# E8 - Frieren the Slayer
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G14U492Q5/frieren-the-slayer)
Translator:
Editor:
Timer:
QC:
(Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.)
**[00:08] Frieren**
Who are you? Visiting hours are over.
**[00:13] Draht**
I am Draht, one of Aura the
Guillotine's executioners.
**[00:19] Draht**
I am here to kill you.
**[00:22] Frieren**
I see. Done pretending to negotiate?
**[00:26] Draht**
We're just getting started.
**[00:28] Frieren**
Uh-huh.
**[00:32] Frieren**
Just so you know, I'm strong.
**[00:35] Draht**
Stronger than me?
**[00:38] Frieren**
Stronger than Aura the Guillotine.
**[00:43] Draht**
Doesn't seem like it to me.
**[00:45] Frieren**
Why not?
**[00:49] Draht**
This fight is already over.
**[00:56] Frieren**
Magical wire, huh?
It's an interesting spell.
**[01:00] Draht**
So you saved yourself from decapitation
by concentrating mana around your neck.
**[01:04] Draht**
You're level-headed.
**[01:06] Draht**
A common mage would've lost her head
without even realizing what had happened.
**[01:11] Draht**
But this wire is among the
strongest of demonkind's spells.
**[01:15] Draht**
Humanity's magic doesn't
stand a chance against it.
**[01:20] Draht**
I'll cut through both
your neck and your mana.
**[01:25] Frieren**
You're right. I doubt I can
do anything about this wire.
**[01:31] Frieren**
That's enough to convince you you've won?
**[01:34] Frieren**
Demons these days are hopeless.
**[01:36] Frieren**
They lack actual battle experience.
**[01:44] Draht**
*This mage...*
**[01:46] Draht**
*She took my arm!*
**[01:49] Draht**
You bitch—
**[01:55] Draht**
Wait! Let's talk this—
**[02:07] Frieren**
That's one down.
**[02:12] Frieren**
* If I report this attack to the graf and kill*
* the other two, surely he'll pardon me.*
**[02:29] Frieren**
The guard is dead.
***SIGN*** Beyond Journey's End
**[04:10] Fern**
This is delicious.
**[04:15] Stark**
My master said any town that serves
tasty food is a good, peaceful town.
**[04:19] Child**
Wait!
**[04:21] Stark**
That must be true of this town, too.
**[04:29] Fern**
Mr. Stark.
**[04:31] Stark**
You can't have any.
**[04:33] Fern**
Let's directly petition Graf Granat
to release Ms. Frieren.
**[04:40] Fern**
I think it's only a matter of time
until harm comes to this town.
**[04:45] Fern**
We should release Ms. Frieren from the
dungeon and have her defeat the demons.
**[04:51] Stark**
That's our only option after all, huh?
**[04:54] Stark**
We wouldn't stand a chance against them.
**[04:57] Stark**
Especially not that Lügner guy.
He's unbelievably strong.
**[05:02] Stark**
He was only looking at Frieren.
**[05:05] Stark**
Even though we were standing there
next to him with the guards,
**[05:09] Stark**
he was only looking at Frieren.
**[05:14] Stark**
It's because he thinks he
can kill us at any time.
**[05:18] Stark**
My hands still haven't stopped shaking.
**[05:27] Stark**
See? I even spilled my drink
so it looks like I wet myself.
**[05:31] Stark**
That's just how strong he is.
**[05:34] Fern**
You should wipe that up. Let's go.
**[05:38] Stark**
Lügner and his guys are with the graf.
**[05:42] Stark**
Worst case, a fight will break out.
**[05:44] Fern**
That wouldn't stop the party
of heroes from going.
**[05:52] Stark**
You're right.
**[05:53] Stark**
If I lost my nerve here, I'd never
be able to face my master again.
**[05:59] Stark**
Let's go.
**[06:01] Fern**
You can keep the handkerchief.
**[06:03] Stark**
Huh?
**[06:09] Fern**
What's the matter?
**[06:11] Stark**
I'm paralyzed with fear.
**[06:18] Linie**
I'm no longer detecting Draht's magic.
