Chapter Summaries

Jiang Rui survived the devastating attack with Avalon and revealed that Kiritsugu Emiya had kept Artoria’s lost scabbard inside Irisviel. Artoria broke free of Enkidu and renewed her resolve, while Aoko and her companions reached the Great Hall of the People to draw out Kiritsugu.

• Iskandar was caught in Saber’s shockwave, while Gilgamesh bound Artoria with Enkidu and taunted her as Karna watched the canyon left by the attack.
• Jiang Rui emerged unharmed behind Avalon and told Artoria that Kiritsugu Emiya had kept her lost scabbard inside Irisviel.
• Artoria realized Kiritsugu had betrayed her trust, then used Wind Hammer to break Enkidu’s chains.
• Aoko, Eler, and their companion arrived at the Great Hall of the People, the only unaffected leyline in Fuyuki City, and began setting up a magical workshop.
• Eler reminded Aoko that their teacher wanted Kiritsugu Emiya killed, and the black-dressed girl asked the watching figures if they knew why he was called Professor from Fairy Tales.

Alice Kuonji used her nighttime magecraft to fend off intruders while Eler searched for her teacher. In the Holy Grail War, Irisviel collapsed as the Grail began to manifest, and Jiang Rui wondered why his memories of Aoko and Alice felt so real.

• Alice Kuonji activated Banquet of the Night and summoned Rose Hound, tearing through the familiars and intruders around her.
• One man abandoned his desperate teammates with a companion, while teams and lone participants retreated from Alice’s territory.
• Eler stood beside Alice Kuonji and cried that she wanted to find her teacher.
• Artoria raised her sword as Jiang Rui faced the Great Emperor and noted that another Avatar had arrived.
• Irisviel collapsed unconscious, and Jiang Rui explained that the Holy Grail was manifesting early as Ling Ling stopped Artoria from approaching her.
• Jiang Rui questioned why his memories of Aoko and Alice felt like experiences he had personally lived through.

As Irisviel burned away and the Holy Grail emerged, Ling Ling and Jiang Rui prepared to finish the battle while Gilgamesh unleashed Ea. Jiang Rui answered the collapsing Reality Marble with Excalibur as Rider charged into the attack.

• Irisviel's body burned away, revealing the Holy Grail, and Saber attacked Ling Ling before Lin stopped her.
• Ling Ling decided to end the battle, while Tokiomi Tohsaka, Kirei Kotomine, and Gilgamesh prepared to act.
• The Conqueror saw the Holy Grail appear, refused to retreat, and asked Waver to become his retainer.
• Jiang Rui urged Ling Ling to fight Saber, but Gilgamesh fired Ea toward Jiang Rui, Rider, and Saber.
• As Ea broke apart the Conqueror's Reality Marble, Jiang Rui promised Rider that his world would remain magnificent and unleashed Excalibur.

After the Great Emperor died in the clash of Reality Marbles, Jiang Rui taunted Artoria by returning Excalibur to her before Gilgamesh struck her down with a golden spear. As Artoria lay wounded and confused, Gilgamesh proposed that she become his woman, leaving Jiang Rui and the others stunned.

• Excalibur's blast destroyed the two men's Reality Marble, and the Great Emperor was gone when the combatants returned to the courtyard.
• Jiang Rui shielded the others from Ea's aftershock, then tossed Excalibur to Artoria, who caught it in confusion.
• Gilgamesh's golden spear struck Artoria; she was blasted through trees into a wall and found two identical golden swords at her feet.
• Yuki Onna and Ye Xiaoqian teased Jiang Rui about provoking Artoria, while Lucy commented that groups founded on lust usually died quickly.
• Gilgamesh praised Artoria's beauty and asked her to become his woman, stunning Jiang Rui, Artoria, Ling Ling, and the others.

Gilgamesh battered Saber and declared that he had chosen her as his consort, while Jiang Rui wondered whether the king was serious. When Gilgamesh kept Saber cornered, Jiang Rui ordered Karna to attack both Archer and Saber, and Ling Ling began revealing her Golden Crow form.

• Gilgamesh struck Saber down repeatedly and insisted that he had already decided to choose her, despite her refusal.
• Jiang Rui and Yuki Onna discussed whether Gilgamesh was serious and noted that another Heroic Spirit still had to die for the Holy Grail mission to be completed.
• Jiang Rui used a Command Seal to order Karna to attack Archer and Saber.
• Ling Ling transformed as her clothes burned away, and golden wings shielded her body.
• A man at the edge of the battlefield identified Ling Ling's designation as Hd-536, "Golden Crow."

