Recaps

Aesc used Albion’s blessing in an attempt to summon Lancelot, but summoned Fairy Britain’s Albion instead and recruited her as Knight Melusine. After the fairies slaughtered one another, Aesc faced Aurora, the last survivor, and killed her with fire that rapidly aged and consumed her.

• Aesc heard Mab’s version of the Lion King story and decided to have a summoned Lancelot eat the fairies’ souls.
• Aesc borrowed Mab’s blessing from Albion and summoned Albion instead of Lancelot.
• Aesc promised Albion she could touch Novia if she ate five billion fairy souls, then named her Knight Melusine.
• Mab confessed to Melusine that she had the same feelings for Novia.
• Aesc awaited the last survivor of the fairy slaughter, and Aurora arrived seeking the promised pardon.
• Aesc used Water Mirrors and accelerated aging to burn Aurora to nothing.

Novia awakened in Fairy Britain after witnessing Azathoth and the evil gods in a dream, then learned that Aesc had emptied Britain of its fairies to pursue her ambition of becoming Vivian, the creator god. He prepared to return to Chaldea to help his students, while Aesc accepted that he would leave and received coordinates to find him later.

• Aesc had Huginn and Muninn fragment the fairy souls, released their restraints, and allowed them to reincarnate before Albion's white light drew them into darkness.
• Novia met the evil god in Ritsuka Fujimaru's form and saw Azathoth's realm, where the other evil gods gathered around the throne.
• Novia awoke as Aesc kissed him, and he learned that she had named the white dragon Albion Melusina.
• Mab told Novia that Aesc wanted to become Vivian and build a Holy Sword Factory, while Aesc claimed she could eventually reach the Holy Sword's power.
• Novia decided to return to Chaldea to assist Ritsuka with trouble in the Sixth Singularity, and Aesc pleaded for him to keep visiting her.
• Novia gave Aesc coordinates so she could find him after he left.

Aesc secretly followed Novia after he left Fairy Britain, landed in the Inner Sea of Stars, and met Baobhan Sith while preparing to create a world as Vivian. Back in Chaldea, Novia discovered Ritsuka and Mash had entered the Sixth Singularity, where corrupted Molay summoned the Mother of Proliferation and Ritsuka began transforming into a vessel for Azathoth.

• Novia gave Rhine gold to Mab and Melusine, asked Aesc to help find Muryan, and prepared to leave Fairy Britain.
• Aesc declared she would become Vivian, secretly followed Novia, and arrived in the Inner Sea of Stars instead of Chaldea.
• Aesc met Baobhan Sith and invited her to become one of her Knights of Creation.
• Novia returned to Chaldea after thirteen days and warned Ritsuka and Mash that Molay was corrupted and Jerusalem's ruler was not Richard the Lionheart.
• Molay summoned the Mother of Proliferation, and Ritsuka began changing as she walked toward the Third Temple.
• Molay praised the Lord of Prosperity as Chaldea's communications with Ritsuka and Mash were cut off.

Novia arrived in the Sixth Singularity and learned that Charlemagne was sheltering people from corrupted land near Jerusalem. After Hassan of the Zealot brought him to the Mobile Holy City, an aged voice called him “elder brother,” and Novia recognized the wounded Charlemagne as Carl.

• Novia questioned Chaldeas during his Spiritron Transfer, while Kama used a reverse summoning circle to reach Chaldea and encountered the Old Man of the Mountain.
• Kama cried out for Kavia, causing the Old Man of the Mountain to stop his attack and declare that her love revealed the light of salvation.
• Novia met Hassan of the Zealot in the Sixth Singularity, where she explained that she served the wounded Charlemagne and was searching for people untouched by the corruption.
• Novia found a boundary between desert and corrupted land, and Hassan reported that Richard the Lionheart had likely been corrupted or destroyed.
• Carl called Novia his elder brother, and Novia followed Hassan to the Mobile Holy City to meet him.

Novia met Carl the Great in the Mobile Holy City and learned that Jerusalem had become the cradle of an Outer God’s birth. After Carl captured the Hassans who had entered the city, Novia agreed to visit their venerable one after going to Jerusalem, then glimpsed an unknown woman through an unprecedented fluctuation.

• Novia invited Hassan of the Zealot to accompany him and entered the Main Hall to meet Carl the Great.
• Carl told Novia that an entity called the everlasting, ever-present Lord of Fertility had devastated the Human Order and made Jerusalem its cradle.
• Novia reassured Carl that he would stop the Outer Gods, and Carl used his power to bind the Hassans who had entered the Mobile Holy City.
• Cursed Arm Hassan identified Hassan-i Sabbah as the Hassans’ venerable one, and Novia deduced that the figure in the temple was connected to the Himalayas Mountains.
• Hassan of the Zealot asked Novia to meet the venerable one, and Novia said he would go to Jerusalem first.
• An unprecedented fluctuation briefly dazed Novia, who saw a woman.

