Recaps

After the Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu found a badly injured boy in the ruins and brought him to the hospital. The boy woke with no memories, accepted the name Emiya Shirou, and revealed an extraordinary ability to heal; the chapter explained that he had merged with Ulquiorra Cifer’s soul and inherited his High-Speed Regeneration.

• Kiritsugu found a surviving red-haired boy beneath rubble in the Black Mud and cried with relief.
• The boy woke in Fuyuki City Hospital, recognized Kiritsugu, and pretended he could not remember his past.
• Kiritsugu named the boy Emiya Shirou and offered to let him live with him.
• Shirou pulled out his IV and tore off his bandages, showing that his injuries had already healed.
• The narration revealed that Shirou had merged with Ulquiorra Cifer’s soul and gained his remaining abilities, including High-Speed Regeneration.

Eight-year-old Shirou recovered his strength, learned basic magecraft from Kiritsugu, and discussed justice and power with him. Shirou promised to pursue Kiritsugu’s dream of becoming an ally of justice, while his cooking skills soon took over the household breakfasts.

• Shirou felt his power gradually recover and learned that Kiritsugu could teach him only basic Projection and Reinforcement magecraft.
• Kiritsugu discovered that Shirou held vast amounts of spiritual energy in his body, giving him an existence resembling a Servant.
• Kiritsugu asked Shirou why he sought power, and Shirou said he wanted victory so he would not lose the people and things he cared about.
• Shirou learned that Kiritsugu had once dreamed of becoming an ally of justice and promised to fulfill that dream for him.
• Shirou began making breakfast every morning, and Kiritsugu gave up trying to compete with his cooking.

Kiritsugu prepared to break into Winter Castle to reclaim his daughter Illya, whom he had not seen for a year. Shirou confronted him with the truth about Illya and insisted on joining the rescue, leaving the two ready to enter the walnut grove together.

• Illya waited at Winter Castle for Kiritsugu and angrily called him a liar after a year apart.
• Kiritsugu loaded Origin Bullets into his Contender and prepared to force his way into Winter Castle.
• Shirou appeared outside the walnut grove, and Kiritsugu learned that he had traveled from Japan to Germany.
• Shirou showed Kiritsugu a family photograph and deduced that Illya was his older sister.
• Kiritsugu told Shirou that Irisviel was dead and that he planned to rescue Illya from her grandfather.
• Shirou insisted on joining the break-in, and Kiritsugu reluctantly accepted his involvement.

Shirou and Kiritsugu arrived at Einzbern Castle to bring Illya back, but Shirou blasted through the family’s barrier and drew Ahad and the Combat Homunculi into a confrontation. The chapter ended as Shirou prepared to fight the Homunculi himself.

• Shirou fired a powerful Cero that destroyed the Einzbern barrier and left a vast crater in the forest.
• Ahad arrived with dozens of Combat Homunculi and accused Kiritsugu of betraying the Einzbern family.
• Kiritsugu asked Ahad to return Illya, but Ahad refused and boasted of the Homunculi’s strength.
• Shirou stopped Kiritsugu from fighting and faced the charging Combat Homunculi alone.

Shirou and Kiritsugu defeated Ahad’s resistance and negotiated Illya’s return in exchange for Shirou using the Einzbern name for ten years and solving one problem by force. Shirou found Illya in the castle and introduced himself to her.

• Shirou overwhelmed the combat homunculi, and Ahad tried to persuade him to abandon Kiritsugu.
• Shirou agreed to return Illya in exchange for borrowing the Einzbern name for ten years and resolving one problem by force.
• Kiritsugu asked Ahad to lead them to Illya, and Ahad respectfully agreed.
• Illya asked Sella what Ahad was doing, and Lizelotte attacked when Shirou’s voice revealed an intruder.
• Shirou caught Lizelotte’s punch, threw her aside, and introduced himself to Illya after she gave her name.

Kiritsugu reunited with Illya at Einzbern Castle, while Shirou helped give them privacy. After Kiritsugu explained his absence and embraced his daughter, Illya grew suspicious of Shirou, whom Kiritsugu identified as her little brother.

