Recaps

Kiritsugu and Maiya destroyed Kenneth’s hotel workshop with explosives, but they could not confirm whether Kenneth had died. When Kirei Kotomine confronted Maiya, Natalia arrived to help and escaped their fight by jumping from the hotel with a hidden hang glider.

• Natalia mocked the elaborate defenses of Kenneth’s hotel workshop while Kiritsugu’s team prepared to attack.
• Kiritsugu remotely detonated the explosives planted throughout the hotel, bringing down the building after its occupants had been evacuated.
• Maiya reported that Kenneth had not left the hotel grounds but that no body had been found, so Kiritsugu ordered a retreat.
• Kirei Kotomine confronted Maiya, dodged her shots, and knocked away her pistol with a Black Key.
• Natalia intervened, fought Kirei, then jumped from the thirty-eighth floor, shot at him, and opened a hidden hang glider.

After Kariya uncovered Caster’s gruesome murders and rescued abducted children, Shirou urged Kiritsugu to make Caster the team’s first target. Kiritsugu hesitated over the strategy, but Natalia backed Shirou’s proposal, leaving the group poised to act against Caster.

• Irisviel drove Artoria at high speed to meet Caster, but Gilles de Rais vanished before Shirou could shoot him.
• Shirou asked Kariya to investigate Caster, and Kariya agreed while commanding Berserker Lancelot with greater independence.
• Kariya found Caster’s workshop, photographed the murdered children, and reported that over a dozen captives had been rescued and entrusted to Nakayama.
• Shirou showed Kiritsugu the workshop photographs and proposed making Caster their first target, citing the murders as his reason.
• Kiritsugu hesitated, but Natalia urged him to accept Shirou’s proposal, and Artoria and the others reacted with anger and disgust.

Shirou, Artoria, and Diarmuid fought Caster as he used monsters and children to delay their attacks. Caster escaped after Shirou saved the children, and Artoria hurried away to help Irisviel and Maiya, who had encountered Kirei Kotomine.

• Shirou found Caster’s hideout, killed the monsters there, and burned the human-skin-filled lair before leaving to continue his hunt.
• Artoria fought Caster’s monster army outside Einzbern Castle but was overwhelmed and bound by tentacles.
• Diarmuid freed Artoria and confronted Caster, who summoned more monsters with his Grimoire of the Perverted Castle.
• Shirou arrived and prepared to attack, but Caster used children containing monsters as hostages to force him to save them.
• Shirou used Photonization and mana to kill the monsters inside the children, allowing Caster to escape after his Noble Phantasm was destroyed.
• Artoria told Shirou that Irisviel and Maiya had encountered Kirei Kotomine, and she left to help them.

Natalia and Kiritsugu ambushed Kenneth at Einzbern castle, using modern weapons and traps against his powerful Mage's Garb. They trapped him in the basement with tear gas, forcing Kenneth to use a Command Spell to summon Diarmuid for rescue.

• Kenneth entered Einzbern castle and demanded a one-on-one duel, but gunfire from six directions struck his Lunar Dew defenses.
• Kiritsugu and Natalia attacked Kenneth with submachine guns and pistols, then fled when they failed to penetrate his defenses.
• Natalia reminded Kiritsugu of their old bunker tactic, and Kiritsugu decided to use tear gas instead of his Origin Bullet.
• Kiritsugu and Natalia lured Kenneth into the basement and sealed the doors before filling the room with tear gas.
• Trapped inside Lunar Dew as bullets continued to threaten him, Kenneth used a Command Spell to summon Diarmuid and escape.

Hisau Maya and Irisviel tried to escape Kirei Kotomine, but their ambush failed and Kirei overwhelmed them. Shirou intervened by raining projected Noble Phantasms down between them, leaving Kirei alive and the confrontation unresolved.

• Hisau Maya led Irisviel through the castle, but Irisviel insisted they stop Kirei Kotomine from reaching Kiritsugu Emiya.
• Irisviel used an illusion to help Hisau Maya ambush Kirei, but he feigned defeat and injured her with a Black Key.
• Kirei attacked Hisau Maya, and Irisviel bound him with steel wires shaped into an eagle.
• Kirei broke the tree anchoring the wires through sheer strength, exhausting Irisviel and freeing himself.
• Shirou's projected Noble Phantasms rained down and separated Kirei from Irisviel and Hisau Maya.

