Recaps

Ilya’s friends teased her about growing closer to Ivia, while Ilya struggled to understand her feelings and find a way to thank him. After her brother Shirou came to take her closing-ceremony photos, Ilya stopped Ivia at the school gate and asked him to hold out his hand.

• Ilya denied that she had won Ivia over, while her friends agreed to help her get closer to him next term.
• Ilya and Ivia returned love letters together on the last day of fourth grade, and Ivia called her by name for the first time.
• Ilya’s brother Shirou arrived to take her school photos and met Ivia, who called Shirou a wonderful person.
• After Shirou left, Ilya realized she wanted to thank Ivia for their friendship and the magic wand.
• Ilya ran after Ivia, brought him back to the school gate, and asked him to hold out his hand.

After Ilya shared a heartfelt moment with Ivia at school, Ruby arrived and tricked Ilya into becoming a Magical Girl who would help Rin find the Cards. The next morning, Ilya brought Ivia milk, while Ruby realized he could see through her disguise.

• Ilya and Ivia posed for a photo together beneath the cherry tree, and Ilya told him she looked forward to getting along with him.
• Shirou left Ilya alone with her classmate for a photo, while Sella and Leysritt discussed Leysritt’s plans to submit Magical Girl footage to Musashi’s website.
• Ruby appeared in Ilya’s bath, persuaded her with the promise of romance, and completed a contract with her using her blood and full name.
• After meeting Rin Tohsaka, Ilya agreed to help find the Cards and secretly transformed to leave milk for Ivia at school.
• Ivia returned the milk bottles, and Ruby noticed that he had seen her hidden in Ilya’s schoolbag.

Ilya mistook Rin Tohsaka’s summons for a love letter, while Ivia guessed its contents and reassured her with words that left her delighted. Later, Ivia told Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg that he was undergoing a Buddhist tribulation tied to the Dragon Flower Three Assemblies, and warned that Zelretch would share its outcome if he remained in the world.

• Taiga caught Ilya sleeping in class, and Ivia sweetened Ilya’s mood by saying she was always in his field of view.
• Ruby fantasized about Ivia and Ilya, but Ivia silenced her and she later woke at the school shoe lockers.
• Ilya found a note from Rin Tohsaka summoning her to the high school courtyard at midnight, and Ivia correctly predicted the romantic-sounding words she had tried to use to disguise it.
• Ilya parted from Ivia at the school gates, then celebrated that he had understood her feelings and given her a way out.
• Ivia met Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg in the park and explained that his tribulation concerned Maitreya and the Dragon Flower Three Assemblies.
• Ivia told Zelretch that all worlds would eventually reach Dharma’s End and said Zelretch would share the Dragon Flower’s deliverance if he remained in the world.

Ilya met Miyu Edelfelt, a new transfer student and fellow Card user, and misunderstood Miyu’s warnings about Ivia as evidence that Miyu had bullied him in the past. The chapter ended with Ilya deciding to protect Ivia, while Miyu and Sapphire watched uneasily.

• Ilya entered the Mirror World with Rin Tohsaka and fled Medusa until Miyu used Lancer’s Gáe Bolg to defeat her and recover the Rider Class Card.
• Ilya left warm milk on Ivia’s desk, and Miyu arrived at school as a new student and took the seat beside Ivia.
• Sapphire explained the Class Cards to Ilya, while Miyu warned Ilya to stop fighting and cut ties with Ivia, whom she said treated the battles as a game.
• Ilya imagined that Miyu had tormented Ivia in the past and resolved to stand by him, placing a determined hand on his shoulder.

Miyu outperformed Ilya at school and confronted Ivia about abandoning Ilya, while Ilya tried to understand Miyu’s hurt and hostility. As Ilya prepared for Rin’s midnight Cards collection outing, an uncanny presence made her body go cold.

• Miyu excelled in every class and beat Ilya in a race, while Ivia offered Ilya water and encouragement.
• Miyu confronted Ivia, asking when he would abandon Illyasviel von Einzbern, and said she would not let anyone else suffer as she had.
• Miyu called Ilya a liar and said she hated liars, leaving Ilya confused about Miyu’s pain.
• Ilya learned that Rin had invited her to meet at the park beneath the bridge at midnight for their second Cards collection outing.
• Ilya sensed strange footsteps at home, then turned toward the window and felt as if her body had gone cold.

