Recaps

Shirou helped Father Caleb gain control of his Mystic Eyes and asked him to investigate Kirei Kotomine. Meanwhile, Shirou sent Fujino to alert Second about the suspicious Caules and learned that Natalia had found the young man he was looking for.

• Shirou told Fujino that Dr. Hartless was likely on the train and sent her to tell Second that Caules seemed wrong.
• Shirou visited Father Caleb and used the Hogyoku to help him control his Mystic Eyes.
• Father Caleb thanked Shirou and agreed to investigate Kirei Kotomine after returning.
• Shirou called Natalia, who said she had found the young man and was heading toward him.

Shirou joined the pursuit of Dr. Hartless after he fled the carriage, while Webber recovered the Holy Relic and questioned Faker about her past. Faker attacked when Webber asked why she had not appeared in the King's Army, and Shirou blocked her as Webber prepared to continue.

• Shirou woke inside the carriage and found Natalia fighting Faker while Father Caleb confronted Dr. Hartless.
• Dr. Hartless escaped with Faker, and Shirou pursued them with Webber and Gray.
• Dr. Hartless returned the Holy Relic to Webber, who wrapped it safely and asked Faker about her name and her absence from the King's Army.
• Faker attacked Webber, and Shirou stopped her with his sheathed sword while Webber prepared to explain further.

Father Caleb fought Dr. Hartless while Shirou battled Faker, but Faker escaped Shirou’s powerful attack by activating a spell. Webber resolved to continue his fight against Dr. Hartless, then agreed to deliver Shirou’s blue sphere in exchange for a new Pocket Monsters game.

• Natalia offered to shoot Dr. Hartless, but Father Caleb refused her help and fought him using Black Keys and Caleb’s invisible Illusory Mystic Eyes.
• Dr. Hartless summoned Faker with a Command Spell and then spent another Command Spell empowering Faker’s final attack.
• Faker summoned his chariot and charged at Shirou and Webber with the Wheel of the Demon Heavens.
• Shirou unleashed his Cero of the King, but Faker escaped during the blast, and Shirou apologized to Webber for failing to stop him.
• Webber gave up on the Holy Grail War and declared that El-Melloi II’s battle would continue, then agreed to deliver Shirou’s blue sphere to Bartholomello in return for a new Pocket Monsters game.

In February 2002, Shirou summoned Irisviel von Einzbern as a Caster using a photograph, then sent her to find Kiritsugu and Illya. He set out with Okita Souji for Mount Enzou on a sudden hunch.

• Shirou drew a summoning circle and used an edited photograph of Irisviel as his catalyst instead of trying to summon King Arthur.
• Shirou summoned Irisviel, who introduced herself as Caster and asked him about Emiya Kiritsugu.
• Shirou told Irisviel where Kiritsugu and Illya were, and she hurried out to find them.
• Okita Souji asked why Shirou had summoned Irisviel, and he explained that he wanted to help Kiritsugu's wife and Illya.
• Shirou asked Okita to accompany him to Mount Enzou, though he did not know why he felt compelled to go there.

Shirou and Okita Souji investigated Mount Enzou, where Shirou encountered a Shadow Servant resembling Siegfried and learned that Solomon had summoned the Shadow Servants. As they started down the mountain, they found an exhausted Lancer whose appearance Shirou recognized, leaving him stunned.

• Shirou and Okita Souji walked up Mount Enzou, and Shirou sensed an approaching attacker.
• A Shadow Servant resembling Siegfried ambushed Shirou, but Shirou destroyed him.
• Solomon told Marisbury Animusphere that one of his summoned Shadow Servants had been destroyed.
• Shirou decided to leave the mountain with Okita Souji, but sensed another Servant nearby.
• Shirou cut through a boulder and found a green-haired Lancer, whom he recognized and stared at in shock.

Shirou found Enkidu near Mount Enzou and formed a contract with him, then returned home to find his friends from Kan'fuze City had arrived despite the Holy Grail War. The chapter ended with Enkidu and Okita Souji confronted by the Emiya household's chaotic gathering.

