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