Chapter Summaries

Da Vinci realized that Star Pioneer protected her and Drake from Cthulhu’s corrupting aura, and urged Drake to awaken the ability so they could fight back. Drake accepted the challenge, triggering Star Pioneer and bringing the pirates under Humanity’s protection as they prepared to face Cthulhu.

• Cthulhu’s aura overwhelmed the pirates aboard the Golden Hind, while Drake remained unaffected and Teach struggled to resist it.
• Gudako arrived with the Queen Fleet and destroyed the waves threatening Drake and Teach, while Da Vinci scolded them for endangering Salem Town by forcing her to turn back.
• Da Vinci recognized that Star Pioneer protected its holders from Cthulhu’s corruption and asked Drake to help defeat the approaching Great Old One.
• Da Vinci explained that Drake could awaken Star Pioneer by pursuing her goal with courage, and Drake agreed to face Cthulhu for a magnificent finale.
• Humanity’s radiance emerged from Drake, awakening Star Pioneer and protecting Teach, The Twins, and the other pirates as they rallied behind her.

Gudako and the fleet attacked Cthulhu, but his counterattack overwhelmed the ships and forced Gudako to enter the fight with borrowed divine power. As Gudako battled Cthulhu, the Golden Hind’s crew endured falling, chaos-tainted ice and rallied to defend their ship.

• Da Vinci told Gudako to cover Drake’s charge and revealed that she had used a mental suggestion to keep Drake committed to the attack.
• Gudako asked Da Vinci why she was immune to the evil god’s influence, but Da Vinci said she did not know.
• The Queen Fleet and Golden Hind bombarded Cthulhu, injuring him before he smashed dozens of escort ships and damaged the Queen.
• Gudako invoked Gabriel’s power, transformed with ice wings, and evaded Cthulhu’s claw before counterattacking with a lance made from thousands of tons of seawater.
• The shattered, chaos-tainted ice rained down on the Golden Hind as Drake, The Twins, and Teach worked to protect the ship and its sails.
• Little Arthur stopped the panicked pirates from crowding into the hatch, and Drake’s light of humanity helped them withstand the chaotic magical energy as they returned to their posts.

Drake and Teach planned to ram the Golden Hind, loaded with gunpowder, into Cthulhu, and Drake persuaded Little Arthur to stay behind and ignite it. While the pirates fought off a renewed Deep Ones assault, they brought most of the explosives onto the deck, but only twelve of their original crew remained as the ship neared Cthulhu.

• Little Arthur hid in the cabin, then hauled a cannon and gunpowder onto the deck to prove himself to Drake.
• Drake proposed using the Golden Hind and its stores of gunpowder to ram Cthulhu, and Teach agreed to the plan.
• Drake chose Little Arthur to remain aboard and ignite the gunpowder, and he eagerly agreed.
• When the Deep Ones attacked again, Drake and Teach ordered the pirates to keep transporting gunpowder while they and The Twins defended the ship.
• The Twins fought off the Deep Ones alongside Drake and Teach, and Anne saved Drake from an attack with a shot from her musket.
• The pirates carried most of the gunpowder onto the deck before the Golden Hind reached a point about five hundred meters from Cthulhu, but more than twenty crew members had died.

Little Arthur sacrificed himself to bring Cthulhu down, allowing Gudako and Da Vinci to attack the weakened Great Old One. Meanwhile, Zhuge Liang arrived in Salem to rescue Rin and Sakura, and warned that Cthulhu would recover as he began a spell to pull them back.

• Little Arthur stayed behind on the Golden Hind with the gunpowder while Drake, Teach, and the other survivors escaped, then ignited it beside Cthulhu and died in the explosion.
• Gudako struck the fallen Cthulhu with massive ice weapons while Da Vinci used Star Pioneer and the light of human order to weaken him.
• Zhuge Liang left the Soul World after calculating that Rin had fallen into a trap, then told Olga Marie he would intervene to bring Rin back.
• Zhuge Liang took the BB sisters to Salem and instructed them to hold off Cthulhu while he prepared a spell with Kazuradrop to retrieve Rin and Sakura.
• Da Vinci continued firing Mage Cannons at Cthulhu, uncertain whether the motionless Great Old One had truly been defeated.

