Chapter Summaries

Jiang Rui and his team discussed the risks of their Holy Grail War mission and debated which Heroic Spirit to summon. They had not chosen a Servant by the end of their discussion.

• Jiang Rui explained why he wanted to preserve his position in the world and avoid drawing the attention of its powerful forces.
• Olyric outlined the mission to obtain Command Seals, and Ye Xiaoqian suggested protecting Waver because other Transcendents might target him.
• Jiang Rui said he wanted to avoid fighting Kenneth early and suggested that the priest could be a target if they needed another Command Seal.
• Lucy suggested Gilgamesh, Ye Xiaoqian proposed Enkidu, and Olyric recommended Scathach, but Jiang Rui rejected or questioned each suggestion.
• Olyric asked Jiang Rui to decide which Heroic Spirit they should summon.

Jiang Rui and his companions discussed how to complete their mission and parted ways with Olyric and Lucy. He later revealed that he could summon the goddess Ishtar through a future version of Rin Tohsaka, but doing so would endanger the young girl.

• Jiang Rui abandoned his search for a suitable Heroic Spirit and asked the others if they wanted something to eat.
• Lucy asked whether killing their own Servant would fulfill Task Two, and Ye Xiaoqian said it could earn a low rating.
• Ye Xiaoqian and Olyric decided to find somewhere to stay, then Ye Xiaoqian told Jiang Rui that they were not the same kind of people as Lucy and Olyric.
• Ye Xiaoqian asked Jiang Rui whether he had a Servant in mind, and he explained that he could use Rin Tohsaka as a medium to summon a goddess through Divine Spirit Possession.
• Jiang Rui revealed that the goddess was Ishtar, but warned that using Rin, who was about five years old, as the medium would likely kill her within seven days.

Jiang Rui and Ye Xiaoqian helped repel an attack on the Clock Tower plaza, where Kenneth and another Lord also intervened. Afterward, Lidell confronted Jiang Rui over rumors that he had taken Reines as his disciple, while Eler worried he was abandoning her.

• Jiang Rui used his Mystic Code to raise ice shields that protected the students from debris thrown by an explosion.
• Kenneth emerged behind a mercury shield as another Lord trapped the attackers in a net of flames, and Jiang Rui and Ye Xiaoqian joined the counterattack.
• Jiang Rui obtained Driving Mastery from a corpse and dismissed the skill as useless.
• Eler rushed into Jiang Rui's arms, asked if he was abandoning her, and Lidell explained that she had heard rumors about him taking another disciple.
• Kenneth denied causing the explosion, disparaged the students, and left with the attackers' corpses.
• Lidell kicked Jiang Rui and demanded to know whether he had taken Reines as his disciple.

After Ye Xiaoqian’s ability caught Jiang Rui and Lidell’s attention, Jiang Rui revealed his Slime Mystic Code and played a trick on her with two apparent versions of himself. Ye Xiaoqian then proposed that Jiang Rui try summoning a Heroic Spirit compatible with him, leaving them eager to begin the Holy Grail War.

• Lidell explained that Eler had insisted on visiting Jiang Rui because she disliked his finding Eler a new playmate.
• Jiang Rui revealed that the blue Slime was his Mystic Code, and Eler proudly called him her Teacher.
• Jiang Rui presented Ye Xiaoqian with two versions of himself and told her to choose one; she picked the Slime, while the other joined Eler.
• Ye Xiaoqian suggested that Jiang Rui might summon his future self as a Heroic Spirit, and Jiang Rui considered trying to summon a compatible Servant instead.
• Jiang Rui’s records confirmed that a Transcendent with four Legend Points had once participated in a Holy Grail War as a Heroic Spirit; Jiang Rui, with three Legend Points, still agreed to try summoning a Servant.

Jiang Rui prepared to take Eler to the Far East while leaving the Holy Grail War to her main body. In Fuyuki, the team rescued Matou Sakura from the Matou mansion, and Matou Kariya reunited with her after the insects were exterminated.

• Jiang Rui told Lidell she would bring Eler to witness a war between Magicians, while her main body would participate in the Holy Grail War.
• In the Matou mansion, the team fought a swarm of insects while a large man tried to comfort Matou Sakura.
• Matou Kariya rushed inside, pulled Sakura into his arms, and promised they would win and live happily.
• A young man confirmed he had killed the four Brain Bugs with the expensive spell Insect Termination.
• The captain told the young man that the team would not reimburse the spell's cost.

After the Lords’ meeting placed unaligned supernatural beings under Sealing Designation, Jiang Rui went to Kenneth’s class and found him scolding Waver. He intervened, learned Ye Xiaoqian’s controversial paper had drawn Kenneth’s ire, and left with her and Waver as tensions between the factions simmered.

