Recaps

Allen continued helping Sakura recover from her nightmares before setting out to stop Caster, whose crimes had left dozens of children dead in Fuyuki City. After finding a sewer full of murdered children alongside Rider and Waver, Allen revived them and left the search for Caster’s hideout to the others.

• Vilnalasath praised Sakura’s recovery, while Allen admitted he was struggling with the responsibility of raising her and discussed her growing power.
• After Sakura fell asleep, Allen and Vilnalasath discussed Rider and Waver’s search for Caster and the difficulty of tracking Gilles de Rais and Uryuu Ryunosuke.
• Rider and Waver raced through the sewers and found a chamber filled with the tortured bodies of children.
• Allen arrived with his Wolf Pack, agreed with Rider that the perpetrators deserved punishment, and refused to formally join forces with him.
• Allen restored the children’s bodies and returned their souls, bringing them back to life as Waver and Iskandar watched in shock.

Allen explained that his apparent resurrection only restored bodies and returned souls that had not yet departed, then left Rider to bring the rescued children to safety while he continued hunting for their killers. Meanwhile, the French Marshal and Uryuu Ryunosuke prepared a citywide attack with Abyss Seeds, and Tokiomi arranged for Aoi and Rin to leave Fuyuki.

• Allen explained to Waver and Rider that he could revive only people whose souls remained nearby, then left the rescued children with Rider as he searched for the two killers.
• Rider took the children to a police station, where Waver used hypnosis magecraft to keep their rescue from causing trouble for them.
• Uryuu Ryunosuke and the French Marshal planned a mass attack and sent Uryuu to scatter Abyss Seeds across Fuyuki.
• The Abyss Seeds began hatching into monsters that manipulated people with dreams and drove some victims to violence or suicide.
• Tokiomi told Aoi and Rin to stay with the Zenchou family, explaining that he feared the Holy Grail War and Sakura's power could put them in danger.

Young Rin survived a dangerous Magecraft book and later confronted a knife-wielding killer, but Uryuu Ryunosuke trapped her and nearly attacked her. Allen rescued Rin, severed Uryuu Ryunosuke’s leg, and demanded to know where Caster was hiding.

• Rin secretly entered Tokiomi’s Magecraft workshop, opened a dangerous book, and was nearly seized by hands reaching from its pages.
• Tokiomi rescued Rin, gave her a Magic Power Pointer, and warned her to avoid objects that produced a strong reaction.
• On her way home, Rin used the pointer to identify a knife-wielding boy as dangerous, kicked him between the legs, and fled.
• Uryuu Ryunosuke blocked Rin’s escape, caught her, and tried to hypnotize her before kicking her in the head.
• Allen appeared through a spatial tunnel, rescued Rin, severed Uryuu Ryunosuke’s right leg, and demanded to know where Caster was hiding.

Allen captured Uryuu Ryunosuke but could not force him to use his Command Spell, then told young Rin about Sakura’s torture in the Matou family. Rin revealed what she learned to Tokiomi, who left in fury to seek revenge against the Matou family.

• Allen tortured Uryuu Ryunosuke in an illusion, but the serial killer enjoyed the pain and refused to summon Caster with his Command Spell.
• Allen warned young Rin to stay home during the Holy Grail War and explained that Sakura had been tortured by Matou Zouken after her adoption.
• Rin broke down over Sakura’s suffering, then returned home and told Tokiomi and Aoi what Allen had revealed.
• Tokiomi realized Matou Zouken had used Sakura as a tool to prolong his life and left, intent on destroying the Matou family.

Matou Tsuruno’s hope of taking control of the Matou family ended when Tohsaka Tokiomi burned down the estate over what Zouken had done to Sakura. At the Einzbern castle, Rider invited Saber to drink and discuss the Grail, but Allen arrived and challenged Rider’s choice of wine.