**[06:23] Lügner**
He must be dead.
**[06:25] Linie**
What an idiot. He underestimated her.
**[06:30] Lügner**
Underestimated her?
**[06:32] Lügner**
We are the right-hand men of
Lady Aura. Her executioners.
**[06:37] Lügner**
You think we'd die from merely
underestimating someone?
**[06:42] Linie**
Who is that mage?
**[06:51] Granat**
Sorry I kept you waiting.
**[06:55] Granat**
The mage I captured has escaped.
**[06:58] Granat**
The soldier guarding her cell was beheaded.
**[07:01] Lügner**
That can't be good.
**[07:03] Lügner**
We'll help you look for her.
**[07:05] Lügner**
Linie is skilled at locating magic—
**[07:07] Granat**
No, that's all right.
**[07:11] Granat**
By the way, one of your men
seems to be missing.
**[07:16] Lügner**
He's in the privy. He'll be back soon.
**[07:19] Granat**
Without asking a servant for directions?
**[07:25] Granat**
Even I can tell she's a skilled mage.
**[07:30] Granat**
But she allowed my guards
to seize her without a fight.
**[07:34] Granat**
She understands the seriousness
of killing a guard.
**[07:39] Granat**
Lord Lügner, I'll ask you one last time.
**[07:47] Granat**
Where is your man?
**[07:59] Lügner**
Honestly.
**[08:07] Lügner**
That idiot Draht.
**[08:19] Lügner**
He ruined everything.
**[08:36] Lügner**
It's strange, though.
**[08:39] Lügner**
Now that violence has become the only way
to resolve this mess, I'm overjoyed.
**[08:49] Lügner**
Graf Granat, what are words?
**[08:53] Lügner**
How do they differ from swords?
**[08:56] Lügner**
No matter what we use, the weak die.
**[09:03] Lügner**
Just like this sword's former owner.
**[09:06] Granat**
Lügner!
**[09:18] Lügner**
In the end, we are wild beasts.
**[09:22] Lügner**
Don't worry. I won't kill you.
**[09:27] Lügner**
You're going to help us remove
this town's defensive barrier.
**[09:37] Stark**
We should be arriving at
the graf's mansion soon.
**[09:43] Fern**
Ms. Frieren?
**[09:49] Fern**
You're Ms. Frieren, aren't you?
**[09:58] Stark**
What are you doing here?
**[10:01] Fern**
Don't tell me you broke out of the dungeon.
**[10:04] Frieren**
I didn't have a choice.
**[10:07] Frieren**
Some demon named Draht
attacked me while I was in there.
**[10:11] Frieren**
I defeated him,
**[10:14] Frieren**
but when demons die, they turn into
mana particles and disappear.
**[10:18] Fern**
What do you mean by that?
**[10:20] Frieren**
He'd already killed the dungeon guard.
**[10:25] Frieren**
The only ones down there were a guard
**[10:27] Frieren**
who had been beheaded using
magical wire and me, a mage.
**[10:33] Frieren**
How would you read that situation?
**[10:36] Fern**
That you're a guard-killer
who should be executed.
**[10:39] Frieren**
Right? This is becoming a pain.
I'm leaving town.
**[10:43] Fern**
Wait.
**[10:45] Fern**
If you leave, the remaining
demons will run wild.
**[10:48] Fern**
Are you really going to abandon this town?
**[10:52] Frieren**
Why don't you two defeat them?
**[10:54] Fern**
You make it sound so easy.
**[10:57] Stark**
We don't stand a chance against them.
**[11:01] Frieren**
You're not going to fight them
just because they're strong?
**[11:07] Frieren**
Besides, I don't think you're
weaker than them at all.
**[11:16] Stark**
Wait!
**[11:18] Stark**
We'll fight, okay? At least help us!
**[11:21] Stark**
I'm begging you!
**[11:25] Stark**
Peek.
**[11:27] Stark**
Hey, wait!
**[11:29] Stark**
Please, Frieren!
**[11:31] Fern**
You don't know when to give up,
do you? Let's steel ourselves.
**[11:35] Stark**
But... it's impossible...
