Graf Granat's Domain/Events

All the events in and surrounding Graf Granat's Domain.

Chapter 14
Twenty-eight years after the Hero Himmel’s passing, Frieren, Fern, and Stark are in Graf Granat’s Domain. As the trio walks into town, Frieren senses some demons and tries to kill them, but she is stopped by sentinels. The demons, led by Lord Lügner, are supposedly messengers of peace, but Frieren calls them incomprehensible wild beasts that mimic human voices. She is then thrown into the mansion dungeon. Fern and Stark investigate and find out Aura the Guillotine, a great demon who served the Demon King as one of the Seven Sages of Destruction, has requested peace after being long at war with the town. Frieren states that it is futile to negotiate with demons, as they only use words as a means of deception rather than communication. She decides to break out of the dungeon once the disorder starts. Meanwhile, Lügner wonders where he has seen Frieren before and smiles as she is the only one in town who knows the true nature of demons.

Chapter 15
Right after the events of the previous chapter, Graf Granat leads Lügner to his son’s room and is about to kill him, as vengeance for his son. However, Granat empathizes with Lügner when he tells him that his father was also killed by the humans. This was actually a lie in order to placate the Graf. Lügner tells the demon girl, Linie, that their true goal is to get the Graf to release the defensive barrier surrounding the town so that Aura’s army can destroy it. Meanwhile, the demon boy, Draht, goes to the dungeon to try to assassinate Frieren. He fails, and she is able to kill him easily, remarking that this is the first one to start.

Chapter 16
Right after the events of the previous chapter, Frieren exits the dungeon and finds the sentinel dead. Meanwhile, Fern and Stark are having lunch and decide to go appeal to Graf Granat for Frieren’s release from prison and then defeat the demons. Meanwhile, Lügner finds out Draht was killed. Graf Granat confronts Lügner and suspects that Draht had killed the sentinel. Now that his plan has failed, Lügner reveals his true colors and kills the guards and injures Graf Granat. He spares Granat's life so he can lift the protective barrier on the town. As Fern and Stark head to the Graf’s estate, Fern spots Frieren stealthily walking in a black cloak. Frieren tells them what happened in the dungeon, and says that she will leave the town, leaving Fern and Stark to deal with the demons in town, despite Stark’s pleas for her to help them. Frieren senses Aura the Guillotine from a distance and decides to quickly finish her off.

Chapter 17
Right after the events of the previous chapter, Stark and Fern are infiltrating the mansion of Graf Granat. Inside the mansion, in another room, Lügner is explaining to a tied up Graf Granat what magic is to a demon. They hone their skills on one particular type of magic—like how Qual dedicated his life to his killing magic—making their magic superior to that of a human. He comments that he detests the barrier erected by the Great Mage Flamme because it was erected by a prodigy, which he claims means it lacks the beauty that can only come from enhancement. He then asks Graf Granat for the magic that can control the barrier, which is implied to exist because of the demons being able to enter the town when they could not previously. The demons then leave the room to let him think about it, warning him that not cooperating will lead to torture, and try and search for the grimoire that has it.

Stark enters the room a while after the demons leave and tries to free Graf Granat. The demons re-enter the room before he can succeed in his endeavor. Stark tries to fight them but is beaten down. However, he manages to give Fern, who is concealing her mana, an opening to attack. Fern blasts the demons with basic offensive magic and catches them off guard. They ask her where she learned her magic from, but Fern guesses that they are trying to stall for time and prepares to attack again. Before she can, Stark says they have to retreat since Graf Granat is injured, and they withdraw. The demons decide to pursue after Lügner's bleeding stops. Linnie thinks she can handle them herself, but Lügner does not let Linnie go alone, since he suspects that the magic that Fern used is from Frieren the Slayer, the mage that has led the most demons to their graves.

Chapter 18
Right after the events of the previous chapter, Fern, Stark, and Graf Granat are hiding in a house. Graf Granat is being treated for his injuries inside by a doctor. He thanks them for their help and realizes that Frieren was correct in her judgment. He absolves Frieren of her punishment and declares that she can now re-enter the town in order to defeat demons. He then comments on how imprudent he was towards Frieren as a result of not knowing recognizing her, as the Granat family owes a great deal to the Hero Party for their help in repelling a demon army lead by Aura the Guillotine.

Outside the town, Frieren confronts Aura the Guillotine and her undead army. Frieren is surrounded by Aura's undead army and gets attacked by a suit of armor. Since the last time they have faced off, Aura has become more skilled in her magic, controlling more undead than she used to. This magic disgusts and angers Frieren, who can see suits of armor belonging to some of her comrades.

Still hiding out in the house, Graf Granat is explaining Aura's magic to Fern and Stark. Aura's magic is called The Scales of Obedience, one of the primary reasons why she has not been defeated yet. Aura places her and her target's souls onto the scales and weigh their mana. The one with greater mana can then command the lesser one until they turn to dust. With Aura's tremendous supply of mana, her magic never fails. The only proven way to combat this without a bigger supply of mana is to have an iron will, but even that is only to an extent. Furthermore, in order to nullify this potential threat to her magic, Aura chooses now to behead her enemies, thereby forcibly making them lose their will.

Outside, Frieren is still being attacked by the undead army. She dodges and casts a powerful anti-magic which dispels Aura's grip on some of her undead soldiers. Aura is confused why Frieren would take such an indirect measure, since the last time they fought, Frieren just blew Aura's army away. Frieren's reasoning is that Himmel got angry afterward. Aura, even more confused, feels that is even more reason to fight as she did before, since Himmel is no longer there. Hearing those words, Frieren momentarily becomes quiet. She then states that she is glad to hear that, as she can now slay the demons without mercy.