Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo and Artoria continued their turn-based contest, with Avalon blocking his attacks and Young Gil explaining its defenses. Chen Luo then tested a different world’s power by unfolding a golden bounded field against Artoria’s Avalon.

• Artoria revealed Avalon, which completely blocked Chen Luo’s Fantasy Collapse-enhanced Gungnir, and Young Gil explained that even EA could not breach it.
• Artoria charged Chen Luo with Excalibur, but her normal strike also failed to hurt him; she then avoided his Noble Phantasm-sealing bug by putting Excalibur away.
• Chen Luo considered using the bug, but joked that it could activate on its own, then dismissed it and completed Merlin’s mission by refusing to defeat Artoria with it.
• Young Gil warned Chen Luo that Avalon could reflect attacks, and Chen Luo used a Command Spell to order Morgan to hit Merlin with three Gungnirs.
• Chen Luo unfolded an enormous golden bounded field around himself and Artoria, who activated Avalon in response, causing another silent collision.

Chen Luo tested his golden Divine Grace Barrier against Artoria’s Avalon, which endured the mana-draining attack for its full one-minute duration. Artoria then failed to hit Chen Luo, leaving the match at best a draw, and Chen Luo prepared to test whether Gungnir could pierce Avalon.

• Herrscher of Knowledge and Gil tested the barrier, while Kiritsugu Emiya discovered that it drained mana and could threaten Servants and Magi.
• Artoria maintained Avalon throughout the barrier’s one-minute duration, surviving Chen Luo’s attack before recovering her mana with a Command Spell.
• Artoria attacked Chen Luo with Excalibur but could not touch him because of his Void Stealth, making a draw the best possible result for Kiritsugu Emiya.
• Kiritsugu Emiya used another Command Spell to restore Artoria’s mana, and Chen Luo asked whether piercing the world would let a weapon pierce Avalon.
• Chen Luo took out a genuine golden Gungnir and wondered whether it could pierce Avalon.

Chen Luo used the Friendship Revolver to defeat Artoria under the contract’s injury and status-effect rules, then abruptly left to answer a commission to save Tohsaka Tokiomi. After healing Tohsaka Tokiomi with his modified cocoon ability, Chen Luo questioned Assassin about Kirei Kotomine’s betrayal.

• Chen Luo empowered himself with his summons and prepared to attack Artoria with Gungnir, but put it away and shot her with the Friendship Revolver instead.
• Gilgamesh explained that the contract judged the winner one minute after the match, and the revolver’s ten-minute laughter effect left Artoria’s side set to lose despite Avalon.
• Chen Luo vanished, leaving Herrscher of Knowledge to take Artoria and Kiritsugu Emiya to the Matou Residence while they waited for the result.
• Chen Luo found Tohsaka Tokiomi critically wounded and received a commission to save him, then used his modified Break Cocoon into Butterfly ability to heal him.
• Chen Luo summoned Assassin and asked why she had not warned him that Kirei Kotomine would betray Tohsaka Tokiomi; Assassin recounted how Kirei had first offered to transfer his remaining Assassins and received praise from Tohsaka Tokiomi.

Chen Luo learned that Kirei Kotomine had stabbed Tohsaka Tokiomi after Gilgamesh heightened Kirei’s pleasure, and he rescued Tohsaka Tokiomi while deciding to handle the fallout. A new contract bound Artoria to Chen Luo, and the chapter ended with Chen Luo receiving a cursed sword that stabbed whoever gave it away.

• Chen Luo learned that Kirei Kotomine had stabbed Tohsaka Tokiomi after Gilgamesh secretly heightened Kirei’s pleasure, and he decided to clean up after his Servant.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi emerged from the cocoon, and Chen Luo altered his consciousness and sent him back to sleep.
• Assassin cleaned the blood from the Tohsaka household while Chen Luo considered how to reform Kirei Kotomine.
• Chen Luo received a Command Spell and a mana connection to Artoria through the contract involving Kiritsugu Emiya, then wondered whether fulfilling Artoria’s wish by pulling Excalibur would destroy the world.
• Chen Luo completed Merlin’s, Kiritsugu Emiya’s, and Tohsaka Tokiomi’s commissions, receiving the Azoth Sword, which would stab whoever gave it away.

