Recaps

Higashino Kanade tracked down his parents’ killer, then traveled to a parallel world to investigate Gryphon Ashburn’s inheritance and gather knowledge of magecraft. The investigation exposed lethal experiments and ended with Kanade battling a regenerating beast while Jirobou Seigen Shitou fled with Roxanne.

• Higashino Kanade partnered with Ryougi Shiki to identify Shirou Shiratsuyu as her school’s serial killer, then killed him when he attacked them.
• Kanade discovered Araya Souren was behind his parents’ murders and defeated him with an explosive trap, earning the Ryougi Family’s gratitude.
• Kanade defeated Shiki in a system-mandated fight, then captured Kuramitsu Ruka, whose identity was Bin-kura Kōryū, and forced him to help with Kanade’s manga.
• Kanade traveled to a parallel timeline and entered Adra Castle as Fliyou’s attendant to investigate Gryphon Ashburn’s legacy.
• Kanade allied with Waver and Luvia while the castle guests investigated a series of deaths, and Waver linked the victims’ angel names to missing body parts.
• Kanade and Luvia found Gryphon’s secret laboratory and learned that Gryphon had conducted lethal Mage Crest transplant experiments, including one involving Jirobou Seigen Shitou.
• Waver revealed that Jirobou was Granite Ashborn and that Orlok had helped Gryphon’s experiments, before Granite killed Orlok and escaped with Roxanne.
• Kanade found Waver injured and Orlok dead after Gryphon’s backup plan caused an explosion, then fought the regenerated beast on the roof as his attacks failed to seriously injure it.

Higashino Kanade defeated Olga Marie and the Clock Tower magi who challenged him, while arranging a way onto the Mystic Eyes Collection Train and negotiating with Dr. Hartless. He boarded the train with Waver and his companions, where Hartless’s plan and a confrontation with Hephaestion began to unfold.

• Higashino Kanade used his Curse Mark of Heaven to kill the Demonic Beast, but collapsed from the strain and later accepted Luvia’s research materials and a contract to serve as her study companion.
• Higashino Kanade intervened in Luvia and Olga Marie’s dispute, defeated Olga Marie in their duel, and then beat the magi who challenged him in the arena.
• Higashino Kanade publicized his Sharingan through Waver’s research paper, endured assassination attempts, and told Luvia he would leave soon despite agreeing to let her pursue him.
• Higashino Kanade hired Aozaki Touko to make magecraft tools and survived a bomb attack, then agreed to meet Dr. Hartless after Hartless threatened to expose his identity.
• Higashino Kanade used a Shadow Clone to meet Hartless, negotiated a contract and payment, and learned that Hartless planned to summon a Servant aboard the train using a subspecies Holy Grail system.
• Higashino Kanade and Waver entered the Forbidden Library to search for information, but Kanade’s Shadow Clone was destroyed by its defenses after copying books for the system.
• Higashino Kanade said goodbye to Luvia, boarded the Mystic Eyes Collection Train, and promised Waver help recovering the King of Conquerors’ Holy Relic.
• Higashino Kanade joined Waver’s group aboard the train, helped arrange an alliance with Olga Marie, and confronted Hartless when Hephaestion appeared and threatened him.

Higashino Kanade investigated Theresa’s murder, escaped Einnashe, and defeated Hartless, then returned to the Ryougi household and trained with Kurama. After preparing for his trial in the Fourth Holy Grail War, he arrived in Fuyuki and began summoning a Servant.

• Higashino Kanade accepted Olga Marie’s bodyguard commission after Theresa was found dead, then fought Hephaestion aboard the train and helped the others escape her attacks.
• Higashino Kanade and Gamadou burned a path through Einnashe, while Caleb and the others disrupted its Ley Line so the train could escape.
• Olga Marie uncovered Theresa’s investigation into Dr. Hartless, and Waver identified Hartless as the killer who had controlled Caleb and disguised himself as Caules.
• Higashino Kanade killed Hartless, recovered the heart linked to Einnashe, and used Hartless’s Command Spell to immobilize Hephaestion before reclaiming her through the system.
• Higashino Kanade gained the Nine-Tails as his Jinchuriki, left Waver and Grea, and returned to the Ryougi household, where he resumed life with Ryougi Shiki.
• Higashino Kanade trained with Kurama and his Shadow Clones, developed Fire Style: Great Fireball Rasengan, and accepted the Golden Fleece and Karna’s cloak as possible summoning catalysts.
• Higashino Kanade took Add from Grea for his planned Lancer summoning, promised Shiki he would return, and received Kuji-kane Sada from her before entering the Fourth Holy Grail War trial.
• Higashino Kanade arrived in Fuyuki, received missions to kill four Servants and purify the Greater Grail, then began a summoning ritual that made Kuji-kane Sada glow as a figure appeared.

Higashino Kanade and Ryougi Shiki fought through the Holy Grail War, saving Sakura and defeating Matou Zouken, Lancelot, Cú Chulainn, and Finn. After surviving Kiritsugu’s missile strike and taking in Kaineth and Sola, Kanade received an invitation to the Banquet of Kings.

• Higashino Kanade reunited with Ryougi Shiki, formed a pact with her, and prepared his home and allies for the Holy Grail War.
• At the harbor, Higashino Kanade fought Finn until Iskandar, Gilgamesh, and the other Servants interrupted the battle, and Tohsaka Tokiomi recalled Gilgamesh.
• Higashino Kanade and Ryougi Shiki went to the Matou residence, where Matou Kariya died after ordering Lancelot to kill Matou Zouken, and Kanade destroyed Zouken and rescued Sakura.
• Ryougi Shiki defeated Lancelot and later used her Mystic Eyes to remove the worms from Sakura and Shinji, while Kanade took Sakura back to the Tohsaka family.
• Higashino Kanade and Emiya Kiritsugu formed a temporary alliance against Kaineth and Finn, and Kanade fought Cú Chulainn while Ryougi Shiki confronted Kaineth.
• Ryougi Shiki killed Finn after cutting through his final water-dragon attack, while Finn asked Kanade to protect Kaineth and Sola and gave him part of his Spirit Core.
• Emiya Kiritsugu launched missiles at the battlefield, but Higashino Kanade’s Four Red Yang Formation protected Einzbern Castle, and Kiritsugu’s attack left the castle and its occupants alive.
• Higashino Kanade hosted Kaineth, Sola, Rider, and Waver at his home, where the King of Conquerors invited him to a Banquet of Kings.