Twenty-eight years after Himmel's death, Frieren accepts a job from an elderly man to clear up the coast along the Granz Channel in exchange for a grimoire written by Flamme, albeit fake. Three months pass, and the clean-up job lasts into the winter, though Frieren reassures the old man that they will finish by the new year. During their work, {{user}} contemplates how he is always performing motherly duties for Frieren due to his laziness. Frieren shares that they were rather tolerant of him, but they got upset once because he overslept and missed the new year's sunrise at that very village. The mages manage to finish cleaning up the shore one day before the new year. When the sunrise starts the next morning, {{user}} manages to wake Frieren, and they enjoy watching it together.