Gilgamesh discussed Tohsaka Tokiomi’s wish for the Root and Kirei Kotomine’s lack of a wish before Shirou spoke with Kirei about finding purpose. Shirou suggested that Kirei try to become a good father to Kallen and sample Mapo Tofu, leaving Kirei’s next choices uncertain.

• Gilgamesh told Kirei Kotomine that he found Tohsaka Tokiomi’s pursuit of the Root boring and praised Shirou for recognizing himself as a counterfeit.
• Kirei Kotomine approached Shirou, who agreed to answer his questions about wishes and enjoyment.
• Shirou told Kirei that everyone had desires and suggested he start by becoming a good father to Kallen.
• Shirou recommended the Mapo Tofu at a Chinese restaurant in Fuyuki City's snack street, then wondered whether Kirei would still kill Tokiomi.

Shirou and Irisviel encountered Iskandar while shopping, and Iskandar invited the other kings to a King's Banquet. Iskandar, Gilgamesh, Shirou, and Irisviel agreed to gather at Einzbern Castle, where the banquet would give them a chance to observe one another.

• Shirou shielded Irisviel when Iskandar approached them on the street and asked where Saber was.
• Iskandar explained that he wanted to hold a King's Banquet and had come to buy wine.
• Shirou and Irisviel invited Iskandar to host the banquet at Einzbern Castle, offering century-old grape wine.
• Shirou pointed out Gilgamesh as he approached, and Iskandar invited him to the banquet.
• Gilgamesh agreed to attend so he could show the others what a true king was.

Gudako asked Shirou to Project Saint Quartz so she could summon more Heroic Spirits. Shirou created an enormous supply, leaving Ritsuka, Mashu, Da Vinci, and Dr. Roman stunned while Gudako celebrated.

• Gudako visited Ritsuka Fujimaru and asked him to introduce her to Emiya, who could Project anything.
• At Chaldea’s kitchen, Red A and Black A dragged Shirou away from the cooking and sent him to meet Gudako.
• Gudako showed Shirou a Saint Quartz and asked him to Project more, then took him to the Summoning Room.
• Shirou Projected a vast array of Saint Quartz, and Mashu, Da Vinci, and Dr. Roman arrived to find the room filled with them.
• Gudako celebrated the chance to summon more Heroic Spirits while Ritsuka questioned whether he should have helped her.

Shirou hosted Iskandar at a banquet with Gilgamesh and Artoria, where Gilgamesh supplied divine wine and Iskandar began arguing about who deserved the Holy Grail. Shirou watched as the kings’ discussion turned into a Holy Grail Quiz.

• Shirou waited outside Einzbern Castle and stopped Iskandar and Webber from riding their chariot through the grounds.
• Shirou led Iskandar and Webber to the banquet, where Gilgamesh and Artoria were waiting over a feast.
• Gilgamesh called Shirou the Lich King and gave him a cup of wine along with the other kings.
• Iskandar praised Gilgamesh’s divine wine, while Artoria eagerly ate the feast.
• Iskandar argued that the Holy Grail was not a wine cup and described the contest as a Holy Grail Quiz.

Gilgamesh, Iskandar, Artoria, and Shirou discussed who owned the Holy Grail and what they would use it for. The conversation ended with Iskandar asking Shirou what wish he wanted the Grail to grant.

• Gilgamesh claimed that the Holy Grail belonged to his treasury, while Shirou said Gilgamesh’s treasures included several items with similar functions.
• Iskandar rejected Gilgamesh’s offer to join his ranks and declared that he would take the Grail to fulfill his wish of obtaining a body.
• Shirou and Artoria described Merlin’s voyeurism and troublesome pranks in Camelot.
• Shirou explained that Frostmourne had made him the Lich King, a role he had accepted to suppress the undead scourge.
• Iskandar advised Shirou to follow his own path and asked what wish he wanted to entrust to the Holy Grail.

Shirou and the kings discussed their wishes and ideals, leading Iskandar and Artoria to argue over whether a king should serve the country or rule for personal glory. Shirou explained that Britannia had been doomed by the decline of the Age of Gods, and Gilgamesh ended the discussion by declaring that he would kill Iskandar himself.

