Chapter Summaries

The Author and Jizi performed a comic fake leave request as the Author apologized for unpredictable updates caused by exams and other obligations. Jizi summoned the Author’s teacher to punish him, and the chapter ended with the Author facing the teacher’s icy question.

• The Author and Jizi joked about the book reaching 100,000 words before Jizi redirected the conversation to the leave request.
• The Author apologized for unstable updates and said they would likely remain unpredictable until mid-to-late June, with a possible month-long break in September for military training.
• The Author claimed the title’s reference to courting death described himself, and Jizi attacked him over the explanation and the story’s gender-bending element.
• The Author asked readers to wait and offered them good wishes, while warning that his next appearance might not be an update.
• Jizi called the Author’s teacher and reported that he was at an Internet café, prompting the teacher to confront him.

Jizi and World Admin held a comic reader Q&A that explained Jizi's ability to recreate weapons, tools, and skills, along with its Mana costs and restrictions. The chapter ended with the author summarizing that Jizi's power was deliberately limited to a few main-story abilities and a three-use cheat.

• Jizi and World Admin thanked readers, dismissed the letter-reading segment, and addressed complaints about the chapter's formatting.
• Jizi explained that her Noble Phantasm, [Thousands of Delusions], recreated things she had seen, with results determined by her Mana and memory or obsession with the original.
• Jizi demonstrated that recreations could be weak or costly to strengthen, and World Admin explained the Mana costs, expiration limits, and single-use restrictions of her ahoge reserves.
• Jizi explained that her greater power on the B route came from Berserker bonuses and the Mana she absorbed from Old Man Matou, people she hunted, and Caster's summoned seafood.
• Jizi showed that most weapons from the prologue were too poorly made to use and described her mask as the main body connected to a puppet-like body.
• The author summarized that Jizi could recreate many things but was restricted to abilities introduced in the main story, with one major cheat usable only three times.

Jizi's backstory was recounted, from accidentally blinding his sister to dying while protecting her from a thrown iron. A god agreed to heal his sister's eye in exchange for his service against the Black Holy Grail in the Type-Moon World and gave him a new body and abilities.

• Jizi lost his mother, and his father remarried and had a daughter whose mother treated Jizi badly over inheritance concerns.
• Jizi accidentally blinded one of his sister's eyes and delayed reporting the injury, leaving her permanently blind in that eye.
• Jizi began secretly following his sister whenever she went out to ease his guilt by protecting her.
• Jizi intercepted a hot iron thrown during a street-side quarrel, saving his sister but dying from his injuries.
• Jizi agreed to confront the Black Holy Grail in the Type-Moon World at the time of F/Z in exchange for the god healing his sister's eye.
• The god gave Jizi a female body and supernatural abilities and assigned her to serve as an enforcer lent to the Counter Force.

Jizi was summoned as Kirei Kotomine’s Assassin and agreed to fight in the Holy Grail War while concealing her face. After questioning Kirei’s reasons for seeking the Grail, she left him to consider his own motives as they approached the Tohsaka residence.

• Kirei Kotomine summoned Jizi as his Assassin, formed a contract with her, and asked her to remove her mask, but she refused.
• Jizi used Risei Kotomine’s arrival as an excuse to change the subject and shielded Kirei before learning Risei was his father and an ally.
• Risei urged Jizi to protect the world and support Tokiomi Tohsaka, and she pretended to accept the mission in a friendly exchange.
• Kirei and Jizi left the Fuyuki Church, and Jizi asked whether Kirei truly believed Risei’s words or merely followed his father and teacher’s orders.
• Jizi vanished before Kirei could answer, leaving him to question why he sought the Holy Grail.

Kirei Kotomine discussed his Assassin and the coming Holy Grail War with Tokiomi Tohsaka while Jizi explored the estate’s defenses. Jizi encountered Rin Tohsaka in the garden, and the chapter ended with Rin proudly announcing that she had caught a thief.

• Kirei told Tokiomi that his Assassin was following orders and keeping watch, while privately wondering what the Servants might wish for from the Holy Grail.
• Jizi studied Tokiomi’s magical formations and reflected on the sacrifices she might have to make to complete her mission.
• Rin went to the garden to study her father’s defensive spells and encountered Jizi, who suddenly appeared before her.
• After Kirei and Tokiomi finished their discussion, Rin called out that she had caught a thief, and Kirei stopped Tokiomi from activating the defenses.

