Recaps

Novia cured Tsubaki Kuruoka by integrating the bacteria in her body and met the purified Alter Ego Gilgamesh in Pale Rider’s Underworld. After Gilgamesh departed, Novia confronted Ciel Kihara, who had secretly been caring for Tsubaki, and told her he forgave her for killing him.

• Novia arranged Tsubaki Kuruoka’s discharge from Central Hospital and planned to send her to Reien Girls' Academy.
• Novia entered Tsubaki’s mental world and integrated the South American bacteria, while Pale Rider helped reassure her.
• Novia met AE Gilgamesh, who explained that he had come to pay his respects and asked Novia to look after Tiné.
• AE Gilgamesh said he would await Novia’s meeting with the fallen hero at the end of the Holy Grail War, then left the Underworld.
• Novia learned that Ciel Kihara had been secretly caring for Tsubaki and told her he forgave her for killing him.

Novia recalled Kihara’s past and agreed to take her in after Tsubaki helped her ask. In Snowfield, Charlemagne discussed the conspirators and his wish to reunite Avia and Attila, while Sigma reached the Underground Natural Great Hollow after finding Faldeus dead.

• Novia recited Kihara’s old threat, and Kihara admitted she still remembered him.
• Tsubaki woke and revealed that Kihara wanted to escape the Holy Church and be taken in, so Novia led Kihara away by the hand.
• Charlemagne questioned Orlando Reeve about Francesca, Faldeus, and Bazdiloh Cortilio, and Orlando vowed to pursue Bazdiloh for corrupting his subordinate.
• Charlemagne reflected on his wish to reunite Avia and Attila and decided he would support Novia if necessary.
• Sigma found Faldeus dead in the surveillance room of his Private Prison, then went to the Underground Natural Great Hollow Francesca had mentioned.

Novia confronted Beelzebub after she emerged from a giant egg above Snowfield City, while Sigma discovered that the apparent Greater Grail was only Francesca’s illusion. Beelzebub revealed how she was connected to Francesca and resisted Novia’s attempt to send her back to Hell, as he accused her of planning to help Alcides erase Heracles from the planet.

• Sigma and Asclepius found that the apparent Greater Grail was an illusion, while Asclepius warned that the mud was tied to the energy unleashed when Novia appeared.
• Kihara recognized the enormous egg above Snowfield City as Beelzebub, and Novia left her to head to a place he had indicated.
• Beelzebub emerged from the egg as a demon king, and Enkidu watched a powerful trace of magical energy cross the sky.
• Novia stopped time, questioned Beelzebub about her connection to Francesca, and ordered her to go back to Hell.
• Beelzebub refused to disclose her contract, and Novia accused her of planning to help Alcides erase Heracles from the planet.

Novia stopped Beelzebub from triggering a catastrophe in Snowfield City, then the story rewound to the moment she was born beneath a factory. Bazdiloh prepared to face Orlando while Alcides considered Francesca’s suggestion to devour the Holy Grail, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Novia used the Primordial Sacred Sword fused with Magic Sword: True World to rewrite the trial world’s laws and prevent Beelzebub from resurrecting.
• Bazdiloh told Alcides to pursue his revenge, then stayed behind as Orlando and Alexandre Dumas confronted him.
• Dumas infused Orlando’s tachi with the story of his heroic resolve, strengthening the sword.
• Orlando declared that he would kill Bazdiloh to avenge the people who had died for his magical energy.
• Alcides recalled Francesca’s proposal to devour the Holy Grail and remembered Ate’s attempt to dissuade Hera and Iris from cursing Heracles.

Alcides touched the Holy Grail and was drawn into a vision of ancient Olympus, where he pursued his revenge against Hera. His old companions appeared and accepted his choice, leaving him with their blessings and Jason’s final words as the mountain faded.

• Alcides began corrupting Olympus with the Grail’s red-and-black magical energy and called out to Hera.
• Theseus appeared and told Alcides he trusted him, then vanished after leaving him Poseidon’s protective blessing.
• The Argonauts arrived and offered Alcides their support, though several expressed concern or set limits on what they would accept.
• Alcides lowered his bow and withdrew the magical energy he had been spreading as Olympus and its companions faded.
• Jason appeared last, took Alcides’s hand, and called him the great hero who protected the future king.

Avenger Alcides confronted his original self, Heracles, as he pursued revenge against Hera, but Europa sacrificed herself in Hera’s place and Novia’s apparition helped Alcides turn away from corruption. Both Alcides and Heracles disappeared in their final clash, while the chapter then shifted to Mario Giallo Bestino investigating Novia’s manifestation in an abandoned Snowfield City.