Miyu and Ilya faced the Saber Class Card after retrieving Caster, and Ilya’s terror triggered the emergence of a powerful alternate self who defeated Saber. The alternate self, revealed as Chloe, left Fuyuki after the wand prevented her from killing Ilya.

• Miyu reflected on how Ilya’s imagination and vitality differed from her own, while Sapphire urged her to trust Ilya.
• Rin Tohsaka and Luvia noticed the Mirror World had not collapsed when Saber appeared and attacked them with flames.
• Miyu distracted Saber while Ilya tried to carry the unconscious Rin Tohsaka and Luvia to safety, but Saber wounded Ilya and overwhelmed Miyu.
• As Saber prepared Excalibur, Ilya’s fear loosened her restraints, allowing an impassive alternate Ilya to emerge and destroy Saber with spatial rifts.
• The alternate Ilya tried to stab the unconscious Ilya, but the wand stopped her; she then vanished and walked through Fuyuki City as Chloe, exhausted and without magical energy.

Chloe replenished her magical energy after visiting Ivia, then dreamed of an alternate life in which she was the more mature version of Ilya. The next morning, she went with Ivia to Homurahara Elementary School, where the other students mistook her for Ilya.

• Chloe visited Ivia in his tent, and he kissed her to replenish her magical energy, causing her to faint.
• Chloe dreamed that she had grown up as Ilya and helped Ivia perform with the magic wand before waking in the tent.
• Chloe considered eliminating Ilya, but Ivia found her in the park and gave her a toothbrush and milk before they headed to school together.
• Chloe's arrival with Ivia startled Ilya's friends, who assumed she was Ilya and speculated about their relationship.
• Chloe attended cooking class with Taiga, who mistook her for Ilya and began the lesson on scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

Chloe shared a cooking lesson with Ivia, asked if she could cook for him, and grew attached to the warmth she received while shopping as Ilya. She returned to find Ilya asleep in their tent, while the story also revealed that Sella had kept Ilya home sick and Ruby had just told her she visited Ivia.

• Chloe cooked a barely edible tomato and egg stir-fry with Ivia, then fed him a spoonful and asked to cook for him again.
• Ivia agreed, and Chloe laughed off her request as a joke before leaving school early to buy groceries and prepare a meal.
• Market vendors mistook Chloe for Ilya and showered her with groceries and other gifts, making her savor the welcome she believed belonged to her other self.
• Chloe resolved to keep Ivia from meeting her and thought she would have to kill the real Ilya, then found Ilya asleep in their tent.
• Sella kept Ilya home after deciding she had a slight fever, and Ilya complained of boredom while resting.
• Ruby told Ilya that she had visited Ivia, leaving Ilya stunned.

Ilya discovered that the missing Class Card was at Ivia’s tent and went to wait there, but Chloe arrived and attacked her. Chloe revealed herself as another Ilya and challenged her to fight.

• Ruby told Ilya that she had delivered milk to Ivia as a present, then said the missing Class Card seemed to be in his tent.
• Ilya flew to the Small Park, found no Class Card, and fell asleep while waiting for Ivia to return.
• Chloe returned from school, found Ilya asleep in her bed, and attacked her with the Class Card.
• Ilya woke and saw Chloe, who looked like her; Ruby explained that Chloe’s spell could cause devastating damage by resonating inside Ilya’s body.
• Chloe called herself the real Ilya and charged at Ilya after Ilya fired a Magic Bullet.

Ilya fought Chloe in the Small Park until she unconsciously unleashed a finishing attack, which Ivia calmly erased before Irisviel brought them home. At dinner, Irisviel teased Ilya about her relationship with Ivia, and his revelation about the rumor that he had misogyny left Ilya insisting that her mother apologize.

• Chloe overwhelmed Ilya with her twin blades, but Ilya kept fighting despite her exhaustion and injuries.
• Ilya unconsciously activated Mimicry Circuits and gathered enough Od for a finishing attack, while Chloe noticed something and vanished.
• Ruby told Ilya to fire the attack at the ground, but Ivia arrived and made the torrent of light disappear.
• Irisviel invited Ivia to the Emiya home, where she questioned him about his family and his relationship with Ilya.
• Ivia said Ilya thought he had an illness because Caren had told her he had misogyny, and Ilya demanded that Irisviel apologize for pressing him.