Novia’s arrival prompted a mysterious divine presence to descend, while Kama waited anxiously in the Azrael Mausoleum for Kavia. When Kavia finally appeared, Kama clung to him as Novia held her.

• A voice identified itself as the light that descended into the material world, and the One God reacted with wrath to the force about to manifest.
• In the Sixth Singularity, Kama impersonated the Old Man of the Mountain with his mask after he gave her his Grand rank and sent her to await the light of salvation.
• Kama watched the mountain village and fretted over Kavia’s absence, regretting that she had once told him to be thrown away.
• Kavia appeared beside Kama in the Spirit Mausoleum, and Kama buried her face against him and clung to him.
• Novia filled the Spirit Mausoleum with light and held Kama as she trembled.

Novia told Kama he had remembered a mysterious woman who might be his mother, prompting Kama to fear losing her place in his life and declare that she would protect him. In a separate scene, Charlemagne entertained the Mountain People while Hassan of the Zealot recognized his theatrical manner and heard him recall Novia’s praise for sincere effort.

• Novia told Kama that he had remembered a woman who might be the mother he had never met, while privately considering stranger possibilities about their connection.
• Kama panicked at the prospect of a real mother, but Novia reassured her with a kiss and told her he was only guessing.
• Kama declared that she would protect Novia and insisted that her place in his life belonged to her.
• Charlemagne spent five days helping and entertaining the Mountain People while Hassan of the Zealot and the other Hassans waited for Novia to emerge from the Spirit Mausoleum.
• Hassan of the Zealot told Charlemagne that his behavior seemed chuuni, and he replied that sincere effort was cool, echoing something Novia had once said.

Charlemagne and the Hassans discovered that Richard the Lionheart and corrupted Knights of the Round Table were advancing on the Mountain Valley under Cradle Jerusalem's orders. Charlemagne confronted Richard, and as the battle escalated, he chose to stand his ground despite the enemy's overwhelming strength.

• Charlemagne asked Hassan of the Zealot about the people living in Novia's apartment, but she refused to discuss her lord's private affairs.
• A lookout reported a smoke signal, and Cursed Arm Hassan and Charlemagne saw Purgatory Flame forming fiery walls around the Mountain Valley.
• Richard the Lionheart led Mordred, Percival, Lancelot, and other knights toward the valley, while Richard's flames stopped at its edge.
• Richard charged Charlemagne, and the two fought in a fierce clash as Charlemagne tried to understand the knights' corruption.
• Mordred attacked with Clarent Blood Arthur, and Charlemagne realized Cradle Jerusalem had altered the knights' Spirit Origins and memories.
• Charlemagne recognized that his side faced overwhelming odds but resolved not to flee the path he had chosen.

Percival’s intervention with Longinus brought Novia, the First Pope, into the battle, where his presence halted Richard’s Purgatory Flame and aided Charlemagne. Richard recognized Novia and accepted that fighting him was his gravest sin, while reflecting on the guilt that had led him to embrace purgatory.

• Charlemagne unleashed the Twelve Paladins, but Richard’s flames and the attacks of Tristan and Lancelot overwhelmed his Holy Swords.
• Percival saw Longinus regain its radiance and sent the Holy Lance toward Charlemagne, where a pillar of light appeared.
• Novia emerged from the light and stopped Richard’s Purgatory Flame while his power restored Charlemagne and strengthened Percival.
• Percival identified the silver-haired man as Novia, the First Pope, and the Knights of the Round Table recognized his legendary identity.
• Richard saluted Novia, recalled his failed contest with Saladin and his life’s sins, and said that taking up arms against Novia was his greatest sin.

Richard summoned the Round Table knights to unleash his Purgatory-fueled Noble Phantasm against Novia, who answered with the Spear of Longinus and brought the flames to an end. Meanwhile, Kama emerged from the Spirit Mausoleum wearing King Hassan’s mask, leaving the Hassans confused about the venerable one’s whereabouts.

