With Aura defeated, all of the soldiers she beheaded can now be laid to rest, including Graf Granat’s son. Frieren congratulates Fern and Stark for defeating Lugner and Linie, and Granat not only pardons Frieren, but offers her Flamme’s grimoire on the town’s barrier, which he knows to be a fake. She knows that too, but still wants the book for her hobby.
The three then take their time in the town that they saved, whose folk are generous in their gratitude. While their eventual destination is Ende, Granat warns that due to the conditions of the northern lands, all adventurers must be accompanied by a first-class mage, as certified by the Continental Magic Association.
Before they set out Fern acquired her third-class certification, but as the organizations that govern magic have changed so many times in her lifetime, Frieren never bothered to get the newest certification. All she has in an antique amulet from a long-defunct predecessor of the CMA. No matter; she can take the first-class exam in the northern magical city of Ausserst.
The only problem is, to reach Ausserst they must traverse a mountain range just as winter approaches. Before they even reach the range they get lost in a fierce blizzard, Stark passes out from the cold, and Fern has to carry him. Luckily, an emergency shelter at the foot of the mountains is still being maintained after over 80 years. In the shelter they encounter Kraft the Monk, a swole elf doing crunches to keep warm.
It’s been over three centuries since Kraft met another elf, so he’d assumed they’d all died out except him. Frieren felt the same, and neither of them know of each other, or rather, Kraft doesn’t know who Frieren is beyond her connection to the Hero’s Party. Of course, we know that was intentional on Frieren’s part, as her master taught her to suppress her mana and lay low.
With the wintry mountains impassable and Kraft possessing ample supplies for all of them, Frieren, Fern, and Stark settle in for a winter with Kraft in this shelter. Six months pass by, and if there’s one knock I have with this episode, it’s that it doesn’t really feel like six months.
Then again, if we look at it from Frieren’s perspective, six months isn’t even six days in her life. We also learn that Kraft is even older than her. And while Frieren is agnostic at best when it comes to the Goddess, in the untold additional centuries he’s lived he eventually came to believe in Her.
You’d think the opposite would be true of a nigh-immortal being, but he says he needs to believe in the Goddess. Everyone he knew, and everyone who knew his “righteous triumphs” in time immemorial are all gone. Surely there’s a heaven where he’ll not only be remembered by Goddess, but praised for his fantastic life upon his arrival there.
If Frieren isn’t sure about the Goddess at her point in her life, Kraft offers to praise her in Her place. But Frieren already had someone like that in Heiter, that “corrupt priest,” and she’d like to believe he’s in heaven despite his less pious habits in life. When Kraft and Frieren part ways, he’s sure he’ll see her again in a few centuries.
It’s nice to know that even if and when Frieren outlives Fern and Stark, she’ll still have someone in the living world who knows who she is and what she did long before anyone else was born. But that’s a long way off. With winter behind them, Frieren, Fern, and Stark begin their traversal of the mountains on the way to Ausserst.
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