E21 - The World of Magic

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[00:20] (Flashback) Serie
    It's been a while, Flamme.
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[00:53] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    You're there like the wind
[00:57] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    Closing your eyes at sunset
[01:01] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    I wonder what's on your mind
SIGN    Beyond Journey's End
[01:12] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    With your eyelids open
[01:16] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    Your eyes shone like glass
[01:20] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    It faintly smelled like a sunny day
[01:33] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    Clear up the sky, let flowers bloom
[01:38] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    Bloom and blame it on the sunny sky
[01:42] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    Even the rain, when it stops
[01:47] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    Will make you shine in the sunlight
[01:52] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    Calm the stirring sounds in my heart
[01:57] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    We go like the sunny wind
[02:01] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    Go on and fly over that cloud
[02:05] [SONG] Op Lyrics
    Further and further away
SIGN    Episode 21: The World of Magic
[02:21] Richter
    Bargland.
[02:43] Denken
    The young are too hot-blooded.
[02:47] Denken
    The so-called privilege is nonsense.
[02:51] Frieren
    What makes you say that?
[02:54] Denken
    Do you even have to ask?
[02:57] Denken
    The greatest joy of magic
    lies in searching for it.
[03:03] Denken
    That's all.
[03:06] Frieren
    I see.
[03:09] (Flashback) Serie
    Time passes quickly.
[03:13] (Flashback) Serie
    The student I chose to train on a whim
    has already returned with her own student.
[03:18] (Flashback) Flamme
    This is Frieren.
[03:20] (Flashback) Serie
    An elf, huh?
[03:22] (Flashback) Serie
    She's strong. I like her.
[03:27] (Flashback) Serie
    Tell me what spell you desire.
[03:29] (Flashback) Serie
    I shall grant you just one.
[03:32] (Flashback) Frieren
    A spell that I desire?
[03:35] (Flashback) Serie
    I have knowledge of nearly every grimoire
    that's ever been written.
[03:41] (Flashback) Serie
    Mages spend their entire lives
    searching for the spell they desire.
[03:48] (Flashback) Serie
    Tell me what yours is,
    and I shall grant it to you.
[03:52] (Flashback) Frieren
    I don't want one.
[03:55] (Flashback) Frieren
    The greatest joy of magic
    lies in searching for it.
[04:01] (Flashback) Serie
    Flamme, this girl is no good after all.
[04:05] (Flashback) Serie
    She lacks a burning ambition.
[04:09] (Flashback) Flamme
    Master, someday this girl
    will defeat the Demon King.
[04:16] (Flashback) Flamme
    It will be a mage like her
    who clears the way to a peaceful era.
[04:21] (Flashback) Serie
    Are you saying I cannot?
[04:23] (Flashback) Flamme
    As one who seeks battle,
    you cannot kill the Demon King.
[04:28] (Flashback) Flamme
    We can't do it.
[04:31] (Flashback) Flamme
    After all, you can't imagine yourself
    living in a peaceful era, can you?
[04:41] (Flashback) Flamme
    Frieren is a mage of a peaceful era.
[04:51] Frieren
    Good answer.
[04:53] Frieren
    This is how mages ought to be.
[05:09] Lawine
    Damn it. He won't freeze at all.
[05:13] Lawine
    The difference between
    our mana is too great.
[05:15] Lawine
    Nephtear.
[05:24] Richter
    Weak.
[05:30] Lawine
    Kanne, defense!
[05:31] Kanne
    I know!
[05:35] Richter
    You two put on quite the show earlier,
[05:38] Richter
    so I believe I know most of your tricks.
[05:44] Richter
    Relatively non-lethal ice magic,
[05:48] Richter
    and a mage who can't fight without water.
[05:53] Richter
    What am I even doing here?
[05:56] Richter
    This really is just babysitting.
[06:05] Lawine
    That's not a nice thing to say.
[06:07] Lawine
    Won't you run out of mana
    casting such flashy spells?
[06:13] Richter
    You graduated from magic school, didn't you?
[06:16] Richter
    Are the old folks still teaching their students
    to fight defensive battles of attrition?
[06:23] Kanne
    What do you mean?
[06:24] Richter
    Let me lecture you on the history of magic.
[06:29] Richter
    The defensive spell developed to combat
    Zoltraak is highly resistant to magic itself,
[06:36] Richter
    but its effectiveness against physical
    objects has hardly changed since then.
[06:42] Richter
    Naturally, there's a clear reason for that.
[06:46] Richter
    It's enough to defend against the physical
    attacks of monsters and warriors.
[06:52] Richter
    Defensive magic mustn't be over-engineered.
[06:56] Richter
    If we aimed for perfection,
    the technique would become too complex,
[07:00] Richter
    which would have a fatal effect
    on activation time.