• Jason spoke with Avenger and told him that his suffering and progress did not make him any less Heracles, but Avenger left without looking back.
• Heracles confronted Alcides at the final gate, and the two fought as Alcides advanced toward Hera.
• Europa revealed that she had taken Hera’s core and posed as Hera to spare her from Alcides’s revenge, then vanished after Alcides’s strike destroyed her.
• Novia’s apparition urged Alcides to move forward rather than sink into corruption, and Alcides and Heracles disappeared together in their final clash.
• Two days after Novia manifested in the Holy Grail War, Mario Giallo Bestino reviewed reports of magical and technological signals in deserted Snowfield City.

Lord Laurentius reflected on his ambition to become Pope and learned that the Popes who appeared in the Holy Grail War recognized him as a worthy successor. In Snowfield City, Novia encountered Charlemagne, who explained how the Alien Star Key had shaped his destiny to unite Western Europe.

• Lord Laurentius spoke with the old Pope about his fear of death and his long-held wish to become Novia’s successor, then showed him the childhood cross he had kept.
• The old Pope told Lord Laurentius that the wills of the Popes manifested in the Holy Grail War had declared him a worthy successor.
• Novia examined a Silver Arabesque that had formed from the remains of Beelzebub’s egg after his battle in Central Park.
• Charlemagne greeted Novia as his brother-in-law and explained that he had entered the Holy Grail War because El-Melloi desperately wanted to live and Novia had once served as its Lord.
• Charlemagne recalled touching the Alien Star Key in the Giant God Ruins and receiving the destiny and possibilities that would lead him to unite Western Europe.

Novia faced Charlemagne’s proposed alliance in the Snowfield Holy Grail War, while Charlemagne fought for the wish of reuniting with his sister. Novia overwhelmed most of the attackers, but Sigma then sent Moby-Dick charging at him.

• Charlemagne asked Novia to separate his Master from the Three-Foundation Mana Furnace, declared war, and revealed that he wished to reunite with his sister.
• Novia agreed to help Charlemagne’s wish and met the alliance as Enkidu, Orlando, Jack, and Sigma appeared to fight.
• Orlando surrendered to Novia’s overwhelming Thunderbolt, while Jack’s demons froze before Novia and she withdrew.
• Enkidu unleashed their Noble Phantasm against Novia, who answered with the Holy Sword and silenced the battlefield.
• Sigma called Moby-Dick to attack Novia with the enormous blade it carried in its mouth.

Novia defeated Carl the Great and ended the Snowfield Holy Grail War on its fourth day. On the seventh day, he met the Golden King Gilgamesh in the Underworld as Babylon manifested above them.

• Novia summoned Typhon, who wounded White Whale Moby-Dick and let Novia smash it into the ground.
• Carl the Great summoned the Mobile Holy City, but its transformation stopped as Rome’s lingering will blessed Novia; Carl surrendered.
• The Snowfield Holy Grail War ended with the agreement of the summoned Heroic Spirits, and the fused Holy Grail was destroyed when Avenger died.
• Most Masters and Heroic Spirits survived, while Snowfield’s residents had seen the battles only as a peaceful competition inside Novia’s small world.
• On the seventh day, Babylon appeared in the Underworld as the Golden King Gilgamesh praised Novia for laying Alcides to rest and healing Typhon’s vengeance.

Novia defeated AE Gilgamesh in a final clash that shattered the Underworld, and the Golden King fell with joy. Before the Holy Grail War ended and Novia lost some of its power, he summoned Kishua and Kouhaku and asked Kishua about his Second Magic.

• Novia and AE Gilgamesh clashed over humanity’s future, with Novia insisting that humans should remain human and determine their own existence.
• AE Gilgamesh burned his Spirit Origin and unleashed Babylon’s divine arm against Novia’s Holy Sword, breaking the Underworld before he fell.
• Novia called out Kishua and Kouhaku, who had watched the battle from afar, and they appeared before him.
• Kishua told Novia that he could now use the Second Magic fully, while Kouhaku revealed Kishua’s magical-girl interests and Kishua teased Kouhaku in return.

Novia arranged help for Kihara and found the college student fused with the Three-Foundation Mana Furnace a place at Kouhaku’s café, then summoned Attila from the Mooncell Crystal so she could return to him in her juvenile form. The story then recalled Nero’s long life after Novia’s departure, ending with her still waiting and longing to see her teacher again.