The battle opened with Ling Ling, Lin, and Gilgamesh's intervention turning the attackers' plans against them. Jiang Rui failed to isolate Lin and was repeatedly battered, while the fight elsewhere continued to threaten the opposing team.

• Gilgamesh restrained Karna with Enkidu just as Karna moved to strike Saber.
• Ling Ling unleashed the Golden Crow's power, nearly destroying Olyric and forcing Yuki Onna and the Snow Woman to answer with their abilities.
• Ye Xiaoqian grabbed Lucy and considered retreating, then noticed that Waver was still trembling nearby.
• Jiang Rui tried to isolate Lin in Unlimited Blade Works, but Lin kicked him back and countered his Triple Crane Wings with a Divine Barrier and debuffs.
• Lin reduced Jiang Rui's attributes to five, struck him down again, and questioned whether Jiang Rui's teammates could defeat the captain without him.

Ling Ling unleashed her full power and overwhelmed Karna, Yuki Onna, and Saber’s side of the battle, while Xia Muling and Ye Xiaoqian watched from the Tohsaka residence. Jiang Rui called for help through an Avatar, which Eler brought to Alice Kuonji, who recognized him as the sky began to glow.

• Jiang Rui connected to another shriveled Avatar and cried for someone to save him as Karna struggled against Enkidu.
• Ye Xiaoqian and Lucy appeared at the Tohsaka residence, where Xia Muling explained that her team was guarding against other threats and said she trusted Ling Ling.
• Ling Ling unleashed a blazing area attack that dispersed the snowstorm, defeated Yuki Onna, and left her standing like the sun.
• Xia Muling and Ye Xiaoqian affirmed their faith in their respective captains as Jiang Rui watched Ling Ling’s power from the battlefield.
• The light from Ling Ling’s attack disrupted Alice Kuonji’s Banquet of the Night several kilometers away.
• Eler gave Alice Kuonji the shriveled blue Avatar, and Alice heard Jiang Rui cry for help and smiled in recognition.

Alice Kuonji awakened Robin and sent it toward the battlefield as a precaution while preparing to follow. Meanwhile, the Snow Woman used a conceptual freezing attack to trap Ling Ling, leaving her vulnerable to a follow-up assault.

• Alice Kuonji awakened Robin, her familiar, and ordered it to protect someone from a fatal attack.
• Alice Kuonji prepared her magical materials and headed toward the battlefield.
• The Snow Woman compressed the blizzard’s power into a snowball and threw it at Ling Ling.
• Ling Ling’s wings were struck by the snowball’s conceptual freezing effect, which slowed her energy circulation.
• Yuki Onna and the condensed bats attacked Ling Ling while she remained restrained.

Yuki Onna and Olyric unleashed their strongest attacks against the enemy, combining a sea of blood with the Great Tengu’s storm. The barrier shattered, Jiang Rui was swept into the sky, and Ling Ling recognized the overwhelming power of their team.

• Olyric spent his accumulated blood to unleash the Sea of Blood Demons, betting his life on the attack.
• Yuki Onna summoned the power of the Great Tengu, whose phantom transformed her storm shield and unleashed a devastating tornado.
• The Great Tengu’s storm sent everything across dozens of kilometers into the air, while Ye Xiaoqian and Lucy sheltered in its eye.
• The barrier shattered, and Jiang Rui was blasted out of it as Lin protected Ling Ling and the Tohsaka Family residence.
• Olyric reached Snow Woman under the storm shield as his blood merged with the tempest and began raining down over the battlefield.

Karna and Gilgamesh unleashed their ultimate attacks, and both appeared to perish in the clash. Karna revived long enough to stab Artoria, who then found herself back amid a landscape of corpses and blood.

• Gilgamesh prepared to escape the storm aboard Vimana, but a black feather blade freed Karna from his chains.
• Jiang Rui used all his Command Seals to order Karna to unleash his full strength.
• Karna sacrificed his Golden Armor to release his God-Slaying Spear while Gilgamesh answered with the full power of Star of Ea.
• Karna's spear pierced Gilgamesh, who vanished after his treasury failed to stop the attack.
• Karna reappeared from the crater and stabbed Artoria before she could leave to save Kiritsugu Emiya.
• Artoria looked across a landscape of severed limbs and corpses and realized she had returned again.

Ling Ling and Lin faced Olyric, Yuki Onna, and Snow Woman after Archer died, and Ling Ling unleashed Stellar Wrath to defeat their combined attack. The blast left both sides exhausted, while two charred objects fell near Ling Ling.