Ilya shared an affectionate moment with Ivia after apologizing for exposing his private affairs, while Irisviel asked him to help her daughter live an ordinary life. Meanwhile, Chloe allied herself with Berserker Heracles, and the next day Ilya and her friends prepared to confront Chloe.

• Ilya apologized to Ivia, then transformed into a Magical Girl and showed him her outfit before he left.
• Irisviel followed Ivia and asked him to look after Ilya, and he agreed to her request.
• Chloe entered the Mirror World, found Berserker Heracles, and proposed that they work together against anyone who came, especially Ilya.
• At the Edelfelt house, Miyu and Sapphire explained the recent Class Card events to Rin Tohsaka and Luvia.
• Ilya decided to confront Chloe, whom she named Kuro, and asked what had happened to her.
• Rin suspected Kuro had defeated Assassin and might already have obtained the Berserker Class Card.

Ilya and Miyu faced Chloe and Heracles in the Mirror World, where Miyu was overwhelmed by Heracles’s power. Ivia intervened with godlike authority, but Miyu remained hostile toward him and directed him to help Ilya.

• Rin Tohsaka and Luvia worried about Miyu’s worsening condition, while Sapphire resolved to find a way for Miyu to meet Ivia alone.
• Chloe confronted Ilya and Miyu in the Mirror World with Heracles, insisting that she was the real Ilya and attacking them with twin blades.
• Ilya fought Chloe as Miyu fought Heracles, who pursued Miyu into a dark building and used his Noble Phantasm, Nine Lives.
• Ivia appeared before Heracles and commanded him to stand down, unleashing divine power that shook the Mirror World.
• Miyu told Ivia that Ilya was in trouble but refused to meet his gaze, and Sapphire suspected that Miyu was jealous of Ilya.

Ilya and Chloe fought in the Mirror World until Ivia intervened and took Chloe away. Ilya believed he had done so to help her reconcile with Chloe, while Ruby teased her about Ivia’s secrets and feelings.

• Ilya fought Chloe on a rainy rooftop, using her blood to track Chloe’s movements.
• Ilya installed the Artoria Pendragon Saber card and blocked Chloe’s attack, then offered to talk things through.
• Chloe declared that only one Ilya could exist and attacked with her Double-Fake Spiral Sword as Ilya unleashed her Holy Sword.
• Ivia arrived, stopped both girls’ attacks with divine lightning, and took Chloe through a closing rift in the Mirror World.
• Ilya felt abandoned until Ruby suggested Ivia had taken Chloe away to help her, then teased Ilya about her childhood sweetheart.

Chloe accepted Ivia as her big brother after he reassured her that she could exist as herself, separate from Ilya. The next day, Chloe enrolled at Ilya’s school and sat beside Ivia, upsetting Miyu and provoking Ilya into a dodgeball challenge.

• Ivia told Chloe that the Einzbern Family was gone and that he saw Chloe and Ilya as two different people who could both exist.
• Chloe asked Ivia to be her big brother, and Caren reluctantly prepared identification so Chloe could enroll in school.
• Chloe arrived in Ilya’s class as her older cousin and asked Miyu to switch seats so she could sit with her big brother, Ivia.
• Miyu silently cried during class while Sapphire watched, unable to comfort her.
• Ilya challenged Chloe to a one-on-one dodgeball match and declared that Chloe would have to switch classes if she lost.

After Chloe and Ilya clashed over Ivia, he promised Ilya that Chloe would visit her house, while Caren told him a Church inspector named Luce was coming to Fuyuki. The following week, Rin Tohsaka and Luvia abducted Chloe to question her about the Class Card, but Chloe revealed she had allowed them to tie her up and easily freed herself.

• Chloe and Ilya fought over Ivia during a dodgeball game, and Ivia blocked Chloe’s magically empowered throw to protect Ilya.
• Ivia apologized to Ilya and promised Chloe would visit her house and meet Mrs. Irisviel.
• Caren told Ivia that the Church’s purge was over, a high-ranking inspector was coming to Fuyuki, and the inspector’s code name was Luce.
• Rin Tohsaka and Luvia took Chloe to the Edelfelt House basement and questioned her about extracting the Class Card inside her.
• Chloe refused to let Rin touch her, then stepped free of the wooden post and helped herself to tea and a macaron.

Chloe prepared to fight Rin Tohsaka and Luvia to keep the Class Card that sustained her, but Luce interrupted and assured her she would survive. Luce then accompanied Chloe to meet Ivia, revealing knowledge of his family that left Chloe wondering whether he had ties to the Church.