• Novia asked Kishua and Kouhaku to tell the Church that Kihara no longer needed to stay there, and entrusted Kishua with deciding whether to return the Three-Foundation Mana Furnace to the El-Melloi Family.
• Novia separated the college student from the Mystic Code, and Kouhaku agreed to employ him at his café.
• Kouhaku told Novia that Hibino Hibiki, the human incarnation of the Codex Trithemius, wanted to meet her parents, and Novia promised to visit Japan.
• Novia summoned Attila from the Mooncell Crystal, and she assumed her juvenile form and reunited with him beneath the aurora.
• Nero recalled preserving Rome, becoming the second Pope, and helping Shiyali send the Dragon of Albion’s remains into the Inner Sea of Stars.
• Nero continued waiting for Novia, regretting their parting and wishing she could see him again.

Domitius died after a lifetime of waiting for her teacher Novia, then returned as the Beast Draco and sensed his presence after the Snowfield Holy Grail War. Several days later, Novia traveled to Britain in 1515, while Sajyou Manaka faced another formidable opponent.

• Domitius spent her final moments remembering Novia and died, still longing to reunite with him.
• Blue light and countless lights surrounded Domitius, and she returned to the world as the Beast Draco, determined to find Novia.
• After the Snowfield Holy Grail War, Draco sensed Novia nearby and called out to him from her blood-red world.
• Several days after the war, Novia chose to travel to Britain in 1515, leaving Altrouge Brunestud and Typhon behind as he vanished.
• In the apartment Sajyou Manaka had arranged, Manaka saw a hooded girl with blood-red markings and lamented that she could not beat another opponent.

Favia, the name Novia used in sixteenth-century England, visited Paracelsus at the Clock Tower after finding a notice that his classes had been suspended. The chapter explained how Favia had survived as an abandoned child and ended as the sun rose over the land, seen as wondrous by the animals that had adopted him.

• Draco confronted Melusine over Novia, and the two began fighting after Melusine claimed she had been with him.
• In 1515, Favia crossed London and passed through the Clock Tower’s barriers to investigate Paracelsus’s suspended classes.
• Favia visited Paracelsus, who expected someone from the Department of Law to come, and Paracelsus asked whether Favia had found any leads.
• The chapter recounted how war, famine, plague, and conflict within the Church left Favia an orphan whom no one adopted.
• Animals adopted Favia, and the chapter ended with the sunrise appearing wondrous to them.

Favia traveled to Scotland to investigate reports of a bloodsucking creature and discovered a red-haired fairy with deer hooves crying in an abandoned hunting cabin. After secretly preparing a scare to drive her away, he overheard her fear of humans and learned that Baobhan Sith had long been bullied by other fairies for her different legs.

• Paracelsus asked Favia to investigate a suspected bloodsucking creature in Scotland because the Association had forbidden him to travel.
• Favia heard the hunters' account of a creature with deer hooves and assured them he could handle it alone.
• The old hunter showed Favia a Robin Hood garment that had failed to conceal anyone, and Favia comforted him.
• At night, Favia saw a red-haired fairy splash blood around the empty cabin before sitting outside and crying.
• Favia decided to scare the fairy rather than kill her, and he prepared sugar water, hedgehogs, and a turtle in the cabin.
• During a rainstorm, Favia heard the fairy say she feared humans but needed money, while Baobhan Sith's memories revealed that other fairies bullied her for her different legs.

Baobhan Sith fled the fairies who planned to mutilate her and fell through the gate into the human world, where she was terrified and alone. After returning to the Inner Sea, she briefly gained kinder treatment by giving the fairies human valuables, but they soon forced her to go back for more.

• The fairies surrounded Baobhan Sith and advanced on her, intending to cut off her legs, so she pushed past them and jumped toward the gate to the human world.
• Baobhan Sith landed in the human world, frightened and injured, and found a hut where four hunters fled from her, leaving behind valuables.
• Baobhan Sith returned through the lake to the Inner Sea, where the fairies resumed tormenting her until they noticed the valuables she had taken.
• The fairies praised Baobhan Sith and stopped beating her while they played with the human treasures, then demanded she bring them more.
• The fairies pushed Baobhan Sith back into the human world despite her warnings about the pain.

Favia brought the battered, frightened Baobhan Sith into the hunters' cabin and warmed her by the fire, but she mistook his attention to her deer hooves for a sign that he would hurt her. As she tried to leave, Favia stopped her to say something about the rain.

