Chapter Summaries

Shirou was overwhelmed by Karna until Siegfried intervened, giving Shirou time to confront a mysterious voice and remember his reason for fighting. After Siegfried was defeated, Shirou returned to the battle with renewed resolve and unleashed his Second Resurrección.

• Karna nearly killed Shirou, but Siegfried arrived and blocked Karna's spear.
• Siegfried fought Karna but was overwhelmed by the Greater Grail's enhancement.
• Shirou regained consciousness in a dark space and heard a mysterious voice urge him to remember why he fought.
• Shirou recalled his ideal of being a Hero of Justice and recognized that the voice was connected to his power.
• Karna prepared to kill Siegfried, but Shirou blocked the attack with the Moonlight Sword and announced his Second Resurrección.

Shirou unveiled a new Second Release form and battled Karna across the Hanging Gardens, trading powerful attacks as Karna tested his strength. The chapter ended with Shirou’s dark silver blast colliding with Karna’s descending Anti-Nation Noble Phantasm.

• Shirou transformed into a new Second Release form, and the Hogyoku formed a bow in his hand.
• Shirou’s energy arrow collided with Karna’s spear, but Karna survived and rapidly regenerated.
• Shirou used his tail and four wings to attack Karna, blasting a huge hole through the Hanging Gardens.
• Karna launched Brahmastra Kundala from the sky, and Shirou countered with a concentrated dark silver blast.
• Shirou’s blast and Karna’s descending golden attack collided, annihilating everything around them.

Shirou defeated Karna after surviving his attacks with regeneration and Avalon. As Karna vanished, he praised Shirou and urged him to develop traits of his own.

• Shirou used a Hollow hole in his chest to let an arrow pass through and strike at Karna, then wounded him with an exploding photon javelin.
• Karna unleashed his Noble Phantasm, Hero of Charity, Vasavi Shakti, but Shirou protected himself with Avalon.
• Shirou charged through the flames and pierced Karna's chest with his light sword, defeating him.
• Shirou promised to ensure Karna's Master's safety, and Karna advised him to stop blindly imitating others.
• Karna said he would answer Shirou's call if summoned in the future, then vanished.

Sieg insisted on accompanying Astolfo into battle so he could fulfill his responsibility as a Master, despite his fear and weakness. Astolfo used his Noble Phantasms to push through the Hanging Gardens’ defenses and began drawing on Sieg’s magical energy to unleash the Hippogriff’s charge.

• Sieg told Astolfo he would accompany him to the battlefield, and Astolfo reluctantly agreed after warning that he could not guarantee Sieg’s safety.
• Sieg activated the reinforcement spell Shirou had carved into him and urged Astolfo to show him what a hero could do.
• Astolfo used Declaration of Ruin to shield the Hippogriff as it withstood the Hanging Gardens’ Light Cannon and advanced.
• Astolfo used La Black Luna to destroy Semiramis’s winged men, then tried and failed to pierce a black coffin with Trap of Argalia.
• Sieg gave Astolfo permission to draw heavily on his magical energy, and Astolfo invoked the Hippogriff’s True Name to prepare a powerful charge.

Mordred, Jeanne, Okita Souji, and Kaijiri Shishigami reached Semiramis in the Hanging Gardens’ central courtyard. Semiramis unleashed poison, but Okita resisted its effects and struck her with her Three-Stage Thrust.

• Mordred reunited with Jeanne and Okita Souji after leaving the plane, while Kaijiri Shishigami joined them.
• Siegfried asked where Shirou was and ran off in the direction Okita indicated.
• The four reached the central courtyard, where Okita took photographs and revealed that they had followed Shirou’s map.
• Semiramis mocked the group, then released poisonous gas after Okita showed her the map.
• Mordred kicked Kaijiri Shishigami out of the courtyard, while Okita coughed up blood but showed no signs of poisoning.
• Okita charged Semiramis and pierced her Divine Fish scales with her Three-Stage Thrust.

Okita Souji, Mordred, and Jeanne fought Semiramis and her poison beasts in Babylonian territory. They left Semiramis paralyzed and exposed to Okita Souji’s finishing attack.

