Sousou no Frieren - Ch. 125 - Family

[Mas45]

why don't they just fly above that flooded path?
Are they stupid?

So Stark doesn't feel left out

 

[DeadlyShadow0]

This chapter made me realize we've only seen Frieren and Kids fight mages, or people with mana, but never really any warriors who don't use magic. Frieren is obviously a mage who can best many if not all other mages who face her, but she seems to struggle against non magic users. I wonder how much of this was because she was ambused or because warriors are the ultimate foe against mages.

I think the reason why Frieren didn't kill him is because she doesn't like killing non demons. She has her whole elaborate reasoning for why demons can die, and I'm sure there's something similar for why she can't kill humans under any circumstance. I don't think we've actually seen her slay anything that's not a demon. I also don't think Fern or Stark are at the "can kill a human" stage of their lives yet. They're both so young I think Frieren recognizes how much having to kill someone, or watching their master kill someone might weigh on their conscience.

I guess we will see more warriors when the south hero plot thickens, most probably when they get near the border of the war with demons vs the northern corps (the one that wanted to draft Stark into the battle)

 

[fly2555]

One key point of context that should be considered, if they did kill him, the village probably wouldn't take it lying down that they murdered the village chief. Also, are villagers going to buy that he has been an assassin for decades?

 

[mgRdr]

mgRdr, "hesitation" should have stopped him from committing the act of attempted murder, not in the act of.

"Hesitation" was enough of a sign for Frieren to considering the threat neutralized, no point in executing him if she knows he's not gonna attack them anymore

 

[NotACatNinja]

WHY DID YOU LET HIM LIVE????

Edit: Honestly, someone breaks into your residence and puts a knife to your throat. That MF doesn't deserve to be breathing. I don't f**king care some sad-sack back story they have. They came in with the motive to end mine. End story.

Great idea, let's give an old man assassin who easily wiped the trio even though he was hestitated because he valued his life and not caring about the mission legitimate reasons to carry out the mission with 200% commitment: self-defense for fear of losing his life. After that, he would buried the trio's corpses in the forest and that's the end of Frieren.

 

[Hootanic]

This guy is like those old Soviet embedded spy families that just kept living the cover story long after the Cold War ended. Old Dude had a nice life with a nice wife... no point in not continuing to live that life.

 

[MeganeR]

He talked too much for an assassin lol. I guess the years have softened him.

I don't think Fern and Stark have killed a human before, so I'm glad they didn't kill him. Though maybe Frieren should have.

It's an alright resolution I guess, I do feel kinda sad for the mages that they've murdered over the years. Doesn't look like he had any regret having killed them either.

I hope we find out why the empire wanted to kill the mages tho.

 

[1idd0kun]

Also, nobody brought it up yet but the Old Man's wife knew about Frieren and how he left in the middle of the night to do the "job". She's definitely one of the 4 assassins sent by the Empire, posing as (what I'm guessing) "Mother". But unlike "Father", she's already moved on from it which is why she didn't bother Frieren.

"Father" and "Mother" are long dead. Raddar is the youngest "son." And his wife is just a random villager girl he ended up marrying.

 

[anon763]

To be fair, they’re not illegal serial killers, they’re government assassins. It’s the equivalent of being an FBI agent under cover for 60 years.

Bioluminescence doesn't make it better.

 

[AccForManga]

What about all the other innocent people he'd uselessly murdered over the years though? They'd been long forgotten even decades ago, their targets were innocent people who had greatly helped the empire, and still they continued.

We dont actually know if any of the targets besides Frieren were innocent. We dont know why she was even on the list.

He thought he was making the empire safer by eliminating dangers. Its not "right" but that was what he was basically born into.

At this point it doesnt really matter. Frieren isnt going to go and kill him if he isnt a danger, which he isnt anymore since she is the last target of his anyways.

 

[eviljackspicer]

Bioluminescence doesn't make it better.

HELLO FELLOW CITIZEN. I'M A FRIENDLY CITIZEN JUST LIKE YOU LMAO

 

[chendu]

tanks for the food

 

[MadMarx]

Nobody can convince me that the people in this comment section are fundamentally different in nature to the assassin. The overwhelming majority of the human race does not question our role in life to a deep level nor do we question the fundamentals of how we have been socialised, nor the systems that drive us to act how we do. We go to work to earn a wage so someone else can turn a profit, because that is how we have been socialised to behave. We don’t question the ethics or morality of this, for the most part.

Tens of millions of people in every corner of the world live their life working for authorities, companies or some such in a profession that reduces down to brutal violence upon people who fundamentally do not deserve it. Can someone explain the difference between this man and the pilot of an Apache, or a border guard, or an executioner? Or an office worker? Everyone is a slave to their socialisation.

I don’t think the author necessarily meant the assassin to be understood like this, or that this was the message of the chapter - but it’s what my take away is. It’s just putting a mirror up to the fundamentals of how current human society operates.

 

[Boboyo]

I'm not going to reply to your argument that Frieren has better mana detection than Fern. I think that's open to interpretation. I just want to point out that Fern didn't fail to detect that demon because her mana detection wasn't good enough; rather, she couldn't detect him because she was distracted out of panic. The problem with Fern that chapter highlighted is her lack of confidence and how she ends up panicking when she's out of her comfort zone.

nope, that was not the case. read chapter 73 again. fern wasn't panicking yet because the fight hadn't even started. She simply couldn't sense the surprise attack coming, Frieren points with her finger because she was able to see it coming and then Fern makes the block.
that moment showcases that frieren is better at detecting mana than fern. After that frieren tells fern that she's good to go because she was able to block, and then fern starts panicking and says that she was only able to block due to luck and because frieren had pointed the direction.

 

[Boboyo]

Also, nobody brought it up yet but the Old Man's wife knew about Frieren and how he left in the middle of the night to do the "job". She's definitely one of the 4 assassins sent by the Empire, posing as (what I'm guessing) "Mother". But unlike "Father", she's already moved on from it which is why she didn't bother Frieren.

what? "father" and "mother" are dead. so is "brother". the wife is just a girl from the village Radar got to marry.

 

[TwilightOwl]

i think this mostly exists to set up future events within the empire, a bit anticlimactic maybe but it thought it worked. not every plot idea in a mostly episodic series like this is gonna hit the same.

 

[1idd0kun]

nope, that was not the case. read chapter 73 again. fern wasn't panicking yet because the fight hadn't even started. She simply couldn't sense the surprise attack coming, Frieren points with her finger because she was able to see it coming and then Fern makes the block.
that moment showcases that frieren is better at detecting mana than fern. After that frieren tells fern that she's good to go because she was able to block, and then fern starts panicking and says that she was only able to block due to luck and because frieren had pointed the direction.

I disagree. Frieren had told Fern to fight alone and Fern was pleading her to stay to fight because she wasn't confident she could do it alone. She was distracted trying to make Frieren stay and it's in that moment when she's attacked. It's not a problem of mana detection. It's simply a matter of being distracted and panicking due to lack of confidence.

Now maybe panicking is too strong a word for this case, since Fern is so stoic anyway. But you can clearly see she doesn't want to fight alone and wants Frieren to stay, and it's that moment of distraction that she's attacked.

 

[Kenshiroo]

Damn, i thought stark finally going to have good fight now

 

[dadoom]

So Stark and Frieren were saved by plot armor

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

He really went 'Fuck this chunni shit, I gotta go home' in the end.