Cthulhu revived by unleashing chaotic magic that tore through space and time, but Gudako survived by absorbing Great Source Magic Power. With BB and the BB sisters joining the fight, Gudako wounded Cthulhu with Single Flash and the sisters began suppressing him, leaving the mythic battle ongoing.

• A grotesque Holy Grail poured Black Mud over Cthulhu, awakening him and triggering an attack that distorted space and time.
• Gudako absorbed Great Source Magic Power from the spatial rifts, recovered her strength, and narrowly avoided Cthulhu’s ambush when BB’s giant fist intervened.
• Kintropia charged Cthulhu and struck him with an uppercut, while BB arrived and urged her sisters into battle.
• Gudako used Single Flash to sever one of Cthulhu’s arms, then asked BB to help hold him off while she prepared to strike again.
• BB, Kintropia, and the other BB sisters coordinated their attacks, using imaginary spaces and Violet’s binding straps to restrain and suppress Cthulhu.

As Cthulhu repeatedly resurrected through the Holy Grail, the exhausted defenders struggled to hold him back while Zhuge Liang worked to locate Rin and Chaldea’s main force. Trapped in a mysterious space, Rin deduced that it was Cthulhu’s dream and that reversing the Third Magic might offer a way to seal him.

• Gudako and the BB sisters severed Cthulhu’s head, but the Holy Grail restored him, and the returned Da Vinci confirmed that their attack had failed.
• Zhuge Liang used Eight Gates Formation and red smoke gathered around Kazuradrop to calculate the location of Rin and the others before Cthulhu regained more of his strength.
• Rin apologized for leading the group into the trap, but Touko and the others reassured her, and Rin regained her resolve.
• Rin asked Doctor Roman what Cthulhu was the god of, then deduced from his title as the God of Sleep that their prison was his dream and that reversing the Third Magic might seal him there.
• As Cthulhu’s attacks wore down the defenders, Lilith and BB continued fighting while Passionlip, Da Vinci, Gudako, Kintropia, and Drake were injured, exhausted, or unable to fight.

Zhuge Liang used the Memorial to the Fallen Emperor to lend Kazuradrop the abilities of the BB sisters, while Sakura sensed their connection and helped Rin find a way back to the Singularity. As the fight against Cthulhu continued, Da Vinci unleashed her Soul Antimatter, devastating the battlefield and leaving Cthulhu’s fate uncertain.

• Zhuge Liang discovered Rin’s location and used the Memorial to the Fallen Emperor to grant Kazuradrop the BB sisters’ abilities, sending her to fight Cthulhu.
• Sakura sensed BB and the others through the red smoke around Kazuradrop, showed Rin the projection, and helped her identify a link to reality.
• Rin destroyed her calculations for reversing Cthulhu’s seal and prepared to use Sakura’s connection to return to the Singularity.
• Kazuradrop fought alongside the BB sisters, using her borrowed abilities to hold back Cthulhu as its power distorted the sea and the world around it.
• Da Vinci dropped a bottle of Soul Antimatter beside Cthulhu, causing a tremendous explosion that devastated the sea and scattered Cthulhu’s bones.
• BB and Kazuradrop shielded the Queen from the blast, while the shockwave strained Mash’s Camelot several kilometers away.

Rin returned from Cthulhu’s dream and led the Queen Fleet and Chaldea’s forces in a fierce assault, but even Arcueid’s Moonfall Abyss could not destroy Cthulhu. Meanwhile, Little Abby transformed into an evil god and tortured Sheba, who later headed toward the battlefield with terror hidden beneath her calm expression.

• Rin used red mist from Sakura to bring herself and the others back from Cthulhu’s dream, then sent the wounded group to Salem and sailed toward Cthulhu with the Queen Fleet.
• Rin ordered the fleet to attack Cthulhu as his body recovered, and Chaldea’s fighters joined the battle while Rin held back a trump card.
• Little Abby completed her transformation into an evil god, strangled Sheba, and inflicted agonizing injuries on her before vanishing.
• Arcueid summoned a giant moon and dropped it onto Cthulhu, leaving him badly wounded but still far from destroyed.
• Altrouge charged into battle to compete with Arcueid, while Sheba sailed from Salem toward the battlefield and Doctor fought Cthulhu in Solomon’s form.