• Favia found Baobhan Sith crying in the rain and invited her into the cabin to warm herself.
• Favia apologized for frightening Baobhan Sith with a crying hedgehog and writing he had made appear on the wall without magic.
• Baobhan Sith tried to thank Favia but became afraid when she noticed him looking at her deer hooves.
• Baobhan Sith assumed Favia would punish her, covered her feet, and tried to leave the cabin quietly.
• Favia called to Baobhan Sith and began speaking about the rain.

Favia took Baobhan Sith under his care and tried to encourage her to feel safe and smile, then brought her to Edinburgh with the hunters after resolving the bloodsucking incidents. As Favia prepared to return to London, Baobhan Sith struggled to introduce herself to the hunters and fled to her room, leaving him to comfort her.

• Favia told Baobhan Sith he knew her name and teased her into laughing, then said she would work to repay the money she owed him.
• Three days later, Favia and Baobhan Sith stayed at an Edinburgh inn with the Hunters' Organization after Favia resolved the bloodsucking incidents in the Ireland Highlands.
• Favia told the old hunter he had to return to London because Paracelsus was having trouble there.
• Baobhan Sith tried to introduce herself to the hunters but lost confidence and ran back to her room.
• Favia excused Baobhan Sith's abrupt departure to the hunters and went upstairs to apologize, while she curled up in a corner feeling like a failure.

Favia returned to London with Baobhan Sith, where the Clock Tower faced pressure from Pope Alexander VI to surrender control of England's Inquisition for a campaign against the Ottomans. Paracelsus began treating Baobhan Sith and teased her about her feelings for Favia, while Alexander VI remained determined to restore the Church's former power.

• Favia brushed and washed Baobhan Sith's tangled hair, and she quietly accepted his care.
• Favia and Baobhan Sith returned to London, where he learned that Alexander VI had demanded England's Inquisition join the European fight against the Ottomans.
• Alexander VI rejected appeals to rely on the Clock Tower's leaders and ordered his guard to keep demanding control of England's Inquisition.
• Alexander VI recalled his uncle Callixtus III's decision to exonerate Jeanne d'Arc and reaffirmed that he would sacrifice anything to restore the Church's power.
• Favia asked Paracelsus to treat Baobhan Sith's damaged throat, then left her in Paracelsus's care while he went out.
• Paracelsus recognized signs that Baobhan Sith might be a vampire fairy and teased her about calling Favia a friend.

Paracelsus learned that Lord El-Melloi wanted him and Favia to join her faction, partly because the Three Great Nobles were pressuring El-Melloi and Favia might descend from a purer branch of her family. Later, Baobhan Sith watched Favia work alongside laborers and heard him explain to Makiri why ordinary workers deserved respect.

• Baobhan Sith trembled when Paracelsus suggested treating her throat, and Makiri arrived after Favia had left.
• Makiri urged Paracelsus and Favia to join El-Melloi for protection, then Lord El-Melloi explained the faction’s political difficulties and revealed that Favia might belong to a purer branch of her bloodline.
• Paracelsus asked why El-Melloi wanted Favia, while she explained that the Three Great Nobles had used the return of the Church’s inquisitorial offices to attack her faction.
• Baobhan Sith followed Makiri to a Thames shipyard, where she watched Favia help workers build ships.
• Favia recalled asking Makiri what distinguished the workers from them and argued that the laborers’ hardship and contributions made them remarkable.

Baobhan Sith began helping Favia at the shipyard, and he treated her throat so she could speak more clearly; the two acknowledged that they were friends. As Europe’s religious upheavals and the Clock Tower’s political conflict arrived ahead of schedule, the Lord of El-Melloi visited Favia and claimed he was descended from the family.

• Baobhan Sith helped Favia work at the shipyard, and he encouraged her not to be overly obedient or considerate.
• Favia treated Baobhan Sith’s throat, and she embraced him and told him they were friends.
• The Protestant Reformation began early, and the King of England sought to free the English Church from Rome’s control.
• The Clock Tower held a Grand Council where the El-Melloi faction proposed abolishing the Department of Law and Politics, but the proposal failed.
• The Lord of the El-Melloi visited Favia, claimed he was an El-Melloi descendant, and offered him a Magic Crest transplant.

Favia decided to travel to Rome after Da Vinci invited him to witness Pope Alexander VI’s planned debate with Martin Luther, fearing the Pope might try to kill the reformer. Before they left, Baobhan Sith tried to ask Favia for a reward, and he offered her his neck when he remembered she was a blood-drinking fairy.

