Recaps

Amakusa prepared to make his wish on the Greater Grail while Novia learned what had happened in Romania and drew Semiramis’s anger by taking control of her pigeon familiars. Jeanne d’Arc received a Revelation telling her not to yield to Novia and resolved to take him to hell with her.

• After Vlad III vanished, Amakusa found an ordinary flower where he had stood and wondered whether to confront the sun god before making his wish.
• Novia brought his group to an apartment in Bucharest, where Fran joyfully reunited with him and Tlaloc and urged them to live together.
• Novia took control of Semiramis’s pigeon familiars, learned about Vlad III’s fate, and recognized Romulus and Tamamo no Mae among the Red Faction’s Servants.
• Semiramis became furious when she learned the pigeons had left her service, while Amakusa said he needed three more days before contacting the Greater Grail.
• Jeanne d’Arc received a Revelation not to yield to Novia and resolved to use Red Lotus Saintess to take him to hell with her.

Novia and his companions visited the Yggdmillennia headquarters in Trifas, where they met Astolfo, Chiron, and Mordred. Mordred challenged Novia as the King of the Wild Hunt, and Tlaloc attacked her, leaving her pinned and near defeat.

• Novia brought his companions to Trifas and entered the Yggdmillennia castle with Gordes and Fran accompanying a Homunculus guide.
• Astolfo mistook Novia for Avia, the King of the Huns, while Chiron welcomed him and offered his help.
• Chiron sensed Novia’s connection to the stars and reflected on his love for humanity before pledging to serve him.
• Mordred recognized Novia as the King of the Wild Hunt and declared that she would challenge him despite Shishigou urging her to leave.
• Tlaloc warned Mordred against challenging a god, then crushed her with overwhelming pressure and pinned her beneath her weapon.

After Jeanne d'Arc and Shishigou used their Command Spells to restrain Mordred and join Novia's faction, Jeanne continued plotting to gain Novia's trust while growing increasingly flustered by his kindness. The next morning, she searched for advice on what to wear and began considering a change of clothes.

• Tlaloc chained Mordred, but Novia reminded her that he had abolished human sacrifice, so she released the knight and apologized.
• Jeanne d'Arc used her Ruler Command Spells to make Mordred obey her and stop interfering, while Shishigou used his own Command Spells to commit Mordred to Novia's faction.
• Siegfried challenged Mordred to fight him before she tried to challenge Novia, and Mordred reluctantly agreed.
• Jeanne d'Arc intervened when Tlaloc asked Novia to punish her, then heard Novia praise her and felt shy despite her plan to betray him.
• After the Red Faction and Yggdmillennia matters were settled, Jeanne d'Arc searched her phone for clothing advice and blushed when the results described what to wear on a date.

Jeanne d'Arc tried a new outfit to attract Astolfo's attention, then encountered Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, the Red Faction's second Ruler, who revealed his plan to save humanity. Amakusa brought Jeanne to meet the Fifth Sun of the Americas, where an immense, beautiful voice resonated through the darkness.

• Jeanne d'Arc changed into a Winning Sweater outfit, but Astolfo barely noticed it at breakfast.
• Jeanne d'Arc saw Mordred sparring with Siegfried and felt discouraged until Fran complimented her appearance.
• Jeanne d'Arc met Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, who revealed himself as the Red Faction's Ruler and said he intended to save humanity.
• Jeanne d'Arc proposed cooperating with Amakusa against the Fifth Sun of the Americas, but Amakusa questioned what she knew about the god.
• Amakusa entered the dark room to visit the Fifth Sun, and he and Jeanne heard a tremendous, beautiful voice that seemed to come from the land of the Americas.

Amakusa Shirou asked Novia, the Fifth Sun God, to support his plan to use the Third Magic to turn all humanity into immortal souls, but Novia refused while promising to watch over him. As Amakusa worked inside the Greater Grail to bring his plan to fruition, Novia appeared before him and rejected his dream directly.

• Novia and Tlaloc received Amakusa Shirou, who introduced himself and spoke with Novia about the Fifth Sun God’s history and mercy toward humanity.
• Amakusa explained his plan to use Soul Materialization to end human suffering and asked Novia to help him.
• Novia refused Amakusa’s plan but told him he would still watch over him.
• Amakusa continued through the Greater Grail’s altered space, resisting painful memories and temptations as he pursued his dream.
• Novia appeared beside a vast sun within the Greater Grail and told Amakusa she had come to reject his dream.