• Chloe told Rin Tohsaka and Luvia that she would fight rather than surrender the Class Card, and the women prepared to attack her.
• Luce arrived with Luvia's butler, stopped the confrontation, and declared that Chloe would live by the will of God.
• Ilya followed Ivia as he delivered love-letter replies and discovered that Miyu Edelfelt had sent him a letter and Animal Paradise tickets.
• Luce persuaded Chloe to take her to meet Ivia, and Chloe shared details about their relationship while they shopped at Fuyuki Market.
• Luce revealed that she knew about Ivia's younger sister and asked whether Ivia believed in Buddha; Chloe confirmed his faith, and Luce's smile froze.

Luce met Ivia and was shaken to learn that he rejected belief in God and considered himself a monk, while Ivia recognized that his tribulation was tied to the Dragon Flower Bodhi Tree. After accepting Miyu’s invitation, Miyu went to Animal Paradise to meet someone Sapphire had mentioned and waited alone in the crowd.

• Chloe brought Luce to Ivia, who confirmed he had never met her and directed her to Caren.
• Luce asked Ivia whether he believed in God and whether he could convert, but he said he did not believe and could not.
• Luce left for Caren, still hoping Ivia might call her back, while Chloe asked about Miyu’s invitation and Ivia agreed to attend.
• Ivia reflected that he had fallen into his tribulation by approaching it through what he already knew, and Chloe noticed a change in his behavior.
• Miyu left the Edelfelt House for Animal Paradise, entered the crowded park, and searched for a place to wait for the person Sapphire had mentioned.

Miyu attended Animal Paradise, where a Lion-kun led her out of the crowd and later returned her lost pendant, but she rejected the chance to reconnect with Ivia. Ilya and Chloe watched the encounter, while the chapter left Miyu and Ivia sitting apart in the rain.

• Miyu was pulled from the crowd by a miniature Lion-kun, who led her to a seat before leaving.
• Ilya and Chloe watched the children’s hero game and recalled how Ivia had agreed to play the villainous leader.
• Luce told Caren that she believed people could become good because that was Saint Novia’s hope for the Church and the world.
• After the event, Miyu noticed her pendant was missing and searched for it in the rain without Sapphire’s help.
• Ivia, still dressed as Lion-kun, emerged from beneath a bridge and tossed Miyu her pendant.
• Miyu returned the jade to Ivia and said they would soon be strangers again, while Ilya and Chloe watched from nearby.

Ivia brought Chloe into a new life with the Daikokuten mice serving them, while Irisviel watched the children and Miyu remained withdrawn after her painful encounter with Ivia. At the Dragon Flower Bodhi Tree, Ivia understood why it had appeared, but the chapter ended before its purpose was fully revealed.

• After Ivia left, the black-haired girl picked up the fallen jade and cried beneath a rainbow.
• Chloe woke to find Daikokuten mice transformed into maids and building a house for her and Ivia.
• Ivia explained that the Daikokuten would help them and planned to have them deal with Bazett when she arrived.
• Irisviel secretly observed Ilya, Chloe, Ivia, and Miyu at school, while Sapphire resolved to find Miyu another chance with Ivia.
• The Daikokuten brought Chloe lunch at school, prompting Ilya to envy Chloe's maids and renew her determination to compete.
• Ivia visited the Dragon Flower Bodhi Tree and realized it had appeared because it believed it was helping him.

Ivia brought Chloe to meet Irisviel, who began explaining Ilya’s origins and the Holy Grail War. Chloe challenged Irisviel’s account, claiming she had been created to become the Holy Grail before her functions, knowledge, and memories were sealed away.

• Ivia brought Chloe to Ilya’s home, where Irisviel recognized their resemblance and welcomed Chloe as family.
• Ilya and Chloe bickered in the bath until Irisviel interrupted them and revealed that Ruby had told her about recent events.
• Irisviel told Ilya that she had been born to become the Holy Grail in the Holy Grail War.
• Chloe objected that she had been the one created to become the Holy Grail, but Irisviel had sealed away her functions, knowledge, and memories.

Chloe and Ivia planned a birthday swimsuit-shopping trip while the Daikokutens prepared a beach outing that conflicted with the Edelfelts’ search for the Eighth Class Card. The chapter left Luce meeting the Daikokutens, who welcomed her as Ivia’s daughter.