Rin and the others maintained their stalemate against Cthulhu until Sheba arrived to report that Abby had transformed into an Evil God, forcing Crimson Moon to rush back to Salem. Meanwhile, Sakura’s Fairy Tale Familiars and Fujino’s Mystic Eyes battered Cthulhu, though Fujino had to stop when her eyes gave out.

• Rin and the other Magi continued fighting Cthulhu as the battle remained at a stalemate.
• Sheba arrived by boat and told Rin that Abby had become an Evil God and run away from Salem.
• Rin sent Crimson Moon to reinforce Salem, while Sheba stayed behind and privately revealed that she had been deceiving Rin on her father's orders.
• Sakura and Fujino continued attacking Cthulhu with Fairy Tale Familiars and the Twisted Magic Eye as the chapter explained Sakura’s Imaginary Number-based magecraft.
• Fujino collapsed from overusing her Mystic Eyes, accepted Touko’s eye drops, and stopped when Aoko told her to rest.
• Sakura briefly turned toward Fujino before resuming her summons, and Fujino called out to Big Sis Touko.

As Cthulhu battered the close-combat fighters, Rin launched a plan using Medea’s ritual, Mash, Camelot, and Scathach’s Land of Shadows to smash the city into the god. Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu entered Cthulhu’s ruined body and felt an inexplicable call as the chapter revealed the Holy Grail’s favor surrounding him.

• Fujino asked Touko to teach her magecraft after they returned to Chaldea, and Touko agreed.
• Jeanne d'Arc, Saber Alter, Lily, Mordred, Scathach, Black Saber, and berserk Heracles fought Cthulhu, while Rin and the others assessed its unusual body and resilience.
• Medea told Rin that her ritual was ready, and Rin ordered everyone to withdraw before charging Cthulhu and hurling Heracles away from the battle.
• Mash leaped into Medea’s beam with Camelot, and Scathach drew them through the gates of the Land of Shadows before Rin called for the plan to begin.
• Camelot appeared above Cthulhu and crashed down, smashing its upper body as Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu activated Scapegoat and charged into the wound.
• Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu landed on Cthulhu’s bones and felt an indescribable call as the narration revealed the Holy Grail’s favor and its effect on his luck.

Rin and her allies escaped the dreamlike R’lyeh Singularity after Kiritsugu shattered the Holy Grail, but Abby refused to explain the truth and warned Rin to grow stronger. Back in Chaldea, Rin trained in martial arts until Kirei visited and challenged her, revealing his mastery of The Awakened One’s martial art.

• Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu used his Origin Bullets to reach and destroy the Holy Grail inside Cthulhu, then escaped with Scathach as the Grail shattered.
• Rin realized the world was a dream, and the shattered illusion returned her and Chaldea’s companions to the pier as R’lyeh sank away.
• Abby appeared, tossed the Holy Grail to Rin, vanished R’lyeh, and warned Rin that she was too weak and had little time to grow stronger.
• Rin and the remaining Heroic Spirits traveled to Salem, where the Greek heroes agreed to join Chaldea because they had nowhere else to go.
• Rin returned to Chaldea and trained in Baji Quan until Kirei visited and began sparring with her using Kalaripayattu.

Rin stayed behind in the Soul World while Kirei joined Chaldea’s first operation team in a rapidly advancing London Singularity. The team split up to investigate, and Gudako nearly killed a frightened resident after he shot at her before Shinji stopped her with Avalon.