• Matou Tsuruno considered how to claim the family’s wealth and remove Sakura from the inheritance, but Tohsaka Tokiomi attacked the Matou estate over Zouken’s treatment of his daughter.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi set the Matou mansion ablaze, killing Matou Tsuruno and Matou Shinji and ending the family’s place in the magecraft world.
• Rider Iskandar entered the Einzbern castle uninvited and persuaded Saber and Irisviel to join him for wine in the garden.
• Rider proposed that the Servants settle who deserved the Holy Grail by comparing their visions and stature, then offered wine to Saber.
• Allen landed nearby in a bolt of Thunder and explained that Rider’s industrially produced wine was inferior to fine wine.

At the Banquet of Kings, Allen challenged Gilgamesh’s claim to the Holy Grail and offered the other kings wine, food, and books to prompt them to reconsider their rule. He urged Artoria in particular to read The Prince as the discussion of kingship began.

• Gilgamesh questioned Allen’s right to attend, and Allen explained that he had once ruled Utopia before it became a republic.
• Allen produced a feast and Morning Dew Wine, which Rider, Saber, and Gilgamesh sampled and praised.
• Saber asked whether Rider had called them together to fight over the Holy Grail, and Rider explained that he wanted a debate about who deserved to claim it.
• Gilgamesh declared that the Holy Grail belonged to him, while Allen and Saber challenged his claim and demanded evidence.
• Allen gave the kings copies of The Prince and advised them to reflect on their past decisions, especially urging Artoria to consider why she had failed.

Rider, Gilgamesh, Saber, and Allen debated what it meant to be a king and what they would wish for from the Holy Grail. Allen condemned rulers who served only their own desires, while Saber defended her wish to undo Britain’s destruction and the chapter ended with Rider rejecting regret over the fate of his empire.

• Rider praised The Prince, but Gilgamesh dismissed its ideas and declared that a king’s laws were whatever he proclaimed.
• Rider revealed that he wanted the Holy Grail to give him a living body, prompting Gilgamesh to vow to kill him and Rider to threaten his treasury.
• Allen unleashed Conqueror’s Haki, knocking Waver unconscious and shocking Irisviel, while Rider and Gilgamesh withstood the pressure.
• Allen argued that a true king should shoulder responsibility and improve the lives of the people, and Rider and Gilgamesh rejected his ideal as a form of servitude.
• Saber said she wanted to change Britain’s fate because she regretted its destruction, but Gilgamesh mocked her and Rider argued that a king should never regret the outcome of his rule.

At the Feast of Kings, Allen challenged Rider and Gilgamesh’s views on kingship while helping Saber understand how her selflessness had alienated her subjects. The debate ended when Assassin’s Black-Clad Men surrounded the courtyard, revealing that Tohsaka Tokiomi had made his move.

• Artoria defended a king’s duty to sacrifice for the nation, and Rider argued that a king must embody strong desires and guide the people.
• Gilgamesh mocked Saber’s troubled expression, prompting Allen to rebuke him for sexually harassing her.
• Allen explained that Saber had failed to connect with her subjects by erasing her identity as Artoria, while Rider had failed to govern his conquered lands responsibly.
• Rider asked why Allen would not rule as a wise king, and Allen said he sought strength to slay gods rather than political power.
• Allen spotted figures surrounding the courtyard, and Assassin’s Black-Clad Men appeared as Tohsaka Tokiomi made his move.

Assassin interrupted the Banquet of Kings, prompting Rider to summon his Army of the King and overwhelm the Hassans. As Saber questioned her fitness to rule, Allen urged Artoria to accept that Britain’s fall was not hers alone to bear and to consider her own future.

• The Hassans surrounded the banquet, and Rider prepared to answer their attack after one cut his wine ladle and stained his shirt.
• Rider summoned his Inherent Domain, revealed his bond with his army, and argued that a king was not solitary.
• Rider led his army in a charge that swiftly crushed the Hassans.
• Allen explained to Saber that war was the strong dominating the weak, while Saber wondered whether she was unfit to be king.
• Allen told Artoria that her virtues did not make her responsible for Britain’s fall alone, and urged her to let go of the past and question whether the Grail could change her homeland’s history.

