Sousou No Frieren Episode 1 〈Cross-Platform〉

“I should have… gotten to know him better,” she whispered to Eisen.

Eisen fell asleep against the well. Heiter snored softly, a bottle of wine still clutched in his hand. But Frieren stayed awake, watching the stars wheel overhead, unaware that she was looking at the last perfect night she would ever know. Sousou no Frieren Episode 1

It was Himmel.

She had told herself there would always be time. And now, time had betrayed her. “I should have… gotten to know him better,”

Frieren stood in the rain at Himmel’s funeral. The townspeople wept openly. Eisen, now an old, grizzled warrior with trembling hands, stood stoic but red-eyed. Heiter, frail and pale, leaned on a staff, his holy robes soaked through. But Frieren stayed awake, watching the stars wheel

She stared. The young hero who had charged into the Demon King’s castle was gone. In his place was a fragile, dying human. For the first time in a thousand years, a strange, sharp ache pinched Frieren’s chest.

All the other funerals she had attended—of humans she had barely known—had been abstract. But this was different. The man who had called her name with joy. The man who had carried her when she was too lazy to walk. The man who had looked at her not as a tool or a monster, but as a friend.