• Illya ordered Lizelotte to attack Shirou, but Ahad stopped her and greeted Shirou.
• Shirou persuaded Ahad to take the maids outside so Kiritsugu and Illya could talk alone.
• Kiritsugu apologized for coming back late, and Illya forgave him and asked him to hug her.
• Kiritsugu embraced Illya and explained Irisviel's situation to her.
• Illya asked who Shirou was, and Kiritsugu said Shirou was probably her little brother.
• Kiritsugu distracted Illya by suggesting they count walnut buds, but she glared at Shirou when they left the room and found him talking with Ahad.

Shirou learned that Illya had only nineteen years to live and that Ahad knew no way to cure her condition. Worried about the coming blizzard and the house in Fuyuki, Shirou flew back while telling Kiritsugu to bring Illya after him.

• Illya stood between Kiritsugu and Shirou, insisting that Kiritsugu belonged to her alone.
• Shirou fled with Ahad to the Einzbern Magic Workshop and asked whether Illya’s lifespan could be extended.
• Ahad explained that Illya was part human and part homunculus, and the Einzberns could not treat her condition.
• Shirou saw the dark clouds and told Kiritsugu he was returning to Fuyuki, asking him to bring Illya soon.
• Shirou flew away at supersonic speed, deliberately leaving Ahad stunned.

Shirou settled into family life in Fuyuki, training in combat skills and magecraft while helping care for Illya, Sella, and Lizelotte. In June 1995, Kiritsugu took the family to Kanbako City to seek help from dollmaker Aozaki Touko with the homunculi’s limited activity time.

• Shirou trained each morning to gain control of his body, practiced shooting with Kiritsugu, and studied Projection, Reinforcement, and healing magecraft.
• Shirou helped Sella prepare meals, spent afternoons with Illya and Taiga, and watched Illya’s resistance to him fade.
• Kiritsugu began leaving home for months at a time in spring 1995, while Shirou and Illya remained dissatisfied but said nothing.
• In June 1995, Kiritsugu entrusted the house to Fujimura Taiga and drove his family from Fuyuki to Kanbako City.
• Kiritsugu told Shirou he hoped Aozaki Touko, a renowned dollmaker and Grand Magus, could help Illya and the other homunculi.

Emiya Kiritsugu brought Shirou and the others to meet Aozaki Touko at Garan no Dou, where Touko eyed the Mage Killer with suspicion. Shirou exposed a loophole in Kiritsugu’s Self-Geas Scroll, amusing Touko, who invited them upstairs to hear their request.

• The Emiya Family arrived at an abandoned commercial building, and Shirou felt the effect of a spell meant to drive away idle visitors.
• Shirou, Kiritsugu, and the others met Aozaki Touko, who recognized Kiritsugu as the Mage Killer and remained wary of him.
• Kiritsugu presented Touko with a Self-Geas Scroll to assure her of his intentions.
• Shirou pointed out a loophole in Kiritsugu’s scroll and teased him about leaving the housework to Shirou.
• Touko laughed at Shirou’s remarks and led the group upstairs, expecting them to make a request.

Shirou and Kiritsugu hired Aozaki Touko to adjust Illya, Sella, and Lizelotte's bodies, negotiating the fee and requiring her to sign a Self-Geas Scroll. Touko accepted the commission and joined the Emiya Family for dinner, despite joking that she would eat them out of house and home.

• The chapter explained Touko's Grand Magus rank and her ability to transfer her memories into identical spare bodies, making her difficult to kill.
• Kiritsugu asked Touko to adjust the Einzbern homunculi, and she accepted the commission after recalling her past connection to Einzbern.
• Shirou negotiated Touko's fee for adjusting Illya, Sella, and Lizelotte, while Kiritsugu served as the family's wealthy patron.
• Shirou presented Touko with a Self-Geas Scroll, and she reluctantly agreed to sign it after Kiritsugu questioned magi's credibility.
• Shirou invited Touko to dinner, and she accepted, threatening to eat the Emiya Family out of house and home.