• Baobhan Sith returned to Favia with Da Vinci’s letter and asked whether he was friends with the Lord of El-Melloi; Favia said they barely knew each other.
• Favia read that Da Vinci wanted him to come to Rome for a theological debate between Pope Alexander VI and Martin Luther, and decided to go to protect Martin from possible poisoning.
• Half a month later, Favia told Baobhan Sith to pack for Rome, and she happily hugged him from behind.
• Baobhan Sith tried to get Favia to reward her for helping him, but he offered to have a pretty outfit and shoes made for her in Rome.
• Favia remembered that Baobhan Sith was a blood-drinking fairy, apologized for forgetting, and exposed his neck for her to drink; she blushed and shouted at him.

Favia and Baobhan Sith sailed from London toward Europe as a supernatural disturbance in the Spirit Tomb disrupted a Clock Tower council and was covered up. In Rome, Leonardo da Vinci reflected on his genius and sketched his memories, leaving the first page blank for Favia.

• Favia teased Baobhan Sith about drinking his blood, then waited for her before they boarded a Clock Tower ship bound for France and Rome.
• At the Grand Council beneath London, the El-Melloi representative proposed a change, and a surge of magical energy shook the Spirit Tomb.
• The Clock Tower concealed the disturbance as an explosion, fabricated the council report, and renamed the Department of Law and Politics the Legal Bureau.
• Leonardo da Vinci sketched people and events from his life, then left the notebook's first page blank as he thought of Favia.
• Da Vinci recalled how Favia stirred an unusual emotion in him and continued to fascinate him.

Favia and Baobhan Sith arrived in Rome and reunited with Da Vinci, who welcomed them into his home. While Da Vinci painted Baobhan Sith, he teased her about Favia’s affection and revealed that Favia had arranged custom clothes and shoes for her.

• Da Vinci remembered Favia and hoped to paint him when he returned to Rome for the debate between Pope Alexander VI and Martin Luther.
• Favia and Baobhan Sith arrived in Rome, explored the city, and went to Da Vinci’s residence.
• Baobhan Sith introduced herself to Da Vinci, who discussed his research with Favia and repeated his ambition to create a child of his own.
• While Favia ran an errand, Da Vinci spent five hours painting Baobhan Sith and explained that Favia had arranged custom clothes and shoes for her.
• Da Vinci teased Baobhan Sith about Favia’s feelings, and she blushed while insisting they were only friends.

Baobhan Sith grew flustered over the clothes Favia gave her and fell asleep clutching them, while Da Vinci reacted to her drawing of their friends and family. On the morning of the theological debate, Alexander VI told Giuliano della Rovere that he planned to die soon and asked him to purge the Church after becoming Pope.

• Da Vinci finished Baobhan Sith’s portrait, then let her use the notebook to draw; when she accidentally drew on the page reserved for Favia, Da Vinci smiled and took the notebook to the workshop.
• Favia returned with a red dress and shoes for Baobhan Sith, who nervously accepted them and later fell asleep hugging the gift.
• Before the debate at Saint Novia Cathedral, Giuliano della Rovere urged Alexander VI to reconsider facing Martin Luther, but Alexander said he believed his death was near.
• Alexander told Giuliano to become Pope, expose and punish the corrupt Church leaders, show no mercy to the Borgia family, and ban the Malleus Maleficarum.
• Alexander said he intended to attack Constantinople and kill as many Ottoman Cursecasters as possible before becoming a Dead Apostle, then reflected on the terrible deeds he could accept and the one thing he could not endure.

Alexander VI and Martin Luther debated the Church’s authority, while Luther argued that faith—not the Pope or Rome—was the foundation of salvation. After the debate ended in a truce, Favia recognized the old Pope as Rodrigo, the child once saved by Novia, and offered him a final blessing.

• Alexander VI explained that he wanted to test whether Luther could measure up to Augustine, then opened a public theological debate with him.
• Luther argued that Jesus’s words about Peter and the rock referred to Christ, not Peter, and rejected the spiritual authority of the Church of Rome.
• Luther and his students denounced the Pope and the Church, while Alexander VI warned that their movement echoed Jan Hus; the debate ended without either side persuading the other.
• Alexander VI watched the departing Artists and encountered Favia, who remembered Novia feeding a starving child in ancient Rome.
• Favia called the old Pope Rodrigo a worthy believer, and Rodrigo thanked him before Favia stroked his face and left him looking more peaceful.