Recaps

Jizi abducted Rin Tohsaka and brought her to Sakura, allowing the sisters to reunite and comfort each other. As the final battle approached, Yanye accepted a weapon from the witch and left with a knight, while the witch promised to protect Rin and Sakura.

• Jizi reasoned that Rin had returned to Fuyuki and followed her with Sakura, who wanted to see her sister.
• Rin sneaked out to visit Sakura, but Jizi repeatedly bumped into her, put her in a sack, and carried her away.
• Rin emerged and rushed into Sakura's arms, and Sakura comforted her until she calmed down.
• Rin shielded Sakura and demanded to know where they were and who Jizi was, while Jizi explained that her concealment technique kept others from noticing them.
• After Rin and Sakura left to talk privately, Yanye accepted an item from the witch and departed with a knight, asking the witch to protect the sisters.
• The witch vanished and declared that the final battle was about to begin.

At Einzbern Castle, Saber and Lancelot reunite and begin a duel, while Kariya Matou launches a frontal attack on Tokiomi Tohsaka’s residence. Kiritsugu Emiya’s surveillance is disrupted by Caster, and the chapter leaves him spiraling into doubt as the alliances and Caster’s knowledge of the participants come into focus.

• Saber and Lancelot meet at Einzbern Castle, exchange greetings, and prepare to settle things with their swords as Jizi and Sakura watch.
• Kariya Matou walks through Tokiomi Tohsaka’s defensive magecraft, turning its fire attacks against the bounded-field nodes before knocking on the residence’s door.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka accepts Kariya Matou’s challenge and goes outside to meet him.
• Kiritsugu Emiya tries to watch the confrontation through a thermal scope, but Caster’s interference turns his view scarlet and prompts him to question what he believes about the Holy Grail War.
• Jizi explains that the opposing factions have formed a loose alliance, then reveals that she deliberately spread her secret to constrain their actions.
• Jizi tells Assassin that she can access information about anyone involved in the Holy Grail War, including their identities, Noble Phantasms, abilities, and pasts.

Rider and Archer toasted before beginning their final battle on Fuyuki Bridge, while Kiritsugu's uneasy alliance and a sword duel between two knights unfolded elsewhere. The chapter ended with one knight spotting an opening during their exchange.

• Rider and Archer acknowledged each other's resolve, shared their remaining wine, and rejected Rider's offer to form an alliance.
• Rider summoned his army and transformed the bridge into a windswept battlefield as his duel with Archer began.
• Kiritsugu told Airi that he had allied with Tokiomi Tohsaka and required Kirei Kotomine to leave Fuyuki City.
• Airi questioned Maiya about the documents Caster's Master had shown Kiritsugu, and Maiya agreed to take her to them.
• Two knights exchanged blows with Excalibur and Arondight while arguing over the kingdom's fall, the king's choices, and responsibility for past mistakes.
• One knight noticed an opening during the sword fight.

Jizi stopped Saber and Berserker’s duel, while Saber accepted her knight’s ideals and abandoned her wish to change the past. Elsewhere, Kirei returned to Fuyuki after new Command Seals appeared, and Yanye continued attacking Tokiomi as a hidden observer watched.

• Jizi intervened between Saber and Berserker, and both knights admitted defeat.
• Kirei tore up his plane ticket and returned to the Holy Grail War after Command Seals reappeared on his hand.
• Yanye’s fire attacks failed against Tokiomi, so he assaulted Tokiomi’s bounded fields with shadow-like magecraft.
• Tokiomi defended himself while studying Yanye’s unfamiliar attacks, and a concealed observer watched their fight from a nearby hill.
• Saber resolved to stop seeking a way to change the past and instead pursue a different path as king.
• Jizi told Irisviel the truth about the Holy Grail War and whispered something that convinced her to join forces to purify it.

Gilgamesh and Rider fought across the battlefield as Rider used his army and chariot to keep Gilgamesh from unleashing Ea. At the Tohsaka Residence, Kariya sabotaged the leyline barrier, forcing Tokiomi to abandon his defensive strategy and attack.

• Gilgamesh summoned Ea as Rider led his army toward him, while Rider reassured Weber that he had prepared a countermeasure.
• Kariya stopped attacking Tokiomi directly and began destroying the Tohsaka Residence's leyline barrier to weaken Tokiomi's home-ground advantage.
• Tokiomi realized Kariya had damaged the barrier and switched from defense to assault as shadows and flames rose again.
• Rider charged Gilgamesh with Gordius Wheel, forcing Gilgamesh to stop preparing Ea and defend against Rider's attack and the army's projectiles.
• Rider sent shield formations forward under ranged cover, while Gilgamesh's weapons killed many soldiers and Rider stayed ready to exploit an opening.