• Ling Ling realized Archer had died and considered how Rimuru’s plan had used Karna to suppress Gilgamesh.
• Lin asked whether Ling Ling wanted him to use a costly ability, but she refused and warned him to be careful.
• Ling Ling transformed her wings into a tiny sun and unleashed Stellar Wrath against Olyric, Yuki Onna, and Snow Woman.
• Olyric used his teammates’ blood to protect them as the blast’s heat and shockwave set the storm ablaze and temporarily deafened them.
• Ling Ling surveyed the scorched battlefield and found the three opponents alive inside a blood-red barrier, then two charred objects fell beside her.

Jiang Rui reunited with Eler and faced Ling Ling’s forces alongside Alice Kuonji, whose fairy-tale magecraft had trapped the battlefield in a world of monsters. Although Ling Ling’s side had lost its three strongest fighters, Jiang Rui hinted that another witch—and possibly a Magician—was about to join the fight.

• Ling Ling recognized and kicked Jiang Rui’s charred slime form before picking up Robin, who loudly denied being Jiang Rui’s familiar and then greeted Alice Kuonji as his master.
• Alice Kuonji arrived, recalled Robin, and challenged the opposing fighters as mist and monsters gathered around them.
• Xia Muling and the others arrived with Ye Xiaoqian and the supposed hostages, while Ling Ling warned everyone not to move.
• Jiang Rui emerged from his charred form, reunited with Eler, and chided Ye Xiaoqian and her allies for being captured alive.
• Jiang Rui asked Ling Ling to surrender, then revealed that another witch had arrived but was probably lost; he suggested the fight would change if a Magician joined her.

Aozaki Aoko hunted down Kiritsugu Emiya and defeated him while the final battle raged around the Holy Grail. As the fight continued, hidden watchers plotted to ambush the captains of the Light Chasers and the Tyrant’s group.

• Aozaki Aoko used time magecraft to track Kiritsugu Emiya to the ruins and ignored his announcement that he was withdrawing from the Holy Grail competition.
• Aozaki Aoko blasted Kiritsugu Emiya into the air and pinned him beneath her foot before asking whether Rimuru had come for the Holy Grail.
• Aozaki Aoko noticed a giant stone puppet fighting in the distance and recognized Yuzuriha nearby.
• Ling Ling sang the nursery rhyme that summoned the Bridge Giant and charged at the witch Alice Kuonji while Jiang Rui watched the battle with Eler.
• Hidden watchers discussed taking the Holy Grail and prepared to bind the fighters so they could attack the Light Chasers’ captain and the Tyrant’s captain.

Jiang Rui fought Lin while Ling Ling battled Alice Kuonji, until a petrification domain froze the battlefield and two hidden attackers struck. Aozaki Aoko saved Jiang Rui, but Bashe stabbed Ling Ling with the lethal dagger No Longer Human as cracks spread across her statue.

• Jiang Rui copied Lin's swordsmanship during their duel while Ling Ling fought Alice Kuonji amid the monsters.
• A serpent eye appeared in the moon, and its petrification domain froze everyone across the battlefield.
• A phantom attacked Jiang Rui while Bashe targeted Ling Ling; the phantom's aging attack failed to stop Bashe.
• Aozaki Aoko appeared and saved Jiang Rui, revealing herself as an ally.
• Bashe stabbed Ling Ling with No Longer Human, and cracks began spreading across her petrified body.

Jiang Rui and his allies fought Bashe, who escaped after Ling Ling and Lin struck back. Ling Ling gave Jiang Rui the dangerous containment item No Longer Human, while Alice Kuonji revealed she had prepared a figurine to avoid accidentally killing Ling Ling.

• Jiang Rui wondered why Lin was so worried about Ling Ling after Aozaki Aoko killed a Sequence 6 attacker.
• Ling Ling appeared behind Bashe and attacked him, while Lin summoned holy light and slashed at him.
• Bashe vanished, leaving behind a corpse that withered into snakeskin, and Ling Ling said he had escaped.
• Ling Ling picked up a dagger and figurine, then tossed the dagger to Jiang Rui, whose appraisal identified it as No Longer Human, a containment item that erased the concept of being human and afflicted its user with the same effect.
• Jiang Rui learned that his human soul meant he could not use the dagger, while Alice Kuonji took back the figurine and explained that she had prepared it to avoid accidentally killing Ling Ling.

After Ling Ling’s team conceded defeat and withdrew, Jiang Rui reunited with Aozaki Aoko and Alice Kuonji and turned his attention to the Holy Grail. The battle ended, but Lucy found Olyric and Yuki Onna asleep together in a crater.