Jizi prepared for the coming Holy Grail War while Rin Tohsaka worried about her father and grew attached to Jizi. After Rin nearly fell from the Tohsaka Residence roof, she asked Jizi to survive and promised to make her a future member of the Tohsaka household.

• Jizi explained that Rin would leave Fuyuki City for the Zenjou Family because Tokiomi and Kirei could not guarantee her and her mother's safety during the war.
• Rin admitted she trusted Tokiomi's judgment but was jealous of Jizi, then confessed that she liked her a little before Jizi teased her.
• Jizi reported that her patrol had found no unusual activity, and Kirei questioned whether Assassin could be trusted while Tokiomi dismissed his concerns.
• Jizi planned on the roof how she would act around Gilgamesh, then hurried to catch Rin when the girl slipped and fell.
• Rin asked Jizi to promise that Tokiomi would be safe and that Jizi would survive, then offered her a place as her future butler.

After saying goodbye to Rin Tohsaka, Jizi watched the preparations for the Fourth Holy Grail War’s Servant summonings unfold across several locations. The chapter ended as the summoned Heroic Spirits appeared and asked their Masters if they were their Masters.

• Jizi helped Rin Tohsaka into the car, exchanged farewells with Aoi Tohsaka, and gave Rin her phone number.
• Waver Velvet prepared a summoning ritual in a clearing in Miyama Town and began chanting its incantation.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka prepared a ritual with jewels and a relic while Risei, Kirei, and Jizi watched.
• Kiritsugu Emiya completed the summoning circle at Einzbern Castle and placed the holy sword’s sheath on the altar.
• Zouken Matou instructed Yanye to summon a Berserker by adding verses that would impose Mad Enhancement.
• Waver Velvet, Kiritsugu Emiya, Yanye, and Tokiomi Tohsaka completed their incantations, and Heroic Spirits appeared to greet their Masters.

Jizi ingratiated herself with Gilgamesh by performing for him while the Tohsaka team discussed the newly arrived Caster team, whose master was suspected to be a serial killer. After Tokiomi ordered Jizi to return instead of pursuing them, she continued with her own plans in Fuyuki.

• Jizi bowed to Gilgamesh and pledged to follow him, delighting the king and startling Tokiomi, Risei, and Kirei.
• Jizi performed music for Gilgamesh, who praised her and ordered her to prepare another performance.
• Tokiomi and Kirei discussed reports that Caster's master was the serial killer who had murdered a family and used their blood to draw a summoning circle.
• Jizi offered to track down and assassinate Caster's master, but Tokiomi ordered her to return and follow the original plan.
• Jizi wondered whether her alliance with Gilgamesh had made Tokiomi wary and left the residence where Ryunosuke had committed the murders.

Jizi sabotaged the Tohsaka Residence’s defenses and staged a bizarre infiltration to draw out Gilgamesh, intending to use her ability to rebuild her puppet body after death. After Gilgamesh captured and killed her, she reappeared in the woods and complained about the pain and the time needed to reconstruct her body.

• Kirei Kotomine ordered Jizi to assassinate Tokiomi, but she questioned the plan and went to gather information instead.
• Jizi destroyed the outer magical nodes protecting the Tohsaka Residence while avoiding the central node that might summon Gilgamesh.
• Jizi hid her mask in a tree, jumped into the courtyard, and tried to infiltrate the grounds inside a cardboard box.
• Gilgamesh appeared early and attacked the box with swords, but Jizi launched a miniature four-wheel-drive car at him and sneaked up behind him.
• Gilgamesh caught Jizi with a chain and killed her, and she later reconstructed her puppet body in the woods behind the residence.

Jizi mocked Kirei Kotomine and his father at the church, then set out to disrupt the Holy Grail War’s first major battle. She lured Saber and Irisviel away from the docks so Lancer could be left to face another Servant, while Jizi prepared to target the Lancer pair.

• Jizi sensed a familiar monitoring the church, and Kirei Kotomine and Risei Kotomine decided to let it watch rather than expose their plans by chasing it.
• Jizi left the church after Kirei offered to construct another body to replace the wood chips inside her, which she angrily rejected.
• Jizi heard rumors about strange events in Fuyuki City and realized that townspeople had spotted her walking around without concealment.
• Jizi followed Saber and Irisviel, talked nonsense to them, and distracted Saber with a meal until the pair drove away from the docks.
• Jizi headed for Fuyuki Port, intending to interfere with the Lancer pair while Saber was absent.