Amakusa Shirou tried to reach the Greater Grail and use Heaven's Feel to bring humanity eternal peace, but Novia stopped him and showed him the light people carried through their suffering. After Amakusa accepted his mistake and vanished, Novia turned to the remaining Red Faction Caster and destroyed the Greater Grail.

• Amakusa Shirou used twelve Command Spells to gather the Servants' power, sacrificed his right arm to create Zero-Order Convergence, and rushed toward the Greater Grail.
• Novia caught Amakusa before he could touch the Grail and rejected his plan to create an eternally peaceful world through Heaven's Feel.
• Novia drew the Primordial Sacred Sword fused with Magic Sword: True World and showed Amakusa the radiance of humanity, including the support of his murdered family and the thirty-seven thousand victims.
• Amakusa admitted that he had been wrong, accepted humanity's present, and vanished while regretting how he had addressed Novia.
• Novia put away the Holy Sword, concluded that the Holy Grail War was under control, and summoned the Red Faction's Caster from hiding.
• Novia told the Caster he would not play along with her act, then shattered the Greater Grail behind him.

Amaterasu revealed that she had taken the Greater Grail to punish Novia for what she mistook as an insult at her shrine. After she used the Grail to reach star-class power in the Mooncell’s spiritron universe, Novia activated his Sun UO abilities and faced her attack.

• Amaterasu explained that Novia’s casual offering at her shrine had angered her, and she had followed him while disguised as a shrine guard.
• Amaterasu manifested as Golden-Haired White-Faced and used the Greater Grail to create a vast shrine and claim superiority over Novia.
• Novia called Amaterasu a fox and then suggested she could be a star, prompting the Mooncell Crystal to raise her power to star class.
• Novia activated his Sun UO abilities, burned away Amaterasu’s shrine, and stood firm against her cosmic punch as a vast star-filled expanse appeared behind him.

Novia destroyed Amaterasu, the final mastermind behind the FA Holy Grail War, and met MC, which asked him to become its master; he instead suggested it choose a Moon King. Back at Yggdmillennia’s castle, Jeanne used her Reality Marble and Noble Phantasm against Novia, then was shocked when he knew words she had not yet spoken aloud.

• Novia overwhelmed Amaterasu with a cosmic structure, and she died as the Greater Grail was destroyed.
• MC summoned Novia and asked him to become its master, but he suggested that it select a Moon King instead.
• Novia returned to Yggdmillennia’s castle, where Tlaloc realized Amakusa had deceived them and Jeanne apologized on Amakusa’s behalf.
• Jeanne drew Novia into her Reality Marble and began her Noble Phantasm, Red Lotus Saintess.
• Jeanne was stunned when Novia knew the final words of her chant before she spoke them.

Jeanne d'Arc attacked Novia with her life-consuming Noble Phantasm, but he survived and revealed his identities as the supreme sun Favia Tonatiuh, the King of the Huns Avia, and the Church's founder, The Holy One. Jeanne died regretting her attack, while the remaining Red Faction Servants decided to visit Novia before they disappeared.

• Jeanne d'Arc unleashed Red Lotus Saintess against Novia, who replaced her mental landscape with Domrémy and withstood the flames.
• Novia revealed his identities as Favia Tonatiuh, Avia, and The Holy One, summoning the sun, the Battle of Châlons, and figures from the Church's history.
• Jeanne d'Arc accepted her defeat and died regretting that she had attacked Novia, resolving to seek his forgiveness if they met again.
• Semiramis, Achilles, Atalanta, and Romulus gathered in the Hanging Gardens of Vanity after the Greater Grail vanished and discussed their impending disappearance.
• Romulus invited the others to meet Novia, and Achilles, Atalanta, and Semiramis agreed to go with him.

Novia reunited with Romulus and learned that the Divine Ancestor had brought members of the Red Faction to Yggdmillennia Castle. After hearing about Nero’s transformation into Draco, Romulus suggested that she might want to return to her former self but be unable to do so.

• After Jeanne’s Reality Marble vanished, Tlaloc tried to coax Novia into punishing her, while Abigail transformed into her earlier, unsettling form and embraced him from behind.
• Fran announced that a visitor had arrived, and Romulus entered, greeting Novia as his fellow Rome.
• Novia thanked Romulus for the help he had given him against the Regent of Heaven and asked him to pass his gratitude for Noah’s Zohar Stone along to the patriarch.
• Romulus asked why Nero was absent, and Novia explained that she had become the Beast Draco and was reluctant to appear in that form before others.
• Romulus said he thought he could turn Nero back, but Novia replied that he would not force her and would accept her as Draco if she preferred that form.
• Romulus proposed that Draco might want to become Nero again but be unable to, though Novia doubted the possibility.