Sola-Ui tried to force Lancer to abandon Kayneth, but Lancer refused to betray the man he recognized as his liege. Bound by his self-imposed geas to help a woman in distress, he ultimately accepted Sola-Ui’s request, while an earlier conversation with Jizi had challenged him to reconsider his loyalty and tolerance.

• Sola-Ui ordered Lancer to act against Kayneth, but he refused because he served Kayneth as his liege.
• Sola-Ui threatened to cut off Lancer’s magical energy, then invoked his geas by claiming to be a woman in distress whose life was threatened.
• Lancer accepted Sola-Ui’s request and vanished, while she celebrated the prospect of using the Holy Grail to keep him with her.
• Earlier, Jizi questioned Lancer about his tragic fate and compared his loyalty to Fionn’s treatment of him and Kayneth’s treatment of him.
• Jizi completed their deal by giving Lancer an arm and urged him to report whether his final act of tolerance would again be exploited.

Rider’s army exhausted Archer and forced him to answer with the Vimana, while Tokiomi questioned Kariya about the shadow magecraft intended for Sakura. Tokiomi’s remarks about Sakura’s value enraged Kariya, who blamed him for everything and roared that it was all his fault.

• Rider’s soldiers wore Archer down with repeated attacks, but their numbers dwindled as the army’s energy ran short.
• Rider withdrew his soldiers and challenged Archer himself, and Archer summoned the Vimana to fight him in the sky.
• At the Tohsaka Residence, Tokiomi asked Kariya whether he would teach Sakura the shadow magecraft and make her heir to the New Matou Family.
• Tokiomi wondered aloud whether Sakura had hidden potential and whether sending her away had been a mistake.
• Kariya erupted in anger, accused Tokiomi of treating Sakura as a tool, and shouted that everything was his fault.

Rider and Weber prepared to stake everything on one final attack against Archer, while Kariya charged Tokiomi and forced him to fight without his shadow-based Magecraft. Tokiomi’s control faltered when something happened to his Servant, leaving the duel’s outcome uncertain.

• Rider explained that Vimana was vulnerable in the aerial dogfight, though Archer’s weapons and Chains of Heaven still threatened him and Weber.
• Rider revealed that both sides were near their limits and planned a decisive attack, with Weber offering all his magical energy.
• Rider and Archer launched toward each other in a final clash above Sky Mountain.
• Kariya charged Tokiomi, who filled the courtyard with uniform light to suppress Kariya’s shadows and trapped him in a bounded field.
• Tokiomi’s magic bullet missed and his bounded field weakened, suggesting that something had happened to his Servant.

Rider and Weber defeated Archer with a surprise attack using Gae Dearg, and Archer used his final strength to bring Vimana safely down before he vanished. As the Holy Grail War continued, Tokiomi reeled from Archer’s death while Kariya broke free and charged him.

• Archer bound Rider with the Chains of Heaven, destroyed his sword, and prepared to kill him.
• Rider revealed that Weber was still alive, and Weber used a Command Seal to teleport Rider behind Archer.
• Weber used another Command Seal to order Rider to attack, and Rider pierced Archer with Gae Dearg, which he had obtained in exchange for a Command Seal-bearing arm.
• Archer used his remaining strength to guide the disintegrating Vimana down safely, then vanished with it as Rider and Weber landed.
• Tokiomi learned through his Command Seals that Archer had died, lost focus, and left his binding barrier weakened.
• Kariya Matou broke free of his bonds and charged Tokiomi.

Kariya Matou chose Sakura’s future over killing Tokiomi Tohsaka and defeated him with Caster’s borrowed power, while Kiritsugu tried to shoot Kariya from a distance. Caster stopped the shot and exposed Kiritsugu, leaving him to summon Saber without knowing she had sided with Caster’s group.

• Sakura and Rin promised to remain sisters and worried that Kariya and Tokiomi might die in their duel.
• Caster reminded Yanye that killing Tokiomi could harm Rin, Sakura, and Kui, and urged him to prioritize their future.
• Kariya used Caster’s mask and Shadowraze to defeat Tokiomi, then struck him with a Friendship-Breaking Hadouken.
• Irisviel drove Saber, Berserker, Sakura, and Jizi toward Miyama Town at terrifying speed before Jizi vanished to intervene at the battle.
• Kiritsugu fired at Kariya, but Caster caught the bullet and revealed that she had spotted him.
• Kiritsugu used a Command Seal to summon Saber, unaware that she and Irisviel had joined Caster’s side.