• Alice Kuonji told Ling Ling that her side had lost and that the remaining enemies had already been cleared out by Rose Hound.
• Ling Ling thanked Jiang Rui, then returned with her team to Xia Muling and left the battlefield; Lin greeted Jiang Rui warmly.
• Jiang Rui reunited with Aozaki Aoko and Alice Kuonji, explained that the Holy Grail was a large-scale magecraft connected to the Third Magic, and approached it.
• Ye Xiaoqian noticed Lucy rushing to a crater, where Olyric and Yuki Onna lay asleep together, and teased Lucy about them being a couple.

Jiang Rui activated the Holy Grail, resisted All the World's Evil, and tried to devour it, but the Grail escaped toward the Root before granting his wish. As black sludge rained down, Tokiomi Tohsaka rushed toward the Root while Kirei Kotomine encountered someone who looked like Irisviel.

• Jiang Rui used a Soul Gathering Array to collect the souls of the citizens killed in the battle, then touched the Holy Grail and was swallowed by its black mud.
• In The City of Magic, All the World's Evil appeared as Irisviel and offered to grant Jiang Rui's wish, then tried to corrupt him into becoming Angra Mainyu.
• Jiang Rui pierced Irisviel's chest and devoured part of All the World's Evil, gaining a small amount of the concept of evil and greatly increased magical energy.
• The Holy Grail escaped toward the Root before Jiang Rui could obtain the Third Magic, and Yuki Onna said their contract prevented her from claiming it.
• Jiang Rui learned Kiritsugu Emiya was dead and that Waver might still be at the Tohsaka Family estate, while Lucy noticed black sludge raining from the sky.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka saw the Root and vanished into the night, while Kirei Kotomine heard someone call to him and saw Irisviel.

Kirei Kotomine remembered the wish entrusted to him as the Holy Grail's black mud erupted and engulfed Fuyuki City. Jiang Rui and his companions escaped, and a black shadow suddenly charged into the Root as they watched.

• Kirei Kotomine recalled being given Command Seals and asked to help Gilgamesh pursue interesting people, fulfilling a promise from the Xia Country group.
• Gilgamesh awakened inside the black mud, resisted corruption, and was spat out as Angra Mainyu fled from him.
• Black mud poured from the sky and swept over Fuyuki City, so Aozaki Aoko flew away with Jiang Rui, Alice Kuonji, and Eler while the others escaped by their own means.
• Jiang Rui's group confirmed the mission was complete, and Yuki Onna took the R'lyeh Text before leaving without revealing its purpose.
• Jiang Rui admitted to Alice Kuonji that ordinary people's souls could help him complete Heaven's Feel, prompting Aoko to warn him against entering the Root again.
• Jiang Rui spotted a black shadow charging into the Root, but Aoko denied seeing anyone.

Alaya reflected on her influence over Kirei Kotomine and the unexpected recognition Gaia had given Jiang Rui. After the Holy Grail War ended, Jiang Rui absorbed the gathered resentful spirits and advanced to Sequence 7 Demon King.

• Alaya explained that she had nudged Kirei Kotomine toward making his wish and noted that Angra Mainyu had gained Gaia's recognition as a Child of Nature.
• With the Root gone and the Holy Grail War over, Jiang Rui swallowed the resentful spirits gathered in the black mist sphere.
• Jiang Rui completed the soul-feast ritual and reviewed his available advancement sequences, deciding to keep Thunder Priest for its mana and Thunder Judgment.
• Jiang Rui chose to advance Monster Lord and spent 4,668 Extraordinary Points on the materials for Sequence 7 Demon King.
• Jiang Rui learned the materials would have cost about half as much from a corporation in R'lyeh, then proceeded with the advancement.

Jiang Rui advanced to Sequence 7 Demon Lord and examined his new attributes and abilities. Great Sage recommended the Void branch for his next advancement, leaving him arguing that he still wanted to be a lawful good Demon Lord.

• Jiang Rui awoke from a vision as Great Sage completed his advancement to Sequence 7 and analyzed his concepts of evil, water, and chaos.
• Jiang Rui reviewed his increased attributes and learned that some advancement paths required hidden conditions, including negative Luck for Sequence 3 Lady Misfortune.
• Jiang Rui inspected his Demon Lord abilities and was pleased that Demon Lord's Path could attach his concepts to his attacks.
• Jiang Rui discovered his thunder powers had advanced to intermediate level, with Thunder Incarnation lasting five seconds instead of three.
• Great Sage recommended the Void branch for Jiang Rui's next advancement, while Jiang Rui protested that he wanted to remain a lawful good Demon Lord and considered fusing priest and Demon Lord powers.