• Shirou said he had entered the Holy Grail War to end something meaningless and had no wish beyond caring for his companions.
• Artoria said she wanted the Holy Grail to save Britannia from destruction, and Gilgamesh and Iskandar challenged her regret over her rule.
• Iskandar argued that a king should live by his own desires and that subjects should give everything to their king, while Artoria defended serving her people.
• Shirou explained that Britannia was doomed by the decline of True Ether and the course of history, and Iskandar acknowledged that his King's Path did not fit its circumstances.
• Iskandar reaffirmed his beliefs about kingship, and Gilgamesh declared that he would kill Iskandar himself.

Iskandar answered the question of whether a king must be solitary by summoning his loyal soldiers in his Noble Phantasm, Army of the King. He led them to wipe out the Hundred-Faced Hassans, leaving the other kings and Shirou to witness his army's overwhelming force.

• Dozens of skull-masked Hundred-Faced Hassans surrounded the banquet, and Iskandar invited them to join the table before they spilled his wine.
• Iskandar asked Artoria, Gilgamesh, and Shirou whether a king had to be solitary, then summoned his army and Bucephalus with Army of the King.
• Iskandar declared that a king was not solitary because the king's wish was the wish of all his people, and his soldiers answered him in unison.
• Iskandar ordered his soldiers to trample the Hundred-Faced Hassans, and they defeated them in a one-sided massacre.

After Iskandar and Gilgamesh left the banquet, Shirou helped Artoria reconsider her failures as king by showing her recordings of Tristan and Mordred. Artoria let go of her unrealistic regrets, while Shirou was left facing the cleanup alone.

• Iskandar departed with Webber after arguing with Gilgamesh, who then threatened Shirou before vanishing.
• Artoria questioned whether she had failed as king, and Shirou searched his Imaginary Space for a recording to answer her.
• Shirou accidentally pulled out Tiamat, then put her away and found the recorder he wanted.
• Artoria heard Tristan and Mordred express their true feelings about her and Camelot.
• Artoria thanked Shirou for helping her let go of her regrets, and Shirou realized he had to clean up the banquet alone.

Kiritsugu dreamed of Shirou, Illya, Sella, and Okita Souji sharing a chaotic afternoon at the Emiya household before waking to news that Caster’s Master had appeared. He agreed to let Natalia take him out, hoping to prevent Kenneth from gaining more Command Spells.

• Shirou found Illya asleep on the aired quilts, then lay down beside her despite warning her that Sella would be angry.
• Okita Souji arrived and nearly joined them, but Shirou stopped her from waking Illya.
• Sella scolded Shirou and Illya, threw Shirou into the spot where Einzbern Castle stood, and tugged Illya’s ear until she woke.
• Kiritsugu questioned whether the dream’s Shirou was really his son, then woke with a headache.
• Natalia told Kiritsugu that Caster’s Master had appeared, and Kiritsugu ordered her to take him out.

After Caster summoned a tentacled Projection of an Outer God and was devoured, Shirou, Artoria, Iskandar, and their allies joined forces to stop the monster before it reached land. Shirou’s barrage of Projected Noble Phantasms shredded it, but its regeneration outpaced the damage.

• Gilles de Rais summoned a tentacled monster with a ritual after Ryunosuke Uryu was killed, and the creature devoured him.
• Kiritsugu called for help as the monster emerged, and Shirou, Artoria, and Irisviel arrived at the scene.
• Iskandar joined them and proposed an alliance, while Irisviel explained that they had to destroy the monster before it reached land and replenished itself.
• At Kiritsugu’s request, Shirou attacked the monster by Projecting and launching dozens of Noble Phantasms.
• Shirou’s barrage minced the monster, but its regeneration quickly restored it.

Shirou’s first Noble Phantasm barrage failed to stop the regenerating monster, so he began chanting a more powerful attack while the others watched. Above the battlefield, Matou Kariya sent Lancelot in a stolen fighter jet toward Gilgamesh, and Tohsaka Tokiomi went to confront Kariya.

