Recaps

Novia, controlling Erice, defeated Yagai Yukinobu, whose attempts to become ordinary had led him to destroy his family and remain trapped in an immortal, rotting body. The next day, Erice received the Seleucid Astrolabe and prepared to enter the Holy Grail Elimination Tournament.

• Novia used Erice's power to withstand Yagai Yukinobu's sword attacks and disrupt his Divine Body.
• Yagai Yukinobu explained that his Command Spells repeatedly healed his suicide attempts, then used them up resisting Novia and fatally wounded himself.
• Ōkuninushi's authority revealed Yagai Yukinobu's memories, including his murder of his family and his wish to escape the expectations placed on him.
• Novia confronted Yagai Yukinobu about his betrayal, and he realized that being ordinary meant not harming or deceiving others without cause before he died.
• The next day, Lucrezia reported that Yagai Yukinobu had died and that Alexander VI had passed his psychological evaluation and found a new Master.
• Cesare gave Erice the Seleucid Astrolabe, and Erice accepted the prospect of competing in the Holy Grail Elimination Tournament.

Erice and Novia registered for the Holy Grail Elimination Tournament by using the Seleucid Astrolabe to convince examiner Aoko Aozaki that Erice had a Servant. Three days later, the tournament opened at Shinjuku’s Rome Colosseum.

• Novia possessed Erice and revealed that the Holy Grail had shown Yagai Yukinobu a vision that led him to betray Ōkuninushi.
• Erice and Novia arrived at Shinjuku Central Station, where Servants and Masters registered amid a crowded, chaotic lobby.
• Novia told Erice that Aoko Aozaki, a human examiner, handled applicants the city AIs could not understand, including cases like Yagai Yukinobu’s death.
• Aoko rejected Erice’s application because she had no Holy Grail or Servant, so Novia possessed her and used the Astrolabe to alter the registration system’s records.
• Aoko approved Erice’s registration after Novia provided a false Foreigner-class Servant profile, and Erice received a badge counting down to the tournament.
• The tournament opened three days later at the Rome Colosseum, where security was tight and spectators underwent inspections.

Chizuru Misasagi and Lucius watched Erice’s first Holy Grail Elimination Tournament match, where Novia used Erice’s body to defeat Jack the Ripper. Afterward, Aoko Aozaki approached Chizuru with questions about Yagai Yukinobu’s death and the Demon King possessing Erice.

• Chizuru Misasagi and Lucius discussed the tournament’s energy-gathering rules and the Leidenfrost Family’s suspected search for a Holy Grail that could overturn Manazuru Chitose’s wish.
• Circe introduced Erice and Jack the Ripper for the tournament’s first Individual Match as the crowd cheered.
• Jack unleashed Dark City of Fog, while Novia used Erice’s body to summon the Demon King’s power and counter her Noble Phantasm.
• Novia defeated Jack with a spell that drained her magical energy, and Circe declared the Demon King the winner.
• Chizuru and Lucius left the arena, where Aoko Aozaki asked Chizuru to help determine how Yagai Yukinobu died and questioned the Demon King inhabiting Erice.

In Shinjuku, Cesare, Lucrezia, and Alexander VI profited from betting on Erice’s victory over Jack, while Erice and Novia discussed her guilt over a past school conflict and their uncertain bond. Novia promised to help her apologize publicly after they won the tournament, then teased her when she asked him to smile.

• Cesare and Lucrezia reviewed the enormous betting profits from Erice defeating Jack, and Alexander VI arrived promoting Erice merchandise.
• Jack asked Erice to join a worldwide group of Jacks, and Erice agreed before asking Novia whether she seemed human.
• Erice told Novia how a classmate had apologized after Erice wrongly started a fight, leaving Erice ashamed that she had never apologized in return.
• Novia advised Erice that feelings required action and declared he would help her publicly apologize to the classmate if they won the tournament.
• Erice asked Novia to smile when he seemed distant, and he resumed teasing her, prompting her to vow inwardly to kill him someday.