• The Lords classified unaligned supernatural beings as magecraft users and decided most would face Sealing Designation for research.
• Olyric told Jiang Rui that Ye Xiaoqian was attending Kenneth’s class with Waver, so Jiang Rui hurried to the Mineralogy Department.
• Jiang Rui entered the classroom, restored the scraps of Waver’s paper, and told Kenneth he had come to pick up his student.
• Kenneth warned Jiang Rui to cherish his honor because he had been spending time with Ye Xiaoqian, then left after casting her a contemptuous glance.
• Ye Xiaoqian revealed that her paper argued for the practical convenience of magecraft users, and Jiang Rui realized she had been building a reputation at the Clock Tower.

Jiang Rui reviewed Waver Velvet’s thesis and challenged him to prove his theory through practical results rather than years of argument. Waver ran off determined to prove himself, while Jiang Rui reflected on how teachers failed to guide students like him.

• Waver asked Jiang Rui to review his thesis, which argued that acquired talent could overcome the advantages of inherited Magic Crests.
• Jiang Rui revealed his 367 Magic Crests and suggested reframing Waver’s theory around innate talent setting an upper limit and effort setting a lower one.
• Jiang Rui criticized Waver for spending four years writing his theory instead of testing it, and Waver ran out, promising to prove it.
• Ye Xiaoqian teased Jiang Rui for departing from his plan, and Jiang Rui explained that Waver reminded him of his former self.
• Jiang Rui told Ye Xiaoqian that most Lords judged Magicians by their achievements, not their family backgrounds, while teachers generally left students to distinguish themselves.

Jiang Rui failed to summon a Servant in Britain and decided to head to Fuyuki City to steal one instead. There, Tokiomi Tohsaka learned that a Clock Tower Lord would join the Holy Grail War, then saw satellite photographs that left him stunned.

• Ye Xiaoqian described Waver Velvet’s flaws and growth after the Fourth Holy Grail War, while Jiang Rui joked about his admiration for The Great Emperor.
• Jiang Rui attempted to summon a Servant, but the summoning circle remained empty after the magical energy dissipated.
• Jiang Rui decided to steal a Servant and left for Fuyuki City with Ye Xiaoqian and Olyric.
• At the Tohsaka residence, Tokiomi Tohsaka questioned the visitors’ warning, and Lin told him that a Lord of the Clock Tower would enter the Holy Grail War.
• Lin handed Tokiomi satellite photographs, and Tokiomi’s composure broke when he saw them.

Tokiomi Tohsaka agreed to cooperate with the faction that confronted him, though he insisted on summoning his own Servant and having his safety guaranteed. Elsewhere, Jiang Rui and his companions traveled in business class, where Olyric revealed he was used to private jets.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka examined a photograph of the destroyed Matou Family, and Lin said it had already been destroyed before their group arrived.
• A young man warned Tokiomi Tohsaka that the Holy Grail War had become a clash between factions and that the Matou Family's fate showed the consequences of refusing to cooperate.
• Lin identified Kiritsugu Emiya as the person sent by the Einzbern Family, while the girl in white reshaped her silverware into chopsticks.
• The group reminded Tokiomi Tohsaka that his wife and daughter could be targeted, and the girl in white named Rin Tohsaka as the heir.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka agreed to cooperate on the condition that he summon the Servant himself and that his safety be guaranteed.
• Jiang Rui marveled at flying business class, and Olyric said he was more accustomed to private jets.

During the flight, Ye Xiaoqian explained how the Bookeria Family became vampires after an ancestor adapted a Vampire Sequence into a Cat School potion. Lucy and Olyric revealed that their family’s power came at the cost of becoming the very creatures they had been raised to hunt, leaving Lucy in tears and Olyric explaining that their faith had collapsed.

• Jiang Rui asked Olyric whether the Bookeria Family were vampires, Hunters, or demonkin, and Olyric asked Ye Xiaoqian to explain the family’s history.
• Ye Xiaoqian said the Bookeria Family had once been a nearly extinct Cat School Witcher family before an ancestor turned a Vampire Sequence into a potion.
• Lucy explained that the ancestor succeeded, giving the family control of a powerful Sequence and helping it rise to prominence among Hunter families.
• Lucy revealed her vampire talents and said Jiang Rui’s holy light had hurt Olyric because the Bookeria family members were vampires despite being raised as Hunters.
• Lucy cried that her family was supposed to be Hunters, and Olyric said she could not accept the collapse of her faith.

Olyric explained that the Bookeria Family had become vampires through their Sequences and were forced to hide the truth while hunting their own kind. Ye Xiaoqian and Lucy reconciled and became friends, while Jiang Rui refused Ye Xiaoqian’s bitter chocolate and discovered its fake “Germany”-made branding.