[07:03] Richter
    The history of magic is one
    of attacking and defending.
[07:07] Richter
    It's the reason there's a trend
    for modern attack spells
[07:09] Richter
    to involve controlling physical objects.
[07:14] Richter
    Do you understand what I'm getting at?
[07:19] Lawine
    Kanne, no! Move!
[07:27] Richter
    My spells overwhelm my opponents
    with high-volume physical attacks.
[07:33] Richter
    Now stay down.
[07:39] Richter
    Give me a break.
[07:41] Richter
    I'm not interested in hurting you.
[07:43] Richter
    Or do you want me to kill you after all?
[07:47] Lawine
    Should you be approaching us so carelessly?
[07:51] Lawine
    Sixty percent of the human body
    is made of water.
[07:55] Richter
    So what?
[07:57] Richter
    Magic is a world of visual imagination.
[08:00] Richter
    Can you picture how that water is distributed
    throughout a person's body,
[08:05] Richter
    and how you'd remove and manipulate it?
[08:08] Richter
    How would you do that to a mage
    protected by a large amount of mana?
[08:14] Richter
    Spells can't produce effects
    you can't picture.
[08:17] Richter
    And even if there were water here,
    a small girl like you is no threat to me.
[08:24] Lawine
    Not even bluffing works?
    I hate adults like you.
[08:29] Lawine
    But I have figured out one thing.
[08:32] Lawine
    You're lying.
[08:35] Lawine
    If you loved fighting enough
    to lecture us on it,
[08:38] Lawine
    you would've beaten us
    somewhere there was water.
[08:42] Lawine
    What are you so afraid of?
[08:48] Richter
    Behave yourselves.
[08:51] Richter
    My job is just to put you two to sleep.
[08:55] Richter
    As long as Denken doesn't lose, that is.
[09:10] Denken
    At this rate, this battle will end
    when she exhausts my mana.
[09:16] Denken
    This is all a bit tough for this old body.
[09:19] Denken
    My apologies, Frieren, but I'm
    going to settle this quickly.
[09:25] Denken
    Waldgose.
[09:29] Denken
    Daosdorg.
[09:37] Richter
    What is that decrepit old man doing?
[09:42] Genau
    That old man fights rather spectacularly.
[09:45] Sense
    Will the barrier hold?
[09:47] Genau
    Of course. The barrier was created
    by the great mage Serie.
[09:53] Genau
    It cannot be destroyed by brute force.
[09:56] Sense
    Oh? That's good, then.
[09:59] Sense
    By the way, since around yesterday evening,
[10:02] Sense
    someone's been analyzing the barrier.
[10:05] Genau
    Why?
[10:07] Sense
    I don't know.
[10:08] Genau
    In any case, they're wasting their time.
[10:12] Genau
    Do you really think there's a mage
    in this world greater than Serie?
[10:24] Denken
    Catastravia.
[10:35] Denken
    Impossible. A counterattack?
[10:37] Denken
    That was a continuous volley
    of spears of light.
[10:40] Denken
    She shouldn't have had the opportunity.
[10:59] Denken
    I'm out of mana. So this is the end.
[11:03] Denken
    I don't believe it.
[11:05] Denken
    She only used basic combat
    spells until the end.
[11:10] Denken
    This was practically a combat
    lesson for a trainee mage.
[11:16] Denken
    I'm surprised.
[11:18] Denken
    Even at my level, there was
    still someone above me.
[11:22] Frieren
    Tell me where Laufen is.
[11:25] Frieren
    I know you know.
[11:27] Frieren
    I'm taking back our Stille.
[11:30] Denken
    If you were in my position,
    do you think you'd tell me?
[11:34] Frieren
    You're right.
[11:46] Frieren
    Laufen, you're hiding nearby, aren't you?
[11:50] Frieren
    Bring the Stille here.
[11:53] Frieren
    If you don't, I'll kill Denken.
[11:57] Denken
    Don't do it, Laufen.
    She doesn't intend to kill me.
[12:01] Denken
    You can tell, can't you?
[12:02] Lauren
    The old man was beaten.
[12:04] Lauren
    She's a far better mage than me—
    no, better than even Richter.
[12:10] Lauren
    But she underestimates us.
[12:12] Lauren
    She's not touching the old man's body.
[12:14] Denken
    Don't use Jilwer. Stay hidden.
[12:19] Denekn
    If you release even the slightest bit
    of mana, she'll detect you.
[12:22] Lauren
    From this distance, I could
    retrieve the old man and flee!
[12:26] Denken
    Don't. It's a trap.
[12:28] Frieren
    You leave me no choice.
[12:30] Frieren
    I don't really want to do this, but...
[12:35] Frieren
    Found you.
[12:38] Denken
    You fool.
[12:43] Denken
    You inexperienced fool.
