Ben Lindbergh

And that's part of Frearin's quest.

Like what Frearin cares about most of all is expanding her repertoire of spells and just being able to... She loves a grimoire and she's addicted.

Man, that's tough because I love them all.

But I mean, I guess...

Maybe Hiter, who is... Really?

He is the corrupt, drunk priest in Freeren's original party, who is seen as a younger man in the flashbacks and an older man when the series starts.

But it's really hard to say because they all work so well together and getting just like the curtain pulled back bit by bit on the original quest and the interactions among the party.

Because the key here is that they're essentially retracing the steps of Freerun's original quest.

They're going back to the same place 80 years after the Demon King was defeated and

And so everywhere they go, it triggers memories and flashbacks and here's what happened that time.

And there are these overlaps and just this really kind of emotionally resonant moments where you can see that Firin is learning and has become a different person because she is sort of a sociopath in the past.

And it also didn't dawn on her that she would have such a fleeting time with them.

Because to her, it's, hey, I'll see you in a century.

And that's basically the blink of an eye.

She's close to immortal.

And yet these humans were so...

dear to her and she didn't even realize it.

She didn't appreciate it in the moment, I think, because she just thought this is one moment among so many moments and we'll have many more moments in the future.

Even though she knew human lifespans are not elven lifespans, I think it just, it didn't hit home.

And so she's looking back now and thinking about how she'd do things differently or just reinterpreting really.