Chapter Summaries

Otto seized the Holy Grail to revive Kallen, but Cecilia ambushed him as he prepared to hide. Lin Nai encouraged Siegfried and others to join the fight against Otto, while the group discovered that their Holy Grail War’s twenty-four-hour time limit might be affected by their distorted sense of time.

• Otto took the Holy Grail and planned to hide until he could make his wish to revive Kallen.
• Cecilia revealed that she had tracked Otto and confronted him with Black Abyss White Flower.
• Lin Nai and Kevin discussed Mei’s disastrous cooking after Kevin left the hospital.
• Lin Nai told Siegfried and Welt that outsiders could join the Holy Grail War, and Siegfried left to attack Otto with Heavenly Fire Judgment.
• Lin Nai watched Otto fight while wondering whether their twenty-four-hour waiting rule was flawed, and Elysia suggested their sense of time had become blurred.

Kiana's group reclaimed the Holy Grail from Otto after chasing and beating him across the island, while Lin Nai played cards with Chijie and Hen. Welt stayed with Theresa's group rather than returning to Anti-Entropy, which was thriving under Tesla and Einstein.

• Cecilia, Siegfried, and Welt chased Otto, and Kiana's group joined in until the island began to crumble.
• Lin Nai beat Chijie and Hen at cards, and Chijie quit to cook fish.
• In a Previous Civilization skit, Su ambushed Kevin while Lin Nai distracted him.
• Kiana's group took the Holy Grail from Otto after nearly an hour of pursuit, forcing him to retreat before he could make a wish.
• Cecilia grabbed Siegfried by the ear over Kiana's claim that he had looked at pretty girls in bars.
• Welt told Theresa she could keep calling him Teacher Yang and said he would remain while Anti-Entropy thrived under Tesla and Einstein.

Theresa questioned Welt’s reason for staying at St. Freya Academy, while Kiana’s group planned how to protect the Holy Grail from Otto. Several days later, their decoy strategy had failed, and Otto realized he could bring people from outside the field into the battle.

• Welt admitted that he had chosen St. Freya Academy because it was a good place to slack off, and Theresa condemned him during the livestream.
• Kiana, Mei, Bronya, Seele, and the others weighed rotating possession of the Holy Grail against keeping it with one person who could escape using portals.
• Theresa warned that Otto could produce Judas, and Bronya guessed that he possessed the Void Archive; Little Shix suggested making fake Holy Grails to hide the real one.
• Several days later, Otto destroyed the fake Holy Grails with Heavenly Fire Judgment and figured out the group’s plan, forcing Kiana’s group to pass the real Grail around again.
• Otto realized that Welt and Siegfried’s entry meant people outside the field could join the battle, so he could bring in allies of his own.

Otto summoned Valkyrie squads to stall Kiana's group while he waited for reinforcements, but the Snow Lotus Squad and Raven avoided fighting them. As the battle dragged on and destroyed the island, Lin Nai checked the Holy Grail tally and announced that the contest was nearly over.

• Otto summoned Valkyrie squads for support and used a passing strategy to buy time, not realizing Anna Sania's Snow Lotus Squad was playing both sides.
• The Snow Lotus Squad stalled for several minutes before its members either pretended to be unconscious or were knocked out, while Durandal fought seriously.
• The battle continued for days, with Lin Nai's Zetton Barrier protecting the spectator stands as the fighting wrecked the island.
• The injured Valkyries found the Blade of Immortality Squad watching the battle; Alvitr claimed the squad had missed its mission because their phones were off.
• Raven withdrew from the contest because she could not bring herself to fight Kiana and feared getting caught in the clash between Herrschers.
• Lin Nai checked the Holy Grail tally, noted that only four people had held it for more than twenty-three hours, and said the war was nearly over.

Kiana and her allies continued fighting Otto’s forces while exhausted, and Otto tried to unsettle Kiana by revealing she was K423. Their confrontation was interrupted when Bronya’s submarine fell from the sky, after Lin Nai rescued Kaiwen and Su from space.

