked his strike with her spear.
• Lupa kicked Mark’s dagger away and followed with a spinning kick, but Mark dodged and caught the falling weapon.
• Lupa called out, “Enemy attack!” to warn the people inside the cabin.

Lupa fought off Mark’s surprise attack, but the Shadow Warriors ambushed Frieren and Lowell to force her to surrender. Lupa laid down her spear and began removing her armor while the captives remained under threat.

• Rain and Hawk-Eye argued over whether Lupa should have called for help while Lupa gained the upper hand against Mark.
• Frieren and Lowell rushed out of the cabin, and Elsa bound Frieren with transparent threads while Rain seized Lowell.
• Lupa stopped fighting when Elsa threatened Frieren and Rain held Lowell at swordpoint.
• Mark withdrew from the duel as Elsa ordered Lupa to surrender her weapon.
• Lupa threw down her spear and began removing her armor, apparently agreeing to the Shadow Warriors’ demands.

Lupa rescued Lowell and turned the fight against the Shadow Warriors, while Lowell revealed that he was the Demon King Lorenz. After Frieren and Linié emerged from the cabin, Lowell left the remaining enemies to Lupa.

• Lupa hurled her impossibly heavy armor to distract the Shadow Warriors, then broke Elsa’s wrist and rescued Frieren.
• Lupa deflected Hawk-Eye’s arrow while Rain held Lowell hostage and threatened to kill him.
• Rain’s sword could not harm Lowell, who revealed his demonic horns and identified himself as the Demon King Lorenz.
• Lowell’s apparent Frieren vanished as a transformed double, and the real Frieren and Linié came out of the cabin.
• The Shadow Warriors realized they faced the Demon King, but Lowell said he would not fight them and left them to Lupa.

At breakfast, Lowell explained his combat-strength tiers to Lupa and placed her and Linié among the veteran elite combatants. He began to describe the level above them, leaving Lupa eager to hear who stood at the pinnacle.

• Lupa asked Lowell how long it would take her to defeat Qual, and Lowell said she still had a way to go.
• Lowell began outlining combat-strength tiers, from ordinary people and trainee combatants to full-fledged combatants and elite combatants.
• Lowell described veteran elite combatants, citing Leifuerdi and Zhate as examples and estimating that Lupa and Linié were at this level.
• Lupa asked what ranked above veteran elite combatants, and Lowell began to answer.

Lowell explained the upper tiers of combat strength, comparing legendary figures and describing the abilities and limits of demons, mages, warriors, and priests. He placed Frieren and Himmel among beings who could challenge great demons and some of the Seven Sages of Destruction, while noting Himmel still had enormous room to grow.

• Lowell described the third tier of legendary fighters, citing Solitär, Eisen, Ransen, Heiter, and Ruby as examples.
• Lowell explained why the Seven Sages of Destruction and Qual belonged to the second tier, emphasizing their unique magic and the danger they posed.
• Lowell assessed Frieren as strong enough to defeat Qual and some of the Seven Sages of Destruction because of her accumulated knowledge of demon magic.
• Lowell described Rivale as an almost unmatched warrior and explained that Flamme had chosen to advance magic for everyday life rather than pursue personal combat strength.
• Lowell estimated that fighters in this tier could face many First-Class Mages or several great demons, and said Himmel had grown stronger since fighting Monet and Grausam and still had much potential.

Lowell explained the continent’s highest tier of combat strength to Lupa, describing the Hero of the South, Discal, Serie, and himself. He warned that strength tiers could not predict every fight, leaving Lupa with the lesson that information, preparation, and circumstance could let weaker fighters defeat stronger ones.

• Lowell described the Hero of the South as a warrior with Future Prediction magic who killed three of the Seven Sages of Destruction and died alongside Omniscient Scharlach.
• Lowell explained that Discal turned the Demon war around by killing several legendary human fighters, but held back afterward because he hoped for coexistence.
• Lowell said Serie had the power to defeat the Demon King but chose not to, and explained that he had persuaded her to limit her offer of spells to mages who made significant contributions.
• Lowell described himself as a versatile fighter with few exploitable weaknesses and warned Lupa that combat tiers were only a rough guide, since preparation and circumstances could change the outcome.
• Lowell cited Aura’s balance-scale magic as an almost inescapable danger to Himmel’s party if Frieren and he had not been present.

Lowell taught Lupa and Linié about combat weaknesses, resistance, demons, and the danger posed by Qual, while encouraging Lupa to train patiently for revenge. Lupa vowed to keep improving, and Linié promised to help her defeat anyone who bullied her.

• Lowell explained how warriors could exploit conventional mages’ vulnerability at close range, while terrain and specialized defenses shaped battles against melee mages.
• Lowell stressed the importance of resistance training and explained how varied magical knowledge could make Ruby especially versatile.
• Lowell described how warriors’ strength could decline with age, why demons rarely flew in battle, and how their poor teamwork gave humans an advantage.
• Lowell warned Lupa that Qual’s Killing Magic was exceptionally deadly and that equipment alone could not close the gap between them.
• Lowell encouraged Lupa to train and gain experience before facing Qual, and Lupa vowed to keep working while Linié promised to help her.

Lupa fought Elsa, Mark, and Rain without her weighted armor, overwhelming them with her speed and spear skill. After disabling Rain and closing in on Elsa, she was protected from Hawk-Eye’s arrows by Linié, but a tall, thin figure appeared in her path.

