Sousou no Frieren - Vol. 13 Ch. 127 - Retrieval Mission

[Swagner]

Eh, "racism" is generally not a true feeling, but a convenient narrative to dehumanize the people you're trying to steal from. In time it can become a true feeling, but the origins are of class and war. Empires all fail eventually as the cost to maintain their dominance outpaces the value they can steal.

I think that a lot of racism is grounded in primal or primitive fear. You're instinctively to be vary of something unfamiliar. So when you get to know the foreigners a bit more, your defense go down.
You see a lot of more low intelligent, low educated being racist than educated and intelligent. I think that it also has with being able to use your brain to reduce the primitive traits. But the dumber you are, the harder this is.

 

[rluka]

Is... is Ubel's reason for liking Land something they reveal in the this novelization? Also, what novelization?

No, that one is just a joke ^^;

There’s no official cover yet but it will be released next month. According to description, it will be a collection of prequel short stories for some of the characters. And it will be prequel, so from time before they show up in the manga.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1766111630893486563

 

[ikevinz77]

yeah serie is 100% dying

 

[Superbro64]

I'll be honest
I'd shit my pants if I was the dude on page 17 ☠️

 

[TwilightOwl]

pin thing didn't make much sense, i'm liking the setup for this arc otherwise though

 

[Scrabbleman]

Serie is definitely gonna die in this arc. So many flags raised. Worse is that she'll most likely die from a sneak attack. Serie seems like the kind of person who'll want to die in a glorious battle, so she won't get it.

It'll also be a good entryway to the Age of Humans. So long as Serie is at top, that will never happen.

 

[Scrabbleman]

pin thing didn't make much sense, i'm liking the setup for this arc otherwise though

The pin is bent because it was forcefully pulled out by Land. Otherwise, it would be straight. This meant that either the original owner put it on badly or it was stolen, and they deduced it was the latter.

 

[sprwhwk]

If anyone noticed the translators mother seems to be in the hospital, if we have the funds, we could thank the translator for his work by donating

 

[curvedtree]

Weird hands proportions?

ALSO, FORGET ABOUT THAT a whole month hiatus? fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[Jatopian]

The pin is bent because it was forcefully pulled out by Land. Otherwise, it would be straight. This meant that either the original owner put it on badly or it was stolen, and they deduced it was the latter.

See, I don't think these are the only two possibilities. It could also be that it was accidentally removed while clothes were being pulled off in a hurry, it fell on the floor, and then was stepped on (a common fate of small objects on the floor where they shouldn't be).

Come to think of it, it's weird that they don't use returning the dropped pin as an excuse to take a closer look at the two suspicious mages.

 

[Carn109]

Cat ears

 

[ikevinz77]

If anyone noticed the translators mother seems to be in the hospital, if we have the funds, we could thank the translator for his work by donating

t. kireicake

 

[EFMD]

God I wish I was Land......and no, I didn't mean the promise land.

 

[the_bert_is_the_word]

yeah serie is 100% dying

What is this from?

 

[quigonkenny]

Finally, real english is back on the menu.
All those pretentious mofos who defended the last chapter's translations can go suck it!

It's still a bit more wonky than normal in places, but it is much better than last chapter. I think the biggest problem is that everyone basically "sounds" the same. It's most noticeable with Übel.

As for the Empire, with all the German references throughout the series, I figured things might get a bit more "mid-century" at some point, and this nebulous "Empire" felt like the likely culprit. But I didn't expect them to go full "SS with Potter wands"... The author might as well have dug up Hugo Boss and had him do the character design...

As for their reasoning behind whacking Serie and Frieren (and who knows how many other powerful mages), power is more than enough reason. The Empire, thanks to Flamme, was the nation that brought mainstream magic use to the continent, back when they ran most of it and their only real competition was the demons. Now they control merely a fraction of their old area—what could arguably be called the "ass end" of it, at that—and the demons are few and far between, with the widely accepted most powerful of their number just recently being done in. The only thing really standing between them and a return to continental dominance is Serie, her organization, and any other powerful mages in the south.

Countries expand. That is the nature of things. It's abnormal when they don't. If it weren't for Himmel and the Hero's Party surviving their trip back to the Holy City of Strahl and serving as a beacon of peace for the next 50+ years, the Empire probably would have been ramping up hostilities far sooner. Frankly I'm surprised something like this Serie assassination plot hasn't come up before. Maybe it has, just long enough ago (and/or far enough removed from Frieren) that we haven't heard about it.

And don't be so quick to write Serie off. She's nowhere near the Obi-Wan/Yoda mentor role that tends to be killed off in these types of stories, and Frieren is hardly your typical "hero's journey" protagonist. It's entirely possible she won't survive to the end of the series, but I wager she's got more to fear from among her First Class mages than she does from "Natsy Hogwarts".

 

[CountryMage]

Does this mean that the empire has been infiltrated by the demons and are being used to eliminate living legends like Frieren and Serie? Or they just think that they're threats to the Empire's reign even though they couldn't care less about political power struggles? What the hell are they thinking when there are still some remnants of the Demon Army running around? Although I guess the Mage's Guild is an organisation that can be a big threat in the future and killing Serie could set back their influence and growth.

They explain it right there, the Empire and the Mages Guild have been at odds forever. The Empire values their magic superiority (they are elitist mage nobles) and have been using it in the war against the Demons for centuries; While Serie and the Mage's Guild freely teach magic, looking for the magical prodigies out there that will create something new for Serie to learn. Serie's people are a threat to The Empire's authority, even more so after the Demon King died and the empire started to decline.

 

[friendly]

I do love when an author uses excuses to dress up their characters.

 

[Anderan90]

I think the main enemies in this arc is going to be humans and politics, at least the chapters and events running up to this arc points that way. But we'll just have to wait and see I guess.
Why Frieren was on the assassination list when she isn't related to the magic association is a bit weird though, since I don't think their relation of Frieren being Serie's apprentice's apprentice is known to the public.
We just have to wait and see how it plays out I guess. But if their enemies are humans, I guess that's also one of the reasons Übel was the first choice of the first class mages.

I'm pretty sure at least her participation in killing the Demon King was known so they'd know she is probably a powerful mage, and one that isn't under their control. They'd probably rather kill her than risk her becoming a problem.

 

[aceclover95]

someone in the JP forum brought up a good theory. what if this guard Kanone is the same person as Lineal, the spy that has been infiltrating for 15 years? they have similar dark, long hair. Wouldn't surprise me if she's using a fake name and changed her hairstyle every time she acts as a spy so that the Empire people don't recognize her.

 

[Cernunnos]

"Wow, if you put humans ears on cows, they really do look like humans."

I hate that I know what this references to.