**[11:39] Fern**
Don't be childish.
**[11:50] Frieren**
*About ten kilometers from town...*
**[11:53] Frieren**
*I sense a great deal of mana.*
**[11:55] Frieren**
*We're being observed.*
**[12:16] Frieren**
Aura the Guillotine, one of the
Seven Sages of Destruction.
**[12:21] Frieren**
I hate fighting powerful opponents, too.
**[12:28] Frieren**
All the more reason to finish this quickly.
**[13:23] Stark**
Should we be sneaking
into the mansion like this?
**[13:27] Fern**
Would you rather tell the gate guards
that we're here to kill the peace envoys?
**[13:49] Stark**
It's oddly quiet.
**[14:00] Lügner**
I love magic.
**[14:04] Lügner**
Just as Qual, the Elder Sage of Corruption,
**[14:08] Lügner**
spent most of his life
developing a killing spell...
**[14:17] Lügner**
demons dedicate the entirety of our long
lives to researching a single kind of magic.
**[14:25] Lügner**
We develop our research
daily over years and years.
**[14:30] Lügner**
Ten years from now, our
magics will be even greater,
**[14:34] Lügner**
and we will become even stronger.
**[14:41] Lügner**
But magic is a strange thing.
**[14:46] Lügner**
Flamme the Legendary Mage's
defensive barrier has prevented demons
**[14:52] Lügner**
from invading and protected this town.
**[15:18] Lügner**
Sometimes a spell cast by a genius a thousand
years ago outmatches spells of the present.
**[15:28] Lügner**
I despise geniuses.
**[15:31] Lügner**
They lack the beauty of accumulated effort.
**[15:36] Lügner**
The Granat family has been entrusted with
maintaining the barrier for generations.
**[15:42] Lügner**
If you could allow us into this town,
then there must be a way to control it.
**[15:50] Lügner**
Teach it to me.
**[15:57] Lügner**
I'll give you some time.
**[16:02] Lügner**
Consider it carefully.
**[16:05] Lügner**
Making someone wait is an effective
diplomatic strategy for humans as well.
**[16:11] Lügner**
If you won't talk, then all that
awaits you is further torture.
**[16:25] Lügner**
There must be a grimoire
related to the barrier somewhere.
**[16:28] Lügner**
Search the bedroom. I'll search the study.
**[16:45] Granat**
You're just that adventurer kid
from this afternoon.
**[16:49] Granat**
I thought my son had come for me.
**[16:52] Stark**
You look awful.
Those demons did this to you?
**[16:58] Stark**
I'll release you.
**[17:05] Granat**
You're trembling.
**[17:06] Stark**
Is that a problem?
**[17:08] Granat**
No. It's valiant.
**[17:11] Granat**
My dead son was trembling
before he headed off to battle, too.
**[17:20] Stark**
Damn it. I can't cut the rope.
**[17:22] Stark**
Is it magical?
**[17:24] Granat**
Don't worry about me.
I'm done for either way.
**[17:29] Granat**
Evacuating the townsfolk is more important.
**[17:31] Stark**
They're not gonna listen without you.
**[17:36] Granat**
The Granat family crest hangs from my neck.
**[17:41] Granat**
Show this to the guards,
and they'll do whatever you say.
**[17:46] Granat**
And speaking so casually to me
is a serious crime in this town, brat.
**[17:59] Granat**
I know. Given the circumstances,
I'll overlook this offense.
**[18:03] Granat**
Now go.
**[18:05] Stark**
I see.
**[18:07] Stark**
Sorry, old man.
**[18:10] Stark**
I'm gonna break this
expensive-looking chair.
**[18:14] Stark**
I can't afford to replace it.
**[18:18] Linie**
Lord Lügner, a rat.
**[18:23] Lügner**
Graf Granat, do you know him?
**[18:26] Granat**
No. He's one of the adventurers
from this afternoon.
**[18:30] Granat**
He must've come to petition me directly
**[18:33] Granat**
without realizing the mage
he was with escaped.
**[18:37] Granat**
What a stupid kid.
**[18:39] Lügner**
I see.