• Olyric told Jiang Rui and Ye Xiaoqian that the Bookeria Family’s heirs had become vampires and suffered from concealing their nature while hunting vampires.
• Ye Xiaoqian apologized to Lucy for insulting the Bookeria Family, and Lucy accepted her apology.
• Ye Xiaoqian and Lucy agreed to be friends bound by life and death and exchanged their names.
• Ye Xiaoqian offered chocolate sticks to the group, but Jiang Rui refused one because he found them bitter.
• Jiang Rui produced a half-eaten chocolate stick as proof, and Ye Xiaoqian joked that the snack was a poor Xia Country specialty labeled as German-made.

Jiang Rui and his companions survived a missile attack that destroyed their passenger plane, then regrouped above the sea and realized an enemy had tracked their itinerary. They headed toward Fuyuki City without knowing who had attacked them.

• Great Sage warned Jiang Rui that an unknown energy source was approaching, and he tore open the plane’s cabin so he and the others could jump before a missile struck its energy storage compartment.
• Jiang Rui caught a burned Pikachu plushie as the plane exploded, while Olyric transformed into bats to slow Lucy’s fall.
• Jiang Rui used an ice surface to help Ye Xiaoqian enter his shadow, then carried her safely to the sea and formed an ice boat.
• Olyric and Lucy joined Jiang Rui and Ye Xiaoqian, and they concluded that their attackers had tracked their itinerary and had likely launched the missile from Fuyuki City.
• Jiang Rui said they should avoid seeking trouble with the Clock Tower for now, while Ye Xiaoqian celebrated the fall from the plane as a thrilling experience.

Jiang Rui and Ye Xiaoqian prepared to head to Fuyuki City and take revenge, while another team set off for the city after destroying a warship. In Fuyuki, a group of competing teams debated the powerful arrivals and the mysterious killer in the sewers before deciding to target Tyrant Blue.

• Jiang Rui told Ye Xiaoqian to reach Fuyuki City quickly, and she proposed killing everyone in the Holy Grail War if they could not identify their enemies.
• A man collected the data fragments of a destroyed warship while a woman fired a grenade launcher at the sea, and he told her their team would leave for Fuyuki City in three days to meet Kiritsugu Emiya.
• A scar-faced man and his strategist discussed the growing number of teams in Fuyuki City and identified Tyrant Blue, the Fire Foxes, the Light Chasers, and the Mad Dogs among the powerful arrivals.
• The strategist reported that investigators sent to the underground sewers had not returned and that rumors blamed Yuki Onna, a lone Onmyoji, for the killings.
• The scar-faced man decided to attack Tyrant Blue, believing the many teams watching him would prevent him from retaliating.

Jiang Rui and his team reached Fuyuki City seven days before the Holy Grail War and assessed the crowded factions while preparing to summon a Heroic Spirit. After learning Olyric was a powerful Sequence 6, Jiang Rui asked which faction they should target, and Ye Xiaoqian suspected the Mad Dogs' “crazy loli” had tried to kill them by bringing down their plane.

• Jiang Rui's group arrived in Fuyuki City a day late and found numerous factions watching the church area.
• Ye Xiaoqian warned nearby snipers that she had spotted them, forcing them to retreat or relocate.
• Jiang Rui and Olyric discussed summoning early, the original Masters, and whether to attack another team for its share of Command Seals.
• Jiang Rui realized Olyric was Sequence 6 and teased Ye Xiaoqian, who pinned him down and kneaded him.
• Jiang Rui asked Olyric which faction they should attack, and Ye Xiaoqian suspected a Mad Dogs girl had caused their plane to go down.

Jiang Rui’s group targeted the Matou Family, where the Fire Foxes prepared to help Matou Kariya summon a Heroic Spirit. Ye Xiaoqian shot Kariya during the ritual but was caught by Su’s light magic, leaving her allies to intervene.

• Jiang Rui chose to target the Matou Family’s Fire Foxes instead of the Mad Dogs or the Light Chasers.
• James and Ellie checked Matou Kariya, who recovered enough to begin a new summoning ritual with Red Fox and Su supplying magical power.
• Ye Xiaoqian fired a black-flamed armor-piercing round from the shadows, striking Matou Kariya and interrupting the ritual.
• James identified the attacker as a Shadow Assassin, and Su used Binding of Radiance to drag Ye Xiaoqian out of the Shadow World.
• Ye Xiaoqian contacted Jiang Rui and Olyric for help as Su’s golden tentacles bound her and Jiang Rui flooded the Fire Foxes’ underground base.