• Okita Souji tried to strike Semiramis, but Semiramis escaped with Spatial Movement and attacked the group with magecraft and poison gas.
• Jeanne used her Noble Phantasm to shield the group from Bishamon’s poison while Mordred and Okita Souji fought the venomous pythons.
• Mordred split one python with Clarent, and Okita Souji struck the other at its vulnerable point.
• Jeanne used her Command Spell to make Mordred unleash Clarent Blood Arthur after Semiramis summoned Bishamon.
• Okita Souji destroyed Semiramis’s Divine Fish scales, and Mordred’s Crimson Thunder paralyzed Semiramis as Okita Souji launched Nameless Three-Stage Thrust.

Amakusa Shirou Tokisada entered the Greater Grail and successfully wished for the Third Magic, but Shirou arrived intending to destroy it. Shirou challenged Amakusa to a duel while secretly relying on Okita Souji to destroy the Grail.

• Amakusa Shirou Tokisada learned that seven Heroic Spirits had fallen and entered the Greater Grail to pursue his wish.
• Shirou arrived too late to stop Amakusa from making his wish and told Shakespeare that he had come to destroy the Greater Grail.
• Shirou recounted Kiritsugu's story to Shakespeare while Amakusa's wish took effect.
• Amakusa emerged claiming he had achieved the Third Magic, and Shirou revealed his plan to destroy the Greater Grail.
• Shirou challenged Amakusa to a duel using only technique, while Okita Souji remained poised to attack the Greater Grail.

Shirou defeated Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, destroyed the Greater Grail, and escaped as the Hanging Gardens collapsed. Back at Yugdomirenia Castle, he told Caules that the Servants would soon have to leave, but revealed that he could now heal Fiore's legs.

• Shakespeare fled as Shirou and Amakusa Shirou Tokisada prepared to fight.
• Shirou overwhelmed Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, who vanished after Semiramis apparently rescued him with a Command Spell.
• Shirou photographed the Greater Grail, took a fragment for Touko Aozaki, and destroyed the Grail with a powerful blast.
• The Hanging Gardens collapsed, and Shirou left while Shakespeare stayed behind to write.
• Shirou returned to Yugdomirenia Castle and told Caules the Servants would have to leave soon.
• Shirou told Caules he could heal Fiore's legs, surprising him.

Shirou restored Fiore’s legs, returned to Fuyuki with Okita Souji, and spent several years building the Emiya family’s strength. In 2003, he accepted Leinise’s invitation to a social event hosted by Izuruma, bringing Kirie along.

• Shirou used the Hogyoku to restore Fiore’s leg function and materialized the surviving Servants to help Yugdomirenia withstand the Mage’s Association.
• Shirou returned to Kan'fuze City with Okita Souji, introduced her to Touko Aozaki, and then went back to Fuyuki after resolving Shiki’s problem.
• Shirou told his family about the Holy Grail War and later trained in martial arts with Okita Souji while continuing to take commissions and help Touko Aozaki.
• In 2003, Shirou accepted Leinise’s request to attend Izuruma’s social event, where Touko Aozaki was also invited.
• Shirou brought Kirie to the event after using the Hogyoku to give her Shinigami powers, and she trained with Okita Souji and Ryougi Shiki.

Shirou, Leinise, and Gray attended an Izuruma banquet, where Shirou greeted the family head and encountered Touko Aozaki. As cheers announced Lady Tiaradra and Lady Estella, their entrance brought a strange moment in which time seemed to shatter.

• Byron Baru Yeleta Izuruma welcomed Shirou, Leinise, and their companions to the Moon Tower banquet.
• Leinise observed that the gathering was dominated by the Trancebellio Faction, while Shirou explained how the Clock Tower’s factions could be recognized.
• Gray asked Shirou what to do at the gathering, and he admitted that he rarely attended magi social events.
• Shirou spotted Touko Aozaki and called her over, startling Leinise when she recognized the name.
• The crowd cheered as Lady Tiaradra and Lady Estella were announced, and time appeared to shatter as the ceremonial gown parted.