• Novia agreed to help Richard reach Saladin in Purgatory, while Richard declared that he would continue challenging Novia.
• Richard called on Lancelot, Tristan, and Gareth, then used their strength to manifest three lions from the fires of Purgatory; Mordred refused to help.
• Novia raised the Spear of Longinus, invoked the Bible Foundation, and unleashed a cosmic white light that ended Purgatory’s flames.
• Cursed Arm and the other Hassans sensed Novia’s presence, while Hassan of the Zealot suspected that the being inside the Spirit Mausoleum might not be the real venerable one.
• Kama emerged from the Azrael Mausoleum wearing King Hassan’s skull mask and said that Novia still had 36,545 days of responsibility to fulfill.

Kama arrived with the Hassans and watched Novia, Charlemagne, and Percival return victorious from battle. Charlemagne’s teasing about Kama’s feelings for Novia left her flustered as the group continued talking.

• Kama told the Hassans that King Hassan had lent her his rank and introduced herself as the goddess of love, while Hassan of the Zealot suspected she had already used the rank.
• Kama and the Hassans watched a huge lion fight in the valley, and Hassan of the Zealot identified it as Richard the Lionheart.
• Novia, Charlemagne, and Percival returned after winning the battle, and Percival explained how Novia’s Ecumenical Council had established procedures for later popes.
• Kama wondered who Charlemagne’s sister was, and Charlemagne said that Attila was Novia’s childhood sweetheart.
• Charlemagne teased Kama about her feelings for Novia, leaving her unable to deny them as Novia smiled and she gripped his hand.

The Lion King summoned the Knights of the Round Table and explained her plan to preserve a select portion of humanity, splitting the knights over whether to obey her. Molay lured the Lion King and her knights into Jerusalem, where an Outer God’s influence overwhelmed them and made Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash the next targets of her plan.

• The Lion King told the Knights of the Round Table that she intended to preserve chosen humans in a new Camelot, and gave them until sunset to decide whether to follow her.
• Percival and Gawain led opposing groups of knights as the Lion King’s followers and rebels prepared to fight.
• Molay interrupted the confrontation, urged the Lion King to enter Jerusalem and meet her king, and revealed that the Lion King possessed the true Holy Grail.
• Molay led the Lion King and the knights into Jerusalem, where green mist, monstrous eggs, and an Outer God’s power overwhelmed them.
• The Lion King realized the Outer God had once drawn her into its service, while the account revealed that Richard and Charlemagne had also been affected and that Molay had lured Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash to Jerusalem as a new cradle for a god.

Molay discovered that the awakened Lion King had become a strange being who possessed the true Holy Grail and spoke of humanity’s future. In the Mountain Village, Novia’s group encountered Xuanzang, who had been trying to reach Jerusalem to rescue Sun Wukong, and learned that Siddhartha had not answered her messages.

• Molay found the Lion King awake and heard her describe herself as Artoria, Rhongomyniad, and the possessor of the true Holy Grail.
• Mordred and Percival told Novia’s group how Molay had led them into Jerusalem, while Charlemagne discussed facing Gawain.
• Novia used his connection to Xuanzang to summon her presence near the Mountain Village.
• Xuanzang recalled that Sun Wukong had warned her not to enter Jerusalem because he was holding off the Outer God with the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• After Novia discovered her, Xuanzang introduced herself to the group and said Siddhartha had failed to answer her messages.

Xuanzang urged Novia and the Servants to go to Jerusalem to save the world and Wukong, while Sun Wukong helped Ritsuka Fujimaru resist the Outer God’s offer of release. Charlemagne fought Gawain at Jerusalem’s gates, and Novia’s group arrived to face the corrupted Mash and Galahad.

• Xuanzang asked Novia and the Servants to hurry to Jerusalem, where Sun Wukong was helping Ritsuka Fujimaru.
• Sun Wukong challenged Ritsuka to choose whether to keep fighting, and she summoned him as Sun Xingzhe.
• Charlemagne intercepted Gawain at Jerusalem’s gates and extinguished the Imitation Sun with Joyeuse, blocking the sunlight that empowered Gawain.
• Novia and the others reached the gates, where Mash stood under Molay’s influence and Galahad introduced himself as an enemy.

Novia and his allies entered the corrupted Jerusalem and confronted Jacques de Molay, whose Outer God had transformed the city into the Temple Tower. Molay accepted that Novia would defeat her, but she was determined to defend the place tied to her memories as a Templar.

• Galahad Alter possessed Mash and fought Percival, then unleashed his Noble Phantasm, which stripped the Holy City's gate of its defenses.
• Novia and the others entered Jerusalem as green mists, foul air, and ritual chants revealed the city's corruption.
• Novia recognized Jacques de Molay as the one who had turned Jerusalem into the Temple Tower and challenged her about swallowing him into it.
• Molay explained that her plan to manifest the Mother of the Abyss had failed and admitted that Novia had cornered her.
• Molay recalled her former hopes as an ordinary young knight and asked Novia to destroy the Temple Tower, her shameful gravestone.

