E3 - Killing Magic

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SIGN    Beyond Journey's End
SIGN    27 years after the death of Himmel the Hero,
    in the trade city of Warm, located in the central lands
[01:48] Frieren
    Let's split up and replenish
    our traveling supplies.
[01:52] Fern
    "Split up"? You've assigned me
    most of the necessities.
[01:56] Fern
    Food, water, daily essentials.
[01:59] Fern
    What are you going to buy?
[02:04] Frieren
    Herbs and stuff.
[02:07] Fern
    That's the face she makes when
    she's hiding something from me.
[02:12] Fern
    I've known Ms. Frieren for a long time.
[02:14] Fern
    Nothing good ever happens
    when she makes that face.
[02:17] Fern
    She's definitely going to buy
    something we don't need.
[02:22] Frieren
    I bought this.
[02:23] Fern
    What are you going to use that for?
[02:25] Frieren
    This potion only dissolves clothing.
[02:28] Fern
    Go return it.
[02:29] Frieren
    It's a book on magical history.
    Classroom study is important, too.
[02:34] Fern
    Well, I wouldn't call that one unnecessary.
[02:40] Frieren
    I'll meet you at the inn later.
[02:53] Fern
    We can't afford to waste
    our traveling funds.
[02:57] Fern
    I'd better keep a close eye on her.
[03:04] Fern
    An accessory shop?
[03:09] (Flashback) Fern
    You went to sleep without
    drying your hair again.
[03:15] Fern
    So she's interested in fashion after all.
[03:23] Fern
    She seems really conflicted.
[03:27] Fern
    What's with that face?
[03:29] Fern
    I've never seen Ms. Frieren
    look so troubled before.
[03:55] Fern
    She spent a lot of time on that.
[04:02] Fern
    I suppose an accessory wouldn't hurt.
[04:05] Fern
    It's better than weird bones or medicines.
[04:11] Fern
    Maybe I'll resume my shopping soon.
[04:14] Frieren
    Is there a shop around here
    that sells good desserts?
[04:18] Fern
    Now that's not fair.
[04:21] Townsfolk
    There's a tavern in the basement
    of that building. Try asking there.
[04:25] Frieren
    Thank you.
[04:27] Fern
    I haven't eaten anything sweet in months!
[04:52] Frieren
    This must be it.
[04:54] Frieren
    Is there a shop around here
    that sells good desserts?
[04:57] Fern
    This clearly isn't the right
    place to ask about desserts.
[05:01] Ruffian A
    A dessert joint? Who do you
    think you're talking to?
[05:08] Fern
    Gulp.
[05:09] Ruffian A
    You better believe this city's got
    mountains of delicious desserts.
[05:14] Ruffian B
    We can recommend you places all over.
[05:18] Fern
    So they do know about desserts here.
[05:21] Frieren
    For such rough-looking guys,
    you know a lot about desserts.
[05:23] Ruffian A
    A bit of sugar gives us the energy
    we need to adventure.
[05:27] Ruffian A
    Nothing beats rewarding yourself with
    something sweet after a hard day's work.
[05:27] Fern
    So they're adventurers. Though I'd say
    even "rough" is an understatement.
[05:32] Fern
    They're terrifying.
[05:35] Ruffian A
    See ya.
[05:41] Fern
    Is she going to a dessert shop?
[05:47] Fern
    Huh? She's heading in
    the direction of our inn.
[05:51] Fern
    Is she going back?
[05:54] Fern
    I'm not even close to finishing my shopping.
[06:00] Frieren
    You're late.
[06:02] Fern
    I'm sorry.
[06:04] Frieren
    Well, no matter. Put your things down.
[06:15] Frieren
    Shall we go get something sweet to eat?
[06:33] Frieren
    What a nice view. No wonder
    they recommended this place.
[06:39] Fern
    Ms. Frieren, I'm sorry for doubting you.
[06:43] Frieren
    What are you talking about?
[06:45] Fern
    Nothing.
[06:47] Frieren
    Choose whatever you'd like.
[06:49] Fern
    Can we afford it?
[06:52] Frieren
    I've been saving up secretly.
[06:55] Fern
    She's been keeping secret savings?