Saber and Caster reunited at the Tohsaka Residence while Irisviel brought Sakura and Berserker there by car. After Lancer challenged Berserker to a duel, Caster gained Irisviel’s trust as her Master and prepared to reveal the truth about the Holy Grail War.

• Saber and Caster greeted each other as old friends, leaving Kiritsugu baffled by their easy conversation.
• Irisviel drove Sakura and Berserker near the Tohsaka Residence, where Sakura led them toward her former home.
• Lancer appeared and let Irisviel and Sakura continue, then accepted Berserker’s challenge to a duel as Lancelot and Diarmuid.
• Jizi explained to Kiritsugu that the Servants had to address a threat to the world, but Kiritsugu doubted her account.
• Irisviel showed Kiritsugu her genuine Command Seals and ordered Caster to tell the truth about the Grail and her plan.
• Kariya kicked Tokiomi awake and called him over to hear Caster’s explanation, while Sakura watched with relief.

Jizi revealed the Holy Grail’s corruption and gathered the surviving knights to help her destroy All the World's Evils. After she summoned the Holy Grail using her magical energy, Kirei arrived and demanded it while holding Rin hostage.

• Caster explained that the Holy Grail had been corrupted by Angra Mainyu and that she had come as the Counter Force’s pawn to deal with it.
• Jizi arranged for Lancelot and Diarmuid to fight; after Lancelot urged him to change his fate by helping save the world, Diarmuid agreed to join the plan.
• Jizi used Three Ahoge and the ley lines to summon the Holy Grail, while Irisviel lay unconscious on the table.
• Kirei appeared at the Tohsaka Residence, ignored Tokiomi, and demanded the Holy Grail from Kariya while holding Rin hostage.

Jizi traded the Holy Grail to Kirei Kotomine to rescue Rin, then revealed that the Grail’s black mud delighted Kirei because of his evil nature. After Jizi killed him, the Greater Grail’s Hole began to open, and Gilgamesh emerged from the mud to join the coming battle.

• Jizi negotiated Rin’s release by giving Kirei Kotomine the Holy Grail, then led the others away from the exchange.
• The Holy Grail poured black mud over Kirei, and he reveled in its evil while Jizi explained that it suited his nature.
• Jizi shot Kirei through the heart, and his body sank into the black mud.
• As the Hole to the Greater Grail began opening, Jizi told the others to fight the corrupted Assassins while she handled the mud.
• The corrupted Assassins rose from the mud, and Gilgamesh appeared, resisting its corruption through sheer will.

The knights fought off the Assassins and then struggled against Archer, whose corrupted Ea threatened to destroy them. Elsewhere, Jizi helped Rider recover his strength so he could confront Archer and help purify the Holy Grail.

• Saber, Lancer, and Berserker drove the Assassins into retreat, then faced Archer as he summoned Noble Phantasms from the Gate of Babylon.
• Jizi explained that linking Lancer’s Spirit Core to Irisviel would restore his strength but bind his existence to her, and Lancer agreed.
• The knights endured Archer’s barrage, with Berserker stealing Noble Phantasms and preventing Archer from retrieving them.
• Archer unleashed a corrupted Enuma Elish against the three knights.
• Jizi met Rider away from the Tohsaka Residence and used her magical energy to help Weber replenish Rider’s strength.
• Rider prepared to take Jizi near the battle in his chariot so she could use her power against the world’s evil.

Saber, Berserker, and Lancer fought to stop Archer, who drew power from the Holy Grail’s black mud, until Rider returned and led a charge against him. Jizi appeared to strike Archer with her final attack, while Lancelot’s disguise held Archer in place.

• Berserker realized the black mud was feeding Archer power from the Holy Grail, and the knights planned to break through his attack with Excalibur and a barrage of captured weapons.
• Saber released Excalibur while Berserker and Lancer hurled Noble Phantasms at Archer, but Archer escaped their assault with the Chains of Heaven and resumed Ea’s attack from above.
• Rider returned and forced Archer to halt Ea, then accused him of being corrupted by the black mud and charged with Lancer and Saber protecting his chariot.
• Lancer caught Archer’s Chains of Heaven with his spears as Saber accelerated the chariot, creating an opening for a silver-haired figure to attack Archer.
• Archer struck the silver-haired figure, but she was Lancelot in disguise; Lancelot seized Ea and held Archer in place while Jizi opened a gateway to hell with Meidō Zangetsuha.