Shirou took the Emiya Family and Aozaki Touko to an all-you-can-eat barbecue restaurant, where his cooking and enormous appetite impressed Touko. After losing an eating contest, she agreed to give Shirou an eighty percent rate on the costs of adjusting artificial humans.

• Shirou ordered a huge amount of meat for the Emiya Family and grilled it, impressing the restaurant’s customers and Touko with the food.
• Touko asked Shirou to learn magecraft from her, but Kiritsugu objected and threatened to assassinate her with a sniper rifle.
• Touko challenged Shirou to an eating contest, wagering that he would work at her office if she won and offering an eighty percent rate on artificial-human adjustment costs if he did.
• Shirou and Touko ate plate after plate of barbecue until Shirou finished the last slice of beef tenderloin and won the bet.
• Touko accepted the loss, and Illya teased Shirou about his joke that he might have a fourth-dimensional stomach.

After a meal with Touko Aozaki, Shirou learned about Mystic Eyes and confronted someone hiding nearby. A sudden spatial attack severed his left arm, but he cut away the damaged stump and regenerated it in front of the others.

• Shirou out-ate Touko Aozaki, and she teased Emiya Kiritsugu about carrying firearms despite claiming to have retired.
• Touko Aozaki explained how Mystic Eyes worked, their limits, and how their power was ranked.
• Shirou sensed a hidden voyeur and struck at them with a coin, revealing a frightened little girl with long purple hair.
• A spatial distortion attacked Shirou and twisted off his left arm as he dodged.
• Shirou used Trace On to cut away the damaged stump, then regenerated his left arm while Kiritsugu and Touko watched.

After Asakami Fujino twisted off Shirou’s arm, he planned to use the injury and the Asagami Family’s financial troubles to persuade them to hand her over. Kiritsugu doubted that any father would sell his daughter, so he accepted Shirou’s bet, leaving the question of the family’s response unresolved.

• Touko Aozaki watched Shirou regenerate his arm, and Shirou identified the escaped girl as Asakami Fujino from the wooden plaque she left behind.
• Touko Aozaki explained that the Asagami Family was near bankruptcy, while Shirou revealed that Fujino’s power had twisted his other arm beyond repair.
• At the hotel, Shirou proposed demanding Fujino in exchange for friendly relations or compensation, and Touko Aozaki said the family had already agreed to a deal that traded family members and land for debt relief.
• Shirou wagered that the Asagami Family would hand Fujino over, asking for a Barrett M82A1 if he won and offering to prepare the family’s meals for a year if he lost.
• Kiritsugu accepted the bet because he believed no father would sell his daughter for money.

Kiritsugu bought Fujino from the Asagami Family for five million yen, and she joined the Emiya household. Shirou reassured Fujino that she was human and promised to help her master her Mystic Eyes, leaving her ready to begin training.

• Kiritsugu paid five million yen to take Fujino from the Asagami Family, and he left the estate furious at her father for selling her so cheaply.
• Fujino became Emiya Fujino, and the narrator explained that her illnesses could be treated.
• Shirou met Fujino at the Emiya Residence and told her that her power did not make her a monster.
• Fujino agreed to let her power serve Shirou, and they introduced themselves to each other.
• Shirou began Fujino's training by telling her to clean up the yard.

Three years later, Shirou and Fujino delivered one million yen to Touko Aozaki at Garan no Dou, where Shirou met Kokutou Mikiya. The chapter ended with Shirou learning that Mikiya’s girlfriend, Ryougi Shiki, had been unconscious in a hospital for two years.

• Three years passed, and eleven-year-old Shirou grew stronger while continuing to train Fujino in using her Mystic Eyes.
• Touko asked Kiritsugu to lend her money, so Shirou and Fujino brought one million yen to Garan no Dou in Kanbiko City.
• Shirou met Touko’s employee, Kokutou Mikiya, and warned him to collect his wages before Touko spent them.
• Mikiya left to visit his unconscious girlfriend, and Shirou learned that her name was Ryougi Shiki.