Ritsuka Fujimaru resisted Azathoth’s attempt to take over her body, using Sun the Pilgrim’s power and the Ruyi Jingu Bang to face her monstrous double. As Azathoth’s throne-like pressure began sealing the weapon’s power, Ritsuka’s struggle remained unresolved.

• Molay welcomed Azathoth’s manifestation through Ritsuka Fujimaru, while Novia recognized the danger to the planet.
• The Lion King appeared to Novia and Azathoth-Ritsuka, and Xuanzang recognized Sun Wukong’s power within the possessed girl.
• Novia asked Xuanzang to use Five Elements Mountain, Shakyamuni Tathagata Palm, so Sun the Pilgrim could release his full power.
• Ritsuka expelled the black foam in her mental world, resisted Azathoth, and manifested the Ruyi Jingu Bang through Divine Spirit Summoning.
• Ritsuka declared that she would not let Azathoth touch Novia, then faced her towering double as Azathoth’s pressure began to seal the Jingu Bang’s power.

Ritsuka fought Goat Ritsuka Fujimaru while Novia's Buddhist light weakened Azathoth's hold on the Singularity. Goat Ritsuka entrusted her remaining power and memories to Ritsuka, leaving Novia and Ritsuka to face what came next.

• Ritsuka wielded Sun Wukong's power and fought Goat Ritsuka Fujimaru with the Ruyi Jingu Bang as Novia's Buddhist light freed the Singularity from the Evil God's dream.
• Ritsuka asked what Azathoth wanted, and Goat Ritsuka said they had come to take Novia away and revealed their close, familial bond with him.
• Goat Ritsuka explained that Molay had used the true Holy Grail to rewrite Ritsuka's body, then entrusted her remaining power and the spell Divine Spirit Summoning: Azathoth to Ritsuka.
• The Singularity began to collapse as Goat Ritsuka dissipated, while Ritsuka suffered the cost of the battle and received Azathoth's memories.
• Ritsuka asked Novia whether he was happy being a teacher, and he admitted that he was.

After Ritsuka, Mash, and Novia returned from Jerusalem, Ritsuka concealed her new powers while Molay and Charlemagne departed and Kama questioned her. Novia met the Lion King in the Third Temple, where she agreed to answer one question and he asked who the mysterious mother in his mind was.

• The Lion King stabilized the collapsing Singularity and brought night over Jerusalem.
• Ritsuka, Mash, and Novia awakened in Chaldea, where Ritsuka hid the powers she had gained from Sun Wukong and Azathoth.
• Ritsuka invited Molay to join Chaldea, and Molay departed after recognizing the power Ritsuka carried.
• Ritsuka discussed Kama's possible role in Chaldea, and Charlemagne arrived before dissolving away without explaining who his older sister was.
• The Lion King brought Novia to the Third Temple and offered to answer one question, so Novia asked who the mysterious mother in his mind was.

After Novia learned that Shekinah had been born from him and could only be resolved through his Ascension, he left the Lion King and began searching for her himself. Back in Chaldea after the Sixth Singularity, he investigated the name Shekinah while Da Vinci, Dr. Roman, and Ritsuka reviewed the mission without him.

• The Lion King told Novia that the unnamed existence had been born from him after her dwelling was destroyed, and that he would have to ascend to his seat to resolve her existence.
• Novia asked whether Bedivere had returned the Holy Sword, then left the Lion King without asking her to reveal Shekinah's location.
• The Lion King identified the existence as Sophia and Shekinah, and reflected that Novia's refusal to ascend had caused her descent into the human world.
• Da Vinci, Little Da Vinci, Ritsuka, and Dr. Roman discussed the completed Sixth Singularity over tea, while Ritsuka concealed what she remembered about Kama and Novia.
• Novia tested a magical Bounded Field around a cross, found no trace of Shekinah, and began investigating the Old Testament name Shekinah as a possible lead.

Novia answered a deathly summons and possessed Utsumi Erice, revealing himself to Lucius Longinus as the Demon King, Erlkönig. He began fighting Lucius and conjured thick mist, leaving their battle obscured.

• Novia answered the distant Master’s call and arrived in the world of Fate/Requiem.
• Lucius Longinus trained Utsumi Erice while she struggled against the wicked spirits inside her.
• Novia possessed Erice, spoke with Lucius, and recalled their shared past.
• Novia revealed his silver-haired form and identified himself as the Demon King, Erlkönig.
• Lucius attacked, but Novia evaded him and summoned mist with words from Goethe’s poem.

