Vol 8: Inferno, illustrated by Sana Takeda
Maika is in a coma following the events of volume 7, and we enter a potential dream-state with consequences. As Maika deals with the reality of her mother’s death, she and her friends become sucked into the prison world of the Old Gods. Zinn and Maika’s rolls are reversed on this planet and Zinn is confronted with many of the beings he helped the Shaman-Empress banish. Maika’s spiritual self is lured by some of the beings here, particularly one called The Smith, who is harboring a coveted shard of the Shaman-Empress’ mask.
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Adapted by namu, illustrated by P
Maxi is the nervous, stuttering, abused daughter of a powerful Duke who married off to a lowly knight, Sir Riftan. The night after they are wed, her new husband goes off to fight a war that lasts for three years where his heroics elevate his standing. Upon his return, Maxi assumes her husband will want an annulment to take up the much more attractive offer from the kingdom's princess, but instead, her husband whisks her away without a goodbye to her father! The two "newlyweds" begin their life figuring out each other, refurbishing a neglected castle, and navigating kingdom politics. 
Illustrated by Ryosuke Fuji
High school student Rakuro Hizutome spends most of his free time playing kusogi, terrible immersive video games that have horrible flaws and plot holes. One day, his favorite video game clerk suggests he try out a well-made game, so he jumps into Shangri-La Frontier, a huge open-world game with tons of players. Rakuro initially sacrifices gear in his character creation in order to get better weapons, so he opts for a ridiculous bird mask and no armor. As he grinds through the first few new player areas, he takes a chance on a night time encounter, and his decision fundamentally impacts the future of his gameplay in SLF. 
Doctor Rei's other patient, Miss Alde, finally arrives, but she isn’t like Mira suspected. Alde wants nothing to do with Mira and believes that no one can truly understand her affliction. Alde suffers from shadow sickness, which makes her unable to be outside in the sunshine, nor have anything touch her that has had the sun shine on it. Mira enlists the help of Mr. Capri to try to break down the walls Alde has built around herself. After Alde and Mira’s encounter, Miss Stella takes Mira on an adventure to a beautiful night forest full of wonderful starry rivers, magical creatures, and illuminated plantlife.
In the slums of a city, Lady Bale has finally found the child she’s been looking for -- a young girl with beautiful golden locks and turquoise eyes, the spitting imagery of her father. Lady Bale snatches her up and whisks her away to the family home and transforms the young girl into a little boy, Camellius Bale. The calculating lady worries about her family's status with her eldest son’s questionable health, even if she is loathed to bring in a bastard child of her husband’s shameful misdeeds. Camellius does her best to follow the lady’s commands in the hopes of one day leaving the Bale house and being reunited with her mother.
Illustrated by Max Fiumata, colored by Dave McCaig, lettered by Rus Wooton
Pigeon returns home to try to help his family but finds his village has been decimated by storms from the uncontrolled tides of Luna’s abandoned post. Soluna wanders the wilderness and is attacked by a mysterious inky blob. When Pigeon is discovered by the kingdom’s monk, he is chastised for not carrying out his sacrificial duty correctly and sent to Aquarius’ kingdom in order to make things right with the gods. Meanwhile, Soluna wanders into a different village looking for help but is spurned there because everyone believes her to be a beggar. 
Vol 2: The Sharing Society
Klaus has been kidnapped by the outlaws known as the Demon Bandits and taken back to his kingdom of Alter. Cast and Mrs. Clock have decided to rescue him, even though that means coming face to face with the deadly and powerful forces from Mrs. Clock’s past as a participant in the war that ravaged the country. Cast and her mentor find themselves in a castle town full of infuriating villagers who bend to the will of a tyrannical ruler, but some of these confusing people might be the only hope they have for saving Klaus. 
An overworked apothecary contemplates death one day and jumps into a well, but discovers one of her old nursery rhyme to be true - that wells are connected to other worlds. She finds herself in the underworld where Lord Hades is in need of medical attention. After being in the underworld for so long, he’s developed an allergy to the sun, which has caused a rash and fever. As any good healer would do, Colette takes Hades into her care and begins visiting the underworld often on house calls.
Adapted by HereLee, illustrated by SUMPUL
Navier gets settled in within her new roll as the queen of the Western kingdom. That means choosing new ladies-in-waiting, a difficult task, seeing as how the eligible ladies were all chosen by the previous queen and are loyal to her. Back in the Eastern Kingdom, Soveishu is still reeling from the surprise that Navier landed on him, but plans to throw a wedding to outshine Navier’s and make her attend to spite her. Navier and Heinrey navigate some beginning couple awkwardness, and Navier asks questions about who the birds are that used to visit her chambers frequently when she was in the Eastern Kingdom. 
Frieren and Denken square off against their respective opponents: Frieren against Solitär and Denken against Macht, as Frieren finishes analyzing the diagoldze curse that Macht put on Weise. There is a fierce battle between the four opponents, but mostly Solitär annoys Frieren by talking too much and showing stalling as her main battle tactic. Denken uses Frieren's logic that Zoltraak is a fairly new spell in Macht's lifetime, and it seems to be working, to a degree. After the fights, it's back on the road to the North, and Frieren continues to pick up odd jobs for different small villages along the way in exchange for interesting grimoires.
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