Sein/Synopsis

Chapter 27
Per his older brother’s request, Sein went to harvest wildflowers in the forest to use for cooking, in preparation for the Harvest Festival. During his journey, he fell into a bottomless quagmire, and was discovered by Frieren. In order to ask for help, he recounted a story of his childhood friend and his dream. He asked Frieren to pull him out by taking his hand, in which she refused because his hand was dirty, and instead used “magic to pull someone out of a bottomless quagmire” to save him. As an expression of gratitude, he invited the party to his village, but Frieren’s party declined as they needed to replenish their supplies and preferred to reach a major town by the end of the day.

Sein met the party again as they seeked help from his brother’s church to cure Stark from the snake’s poison. He promptly and effortlessly treated Stark, despite the poison being so difficult that even his brother, who was deemed as the most superior priest of a region by the Holy City, struggled to figure it out. Sein’s brother asked Frieren to take Sein away from the village, as he believed Sein had been searching for someone to support him. Both Stark and Fern were in favor of the proposal, for it would be beneficial to have a priest in the party, and Stark set out to recruit Sein. Stark found Sein at a local poker place, and Stark joined the game in the hope that if he beats Sein, Sein would join the party.

Frieren and Fern came looking for Stark, and found both Stark and Sein stripped bare down to their boxers by the village chief. Sein asked the party to not judge him, as all adults are dirty. He told them to find someone else, as he was a ruined middle-age man and it’s too late for him to pursue an adventure. His remarks reminded Frieren of how she used to be prior to meeting Himmel, so she spoke to Sein using the same words that Himmel told her before “I’m talking about the story you will have now”. However, Sein didn’t budge, and Frieren concluded that she despite him so she chose to invite him to be a comrade regardless.

Chapter 28
Frieren’s party decided to stay in Sein’s village, and attempted to recruit Sein everyday. They decided to consult Sein’s older brother about what Sein likes, which was “Alcohol, cigarettes, bamblings, and older ladies”. He was in fact aspired to become an adventurer when he was a kid just for the sake of traveling with an older lady. At first, Sein disclosed that since Gorilla said he would return in three years and it has been ten year since, he believed that Gorilla was already dead. However, after being confronted by Frieren, Sein eventually admitted that he cannot leave because Big brother stayed in the Village for Sein’s sake. Sein’s big Brother slapped him and said “I have no once regretted the decision I made, what about you”. Sein apologized to big brother, and he decided he will join the journey after all, but only until he could find Gorilla.

Chapter 29
During their stop at Rat Region city, Sein acted as a mediator for Fern and Stark’s quarrel. Sein’s experience dealing with human is exhibited when he picked out a pouch with butterfly pattern as the present for Fern, correctly guessed that Fern and Stark choosed a present together for his birthday, and understood Fern’s view of giving presents. Sein was finally able to give Fern a resolution to apologize to Stark, and Stark and Fern went to pick a present together.

Frieren and Sein met on the rooftop while spying on the children. Sein said ”Once you're an adult and notice the distance you have with other people, you try to avoid getting into conflicts with them. So that is something exclusively for the young.” Their conversation made Sein realize the maturity level of Frieren’s emotion. And Frieren remembered her talk with Heiter’s, where he said “i simply kept acting like an adult in an effort to be one, and I am sure I will continue to act like one until i perish”, and Frieren pat Heiter head to give him praise while he was still living in his earth, for Heiter he is still a child at heart and need lots of praise and support from adult. And Frieren did the same for Sein, to praise him and stated “ i believe that Sein is managing to be a proper adult”

Chapter 30
Sein appeared to be familiar with floriography, as he was able to recognize the lotus pattern on Fern’s bracelet and tell her it means eternal love - “something you give to your beloved”. He seems to have made a conclusion that Fern and Stark has something going on, demonstrating by Sein teasing  Stark for “i thought you'd be more of a loser”, has an implied look at Fern when she states the bracelet is important to her.

Chapter 31
As the party approached Laub Hill country, Sein quickly detected that the people of the town were put under the curse. With his natural Goddess’s magic talent, he was able to figure out the specification of the curse, the ritual and equipment to cancel it,  and also the source of the curse and its location. Followed his lead, the party headed to the forest to eradicate the monster, but slowly everyone felt under the curse, with only Sein left able to resist the curse’s hypnotic effect. Sein eventually encountered the floral monster. During the battle,  he was able to recognize the monster type, and its weakness. However, his magic battle was not strong enough to fight the monster alone. Despite thinking that Frieren and himself hadn't had enough time to build a mutual connection and understand each other’s thoughts, Sein decided to listen to Heiter’s story and chose to believe in Frieren’s word, so he woke her up. Within seconds of Frieren waking up, she immediately destroyed the monster. Afterwards, Frieren thanked Seins and praised him by patting his head, which he returned with a defeated but contented smile.

Chapter 32
The party continued on their journey to the north. As they came across people, Sein would ask about Gorilla and look for eyewitnesses of the warrior’s journey. One of the villagers in town recognized the name, and pointed them to a stubborn granny who was closed with Gorilla-sama. In order for the granny to talk, the party had to accomplish many of her requests to open up her heart. The last task was to polish the stone status of Great Heroes who saved the world from a long, long time ago. The statues were of a priest and a warrior, who somehow bears a resemblance of Sein and Gorilla. It was revealed that Sein and Gorilla saw these Forgotten Hero status before, and their forgotten story inspired Gorilla to become an unforgettable hero, and named himself Warrior Gorilla, while Sein was named Priest Goatee by Heiter. Once they finished polishing the status, the old granny finally was pleased and opened up her heart to talk about Warrior Gorilla - that she did ask him to clean the status, but he couldn’t do it this well, yet his name was clearly impactful, and Gorilla often spoke about Sein. Sein spent reminiscing with Granny, and found out that Gorilla went to Tur, a commercial town in the middle of the northern continent, which is opposite direction of Auberts, and he realized, that his journey with Frieren’s party might soon be cut short and he will have to split path with them.

Chapter 33
Due to an approaching winter storm, Frieren’s party had no choice but to wait in a nearby village, and Sein was able to stick with the party for a little longer. Again, he had to play mediator for Stark and Fern’s situation. Sein told Stark that unlike Sein, Stark is a good kid at heart, so he needs to express his true feelings. Which suggests that Sein often doesn’t express his true feelings, despite being very attuned to others’.

Frieren praised Sein for working very hard. Sein remarked that it was only Frieren that would praise him as if he was still a kid. And Frieren said “but youre one, aren’t you” and Sein replied “well, that’s not unpleasant to hear”. SEin asked Frieren why she was so concerned with him, and Frieren said he reminded her of herself before meeting Himmel, and it angered her. And that's why she felt the need to give Sein a chance, because that’s what Hero Himmel would have done. Himmel and others gave her the courage to go travelling, and taught her how fun it is to spend time with comrades, and asked Sein if he think it was fun, in which Sein, reminiscing about their journey together, replied “yeah, it was really fun”

After the winter had passed, Sein decided to part with the party after all to pursue Gorilla, because he didn’t want to bear any regrets anymore. Sein bid farewell to the party, and as he went on, lamented to himself “so this is this quiet when you're alone then”.