[12:45] Denken
    You knew she wouldn't kill me.
[12:48] Laufen
    But she planned to hurt you
    without killing you.
[12:54] Denken
    We still would've won.
[12:58] Laufen
    Why are you so desperate
    to become a first-class mage?
[13:03] Laufen
    You've got wealth, influence,
    and everything else you could want.
[13:12] Denken
    My homeland is located deep
    in the Northern Plateau.
[13:17] Denken
    Because the demons are acting up, only
    first-class mages can enter the area now.
[13:23] Denken
    I wanted to visit a grave
    I haven't been to in a while.
[13:27] Denken
    That's all.
[13:30] Denken
    Shouldn't you go help the kids?
[13:34] Denken
    Perhaps it's too late, though.
[13:37] Denken
    Richter will kill them before he faces you.
[13:42] Denken
    He's capable of making pragmatic choices.
[13:46] Frieren
    They'll be fine. Kanne and Lawine will win.
[13:52] Frieren
    I just finished analyzing the barrier.
[13:57] Richter
    I wasn't expecting Denken to lose.
[14:01] Richter
    Now, then.
[14:03] Richter
    Babysitting time is over.
[14:31] Lawine
    He's actually trying to kill us now.
[14:34] Lawine
    We won't last a minute against him.
[14:37] Laufen
    Analyzing the barrier?
[14:40] Laufen
    What do you mean?
[14:44] Denken
    Frieren. Don't tell me, you...
[14:58] Sense
    Genau.
[14:59] Genau
    It's not a problem. It's impossible.
[15:03] Genau
    Even if the world were turned upside down—
[15:13] Sense
    It's going to break.
[15:21] Genau
    Sense, who is that elf mage?
[15:26] Sense
    According to the list of test-takers,
    her name is Frieren.
[15:30] Genau
    That's the name of the mage who
    traveled with the party of heroes.
[15:34] Sense
    She apparently had a holy emblem, too.
[15:38] Genau
    So she's the last great mage.
[15:41] Serie
    Now you've done it, Frieren.
[15:44] Serie
    It's been a thousand years,
    and this is how you say hello?
[15:49] Serie
    This is why I can't quit being a mage.
[15:52] Serie
    In the world of magic, sometimes
    the world is turned upside down.
[15:58] Denken
    I can't believe you actually
    destroyed the barrier.
[16:02] Laufen
    Why would you do that?
[16:04] Frieren
    Because I felt sorry for Kanne.
[16:07] Frieren
    Magic should be free.
[16:09] Denken
    She controls water, does she?
[16:13] Frieren
    Magic is a world of visual imagination.
[16:16] Frieren
    Can you imagine defeating a mage
    who controls water in the rain?
[16:21] Frieren
    At the very least, I can't.
[16:24] Frieren
    I doubt Richter can either.
[16:27] Richter
    The barrier...
[16:29] Richter
    What happened?
[16:31] Kanne
    It's raining.
[16:32] Richter
    No, I can figure out what happened later.
[16:36] Richter
    I have to finish them now—
[16:38] Lawine
    You finally showed an opening.
[16:40] Lawine
    Your panic is disrupting your mana.
[16:43] Richter
    This will only buy you time!
[16:47] Lawine
    I see now why you feared a spell
    that could control water.
[16:54] Lawine
    This is the perfect example of the
    high-volume physical attacks you mentioned.
[17:00] Kanne
    Lawine, don't let him get away.
[17:04] Kanne
    Reamstroha.
[17:09] Richter
    There's nowhere for me to run, anyway.
[17:14] Richter
    This is why I don't like water.
[17:31] Frieren
    Looks like you won.
[17:33] Frieren
    Let's get away from here.
[17:35] Frieren
    The sun sets in two hours.
[17:37] Frieren
    You can conceal your mana
    until then, can't you?
[17:39] Lawine
    I don't have any mana left to conceal.
[17:42] Frieren
    I see. You did well.
[17:46] Lawine
    Don't pat my head.
[17:50] Richter
    Sorry.
[17:53] Denken
    It was inevitable.
[18:00] Richter
    Denken and I are out of mana.
[18:05] Richter
    We have two hours left.
[18:07] Richter
    We're finished.
[18:12] Denken
    Laufen, can you dispel the binding?
[18:15] Laufen
    You must be joking.
    This binding spell is ridiculously powerful.
[18:19] Denken
    Then bring down the tree instead.
[18:31] Richter
    Denken, there's nothing we can do.
[18:33] Laufen
    I don't have the mana left
    to use Jilwer anymore.
[18:39] Denken
    Richter and Laufen, what do you think
    an imperial mage does in this situation?
[18:46] Denken
    He keeps fighting until the end.
[18:51] Denken
    We'll search for signs of battles fought
    by other parties and track them down.
