Draht

Draht looks youthful for a demon, with murky green hair, violet eyes, and a pair of stubby horns that bend outward. He dresses formally in a white buttoned shirt, slacks, and black tuxedo-style suspenders. Ruffles run down the front of the shirt, a striped bow knots at his collar, and the loose sleeves narrow into long cuffs.

Draht brims with confidence in his own magic, certain enough to take on Frieren single-handedly. That self-assurance is really recklessness paired with inexperience; rather than supporting Lügner's careful con, he fixates on killing Frieren at once. His senses fall short of Linie's or Lügner's, and he never grasps how dangerous she truly is.

Inside Graf Granat's Domain, Draht and Linie serve as envoys beneath Lügner, dispatched to a fortress city ringed by a barrier the Great Mage Flamme once raised to bar demons and monsters. That ward has kept the city unbreakable throughout its long struggle with the Sage of Destruction Aura, so the demons' real errand is to pressure Granat into taking it down. When Granat flatly refuses and his guards draw on Lügner, Draht braces for combat, only for Lügner to smooth things over with a fabricated tale of a dead father.

While Granat steps away to weigh the offer, Draht slips off to murder Frieren, who has been imprisoned since lashing out at the demons upon her arrival. He cuts down a guard with a wire of mana, enters her cell, and announces her execution. Frieren cautions him that she outmatches Aura, but he scoffs and loops his wire around her neck to behead her; she simply sheaths her throat in mana and stops the cut cold. Still smug, Draht boasts that he can slice through both the mana and her neck. Frieren chides his naivety before severing one of his arms with a staffless burst of concentrated mana, then the other when he tries again. His plea for mercy is cut short as she blasts his throat and kills him. Linie soon senses his presence vanish, and once Granat discovers the slain guard and Draht's absence, Lügner derides his subordinate for going rogue and turns his magic on the Graf. Frieren later remarks that Draht simply lacked real combat experience, his prized wires, which he called among demonkind's mightiest spells, notwithstanding.