Sakura Matou recalled the end of the Fourth Holy Grail War and the people whose lives Caster had saved, then used the newly appeared Command Seals to summon the person she still longed to see. As Jizi heard a mysterious voice calling her from the nothingness, Sakura’s summoning circle flashed and revealed a glimpse of silver hair.

• Uncle Kariya finished telling Chloe and Sakura the story of the Fourth Holy Grail War, including how Caster and Archer vanished into the wound in space as the Grail’s evil was purified.
• Sakura met her sister Rin and learned that she, Rin, and Kiritsugu Emiya’s daughter had been chosen for the next Holy Grail War.
• Sakura welcomed Lord El-Melloi and Iskandar to Uncle Kariya’s home, where they discussed the coming war and their roles as Mage’s Association overseers.
• Sakura found Command Seals on her hand and resolved to summon the silver-haired woman who had rescued her and saved the world.
• Jizi remained suspended in nothingness until a voice called her to come, while Sakura completed the summoning incantation and glimpsed silver hair in the circle’s light.

A memoryless woman awakened in the Matou Residence and discovered that Sakura had summoned her as a Heroic Spirit, though she remembered little beyond Sakura’s name. After El-Melloi confirmed she was the same Heroic Spirit who had once fought alongside Sakura, Sakura asked her to make new memories together, and she agreed to stay by Sakura’s side.

• Sakura greeted the woman as big sis Caster, and the woman recognized Sakura but could not remember her own name or past.
• The woman’s body completed a summoning contract with Sakura, identifying her class as Archer before she collapsed.
• After waking in the Matou Residence, the woman struggled with her identity and learned that Sakura had changed her clothes while she was unconscious.
• El-Melloi examined the woman and explained that she was the actual Heroic Spirit, not a Servant copy, and that she was unusually weak.
• Sakura learned that the summoned Heroic Spirit was the same person she had known ten years earlier and asked her to make new memories together.
• The woman agreed to stay beside Sakura, comforted by Sakura’s affection despite her missing memories.

In a dangerous age, the young youkai Yukari Yakumo was caught stealing buns but was rescued by the mysterious Mr. Ji, who revealed herself as Jizi. Jizi invited Yukari to stay with her, leaving Yukari surprised and unsure what to expect.

• A crowd cornered the young youkai after she vanished while being caught stealing buns.
• Mr. Ji arrived, took Yukari away from the townspeople, and brought her to her home.
• Mr. Ji told Yukari to wash, then revealed she was a female youkai named Jizi.
• Jizi asked Yukari for her name, and Yukari revealed it was Yukari Yakumo.
• Jizi introduced herself as Jizi and asked Yukari to stay and keep her company.

Jizi met Rin Tohsaka after Rin mistook her for a thief, then became her daytime bodyguard and school escort. The chapter ended with Jizi reluctantly showing her face around Rin after Rin traded one “onii-chan” for that promise.

• Rin caught Jizi in the Tohsaka courtyard and held a gemstone to her forehead, but Tokiomi identified Jizi as the Assassin he and Kirei had invited.
• Jizi praised Rin’s talent and exchanged polite compliments with Tokiomi, winning his approval; Rin then challenged Jizi for hiding her face, and Jizi removed her mask.
• Jizi warned Tokiomi that Qiegao might threaten Rin during the Holy Grail War and persuaded him to appoint her as Rin’s bodyguard and escort.
• Rin left school with Jizi, who carried her bag and waited beside the school gates in a butler’s uniform.
• Jizi recalled that Rin had used her promise to grant one request to make Jizi show her real face whenever she was with Rin.

Jizi met Rin at Fuyuki Station and agreed to help her search for her missing classmate, Kotone, after Rin explained her plan. As they followed an orange-haired young man leading children through Shinto, Jizi and Rin prepared to investigate a dark alley, while Irisviel's cell was broken into by an unknown visitor.

• Jizi found Rin at Fuyuki Station, scolded her for coming to Fuyuki, then relented and asked what she wanted to do.
• Rin showed Jizi her magical-energy detector and jewel fragments, and explained that she wanted to rescue Kotone.
• Rin's detector pointed toward a dark alley, and she insisted on entering with Jizi's help.
• Earlier, Aster dismissed Anzer's concerns about letting an enemy escape and ordered him to focus on fighting.
• Asashin smoothed the sharp jewel fragments in Rin's hand, and Rin and Asashin decided to follow an orange-haired young man who was leading children.
• Someone forced open Irisviel's cell door and approached her, but the visitor's identity was not revealed.