• Enkidu told Shirou that his Master had died while investigating the leyline beneath Mount Enzou and that he was about to vanish from lack of mana.
• Shirou offered Enkidu a contract, and Enkidu accepted after confirming Shirou could supply enough mana for two Servants.
• Shirou rushed home to make supper, and Enkidu and Okita Souji chased him to the Emiya residence.
• Shirou recognized Ryougi Shiki's car outside and realized that his friends from Kan'fuze City had come to Fuyuki despite his warning.
• Shirou entered and found Touko Aozaki and Natalia drinking, Kiritsugu and Irisviel watching Illya, Shiki and Kirie chatting, and the others gathered around the house.

Shirou struggled to keep the Karan-do group away from Fuyuki despite their willingness to face the Holy Grail War, then invited Enkidu to visit Gilgamesh. As Shirou sensed danger and practiced magecraft through the night, Natalia told Touko she had quit smoking because it was banned in the Emiya family.

• Shirou objected to Shiki, Mikiya, Mana, and Touko coming to Fuyuki, but gave up when Shiki insisted they could protect themselves.
• Shirou helped Enkidu choose modern clothes and suggested that they visit Gilgamesh the next day.
• Shirou reflected on the Emiya family's growth and his ominous instincts, then practiced magecraft because he could not sleep.
• Enkidu stayed in spirit form outside Shirou's door to guard him from another ambush.
• Natalia declined Touko's cigarette and explained that she had quit because smoking was forbidden in the Emiya family.

Shirou brought Enkidu to Fuyuki City’s church, where they met Gilgamesh, who had become a game-loving shut-in. After Shirou followed a smell of blood deeper into the church with Kallen, they encountered Cú Chulainn, who suspected Shirou was thinking something rude.

• Shirou brought Enkidu to the church and found Gilgamesh playing a handheld game console.
• Gilgamesh insulted Shirou as a counterfeit and tested his strength, but Enkidu defended his Master.
• Shirou offered Gilgamesh two game cartridges, which Gilgamesh accepted before taking Enkidu off to play.
• Shirou smelled blood and went deeper into the church, where he met Kallen Olsytia, its person in charge.
• Shirou and Kallen found Cú Chulainn, who confronted Shirou about his suspicious thoughts.

Shirou fought Cú Chulainn in a church, where their duel ended when Enkidu and Gilgamesh arrived. Cú Chulainn realized he was facing three powerful opponents and began looking for a way to escape with his injured Master.

• Cú Chulainn attacked Shirou, who revealed his Command Spells but chose to fight without summoning Enkidu.
• Shirou and Cú Chulainn traded blows until Shirou caught him off guard with a Void Blast, then asked to stop when he noticed Kallen was frightened.
• Cú Chulainn refused to stop, explaining that he had used Rune Magic to heal his Master but could only manage fire runes well.
• Enkidu arrived, and Gilgamesh appeared with him after their gaming session.
• Cú Chulainn recognized Gilgamesh and Enkidu as formidable threats and cautiously backed away, but Shirou pointed him out to them.

Shirou and Enkidu confronted Cú Chulainn, learned that Kirei Kotomine had ambushed and badly injured Bazett, and Shirou healed her. They recognized that the Holy Grail War had unusual complications, while Gilgamesh said someone would handle the unexpected developments.

• Cú Chulainn backed down after Shirou, Enkidu, and Gilgamesh confronted him, then explained that Kirei Kotomine had ambushed Bazett and broken her spine.
• Enkidu suggested dealing with Bazett as an enemy, but Shirou refused and began healing her.
• Shirou told Enkidu that he had encountered a second Lancer and a Shadow Servant, and Gilgamesh dismissed the irregularities as a minor accident.
• Gilgamesh stayed behind to help Kallen while Shirou and Enkidu prepared to leave.
• After Shirou finished treating Bazett, he asked Cú Chulainn to organize a copy of his Rune magecraft, and Cú Chulainn complained that Runes were troublesome.