Aoko Aozaki visited Tallahassee to investigate the ruined Cape Canaveral, where she reunited with her sister Touko and Beo. She could not access the submerged facility, and their conversation left questions about the Holy Grail War and its Servants unresolved.

• Aoko sold Tallahassee's Jack a CD and player, then agreed to promote the Demon King's Shinjuku matches and write her a song.
• Touko Aozaki found Aoko scamming Jack and questioned why she had come to Tallahassee.
• Aoko explained that she wanted to investigate Cape Canaveral but could not reach its underwater gates or obtain the missing records.
• Beo joined the sisters and described the statue of Paul Bunyan in New York, while Aoko recalled meeting passionate Servants in other cities.
• Aoko and Touko discussed their unused Command Spells, and Beo wondered which Servant he might summon if he had old-style ones.

Erice and the Demon King faced Karna in the Holy Grail Elimination Tournament final, where Karna recognized a hidden death divinity in Erice and unleashed his Noble Phantasm. As the Demon King prepared to meet the attack, he urged Erice to accept the wicked spirits within her and the pain that made her able to understand others.

• Aoko, Touko, and Beo watched the tournament livestream, where Circe and Blackbeard introduced Erice and the Demon King as undefeated finalists against Karna and his Leidenfrost Master.
• Karna told Erice he had seen her reluctance to defeat Servants change, then summoned Yami after identifying a death divinity within her.
• Erice rejected Karna's guess and declared she would stay with the Demon King until he revealed who he really was, prompting him to take silver-haired form.
• Karna began fighting Erice with his spear and flames, and her blow made his golden armor tremble with fear.
• Karna activated his Noble Phantasm, O Sun, submit to death, while Erice urged the Demon King to use his own ultimate attack.
• The Demon King told Erice that the wicked spirits would always remain with her and urged her to accept them because she could feel others' pain.

Two or three months after winning the Holy Grail Elimination Tournament, Erice decided to leave Shinjuku and work independently in Akihabara, but Chitose arrived at the station to question her choice. The chapter left Erice confronting her grandmother's concern while Novia pointed out that her new work was much like being a mage.

• After defeating Karna with the Demon King's Noble Phantasm, Erice and Novia won the Shinjuku Holy Grail Elimination Battle, and Erice apologized publicly to a former classmate.
• In the Colosseum lounge, Erice demanded to know what Novia really was and told him not to possess her without permission.
• Two or three months later, Erice planned to leave Chitose's supervision and travel to Akihabara for work approved by the City Management AIs.
• Novia revealed that he had contacted Chitose because Erice would regret leaving through deception.
• Chitose found Erice at Shinjuku Station and said the work would put her in danger, while Erice angrily challenged her right to stop her.

Erice left Shinjuku for a mission in Akihabara after another tense parting with her grandmother, Manazuru Chitose, and met Aoko Aozaki at the station. Meanwhile, a ritual in the Syrian wasteland gathered six decayed Death Gods behind seven black Doors and announced that Death was coming for the human sheltering the daughter of Yomi.

• Erice and Chitose encountered a crowd celebrating several Elizabeth Báthory Servants dressed in Taisho-style outfits, prompting Erice to condemn Shinjuku’s treatment of Servants.
• Chitose asked Erice to summon the Demon King, embraced the silver-haired form, and watched Erice depart by train.
• On the train, Erice told Novia she hated Chitose at times but respected Lucius, while Lucius waited with souvenirs and Chitose spoke cryptically about their past affection.
• Erice arrived in Akihabara and met Aoko Aozaki, who said Manazuru had asked her to meet them.
• In the Syrian wasteland, black liquid formed seven Doors containing six decayed Death Gods, and a voice warned that Death was coming for the human sheltering the daughter of Yomi.