Chen Luo learned that Kirei Kotomine was heading to Einzbern Castle while Makiri tried to talk Kiritsugu Emiya out of his rigid justice. Meanwhile, Morgan tricked Artoria into believing Merlin was trapped inside a statue, and Artoria prepared to free him with her sword.

• Chen Luo learned that Kirei Kotomine had gone to Einzbern Castle to find Kiritsugu Emiya and decided to deal with the cursed sword by storing it away.
• Chen Luo used his Clairvoyance to observe the others while Makiri introduced himself to Kiritsugu Emiya and tried to change his Justice Embodiment mindset.
• Artoria joined Morgan and the Herrscher of Knowledge, while Merlin stood motionless with his eyes closed because of Chen Luo's Command Spell.
• Morgan struck Merlin with Gungnir, then told Artoria that he was sealed inside a statue and could be freed by breaking it.
• Merlin used an illusion to make Artoria believe his body was stone, and Morgan urged her to use Excalibur to release him.
• Artoria accepted Morgan's explanation and raised her sword toward Merlin.

Chen Luo warned Kiritsugu Emiya that Kirei Kotomine was attacking Einzbern Castle and opened a door so Kiritsugu and Artoria could rush to defend it. At the castle, Kirei defeated Maya Hisau and confronted Irisviel.

• Morgan noticed Chen Luo watching her and Artoria, while Chen warned Kiritsugu that Kirei was heading for Einzbern Castle.
• Kiritsugu accepted Chen Luo's offer to leave the Matou residence, and Chen sent Kiritsugu and Artoria through a door to the castle.
• Chen had Merlin use his Clairvoyance to broadcast the fight, while Herrscher of Knowledge identified Kirei as Tohsaka Tokiomi's betrayer.
• Kirei dodged Maya Hisau's first shots by feigning death, then wounded and overpowered her when she approached.
• Kirei turned from Maya and confronted Irisviel outside Einzbern Castle.

Irisviel and Maya Hisau confronted Kirei Kotomine, but Kiritsugu Emiya arrived and fought him while Artoria battled the Command Seal-boosted Assassins. Chen Luo explained that he had arranged the confrontation to help correct Kiritsugu Emiya and Kirei Kotomine, and decided their clash had gone far enough.

• Irisviel attacked Kirei Kotomine with silver-thread magecraft, but he broke free and overpowered her.
• Kirei Kotomine used six Command Seals to strengthen five Assassins and ordered them to hold Artoria back while Irisviel helped the wounded Maya Hisau escape.
• Kiritsugu Emiya confronted Kirei Kotomine, who used up his Command Seals to reinforce his Black Keys and charge; Kiritsugu avoided his attack with Time Alter.
• Chen Luo told the Herrscher of Knowledge that Kirei Kotomine could not compel the puppet-transformed Assassins, despite the Command Seals.
• Chen Luo explained that he had arranged the confrontation to help correct Makiri, Kiritsugu Emiya, and Kirei Kotomine, then said the fight had gone far enough.

After Kirei Kotomine was knocked unconscious by his own Assassin, Chen Luo explained how he had taken control of the other Assassins and compensated for Maya Hisau’s injuries. He took Kiritsugu Emiya to a peaceful world of puppets, leaving Kiritsugu to weigh whether peace without war could still be meaningful when its inhabitants were puppets.

• Kirei Kotomine ordered Assassin to kill Irisviel, but the Assassin struck Kirei unconscious under Chen Luo’s control.
• Artoria confronted Chen Luo, who explained that he had turned the Assassins into puppets to learn about Kirei Kotomine through Kiritsugu Emiya’s fight.
• Chen Luo gave the injured Assassins recovery items, sent medicine to Maya Hisau, and wrapped Kirei Kotomine in threads to transform him.
• Kiritsugu Emiya asked Chen Luo about achieving world peace, and Chen Luo used “You Are a Puppet” to take him to a peaceful world.
• Kiritsugu Emiya returned and questioned whether a world of puppets counted as peace, while Chen Luo contrasted them with people the Holy Grail might turn into emotionless beings.

