Chapter 49

Denken's group of five edges beneath an archway, where the old mage flags a floor tile rigged to drop the ceiling, a human-shaped bloodstain marking an earlier victim. Gargoyles ambush them and fall quickly, but a collapsing wall cuts Länge off from the rest. When Denken's blasting spell fails to clear it, he tells her to shatter her bottle; the golem within swells, smashes through, and carries her out of the tomb. He berates himself for underestimating the place and losing a member so soon.

Fern, still wrenching at Frieren, is told to stop before she tears her mentor apart, and instead to shove her deeper so the mimic gags and lets go. Freed at last, Frieren admits she usually escapes such traps by detonating them from the inside, which leaves her hair frizzy, finally explaining her occasional change of style. The pair smash frozen gargoyles and gather chests of medallions, and Frieren warns that an uncharted dungeon running this smoothly near its heart is reason for caution, not relief.

Resting among the loot, Sense admits she cannot read Fern, who trains like a prodigy yet shows no hunger for magic. Fern explains she took up the craft only to repay Heiter's kindness, a single goal that consumed all her early passion, and that she keeps going now because watching Frieren delight in worthless-looking trinkets makes her happy. Elsewhere, Wirbel's trio is ambushed by hidden mages who turn out to be exact copies of themselves, and he hurriedly assigns each member a double to fight. Denken's group, having destroyed a perfect duplicate of Laufen, grasps that the tomb spawns flawless replicas with identical mana and skill, possibly even stolen memories, just as a copy of Frieren steps into their path.

Länge is eliminated after a collapsing wall forces her to use her escape golem. Fern frees Frieren from the mimic and shares that she pursues magic to see Frieren happy. Both Wirbel's and Denken's groups discover that the dungeon spawns perfect clones of intruders, with Denken's party confronting a duplicate of Frieren.

Dungeons and Magical Items, or Danjon to madōgu, released on May 12, 2021 within volume six over eighteen pages. Part of the First-Class Mage Exam Arc's second stage, it adapts into the anime's twenty-third episode. The chapter ties Frieren's shifting hairstyles to her habit of blowing mimics apart from the inside.