Erice settled into Aoko Aozaki’s mansion in Akihabara, where she learned that Novia had secretly messaged Chitose about her move. After changing into local clothes and teasing Novia, Erice let him possess her, while he continued investigating the Holy Grail and the death god Mot.

• Aoko Aozaki offered Erice a place to stay until City AI canceled her assignment and gave her Akihabara clothes to wear.
• Aoko explained that Manazuru Chitose had helped recreate the Kuonji mansion after Misaki City was destroyed, and Erice learned Novia had deleted a message he sent Chitose about her move.
• Erice summoned the Demon King to watch Novia, but the Alder Tree bowed to him instead of restraining him.
• Novia considered whether Mot had caused the new era’s strange conditions and identified him as a possible target behind the events involving death.
• Erice changed into the clothes Aoko had prepared and taunted Novia, then returned to the living room when he did not respond as usual.
• Novia complimented Erice’s outfit, and Erice let him possess her.

Nine-year-old Utsumi Erice lived alone in Akihabara, where she worked as a Night Watch member and relied on Novia to defeat a swarm of Gremlins. A month later, the Old Humanity leatherworker and his Servant Louis XVII staged a gruesome murder in Shinjuku, while Erice watched them perform in her group therapy room.

• Utsumi Erice evaded Gremlins until she agreed to Novia's conditions, then Novia took control and destroyed the monsters with lightning.
• The leatherworker and Louis XVII discussed their plan to kill Manazuru Chitose and start a revolution against the New Era.
• Louis XVII and the leatherworker noticed a silver apparition that seemed to encourage murder after their victims died.
• A month later, the leatherworker and Louis XVII displayed a human-skin artwork in Shinjuku, prompting authorities across Japan to launch a search.
• Erice watched the leatherworker and Louis XVII perform a short play called "Revolutionary Trial" in Akihabara's group therapy room.

Erice learned that a second, distinct massacre had wiped out an investigative team in Tama, and Aoko Aozaki warned her that the Night Watch faced a dangerous new threat. Novia identified the culprit's lingering presence as Helheim, and Akihabara's Night Watch imposed a Level One Alert.

• Leatherworker asked Erice whether she wanted to change the City and confessed that he wanted to save it, while Louis apologized and led him away.
• Erice wondered whether Leatherworker might be connected to the murders, but Novia cautioned that thoughts alone could not change the world.
• Aoko showed Erice images of the frozen massacre in Tama and explained that the victims included Servants and Night Watch investigators.
• Aoko warned Erice that the case was confidential and ordered Night Watch members not to operate in groups smaller than ten.
• Erice searched for possible modern-era killer Servants, but Novia identified the slaughterhouse presence as Helheim, a Norse Underworld.
• At Akihabara's Night Watch headquarters, Hijikata Toshizō declared a Level One Alert and prohibited unauthorized groups of fewer than ten from going on duty.

Erice and Aoko investigated abnormal magical activity along Akihabara’s coast and encountered the Wandering Jew, Ahasuerus, and his Servant, Captain Hendrik van der Decken, as they arrived aboard the Flying Dutchman. Ahasuerus recognized the power surrounding silver-haired Erice and tried to placate her, while Hendrik prepared to flee.

• Hijikata assigned Erice and Aoko to investigate coastal magical disturbances tied to the expected arrival of Ahasuerus and the Flying Dutchman.
• Aoko questioned Erice’s bodiless Demon King, who possessed her and said he appeared because Erice accepted him.
• The Flying Dutchman emerged offshore, and Ahasuerus leaped toward Akihabara’s coast with his cursed crew.
• Ahasuerus sensed an unusual presence in silver-haired Erice and remembered the long curse that had kept him alive since Jesus’s crucifixion.
• Ahasuerus apologized for Hendrik’s behavior and suggested they leave Akihabara, while Hendrik tried to get them to shore.