Chen Luo challenged Kiritsugu Emiya’s belief that the few should be sacrificed for the many, then sent him to speak with Makiri while Gil took Kirei Kotomine for treatment. Artoria remained unconvinced and accepted a new wager with Chen Luo, who used his ability to claim Avalon as a building and began turning her defense against her.

• Chen Luo asked Kiritsugu Emiya to choose between using the Holy Grail for world peace or letting Chen Luo save two other civilizations, and Kiritsugu Emiya chose to give Chen Luo the Grail.
• Chen Luo sent Kiritsugu Emiya to spend the night at the Matou Residence with Makiri, and Kiritsugu Emiya handed Avalon to Artoria before leaving.
• Chen Luo sent Kirei Kotomine away with Gil, who agreed to try to suppress Kirei Kotomine’s awakened pleasure-seeking nature.
• Chen Luo proposed a wager to Artoria: if he could not injure her, he would transfer her Servant contract to Irisviel; if he won, Artoria would grant his wish and sincerely serve him.
• Artoria agreed to the wager, invoked Avalon, and watched as Chen Luo used Psychopaths Don't Die Empty-Handed to claim Avalon as a building.

Chen Luo defeated Altria and took Avalon, then tested whether Liu Wenxuan could safely use the Collective Network to gain abilities. He found that downloading knowledge began an irreversible soul Puppet Transformation, so he gave Liu Wenxuan a Talent Crystal instead, leaving him exhausted after its S-rank Butterfly Transformation fused.

• Chen Luo seized Avalon from Altria, activated its true name, and claimed victory, making her serve him and call Morgan Sister King.
• Chen Luo discovered Kiritsugu Emiya had spent two of Saber's Command Spells and ordered Makiri to discipline him.
• Chen Luo temporarily treated Liu Wenxuan as a puppet and let him download the knowledge of Chen Luo's name through the Collective Network.
• Chen Luo saw that even the tiny download began changing Liu Wenxuan's soul, so he abandoned the method of using the network to give others Talents.
• Liu Wenxuan swallowed the Talent Crystal containing the S-rank Butterfly Transformation ability and endured a severe headache as it fused with him.

Chen Luo gave Liu Wenxuan a modified S-rank Break Cocoon into Butterfly talent and bound him with a contract to keep it secret and unused on others. He then offered talents from the Collective Network to his companions, while explaining his cost limits; Su Yuan declined, choosing to focus on cultivating her Sword Immortal abilities.

• Chen Luo checked Liu Wenxuan's compatibility with Break Cocoon into Butterfly and confirmed he had become a double S-rank Talent User, though the talent's effects had changed and weakened somewhat.
• Chen Luo made Liu Wenxuan sign a contract forbidding him from using Break Cocoon into Butterfly on others or revealing that he possessed it.
• Chen Luo explained that he stayed cautious in the main world because he knew too little about it and feared interference from forces beyond the world.
• Chen Luo gave Liu Wenxuan a list of Collective Network abilities and asked him to gather the others' choices, explaining that his limited cost constrained what he could provide.
• Su Yuan declined a new talent because she wanted to develop her Sword Immortal abilities independently, while Liu Wenxuan's existing abilities complemented Break Cocoon into Butterfly.

Chen Luo arranged potential Talents for Su Yuan and Yun Xia, received modified Magic Circuits and a Magic Crest from Morgan, and checked on the lessons for Kiritsugu Emiya and Kirei Kotomine. The chapter left Makiri and Kiritsugu Emiya discussing how to save humanity while Kirei Kotomine began to feel something after seeing Risei Kotomine welcome him home.

• Su Yuan declined a Talent, while Yun Xia considered choosing an S-rank ability and agreed to tell Yun Lian'er about the possibility later.
• Morgan returned Chen Luo's modified Magic Circuits and made a Magic Crest for Sakura, though she said encoding the Holy Lance would take too much time.
• Chen Luo checked on Makiri and Kiritsugu Emiya, who discussed their shared desire to save humanity and what wish they would make with the Holy Grail.
• Chen Luo reminded Makiri through the Collective Network not to forget his mission to teach Kiritsugu Emiya to change his approach.
• Gil took Kirei Kotomine to report his safe return to Risei Kotomine, whose concern for his son stirred something in Kirei.