Jizi secretly watched the battle between Lancer and Berserker while Kiritsugu Emiya took the chance to shoot Kayneth. Rider interrupted the duel, but after Kayneth fell, Lancer fled with his unconscious Master and Berserker ignored Rider’s offer of alliance.

• Jizi reported the battlefield situation to Kirei Kotomine, then hid behind Kayneth and waited for Kiritsugu Emiya to act.
• Berserker’s hatred of Lancer’s tragic love legend drove him to fight, and he overwhelmed Lancer with a utility pole as a weapon.
• Rider arrived in his chariot and stopped the duel, while Kiritsugu Emiya used the distraction to shoot Kayneth through the heart.
• Jizi saw Kayneth fall and prepared to move before Lancer reached him.
• Rider offered to share the Holy Grail and conquer the world together, but Lancer fled with Kayneth and Berserker ignored the offer.

Jizi watched Rider reveal his identity and drew the attention of other participants before leaving to lure Caster out by disguising herself as Joan of Arc. Her disguise expired while Gilles de Rais cornered her, leaving her facing a ring of tentacles with no clear escape.

• Rider revealed his true name and taunted the hidden Heroic Spirits, while Weber Velvet criticized him for exposing their identity.
• Kiritsugu Emiya and Jizi hid from Rider's searching gaze, and Kirei Kotomine ordered Jizi to investigate Caster.
• Jizi explained that she had disguised herself as Joan of Arc to bait Caster into pursuing her and planned to lead him toward Einzbern Castle.
• Jizi fled across rooftops from Caster's tentacles, misjudged a jump, and fell face-first onto the tiles.
• Gilles de Rais cornered Jizi and begged her to remove her mask, while her disguise had expired and her fate remained uncertain.

Tokiomi Tohsaka allowed Assassin to lure Caster toward Einzbern Castle, while Jizi used an invented story and Oscar-worthy acting to keep Gilles de Rais distracted until Kirei Kotomine’s Command Seal helped her escape. Caster then spotted Saber and Irisviel and mistook Irisviel for his Saint, setting his sights on rescuing her.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka spent a Command Seal to restrain Archer, then learned Assassin had been discovered while searching for Caster.
• Kirei Kotomine reported that Caster was Gilles de Rais and that Assassin had lured him toward Einzbern Castle, so Tokiomi ordered her to continue and promised Command Seal support if needed.
• Jizi pretended to be Gilles’s Saint and stalled him with a fabricated story while secretly asking Kirei for help.
• After Gilles saw through her disguise and trapped her with tentacles, Jizi used Kirei’s Command Seal boost to escape and taunted him.
• Irisviel and Saber went to investigate the castle’s breached barrier, and Gilles mistook Irisviel for his Saint and vowed to save her.

Saber fought Caster at Einzbern Castle while Kirei investigated Assassin’s secrets and went to observe Kiritsugu Emiya. Kiritsugu’s attempt to finish off Kayneth failed, Maiya was captured by Kirei, and Kirei left when Lancer approached.

• Saber denied recognizing Caster, then cut through his summoned Sea Demons until Caster escaped using a familiar double.
• Assassin reported details about Saber to Tokiomi through Kirei, and Kirei learned Caster had already fled.
• Kirei went to the Fuyuki Hyatt Hotel, suspecting Kiritsugu and Kayneth would be involved in a confrontation.
• Kayneth survived Kiritsugu’s attack and countered with silver mercury, forcing Kiritsugu to retreat and order Maiya to withdraw.
• Kirei restrained Maiya at the unfinished Fuyuki Central Building and questioned her, but she refused to answer.
• Assassin warned Kirei that Lancer was approaching, so Kirei left Maiya behind and escaped.

Gilgamesh urged Kirei to investigate the desires of the Holy Grail War participants, especially Assassin, while Kirei remained unaware of her secret motives. Kirei entered the forest to join the Caster extermination operation as other Servants gathered nearby.