[07:02] Fern
    Ms. Frieren, what will you have?
[07:05] Frieren
    Well, today I feel like...
[07:09] Fern
    Merkur pudding, right?
[07:14] (Flashback) Himmel
    You feel like eating Merkur
    pudding today, don't you?
[07:17] (Flashback) Frieren
    How did you know?
[07:19] (Flashback) Himmel
    How many years do you think
    we've traveled together?
[07:22] (Flashback) Himmel
    I can just tell.
[07:29] (Flashback) Frieren
    I don't know anything about the rest of you.
[07:33] (Flashback) Himmel
    Then maybe I'll try harder
    to teach you about myself.
[07:36] (Flashback) Himmel
    Incidentally, my favorite
    food is Ruf-omelette.
[07:39] (Flashback) Eisen
    Mine's grapes. The sourer, the better.
[07:42] (Flashback) Heiter
    Mine is—
[07:44] (Flashback) Frieren
    Alcohol, right?
[07:44] (Flashback) Frieren
    I knew that already, you corrupt priest.
[07:47] (Flashback) Eisen
    That's nothing to blush about.
[07:49] (Flashback) Himmel
    It's not a good sign that the one thing
    she remembers is your drinking.
[07:55] Frieren
    Fern, I'm sorry.
[07:59] Fern
    Why are you apologizing?
[08:02] Frieren
    I don't know anything about you,
[08:05] Frieren
    so I don't know what you like.
[08:14] Fern
    Come to think of it, it's my birthday today.
[08:28] Fern
    What a beautiful hair ornament.
[08:30] Fern
    Thank you. I'm delighted.
[08:35] Frieren
    Really?
[08:37] Fern
    You seem to be hopelessly dense,
    so let me be clear.
[08:43] Fern
    I'm overjoyed that you
    tried to get to know me.
[08:50] Frieren
    Only because I tried?
[08:55] Fern
    You really don't understand
    people's feelings, do you?
[09:10] Frieren
    Shall we get going?
[09:11] Fern
    Sure.
[09:26] Fern
    By the way, Ms. Frieren,
    does this journey have a purpose?
[09:31] Frieren
    Not particularly. I'm satisfying
    my desire to collect spells.
[09:37] Frieren
    But whenever possible,
[09:40] Frieren
    I'd like to retrace the adventures
    I had with Himmel and the others
[09:45] Frieren
    before all sign of them fades away.
[09:47] Fern
    That's something important to you, right?
[09:53] Frieren
    I don't know, so I'm trying
    to figure that out.
[10:02] Frieren
    You've finally grown taller than me.
[10:06] Fern
    I'm sixteen now. I could be your older sister.
[10:10] Frieren
    My older sister?
[10:12] Frieren
    Our diets are mostly the same,
    so it can't be that.
[10:17] Frieren
    How strange.
SIGN    Episode 3: Killing Magic
SIGN    27 years after the death of Himmel the Hero,
    in Größe Forest, located in the central lands
[10:50] Frieren
    You've grown quite accustomed
    to casting defensive spells.
[10:55] Frieren
    Let's put that into practice.
[11:02] Fern
    What?
[11:08] Frieren
    I aimed for the gaps in your defenses.
[11:10] Frieren
    If this had been a real battle, you'd be dead.
[11:13] Frieren
    Now, then...
[11:16] Frieren
    How will you handle this?
[11:19] Fern
    Like this.
[11:20] Frieren
    I see.
[11:22] Frieren
    Can you withstand this?
[11:33] Frieren
    That's enough for today.
[11:43] Frieren
    Defensive magic is powerful,
    but it rapidly depletes your mana.
[11:48] Frieren
    You'll exhaust your mana supply in seconds
    if you try to maintain it over a large area.
[11:55] Fern
    So the best option is to cast it in select
    locations at the moment of impact.
[12:00] Frieren
    Exactly.
[12:07] Frieren
    Hup.
[12:17] Fern
    We've been practicing nothing
    but defensive magic.
[12:20] Frieren
    It directly improves your chances of survival.
[12:23] Fern
    You're right.
[12:24] Fern
    A single defensive spell can defend
    against most offensive spells.