• Kiana and her allies held back against Schicksal’s Valkyries, leaving both sides exhausted as they fought to keep the Holy Grail from Otto.
• Otto revealed that Kiana was a clone named K423, but Kiana said she had known the truth for a long time.
• Otto raised the Heavenly Fire Judgment and threatened to kill everyone when Kiana refused to hand over the Holy Grail.
• A falling object crashed between Otto and Siegfried, blasting them away and revealing Bronya’s submarine in the crater.
• Lin Nai had found Kaiwen and Su eating noodles in the submarine in space and sent it back down before the Holy Grail War ended.

Kiana won the first Holy Grail War after Otto conceded, and the participants returned to the spectator stands. Kiana wished for the summoned Heroic Spirits to remain, leaving the group with a chance to stay together.

• Otto accepted defeat as the Holy Grail neared full charge, while Siegfried and Welt stayed on guard.
• Elysia declared Kiana Kaslana the winner, and the participants were transported back to the spectator stands, leaving Siegfried and Welt behind.
• Kiana and the others celebrated and said their farewells, while Kaiwen and Su ate noodles together.
• Kiana wished for the summoned Heroic Spirits to remain, and Elysia approved of her wish.

After the Holy Grail War, Kiana’s wish let most of the Heroic Spirits remain in the present world, and Lin Nai dealt with the consequences while settling everyone into new lives. The chapter ended with Lin Nai opening Kiana and Sirin’s bedroom door and finding them asleep with their game controllers in hand.

• Lin Nai warned Kevin and Su that they would be trapped in their current bodies unless they died before the Holy Grail took effect, then sent them away with an Antenna Beam.
• Tesla and Einstein took Edison to Anti-Entropy, while the Thunder Queen, Black Seele, and Sirin enrolled at St. Freya Academy.
• Theresa assigned work to Himeko and Welt so she could visit the new arcade, and Lin Nai bought Raven an island villa as compensation.
• Lin Nai restored the villa and arranged for the girls to live together, prompting Black Seele to celebrate and Sirin to agree after Cecilia urged her to get along with Kiana.
• Lin Nai knocked repeatedly at Kiana and Sirin’s bedroom door, then created a key and found them asleep with controllers in their hands while their game continued on the television.

Lin Nai planned a trip to retrieve Su and the Sumeru Mustard Seed so he could stabilize Durandal’s world bubble. Fu Hua wanted to accompany him for her own reasons, but Lin Nai declined, leaving her to consider asking Otto and Kallen for help later.

• Lin Nai woke Kiana and Sirin with a deafening snoring sound, and they arrived at breakfast with a smashed camcorder.
• Kiana accidentally called Himeko “Auntie Himeko,” and Himeko put her in a chokehold.
• Lin Nai told Theresa he would be away for a few days and explained that he planned to retrieve Su and obtain the Sumeru Mustard Seed.
• Fu Hua offered to go with Lin Nai, hoping to use the trip to pursue her own scheme, but he refused.
• Fu Hua considered visiting Schicksal later to ask Otto and Kallen for help with her plan.

Lin Nai agreed to visit Theresa’s student Wendy at the New Zealand Branch, while Fu Hua and the others plotted to use an anesthetic on him. During an exam, Kiana slept instead of working and Sirin prepared to cheat with the Authority of the Void Archon.

• Lin Nai postponed helping Su until the next day, and Fu Hua, Bronya, and Mei Raiden considered teaming up to knock him out with anesthetic.
• Theresa asked Lin Nai to check on Wendy at the New Zealand Branch and bring her back to St. Freya if anything seemed wrong; Lin Nai agreed.
• Himeko caught Kiana sleeping through an exam, photographed her, and sent the picture to Lin Nai.
• Kiana went back to sleep, while Sirin opened a spatial portal beneath her desk to cheat on the exam.

After the exams, Kiana returned home and clung to Lin Nai, who confronted her about sleeping through the test. Fu Hua secretly dosed the chicken soup with sleeping pills before adding a pile of supposed flavor-enhancing ingredients, and the chapter left the soup nearly ready as Himeko and Theresa came home.