Aoko Aozaki’s assignment appeared to end when Ahasuerus and the Captain left Akihabara, but Kundry confronted Erice over the Captain and was linked to the Slaughterhouse murders. Kundry summoned Helheim, where Hel recognized Erice and invited her to join the dead.

• Aoko Aozaki ordered Ahasuerus and the Captain to leave Akihabara, and Erice watched them row toward their ship.
• Ahasuerus urged Erice to enjoy life, while Erice and Novia argued about her loneliness and his possession of her.
• Kundry arrived with Gremlins, accused Erice of taking the Captain from her, and was questioned about the Slaughterhouse murders.
• Ahasuerus sang from his ship, triggering Kundry’s distress and prompting her to summon Helheim in Akihabara’s harbor.
• Hel and Garm appeared on the frozen sea, and Hel told Utsumi Erice that she belonged with them.

Silver-haired Erice, possessed by Novia, fought Hel and the Death Gods over the fate of Manazuru Chitose’s new era, while Aoko Aozaki confronted Kundry at the harbor. The chapter ended with Kundry striking Aoko with a projection of the Holy Lance, leaving her wounded and sinking underwater.

• Silver-haired Erice used Novia’s divine authorities to defeat Hel’s Garm and repel Hel, who declared that the Death Gods would bring about a new dawn by destroying the current era.
• Novia resolved to stop Hel and end the world’s unfinished Holy Grail War, then Erice jumped down after spotting someone below.
• Aoko Aozaki told Kundry that Akihabara’s magical energy would poison her and urged her to leave, while recognizing that Kundry’s love for Ahasuerus had freed her from her former fate.
• Kundry rejected Aoko’s sympathy and hurled a projected Holy Lance, piercing Aoko’s chest and sending her into the harbor.
• Aoko recalled her past and realized the lance was only a projection, but its effects hindered her healing as she sank beneath the water.

Aoko Aozaki woke in the Kuonji mansion after the Demon King saved her and became her Servant. She learned that Erice did not know about their contract and forbade the Demon King from possessing her in front of Erice.

• Aoko Aozaki recalled seeing a silver-haired figure before the Demon King rescued her from the sea, and she woke with Command Spells on her left hand.
• Erice told Aoko that the Demon King had saved her and that Police Chief Hijikata had given them a few days off.
• The Demon King spoke to Aoko through her mind, explained his different aspects, and revealed that Erice did not know about Aoko's injury or their contract.
• Robin visited Aoko and mistook the Demon King's possession for a change in her personality before Aoko regained control and flattened him.
• Aoko ordered the Demon King not to possess her whenever he pleased, especially in front of Erice, and worried that she had taken a Servant who belonged with Erice.

Aoko learned that Novia had stayed away from Erice to push her toward mastering her powers, while Erice used a dangerous new spell to draw him out. The two reconciled through their shared interest in a German folktale, though Erice angrily denied that Novia mattered enough to be struck by the spell’s seventh bullet.

• Aoko returned from observing the wastelands and watched Erice practice shaping the evil spirits into weapons and traps.
• Novia told Aoko that Erice had learned Gandr and that he was keeping his distance to help her control her emotions and powers.
• Erice grew lonely and furious at Novia’s silence, then combined Gandr with Ether-bodied bullets to attack a tree.
• The attack drew Novia out, and he caught and crushed the returning shock wave while possessing Erice.
• Erice and Novia discussed the German story of the Magic Bullet Shooter, and Novia teased her about whom the seventh bullet would hit.

Louis and Leatherworker prepared to abduct Aoko Aozaki as their final victim so Louis could activate his Noble Phantasm and kill Manazuru Chitose. After Novia questioned Louis about his past and his devotion to his Master, Louis left without revealing his feelings.

• Leatherworker told Louis that the City had narrowed its search to Akihabara and proposed completing one final work before they were caught.
• Leatherworker chose Aoko Aozaki as their next target, and Louis went to deliver a pair of shoes while Leatherworker resolved to kill Manazuru Chitose.
• Louis recalled that one more murder would complete the thirteen required to activate his Noble Phantasm against the leader of their surroundings.
• Louis encountered silver-haired Erice, and Novia asked him about his feelings and whether he wanted to escape the prison of his past.
• Louis insisted that bearing his responsibilities was his duty, then left as though fleeing Novia's questions.

