Chapter Summaries

Higashino Kanade learned that Irisviel was dying because her body was breaking down while containing Servant souls, and Black Haired Saber asked him to save her. He sought Aozaki Touko’s help and promised Kirei Kotomine he would make him Archer’s Master while removing Tohsaka Tokiomi from magecraft.

• Higashino Kanade saw Kaineth and Sola off at the airport, then carved and strengthened a Konoha ANBU-style mask with Knight of Owner.
• Black Haired Saber arrived at the Higashino Family home and urgently asked Higashino Kanade to help Irisviel, who had fainted and grown weaker.
• Higashino Kanade explained that Irisviel was an Einzbern homunculus and Lesser Grail whose body and personality would perish as the Greater Grail descended.
• Higashino Kanade contacted Kirei Kotomine, promised to make him Archer’s Master, and said Tohsaka Tokiomi would lose his connection to magecraft.
• Higashino Kanade asked Kirei Kotomine to find Aozaki Touko and bring her to Fuyuki City to treat Irisviel.

Higashino Kanade used the Five Elements Seal to stop the Lesser Grail from destroying Irisviel, and she awoke after the treatment. Black Haired Saber agreed to become Kanade’s Servant, while Ryougi Shiki left to handle Saber’s contract with Kiritsugu.

• Kirei Kotomine mused that causing despair and then offering salvation had given his life meaning.
• Kanade and Ryougi Shiki followed Black Haired Saber to Irisviel’s hideout and found Irisviel near death as the Lesser Grail transformed her body.
• Black Haired Saber agreed to become Kanade’s Servant, and Shiki agreed to sever Saber’s contract with Kiritsugu without killing him.
• Kanade used healing Runes and the Five Elements Seal to slow Irisviel’s collapse by sealing the Lesser Grail’s Mana.
• Irisviel awoke, thanked Kanade for saving her, and mistook his treatment of her bare upper body for nothing to be embarrassed about.

Higashino Kanade told Black Haired Saber and Irisviel that Avalon could help Irisviel recover, then left them to perform Magic Replenishment. Meanwhile, Emiya Kiritsugu learned that records placed Ryougi Shiki at age fourteen and began suspecting Kanade was the true Master; he then drove to the warehouse to see Irisviel, where he found someone waiting inside.

• Higashino Kanade explained Avalon’s role in Irisviel’s treatment and urged her and Black Haired Saber to replenish magic together.
• Ryougi Shiki joined Higashino Kanade outside, and they walked by the river while waiting for Emiya Kiritsugu.
• Hisau Maya gave Emiya Kiritsugu intelligence showing that Ryougi Shiki was fourteen, prompting him to suspect she was a future Servant summoned by Higashino Kanade.
• Emiya Kiritsugu decided to use the Assassin group’s strength as leverage to seek an alliance with Tohsaka Tokiomi.
• Emiya Kiritsugu left the hotel with wildflowers for Irisviel and arrived at the warehouse, where someone greeted him from inside.

Higashino Kanade captured Emiya Kiritsugu, and Ryougi Shiki severed Kiritsugu’s contract with Saber before Saber formed a new contract with Kanade. Kiritsugu’s convictions faltered, then Kanade used Genjutsu to learn that Kiritsugu had planned to kill the Ryougi Shiki of the past.

• Higashino Kanade bound Emiya Kiritsugu, and Ryougi Shiki severed the Command Spell connection between Kiritsugu and Black Haired Saber.
• Black Haired Saber emerged from the shadows and accepted Higashino Kanade as her new Master, drawing on his Mana.
• Black Haired Saber condemned Kiritsugu for neglecting Irisviel, while Kanade challenged Kiritsugu’s wish to save humanity and shook his convictions.
• Hisau Maya reported that the local Higashino Kanade was an ordinary ten-year-old, and Kiritsugu realized the Kanade before him had come from the future.
• Higashino Kanade used his Sharingan Genjutsu on Kiritsugu and learned that Kiritsugu had planned to assassinate the Ryougi Shiki of the past.

Higashino Kanade restrained himself from killing Emiya Kiritsugu, erased Kiritsugu’s memories of him and Ryougi Shiki, and arranged a deal to help Kiritsugu and Irisviel leave Fuyuki. Later, Higashino Kanade hosted the Banquet of Kings at his home, where Iskandar arrived with Waver and Gilgamesh appeared as the gathering began.