• Gilgamesh dismissed Tohsaka Tokiomi’s request to attack the monster and insisted Shirou’s barrage was only a performance.
• Shirou refused Diarmuid’s suggestion and began chanting a spell that formed twelve powerful cones of light.
• Matou Kariya sent Lancelot flying an F-22 toward Gilgamesh’s Vimana as a distraction.
• Gilgamesh allowed Tohsaka Tokiomi to pursue Kariya, then asked how Kariya had survived and returned to the Holy Grail War.

Matou Kariya used Shirou’s rifle to overwhelm Tohsaka Tokiomi, then escaped and decided he would raise Sakura himself. Hungry afterward, he entered Kirei Kotomine’s ramen shop, where he collapsed after tasting the signature dish as Artoria arrived.

• Matou Kariya fired Shirou’s AK-47 at Tohsaka Tokiomi while Berserker shot down Tokiomi’s Archer with missiles.
• Matou Kariya ordered Berserker to retreat, then escaped under cover of a smoke grenade.
• Matou Kariya decided he would not return Sakura to Tohsaka Tokiomi and imagined teaching her to use guns instead of magecraft.
• Matou Kariya entered Kirei Kotomine’s ramen shop and believed Kirei’s claim that he was now an ordinary chef.
• Matou Kariya tasted Kirei’s signature ramen and passed out with his face in the bowl as Artoria arrived with Irisviel.

Shirou and Kiritsugu lured Kenneth out of his hotel by sending Matou Kariya to challenge him. Kariya and Lancelot fought Kenneth and Diarmuid, while Kariya surprised Kenneth by opening fire with Shirou’s unusually loaded rifle.

• Shirou avoided Kirei Kotomine’s new shop, then joined Kiritsugu in watching Kenneth’s hotel.
• Shirou called Matou Kariya and asked him to lure Kenneth outside by invoking his status as head of the Matou Family.
• At dawn, Kariya arrived at the hotel with Lancelot and formally called Kenneth out to meet him.
• Kenneth emerged with Diarmuid, and Kariya struggled to suppress his laughter at the thought of Kenneth’s love-hotel workshop.
• Lancelot and Diarmuid began fighting as Kenneth confronted Kariya, who pulled out an assault rifle and started firing.
• Kariya’s rifle held special rounds supplied by Shirou, including Rune Bullets, Explosive Bullets, and Shirou’s Origin Bullets.

Shirou took over Diarmuid’s duel after Lancelot overwhelmed him with modern weapons, then defeated Diarmuid with Frostmourne. Diarmuid was left mortally wounded after Shirou broke his Yellow Rose and inflicted an unhealable gash.

• Matou Kariya fired rune bullets while Kenneth sheltered behind a defensive wall of Lunar Dew.
• Lancelot used an M134 Minigun against Diarmuid until Shirou ordered him to help Kariya.
• Shirou stepped in for Saber and challenged Diarmuid to a one-on-one duel.
• Shirou and Diarmuid fought with Frostmourne and twin spears, but Shirou’s weapon steadily damaged Diarmuid’s Yellow Rose.
• Shirou unleashed Crimson Magic Release, broke the Yellow Rose, and gave Diarmuid a massive wound that could not heal.

Shirou defeated Diarmuid and stopped Kiritsugu from killing Kenneth and Sola. He sent the couple away in exchange for Kenneth covering up the events at the Mage's Association, while warning that the Holy Grail War would have no winner.

• Shirou defeated Diarmuid, who praised his martial skill and wished him success before vanishing.
• Kiritsugu, Maiya, and Natalia captured Kenneth and Sola, and Kiritsugu prepared to kill them.
• Kenneth begged Kiritsugu to spare Sola, but Kiritsugu said he could not let either captive live.
• Shirou stopped Kiritsugu's gun and insisted that Kenneth and Sola be spared.
• Kiritsugu agreed to leave them to Shirou, who told Kenneth to cover up their survival at the Mage's Association and warned that the war would have no winner.

Shirou and Artoria arrived with Irisviel at the Emiya family home, where they planned to establish their base for the Holy Grail War. Shirou exposed Irisviel’s failing condition and removed her heart, but she regenerated because Avalon was inside her, leaving Artoria confused by the bloodied scene.

