Recaps

Shirou watched Iskandar die, offered Webber a path forward, and warned Kenneth about a future betrayal before clashing with Gilgamesh. Elsewhere, Artoria fought Lancelot and used the temple floor to advance through his minigun barrage.

• Shirou asked Webber whether he wanted revenge for Rider, and Webber refused because he had been commanded to live.
• Kenneth offered Webber a classroom in the Department of Modern Magecraft and invited him to join El-Melloi.
• Shirou warned Kenneth that White Winged Ancestor might appear at the Clock Tower in two years and that the Bafiro family would defect.
• Gilgamesh challenged Shirou, and the two exchanged Noble Phantasms before Gilgamesh drew Enuma Elish.
• Artoria used a floor tile as cover against Lancelot's minigun, destroyed the weapon, and struck at his head, but he caught her blade barehanded.

Artoria defeated Lancelot and heard his confession before he faded away. Shirou outmaneuvered Gilgamesh in their battle on the frozen plains, piercing his chest with Purgatory Sword.

• Artoria pierced Lancelot's heart, restoring his sanity before he confessed that he had long hoped she would punish him and then faded away in her arms.
• Shirou and Gilgamesh survived the collision between Radiant Wave and Gawain's Sword, and Shirou realized Gilgamesh had already used his powerful attack.
• Shirou used Unlimited Blade Works to counter Gate of Babylon, but Gilgamesh broke the summoned world with Enuma Elish.
• Shirou cast Black Coffin, and Gilgamesh shattered it with Gawain's Sword, temporarily breaking Shirou's ability to use Unlimited Blade Works.
• Shirou struck Gilgamesh with Absolute Sword: Infinite Sky Three Stages and pierced his chest with Purgatory Sword.

Kiritsugu watched Artoria destroy the Holy Grail, then learned that Shirou had sacrificed himself to save countless lives and would disappear forever. After Shirou vanished, Kiritsugu grieved, while Shirou awoke in a flower field beside Tiamat and confronted a strange insect-like creature.

• Kiritsugu ordered Artoria to destroy the Holy Grail with all her strength, and she vaporized the chalice with Excalibur.
• Shirou destroyed the hole releasing Black Mud with a dark green pillar of light, then vanished before Kiritsugu could reach him.
• Shirou told Kiritsugu that changing his past had erased the possibility of his continued existence and that he had traded his life to save Irisviel, Maiya, and countless others.
• Kiritsugu collapsed in grief after Shirou disappeared beneath the morning light.
• Shirou awoke in a flower field beside Tiamat, killed a strange insect-like creature with Frostmourne, and asked what was happening.

Emiya Shirou saved Kamide Misaki and discovered that Tiamat had followed him out of Imaginary Space. He dressed Tiamat, decided to raise her, and learned that he had landed in the world of Kamen Rider Kabuto.

• Emiya Shirou healed Kamide Misaki after Kandata Ken begged him to save her.
• Emiya Shirou found Tiamat playing with butterflies and learned she had followed him out of Imaginary Space.
• Emiya Shirou dressed Tiamat and helped her remove her horns, then decided to raise her.
• Kamide Misaki thanked Emiya Shirou and invited him and Tiamat to stay with her and Kandata Ken.
• Emiya Shirou recognized the world as Kamen Rider Kabuto.

After six months at Kandata Ken's home, Shirou received a recommendation to enroll at Totsuki Academy and traveled there to meet Nakiri Senzaemon. Senzaemon began an admissions test, and Shirou chose to make omurice with the ingredients in the academy kitchen.

• Shirou swallowed and appraised another of Tiamat's disastrous black dishes while telling her she lacked cooking talent.
• Kandata Ken delivered Shirou an enrollment form and a nested letter from Goemon recommending that he attend Totsuki Academy.
• Shirou left Tiamat at Kandata Ken's home and arrived at Totsuki Academy a day before admissions began.
• Shirou gave Nakiri Senzaemon Goemon's recommendation letter, and Senzaemon led him to a kitchen for an egg-cooking evaluation.
• Shirou chose to make omurice and found hot rice in the cooker before inspecting a chef's knife.