• Higashino Kanade stopped choking Emiya Kiritsugu after Black Haired Saber and Ryougi Shiki calmed him, then erased Kiritsugu’s memories of him and Ryougi Shiki.
• Higashino Kanade sent two shadow clones to protect his past self and Ryougi Shiki, then left with Black Haired Saber and Irisviel.
• Emiya Kiritsugu woke to find Irisviel gone and discovered Higashino Kanade’s offer to help cripple Tohsaka Tokiomi in exchange for safe passage out of Fuyuki.
• Higashino Kanade welcomed Irisviel and Black Haired Saber into his home, monitored Fuyuki with summoned Toads, and sent a message inviting Rider to the Banquet of Kings.
• Iskandar arrived at Higashino Kanade’s home with Waver and declared it the banquet venue.
• Higashino Kanade arranged the table, and Gilgamesh appeared and took the empty seat.

At the kings’ banquet, Golden Flash arrived and shared divine wine with the guests, while Ryougi Shiki kept Higashino Kanade from drinking. The kings discussed their wishes for the Holy Grail, and the chapter ended with the King of Conquerors asking Kanade what wish the Grail could not fulfill.

• Golden Flash joined the banquet, rejected the King of Conquerors’s wine, and produced wine brewed by the god of wine.
• Ryougi Shiki took Higashino Kanade’s wine and gave it to Irisviel, then stopped Kanade and the King of Conquerors from letting him drink.
• The King of Conquerors proposed that each king explain their wish for the Holy Grail and said he wanted a body so he could conquer the world himself.
• Higashino Kanade identified Golden Flash as Gilgamesh, who claimed the Holy Grail was his own treasure.
• The King of Conquerors and Gilgamesh argued over the Grail, then clinked cups and reconciled.
• Kanade said the Holy Grail could not fulfill his wish and that he wanted to win the war for Ryougi Shiki, prompting the King of Conquerors to ask what his wish was.

Higashino Kanade rejected the kings’ views and challenged the King of Conquerors, defending the Hokage’s Will of Fire and his wish to change past tragedies. During their battle, he exposed the absence of the King of Conquerors’ disguised sister, leaving the king questioning his rule before he renewed his challenge.

• Higashino Kanade said he wished to return to the ninja era and become Hokage, but the King of Conquerors condemned his desire to overturn the past.
• Higashino Kanade defended the Hokage’s self-sacrificing duty, and the King of Conquerors and Golden Flash mocked his ideal of a king.
• Higashino Kanade transformed into Minato Namikaze’s Four-Piece Set and challenged the King of Conquerors, who summoned his Army of the King and its tens of thousands of soldiers.
• Higashino Kanade refused Black Haired Saber’s offer to join the fight and sent Ryougi Shiki away from the battlefield.
• Higashino Kanade asked why the King of Conquerors’ double, his unnamed sister known as Hephaestion, was absent from the army, and the king fell silent.
• The King of Conquerors admitted he might not be a good ruler, then renewed his challenge and declared that their battle would decide whose path was right.

Higashino Kanade lost control in his Tailed Beast Transformation and slaughtered the King of Conquerors’ army, destroying the Gordias Wheel, the Thunderhoof Bulls, and thousands of chariots. Waver devised a way to immobilize him, and the King of Conquerors activated Army of the King as the remaining soldiers prepared to fight.

• Higashino Kanade transformed into a five-tailed beast and tore through the King of Conquerors’ army.
• The King of Conquerors struck Higashino Kanade with Via Expugnatio while Waver used a Command Spell to replenish his Mana.
• Higashino Kanade grew a sixth tail, destroyed the Gordias Wheel and Thunderhoof Bulls, then vaporized thousands of chariots and soldiers with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• The King of Conquerors escaped with Waver on Bucephalus, and Waver suggested immobilizing Higashino Kanade by pinning down his limbs and tails.
• The King of Conquerors tried to nail Higashino Kanade’s tail to the ground, then ordered siege battering rams sharpened as the army dwindled to a few thousand.
• Waver used a Command Spell to let the King of Conquerors unleash Army of the King.