• Artoria drove Shirou and Irisviel to the Emiya family home while Maiya followed in another car.
• Maiya gave Shirou the keys and left, and Irisviel explored the overgrown house before proposing to build a workshop in its storage shed.
• Shirou confronted Irisviel about her weakening body and explained that Avalon was keeping the Lesser Grail alive in human form.
• Shirou pulled Irisviel’s heart from her chest, but her body and clothes rapidly regenerated.
• Artoria returned with supplies, and Shirou told her that he had treated Irisviel because she felt unwell.

Shirou revealed that the corrupted Greater Grail would twist Kiritsugu’s wish into the deaths of everyone, then explained the Grail’s origin and took the Lesser Grail away. Having lost his Anchor Point by preventing the Fuyuki City fire, Shirou had only days left in the world, so he headed to Ryuudou Temple to prepare for the final battle.

• Shirou showed Artoria and Irisviel the still-beating heart he had removed from Irisviel and explained that it was Fuyuki City’s Lesser Grail.
• Shirou warned Irisviel and Kiritsugu that the corrupted Grail might fulfill Kiritsugu’s wish by killing everyone, and he explained that Angra Mainyu’s summoning had corrupted the Greater Grail.
• Irisviel led Artoria and Shirou out of the warehouse to give Kiritsugu time alone, while they took Maiya with them.
• Shirou told Artoria he would bring the Lesser Grail to Ryuudou Temple, let it be born through the ritual, and destroy it.
• Shirou realized that preventing the Fuyuki City fire had cost him his Anchor Point and left him only five to seven days, so he drew more magical energy from the Great Source to preserve his strength.
• Shirou went alone to Ryuudou Temple to prepare for the final battle, planning to fight Iskandar and Gilgamesh while Artoria faced Lancelot.

Iskandar accepted the Lich King's challenge and Webber spent his Command Spells ordering Rider to win, claim the Grail, and conquer the world before Iskandar reaffirmed their friendship and brought him along. As the gathered fighters headed toward Mount Enzou, Kirei left to open a mapo tofu shop, and Shirou's provocation drew them toward the final battlefield.

• Iskandar interpreted the Lich King's mana signal as a challenge and summoned his chariot to head for Ryuudou Temple with Webber.
• Webber used all three Command Spells to order Iskandar to win, obtain the Holy Grail, and conquer the world, then told him to leave.
• Iskandar lifted Webber into the chariot, called him his friend, and set off with him.
• Gilgamesh fled the Tohsaka residence after Kirei served his mapo tofu ramen, and Kirei left to open a shop while Tokiomi remained trapped in the spicy meal.
• Matou Kariya discussed sending Berserker Lancelot to meet Artoria, while Shirou said he would seek a way to reunite with Sakura after the war.
• Thunder sounded as Shirou's provocation drew the others toward the final battlefield.

Shirou faced Iskandar in a final battle at Ryuudou Temple, revealing his identity and summoning an army of the dead against the King of Conquerors. The battle began with the two armies clashing, while Iskandar's forces continued to fight despite the Scourge's numbers and powerful undead.

• Shirou confronted Iskandar at Ryuudou Temple and revealed that he was Emiya Shirou, the fourth Lich King and Kiritsugu Emiya's adoptive son.
• Iskandar invoked his Reality Marble, and he and Webber prepared to face Shirou's final challenge.
• Webber admitted he was terrified, and Iskandar praised him for beginning to understand domination.
• Shirou summoned a snow-covered field of Noble Phantasms and raised zombies, ghouls, stitched abominations, Frost Dragons, and other undead beneath them.
• Iskandar led his army into battle as the Scourge's undead fought his soldiers, while stronger undead engaged his commanders.

Iskandar’s army struggled against Shirou’s undead forces until Webber identified Shirou as the sole commander and Iskandar challenged him directly. Iskandar’s charge failed, and after exchanging a final conversation with Shirou, he dissolved into Spiritron particles.

• Webber explained that Shirou controlled the undead as a single commander, prompting Iskandar to decide that the battle depended on a direct strike against him.
• Iskandar asked Webber to become his retainer, and Webber pledged his loyalty and asked to share his king’s dream.
• Iskandar sent Webber to witness and record his charge, then rode his bull toward Shirou.
• Shirou stopped Iskandar’s charging bull, knocked aside his Scepter Sword, and pierced his chest with Frostmourne.
• Iskandar asked Shirou whether he had been a worthy opponent, praised their battle, and dissolved into Spiritron particles.