Chapter Summaries

Kurumi manipulated Lancer and Kaineth into turning against each other, then summoned a massive black spear to face Lancer in combat. After Lancer tested her defenses, Kurumi strengthened herself and swung the spear at him.

• Kurumi flattered Golden Flash and prepared to fight Saber, but Lancer stepped in to challenge her instead.
• Kennedy ordered Lancer to move aside, and Kaineth attacked him; Golden Flash intervened, blasting both men and telling Lancer to entertain him.
• Kurumi used Charm to make Lancer mistake her for Grainne, but Kennedy’s rebuke broke through the illusion and Lancer resolved to kill her.
• Kurumi summoned a huge black spear, and Lancer attacked cautiously after she challenged him to test her spear technique.
• Kurumi strengthened her arms with spiritual energy and swung the spear in a wide, powerful attack at Lancer.

Kurumi turned the fight against Diarmuid around by using a blinding flash and then challenging him with magical crests that enhanced her close combat. Diarmuid charged, but Kurumi caught his attack and kept him on the defensive.

• Kurumi defended against Diarmuid’s faster spear barrage as divine energy began to strengthen her.
• Kurumi released a flash of light that blinded Diarmuid, then taunted him instead of attacking.
• Kurumi promised Diarmuid a meeting with the real Gráinne if he defeated her, prompting him to renew his resolve.
• Kurumi activated the magical crests on her hands, leaving Golden Flash and the watching Masters wary of her power.
• Diarmuid charged Kurumi with his crimson spear, but she read his attack and countered, pressing him into a retreat.

Kurumi defeated Diarmuid in a brutal hand-to-hand fight, then refused Gilgamesh’s offer to become his consort and explained that she was a living human, not a Holy Grail War participant. As Gilgamesh prepared to attack her, a new Berserker appeared, and Kurumi stepped aside to leave the battlefield to them.

• Kurumi battered Diarmuid across the harbor and blasted him through cargo containers with a powerful punch, leaving him severely injured and recalled by his Master using Command Spells.
• Waver asked what had happened, and Rider concluded that Diarmuid had been seriously wounded and summoned away.
• Gilgamesh offered Kurumi the Holy Grail if she became his consort, but Kurumi refused and said she was a living human who could not follow him to the Hall of Heroes.
• Gilgamesh grew furious and threatened to grievously wound Kurumi and take her away to discipline her, while she began preparing to fight back.
• A white-haired man in a sewer ordered Berserker to act, and Berserker appeared through a magic circle; Kurumi stepped back as Gilgamesh confronted the newcomer.

Kurumi watched Berserker overwhelm Saber after Gilgamesh was recalled by Tohsaka Tokiomi. She intervened to save Saber, who asked why Kurumi was helping her, and Kurumi questioned whether she was really “Arthur.”

• Kurumi recognized Berserker as Lancelot, the Knight of the Lake, while he fought Gilgamesh with Noble Phantasms.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi used a Command Spell to recall Gilgamesh, who insulted Berserker and told Kurumi he hoped she would surprise him next time.
• Berserker attacked Saber with a steel pillar empowered by Knight of Honor, while her injured wrist left her unable to defend herself effectively.
• Kurumi blocked and redirected Berserker’s strike, then pulled Saber away from danger.
• Saber pushed Kurumi away after Kurumi’s rescue left them awkwardly pressed together, but Kurumi continued protecting her from Berserker.
• Saber asked Kurumi why she was helping her, and Kurumi asked whether she was really “Arthur.”

Kurumi fought Berserker and helped the Conqueror King defeat him, while Matou Kariya’s failing mana supply left Berserker unable to recover. After Iskandar departed, Kurumi teased Saber before vanishing, and Saber left with Irisviel wondering what had happened to her wrist.

• Kurumi fought Berserker with Raikiri, breaking his steel pillar as Matou Kariya coughed blood in the sewers.
• Iskandar struck Berserker with the Divine Chariot, and Berserker dissolved into black mist when Kariya could not restore his injuries.
• Iskandar praised Saber and warned Kurumi to leave Fuyuki before departing with Waver.
• Kurumi vanished her sword, taunted Saber for aiming a weapon at her after she had saved her, and flirted with her before disappearing.
• Saber’s wrist felt strange as she rode away with Irisviel and asked what had happened to her.

Saber encountered Caster on the road, but his strange devotion to a holy maiden led to no agreement, and he vanished after Saber drove him off. Kurumi tracked Caster to a site filled with murdered victims, then continued investigating the Matou family as divine power began to emerge within her.

• Saber and Irisviel stopped their car after Saber sensed a Servant, and Caster greeted Saber as the holy maiden he loved.
• Saber threatened Caster with Excalibur, but he only accused God of deceiving his beloved and then disappeared.
• Kurumi and Red Queen used Nightmare to locate Saber and Caster, and Saber realized that someone was watching them.
• Kurumi found a gruesome mass of human remains and learned that Caster had likely slaughtered victims across several nearby cities.
• Kurumi ordered Red Queen to keep searching for the Matou family’s Engraved Bug clones as divine traits began to show in Kurumi’s eyes and hair.

Kurumi monitored the Holy Grail War as Caster attacked Saber at the Einzbern estate, while Tohsaka Tokiomi and Kotomine Risei plotted to use Kurumi to eliminate Heroic Spirits. Kurumi watched the battle turn against Saber as Caster’s monsters multiplied, and she struggled with the divinity affecting her judgment.