Romulus Quirinus helped Draco regain the ability to change freely, and Nero reunited with Novia in Rome wearing a bridal dress. At Yggdmillennia’s castle, the former factions gathered peacefully, where Achilles and Siegfried began an arm-wrestling match.

• Romulus Quirinus summoned Draco and used his Noble Phantasm to let her return to Nero and choose her forms freely.
• Nero ran to the Pantheon, reunited with Novia, and insisted he take her as Nero before discovering she had grown fox ears.
• At Yggdmillennia’s castle, Semiramis struggled with the white doves’ praise of the Americas Sun God while the former factions gathered together.
• Achilles and Siegfried faced off in an arm-wrestling match, with Chiron refereeing and Astolfo cheering for Siegfried.
• Achilles found renewed determination when a girl called him her swift-footed big brother.

After Siegfried defeated Achilles in arm wrestling, Novia watched the surviving Servants depart now that the Greater Grail had been destroyed. Atalanta saw that Jack and the other abandoned children had been saved in another world, and she let go of her wish to change the past.

• Siegfried overcame Achilles in their arm-wrestling match, and Novia promised Achilles they could fight another time before Achilles and Chiron departed.
• Siegfried told Avia he had joined the war to see her, then departed alongside Mordred, who accepted that her future as the Storm King was her own choice.
• Fran stopped Afu from hugging Novia, then departed with him after asking Novia to meet her father and Edmond someday.
• Atalanta witnessed the suffering of abandoned children in Malignant City Babylon and nearly used Agrius Metamorphosis, but a silver-haired girl told her the children had already been saved in another world.
• Atalanta returned to the present with hope, knowing the children had found salvation even though her own wish remained unfulfilled.

After Semiramis vanished, Novia joined Chaldea as an Atlas Institute technical representative, where Mash, Da Vinci, and Romani learned of his arrival. At Chaldea’s entrance, Novia fell asleep as Fou hurried to help him, while the system’s final journey remained ahead.

• Novia told Semiramis he had cared for her because he had promised the white doves, and she vanished with them after accepting him as family.
• In Chaldea, Mash overheard Lev discussing the Atlas Institute’s incoming maintenance mage, and Da Vinci said the representative was named Novia.
• Da Vinci and Mash discussed Novia’s name and appearance, while Romani recognized the significance of the name and privately recalled seeing humanity’s coming end.
• Romani’s thoughts revealed that he was Solomon, who had become an ordinary human after winning the 2004 Fuyuki Holy Grail War and had since fought to prevent the world’s destruction.
• Novia reached Chaldea after arranging his technical assignment through Sion, saw the system’s Travel option refresh, and decided to settle in before undertaking its final journey.
• Novia collapsed at Chaldea’s entrance, and Fou rushed over to cushion him.

The chapter recounted the birth of the Indian Trimurti and introduced Kavia, a mysterious fourth being whose duty was unknown. After Shiva threatened to destroy Brahma, Kavia warned that he would destroy Shiva in return.

• Brahman dispersed after countless ages, and the golden egg, Vishnu, and Shiva emerged as the foundations of creation, preservation, and destruction.
• Brahma emerged from the golden egg, created the Five Great Elements, and claimed to be the true Brahman.
• Brahma and Vishnu searched for the ends of the Lingam, but Brahma lied about succeeding with the Screw Pine Flower as his witness.
• Shiva exposed Brahma's lie, severed one of his five heads, and rebuked him, while Vishnu admitted his own earlier mistake.
• Shiva and Vishnu noticed the blue light, which transformed into Kavia, a silver-haired man who said he did not know his duty.
• Shiva threatened to kill Brahma, and Kavia warned Shiva that he would destroy him if he did.

Kavia helped Vivasvat prepare for the great flood by giving him a ship blueprint, while Vishnu guided the survivors to safety. Afterward, Vivasvat made an oath for future humanity beneath the Four-Aspected Gods, and Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu acknowledged it.