• Chloe persuaded Ivia to help her choose a swimsuit for her first birthday.
• Daikokuten Number One learned that the Edelfelts had bought the beach the Daikokutens planned to prepare for Ivia and Chloe.
• Luce returned to ask Ivia not to become Buddha and encountered Number One at the house.
• Number One recognized Luce as Ivia’s daughter, and the Daikokutens eagerly welcomed her as their young mistress.

At a beach outing, Miyu struggled with loneliness and the pain of Ivia’s past departure while the others celebrated Ilya and Chloe’s birthdays. Ivia stayed with Miyu as she broke down and asked him not to leave, and he promised to remain by her side.

• Luce left after the Daikokutens flattered her, while Ivia and Chloe’s swimsuit shopping was interrupted by Ilya, her friends, and Miyu.
• Ilya and Miyu secretly watched Ivia and Chloe together in a changing room, and Ilya confronted Miyu about her feelings and apparent indifference.
• At the beach, Ivia invited Miyu to join the others, but she left without answering and later stayed away from Ilya and Chloe’s birthday party.
• Ivia found Miyu alone on a cliff, where she cried about his leaving five years earlier and begged him not to go.
• Ivia reassured Miyu that he would stay with her, and she continued sobbing beneath the night sky.

Ilya went to the summer festival feeling lonely and uncertain about her place beside Ivia, while Miyu arrived hoping to surprise him after they had made up. The four spent the evening together, but Ruby’s attempt to give Ilya an advantage ended with Ilya’s yukata coming undone and her running into Ivia.

• Ilya put off her homework, wondered whether Miyu’s improved mood meant something had changed, and dressed in a pink yukata for the festival.
• Ilya met Miyu, who apologized to Sapphire for her past behavior and admitted she had come to wait for Ivia; Miyu and Ilya discussed the price of cotton candy until Ivia and Chloe joined them.
• Ivia bought cotton candy for the four of them, and they played festival games, ate food, and watched the performances together.
• As the fireworks were about to start, Ilya felt increasingly out of place beside Miyu and Chloe; Ruby then told her that wearing no underwear beneath her yukata was improper.
• Ruby undid the back of Ilya’s yukata, and Ilya fled into Ivia, who closed his eyes while she clutched her garment and apologized; Ruby insisted she had acted for Ilya’s sake.

Ilya and Miyu reunited with Ivia at the fireworks festival, where Ilya wished him happiness for the year as Dragon Flower declared that her plan to save everyone was nearing completion. Later, Ilya’s group entered the Mirror World to confront the eighth Servant, whose countless Noble Phantasms overwhelmed their assault as Bazett charged into the barrage.

• Ilya transformed into a Magical Girl to cover herself, then Miyu helped her put her yukata back on.
• Miyu told Ilya that she and Ivia had only met in this world, and Ilya noticed how intensely happy Miyu looked when speaking of him.
• Ilya, Miyu, Chloe, and Ivia reunited at the fireworks festival, where Ilya wished Ivia happiness for the year.
• Dragon Flower stood beneath the tree at Homurahara Elementary School and said the time was almost right for her plan to save everyone.
• Rin Tohsaka, Luvia, Ilya, Miyu, Chloe, Bazett, Luce, and Caren entered the Mirror World to face the eighth Servant.
• The eighth Servant unleashed a vast barrage of Noble Phantasms, and Bazett evaded the weapons while charging forward and murmuring, "Hardening."

Bazett and the others failed to extract the eighth Class Card after Gilgamesh revealed Ea and destroyed the Mirror Realm. They discovered Ivia seated before the dragon flower bodhi tree, whose power threatened to merge Gaia and Alaya, and Gilgamesh declared that Ivia was stronger than them all.

• Bazett, aided by Chloe and Ilya, reached the eighth Servant and tried to seize his Class Card, but he summoned Ea and cleaved the Mirror Realm apart.
• Luce sensed a tribulation beginning and panicked as Gilgamesh rose aboard Vimana, which a gust shattered and sent him falling.
• The others saw Ivia seated before the dragon flower bodhi tree as its power began drawing humanity and the planet toward it, before Ivia opened their eyes and halted the light.
• Luce warned Rin, Luvia, Bazett, and the others that dragon flower was about to merge Gaia and Alaya and could end their world.
• Ilya asked whether they could still win, and Gilgamesh answered that Ivia was stronger than all of them before beginning to explain their inferiority.