Shirou prepared an omurice in Erina Nakiri’s kitchen while Senzaemon Nakiri watched his extraordinary techniques. Erina tasted the dish and was left unable to criticize it.

• Shirou made a fresh tomato sauce and prepared chicken, mushrooms, and fried rice with superhuman knife work.
• Shirou cooked a soft omelet and served the finished omurice to Senzaemon Nakiri.
• Erina Nakiri followed the dish’s irresistible aroma into the kitchen and found Shirou cooking there.
• Senzaemon explained that an old friend had recommended Shirou and asked Erina to judge his omurice.
• Erina cut open the omelet, tasted the omurice, and staggered against the wall, unable to say the insult she had intended.

Shirou passed Erina Nakiri’s cooking test and was assigned to Polaris Dorm, then found abandoned Kamen Rider Hopper equipment and used Punch Hopper to fight Worms. He defeated the spider Worm despite the belt’s faulty Clockup, leaving the Rider gear in his possession.

• Shirou served Erina Nakiri omurice, and Senzaemon Nakiri approved his admission and sent him to Polaris Dorm.
• Senzaemon tasted Shirou’s omurice and recognized his exceptional cooking skill.
• Shirou found a bag containing the Kick Hopper and Punch Hopper belts and transformation devices.
• A spider-type Worm revealed itself, and Shirou transformed into Kamen Rider Punch Hopper.
• Shirou defeated the Worm larvae and killed the spider Worm with Rider Punch after Clockup failed.

Emiya Shirou arrived at Polaris Dorm and faced an entrance test from the dorm manager, Oomido Fumio: cooking a dish that satisfied her despite the empty kitchen. He made steak with rare ingredients from his Imaginary Space, and Ryoko Sakaki and Oomido Fumio tasted it.

• Emiya Shirou introduced himself to Oomido Fumio and agreed to take the dormitory entrance test.
• Oomido Fumio told Emiya Shirou that the kitchen had no ingredients, so he brought A5 beef and Burgundy wine out of his bag using his Imaginary Space.
• Emiya Shirou prepared steak with the expensive ingredients while Oomido Fumio questioned his choices.
• Ryoko Sakaki arrived, drawn by the smell of wine, and learned that Emiya Shirou was cooking for his entrance test.
• Emiya Shirou served steak to Oomido Fumio and Ryoko Sakaki, and Ryoko tasted hers.

Emiya Shirou settled into Polaris Dorm, where the residents witnessed his formidable swordsmanship and obsessive cleaning after his astonishing cooking. Senzaemon Nakiri then asked Shirou to help Erina assess the new students the following day, and Shirou agreed.

• Emiya Shirou joked that his meal cost 700,000 yen because it used rare Burgundy wine, then revealed he had been a mercenary skilled in assassination before coming to Totsuki.
• Granny Fumio gave Shirou the key to room 312, and Shirou went outside to practice kendo with a massive odachi, shocking the Polaris Dorm residents with his speed and power.
• Shirou cleaned his room so thoroughly that it looked almost completely renewed, then toured the dormitory’s ingredient supplies with the others.
• Senzaemon Nakiri called Shirou and asked him to help Erina assess the new students the next day, explaining that Shirou was the best cook in his class.
• Shirou agreed to assist with the assessment.

Emiya Shirou assisted Erina Nakiri with Totsuki’s transfer exam, which she turned into an egg-dish challenge. Soma Yukihira was the only examinee who stayed to cook, but Erina rejected his dish after he asked whether it tasted good.

• Emiya Shirou met Nikaido Yoshiki and revealed that he was an assistant examiner with a recommendation from an elder who knew Totsuki’s commander-in-chief.
• Emiya Shirou stopped Erina Nakiri from throwing a tantrum by helping bring over a cooking station, and she made eggs the exam’s theme ingredient.
• Emiya Shirou warned examinees that anyone who withdrew would never be allowed to attend Totsuki, but nearly everyone still left.
• Soma Yukihira introduced himself and vowed to pass, then made his Transforming Tamago Kake Gohan for Erina Nakiri to taste.
• Erina Nakiri tasted Soma Yukihira’s dish but called it awful after he asked if it tasted good.