• Rin and Kirei discussed the London Singularity, whose timeline had advanced to 229 BC when the Humanity Incineration began, and Kirei volunteered for the first operation team.
• Touko, Aoko, Arisu, Kirei, Kallian, Shirou, Shinji, Gudako, Mash, and Fujimaru arrived in fogbound London and established communications with Chaldea.
• Da Vinci ordered the team to split up and investigate the Clock Tower, the city, and the church; Gudako and Shinji searched central London, where they found no people or animals.
• Gudako kicked open an apartment door and entered a residence, where a frightened man aimed a hunting rifle at her while sheltering with a woman and child.
• The man shot Gudako, whose magical barrier stopped the bullet; she retaliated, but Shinji invoked Avalon to block her strike.

Gudako’s clash with Shinji exposed a growing divide over how the raid team should treat ordinary people, while Akuta Hina revealed that she sensed Xiang Yu in the fifth Singularity, prompting Rin to fear an immortal Qin Shi Huang. In the Singularity, Kirei’s group questioned the Church’s absence as Touko, Aoko, and Arisu explored the Clock Tower, where Aoko remarked on London’s immense fog.

• Gudako left in anger after Shinji apologized to the couple she had threatened, while Da Vinci and Doctor Roman argued with Kiritsugu Emiya over the raid team’s priorities.
• Kiritsugu reported that Akuta Hina was waking, and Rin confronted her; Akuta Hina asked to join the fifth Singularity because she sensed Xiang Yu there.
• Rin ordered a fresh scan of the Singularity, and she and Da Vinci considered whether the Holy Grail had empowered Xiang Yu’s side, Qin Shi Huang, or Liu Bang.
• Kirei Kotomine, Kallian, and Shirou observed ordinary clergy outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, leading Kallian to suspect the Holy Church was absent or destroyed in the Singularity.
• Touko, Aoko, and Arisu explored the Clock Tower headquarters, and Aoko noted that the fog covering London rose thousands of meters high.

Touko, Aoko, and Arisu discovered in the Clock Tower archives that the fog was a thousand-year-old ritual meant to seal off Great Qin, not a sign that the world was ending. As Great Qin prepared to meet the visitors from another world, its officers debated how to deal with London.

• Bartholomello Lorelei introduced herself as the Clock Tower’s Head and led Touko, Aoko, and Arisu to the archives to find records of the third Head.
• Touko found the records and rushed to notify Da Vinci and Rin, while Lorelei learned that the fog was a fading barrier created by the third Head to protect Europe from Great Qin.
• An immortal ruler of Great Qin ordered Wang Jian to meet the visitors from another world.
• Wang Jian and his officers discussed how to handle London, arguing over whether its people should be killed or sent to the Moon as laborers.

Rin arrived in London to discuss an alliance between Chaldea and the Clock Tower as the Great Qin Empire prepared to attack. Her anger erupted during a dispute over the Clock Tower’s treatment of ordinary people, while both sides strengthened their defenses for the coming battle.

• Wang Jian ordered his officers to prepare a swift attack on London and learned that visitors from another world were still scanning Earth.
• Rin met Lorelei and the Clock Tower’s leaders, and briefly unleashed her magical energy to prove her strength.
• Lorelei explained that fewer than seventy thousand people remained in London and that the Clock Tower governed them amid shortages and rampant crime.
• Kirei proposed killing people who knew the Clock Tower used ordinary people as experimental subjects, prompting Rin to silence him and the others with an outburst of magical energy.
• Great Qin operators detected Rin’s magical surge, while the Clock Tower fortified central London and mobilized its defenses in the Grave of Albion.

As the fog lifted, the Great Qin Empire began its assault on London with an orbital bombardment, while the united Clock Tower redirected the shells away from its headquarters. After repeated bombardments, Great Qin landing pods and troops descended, and the Clock Tower prepared its automated doll production lines for the ground battle.

• Rin sent Dr. Heartless into the Grave with the Clock Tower's other surviving seeds as the Great Qin invasion approached.
• A Great Qin fleet under a Shaoshangzao began orbital bombardment of London when the dense fog dissipated.
• The Clock Tower's united Magi protected their headquarters by redirecting incoming shells into the River Thames, while the rest of London was devastated.
• John led the remaining ordinary soldiers through repeated bombardments, which continued from morning until noon.
• Great Qin landing pods, armored troops, vehicles, and Eagle aerospace fighters descended onto London after the bombardment.
• The Clock Tower and Chaldea relied on an Automated Doll Production Line in a teaching building to produce weapons for the coming battle.

