Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Vol. 5 — Manga Raw / Buy Official

This volume reveals, through flashback, why Frieren keeps collecting a vast number of "useless" spells. The way of life left to her by her teacher, the great mage Flamme — that loving magic and gathering the small joys of everyday life is what gives meaning to a long existence — is the very foundation of her journey now. Sein, the priest traveling with them, is a slovenly man of drink, tobacco and idleness who nonetheless reads people better than anyone, and he nudges Fern and Stark forward with unerring aim. Taking on requests that straddle the living and the dead, Frieren begins to see that her thousand years were never blank. The party then reaches the gateway to the northern nations, and the first-class mage exam draws near.