Shirou helped Soma pass the transfer student entrance exam, then fought a Worm that had impersonated Arato Hisako. After defeating it, he gave Kagami special bullets to use against powerful enemies.

• Shirou corrected Erina Nakiri’s criticism of Soma’s cooking, and he overruled her to pass Soma.
• A second Arato Hisako arrived, revealed herself as a cricket Worm, and attacked the first Hisako.
• Shuichi Tadokoro, Yuzuki Misaki, and Kagami fired at the Worm while Shirou sent Erina, Soma, and Hisako away.
• Shirou transformed with the PunchHopper Zecter, disabled the Worm’s Clockup, and destroyed it.
• Shirou praised Kagami’s courage and gave him Freeze Bullets, Explosive Bullets, and Infinite Bullets.

Emiya Shirou began at Totsuki, where he gave Erina Nakiri a repulsion brooch and intimidated the students with a threatening introduction. After class, Arato Hisako revealed that Erina wanted to put Shirou’s cooking and fighting skills to work.

• Erina Nakiri visited Shirou to thank him for saving her, and Arato Hisako admitted that Erina wanted him as a bodyguard; Shirou gave Erina a repulsion brooch instead.
• Shirou threw a kitchen knife past Soma Yukihira after Soma angered the audience, then introduced himself by joking about his mercenary past and sniper fire.
• Shirou discovered that Goemon Sougen, his former teacher from the Kandata household, was teaching his class, where Shirou and Erina received the only A grades.
• Arato Hisako told Shirou that Erina had summoned him to her office and planned to put his abilities to use.

Erina Nakiri forced Shirou into a Shokugeki over the Donburi Research Society, with the loser bound by the terms they agreed on. As rumors spread, Shirou hunted Worms in Tokyo overnight, and Satoshi Isshiki warned him about Erina’s strength.

• Erina Nakiri asked Shirou to challenge the Donburi Research Society and proposed a Shokugeki that would make him her lackey if he lost.
• Shirou agreed to the Shokugeki on the condition that Erina stop bothering him if she lost, and the officials verified the match with noodles as its theme.
• News of the match spread through Totsuki, where most students expected Erina to win.
• Shirou wore a skull mask and black armor to hunt Worms in Tokyo, creating a new urban legend.
• Satoshi Isshiki came to Shirou’s door and warned him that Erina was strong.

Shirou faced Erina Nakiri in a Shokugeki over noodles, drawing hostility from the crowd before demonstrating an unusual dough-making technique. As Erina prepared her broth with ordinary noodles, Shirou began pulling noodles from his egg-and-flour dough in a way that stunned the venue.

• Erina Nakiri and Shirou entered their Shokugeki, where the crowd cheered Erina and insulted Shirou until his killing intent silenced them.
• Rei Kawashima announced noodles as the theme, and Shirou mixed flour and eggs with a chopstick using his White Cobra Twisting Training technique.
• Soma Yukihira and the other students discussed asking Shirou to teach them his kneading method, while Senzaemon Nakiri watched with interest.
• Shirou punched the dough repeatedly to develop its gluten as Erina prepared her broth using ordinary Totsuki noodles.
• Erina and the spectators were left speechless as Shirou began pulling noodles from his unusual egg-based dough.

Shirou served his Magic Ramen against Erina Nakiri’s seafood udon and impressed the judges with impossibly elastic noodles filled with rich soup. Senzaemon Nakiri and Riku Kagami devoured the dish, and Shirou explained how his technique made it.

• Erina Nakiri served seafood udon, and Senzaemon Nakiri praised its vivid ocean flavor as his clothes burst.
• Shirou identified Erina Nakiri’s ingredients and served the judges his Magic Ramen, featuring hair-thin noodles in clear broth.
• Senzaemon Nakiri and Riku Kagami discovered that the noodles contained thick soup and ate eagerly.
• Senzaemon Nakiri examined the noodles, and Shirou explained that lye water and powerful, repeated punches gave them their elasticity.
• Shirou invited Senzaemon Nakiri and Riku Kagami to begin their judgment.

After losing a cooking contest to Emiya Shirou, Erina Nakiri questioned him about their shared God Tongue. Shirou left to fight Worms as Punch Hopper, where he encountered Ichimaru Gin.