Jiang Rui and Ye Xiaoqian infiltrated the base and launched a surprise attack on Su’s team, but their opponents quickly countered. The battle escalated as the base’s defensive wall collapsed, and the short-haired swordswoman shattered Jiang Rui’s clone.

• Su captured Ye Xiaoqian with radiant tentacles, but Jiang Rui emerged from the water, shielded her with an ice prison, and pierced Ellie with an ice spear.
• James punched through Jiang Rui’s chest, forcing him to turn into water and retreat, while Ye Xiaoqian escaped into the shadows and Ellie regenerated after drinking a healing potion.
• Jiang Rui and Ye Xiaoqian called for Olyric’s help, then attacked again; Ye Xiaoqian was driven back by magical traps as Jiang Rui fired ice needles at the team.
• Red Fox surrounded the team with flaming armor, while James charged Jiang Rui and was struck by Olyric’s blood-red claw, crashing into and destroying the defensive wall.
• Ye Xiaoqian resumed attacking Ellie as Jiang Rui’s clone was split apart by the short-haired swordswoman, who then struck and shattered Jiang Rui’s real body.

Jiang Rui’s side gained the upper hand after Su sacrificed himself to save the Katana-wielding girl, but the battle paused when Matou Sakura appeared and pleaded with them to stop. The chapter left Jiang Rui and the others staring at Sakura.

• The Katana-wielding girl killed Jiang Rui, but Jiang Rui survived her attack and tried to ambush her; Su took the blow meant for her and was mortally wounded.
• Su’s magic circle trapped Ye Xiaoqian, while the Fire Foxes’ grief disrupted their fighting and let Jiang Rui’s allies press their advantage.
• Olyric attacked James with a swarm of bats, drawing out his blood and forcing the two back into combat.
• Ye Xiaoqian stabbed Ellie, while Jiang Rui froze the Katana-wielding girl and Lucy held off the remaining enemies.
• Jiang Rui prepared to finish the Katana-wielding girl, but Matou Sakura appeared beside Lucy and begged him to stop.

Jiang Rui’s fight with the Fire Foxes stalled when Matou Sakura risked herself to protect James, forcing the combatants to reconsider their attacks. As James hinted at the Fire Foxes’ hidden team skill, Red Fox revealed that it was called Nirvana.

• Matou Sakura stepped between Olyric and the weakened James, prompting the fighters to pause.
• Lucy revealed that Red Fox had found Sakura nearby but could not bring herself to attack a child.
• Ye Xiaoqian brought the wounded Ellie to Jiang Rui, while Sakura remained beside James.
• James offered to abandon the mission and leave, but Jiang Rui refused after Su’s death and the appearance of his loot card.
• James challenged Jiang Rui’s assumption that the fight was won, and Red Fox revealed the Fire Foxes’ team skill, Nirvana.

Red Fox used Nirvana to revive his teammates at Sequence 6 strength, overwhelming Jiang Rui and his allies. Jiang Rui completed a modified summoning ritual and was transported into a white space, where an unknown female voice called him an unexpected participant.

• Red Fox activated Nirvana by sacrificing James, restoring up to five teammates and temporarily raising them to Sequence 6 strength.
• Jiang Rui, Ye Xiaoqian, and Olyric struggled against the revived fighters, while Jiang Rui secretly sent black mist to devour Matou Kariya.
• Jiang Rui asked his teammates to hold out for three minutes, then obtained an Unfinished Command Seal through Great Sage's analysis.
• Jiang Rui began a summoning chant at the magic circle as Red Fox launched a furnace of flames to destroy him and the ruins.
• Jiang Rui finished the chant and was enveloped in white light, where a cold female voice identified him as an unexpected participant.

Jiang Rui summoned a powerful Lancer who turned the battle against Red Fox’s group. The Lancer’s attack overwhelmed the retreating enemies, leaving Red Fox and Matou Sakura to flee as the estate was engulfed in flames.

• Jiang Rui chose a Heroic Spirit who would obey him and returned from the World Consciousness Sea with a Lancer sigil on his hand.
• The summoned Servant blocked Red Fox’s fireball and struck back with a golden spear, badly injuring Red Fox and extinguishing the flames around Jiang Rui’s allies.
• Red Fox used flame elementalization to recover while Ellie healed him, but the Servant prepared to unleash Brahmastra Kundala.
• Olyric fled with Lucy and Ye Xiaoqian, while Red Fox tried to retreat with Matou Sakura and Ellie urged him to escape and avenge them.
• The Lancer’s spear pierced Ellie and reduced her to ashes, while the Katana girl slowed its advance with her Reverse Blade Style and told Red Fox to join Phoenix.
• The Katana girl attacked the spear to buy Red Fox time, and the ruined estate erupted in flames that reduced everything to ashes.