#afterwards methode went up to fern like you have such nice skin btw :)

[velteris]

In Methode's talk with the Ehre-Wirbel-Scharf trio, she doesn't say that she can defeat Fern, just that she's good at stopping people (足止め, lit. "foot stopping", also can mean confinement). When she's test-casting on real Frieren and real Fern, she had to physically touch them to restrain them. It seems like an ongoing cast, like Sorganeil; doesn't seem like Methode could cast any other spell while maintaining this freezing one.

In the aftermath of the fight, you can see from the dissipating mana that clone Fern's body was right in front of Methode.

I therefore propose this theory: after managing to dodge the Zoltraak machine gun, Methode just. grabbed clone Fern. and they just stood there having the world's weirdest silent stareoff for minutes until Spiegel died.

#sousou no frieren #frieren #afterwards methode went up to fern like you have such nice skin btw :) #fern: [alarms blaring] hello Human Resources?!?!