After Novia stopped fighting Lucius, Erice’s grandmother Chitose caught the exhausted girl and unexpectedly treated her gently. Days later, Novia continued sharing Erice’s body and teasing her, while Erice gradually found herself enjoying their conversations.

• Chitose stopped Lucius from unleashing his Noble Phantasm, and Novia struck him before Erice collapsed from exhaustion.
• Chitose caught Erice and gently stroked her bruised face, surprising Lucius with her unusual tenderness.
• At school, Erice argued with Novia and laughed when the AI lesson showed an inaccurate statue of Novia as the First Pope.
• After school, Erice went home alone, and Novia took control to add an egg and greens to her instant noodles.
• Erice mocked Novia for lacking a body or Spirit Origin, but he compared his helplessness to her own experience without a Holy Grail.
• Erice hid beneath a pillow in embarrassment, then admitted to herself that having someone to talk to felt nice.

Erice and Novia argued over the Holy Grail Elimination Battle before Novia persuaded her to consider entering despite her lack of a Servant. Meanwhile, Lucius worried that the Demon King’s influence could endanger Erice, while Chizuru Misasagi insisted he would not make her submit.

• Erice let Novia possess her at school, where his lively manner had made her popular, and she admitted she felt jealous and uneasy about relying on him.
• Novia suggested Erice enter the Holy Grail Elimination Battle, but she rejected the idea and criticized the event for treating Heroic Spirits as entertainment.
• After they argued about what made Heroic Spirits and their struggles meaningful, Erice apologized, and Novia reassured her before possessing her and declaring they would enter.
• Novia took Erice to a shop marked Borgia, and she stopped objecting to his plan.
• Lucius warned Manazuru Chitose that the Demon King might encourage Erice to submit to the death she represented, but Chizuru Misasagi insisted that Erlkönig would protect children like Erice.

Novia, using Erice’s body, sought information from the Borgia siblings about entering the Holy Grail Elimination Tournament. They offered a genuine Seleucid Astrolabe in exchange for stabilizing Alexander VI and his Master, and Erice went to the group psychotherapy center to begin.

• Novia and Erice visited Cesare and Lucrezia, the Borgia siblings, to ask about qualifying for the Holy Grail Elimination Tournament.
• Cesare said they could not access the city management AI’s information, but Lucrezia produced an astrolabe that could disrupt its perception of the user.
• Lucrezia offered Erice the astrolabe if she stabilized Alexander VI and his Master enough to get them out of group psychotherapy within three days.
• Erice accepted the deal and left the siblings’ shop.
• At Shinjuku’s psychotherapy center, Novia and Erice found Paracelsus and Nightingale treating unruly Servants, while Alexander VI argued with Shakespeare.
• Nightingale announced that Alexander VI showed a traumatic stress response and recommended removing the hippocampus from his Spirit Origin.

Novia, speaking through Erice, revealed to Alexander VI that his Master, Yagai Yukinobu, had killed his family and destroyed his own Spirit Core to reject his specialness. Alexander VI took Novia to the Yagai estate to continue the psychotherapy, where someone came out to greet them.

• Paracelsus let Erice enter Nightingale’s treatment room and explained Alexander VI’s therapy and Yagai Yukinobu’s history.
• Erice confronted Alexander VI with details about his past and revealed that Yukinobu had killed his family and his summoned Ōkuninushi himself.
• Nightingale allowed Alexander VI to accompany Novia and Erice to the Yagai estate on the outskirts of Shinjuku.
• Alexander VI led them to the mansion, where the gate opened and rows of humanoid dolls stood as someone stepped forward.

Yagai Yukinobu revealed that he had killed his family and clan in an attempt to become ordinary, then attacked Erice after Ōkuninushi’s power reacted to her. Erice identified herself as a fictional Demon King, and Yukinobu began a powerful invocation as the confrontation escalated.

• Yagai Yukinobu explained that Ume’s death and his fear of remaining special led him to kill Ōkuninushi and his family, including his wife and daughters.
• Yukinobu described the curse that followed Ōkuninushi’s death and said he had buried the severed hands of his relatives and the Yagiri clan beneath the home.
• Yukinobu invoked the Heroic Spirit Control Act to prevent Alexander VI from intervening, then drew the Muramasa Blade and aimed it at Erice.
• Erice said she was a fictional Demon King, and Yukinobu leapt toward her as the chapter ended with him invoking the serpent god Kuchinawa.