• Kavia gave Vivasvat a blueprint for a great ship, and Vivasvat began gathering supplies to build it.
• Vishnu told Kavia he had taken over part of his work, and Kavia said he had helped humanity as an act of preservation.
• Vishnu transformed into Matsya and guided Vivasvat, the seven sages, and the preserved plant seeds through the flood to the snowy peaks.
• Vivasvat’s descendants established the Lunar and Sun King Dynasties, shaping the later history of India’s Age of Gods.
• Vivasvat asked Vishnu about the mysterious fourth god, and Vishnu identified him as Lord Kavia, the fourth beyond governance.
• After the flood, Vivasvat offered sacrifices and made an oath urging future generations to resist invaders, punish wickedness, and end wars; Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu heard him.

After Indra’s curse left the Devas withering, Vishnu proposed that the Devas and Asuras churn the Ocean of Milk for Amrita, but the ritual awaited Shiva’s help. Kavia attended Shiva and Sati’s private wedding, while Kama received a dangerous Arrow of Love from Tvashtar.

• Indra and Vritra agreed to cooperate in churning the Ocean of Milk after Vishnu proposed sharing its Amrita, and the Devas waited for Shiva’s consent.
• Tvashtar gave Kama a sugarcane bow and flower arrows, warning that the weapon could deepen her understanding of love and carried an unknown power from the Asuras.
• Kavia met Shiva and Sati in the forest, where Shiva asked him to attend their wedding and Sati welcomed him as a witness.
• Kavia suggested wedding clothes for Shiva and Sati, then witnessed their private marriage in the forest.

Kavia joined Shiva and Brahma as Vishnu led the Devas and Asuras in churning the Ocean of Milk to create Amrita. As the churning continued for centuries, Kavia reflected on his role among the Four-Aspected Gods, and new things began to emerge from the ocean.

• Vishnu began churning the Ocean of Milk with the Devas and Asuras, using Mount Mandara, Vasuki, and his Kurma avatar.
• Kavia and Shiva watched the Asuras suffer at Vasuki’s head while the Devas held the tail, and Brahma arrived to help.
• Kavia defended Brahma and Saraswati’s love, while Shiva revealed that he had married Sati.
• Kavia persuaded Brahma to bless Shiva and Sati, and Brahma used his divine power to ease the churning for the Devas and Asuras.
• Kavia told Shiva that he might preserve the Four-Aspected Gods rather than all things in the world, and the churning continued for several hundred years until new things began to appear in the Ocean of Milk.

Kavia noticed Indra had vanished while Vishnu, as Mohini, distracted the Asuras, and went to search for him. He found Indra fighting Vritra in the Underworld Realm, where the Asuras King defeated and brutally injured him.

• Vishnu transformed into Mohini and enchanted the Asuras, while Kavia told her he was going to find the missing Indra.
• Kavia vanished toward the depths of the Ocean of Milk as Mohini resumed dancing to keep the Asuras distracted.
• In the Underworld Realm, Vritra battled Indra with ghostly blue flames while Indra fought back with lightning.
• Vritra overwhelmed Indra, tore off his arms, and slammed him into the ground as his wounds repeatedly reopened.
• Indra blamed his defeat on the Vajra suddenly stopping its work.

Kavia appeared in the Underworld Realm, stopped time, rescued Indra, and confronted Tvashtar and Vritra over their plot. After sending Indra back to Mount Meru and setting terms for both gods, Kavia agreed to take the unconscious Kama back as Tvashtar confessed his role in the incident.

• Tvashtar revealed that he had disabled Indra’s Vajra and teamed up with Vritra to take revenge for his child Vishvarupa.
• As Tvashtar prepared to kill the battered Indra, Kavia appeared, stopped time, shattered Tvashtar’s axe, and healed Indra.
• Kavia sent Indra back to Mount Meru with the Amrita and told him and Tvashtar that they both had to make amends.
• Kavia stripped Vritra of her position as First King of the Asuras, then allowed her to guard his door after refusing her request to become his attendant.
• Tvashtar asked Kavia to take the unconscious Kama back to Mount Meru and confessed that he had used her Arrow of Love to bring Indra to the Underworld Realm.

Kama woke at home after sleeping through the end of the churning of the Ocean of Milk and learned that Vritra had brought her there on Kavia’s orders. She traveled to Kavia’s residence in the Himalayas to thank him, but Vritra barred her from entering without his permission.

