Manga Volume 02

* EN
* JAP

The second manga volume of the series along with it being the second volume that adapts the first Volume of the Light Novel as well as the first volume to adapt the second episode of the series.

## Synopisis

Flum Apricot has defeated a werewolf and become an adventurer. Now she can start her new life with Milkit, once she rescues a merchant from some hoodlums, and deals with a violent nun from the Church of Origin, and defeats all the monsters she encounters, and finds the rare and illegal medicinal herb the merchant needs, and…confronts a horrible beast with a swirling vortex where its face should be! Flum is not about to roll over for anyone, except Milkit!

## List of Chapters

* Chapter 05 - Their Respective Paths
* Chapter 06 - The Starting Signal
* Chapter 07 - The Entrance to Despair
* Chapter 08 - Cursed Hope
* Chapter 09 - The Demon and the Saint

## Summary

Upon returning to the Royal Capital, Flum and Milkit are confronted by Dein's men who have a hard time believing Flum was able to successfully complete the trail assignment their boss set Flum up on that was supposed to kill her. Flum catches one of the men off guard and knocks him to the ground then threatens him with her cursed sword. She makes it clear to everyone present in the guild that she is much stronger than she thinks, and she'll be claiming both her license and her reward.

Flum finds an Inn willing to let her and Milkit stay the night. The two of them were able to take a nap and borrow some clothes. Flum is happy to have found a place that treats her like a normal human again. Despite how happy she is, she sees Milkit is lying on the floor. Flum realizes that Milkit must be having a hard time knowing how she should feel because she had been treated so poorly her whole life. Flum tells Milkit that she'll buy her some new clothes much to Milkit's surprise. When Milkit tells Flum she doesn't need to, Flum happily tells her that getting her some new clothes an order from her Master, so Milkit decides not to protest any further. Before they turn in for the night, Flum can't help but wonder how the members of the Hero's Party are doing.

Meanwhile, Flum's former companions in the Hero Party are struggling against one of the Demon Generals, Tsyon. Jean Inteigeblames Eterna Rinebow for not being able to do her part while she is simply annoyed at this. Gadhio Lathcutt and Linus Radiant attempt to attack Tyson, but their attacks are not able to do much. Cyrill Sweechka is unable to bring herself to fight because she still feels down about Flum's 'departure' much to Jean's annoyance. When Tsyon is ready to unleash a strong attack, but he is interrupted by another Demon General, Neigass, who reminds him that they aren't supposed to kill the heroes. Afterwards, they leave the heroes behind much to their confusion.

The following day, Flum makes good on her word and purchases Milkit nice clothing. Upon Milkit's request, Flum purchases Milkit a maid outfit while she buys herself some clothing that would be useful for her profession as an Adventurer. Milkit makes note that Flum spent a lot of money on her, and Flum tells her that she wishes to make Milkit happy, and she was happy to do it. Milkit doesn't quite understand Flum' sentiment, but she goes along with it.

During their shopping trip, Flum stops by a bookstore, and she buys a book for Milkit, so she could learn how to read. Milkit comes to the realization that Flum might be doing this to help her become more independent. Flum replies that she isn't sure what the future really holds, but assures Milkit they'll be sticking together for quite a while. Flum then asks Milkit if she doesn't trust her. Milkit replies she doesn't really understand what trust is, but she'll do what she can to stay by Flum's side to which Flum informs her that feeling probably is 'trust' which Milkit takes to heart.

Before they can call it a day, Flum and Milkit come across a scene with two of Dein's lackeys robbing Leitch Mancathy, and Flum decides to intervene while Milkit watches over their belongings. Flum manages to catch up to one of them and easily subdues him while the second robber is taken down by an Origin nun, Sara Anvilen. After helping retrieve Leitch's property, Flum suggests they throw Dein's men into prison which Sara reluctantly agrees to after hearing Flum's reasoning. Sara heads off to get some Church guards to arrest the criminals.

While Sara is away, Leitch takes this opportunity to recruit Flum to obtain valuable herbs that could cure his wife of aliments that cannot be cured by magic. Due to how much more money she could obtain due to it being a direct request, she decides to accept it even though finding the herbs would prove to be difficult. Shortly after Sara returns with the Church Guards, she correctly guesses that Leitch is in need of herbs because she has helped other civilians who needed herbs. Despite being a member of the Church of Origin, she happily decides to help locate the herbs.

Two days later, Flum, Milkit, and Sara are headed to Anichidey, which used to be a hub for herbs prior to the Church of Origin banning them. They discuss details regarding the mission as they enjoy some of Milkit's cooking. On their way there, Flum notices a mark on the back of Sara's neck. Sara reveals it was her home village that was supposedly destroyed by Demons when she was two years old, so she does not know much. She reveals she bonded with Maria Affenjenz because both of them lost their home villages to demons.

The following day, Flum and Sara leave Milkit in Anichidey for her own safety while they head off for the cavern that they believe would contain the herbs they were seeking. They are able to make short work of the monsters that stand in their way. Eventually, they are able to find an area that most likely would have the herbs. As they take a break, they are approached by a strange monster that appears eerily familiar. It is another monster with a Spiral face. When both Sara and Flum scan the monster, they see Flum's name which causes both of them to be taken aback.