After the kings’ banquet, Saber struggled with Rider’s condemnation of her ideals while Allen encouraged her to keep fighting on her own terms. Tohsaka Tokiomi began the next phase of his plan, and Allen returned home to find Sakura had been training against Uryuu Ryunosuke before deciding to use him as bait for Caster.

• Rider rejected Saber’s claim to kingship and warned her to abandon her dream, while Golden Flash encouraged her to persist.
• Allen told Saber she was free to choose her path and urged her to fight as a warrior; Irisviel and Saber then speculated that Allen came from a modern era in a parallel world.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi ordered Kotomine Kirei to begin phase two and send Archer after Rider and Berserker.
• Allen returned to find Sakura practicing combat on Uryuu Ryunosuke, healed her cut, and told her to think independently.
• After Sakura went to bed, Allen decided to use Uryuu Ryunosuke as bait to draw out Caster.

Allen used Uryuu Ryunosuke as bait to lure out Gilles de Rais, but Caster instead demanded a hostage exchange after kidnapping Aoi and Rin. Allen agreed to exchange Rin for Uryuu first, while Emiya Kiritsugu and Hisau Maiya continued monitoring the situation.

• Allen waited at Fuyuki harbor with the impaled Uryuu Ryunosuke, hoping to draw out Gilles de Rais, but the trap failed.
• A giant Sea Demon arrived with a photograph of Aoi, Rin, and Sakura, and Caster proposed exchanging Aoi for Uryuu before later releasing Rin.
• Allen demanded proof that the hostages were safe and insisted that Rin be exchanged first; Caster agreed to meet at midnight the next day.
• Uryuu told Gilles de Rais to pursue his goals regardless of Uryuu's fate, and Allen took him back to his building after Caster's Sea Demon departed.
• Hisau Maiya reported the encounter to Emiya Kiritsugu, who ordered her to keep watching Allen and vowed to take the Holy Grail for himself.

Gilles de Rais took Rin and used a black egg to threaten Aoi, while Allen planned to exploit the hostage situation to track him down. Allen visited Irisviel at her new residence, explained that the Holy Grail would consume her, and told her Kiritsugu’s wish could never be fulfilled.

• Gilles de Rais seized Rin, froze her with suggestion magic, and forced a writhing black egg into Aoi’s mouth as a threat against Berserker.
• Allen woke beside Sakura and decided to inspect the Holy Grail, while using Rin’s Flying Thunder God mark and Uryuu Ryunosuke to pursue Gilles de Rais.
• Allen and Sakura drove to Emiya Kiritsugu’s new residence, where Saber and Irisviel had arrived.
• Allen explained that Irisviel’s growing magical power made her the vessel of the Holy Grail and that she would lose her life, personality, and memories as more Servants died.
• Irisviel asked whether Kiritsugu’s wish would come true, and Allen said the contaminated Holy Grail and Kiritsugu’s naïve wish made that impossible.

Allen told Irisviel that the Holy Grail had been corrupted by Angra Mainyu and would twist any wish into a catastrophe, leaving her to decide whether to escape her fate. Later, he treated Sakura to ice cream and met Rider and Waver, showing off his wealth and warning them about nuclear weapons.

• Allen explained to Irisviel that Angra Mainyu had corrupted the Holy Grail and asked whether she still intended to become its vessel.
• Irisviel questioned Allen's certainty, then kept his warning from Saber until she could speak with Kiritsugu.
• Allen told Sakura that Irisviel might sacrifice herself for her mission and rewarded her with ice cream.
• Allen, Sakura, Rider, and Waver met at a dessert shop, where Allen teased Waver and offered to pay for their food.
• Allen bought the shop for a huge sum, displayed gold and gemstones, and refused Rider's proposal to join forces to conquer the world.
• Allen warned Rider and Waver that nuclear weapons could destroy Fuyuki City, and Rider became curious about their power.