Erice panicked when Novia stopped speaking to her and used her Magic Bullet Shooter to track him outside Akihabara, then jumped into the sea despite being unable to swim. Meanwhile, Novia helped Aoko escape Louis XVII’s Noble Phantasm, and Frankenstein arrived with the unconscious Erice aboard a huge ship that struck the bounded field.

• Erice left the Old Humanity Lecture Hall and wondered why Novia had fallen silent.
• At the Kuonji Western-Style Mansion, Erice tried to summon Novia, then used her Magic Bullet Shooter to locate him outside the City.
• Erice guessed Novia was with Aoko and headed toward the outskirts, ignoring the danger of leaving Akihabara.
• Erice jumped into the sea to reach Novia, only to realize she could not swim well and began struggling in the water.
• Louis XVII and the Leatherworker captured Aoko, but Novia entered her body and helped her overpower them.
• Frankenstein arrived aboard a huge ship carrying Erice and crashed into Louis XVII’s Noble Phantasm Bounded Field.

Erice awakened her buried divinity, summoned the Heavenly Raft of Rama, and fired the Seventh Bullet, creating an opening that let Louis XVII escape with his Master. Aoko later tracked Louis to his workshop, where she found him dying after killing Leatherworker to activate his Noble Phantasm.

• Erice's memories and divine power resurfaced beneath the sea, and she summoned the Heavenly Raft of Rama.
• Fran was brought aboard the ship, and Erice fired the Seventh Bullet, which wounded her and sent the raft crashing into Louis XVII's Noble Phantasm.
• Louis XVII seized the opening and fled toward Akihabara with his Master, while Aoko approached Fran and told her to bring Erice along.
• Aoko returned to Akihabara with Fran, then followed a lead to the workshop where Leatherworker and Louis XVII were hiding.
• Aoko found Leatherworker dead and Louis XVII dying, and deduced that Leatherworker had sacrificed himself so Louis could attempt to activate his Noble Phantasm.

Erice woke after four months unconscious at the Kuonji Western-Style Mansion and learned that the Demon King had possessed her while she slept. She confronted him about leaving to protect Aoko, then forgave him for now as they headed downstairs.

• Erice woke in the Kuonji Western-Style Mansion and met Fran, who told her that she had been ordered to report Erice's awakening to the Demon King.
• Erice decided to see the Demon King herself, and Fran led her out of the sickroom.
• Fran slid down the mansion's stair rail, but Aoko let the stunt pass because the house had not been damaged.
• Erice asked Aoko whether the Demon King was with her, then discovered that he had been possessing her and had stayed by her side.
• Erice learned she had been unconscious for four months and confronted the Demon King about secretly leaving to protect Aoko and solve the Shinjuku Murder Case.
• Erice accepted the Demon King's explanation and said she would let him off for now, while Aoko watched them descend the stairs.

Aoko, Erice, and Fran traveled to London to return Egyptian artifacts and explored the city while catching up with Fran and Moriarty. Young James Moriarty encountered the silver-haired Erice, but she showed no sign of being the person he hoped to find.

• Aoko joined Erice and Fran on a trip to London after Manazuru Chitose requested their help returning artifacts to the city.
• The group arrived in Detective City London and stopped for tea while Fran described her father Moriarty’s imprisonment and their relationship.
• Aoko reflected on her return to London and the awkwardness she felt around Erice and Novia.
• Young James Moriarty approached Fran and explained that Sherlock Holmes had sent him to the British Museum.
• James stared intensely at the silver-haired Erice, hoping to find Faria in her, but she asked whether his back hurt instead.