• During the exam, Sirin copied another Valkyrie's answers, while Bronya noticed her cheating and focused on plotting to get Lin Nai alone; the Anti-Kiana Alliance formed again.
• Kiana returned home, opened a portal to pounce on Lin Nai, and trembled when he asked about her falling asleep and wetting her exam paper.
• Fu Hua eagerly offered to improve the chicken soup and secretly mixed sleeping pills and unidentified green liquid into it before adding abalone, oysters, and lamb kidneys.
• Himeko and Theresa returned home exhausted from grading papers, and Lin Nai said that only the chicken soup remained before dinner was ready.

Fu Hua drugged the chicken soup so everyone but herself would fall asleep, leaving her alone with Lin Nai. She dragged him to her room to finally carry out what she had waited fifty thousand years to do.

• Lin Nai called everyone to dinner, and Fu Hua served a heavily fortified chicken soup.
• Lin Nai's system detected anesthetic and sleeping pills in the soup, but his poison immunity and drug resistance protected him.
• The others became drowsy and returned to their rooms while Fu Hua remained alert after taking an antidote.
• Fu Hua told Lin Nai she had drugged everyone else because she could not knock him out, then dragged him into her room.
• A Previous Civilization flashback showed Pardo recognizing Fu Hua's bags as supplies she had once provided to Dr. Mobius.

Lin Nai arrived at Schicksal Headquarters and found Otto in a young woman’s body dressed in green, after Otto’s previous body was destroyed by Anti-Entropy. Otto explained that Kallen had chosen the new body and its outfit, while Rita reported that Kallen was proposing to form a squad.

• Lin Nai arrived at Schicksal Headquarters and met Rita, who escorted him to Otto’s office.
• Rita told Lin Nai that Kallen and Yae Sakura were still at Schicksal and that Kallen had proposed establishing a squad.
• Durandal joined Lin Nai and Rita outside Otto’s office, and the three went inside.
• Lin Nai found a young woman sitting in Otto’s seat and learned that Otto’s former body had been destroyed by Anti-Entropy.
• Otto explained that Kallen had chosen the new body and its green noblewoman’s outfit.

Lin Nai took Rita and Durandal to London, where they relaxed while Durandal played football with local children. After Lin Nai was struck by Durandal’s ball, she encouraged the children to work hard, though her certainty faltered.

• Otto agreed to let Lin Nai take Durandal and Rita to London, but Lin Nai declined Otto’s offer to host them and left to find someone who owed him Gold Coins.
• In Russell Square, Rita reminisced about playing football with Durandal in a World Bubble, and Lin Nai recalled how Durandal had beaten eleven opponents.
• A flaming football hit Lin Nai, who gave Durandal a red card and teased her about her past habit of kicking balls out of sight.
• The children praised Durandal and Lin Nai, and Durandal encouraged them to train hard while admitting effort did not always guarantee success.

Lin Nai, Rita, and Durandal visited a museum after asking Gray Snake about the Divine Key’s location, where they found a guide and a stele depicting Kevin as Merlin. The chapter ended when a cat appeared on a display case.

• Lin Nai discussed British food with Rita and Durandal, then the three found somewhere to eat.
• Lin Nai asked Gray Snake about the Divine Key, and Gray Snake directed him to the museum where the guide had arrived.
• Lin Nai examined a stele depicting Arthur drawing the sword from the stone and recognized the white-haired figure as Kevin.
• Durandal guessed that the figure was Kevin, and Lin Nai revealed that Su was the Lady of the Lake.
• A cat appeared atop a display case, drawing the attention of Lin Nai, Rita, and Durandal.

Lin Nai and the others encountered Stan, a modified cat that could transform into a Honkai Beast, and Catherine led them to the Second Divine Key hidden in the River Thames. Lin Nai arrived eager to meet Su and make him drop Gold Coin.

• Stan transformed into a Honkai Beast and attacked Lin Nai, who subdued it with one hand and threatened it with an Ultra Disk Blade.
• Lin Nai recognized Stan as Jackal's modified cat, and Stan returned to its normal form after Lin Nai ordered it to change back.
• Catherine arrived and explained that Gray Snake had asked her to guide Lin Nai to the Divine Key's location.
• Durandal caught Stan when Lin Nai tossed it to her and happily petted it.
• Catherine activated a remote control, revealing a massive locomotive that was the Second Divine Key hidden in the River Thames.
• Lin Nai saw the Divine Key and looked forward to making Su drop Gold Coin.

