Chapter Summaries

Unohana Retsu hosted a gathering for female Soul Reapers at the Kuchiki Clan villa, where Rukia worried that the captain would attack anyone she considered a threat to her marriage. The gathering turned into a fierce Bankai duel between Unohana and Shutara Senjumaru, leaving Rukia bewildered by their claim that they were only exercising.

• Unohana welcomed Hisana and Rukia to the villa and explained that she wanted to inspect the women's association for women who might seduce Araki.
• Saito Furofushi, Katori Bakuunsai, Hinamori Momo, Rangiku Matsumoto, Isane Kotetsu, and other Soul Reapers arrived, while Rukia fretted that Unohana might attack them.
• Hikifune Kirio and Shutara Senjumaru arrived, and Unohana immediately drew her Zanpakuto and attacked Senjumaru.
• Unohana and Senjumaru exchanged a thousand blows, then both released Bankai and fought amid their powerful abilities.
• Rukia questioned why they needed Bankai to exercise, sensing that both women were fighting in earnest.

Yhwach answered Shirou Kotomine’s prayer, took the identity of RULER named Joshua, and empowered Shirou to help seize the Holy Grail War. Shirou stripped the red faction’s Masters of their Command Seals, spared them, and summoned an extraordinary group of Heroic Spirits, leaving Achilles objecting to Shirou’s introduction.

• Yhwach appeared before Shirou Kotomine, revealed they shared the wish to save humanity, and declared himself RULER under the name Joshua.
• Yhwach gave Shirou his blood, raising Shirou’s attributes to Rank A and granting him the EX-ranked Anti-World Noble Phantasm God's Trumpet.
• Shirou gathered the red faction’s Masters at the church, where Yhwach used Usurpation Altar to strip them of their Master qualifications.
• Shirou knocked the Masters unconscious with Mana arrows rather than killing them, explaining that his wish was to save everyone.
• Shirou summoned six Heroic Spirits, including Heracles, Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Karna, and Achilles, and began identifying them.
• Achilles objected when Shirou described him as nearly invincible only if he was not struck in the heel.

Shirou summoned a team of powerful Heroic Spirits and asked them to help him save all humanity, then sent Karna and Enkidu to kill Jeanne d'Arc. Karna ambushed Jeanne on a country road, where Siegfried intervened, and Gilgamesh appeared with a display of Noble Phantasms that stunned Gordes.

• Shirou told the summoned Heroic Spirits that he wanted to save all humanity, and Gilgamesh, Heracles, and Ramesses II agreed to help or see what he could do.
• Shirou asked Karna and Enkidu to eliminate Jeanne d'Arc, and Gilgamesh decided to follow Enkidu.
• Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia summoned Siegfried, while the head of Yggdmillennia summoned Vlad III and planned to recruit Jeanne d'Arc.
• Karna confronted Jeanne d'Arc on a country road, but Siegfried appeared and blocked his attack.
• Jeanne d'Arc called for the other Servants to reveal themselves, and Gilgamesh appeared on a streetlight with a vast array of Noble Phantasms, leaving Gordes stunned.

Gilgamesh attacked Gordes and Jeanne d'Arc, then unleashed the Sword of Rupture, EA, against Jeanne's defensive Noble Phantasm. Jeanne briefly held back Enuma Elish as Enkidu prepared to intervene.

• Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm nearly killed Gordes, but Jeanne d'Arc knocked it aside and challenged Gilgamesh to keep the battle from harming Masters.
• Gilgamesh attacked Jeanne and Gordes; Gordes used Command Seals to summon and empower Siegfried, who resumed fighting Karna.
• Jeanne revealed Karna and Enkidu's identities, while Gilgamesh dismissed Gordes's accusation that the enemy had broken the Holy Grail War's rules.
• After Enkidu said his Master was urging him to return, Gilgamesh summoned EA and fired Enuma Elish at Jeanne and Gordes.
• Jeanne activated Luminosité Éternelle and briefly held back Gilgamesh's attack as Enkidu prepared to help.

Gilgamesh and Enkidu killed Jeanne d'Arc and Gordes, while Karna defeated Siegfried and the Red Faction advanced against Yggdmillennia. Achilles fought two opposing Servants on the way to the city, then left them for dead as Heracles went to confront Chiron; the green-haired girl appeared to have survived Achilles's attack.

• Gilgamesh and Enkidu combined their Noble Phantasms, destroying Jeanne d'Arc's flag and killing Jeanne d'Arc and Gordes.
• Karna defeated Siegfried with his spear, and Siegfried returned to the Throne of Heroes after acknowledging Karna's strength.
• Gordes sent Yggdmillennia information about the enemy Servants before he died, and Darnic ordered the family to prepare for a desperate battle.
• Ramesses II appeared in his radiant pyramid temple and bombarded the Homunculi and Golems advancing under Vlad III.
• Achilles overwhelmed two Servants blocking his path, while Heracles recognized Chiron's arrows and went to face their former teacher.
• Achilles killed the pink-haired Servant and struck the green-haired girl before leaving, unaware that she appeared to have survived.

The Red Faction defeated the Black Faction’s remaining Servants and won the Holy Grail War. As the surviving Heroic Spirits gathered, Yhwach appeared and thanked them for completing the Holy Grail for him.

• Caules used all three Command Seals to empower Frankenstein, but Achilles survived her Noble Phantasm and revealed his identity before rushing toward the castle.
• Heracles killed his teacher Chiron in battle, then joined Achilles as they entered the castle.
• Darnic merged his consciousness with Vlad III and transformed him into a vampire, but Heracles and Enkidu overpowered him before Gilgamesh killed him with a weapon designed to counter vampires.
• Achilles fought and killed Jack, the Black Faction’s final Servant, securing victory for the Red Faction.
• Yhwach appeared before the gathered Heroic Spirits and thanked them for completing the Holy Grail for him.

Yhwach recognized the danger of Amakusa Shirou Tokisada’s deathless utopia, while the story later followed the marriages of Renji and Rukia, Ichigo and Orihime, and finally Araki and his partners. At Araki’s wedding, several women challenged his claim of monogamy, leaving him pleading with them to put down their Zanpakuto.

• Yhwach declared himself the Holy Grail War’s victor, dismissed the Grail’s power, and used it to grant Amakusa Shirou Tokisada’s wish for a world without death or birth.
• Gilgamesh and the other Heroic Spirits returned to the Throne of Heroes, while Achilles used the Grail to wish that people would stop calling him Achilles' Heel and was ignored.
• Yhwach realized that a deathless utopia would end humanity’s progress, and five years later Renji married Rukia after enduring the Kuchiki Clan’s brutal approval process.
• Ichigo married Orihime in the Human World, and Araki decided to hold a grand wedding for Saito Furofushi and Unohana Retsu.
• Ten years later, Araki held his wedding at the former Soul King Palace, where Yhwach explained that Chaldea had repaired the altered timeline and Amakusa had eventually understood.
• Katori Bakuunsai, Shutara Senjumaru, and Hikifune Kirio pressed Araki about loving them, and Araki insisted he was a monogamist as the women prepared to attack him with their Zanpakuto.