Erice, Aoko, Fran, and James Moriarty investigated Sherlock Holmes’s death in the British Museum and began connecting it to the murders in Akihabara and events in London’s past. As the group considered the mystery and the two Moriartys, Aoko said something would not work, leaving them poised to hear what she had noticed.

• James Moriarty escorted Erice, Aoko, and their companions to the British Museum, where they found Sherlock Holmes dead before the Three Fates sculpture.
• Irene Adler confirmed that Holmes’s Spirit Core had been shattered, and Erice and the others returned to Fran’s home after answering questions.
• James denied killing Holmes and, with Erice, concluded from Fran’s projection that Holmes had died instantly before his body was reconstructed.
• Erice linked Holmes’s death to the murders in Akihabara and questioned whether Death Gods were involved, while Fran identified a black figure she had seen at the museum.
• Fran recounted James’s cryptic plans from seven years earlier, and Erice inferred that two versions of Moriarty might exist and that London barred them from meeting for six days.
• James said he had no desire to meet his older self, and Aoko suddenly remarked that something would not work.

Fran took Alice and the others to May Liddell’s concert, where reports of deadly incidents across London coincided with a mysterious Servant awakening Erice’s death-linked power. Outside the venue, Alice met the real Liddell and revealed that she had witnessed Sherlock Holmes’s death.

• Fran found that May Liddell was performing that night and brought the group to her concert.
• At the concert, Alice left after learning that fires and other deadly accidents were spreading across London.
• Erice’s evil spirits stirred as a horned female Servant declared that death was expanding and consumed Command Spells.
• The Servant told Erice, “Remember that you must die,” triggering Erice’s ghostly transformation before the Servant departed.
• Alice met the real Liddell outside the venue and said she had been present when Sherlock Holmes died.
• The Demon King possessed Alice, turning her hair silver.

Aoko and Liddell reunited before Nzambi’s attack on the concert unleashed a wave of Servant zombies and panic. Aoko, with Novia’s power, confronted Nzambi and destroyed her, then continued toward the concert to reach Erice and the others.

• Aoko reunited with Liddell, who recognized that Novia was possessing her and laughed at Aoko’s claim that he was her Servant.
• During the concert broadcast, Nzambi emerged from a Servant and stabbed the Liddell onstage, while the audience and other Servants fell into chaos.
• Aoko headed toward the concert and asked Novia to possess her and eliminate hostile Servants; she used her Detective Identification Badge to direct guards and seized an infected Servant’s Spirit Core.
• Novia identified Nzambi as the source of the zombie infection, and Aoko followed the terrified crowd toward the goddess.
• Nzambi raised corpses to attack Aoko, but Aoko wounded her with a tornado and destroyed Nzambi’s dagger when she tried to infect her.
• Nzambi vanished after the dagger burst apart, and Aoko pressed on to find Erice and the others.

After Nzambi’s defeat, Erice regained her divinity and Jeanne d'Arc Alter’s group arrived in London, while Kuchime and Mot revealed the threat of a plan to remake the world. In Detective City, Irene shared Sherlock Holmes’s final clue and agreed to cooperate, as the group encountered Saber Alter and the two Jeanne d'Arc Alters.

• Novia noticed that Erice’s hair had grown longer and divinity had returned to her, and Erice asked the Demon King to return to her body.
• Saber Alter, Jeanne d'Arc Alter Lily, and Jeanne d'Arc Alter arrived at the concert venue looking for Dragon Husband.
• Kuchime drank alone and suspected that Mot was still pursuing his plan to create a new celestial body; Mot revealed that he intended to remake the world and become its supreme god.
• Irene told silver-haired Alice and the others that Moriarty remained imprisoned, shared Sherlock Holmes’s final clue, and offered Scotland Yard’s support against the threat to London.
• Saber Alter declined an offer to help guard London, then encountered silver-haired Alice and the group, while Jeanne d'Arc Alter denied wanting to see Dragon Husband.