Jizi reunited Rin with Aoi, then returned to the Holy Church and gained Kirei's support for an operation at the kings' banquet. She revealed herself at the gathering, where Rider invited her to play music for the three kings.

• Rin apologized to Aoi for running away, and the two embraced as Jizi reflected on maternal love and her own family.
• Rin accidentally kicked Jizi, then felt guilty; Jizi comforted her and asked her to consider how her family would feel before taking risks.
• At the Holy Church, Kirei told Jizi about a banquet hosted by Rider, Saber, and Archer, and Tokiomi agreed that her plan could expose her presence.
• Jizi persuaded Kirei to provide her with mana before heading to the banquet in the ruined courtyard.
• Archer exposed Jizi's concealment, and Rider welcomed her to drink with the kings; Jizi accepted his wine and began playing her guitar.

Archer restrained Eva-01 with the Chains of Heaven, but the monster broke through and threatened the kings’ banquet. Rider summoned his Reality Marble, Army of the King, and led his former companions into battle against Eva-01.

• Archer bound Eva-01 with the Chains of Heaven and attacked it with golden weapons, but its AT Field blocked them and its strength dragged the chains along.
• Jizi watched from hiding and discussed with Assassin how the powerful familiar could have been summoned by Caster.
• Weber urged Rider to summon Gordius Wheel and flee, but Rider struck him and declared that he would fight the intruder.
• Rider released his Reality Marble, transforming the courtyard into a desert and summoning the Heroic Spirits who had fought beside him.
• Rider proclaimed that a king did not stand alone, and his army charged Eva-01 as it raised its AT Field against their arrows and javelins.

Aster summoned a gigantic Sea Demon in Fuyuki, forcing Saber and Rider to fight it while Tokiomi urged Archer to intervene. Archer refused to use Ea, and Tokiomi turned to Kirei and Assassin as the battle continued.

• Jizi followed Ryunosuke out of the Workshop and watched as Aster began his summoning on the river.
• Saber and Rider arrived to fight Aster's Sea Demon, while Archer watched from Vimana and Jizi stayed near Ryunosuke.
• Saber and Rider damaged the Sea Demon, but its vast body regenerated faster than they could injure it.
• Tokiomi asked Archer to destroy the creature with Ea, but Archer refused and threatened him for his insolence.
• Tokiomi contacted Kirei and decided that Assassin should break the deadlock.

Jizi weighed Kirei’s false orders against her plans to protect Rin and eventually kill Ryunosuke, while Kariya and brsrkr crossed paths with Anzer. The chapter revealed that Jizi had secretly healed Kayneth and used Geass to make him her servant, and she ordered him to keep brsrkr occupied without defeating him.

• Kirei told Jizi to search for the missing Servants instead of attacking Ryunosuke, and she agreed while planning to finish the assignment and return for him.
• Kariya staggered toward Tokiomi, but Anzer blocked his path and challenged brsrkr to a rematch; Yanye summoned brsrkr, and the two Servants began fighting.
• Jizi ordered Kayneth to keep brsrkr and his Master occupied without defeating them, and Kayneth obeyed.
• Several days earlier, Jizi had healed Kayneth after Kiritsugu’s sniper shot and used Geass to make him her slave.

rir and sabr struggled to hold back the Sea Demon while searching for a way to defeat it, and Jizi devised a plan to let sabr strike as it emerged from rir’s Reality Marble. She contacted Kiritsugu and went to find sabr, while Irisviel realized that Aster’s impersonation had been exposed.

• rir and sabr drove the Sea Demon away from the riverbank but recognized that a prolonged fight would favor Prelati's Spellbook.
• rir proposed trapping the Sea Demon in his Reality Marble while sabr prepared [xaibr], but sabr warned that the attack could destroy rir’s soldiers and barrier.
• Weber complained that rir had tasked him with finding a strategy, and Irisviel admitted she could not devise one on the spot.
• Jizi took Irisviel’s phone, called Kiritsugu, and identified Aster’s red-haired figure on the embankment as the target.
• Jizi asked Weber whether rir could release his Reality Marble at a chosen location, then agreed with Irisviel to use it to position the Sea Demon in sabr’s line of fire.
• Jizi left to find sabr, and Irisviel realized Aster’s disguise had been exposed and decided she should tell Kiritsugu.