• Emiya Shirou defeated Erina Nakiri in a unanimous cooking contest, impressing Riku Kagami.
• Erina Nakiri asked Shirou what he thought of the God Tongue, and he told her it was only useful if she chose to make use of it.
• Shirou left the venue, transformed into Punch Hopper, and joined ZECT’s Ant Troopers fighting Worms.
• Shirou defeated a spider-type Worm with Rider Punch and attacked an ant-type Worm, but an unknown strike cut it in half.
• Shirou recognized the silver-haired Shinigami captain as Ichimaru Gin.

Shirou recruited Ichimaru Gin by promising to send him back to the Soul Society and showed him Laputa, a huge aerial fortress being built around a Dark Portal. Back at Polaris Dorm, Shirou was teased for challenging Erina Nakiri to a Shokugeki and was pushed into the kitchen to make ramen for everyone.

• Shirou offered Ichimaru Gin a chance to return to the Soul Society, showed him the Hogyoku, and recruited him as an ally.
• Shirou brought Ichimaru Gin to Laputa, a fortress under construction in the stratosphere with eighteen hundred magic cannons and a planned Dark Portal.
• Ichimaru Gin complained about the cold at Laputa, and Shirou activated a heating array while keeping his Frozen Throne frozen.
• Shirou used his Anywhere Door to return to Polaris Dorm, where the residents scolded him for challenging Erina Nakiri to a Shokugeki.
• The Polaris Dorm residents pushed Shirou into the kitchen to make them ramen, and Shirou called his cooking simple home cooking.

Shirou took Tiamat for a walk, where she stopped a knife-wielding thief and Shirou ran into Kagami. At the station, a young man tried to claim the Kabuto Zecter, but a man in white took it and transformed into Kabuto.

• Shirou took Tiamat out for a walk instead of helping Yukihira Soma and Megumi Tadokoro at the shopping street.
• A masked thief held a switchblade to Tiamat's neck, and she knocked him down with a punch after Shirou told her to hold back.
• Kagami thanked Shirou for stopping the thief and recognized him, but Shirou denied knowing him and left with Tiamat.
• At the station, Shirou saw a young man facing Worms and wearing a ZECT belt as a red Kabuto Zecter flew toward him.
• A man in white caught the Kabuto Zecter, ignored the young man's protests, and transformed into Kabuto.

Tendou Souji transformed into Kabuto’s Rider Form and defeated the Worms, while Shirou stunned him and Riku Kagami with a distant rebar shot. Kagami hid evidence of Shirou’s abilities and learned that Drake’s Zecter had been released to find a Rider, though the unfinished Beetle Zecters remained hidden.

• Tendou Souji used Kabuto’s Kunai Gun against the larvae, then Cast Off and activated Clockup to destroy the adult Worms.
• Shirou shot a Worm with a steel rebar from a distant rooftop, drawing Tendou’s attention before leaving with a blue-haired woman.
• Riku Kagami reviewed surveillance footage of Shirou’s shot, deleted it, and decided to shield him from Kishine’s attention.
• Koyama told Riku Kagami that Drake’s Zecter had been released to find a Rider, but the unfinished Bronze, Silver, and Gold Beetle Zecters had been hidden.

Shirou joined Totsuki’s residential training and discovered Tendo Souji was among the examiners. Paired with Erina Nakiri for a fish-themed cooking assessment, Shirou agreed to catch the ingredients while Erina handled the cooking.

• Shirou helped Grandma Fumio clean Polaris Dorm before the students departed for residential training.
• Shirou, Soma, Megumi, and the other students arrived at Totsuki Hotel and gathered in the auditorium for the training schedule.
• Tendo Souji recognized Shirou, while Zenji told the students about Tendo’s legendary record as a Totsuki graduate.
• The students were randomly assigned to cooking rooms, and Shirou found himself grouped with Erina Nakiri and Miyokura Akira.
• Tendo told Shirou’s group to catch their own fish and cook a dish that satisfied him before the morning ended.
• Erina asked Shirou to pair with her, and Shirou agreed to handle catching the fish while she took charge of the cooking.

