Chapter 42

Reason for Fighting (う) is the forty-second chapter of Yamada Kanehito & Abe Tsukasa's Sousou no Frieren.

Summary
Right after the events of the previous chapter, Wirbel asks what happened to Ehre. Fern, expressionless, tells Wirbel that she killed Ehre. Since one of the conditions to pass is for all party members to be present, Wirbel concedes defeat and leaves. Removed from the rest of their parties, Land is still fighting Scharf, who controls flower petals to slice and disable Land's dominant arm. As he prepares to behead Land, Land notes that Scharf is bad at mana sensing. Another figure of Land appears behind Scharf, paralyzing him, and Land reveals that he has been using a clone of himself since the beginning of the exam. Wirbel comes across Ehre lying in the middle of a clearing and realizes Fern's deception, but Ehre and Scharf are out of mana and paralyzed respectively. Believing they will fail for sure, Wirbel carries them both around the basin and reminisces on his motivation to fight. By chance, they happen across a Stille perched in a tree which Wirbel summarily paralyzes with Sollganie. Meanwhile, the Thirteenth Party has found the Second Party, with Laufen confronting the three mages in the Second Party alone. Laufen disappears and uses magic to steal the Stille away from Frieren in the blink of an eye, leaving the Second Party to figure out where Laufen has gone.

Plot Details
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Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Fern
 * Wirbel
 * Übel
 * Land
 * Scharf
 * Ehre
 * Laufen
 * Frieren
 * Kanne
 * Lawine
 * Denken

Locations

 * Grube Basin

Battles

 * Fern, Übel, & Land vs. Wirbel, Ehre, & Scharf (continues)
 * Frieren, Kanne, & Lawine vs. Laufen (continues)

Events

 * The Fourth Party defends their Stille
 * The Eighth Party obtains a Stille
 * The Thirteenth Party steals the Second Party's Stille

Spells

 * Defense magic
 * Jubelade
 * Unnamed magic that creates clones of the caster
 * Unnamed magic used to paralyze another person
 * Unnamed magic used to levitate another person
 * Sollganie
 * Unnamed magic that allows the user to move faster than perception

Chapter Notes

 * Übel is shown to be good at reading others and was immediately able to tell Fern was lying to Wirbel