Shirou reunited with Sakura and headed to the Kyudo Club, reflecting on Shinji’s painful place in the Matou family and his first meeting with Sakura. Kiritsugu and Natalia secretly watched Shirou and Sakura together, while Enkidu joined them without understanding why.

• Sakura visited Shirou after a month apart and pulled him from his workshop to go to the Kyudo Club.
• Shirou reflected on Shinji’s diligence and how learning he was not the Matou heir had helped break him.
• Sakura reminded Shirou to finish Mizusumi-senpai’s assignment of one hundred and fifty rings, and Shirou agreed he could do it quickly.
• Shirou remembered first meeting Sakura a year earlier, when Okita Souji had mistaken her for an intruder and threatened her with a sword.
• Kiritsugu and Natalia watched Shirou and Sakura leave together, and Enkidu joined them after asking what they were doing.

Shirou entered the Kyudo Club and found Mitsuzuri arguing with Student Council President Ryuudou over the club’s funding, before slipping away from training and running into Rin. He left Rin hinting that her clocks were an hour fast, and she called out his excuse.

• Mitsuzuri argued with Ryuudou over the Kyudo Club’s budget and equipment costs.
• Shinji joined Mitsuzuri and pressured Ryuudou to provide the club’s full 850,000-yen funding.
• Shirou avoided the dispute and slipped out of training after promising to handle the week’s cleaning duty.
• Shirou met Rin outside the club, asked the time, and suggested that her clocks were an hour fast.
• Rin rejected Shirou’s explanation and told him to continue his excuse.

Shirou watched Archer and Lancer fight at school, then summoned Saber, who turned out to be Artoria. As Saber confronted Lancer, Shirou suggested letting him go because another Servant was nearby.

• Shirou finished cleaning the archery clubroom and heard a battle on the school field.
• Shirou watched Archer fight Cú Chulainn and loudly offered Archer advice until Cú Chulainn noticed him and gave chase.
• Shirou drew a summoning circle and revealed three Command Spells, startling Cú Chulainn.
• Artoria answered Shirou's summons and accepted him as her Master.
• Artoria attacked Cú Chulainn, while Shirou proposed that they part ways because another Servant was nearby.

Shirou brought Artoria to the Emiya home, where she confronted Kiritsugu and then discovered Shirou’s cooking. After Artoria fought Rin’s Archer outside, Shirou called for a truce, and Rin surrendered when she saw how many allies Shirou had gathered.

• Shirou introduced himself to Artoria and steered her away from confronting Kiritsugu until after dinner.
• Shirou used Fixed Time Regulation to prepare a large meal, and Artoria ate enthusiastically alongside the others.
• Enkidu warned Shirou that Rin and her Servant had arrived, so Shirou sent Artoria outside to meet them while Enkidu provided covert support.
• Artoria fought Red A at the Emiya gate until Shirou asked her to stop, explaining that the Holy Grail War was abnormal and Archer still had a role to play.
• Rin saw Enkidu, another Servant on the roof, and Kiritsugu and Irisviel emerge, then surrendered.

Rin discovered how many powerful allies surrounded Shirou’s household and learned that the Holy Grail had been corrupted and granted wishes through malicious means. As Shirou escorted her home with Saber, they encountered an Einzbern homunculus and Servant ahead.

• Rin met Shirou’s family and allies, including Ryougi Shiki, and realized the household had several formidable Servants.
• Shirou pointed out that two Servants were Lancers, warning Rin that this Holy Grail War involved multiple Servants of the same Class.
• Shirou escorted Rin home with Saber and explained that the Grail could only accelerate a wish’s fulfillment if there was a way to achieve it.
• Shirou told Rin and Artoria that Angra Mainyu had corrupted the Grail during the Third Holy Grail War, causing it to fulfill wishes with malice.
• Shirou stopped when he spotted an Einzbern homunculus and a Servant ahead.