Emiya Shirou confronted Fujou Kirie, who had been watching him and Mikiya from her hospital room, and invited her to join him as a companion. He left promising to return that night, then told Mikiya that Kirie’s loss of the will to live might be tied to having died once, revealing that he had experienced the same thing.

• Shirou sensed someone watching him and Mikiya in the hospital corridor, then went to investigate while Mikiya visited his girlfriend.
• Shirou found Fujou Kirie in her hospital bed and noticed a spirit body identical to her watching him.
• Kirie asked Shirou to bring her flowers and be her friend, but he invited her to become his companion instead.
• Kirie accepted Shirou’s offer, and he introduced himself before promising to pick her up that night.
• Shirou asked Mikiya how his girlfriend was doing, and Mikiya said Touko Aozaki’s language therapy had not helped.
• Shirou said people who had died once often lost their desire to live, then confirmed to Mikiya that he had died once himself.

Shirou took Fujou Kirie out to see Fujou Building, while Ryougi Shiki escaped an attack by a corpse and confronted Touko Aozaki. Touko’s rune fire failed to stop the corpse, leaving them in danger.

• Shirou visited Fujou Kirie at the hospital and invited her spirit form to fly with him.
• Shirou and Fujou Kirie flew to Fujou Building and admired the view from above.
• Ryougi Shiki escaped from a corpse by tumbling out a window and using it to break her fall.
• Touko Aozaki explained that the corpse had used a body to breach the hospital barrier.
• Touko Aozaki tried to burn the corpse with a rune, but the fire only burned its shroud.
• Ryougi Shiki called out Touko Aozaki for being unable to stop the corpse.

Shirou watched Shiki fight a corpse and gave her a projected katana, allowing her to destroy its body with her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. The spirits inside the corpse then possessed Shiki, and Shirou prepared to stop Touko from taking her.

• Shiki attacked the corpse with her Mystic Eyes but could not destroy it with her fingers alone.
• Shirou and spirit-form Kirie watched from the hospital rooftop, and Shirou left Kirie to approach Touko and Shiki.
• Shirou projected a katana and tossed it to Shiki, who caught it and cut her long hair short.
• Shiki used the blade to kill the corpse, freeing the spirits that had possessed it.
• The spirits surged into Shiki, and Shirou told Touko he would not let her take Shiki.

Shiki agreed to work for Touko in exchange for lessons on using her Mystic Eyes, while Shirou negotiated with Touko to treat someone. At Kirie's hospital room, Souren Araya offered her a body that could move freely and revealed his name.

• Shiki accepted Touko's condition and agreed to work for her in exchange for instruction on her Mystic Eyes.
• Touko caught the unconscious Shiki and argued with Shirou about her cryptic remarks and Shiki's potential.
• Shirou asked Touko whether she could cure bodily illnesses and offered information about famous homunculi from the Age of Fairies as payment.
• Touko accepted Shirou's offer, and he left to deal with Kirie.
• Souren Araya appeared in Kirie's hospital room and offered her a body that could move freely.
• Kirie asked the trench-coated magus who he was, and he identified himself as Souren Araya.

Shirou confronted Souren Araya in Kirie's hospital room and moved their fight to the rooftop to keep her safe. After Shirou attacked with a projected katana, Souren Araya blocked the strike with his bare arm.

• Shirou entered Kirie's room and identified Souren Araya, explaining that he knew him through Touko.
• Shirou asked Kirie whether Souren Araya had harmed her, and Kirie said she was fine and that he had promised her a body that could move freely.
• Shirou challenged Souren Araya and used Sonido to carry them both from the hospital room to the rooftop.
• Shirou projected a katana and attacked Souren Araya at near-supersonic speed.
• Souren Araya blocked Shirou's katana strike with his left arm, producing a metallic clang.