The King of Conquerors trapped Higashino Kanade only for the Nine-Tails to break free, kill him with a Tailed Beast Bomb, and shatter his Reality Marble. As Higashino Kanade rampaged beyond his control, Ryougi Shiki and Black Haired Saber protected him from Golden Flash, who abruptly withdrew after sensing something.

• The King of Conquerors sacrificed most of his army to bind Higashino Kanade, but the seventh tail emerged and the Nine-Tails broke free in a flesh-and-blood form.
• The King of Conquerors charged the Nine-Tails with his remaining soldiers, while Waver used her last Command Spell to order Rider to survive.
• The Nine-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Bomb that killed the King of Conquerors and shattered his Reality Marble, while Golden Flash shielded the onlookers from the blast’s aftershock.
• Ryougi Shiki warned that the fox was no longer Kanade and attacked Golden Flash when he prepared to strike it; Black Haired Saber joined her side.
• Golden Flash threatened Ryougi Shiki and prepared to fight Black Haired Saber, but he sensed something, called them fortunate, and dematerialized.

Higashino Kanade stopped the Nine-Tails from taking over by threatening to use the Reaper Death Seal, then opened the damaged cage to prove his sincerity. After returning to Ryougi Shiki, he completed his quest and won a Nagato-version Uzumaki bloodline modification agent.

• The Nine-Tails tried to break free, but Higashino Kanade reminded it of their friendship and warned it with Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan and a Reaper Death Seal threat.
• The Nine-Tails retreated, and Higashino Kanade removed the seal talisman to show that he trusted Kurama.
• Higashino Kanade returned to the Higashino Family home and rested on Ryougi Shiki's lap as she reassured him.
• The system announced that Higashino Kanade had killed four Servants and completed his main quest, rewarding him with a Gold Treasure Chest.
• Higashino Kanade opened the chest and received a Nagato-version bloodline modification agent that granted an Uzumaki physique and bloodline abilities.

Kirei Kotomine rushed to the Tohsaka estate and learned that the Magus Killer had left Tohsaka Tokiomi gravely wounded and unable to use magecraft. Tokiomi made Kirei his successor as Archer’s Master and secured his agreement to win the Holy Grail and hand it over to him.

• Kirei Kotomine hurried to Tohsaka Tokiomi’s workshop after Kotomine Risei told him Tokiomi had been attacked.
• Kotomine Risei explained that the Magus Killer had used poison gas and a special bullet, destroying Tokiomi’s Magic Circuits and damaging his Mage Crest.
• Kirei Kotomine concealed his pleasure at Tokiomi’s suffering while Tokiomi asked whether he could be trusted.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi asked Kirei to inherit his Master qualifications, take Archer, and win the Holy Grail War.
• Kirei accepted after Kotomine Risei urged him to protect the Holy Grail from heretics.
• Kotomine Risei gave Kirei a Self-Forced Geis requiring him to surrender the Holy Grail to Tokiomi in exchange for most of the Tohsaka family’s Fuyuki Ley Line land.

Kirei Kotomine took over as Master of Golden Flash after Tohsaka Tokiomi transferred his Command Spells, while Black Haired Saber asked Higashino Kanade to teach her to become a better king. Kanade left her request unanswered and found Waver insisting that she would honor the King of Conquerors’ final order to survive and tell his story.

• Kirei Kotomine signed a contract with Tohsaka Tokiomi, agreed to train Tohsaka Rin, and received the Master’s authority and fifteen additional Command Spells.
• Kirei Kotomine and Golden Flash left the Tohsaka Residence, and Kirei admitted that Tokiomi’s condition made him happy because becoming Golden Flash’s Master could help him fulfill his wish.
• Black Haired Saber told Higashino Kanade she had chosen to return to the past, draw Excalibur, and rule Britain again, and she asked him to teach her.
• Higashino Kanade refused to promise that he would teach Black Haired Saber and planned to find a way to help her without pretending to have knowledge he lacked.
• Higashino Kanade found Waver grieving in the courtyard, and she declared that she would survive and recount the King of Conquerors’ story as he had commanded.