Lin Nai and Durandal entered Su’s World Bubble, where Lin Nai defeated Su and demanded that he drop his equipment. Su began a test that engulfed Durandal in light while Lin Nai protected himself with an umbrella.

• Lin Nai recognized Armed Doll Kevin, knocked him out, and charged the Second Divine Key to open a rift into Su’s World Bubble.
• Lin Nai and Durandal entered the bubble, and Durandal experienced memories of her life before waking to find Su hanging from a tree.
• Lin Nai told Su he had come to make him drop his equipment, and Su complained that rescuing him had only been incidental.
• Su opened his eyes and activated a pattern on the tree, bathing Durandal in light while Lin Nai opened an umbrella.

Lin Nai watched Durandal relive Su’s memories while joking with Su, then passed the time playing increasingly absurd Chinese chess with him. Su ended the chapter by making a chess piece physically kick Lin Nai.

• Lin Nai joked with Su about Kevin’s role in the illusion and learned that Kevin’s revealing outfit explained Rita’s exaggerated appearance in the memories.
• Lin Nai and Su played chess while Durandal experienced selected memories from Su’s past.
• Lin Nai repeatedly taunted Su by announcing that Su’s horse was gone, and Su won their round with checkmate.
• Lin Nai turned his general golden, used dice to capture Su’s king, and declared that Su’s attack was ineffective.
• Su reset the board, moved his horse first, and sent it flying out of the chess piece to kick Lin Nai.

Bianca woke from Su’s illusion and told him what she had learned, while Lin Nai and Su’s game devolved into a fight. Su accepted Bianca’s judgment and gave her the Second Divine Key and its command authority, leaving Lin Nai free to focus on something more important.

• Lin Nai beat Su in a fight after their game of cards and chess turned into a brawl.
• Bianca woke and saw Lin Nai beating Su, then called Lin Nai an asshole over what had happened in the illusion.
• Durandal recalled the strange illusion in which Rita had acted like a giant husky and Kevin had fallen for Lin Nai’s trap.
• Bianca explained her insights to Su with a persuasive speech.
• Su gave Bianca the Second Divine Key and its command authority.

Su used his Sumeru Mustard Seed to stabilize the World Bubble inside Durandal, awakening her Golden Durandal Human armor. Lin Nai returned with a mysterious white bracelet and thoughts of Kevin, while Durandal grew attached to Stan and wondered if she could keep him.

• Su gave Durandal a leaf from his Sumeru Mustard Seed to help control her unstable World Bubble.
• Golden armor appeared on Durandal, and Lin Nai remarked that she seemed stronger than during the Holy Grail War.
• Lin Nai said he had witnessed No. I and No. II attacking a shadowy figure and noticed a white bracelet on his wrist; he suspected Kevin would soon emerge.
• Rita greeted Lin Nai, Su, and Durandal after they returned, while Stan had remained aloof toward her.
• Stan sensed Durandal's power, exposed its belly for her, and let her pet it, prompting Durandal to ask whether she could raise it.
• Lin Nai explained that Stan originally belonged to World Serpent's Jackal but suggested Durandal might be able to keep him.

Lin Nai agreed that Durandal could keep Stan for the time being, then accepted Catherine’s invitation to stay overnight. After the group separated the next morning, Gray Snake confirmed that Jackal had agreed to give Stan to Durandal in exchange for experimental funding.

• Lin Nai told Durandal she could keep Stan for now and planned to have Gray Snake ask Jackal for permission.
• Catherine booked a luxurious room and a restaurant, but Rita realized she had reserved French cuisine and was displeased.
• During a previous-civilization skit, Lin Nai shot at Kevin after Kevin challenged him, and Elysia fled after witnessing it.
• Su enjoyed a meal, photographed several noodle dishes with Lin Nai’s phone, and prepared to head to World Serpent the next morning.
• Durandal and Rita returned to Schicksal, with Durandal carrying the sleeping Stan.
• Gray Snake told Lin Nai that Jackal had accepted more experimental funding and given Stan to Durandal.