Allen explained to Iskandar why conquering the modern world was impossible, then revealed to Rider and Waver that he came from a parallel modern world and knew their futures. After Rider and Waver left, Sakura chose the surname Tashi, and Allen entrusted his newly purchased dessert shop to its staff.

• Allen showed Iskandar information about nuclear weapons and explained how modern politics and warfare made world conquest impossible.
• Rider questioned Allen about his knowledge of modern society, and Allen admitted he came from a similar parallel world and described future technology.
• Allen told Waver that Kayneth and Sola would die soon and that Waver would become Monarch El-Melloi II, then invited Rider to watch him deal with Caster at the harbor that night.
• After Rider and Waver departed, Sakura asked about her fate and chose to take Allen's surname, becoming Sakura Tashi.
• Allen told the dessert shop's manager, Kumiko, to continue operating the business as usual, and the staff pledged to work hard to protect their jobs.

Emiya Kiritsugu and Irisviel decided to investigate Berserker’s claim that the Holy Grail was contaminated, while Allen exchanged Uryuu Ryunosuke for Rin and rescued Aoi from Caster’s trap. Caster and Ryunosuke then began their planned attack at the docks, drawing the Fourth Holy Grail War’s participants together.

• Emiya Kiritsugu and Irisviel agreed to speak with Berserker and prepare to flee with Illyasviel if the Holy Grail was contaminated.
• Allen exchanged Rin for Uryuu Ryunosuke, then Sakura warmed Rin and gave her food and strawberry juice.
• Caster returned Aoi with a monster implanted in her chest, but Allen removed it and healed her before asking her to take Rin and Sakura away.
• Aoi tried to leave with her daughters, but Caster’s dense fog trapped them at the docks.
• In a cave, Caster and Uryuu Ryunosuke decided to begin their planned carnival early, and the other participants of the Fourth Holy Grail War gathered in response.

Allen fought Gilles de Rais and his regenerating Sea Demon while the creature’s threads drove Fuyuki City’s residents into a violent riot. After Allen destroyed the Sea Demon with his Wind Lightning Sword, he trapped Gilles inside a barrier with a ticking nuclear warhead.

• Gilles de Rais summoned an island-sized Sea Demon and unleashed threads that incited chaos and violence across Fuyuki City.
• Allen struck the Sea Demon with Myriad Thunder, but its rapid regeneration kept it alive.
• Rider and Waver, Diarmuid and Sola, Saber, and Golden Flash with Tokiomi watched as Allen’s lightning kept them from joining the fight.
• Allen summoned a gale and charged his sword with lightning, then destroyed the Sea Demon with a single Wind Lightning Sword strike.
• Allen exposed Gilles de Rais on the seabed, started a copied nuclear warhead’s countdown, and enclosed him in a spherical Barrier-Barrier Fruit barrier.

Allen detonated a nuclear bomb inside a barrier at Fuyuki Harbor after swallowing Saber's Excalibur with a black hole, then urged the surviving Masters and Servants to form an alliance against him. Rider and Gilgamesh began considering an alliance as authorities and aircraft converged on the harbor.

• Hisau Maiya and Emiya Kiritsugu recognized Allen's bomb as a nuclear warhead, and Kiritsugu rushed to the shore to beg Allen to stop it.
• Rider and Gilgamesh remained calm about the bomb, while Saber demanded that Allen halt the countdown and prepared to attack him.
• Saber unleashed Excalibur, but Allen swallowed its light with a black hole and mocked its power.
• The nuclear bomb detonated inside Allen's barrier, killing the French Marshal while containing the blast and evaporating the incoming seawater; Allen disposed of the remaining radiation in a Dungeon.
• Allen invited the other Masters and Servants to unite against him, then left to collect Aoi, Sakura, and Rin.
• Rider and Gilgamesh discussed forming an alliance, while Diarmuid fled with Sola as helicopters and fighter jets approached Fuyuki City.

After the battle at the docks, Saber struggled with her failure, Kayneth gained a Command Spell by claiming credit for defeating Caster and then shot Rin Tohsaka. Allen kept Aoi and her daughters at his residence, warned her that Tokiomi was in danger from Kotomine Kirei and Gilgamesh, and left after agreeing to try to save him.