[12:28] Fern
    It's strange how powerful they are.
[12:31] Frieren
    Fern, you haven't read the book on
    magical history I gave you, have you?
[12:35] Frieren
    Magic is about theory as much as practice.
[12:41] Frieren
    I suppose I'll have to read
    it to you at bedtime.
[12:45] Fern
    I'll read it myself.
[12:47] Fern
    I'm not a child, after all.
[12:58] Fern
    This village is where you wanted to go, right?
[13:00] Fern
    Are you here to collect odd spells again?
[13:03] Frieren
    No, not this time.
[13:06] Villager
    Now it's up to the weather.
[13:08] Villager
    Yeah.
[13:10] Frieren
    I have a question.
[13:12] Villager A
    It's an elf.
[13:14] Villager B
    White hair...
[13:17] Old Straw Hat
    Are you Ms. Frieren?
[13:22] Frieren
    How did you know?
[13:26] Old Straw Hat
    You're here to see the place where
    Qual was sealed, aren't you?
[13:30] Old Straw Hat
    I'll show you the way.
[13:32] Fern
    Qual?
[13:34] Old Straw Hat
    The Elder Sage of Corruption, Qual.
[13:38] Old Straw Hat
    He's a demon who committed terrible
    atrocities in this region eighty years ago,
[13:43] Old Straw Hat
    before being sealed away
    by Himmel the Hero and his party.
[13:50] Frieren
    That seal will break soon,
    so I'm here to defeat him,
[13:54] Frieren
    but how did you know?
[13:57] Frieren
    I haven't told anyone about this.
[14:00] Old Straw Hat
    Mr. Himmel visited this town every year
    until about thirty years ago.
[14:07] Old Straw Hat
    He was apparently checking
    on the condition of the seal.
[14:11] Frieren
    He always was a softie.
[14:13] Old Straw Hat
    He used to talk about you.
[14:17] Old Straw Hat
    He called you heartless
    for not checking on him.
[14:21] (Flashback) Himmel
    She's cold, isn't she?
[14:22] (Flashback) Old Straw Hat
    Quite cold.
[14:24] Frieren
    Sorry about that.
[14:26] (Flashback) Himmel
    But she's not so heartless that
    she'd leave the village to its fate.
[14:31] (Flashback) Himmel
    She'll come when the seal is about to break.
[14:36] Old Straw Hat
    That's what he said.
[14:39] Frieren
    I see.
[14:48] Fern
    This is it?
[15:03] Frieren
    It's become rather unstable.
[15:06] Frieren
    I'll dispel the seal tomorrow
    and take care of Qual.
[15:17] Fern
    You're the one who sealed Qual, aren't you?
[15:22] Fern
    Is there a reason you did that?
[15:26] Frieren
    He was simply too strong.
[15:32] Frieren
    I couldn't beat him.
[15:35] Frieren
    Even among the Demon King's forces,
    Qual was an exceptional mage.
[15:40] Frieren
    He developed the first piercing spell
    in history, which he called Zoltraak.
[15:46] Frieren
    It pierced not only defensive spells but
    the magic resistance of armor as well.
[15:51] Frieren
    It directly targeted and destroyed the body.
[15:55] Frieren
    It's said that in this region,
[15:58] Frieren
    40% of adventurers and 70% of mages
    were killed by Zoltraak.
[16:07] Fern
    That's too powerful.
[16:10] Frieren
    Yes, it was. Much too powerful.
[16:15] Frieren
    And that's why it backfired on him.
[16:19] Fern
    What do you mean?
[16:25] Frieren
    You really haven't read that
    history tome, have you?
[16:28] Frieren
    Are you sure I shouldn't read it to you?
[16:31] Fern
    I'll start reading it right now.
[16:33] Frieren
    No, it's fine.
[16:35] Frieren
    It's more important that
    you get a good night's sleep.
[16:39] Frieren
    You'll see tomorrow, anyway.
[16:47] Frieren
    I'm dispelling the seal.
[16:50] Frieren
    Don't let your guard down.
[17:20] Qual
    It's been a while, Frieren.
[17:24] Qual
    How many years has it been?
[17:27] Frieren
    Eighty.