• Lowell let Lupa fight the three warriors alone and told Linié to block arrows and watch for reinforcements.
• Lupa pressed Rain with a relentless spear assault while Mark and Elsa failed to land effective attacks.
• Mark cut Lupa’s calf with a poisoned hidden weapon, but Lupa feigned paralysis and countered Rain’s attack, pinning him down and breaking his legs.
• Lupa turned on Elsa as she tried to retreat, while Linié deflected arrows fired by Hawk-Eye.
• A tall, thin figure emerged beside Lupa and blocked her pursuit of Elsa.

Isa blocked Lupa’s fatal strike, and Linié joined the battle, using copied techniques to help Lupa kill Mark. As Lupa and Linié pressured Isa and Elsa, Hawk-Eye took Linié’s blow while rescuing Elsa and fled toward the forest, with Linié pursuing them.

• Isa blocked Lupa’s attack and faced her while Lowell gave Linié permission to join the fight.
• Linié attacked Mark and Elsa, using Eisen’s Sky-Splitting Strike and Lupa’s spear technique before wounding Mark with Himmel’s Sacred Sword Sky-Rending Slash.
• While Isa was distracted, Lupa drove her spear through Mark’s heart and killed him.
• Lupa and Linié attacked Isa together until Lupa switched opponents with Linié, who pressed the injured Elsa.
• Hawk-Eye took Linié’s axe blow while rescuing Elsa, then used Swift Wind Step to flee toward the forest as Linié pursued them.

Lowell ordered Linié to join Lupa against Isa while Hawk-Eye carried the wounded Elsa away from the battlefield. Their escape ended when Solitär appeared and confronted them, blocking Elsa’s attack as she prepared to use killing magic.

• Lowell told Linié to stop pursuing Isa and help Lupa, turning the fight into a two-on-one struggle against Isa.
• Hawk-Eye fled through the woods with Elsa in his arms, and Elsa used magical threads to slow the bleeding from his back wound.
• Solitär’s voice stopped Hawk-Eye, and she emerged from the shadows to introduce herself and question the pair.
• Elsa attacked Solitär with transparent threads, but Solitär’s hexagonal magic barrier blocked them.
• Solitär questioned Hawk-Eye and Elsa about their concealed magic and relationship, then surrounded herself with magic circles and released a killing aura.

After the battles ended, Lowell healed Lupa and Linié’s injuries with the scripture and learned that Solitär was curious about how his healing magic worked. Lupa and Linié received praise and apples as rewards, while the defeated Shadow Warriors remained unconscious.

• Solitär brought the unconscious Hawk-Eye and Elsa back to Lowell and speculated that Elsa had tried to protect her lover.
• Lupa and Linié defeated Isa, though both suffered serious arm injuries before the fight ended.
• Lowell used the scripture to heal Lupa’s wrist and Linié’s arm while Solitär questioned how the healing magic worked.
• Lowell explained that Himmel’s attacks had left Aura with unusually difficult injuries, then insisted he only knew a little about the scripture’s power.
• Lupa asked Lowell and Frieren how she and Linié had done, and Lowell praised Lupa while Frieren sleepily agreed.
• Lowell gave Lupa and Linié apples as rewards and promised them a feast and better equipment; Linié carried her apple into the house and hugged it.

During the night watch, Lowell excitedly praised Lupa’s courage and skill to Solitär, then questioned the captured Rain about why he had attacked them. Lowell exposed Rain’s past and promised not to harm the empire, beginning a conversation about the warrior’s honor Rain once valued.

• Lowell told Solitär he was thrilled by Lupa’s quick thinking, responsibility, and strength in battle, and predicted she would become the strongest warrior.
• Rain woke while bound, saw his captured companions and Mark’s body, and realized Lowell had recognized him in the village.
• Lowell challenged Rain over attacking his group and used his apparent mind-reading to reveal that the empire had betrayed him before the Shadow Warriors saved him.
• Lowell stopped Rain from trying to kill himself and said he wanted to discuss the honor of a warrior, while Solitär listened eagerly.

Lowell challenged Rain’s belief in a warrior’s honor by recounting how Eisen’s fear and pragmatism helped him survive, while Ransen eventually changed his own views. Rain questioned what he was fighting for and, though he still could not answer, found a faint spark of hope in Lowell’s offer to choose rightly from now on.

• Lowell told Rain that Ransen no longer upheld honor above all else and recounted Ransen’s duel with Eisen two years earlier.
• Lowell explained that Eisen’s trembling hands came from fear, but Ransen lost to Eisen’s strong defense and precise counterattacks.
• Lowell described how Eisen prioritized his teammates over honor when facing Rivale, and warned that Ransen’s old rigid creed could have gotten him killed.
• Lowell asked Rain whether he still believed in the Empire or the Shadow Warriors’ rules, and Rain despairingly called himself an executioner with nowhere to go.
• Lowell told Rain that his past bloodshed could not be undone but that his future choices could still give his life value; Rain listened in silence, struggling to respond.

Lowell explained to Solitär why he spared Rain and how he hoped to guide dangerous people toward coexistence rather than kill them. He challenged Solitär to stop merely imitating human emotions, leaving her promising to try to understand them sincerely.

• Lowell told Solitär that he spared Rain because the Shadow Warriors could be useful in maintaining stability, while Lupa had been free to decide whether to kill her attackers.
• Lowell explained that he wanted Lupa to gain experience fighting the Shadow Warriors and revealed that she had defeated a Demon general.
• Lowell said he spared Rain because guiding him toward a better path felt preferable to killing him, even though he did not consider himself responsible for what Rain might do later.
• Solitär pretended to feel jealous that Lowell trusted humans, and Lowell pointed out that she was only imitating human emotions.
• Lowell said he hoped Solitär would genuinely accept coexistence with humans and admitted he had wanted to hear sincere concern from her.
• Solitär told Lowell she would do her best to speak with genuine sincerity.