In a display of overwhelming power, the monster attacks them which manages to destroy Flum's legs in the process. Sara attempts to heal Flum, but Sara's healing spell ends up hurting Flum. Sara realizes that Flum's affinity 'Inversion/Reversal' not only allows her to use Cursed weapons, but it comes with the tradeoff that healing magic will harm her rather than help her. Sara attempts to carry Flum away, but Flum's Curse weapons have allowed her to regenerate her legs, so they attempt to escape together.

As they are about to be cornered, Flum realizes their only real option to take their chances and jump down the massive hole that appeared to be bottomless. Regardless, it is their best option, and they jump down.

Upon landing, Flum realizes that something seems off about the ground. Flum quickly realizes they are on top of a bunch of corpses, and most of these most likely belong to other adventurers who were killed by that monster. She does her best to get herself and Sara out of there and find a way out of the facility. Upon exploring the facility, both of them find a room that indicates that this place is apparently a laboratory of some sort. Similar to what they saw on the monster, Flum's name is written on the wall as well much to Flum and Sara's confusion.

Before they have a chance to process what they are seeing, they hear someone calling for help. When they find the source of the voice, Flum offers to help only for the face of the crying woman to have a Spiral on it, and she capture's Flum's left arm. As Flum and Sara struggle to free Flum from the woman's grasp, they see the monster from before it closing in on them.

Flum attempts to break free, but the woman won't let go of her. She tells Sara to use her healing ability on her to cut off her arm which she does. The two of them are able to escape from the monster right before it could crush them. Thanks to Flum's ability, she is able to regenerate her arm as they run away, but they recognize that unless they can somehow defeat this monster, it will keep coming after them. Flum decides to she needs to find a new cursed equipment, so she decides to head to the corpse filled room they originally landed in.

Upon returning to the corpse room, Flum goes through as much of the equipment as possible in hopes that one of them might give her enough of a boost to fight and kill the Chimera. Most of the equipment Flum finds is useless until the Chimera breaks through the room and causes a pair of boots to be unearthed that are exactly what Flum is looking for. Using the new equipment, Flum is able to strike the Chimera with a hit, but it is far from enough to win.

Flum remembers some of the lessons that Gadhio taught her. Thanks to her cursed equipment, she is able to utilize his teaching. Sara keeps the monster distracted while Flum prepares herself to conduct a counterattack.

Both Flum and Sara pass out after using up all their energy to defeat the Chimera. Flum falls asleep while wishing that she could eat some of Milkit's cooking. As the two girls lie unconscious, Neigass appears wondering what Flum is doing there.

Upon waking up, Flum sees Neigass greeting her much to her confusion. As far as Flum has always known, Demons are supposedly evil beings, and everything she has been told is being contradicted by how nice this demon is acting towards her. Flum can't help but feel completely dumbfounded by this turn of events and has difficulty mustering a response to the Demon's greeting. Regardless, Flum can tell the demon doesn't have any intention of killing her, so she is willing to talk to her.

With the monsters defeated and their exit cleared, Flum and Milkit are able to peacefully gather the herbs while commenting on how much they look forward to eating more of Milkit's cooking after their done.

Neigass makes short work of another Chimera. Unlike Flum, Neigass is unable to destroy the core. Based on her observations, Neigass is able to figure out why Flum was originally chosen to become a member of the Hero's Party. She also wonders when she might meet Sara again.

## Character Appearances

* Flum Apricot
* Milkit
* Budras
* Y'lla Jerishin
* Dein Phineas (Cameo)
* Eterna Rinebow
* Gadhio Lathcutt
* Jean Inteige
* Cyrill Sweechka
* Maria Affenjenz
* Linus Radiant
* Grimmie
* Quarante

### New Characters

* Tsyon
* Neigass
* Leitch Mancathy
* Sara Anvilen

## Location Appearances

* Royal Capital
* West District Guild

### New Locations

* Anichidey
* Anichidey Outskirts
* Origin Lab Facility - Anichidey Location

## Trivia

* Prior to the Japanese release, a manga trailer was released to promote the series with Fairouz Ai as the voice of Flum.
	+ Kiki Tweeted support for the promo, and had the Tweet pinned to the top of his Twitter May 28th, 2021 until November 28th, 2021 when he began promoting the manga serialization of his other work "Fresh Blood Princess" as well as inform his fans he was working on Light Novel Volume 05.
	+ This promo marked the first time any character in the series received a voice actor.
* A month prior to the English release of the Volume, Seven Seas delayed the release by one week from December 7th, 2021 to December 14th, 2021.
* Several of Dein's men who were unnamed in the series are named in one of the manga extras. The one that Flum beats up in the West District guild was identified as Budras while the ones that Flum and Sara apprehend were identified as Grimmie and Quarante. They are also given a 'Bad Guy Level' of six stars.
* Welcy is mentioned the manga extra, but she is referred to as Leitch's daughter rather than his sister.
* Despite Flum's ability being localized as 'Reversal' in the previous volume, it is referred to as 'Inversion' in this volume.