Higashino Kanade spared Waver in exchange for her future disciple Grea and sent her back to the Clock Tower, then temporarily sealed the Lesser Grail inside Irisviel with Black Haired Saber's help. Emiya Kiritsugu arrived to report that he had crippled Tohsaka Tokiomi, and Higashino Kanade let him in to discuss the task.

• Waver mistook Higashino Kanade's request for her future disciple Grea as a sexual advance, then agreed to give Grea to him in exchange for her life.
• Higashino Kanade took the exhausted Waver home for the night and drove her to the airport the next morning, advising her to apologize to Kaineth.
• Black Haired Saber summoned Higashino Kanade when Irisviel's Lesser Grail began eroding her body, and he used Five Elements Seal to restrain it temporarily.
• Higashino Kanade told Black Haired Saber to replenish Irisviel's magic, and she reluctantly agreed to help her.
• Emiya Kiritsugu arrived and told Higashino Kanade that he had destroyed Tohsaka Tokiomi's Magic Circuits; Higashino Kanade praised his work and invited him inside.

Higashino Kanade healed Emiya Kiritsugu and sent him away with the promise of a peaceful future, then hired Aozaki Touko to save Irisviel. After Touko successfully replaced Irisviel’s heart, Kanade offered her work as a magecraft consultant in exchange for genuine Rune magic.

• Higashino Kanade healed Emiya Kiritsugu, urged him to leave Fuyuki City once Irisviel recovered, and offered him future work.
• Emiya Kiritsugu left without seeing Irisviel, while Black Haired Saber studied Marxist works during two peaceful days.
• Aozaki Touko arrived at the Higashino Family residence, and Higashino Kanade asked her to make a heart for Irisviel.
• Aozaki Touko successfully replaced Irisviel’s heart and presented the still-beating Lesser Grail heart to Higashino Kanade.
• When Higashino Kanade could not afford her fee, he demonstrated Rune magic and offered Aozaki Touko three Rune characters a year for serving as his magecraft consultant.

Higashino Kanade and Black Haired Saber said goodbye to Irisviel after removing Avalon, and Emiya Kiritsugu reunited with her before they left for Germany. At the airport, Kiritsugu abandoned his plan to return home immediately and stayed behind to watch Kanade’s final battle, while Irisviel boarded the plane alone to reach Illya.

• Higashino Kanade returned Avalon to Black Haired Saber and sent Irisviel home with Emiya Kiritsugu.
• Irisviel and Black Haired Saber tearfully parted, and Irisviel reunited with Kiritsugu before the couple drove away.
• Higashino Kanade told Black Haired Saber that Gilgamesh had challenged them to fight at Ryuudou Temple the next day.
• At the airport, Emiya Kiritsugu decided to stay in Fuyuki and observe Higashino Kanade before flying to Germany three days later.
• Irisviel found Kiritsugu’s letter, realized he had left to pursue his own purpose, and boarded her flight to Germany to reach Illya.

Higashino Kanade, Ryougi Shiki, and Black Haired Saber faced Golden Flash at Mount Enzou’s Great Cavern, where the Lesser Grail awaited the final battle. Golden Flash’s anger grew after Ryougi Shiki severed part of the Chains of Heaven, and his Caladbolg struck Add, who had transformed into a shield for Higashino Kanade.

• Golden Flash waited at Ryuudou Temple, then learned that Higashino Kanade had moved the battle to Mount Enzou’s Great Cavern and flew there on Vimana.
• Higashino Kanade prepared the Lesser Grail at the cavern, and he, Ryougi Shiki, and Black Haired Saber assembled to face Golden Flash.
• Golden Flash offered Black Haired Saber the Holy Grail if she became his woman, and she answered by attacking him with Excalibur Morgan.
• Ryougi Shiki ambushed Golden Flash, but the Chains of Heaven stopped her blade; she cut the chains before withdrawing.
• Higashino Kanade attacked with a Sage Mode Great Fire Spiraling Sphere, which Golden Flash blocked with Rho Aias before retaliating with Caladbolg.
• Higashino Kanade ordered Add to transform into a shield, and Add took the force of Caladbolg while screaming in pain.