Chen Luo abandoned Gil and Makiri’s unsuccessful lessons and used his Friendship Face-Breaker Punch to correct Kirei Kotomine while Kiritsugu Emiya endured a trial in The World's Evil. After restoring Kiritsugu and hearing his reaction, Chen Luo prepared to eradicate the remaining evil beneath Ryudoji Temple.

• Gil and Makiri admitted they had not made Kiritsugu Emiya or Kirei Kotomine more normal, so Chen Luo took over.
• Chen Luo threw Kiritsugu Emiya into The World's Evil and asked Kirei Kotomine what he wanted to do with it.
• Kirei Kotomine kept wishing for The World's Evil to descend, so Chen Luo turned him into a puppet and repeatedly punched him until he became somewhat more normal.
• Chen Luo pulled Kiritsugu Emiya from the black mud, restored him with time power, and asked what he had learned from the experience.
• Kiritsugu Emiya recognized the danger The World's Evil posed, and Chen Luo turned to destroy the tiny amount that remained.

Chen Luo absorbed The World's Evil into a repaired Einzbern homunculus and used Puppet Marks to bring it under his control. The evil disappeared, leaving behind a blank, black-clad puppet that might eventually become Angra Mainyu.

• Chen Luo considered making The World's Evil his Servant, but rejected Kirei Kotomine's offer to serve as its vessel and kept him under puppet control.
• Chen Luo placed a repaired Einzbern homunculus into the black mud and seeded her body with Puppet Marks to assimilate The World's Evil.
• After ten minutes, The World's Evil vanished into the homunculus, and Chen Luo received confirmation that Alaya's mission was complete.
• Chen Luo realized Alaya's promised Third Magic would be delivered separately, then watched the homunculus emerge wearing a black ceremonial dress.
• Chen Luo recognized that the blank puppet might eventually develop into Angra Mainyu, while Kiritsugu Emiya and Kirei Kotomine watched her.

Chen Luo separated Angra Mainyu from The World's Evil, leaving the homunculus alive as a powerful puppet and restoring the Greater Holy Grail's magical energy with Prism Cosmos. After completing Kiritsugu Emiya's request to save Irisviel and Makiri's request to purify the Grail, Chen Luo prepared to collect Alaya's reward.

• Chen Luo questioned The World's Evil, then separated Angra Mainyu's consciousness and sent it to the Collective Network while preserving The World's Evil inside Childhood Fun Park.
• Chen Luo placed the living, blank homunculus in the Puppet Collection Vault beside Yvette so she could be cared for and educated.
• Chen Luo equipped Prism Cosmos on the Greater Holy Grail, restoring its magical energy and setting up a new summoning ritual; Gil, Merlin, and Chen Luo discussed Merlin's promised deaths.
• Kiritsugu Emiya asked about saving Irisviel from becoming the Lesser Grail, and a commission appeared offering rewards for her escape from that fate.
• Kiritsugu Emiya declined the Holy Grail, and Chen Luo received confirmation that his mission to restore the complete Holy Grail for Makiri was complete.

After purifying the Greater Holy Grail, Chen Luo brought Kiritsugu Emiya back to Einzbern Castle and went to claim his reward from Alaya. Artoria and Irisviel considered whether Morgan, Merlin, and Chen Luo could save Irisviel from her fate as the Lesser Holy Grail, while Alaya handed Chen Luo a Crystal Ball containing Justicia’s remaining consciousness.

• Chen Luo explained how to enter the bar and escape danger, then took Kiritsugu Emiya and the others through it to Einzbern Castle.
• Kiritsugu Emiya reunited with Illya, learned Irisviel was at a house in Fuyuki City, and Chen Luo commanded Artoria to bring her to the Matou Residence.
• Artoria told Irisviel that Morgan and Merlin might be able to summon the Holy Grail without her sacrifice, and Irisviel agreed to ask them for help.
• Chen Luo met Alaya and assured her that the World's Evil would not return to the parallel world.
• Alaya gave Chen Luo a Crystal Ball containing Justicia’s remaining consciousness, which would let him obtain the truncated version of the Third Magic.