• Kirei returned to the church and found Gilgamesh drinking his wine while Jizi played music for him.
• Jizi said she respected Tokiomi because he was strong in the current age, and Kirei sent her to resume surveillance on Caster's group.
• Gilgamesh told Kirei to discover Assassin's true desire and investigate what drove the other participants to seek the Holy Grail.
• Kirei spoke with Rin by phone, warned her not to act rashly, and encouraged her to contact him if she had a problem.
• Kirei entered the forest near Einzbern Castle for the Caster extermination operation as Lancer, Caster, Saber, and Rider were nearby; Jizi wished him pleasure from outside.

A mysterious attacker used a mercury drill to breach Einzbern Castle while Caster trapped Saber among regenerating monsters. Iskandar interrupted Caster, Kiritsugu fled the drill through the castle, and Kirei captured Irisviel in the woods, ending with him considering having Assassin interrogate her.

• The mercury attacker commanded a drill to bore into Einzbern Castle’s main gates.
• Saber struggled against Caster’s regenerating Tentacle Monsters and rejected his claims that she was Joan of Arc.
• Iskandar descended in his lightning-wreathed chariot and announced that he had claimed Caster’s bounty.
• Kiritsugu used Time Alter to evade the mercury drill, but its searching streams detected his footsteps and chased him.
• Kirei questioned the wounded Irisviel, who had deliberately come to oppose him, and considered asking Assassin to interrogate her.

Kirei Kotomine and Assassin captured Irisviel, while Rider arrived to help Saber face the Sea Demons and Kiritsugu was cornered by an enemy using a mercury Mystic Code. Jizi treated Irisviel’s injuries after her abduction, leaving Irisviel to rely on her faith in Kiritsugu.

• Kirei Kotomine ordered Assassin to interrogate Irisviel, and Assassin suggested sexually assaulting her to break her will.
• Rider offered Saber a place in his expeditionary army, but Saber refused and cut off a Sea Demon’s tentacle as the demons gathered around them.
• Kiritsugu realized his opponent had used mercury to surround him and prepared to act when the enemy entered the corridor.
• Jizi treated Irisviel’s wounds with recovery items while Kirei Kotomine kept her captive.
• Irisviel recovered enough to reflect that Kirei had abducted her and silently encouraged herself by thinking of Kiritsugu.

Rider and Saber joined forces to hunt Caster while Kiritsugu detonated his castle to defeat Kayneth and escaped badly wounded. Saber nearly killed Caster, but Kiritsugu summoned her away at the last moment, allowing Caster to escape.

• Rider invited Saber onto the Gordius Wheel so they could search for Caster from the air and clear a path for her attack.
• Kiritsugu detonated explosives throughout the castle, escaped the rubble, and saw Lancer approaching while gravely injured.
• Rider, Saber, and Weber searched the forest by chariot and found Caster hiding among the trees.
• Rider defended the chariot from Caster's tentacles while Saber waited for an opening, then launched a decisive strike with her revealed holy sword.
• Kiritsugu used a Command Seal to summon Saber away just before her sword struck Caster, who escaped underground inside a demon.

Diarmuid was caught in a fierce fight with Saber after a sudden clash disrupted his search for his master. The two Servants stopped fighting when an unknown Servant revealed a powerful presence in the forest.

• Diarmuid tried to reach his master after an explosion and encountered an enemy magus, but Saber attacked him after being summoned with a Command Seal.
• Assassin reported that Caster had escaped and tracked his tunnel, while Irisviel prepared to use magecraft against Kirei after Assassin left.
• Saber fought Diarmuid with fierce momentum, but her strength began to fade as he defended against her attacks.
• A powerful Mana presence erupted in the forest, prompting Saber and Diarmuid to withdraw and pause their duel.

Jizi stopped Irisviel’s attack on Kirei Kotomine and later cared for her while Kirei kept her under house arrest. The chapter ended with Rin calling Jizi from a Fuyuki train station, prompting Jizi to realize that she had come to the city.

• Jizi appeared and caught Irisviel’s Mana spike before it could strike Kirei Kotomine, then supported the exhausted Irisviel.
• Jizi reported that Rider had left the forest, Saber and Lancer had ceased fighting, and Caster’s Mana could be tracked to his lair.
• Saber and Lancer exchanged their true names and promised to duel again, while Rider declared that the heroes were worth conquering.
• Kirei Kotomine placed Irisviel under house arrest and left Jizi to bring her food and water.
• Rin called Jizi from a train station and asked her to come pick her up, leaving Jizi shocked that Rin had come to Fuyuki.