Shirou and the others fought Einzbern’s Berserker, Heracles, whose strength and unpredictable attacks overwhelmed Artoria. Shirou stepped between them and caught Heracles’s axe-sword, taking over as his opponent.

• Einzbern ordered Heracles to kill Shirou and his companions after finding them intruding.
• Artoria confronted Heracles while Rin’s Archer attacked from the shadows, but his arrows could not penetrate Heracles’s defenses.
• Artoria tried to strike Heracles with her invisible sword, but he sensed the attack, evaded it, and countered with a series of powerful blows.
• Heracles knocked Artoria’s sword aside, shattered her armor with a punch, and pursued her as she flew away.
• Shirou intervened and caught Heracles’s axe-sword with one hand, challenging Berserker to fight him instead.

Shirou fought Heracles on Mount Enzou, using his abilities to destroy several of the Berserker’s lives before Attila joined the battle and severed his arm. After Shirou regenerated it, Attila identified herself as Saber and prepared to unleash her Noble Phantasm against Shirou and his allies.

• Shirou surprised Heracles with Mana Burst and a giant blade, but Heracles revived and charged after him.
• Shirou carried Heracles to Mount Enzou, where he used a Broken Phantasm to destroy another life and timed his attacks to take a fourth.
• Attila’s three-colored blade severed Shirou’s left arm as Heracles attacked, but Shirou regenerated the limb and regrouped with Artoria, Rin, and Archer.
• Attila revealed that she was Saber and began preparing her meteor-like Noble Phantasm to annihilate Shirou’s group.

Shirou and Artoria used Avalon to survive Attila’s Noble Phantasm, then fought Heracles and Attila at close range. Red A fired a projected Caladbolg at the battlefield, and Shirou escaped the blast before rejoining Rin as Heracles vanished.

• Shirou gave Artoria her scabbard, Avalon, so she could protect them from Attila’s anti-army Noble Phantasm.
• After the light cannons passed, Shirou and Artoria charged into battle against Heracles and Attila.
• Red A watched Shirou fight Heracles, then projected Caladbolg and fired it at the battlefield.
• Shirou fled from Caladbolg’s blast and reached Rin after Heracles disappeared, apparently recalled by his homunculus Master with a Command Spell.

After Artoria reported that Black Mud had taken Attila away, Shirou learned that Mitsuzuri Ayako was missing and confronted the Servant Rider, Medusa. Shirou began fighting Medusa in the school woods and left her slammed into the ground.

• Artoria told Shirou that Black Mud had surrounded Attila and vanished with her.
• At school, Ryuudou Issei told Shirou that Mitsuzuri Ayako had gone missing after arguing with Shinji.
• After school, Shirou confronted Medusa, who revealed herself as Rider and said her Master had ordered her not to kill him.
• Shirou and Medusa fought in the campus woods, and Shirou grabbed her by the head and smashed her into the ground.

Shirou confronted Shinji over his attack on Mitsuzuri and persuaded him to pursue becoming a hero by invoking his ancestor Perseus. Shinji agreed, while Shirou privately celebrated having recruited another person into his cause.

• Shirou forced Shinji out of hiding and warned him against getting involved in the Holy Grail War.
• Shinji admitted he had caused trouble for ordinary people because he felt powerless compared with Shirou.
• Shirou told Shinji that the Matou family descended from Perseus, and Medusa described Perseus as a frightened man who had killed her while she slept.
• Shirou encouraged Shinji to follow Perseus's example, promised to help him with his lack of Magic Circuits, and dismissed his concerns about lacking divinity.
• Shinji agreed to try becoming a hero, and Shirou privately celebrated winning him over.

Shirou trained with Artoria and Okita Souji while explaining that he wanted to grow strong enough to protect his family. At the Matou residence, Shinji empowered Medusa with a Command Spell as four Servants attacked, and one enemy prepared to unleash a powerful Noble Phantasm.