• Irisviel tried to comfort Saber, while Emiya Kiritsugu urged them to leave and contact Berserker because he believed Allen's warnings about the nuclear warhead.
• Rin Tohsaka rejected Kayneth's request for a Command Spell reward, but Kayneth argued that he qualified and received one after claiming his contract with Lancer remained under his control.
• Kayneth shot Rin Tohsaka after receiving the Command Spell, unwilling to let the other Masters gain additional spells.
• Allen cooked for Aoi and her daughters, then told Aoi that he would not kill Tokiomi but warned that Kotomine Kirei and Gilgamesh posed a threat to him.
• Aoi begged Allen to save Tokiomi, and Allen said he would try without making a promise before leaping from the building to answer a phone call.

Kayneth’s fury at Diarmuid’s failure turned to humiliation when Emiya Kiritsugu threatened Sola and demanded Lancer’s death. Allen arrived during the confrontation, and Emiya Kiritsugu openly joined him against Tokiomi’s proposed alliance, leaving the Holy Grail War’s factions sharply divided.

• Kayneth berated Diarmuid and accused him of seducing Sola, while Diarmuid continued to defend his loyalty.
• Rider condemned Kayneth’s treatment of Lancer and abandoned Waver’s plan to form an alliance with him.
• Emiya Kiritsugu arrived with the unconscious Sola and demanded that Kayneth use a Command Spell to make Diarmuid kill himself.
• Kayneth began to command Diarmuid’s death, but Gilgamesh’s attack interrupted him, allowing Diarmuid to rescue Sola.
• Tokiomi proposed a temporary alliance against Berserker and admitted that Sakura was his daughter, though he would not show her mercy in the war.
• Allen arrived on his Spirit Winged Young Dragon, and Emiya Kiritsugu joined his side, rejecting Tokiomi’s proposal and condemning his treatment of Sakura.

Allen defeated Diarmuid in battle after Tokiomi’s attempt to form an alliance failed, and Diarmuid died with honor. Tokiomi and Kotomine Kirei then killed Kayneth and Sola, whose souls Allen captured, while the remaining kings prepared for the war’s next stage.

• Tokiomi urged Kayneth to join forces against Allen, but Kayneth hesitated and Emiya Kiritsugu refused the alliance.
• Allen attacked Diarmuid with a frost spear, pierced his shoulder, and pressed the attack despite Saber’s intervention.
• Saber released Excalibur, but Allen weakened its blast with ice and defeated Diarmuid with the spear’s fiery eye.
• Diarmuid accepted his defeat, learned Allen’s name, and dispersed into mana.
• Gilgamesh told Tokiomi to leave and contact the King of Conquerors, then Tokiomi had Kotomine Kirei kill Kayneth and Sola; Allen detained their souls.

Allen removed the polluted Lesser Grail from Irisviel, saved her with a replacement heart, and made Uryuu Ryunosuke its new vessel. He then persuaded Irisviel and Emiya Kiritsugu to fake their deaths and follow his plan to escape the Einzbern family, leaving Saber stunned by Uryuu Ryunosuke’s transformation into a woman who could impersonate Irisviel.

• Allen warned Emiya Kiritsugu that Irisviel might be succumbing to the polluted Greater Holy Grail, and Irisviel confirmed that it threatened humanity.
• Allen tore the Lesser Grail from Irisviel’s chest, while Vilnalasath wove her a new heart and Allen healed her wounds.
• Allen placed the Lesser Grail inside Uryuu Ryunosuke, whose mind began to succumb to Angra Mainyu’s influence.
• Allen proposed that Irisviel and Emiya Kiritsugu fake their deaths and follow his Script to reunite with Illyasviel and escape the Einzbern family.
• Allen used Irisviel’s genes to transform Uryuu Ryunosuke into a woman who could impersonate her, astonishing Irisviel and Saber.