Higashino Kanade and his allies wounded Golden Flash, who withdrew aboard Vimana and sent Dragon Tooth Soldiers to hold them back. Kanade pursued him but froze at high altitude and began falling, only to hear a familiar voice in his mind.

• Higashino Kanade used the Neon Sword to strike Golden Flash while Ryougi Shiki cut through his shield, leaving him wounded.
• Golden Flash refused to activate Enkidu, healed himself with an elixir, and attacked the group with Noble Phantasms.
• Golden Flash used Gram against Black Haired Saber’s Excalibur Morgan, then boarded Vimana and flew away.
• Higashino Kanade pursued Vimana, but Golden Flash sent Dragon Tooth Soldiers to surround him and attack his allies.
• Higashino Kanade fought through the soldiers with lightning and Shadow Clones, then continued chasing Golden Flash until the cold froze his wings.
• Higashino Kanade fell from the sky, exhausted, and heard a familiar voice in his mind as he prepared to use Water Release.

Higashino Kanade joined forces with Kurama to fight Golden Flash, but Golden Flash escaped into orbit and unleashed Enki, causing a catastrophic flood that threatened Fuyuki City. As the flood spread, Higashino Kanade faced the danger to the city’s residents.

• Kurama offered to help Higashino Kanade defeat Golden Flash, and they bumped fists in agreement.
• Higashino Kanade activated Perfect Jinchuriki Mode, landed safely as a giant Nine-Tails Fox, and sent shadow clones to destroy the Dragon Tooth Soldiers.
• Higashino Kanade reunited with Black Haired Saber and Ryougi Shiki, who worried about him, while he explained that Golden Flash might be preparing another attack.
• Golden Flash replenished his Mana with the Uruk Great Cup and used Enki to fire a target-locking arrow that summoned a devastating flood toward Fuyuki City.
• Higashino Kanade watched the flood spread and feared for Fuyuki City’s residents as he condemned Golden Flash’s willingness to endanger humanity.

Higashino Kanade diverted from fighting Golden Flash to protect Fuyuki City’s civilians, raising earth walls against the flood and using Shadow Clones to evacuate people. As Kiritsugu carried rescued children through the chaos, he reached a police blockade where fleeing residents were being turned back.

• Higashino Kanade learned Black Haired Saber could not release all thirteen restraints on Excalibur because the flood was not a world-ending threat, then ordered her and Ryougi Shiki to guard the Lesser Grail while he went to help civilians.
• Higashino Kanade sent more than a thousand Shadow Clones to rescue people and raised towering Earth Walls to hold back the flood.
• Higashino Kanade summoned Nine-Tails, seized a fighter jet, and used Knight of Owner to fly after Golden Flash.
• Emiya Kiritsugu carried two children he had rescued through Fuyuki City after his car was destroyed in the traffic chaos.
• Emiya Kiritsugu reached a road blockade where police kept fleeing residents from leaving, and an elderly officer ordered the crowd toward another evacuation route.

Emiya Kiritsugu broke the police blockade to open an escape route, while Higashino Kanade's clones shielded Fuyuki City from the flood and Kirei Kotomine directed refugees to Ryuudou Temple. Kiritsugu decided to race to the Holy Grail and make a wish, while Tohsaka Tokiomi and Kotomine Risei prioritized their alliance and remained unaware of the danger ahead.

• Emiya Kiritsugu learned that officials and wealthy citizens were using the sealed road to escape, so he shot the police guarding it and let the crowd through before returning to Fuyuki City.
• The earthen wall broke, but Higashino Kanade's four clones raised the Four Red Yang Formation and held back the flood as Kirei Kotomine broadcast instructions directing citizens to Ryuudou Temple.
• Higashino Kanade warned Emiya Kiritsugu that the barrier might fail, and Kiritsugu concluded he could reach the Holy Grail first and use it to save humanity.
• Emiya Kiritsugu threatened someone for a motorcycle and rode toward the Great Hollow at Mount Enzou, where he believed the Lesser Grail was located.
• Kirei Kotomine and Kotomine Risei agreed to prioritize their contract with Tohsaka Tokiomi over stopping the flood, while refugees crowded into Ryuudou Temple.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi worried about the consequences for the Tohsaka Family after the disaster exposed Mystery, then reassured himself that Tohsaka Rin would handle the family's future.