Shirou helped Erina Nakiri pass the river-fishing assessment by defeating a Leech-type Insectoid and catching fish, while Tendo Souji watched. At Polaris Dorm, the students then faced a punishing dinner assignment to prepare fifty steak bowls each for a group of athletes.

• Shirou suspected Erina Nakiri could not fish, then demonstrated his magical weapons before an Insectoid burst from the river.
• Shirou used his Chronois device and transformed into Punch Hopper to defeat the Leech-type Insectoid threatening them.
• Shirou stunned fish with his spear, caught two, and returned with Erina Nakiri to pass the assessment under Tendo Souji.
• Tendo Souji reflected on Shirou’s fighting skills and found him interesting before preparing to assess the next students.
• At Polaris Dorm, Sakamaki Taira ordered the exhausted students to make fifty steak bowls each for athletes within an hour, and Shirou took the task calmly.

Shirou completed his fifty-bowl cooking test with ease, then showed Gin Dojima his battlefield scar and demonstrated his fighting skill. Later, Ichimaru Gin reported that the Darkness Gate needed nine months to charge, and Shirou told him to bring over a Life Box for Laputa's central energy chamber.

• Shirou finished fifty steak rice bowls in ten minutes and was released from the test for the night.
• Gin Dojima asked about Shirou's chest scar, and Shirou explained that a powerful battlefield opponent had nearly killed him.
• Shirou evaded Gin Dojima's charge and tapped his neck, convincing Gin that Shirou had been a mercenary.
• Soma Yukihira entered the bathhouse, noticed Shirou's scar, and heard its explanation.
• Ichimaru Gin told Shirou that the Darkness Gate was complete but needed nine months to gather enough Arcane Energy.
• Shirou asked Ichimaru Gin to bring him a Life Box so it could be placed in Laputa's central energy chamber.

Shirou passed Shinomiya’s terrine assessment, but challenged Shinomiya after Megumi Tadokoro was expelled for adapting the recipe. The chapter ended with Shirou demanding a Shokugeki to force Shinomiya to reassess the students.

• Shirou, Soma Yukihira, and Megumi Tadokoro were assigned to Shinomiya’s lesson and told to make a nine-vegetable French terrine.
• Shirou quickly completed his terrine and passed, as did Soma, but Shinomiya expelled Megumi for changing the recipe.
• Shinomiya explained that Megumi’s use of White Wine Vinegar made the cauliflower’s sweetness shine, but said she had no right to alter his recipe.
• Shirou defended Megumi’s choice and challenged Shinomiya to a Shokugeki, offering to quit cooking if he lost and demanding a reassessment if he won.

Gin Dojima arranged an unofficial Shokugeki between Emiya Shirou and Kojiro Shinomiya after they argued over Shinomiya’s recipe and evaluation methods. That night, Shirou unveiled unusual equipment and rare ingredients, then began a spectacular dough-making technique that left the graduates doubting Shinomiya could win.

• Gin Dojima arranged the Shokugeki for that night, with five graduates serving as judges after Tendo Souji declined to participate.
• Shirou and Shinomiya set their terms: if Shirou lost, he would wash a hundred thousand plates, while Shinomiya would repeat his previous evaluation if he lost.
• Shirou kept Megumi Tadokoro and Yukihira Soma close so they would miss their dinner evaluations, and the students tied to Shinomiya’s wager came to watch the match.
• Shirou brought bamboo, dried goods, clay pots, and other unusual supplies, then began mixing flour and water into a spiraling mass of dough.
• Yukihira Soma and the graduate judges watched in amazement as Shirou’s technique made them suspect Shinomiya would lose.

Shirou comforted Tiamat as she grieved that her children had left her, promising to remain by her side. After Tiamat fell asleep at dawn, Shirou left a protective clone in a mark on her hand.

• Tiamat asked Shirou what she meant to him, and he called her his traveling companion.
• Tiamat told Shirou that she loved her children but felt lonely because they had left her.
• Shirou reassured Tiamat that her children would always love her and would eventually return, and promised to stay with her.
• Shirou cleared the sky above Laputa so sunlight could reach Tiamat as she fell asleep.
• Shirou placed a mark containing a protective clone on the back of Tiamat's hand.