**[18:41] Stark**
*Again.*
**[18:43] Lügner**
You can leave, boy.
**[18:45] Lügner**
I'll let you live.
**[18:47] Stark**
*He's doing it again.*
**[18:50] Stark**
*He's not even looking at me.*
**[18:54] Lügner**
What's the matter? Move.
**[18:56] Lügner**
If you get in my way, I'll kill you.
**[19:03] Stark**
Go ahead and try!
**[19:08] Lügner**
*He's fast.*
**[19:11] Lügner**
But you're only human.
**[19:25] Lügner**
You protected your vitals.
Your reflexes aren't bad.
**[19:29] Lügner**
That said, the young are rash,
whether they're humans or demons—
**[19:33] Lügner**
thoughtless and reckless.
**[19:37] Lügner**
But you challenged me alone.
I commend your valor.
**[19:42] Stark**
Alone?
**[19:43] Stark**
I see. You can't detect her after all.
**[19:48] Lügner**
What?
**[19:49] Stark**
Fern, I created the opening you asked for.
**[19:53] Linie**
Lord Lügner, I'm sensing a mage!
**[20:11] Lügner**
*Impossible.*
**[20:12] Lügner**
*A mere human mage evaded Linie's detection?*
**[20:19] Lügner**
*And this spell...*
**[20:25] Linie**
Lord Lügner, let me handle this.
**[20:27] Lügner**
Don't.
**[20:29] Lügner**
Girl, what is that spell?
**[20:33] Fern**
Ordinary offensive magic.
**[20:35] Fern**
I believe it's known as Zoltraak
in your magic system.
**[20:40] Lügner**
This is Zoltraak?
**[20:43] Lügner**
Don't be absurd.
**[20:45] Lügner**
Demonkind overcame Zoltraak
half a century ago.
**[20:51] Lügner**
Who taught you this spell?
**[20:54] Fern**
You're trying to buy time, aren't you?
**[20:57] Fern**
I should finish you now.
**[20:59] Linie**
I won't allow it.
**[21:02] Stark**
Fern!
**[21:04] Stark**
The graf is gravely injured.
**[21:06] Stark**
We don't have time to fight.
**[21:08] Stark**
Let's retreat!
**[21:10] Fern**
Very well.
**[21:21] Lügner**
We'll go after them once
I've stopped my bleeding.
**[21:24] Lügner**
You kill the warrior.
**[21:28] Lügner**
My blood is on those two.
**[21:32] Lügner**
We won't lose them.
**[21:34] Linie**
You needn't fight them yourself, Lord Lügner.
**[21:38] Linie**
I can handle the mage as well.
**[21:40] Lügner**
If you'd been struck by that spell,
it would've killed you.
**[21:46] Lügner**
That spell has been modified
to specialize in killing demons.
**[21:52] Lügner**
It can hardly be called Zoltraak anymore.
**[21:58] Lügner**
It's a demon-killing spell.
**[22:02] Lügner**
The way that girl moved
reminds me of another mage.
**[22:06] Lügner**
And I've been struck by
that same magic once before.
**[22:20] Lügner**
I see.
**[22:24] Lügner**
I remember now.
**[22:26] Lügner**
It was Frieren.
**[22:30] Lügner**
The mage who contributed significantly
to humanity's analysis of Zoltraak
**[22:35] Lügner**
and slew more demons
than anyone else in history.
**[22:42] Lügner**
Frieren the Slayer.
***SIGN*** Episode 8
Frieren the Slayer
**[22:46] Lügner**
One of the geniuses I despise.
**[24:20] Linie**
Lord Lügner will be upset with me again.
**[24:20] Stark**
Seriously? This is crazy.
**[24:20] Priest**
You'll have to rest for a while.
**[24:22] Frieren**
You demons are monsters after all.
**[24:23] Lügner**
Any demon can do it.
**[24:23] Aura**
Because I have an overwhelming advantage.
**[24:23] Frieren**
I can kill you without mercy.
**[24:26] Granat**
It was Aura, one of the
Seven Sages of Destruction.
***SIGN*** Episode 9
Aura the Guillotine