Shirou fought Souren Araya, whose embedded Buddha relic protected his arm, and used exploding projected blades to test the magus’s layered barriers. After Souren Araya mistook him for the Counter Force’s agent from another world line, Shirou denied any connection, but Souren Araya still treated him as an enemy.

• Shirou struck Souren Araya’s relic-protected arm, then dodged his counterattack and found the arm unharmed.
• Shirou projected dozens of blades and sent them at Souren Araya, who defended himself with barriers.
• Shirou detonated the blades with Broken Phantasm, destroying two of Souren Araya’s six barriers without injuring him.
• Souren Araya recognized Shirou as someone who had hindered him before and accused him of serving the Counter Force.
• Shirou explained that the other person had been his future self from another world line and said he had no connection to the Counter Force.
• Souren Araya declared that Shirou was effectively a Counter Force lackey because he had obstructed him.

Shirou defeated Souren Araya but spared him, agreeing not to interfere with his plan in exchange for Fujou Kirie and the materials about double existence. He then promised Kirie they would leave the hospital, pursue her treatment, and travel together as companions.

• Shirou overwhelmed Souren Araya's four barriers with Bala and held a blade to his neck, but refused to kill him.
• Shirou and Souren Araya discussed their motives, and Souren Araya agreed to give up Fujou Kirie and hand over his materials in exchange for Shirou staying out of his plan.
• Shirou warned Souren Araya not to target the people close to him, and Souren Araya vanished from the rooftop.
• Shirou met Kirie atop Fujou Building and invited her to travel the world with him.
• Shirou told Kirie he would help her leave the hospital and pursue treatment while developing her ability, and they reaffirmed that they were companions.

Mikiya asked Touko Aozaki for his overdue salary, but she admitted she had spent her money on antiques and could not pay him. Shirou offered to provide Mikiya with food and lodging, and Touko Aozaki arranged to join them for free meals.

• Mikiya arrived at Garan no Dou and argued with Shirou about his all-night gaming and request for strong coffee.
• Touko Aozaki told Mikiya that Shirou could kill everyone in Kanbiko City within two hours, and Shirou confirmed it while jokingly demanding coffee.
• Mikiya asked Touko Aozaki for his salary, and she said she had no money after buying a witch's mirror and a clay statue of the King of Heroes.
• Touko Aozaki asked Mikiya to lend her money, and he turned to Shirou for help.
• Shirou offered Mikiya dinner and lodging until next month, then agreed to feed Touko Aozaki too while warning that he would fleece her.

Shirou agreed to cook dinner for Mikiya, Touko, and Shiki, while Shiki showed off the Kuji Kanetsune sword. At the Emiya house, Shirou reunited with Illya and Kiritsugu as preparations for the meal began.

• Touko praised Shirou's cooking and pushed him to provide meals for Mikiya, who accepted Shirou's offer of dinner.
• Shiki arrived at Garan no Dou with Kuji Kanetsune, but Touko stopped her from drawing it inside the barrier.
• Touko invited Shiki to dinner at Shirou's house, and Shirou agreed to cook for the group.
• Shirou arranged for Fujino and Kirie to buy fresh ingredients before meeting everyone at the house.
• Shirou and his companions reached the Emiya house and met Illya and Kiritsugu.

Shirou prepared an enormous dinner with a bluefin tuna delivered by Ulquiorra, a split-off part of his soul who reunited with him after the delivery. After the Emiya family and their guests ate, a sniper watching Kiritsugu decided to finish her job quickly so she could see him.

• Shiki watched Shirou cook with premium ingredients, and he greeted Ulquiorra when the split-off soul arrived carrying a huge bluefin tuna.
• Ulquiorra gave Shirou the tuna, then dissolved into spirit particles and returned to Shirou’s soul.
• Shirou explained that he could split his soul into two and that Ulquiorra could also become a Zanpakuto for Resurrección.
• Shirou served more than thirty dishes at dinner, and he beat Touko Aozaki in their eating contest.
• After dinner, Kiritsugu escorted Touko and Shiki to the entrance while an unseen woman lowered her sniper rifle and said she would finish her job before finding him.