Freya Idun (Kichikuou Rance)

''This article refers to the Rance Series character Freya Idun as she appears in the game Kichikuou Rance. For information relating to the character as she appears from Rance IX: The Helmanian Revolution forward, see Freya Idun.''

About
Freya Idun is a freelance spy hired by Helman to disrupt Rance's kingdom during the events of Kichikuou Rance. She's assisted by her companion Norimaki.

Freya and Norimaki first appear after the Kingdom of Leazas has been at war with Helman for several weeks, where they are hired by Prime Minister Stessel Romanov to sabotage the enemy country for a 50,000 GOLD reward. The two will then randomly appear in various cities across Leazas, where they poison the local food supplies with a powerful corrosive agent in order to throw the nation into economic turmoil.

If Freya is able to destroy the food supply of five different cities, the ensuing food shortage will force the Leazas Government to expend most of its national budget to rectify it, greatly compromising its ability to take further action. Having successfully completed her assignment, Freya receives a large cash reward and departs to the Free City of Diptheria with Norimaki to begin eagerly planning their next move. Now with enough money to live comfortably off of forever, the two spend the remainder of their lives wandering the Continent in aimless leisure.

If Rance, the newly-crowned king of Leazas, levies the city that Freya was most recently sighted at, he will catch her moving through the shadows and throw a rock in her direction to subdue her. Before he is able to capture her, however, he becomes distracted by admiring her good looks, allowing Norimaki to blind him by emitting a bright flash from his eye and give Freya a chance to flee. If Rance attempts to catch Freya two additional times, she will continue to deftly escape from his clutches through a combination of Norimaki's blinding eye flash and her own exceptional skills, eventually becoming so confident in her ability to evade him that she carelessly reveals herself as a ninja sent by Helman. The knowledge that Freya is an enemy spy motivates Rance to entrap her even more, causing him to begin seeking out alternative means of doing so.

After learning that Freya is a Helman spy, Rance gains the option to purchase a substance known as ninja birdlime from the merchant Pluepet. If he levies a territory Freya was sighted in after acquiring this item, he will throw the birdlime in her path as she moves to escape from him and cause her to trip and fall into it, flinging Norimaki off of her back and incapacitating them both. Rance takes advantage of Freya's sudden vulnerability to assault her, and shoves Norimaki's face into the birdlime to prevent him from using his eye flash to interfere.

Upon finishing having his way with Freya, Rance is given the choice of either freeing her from the birdlime or demanding that she defect from Helman to serve under him.

If Rance chooses to let Freya go, he will first order her to swear to end her allegiance to Helman. Though Freya seemingly agrees to do so without argument, claiming that she will spend the remainder of her life as a simple farmer, she immediately reveals herself to have merely been lying after getting released and quickly takes off elsewhere to resume her disruptive activities.

If Rance chooses to try and recruit Freya, she will insist that he pay her an even greater salary than the amount she was promised by Helman and successfully negotiates him into hiring her for a price of 100,000 GOLD, double what Stessel had promised her. While Norimaki acts baffled by the ease at which the exchange occurred, Freya ends up being a relatively loyal addition to Leazas' forces, and can from then on be called upon to scout, sabotage and assassinate soldiers of enemy armies.

If Freya is captured while performing spy work against the Helman Army after she is recruited by Leazas, she will be brought before Stessel and Dowager Empress Pamela Helman, who sentence her to execution for her betrayal. While Freya accepts her fate, she attempts to persuade Norimaki to flee to safety, only for him to refuse and to insist on dying by her side. The two are killed by soldiers moments later, with Pamela then ordering to have their faces be destroyed beyond recognition and their corpses thrown into a river to prevent them from ever being reclaimed.