[18:57] Übel
    You know, Fern,
[18:59] Übel
    you're really rather boring.
[19:03] Übel
    You seriously do only cast basic spells.
[19:07] Fern
    You should direct your
    complaints to Ms. Frieren.
[19:10] Übel
    Come to think of it,
    that elf is your master, right?
[19:17] Übel
    It's her fault we're soaking wet right now.
[19:20] Übel
    Make sure you give her an earful, all right?
[19:23] Fern
    I intend to.
[19:25] Fern
    Also, she doesn't limit what spells
    I cast outside of combat.
[19:30] Übel
    Come to think of it, you did cast
    a spell to catch that bird.
[19:34] Übel
    What other spells can you use?
[19:37] Fern
    Let's see...
[19:39] Fern
    I have a spell that lets you
    see through clothes...
[19:43] Fern
    I'm not going to cast it.
[19:45] Land
    I hate to interrupt your
    pleasant conversation,
[19:49] Land
    but maybe you shouldn't reveal
    too many of your tricks.
[19:52] Land
    From the second test onward,
    we'll be competing against one another.
[19:57] Übel
    You're right.
[20:00] Übel
    Sorry 'bout that.
[20:02] Übel
    But I think you should've opened up
    some more, four-eyes.
[20:11] Denken
    There they are.
[20:12] Denken
    It's a defeated party.
[20:15] Denken
    The corpse of one of their
    members was nearby.
[20:18] Denken
    Even though there's no way for them to pass,
    they're keeping a tight hold on their Stille.
[20:28] Richter
    Are we going to negotiate with them, Denken?
[20:31] Denken
    They wouldn't cooperate.
[20:32] Denken
    If I were in their position,
    I'd refuse even money.
[20:38] Laufen
    Why?
[20:39] Denken
    It wouldn't sit right with me.
[20:42] Denken
    It's not about logic.
[20:45] Denken
    Laufen, wait here.
[20:47] Denken
    If you see an opportunity,
    take their Stille.
[20:50] Denken
    Richter, come with me.
[20:53] Richter
    What do you intend to do?
[21:05] Richter
    We're approaching them head-on?
[21:07] Richter
    We don't have any mana left.
[21:11] Denken
    Don't you get it?
[21:14] Denken
    They're in the same boat.
[21:26] Denken
    Prepare yourself.
[21:31] Denken
    You're a man, aren't you?
[21:35] Richter
    You're joking, right?
[21:39] Denken
    Let's settle this with our fists!
[22:10] Genau
    It's time.
[22:13] Genau
    The first test is now over.
[22:18] Genau
    Six parties—eighteen individuals—
    have passed the first test.
[22:22] Genau
    The second test will take place
    three days from now.
[22:25] Genau
    You will be informed of the details later.
[22:28] Genau
    That's all. You are dismissed.
[22:34] Stark
    It's been two days since
    they left for the exam.
[22:38] Stark
    I can stay up as late as I want,
    and Fern isn't around to get mad at me.
[22:42] Stark
    I'm so happy, it's scary.
[22:46] Bartender
    Sounds like you've got it rough, buddy.
[22:50] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    And I'm alright (I'll be alright)
[22:53] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Yeah, I hear you (I care about you)
[22:56] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    The wind teases this hair that's longer now
[23:01] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    There's meaning in everything
[23:04] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Even the days that came to a halt
[23:07] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Now that I finally understand,
    I've caught up to you
[23:13] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    See, things that couldn't have been
[23:17] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Seen if it weren't for these eyes
[23:20] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Why? They begin to overflow
[23:25] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    I won't ask to see you, so at least
[23:31] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Let me remember the past, just for today
[23:37] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    So, if we were to meet again
[23:43] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    No more hesitations, I'd choose the present
[23:50] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Anytime, anywhere, yah (wherever you are)
[23:53] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Anytime, anywhere (smile for me)
[23:57] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    I'll be there (close your eyes,
    and I'll always be there)
[24:00] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Even if there are no absolutes
[24:03] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    I'm always aware of your thoughts
[24:06] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    Those tears will be alright,
    dawn will surely break
[24:12] [SONG] Ed Lyrics
    I'm whispering our lullaby
    for you to come back home
[24:20] Laufen
    I'm not sharing.
[24:20] Lecker
    Don't worry, Ms. Frieren.
[24:21] Frieren
    Don't talk about that.
[24:22] Kanne
    You're even more spoiled than me.
[24:23] Fern
    It's not my birthday.
    Can I really indulge myself like this?
[24:23] Denken
    You must eat your vegetables, too.
[24:26] Stark
    She's such a pain in the butt.
[24:26] Richter
    We're no longer a party.
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    Future Enemies
[24:27] Lawine
    Next time, we'll be enemies.