• Shirou trained on the electromagnet while Artoria and Okita Souji watched, and he said he wanted to become stronger than Merlin to protect his family.
• Shinji discovered that Worm Grandpa had died and that four Servants had attacked the Matou residence.
• Shinji used the Book of the False Servant as a Command Spell, greatly increasing Medusa's magical energy.
• Medusa faced the four Servants while Sakura went to fetch reinforcements for Shinji.
• The sword-wielding enemy withdrew and raised his weapon to unleash his Noble Phantasm.

Medusa summoned Pegasus and clashed with the white-clad swordswoman’s Sword of the War God, then fled rather than risk fighting all her opponents. As Shirou rushed toward the Matou Family, Asterius ambushed him and trapped him, Artoria, and Enkidu inside his Chaos Labyrinthos.

• Medusa cut her neck to use her blood to summon Pegasus, then mounted it with her Master.
• Medusa and Pegasus clashed with the white-clad swordswoman’s Sword of the War God, but Medusa withdrew to avoid being overwhelmed.
• Shirou, Artoria, and Enkidu hurried toward the Matou Family after Sakura’s plea for help, but Asterius attacked Shirou with a battle axe.
• Shirou recognized Asterius as a Berserker and realized he was trying to stall them with his Noble Phantasm.
• Asterius activated Chaos Labyrinthos, trapping the three in a maze that reformed after Shirou blasted a path through it.
• Shirou asked Artoria and Enkidu for a way out, but neither had a solution.

Shirou was separated from Artoria and Enkidu in Asterius's labyrinth and fought Arjuna, who tried to kill him. Gilgamesh intervened, and Arjuna vanished with the Black Mud as the labyrinth's scenery disappeared.

• Shirou realized he had been separated from Artoria and Enkidu, then encountered Arjuna in the labyrinth.
• Shirou attacked Arjuna, but Arjuna blocked his strikes and wounded him with a powerful kick and explosive arrows.
• As Shirou began to release his blade, Gilgamesh arrived and attacked Arjuna with Noble Phantasms.
• Arjuna's Master ordered him to eliminate the intruders, but the Black Mud engulfed Arjuna and carried him away.
• The labyrinth scenery vanished, and Artoria and Enkidu returned to Shirou's side.

Shirou, Artoria, and Enkidu investigated the ruined Matou estate after Gilgamesh revealed that Shinji had fled with Rider. Shirou found traces of a fierce battle and evidence that several Servants had been involved, but Zouken’s fate remained uncertain.

• Gilgamesh told Shirou that Shinji had escaped with Rider, so Shirou decided to search the Matou estate for clues.
• Shirou and his companions found the estate reduced to rubble and discovered a buried basement entrance.
• Shirou, Enkidu, and Artoria explored a dusty library beneath the estate, where Shirou recognized a book written by Matou Kariya.
• The group found an empty room that Shirou identified as Zouken’s former insect storehouse, though he could not confirm whether Zouken had been destroyed.
• Shirou detected traces of Attila’s Noble Phantasm, extensive bloodshed, and gunpowder, leading him to conclude that multiple Servants had fought at the estate.

Shinji and the injured Medusa encountered Solomon as he fought Attila, whose strength and orbital weapon overwhelmed the scale of the Holy Grail War. Solomon blocked Attila’s attack with a massive barrier, and Shinji was reunited with Emiya.

• Shinji survived Medusa’s crash into a mountain and waited with her while she recovered.
• Shinji spotted Attila flying toward them, while Solomon and his white-haired companion appeared behind him.
• Solomon dodged Attila’s attack, seized her, and slammed her into the ground, but she rose and attacked again.
• Solomon knocked Attila down twice in close combat, leaving Shinji stunned by the difference between Solomon and Medusa.
• Attila fired her Teardrop Photon Ray from orbit, and Solomon blocked it with a massive barrier.
• Emiya arrived and patted Shinji on the shoulder.