It was a moment of triumph. The end of an age of darkness.
She had told herself there would always be time. And now, time had betrayed her. Sousou no Frieren Episode 1
The meteor shower blazed overhead—a river of diamonds poured across the heavens. It was even more beautiful than she remembered. But Frieren barely saw it. She was watching Himmel’s face as he wept silently, tears tracing the deep wrinkles on his cheeks. It was a moment of triumph
As the dirt fell onto Himmel’s coffin, a violent sob tore from Frieren’s throat—so foreign, so raw, that the mourners turned in shock. The elf, the immortal, the cold mage, was crying. And now, time had betrayed her
Those were the last words he ever spoke to her.
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.