Chapter 136

While Frieren studies the venom coursing through Stark, Fern pushes to carry him to a church, only to be reminded that their hunters can wield the Goddess's power and would be waiting. When Fern realizes the archer must carry an antidote and asks why her mentor never raised the option she herself taught, Frieren answers that storming into a city fight would cost her composure and risk turning the Empire against them. She bluntly tells Fern that, as she is now, her skills cannot be trusted in such a clash.

The door then swings open to reveal Sein, who immediately tends to Stark. Frieren explains that she felt his mana and judged it safe to answer with her own, since the foe's Goddess-based tracking would not flag an unknown ally. She frames the encounter as luck a level-headed mage should always be ready to seize. Sein succeeds in purging the poison, potent enough to kill anyone less hardy than Stark from a mere graze, and asks to be brought up to speed while revealing his own hunt for Gorilla.

Piecing the situation together, Sein recognizes that the party is being herded by someone exploiting the Goddess's magic, and he proposes locating that enemy priest through a flaw in the tracing spell, provided they can strike the exact spot at once. Frieren grasps the implication, since the foe relies on that magic as the heart of the plan rather than a mere tool, and the priest avoids open commotion just as they do.

Before Fern can fully follow the logic, Gazelle lunges at her from behind, and a groggy Stark rouses to shield her at the cost of overtaxing his recovery. Driven into cover by Gazelle and one of Wolf's arrows, Frieren spells it out: the Goddess's magic is the enemy's weak point, and Fern sees that felling their control tower would end the assault. Frieren voices full faith that her apprentice will not miss. In magazine form the chapter shared its title with Chapter 108 before being renamed for the volume release. The cover features Sein.