Chen Luo received Justicia’s soul and a reduced, shareable version of the Third Magic from Alaya, then explained why he would equip the magic without materializing his own soul. The chapter ended with Gil asking how Chen Luo could share it.

• Alaya gave Chen Luo a crystal ball containing Justicia’s remaining consciousness and confirmed that it represented a reduced version of the Third Magic.
• Chen Luo agreed to help Alaya again if the reward was generous, and Alaya said it would not object to him saving Irisviel or making a wish with the Holy Grail.
• After waking, Chen Luo spent one Primogem to separate the Third Magic from Justicia’s soul, then began turning Justicia’s incomplete soul into a puppet.
• Chen Luo offered to share the Third Magic with Gil, while dismissing Merlin’s request because Merlin was only a clone.
• Chen Luo explained that the reduced Third Magic could provide its user with a limited but inexhaustible supply of magical energy, and that he would keep it equipped rather than materialize his soul.
• Gil asked Chen Luo how he planned to share the reduced Third Magic.

Chen Luo offered Merlin a transmissible version of Soul Materialization and arranged for Morgan to hear about it. After Irisviel arrived to retrieve Kiritsugu, Chen Luo promised to help save her as the Lesser Holy Grail and explained to Artoria that the Holy Grail could not grant her wish under its usual rules, though he hinted that another method might destroy the world.

• Chen Luo explained that his weakened Soul Materialization required drinking his blood and receiving periodic magical energy, and Merlin suggested that Morgan could benefit from it.
• Merlin left to tell Morgan about Soul Materialization while Chen Luo waited for Irisviel and Artoria to arrive.
• Irisviel found Kiritsugu and Kirei calmly watching each other, and Kiritsugu told her that Chen Luo had promised to help with her Lesser Holy Grail problem.
• Artoria asked Chen Luo whether he could save Irisviel, and she accepted his help after he insisted she call him Master.
• Chen Luo explained that the Holy Grail could not grant Artoria's wish through its normal rules, then suggested that an alternative involving Excalibur might destroy the world.

Chen Luo created a temporary replacement Lesser Grail so Irisviel could survive the Holy Grail’s appearance, then gathered the remaining participants to witness the ceremony. Irisviel stayed inside the bar while Iskandar, Waver, Makiri, Tohsaka Tokiomi, and Kirei Kotomine arrived to watch.

• Chen Luo offered Irisviel a permanent cure or a temporary fix, and she chose the temporary option after learning another homunculus might die in her place.
• Chen Luo copied the Lesser Grail’s function into a puppet duplicate of Irisviel and announced that it was ready for the Holy Grail’s appearance.
• Irisviel stayed inside the bar because her original Lesser Grail functions could override the duplicate if she went outside.
• Iskandar, Waver, and Makiri arrived to watch the ceremony, and Iskandar greeted Artoria, who dismissed his suggestion that she obtain a physical body.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi and Kirei Kotomine arrived, and Tokiomi said he wanted to witness someone obtain the Holy Grail despite losing the war.

Chen Luo killed Merlin to place his soul in the Lesser Grail, then used a Command Spell to revive him, proving that Merlin could count toward the Holy Grail’s required Servant souls without staying dead. The Greater Holy Grail was fully charged, and the others watched from the bar as Chen Luo’s method succeeded.

• Tohsaka Tokiomi sensed an unexpected threat from Matou Kariya, while Chen Luo considered having Kirei Kotomine stabbed by Tohsaka Tokiomi.
• Morgan said the Holy Grail could not fulfill her wish of crossing a Lostbelt, and she hesitated when Chen Luo offered her the Third Magic.
• The Greater Holy Grail charged to 105%, and Chen Luo sent everyone except Merlin into the bar before preparing to summon it.
• Chen Luo killed Merlin with the Azoth Sword, sending Merlin’s soul into the Lesser Grail as Artoria watched.
• Chen Luo used a Command Spell to revive Merlin at full strength, leaving Merlin alive while his soul remained in the Lesser Grail.