At the Izuruma banquet, Shirou met Inorai Baru Yeleta Atolohom and declined her offer to join her faction before leaving with Kirie. Suspecting the Golden Princess and Silver Princess were impostors because their souls differed so greatly, he called Webber to warn him of impending trouble.

• Tiaradra Baru Yeleta Izuruma and Estila Baru Yeleta Izuruma introduced themselves as the Golden Princess and Silver Princess, stunning the guests except for Shirou.
• Inorai Baru Yeleta Atolohom arrived, greeted Shirou, and offered him a lecturer position in her faction, but Shirou declined.
• Shirou left the banquet with Kirie, saying he was responsible only for Leinise's safety and not for politics.
• Shirou returned to the Tower of Sun and called Webber, warning him to come alone because trouble was coming.
• Shirou concluded that the Golden Princess and Silver Princess were counterfeits because their souls differed too greatly.

After Golden Princess was found dismembered in a locked room, Lord El-Melloi II began investigating while Shirou demonstrated his power and denied being the killer. The investigation left the group with the possibility that the Golden Princess Leinise saw the previous night had been an impostor.

• Shirou examined Golden Princess's dismembered body and joked about the locked-room murder.
• Lord El-Melloi II arrived to investigate, but Lord Byron objected and had Carina reveal that Tiaradra wanted to flee to El-Melloi.
• Touko suggested Shirou was a suspect, so Shirou cut through the Moon Tower to show that he had no need to stage a locked-room murder.
• Shirou repaired the tower and urged Webber to begin his investigation.
• Webber said the Golden Princess Leinise saw the previous night had been a fake, and Shirou estimated the corpse had been dead for twenty-four to seventy-two hours.

Shirou guarded Leinise during Webber’s investigation, then cooked breakfast that won over the group. Webber found unusual ashes and linked the mystery to an underground auction for a mystical treasure, which Shirou identified as the Bodhi Leaf on Siegfried’s back.

• After the others left, Webber investigated the case while Shirou and Kirie guarded the door.
• Inorai asked what Shirou would have done if Lord Byron had pressed the issue, and Shirou said he would have erased Izuruma from the Clock Tower to protect Leinise.
• Shirou prepared breakfast in his portable kitchen, and Leinise, Inorai, Gray, and Webber praised his cooking.
• Webber discovered unusual ashes on the floor, examined them, and asked Inorai about a recent underground auction.
• Inorai said Lord Byron and Atram Galliasta had competed for a valuable mystical treasure, and Shirou identified it as the Bodhi Leaf on Siegfried’s back.

Shirou learned that Atram Galliasta’s men had invaded Izuruma after Galliasta lost an auction, and ordered Kirie to eliminate them while sparing the Oil King. Atram boasted about his attack and threatened Lord El-Melloi II, unaware that Shirou was already planning to cripple him if he resisted.

• Shirou noticed intruders and asked Baru Yeleta whether Atram Galliasta should be spared; she agreed to let him live for now because he had purchased a place in the ritual.
• Shirou ordered Kirie to kill the intruders except for the most arrogant one, whom she was to recognize as Atram.
• Webber asked about Galliasta’s failed bid, and Shirou sensed more than thirty intruders approaching but judged them no match for Kirie.
• Atram showed off the storm he had created, then dismissed the threat posed by Baru Yeleta and Lord El-Melloi II.
• Shirou sneezed in the Golden Princess’s room and vowed to cripple Atram if the Oil King proved stubborn.

Kirie Fujino helped Byron fight off intruders attacking Izuruma, then faced Atram Galliasta after he struck with overwhelming lightning. The chapter ended with Kirie blocking his attack with her sword.

• Byron used his bubble magecraft to bring down several intruders, but their lightning overwhelmed him and forced him to one knee.
• Kirie arrived and killed the intruders one by one with her Zanpakuto and Flash Step.
• Kirie rescued Byron from Atram Galliasta’s lightning, then revealed the real sword she had been carrying.
• Atram warned Kirie to leave, but she refused and said she would dispose of him if he was an intruder.
• Atram unleashed a massive lightning hand, and Kirie threw her sword into its path, stopping the attack.