[17:29] Qual
    A mere eighty years, huh?
[17:32] Frieren
    For us, anyway.
[17:35] Qual
    And the Demon King?
[17:37] Frieren
    We killed him.
[17:39] Qual
    I see.
[17:41] Qual
    Then I shall avenge him.
[17:46] Frieren
    Fern, cast a defensive spell in front of us.
[17:50] Qual
    Zoltraak!
[18:00] Qual
    I'm surprised.
[18:03] Qual
    You blocked Zoltraak.
[18:06] Qual
    That defensive spell of yours
    must be powerful indeed.
[18:12] Fern
    Ms. Frieren, what's going on?
[18:17] Fern
    That was ordinary offensive magic.
[18:20] Frieren
    That's Zoltraak.
[18:22] Frieren
    The killing magic he developed.
[18:31] Frieren
    Qual, your magic was simply too powerful.
[18:37] Frieren
    After you were sealed away, mages across
    the land studied and analyzed Zoltraak.
[18:46] Frieren
    In just a few years, Zoltraak was
    incorporated into humankind's magic system,
[18:51] Frieren
    and powerful new defensive spells
    were developed.
[18:58] Frieren
    The magic resistance offered by equipment
    has improved significantly as well,
[19:02] Frieren
    making Zoltraak no longer killing magic.
[19:07] Frieren
    Now it's just "ordinary offensive magic."
[19:14] Frieren
    Eighty years is quite a long time for humans.
[19:18] Frieren
    Qual, if you don't resist,
    I'll make your death painless.
[19:23] Qual
    I see.
[19:26] Qual
    I see, I see.
[19:28] Qual
    It attunes itself to the offensive
    magic and disperses its power.
[19:34] Qual
    A complex spell indeed.
[19:38] Qual
    It must consume a great deal of mana.
[19:42] Frieren
    He figured out the weakness
    of defensive magic.
[19:45] Frieren
    Fern, you know what to do, right?
[19:48] Fern
    Yes. I saw it in our practices.
[19:52] Frieren
    Then protect me as well.
[20:21] Qual
    So you can fly? Interesting.
[20:25] Frieren
    Zoltraak.
[20:36] Qual
    Frieren... My spell...
[21:00] Old Straw Hat
    Now we can live in peace.
[21:04] Frieren
    That hat...
[21:06] Old Straw Hat
    This thing?
[21:09] Old Straw Hat
    Around here, the sun's rays are strong
    even at this time of year,
[21:13] Old Straw Hat
    so all farmers wear them.
[21:16] Frieren
    I've seen this hat before.
[21:25] Frieren
    You're the brat who flipped my skirt up.
[21:30] (Flashback) Brat
    Take that!
[21:33] (Flashback) Himmel
    What do you think you're doing, brat?
[21:36] (Flashback) Himmel
    I'll kill you! You saw what I've
    been wanting to see all this time!
[21:40] (Flashback) Eisen
    You'd better not kill him.
[21:41] (Flashback) Heiter
    I'll show you mine.
[21:44] (Flashback) Frieren
    Yikes.
[21:49] Frieren
    You're still alive.
[21:51] Old Straw Hat
    Thanks to you,
    I'll be able to live even longer.
[21:55] Old Straw Hat
    I'm glad I trusted Himmel's words and waited.
[22:10] Fern
    Ms. Frieren, they thanked you.
[22:13] Frieren
    They didn't thank me.
[22:17] Frieren
    The people of this village
    believed in Himmel.
[22:22] Fern
    I don't understand, exactly,
    but I think Mr. Himmel believed in you.
[22:34] Fern
    What is it?
[22:36] Frieren
    Nothing.
[24:20] Eisen
    Because I felt sorry for you.
[24:20] Heiter
    Because it's more convenient that way.
[24:21] Frieren
    She was an irresponsible person.
[24:23] Heiter
    That's enough depressing talk.
[24:24] Fern
    Are you sure you haven't been
    around since prehistoric times?
[24:24] Frieren
    You're more conscientious than you look.
[24:25] Eisen
    It was a long time ago.
[24:26] Flamme
    Aureole, the land where souls rest.
SIGN    Episode 4
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    The Land Where Souls Rest