Allen explained his ideas about punishment to Saber, then showed her the Warcraft world he had been developing and revealed that he wanted to use Angra Mainyu to perfect it. After returning to Fuyuki, Saber agreed to stay with Irisviel while Kiritsugu began his plan to use Ryunosuke as a substitute.

• Allen told Saber that he punished irredeemable criminals outside the law and said he intended to hunt Angra Mainyu to perfect and create a world.
• Allen persuaded Saber to let him touch her cowlick, then took her to Stormwind City in his world.
• Allen showed Saber Stormwind and explained that the world was incomplete and that he hoped the corrupted Holy Grail could provide the force to strengthen it.
• Saber noticed the city's people behaved like soulless puppets and asked whether Allen intended to give them life; Allen said he was uncertain what would happen.
• Allen and Saber returned to the abandoned factory, where Kiritsugu said Ryunosuke was ready to act as Irisviel's replacement.
• Saber chose to stay with Irisviel and promised to protect Kiritsugu if he called on her with a Command Spell; Kiritsugu then drove away.

Allen and Saber discussed the alliance between Gilgamesh and Iskandar while Tokiomi arranged a pact against them. After Kotomine Kirei discovered his father’s death and inherited his Command Spells, Gilgamesh offered to become his Servant so they could betray Tokiomi.

• Allen explained that Tokiomi might have to spend the Tohsaka family's gemstone reserves to support Gilgamesh and Iskandar's alliance, and Saber refused to join them.
• Tokiomi welcomed Iskandar to the Tohsaka mansion, and Waver signed a binding agreement allying the King of Conquerors with the King of Heroes against Allen and Saber.
• Kotomine Kirei found his dead father in the Holy Church, felt pleasure rather than grief, and transferred his father's Command Spells to himself.
• Gilgamesh appeared before Kotomine Kirei and offered to become his Servant after deciding to betray Tokiomi.
• Kotomine Kirei agreed to help Gilgamesh kill Tokiomi, and Gilgamesh said he wanted Tokiomi to suffer a blow from his daughter first.

Allen finished giving Hisau Maiya experimental Magic Crests, and she demonstrated their power. After Fuyuki City’s disaster was blamed on a gas leak, Sakura faced Tokiomi in a duel arranged under Allen’s watch, and her counterattack left him badly hurt.

• Allen engraved experimental Magic Crests across Hisau Maiya’s body, and she crushed a large-caliber handgun with her enhanced strength.
• A jeweled bird delivered Tokiomi’s formal challenge to Sakura, and Allen chose the duel’s date.
• After Fuyuki City returned to normal and officials blamed the disaster on a gas leak, Allen and Sakura arrived at the suburban clearing where Tokiomi and Golden Flash waited.
• Allen encouraged Sakura to fight Tokiomi, and she prepared with protective spells before meeting his opening fire attack with Ice Spike.
• Sakura summoned a Water Elemental and Blinked behind Tokiomi, then disrupted his spell with Magic Counter and made him spit blood.

Sakura defeated Tokiomi and renounced both the Tohsaka and Matou names, while Hisau Maiya and Emiya Kiritsugu’s deception let Kotomine Kirei abduct Uryuu Ryunosuke in place of Irisviel. Sakura left with Allen, and Kiritsugu prepared to continue his plan to win the Holy Grail War.

• Sakura overcame Tokiomi’s magic and beat him, then told him she no longer hated him and would leave him alive after destroying his pride and status.
• Sakura declared herself Sakura Tashi and flew away with Allen on Dragon, while Golden Flash helped Tokiomi return to the Tohsaka Main House.
• Hisau Maiya fought Kotomine Kirei with her new enchantment crests and burned his hand and face with a fire enchantment.
• Kotomine Kirei seized Uryuu Ryunosuke, whom he mistook for Irisviel, and drove away with the false hostage.
• Emiya Kiritsugu revealed that the abduction was part of their plan, praised Hisau Maiya’s acting, and said he still had to finish his role as the planned winner of the Holy Grail War.