Rin and Lorelei fought Great Qin’s forces as Lu Bu and Sima Yi arrived to clear away Rin’s Witch-King Slayers. Rin challenged Lu Bu while Lorelei faced Sima Yi, and the chapter ended with Lu Bu overwhelming Rin in close combat.

• Rin summoned Witch-King Slayers to attack the Great Qin vanguard, but freezing rays temporarily restrained them before the soldiers withdrew.
• Lu Bu arrived, destroyed the Witch-King Slayers, and joined Sima Yi under Wang Jian’s command.
• Sima Yi complained to Wang Jian about being paired with Lu Bu, but he refused to change her assignment.
• With Great Qin soldiers advancing near Westminster Abbey, Rin and Lorelei left the Clock Tower’s barrier to confront Lu Bu and Sima Yi.
• Rin fought Lu Bu with Rainbow Fist Magecraft while Lorelei engaged Sima Yi.
• Lu Bu discarded his halberd for armored gauntlets and battered Rin until she could barely defend herself.

Rin and Lu Bu fought to a standstill until Wang Jian and Sima Yi intervened, forcing Rin to retreat with Lorelei. Back at the Clock Tower, Rin learned how overwhelming the Great Qin Empire was and received a letter from her parents that made her reconsider how she had treated them.

• Rin used her Ishtar form and spells against Lu Bu, eventually wounding him after his magical energy ran low.
• Sima Yi held the poisoned Lorelei hostage, and Wang Jian stopped Rin from finishing Lu Bu; Sima Yi returned Lorelei, and Rin escaped with her.
• Wang Jian freed Lu Bu and ordered Sima Yi to withdraw with him.
• Rin and Arisu discussed their exhaustion and Chaldea's intelligence about the Great Qin Empire's vast armies, spacefaring cities, and Heroic Spirits.
• Arisu told Rin to give up restoring humanity and handed her a letter from home, which Rin read with regret over neglecting her parents' feelings.

Rin received a plea from her parents to stop risking her life, but Touko reminded her that she had no way out and called her to a meeting. As Rin and the Clock Tower argued over their plans, Qin Shi Huang and his generals arrived and transported everyone to Epang Palace.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka and Aoi Tohsaka sent Rin a letter asking her to stop facing danger, and Touko read it before telling Rin that she could not retreat.
• The Root forbade Aiga from going to the Singularity, but showed her a fragment of the future that made her rejoice over Rin.
• Rin and Lorelei tried to control a heated meeting between Chaldea and the Clock Tower's leaders.
• Rin sensed danger, warned everyone to move, and confronted Qin Shi Huang, Wang Jian, and Bai Qi as they appeared on the conference table.
• Rin's draconic pressure clashed with Bai Qi's killing intent until Qin Shi Huang ordered Bai Qi to stop.
• Qin Shi Huang transported everyone to a palace combining ancient architecture and futuristic technology, then welcomed them to Epang Palace.

Rin conceded defeat to Qin Shi Huang after he overwhelmed the Clock Tower Magi, and a week later she joined him in announcing Great Qin’s decision to its court. Wang Jian began recounting how Xu Fu’s voyage reached the ruined immortal mountains, where the children of the former Six States allied with a giant and drove Xu Fu’s party into hiding.

• Qin Shi Huang hosted Rin and the gathered Magi after Great Qin’s forces demonstrated their overwhelming power.
• Lorelei defied Qin Shi Huang’s insult to the Bartholomellos, but his pressure left her unconscious until Touko treated her.
• Rin admitted defeat and demanded to hear Qin Shi Huang’s terms.
• A week later, Qin Shi Huang brought Rin before Great Qin’s court and ordered Wang Jian to explain the secret history behind the presence of the Chaldea group.
• Wang Jian recounted how Xu Fu reached the ruined mountains of Fangzhang, Penglai, and Yingzhou, where the children aboard his fleet awakened a giant and used him to seize the ships.