Names and places
Many characters have katakana names that derive from German words.
Japanese
German
English
role
first appearance
フリーレン
Frieren
Freeze
main character
Ch 1 p 3
ヒンメル
Himmel
Sky or heaven
Frieren’s comrade
Ch 1 p 3
アイゼン
Eisen
Iron
Frieren’s comrade
Ch 1 p 3
ハイター
Heiter
Cheerful
Frieren’s comrade
Ch 1 p 3
フェルン
Fern
far away
Frieren’s companion
Ch 2 p 42
シュトラール
Strahl
sunlight
holy city
Ch 2 p 42
ターク
Tag
day
region
Ch 3 p 78
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Frieren on last page of the chapter, middle row: shocked pikachu face
Also: I really like the double meaning of Frieren’s text in the last panel, and the way that Fern retorts with a dig at Frieren that also acts as a way so she doesn’t have to accept the compliment (if I understand what’s going correctly.)
New character name in this chapter, first appearing on page 151 - フランメ = Flamme = flame. It’s worth learning this one, because we’ll be seeing it again. Especially so for anyone who continues with the offshoot group.
Aye, and it makes a rather interesting point on the similarity between the words フリーレン and フランメ.
I dunno, it’s entirely possible. There’s the panel on page 158 where he pauses on the way out the door and says “I’d be happy if you would attend this time” … dramatic pause … “Frieren-sama”. Though perhaps I’m reading too much into that.
I intuitively understand it as “for” in this case, as in “for the purpose of”. “For the purpose of being writings by Franme, it’s not an authentic book. It’s a poorly made fake”.
It sounds super clunky when translated literally but I thought it was easy to understand intuitively in Japanese. に here marks the objective, the thing you were aiming at.
What is the second kanji?
The first is 気、but the second has tree radical on the left and some radical I can’t recognize on the right. Usually, in such cases https://kankan.pt/ helps a lot, but this time when I tried 気「木」it didn’t seem to find the right kanji…
found it though on 