Kirie used Shirou’s lessons to counter Atram’s lightning, then fought Touko Aozaki with improvised tactics. When Touko unleashed the presence inside her bag and immobilized Kirie, a mysterious voice urged Kirie to call on her power, and she began to awaken it.

• Kirie explained that her metal sword had conducted Atram’s lightning into the ground, then incapacitated him.
• Touko Aozaki revealed that she had been hired to oppose Kirie and attacked her with Rune Magic.
• Kirie evaded Touko’s spells and set her sword alight with chemicals to send flames toward her.
• Touko opened a gap in her leather bag, releasing a glimpse of her familiar that left Kirie unable to move.
• A mysterious voice encouraged Kirie to call on her power, and Kirie said, “Awaken... Twin Children!”

Kirie revealed her Shikai, Twins, and fought Touko Aozaki’s monster before Shirou intervened. Atram disappeared after being swallowed by the monster, and Shirou left with Kirie while the gathered magi remained to investigate.

• Kirie split into two real selves and used her Zanpakuto’s untouchable shadows to wound Atram.
• Touko Aozaki’s monster emerged from its bag and swallowed Kirie’s shadows, prompting one Kirie to prepare to retreat.
• Shirou arrived, lost an arm to the monster’s devouring power, then regenerated it and ordered Kirie to release her Shikai.
• Shirou and Touko realized Atram had vanished into the monster, while Inorai confirmed that Kirie was not responsible for his disappearance.
• Webber, the Silver Princess, and the others gathered as Shirou thanked Touko, sent Kirie home to practice her Shikai, and decided to stay in London.

Webber recruited Shirou to help recover something important aboard the Mystic Eyes Express, and they boarded the train with Gray, Caules, and Fujino. As the group encountered other passengers, Hishiri Adashino tried to recruit Shirou, Yvette joined them, and Caleb Frampton revealed he was attending the auction.

• Webber called Shirou in London and asked him to help recover something important connected to the Mystic Eyes Express, offering him a new Final Fantasy game.
• Shirou met Webber, Gray, Caules, and Fujino at a London subway station, and Shirou and Fujino joined despite the invitation allowing only two attendants.
• The Mystic Eyes Express arrived, and Hishiri Adashino tried to persuade Shirou to join the Department of Law and Politics.
• Yvette Lehman entered the carriage and reunited with Webber and the others.
• Caleb Frampton of the Church of the Holy Temple announced he was an auction participant, and Webber persuaded Shirou to put away his sword.

Shirou traveled aboard the Mystic Eye Train with Webber and Gray, where he helped Gray overcome her motion sickness and discovered a note from the person who had lured them there. The chapter ended when Olga Marie Animusphere approached Webber and Shirou recognized her as Director Olga, alive.

• Leondra and Rodin introduced themselves as the auction host and train conductor, and Shirou asked Leondra about her Mystic Eyes.
• Webber went to sleep after the train departed, while Shirou took care of him and spoke with Gray about how much his family meant to him.
• Shirou adjusted Gray's affinity with magical energy, giving her slight Magic Resistance that eased her motion sickness.
• Webber showed Shirou a note from the person who had sent the invitation, who acknowledged their arrival and directed them to the storage room at dusk.
• Olga Marie Animusphere approached Webber, and Shirou recognized her as the living Director Olga from fate/grandorder.

Shirou and Webber discussed the Astronomy Department’s interest in the Holy Grail War and Webber’s desire to see a former Servant again. Their conversation ended when they discovered Trisha murdered aboard the Mystic Eye Collection Train, with Olga Marie beside her.

• Olga Marie asked Webber to help the Astronomy Department cut costs at the auction, and Webber agreed to consider the request despite suspecting he was being used.
• Shirou told Webber that the Holy Grail War could not grant his wish, while Webber explained he wanted to see a Servant from the previous war again.
• Shirou sensed blood aboard the train, and he, Webber, Gray, and Fujino rushed toward a scream in the next carriage.
• They found Trisha dead with her head missing and Olga Marie collapsed beside her body.