Frieren/Synopsis

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Beyond Journey's End Arc
After spending a decade journeying together and defeating the Demon King, the Hero Party, consisting of Frieren the Mage, Himmel the Hero, Heiter the Priest, and Eisen the Warrior, return to the Royal Capital where they are celebrated and praised. The party reminisce their journey and watch the Era Meteors, a phenomenon that occurs once every fifty years, with Frieren promising to show them the sight again at a better viewing location. Afterwards, they go their separate ways, and Frieren continues her journey for the pursuit of magic.

A still-youthful Frieren returns to the Royal City fifty years later to retrieve a quest item entrusted to Himmel, now a much older man, for safekeeping. They reunite with Heiter and Eisen, with Heiter having also aged considerably, and they make the trip to the viewpoint Frieren mentioned fifty years ago, once again watching the Era Meteors and reliving their adventuring experiences together.

Not long after, Himmel passes away peacefully, and the Hero Party and townsfolk gather and mourn him at his funeral. During the procession, Frieren breaks into tears and voices her regret over not getting to know him on a deeper level during their time together even though she knew his human lifespan was much shorter in comparison to her Elven lifespan. As she bids farewell with Heiter and Eisen once more, she vows to commit more effort into understanding humans in her future adventures.

Twenty years after Himmel's death, Frieren goes to visit Heiter and meets his adopted apprentice, a young girl named Fern. Given that Fern is undergoing training to become a mage, Heiter requests Frieren to take her on as an apprentice, especially since he will pass soon. Frieren denies this request, citing the fact that Fern will likely die in battle in her current state. Heiter respects her decision and asks if she could instead decipher a grimoire detailing immortality and resurrection for him to make use of while also having her train Fern during the process, to which Frieren accepts.

Frieren later searches for Fern and discovers her on a cliff. She notes the child's prowess in general mage capabilities and mana concealment, a feat that could have only been accomplished through intense training. Fern explains a task given to her by Heiter: once she is able to knock down a giant rock on the other side of the ravine, she will be able to manage herself out on the battlefield. She demonstrates an offensive spell that disintegrates slightly short of the rock and requests if Frieren could give directions on how she could train. Frieren learns that Fern has a fairly decent level of enjoyment surrounding magic, and she begins instructing her.

Over the next four years, Frieren continues training Fern, who has an unnatural and almost unhealthy passion towards magic and her training. When Frieren is progressing through the grimoire and discussing Fern's growth with Heiter, he suddenly collapses. Frieren asks Fern to spend time with Heiter and away from training, but she refuses and insists that she must become capable of managing herself. She details how Heiter saved her and that becoming independent is her form of repayment to him so he wouldn't have to worry about her. Frieren acknowledges her thoughts and returns to deciphering the grimoire while Fern continues to train.

Ultimately, Frieren manages to finish the grimoire and informs Heiter that there were neither records of immortality nor resurrection. Heiter discloses that he was already aware of this fact, and upon him questioning Frieren about Fern's current capabilities, Frieren realizes Heiter used the grimoire as a method to stall Frieren long enough for Fern to become a proficient mage. Although he asks Frieren to leave with Fern before his death, Frieren urges him to spend as much time with her and give her a proper farewell as she breaks into tears. As Fern spends time with Heiter, Frieren checks on the rock and is happy to see that Fern has successfully pierced a giant hole through it. After Heiter's death, Frieren pours alcohol on his grave as an offering and departs with Fern, now a teenage girl.

Six years after her initial meeting with Fern, and twenty-six years after Himmel's death, Frieren does various jobs with Fern in the Turk Region of the Central Lands in exchange for grimoires producing various trivial forms of magic. Upon finishing one of their jobs, they are greeted by an old lady that asks them to clean up a statue of the late Himmel. After the pair manages to do so, the lady comments on possibly having flowers surrounding the statue, and Frieren proposes making a flower bed with blue-moon weed, a flower local to Himmel's hometown. The lady recognizes the name and mentions how all the ones previously in the area had been destroyed. Nevertheless, Frieren insists on looking for one so she can recreate a flower bed with it. They spend half a year searching, and when Fern nearly gives up, the lady grants her seeds of a related flower to use as reference. While she is with Frieren, a seed rat steals the seeds, and they chase it to an abandoned tower with many other rats. Frieren flies to the top and discovers the entire ceiling covered in blue-moon weed, the product of the seed rats burying their seeds in the tower. Upon viewing the huge growth of flowers, she thinks back to how Himmel originally wanted to show her the beauty of the blue-moon weed during their adventure. Frieren and Fern return to the statue, and Frieren manages to grow a flower bed, placing a flower crown of the blue-moon weed on Himmel's head. They then depart for their next stop.