• Kama woke in her unfamiliar new bed and found Rati watering plants outside.
• Rati told Kama that the gods had obtained the Amrita, defeated the Asuras, and that Rahu had become immortal while his body became Ketu.
• Kama learned that Vritra had carried her home and changed her bedding on Kavia’s orders.
• Kama asked Rati where Kavia lived, then flew to his residence in the Himalayas.
• Vritra stopped Kama at Kavia’s gate and refused to let her inside without Kavia’s orders.

Kavia named the infant Jalandhara, born from Shiva’s wrath after Indra killed an ascetic, and resolved to watch the powerful child closely. The chapter then shifted to Kama, who had recently become exceptionally diligent across the earth.

• After Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu were defeated, Indra killed an ascetic to prevent others from gaining power through austerities.
• Shiva’s anger became a child in the sea, and Varuna entrusted the infant to a mermaid whose own unborn child he had accidentally killed.
• Kavia visited the mermaid and named the child Jalandhara.
• Kavia reflected that Jalandhara had appeared far earlier than expected and decided to keep a close watch on him.
• Kama became exceptionally diligent and appeared throughout the earth.

Kama went to the seaside hoping to see Makara, where she encountered Jalandhara and nearly became his target after her cockatoo showed hostility. Kavia stopped Jalandhara, invited Kama to join them, and witnessed Jalandhara and the mice perform a hymn of praise to him.

• Kama visited the seaside to look for Makara and found Jalandhara riding the sea creature instead of Varuna.
• Jalandhara gathered power from the ocean and prepared to attack Kama, but Kavia appeared and called him by name.
• Kavia rebuked Jalandhara for threatening Kama over the cockatoo’s hostility and gave him a Veena as a gift.
• Kavia invited Kama to dinner with Jalandhara, and they went to a forest where mice serving Shiva cared for Jalandhara.
• The mice prepared a ceremonial gathering, and Jalandhara led them in singing a hymn of praise to Kavia.

Kama reflected on Kavia’s wish for the world’s peace and resolved to keep working toward it. Meanwhile, Lakshmi’s jealousy over Vishnu’s devotion to Kavia and his other devotees erupted into a demand that his heart belong only to her.

• Kavia told Kama that he watched over her and hoped the world could continue in peace, and she realized she shared that wish.
• Kama decided to keep working hard after Kavia encouraged her.
• Shesha told Lakshmi that Vishnu meditated on his devotees or Kavia and repeated Narada’s claim that Vishnu would take many wives.
• Lakshmi confronted Vishnu about whom he thought of while meditating, and he honestly admitted that Kavia, Shiva, Lakshmi, his devotees, and the peaceful world were in his heart.
• Hearing the five young women praise Vishnu, Lakshmi demanded that he change the truth and make his heart belong to her alone.

Vishnu lost his memories after granting five devotees’ wish to marry them, and Kavia agreed to resolve the crisis. Shiva confronted the amnesiac Vishnu, but their battle ended with both gods bound by their weapons, leaving Vishnu’s memories as the key to freeing them.

• Lakshmi demanded Vishnu’s undivided love, and Vishnu left for his devotees after refusing her request.
• The five devotees asked Vishnu to marry them, erase his memories, and abandon his duties; Vishnu granted their wish and lost his memories.
• Shesha sought Kavia’s help, and Kavia promised to resolve Vishnu’s predicament while Vritra celebrated being the strongest Asura in Kavia’s heart.
• Kavia arrived at the forest where Vishnu lived with the five women, and Shiva joined him, insisting that he would handle Vishnu.
• Vishnu confronted Shiva, and their battle shook the Three Worlds as the gods and Lakshmi watched in alarm.
• Shiva and Vishnu unleashed divine weapons that bound them both; Vishnu needed to regain his memories before he could release his hold.

After Kavia helped restore Vishnu’s memories, the gods reconciled and peace returned to the Three Worlds. Indra then encountered Jalandhara, recognized Shiva’s wrath in him, and attacked him with the Vajra.

• Kavia reminded Vishnu of his identity and explained that Shiva was trying to restore his memories.
• The five girls released Vishnu from their vow, restoring his memories and recalling his time as Mohini; Vishnu apologized to Shiva and Kama, and Brahma joined their reconciliation.
• Narada told Indra about a remarkable young talent near Varuna’s territory, prompting Indra to suspect the boy might be Shiva’s wrath cast into the sea.
• Indra traveled to investigate, but his chariot became stuck in the mud until Jalandhara freed it.
• Indra recognized Shiva’s wrath in Jalandhara and hurled his Vajra at him despite the Sage of the Sacrifices’ warning.