• Kurumi left the sewer untouched, then ordered the Red Queen to notify her when Caster and Saber fought and to keep Lancer under surveillance.
• Kurumi learned that Caster had attacked Saber and that Kennedy, Kotomine Kirei, and Assassin had also made moves, so she stayed with Sakura and had Nightmare guard her.
• At the Fuyuki Church, Tohsaka Tokiomi and Kotomine Risei discussed Kurumi’s suspicious origins and planned to exploit her to kill Heroic Spirits before the Church intervened.
• Kurumi arrived at the Einzbern estate and saw Caster turn children into monsters that split and multiplied against Saber.
• Saber struggled to hold back the growing horde as the monsters crowded the battlefield and intensified their attacks.

Saber fought Caster’s regenerating monsters until Kurumi activated Raikiri’s protective spiritual blades to cut and burn them away. Saber remained trapped in a tense standoff with Caster while Kurumi and the Red Queen investigated Raikiri’s strange abilities.

• Saber used Excalibur against Caster’s monsters, but their severed halves rapidly regenerated and the creatures eventually overwhelmed her with tentacles.
• Caster insisted that he had been chosen by the Holy Grail and was trying to save Jeanne d'Arc, while Saber condemned him for slaughtering children.
• Saber broke free with a burst of magical energy, but the monsters attacked again and wore down her strength.
• Kurumi learned from the Red Queen that Raikiri could weaken attacks and synchronize with her spiritual energy, then triggered Spirit Blades Protect the Body to shield Saber and char the monsters’ tentacles.
• Saber and Caster cautiously resumed their battle as Kurumi and the Red Queen analyzed Raikiri’s effects and discussed whether it could be upgraded with Vibranium.

Kurumi used spirit-power constructs and Raikiri to help Saber drive Caster back, then went with the Red Queen to observe Kotomine Kirei and Irisviel. After the Red Queen collected Irisviel’s blood and hair, Saber arrived and confronted Kurumi.

• Kurumi sent out phantom figures carrying Raikiri, destroying many of Caster’s monsters while Caster retreated from Saber and the unseen attacker.
• The Red Queen explained that Kurumi’s spirit constructs gained Spirit Blade Protection, and told her that Kaineth had arrived and Lancer was approaching Saber’s battlefield.
• Kurumi and the Red Queen traveled to the manor’s woods, where they found Kotomine Kirei beating Irisviel as he searched for Emiya Kiritsugu.
• After Assassin warned Kotomine Kirei to withdraw, he wounded Irisviel and fled, leaving her and Maiya badly injured.
• Kurumi and the Red Queen revealed themselves and collected Irisviel’s blood and hair while she feared their intentions.
• Saber arrived, ignored Irisviel’s plea to leave, and raised her sword toward Kurumi.

Saber reunited with Irisviel after Kurumi left and learned that the witch had helped Irisviel and Maiya survive Kotomine Kirei. Elsewhere, the Red Queen repeatedly failed to analyze Irisviel’s composition while Matou Sakura watched her experiments.

• Kurumi taunted Saber about a knight’s ideals and vanished with her alchemical doll, leaving Saber to question who she was.
• Saber found Irisviel healed by the sheath and helped her treat the unconscious Maiya.
• Irisviel told Saber that Kotomine Kirei had nearly overwhelmed her and Maiya, and that the alchemical doll had taken her blood and hair.
• Saber agreed to carry Maiya back and advised Irisviel to tell her Master about the witch’s actions.
• The Red Queen failed again to model Irisviel’s magical crest network while Matou Sakura watched from nearby.
• The Red Queen questioned whether Sakura was Tohsaka Tokiomi’s daughter, then noticed the pocket watch around Sakura’s neck.

Red Queen persuaded Matou Sakura to let her make an alchemical doll, hoping to study Sakura’s pocket watch in return. Kurumi stopped Sakura from handing it over, and the chapter ended with Red Queen asking Sakura to name her new doll.

• Red Queen tried to persuade Matou Sakura to lend her the pocket watch by offering her control of Nightmare and a personal doll.
• Matou Sakura chose to accept a doll but remained reluctant to go out, saying her big sister would worry.
• Red Queen created a silver-haired alchemical doll with biomimetic skin, magical crests, a subsystem, and a conventional reactor.
• Matou Sakura began to hand Red Queen the pocket watch, but Kurumi appeared and reminded her not to give it to anyone.
• Kurumi said the alchemical doll belonged to Sakura and told Red Queen to finish adjusting it, then Red Queen asked Sakura to name her.

Matou Sakura named the alchemical doll Little White and took her out to look for her sister, while Kurumi continued researching the [Gamma] magic crests and planned around the Banquet of Kings. Sakura left Red Queen's villa hoping to find Tohsaka Rin and her mother, but she had not found them yet.

• Matou Sakura named the alchemical doll Little White, and Little White recognized Sakura as her master.
• Kurumi told Red Queen to leave her alone unless a Heroic Spirit was about to fall, and to create an opportunity to prevent the Conqueror King from claiming the Holy Grail War's first blood.
• Red Queen discovered that the Assassins were exposed, including one guarding the Tohsaka mother and daughter, but decided to let them live a little longer.
• Red Queen encouraged Sakura to go out and look for Tohsaka Rin, and Sakura left with Little White to find her sister and mother.
• Sakura followed a familiar route to the place where Kurumi had taken her for cake, but she still could not find her sister.

Matou Sakura searched for her sister while Tohsaka Rin investigated a mage who had been abducting children. Rin found her missing friend Qinyin, and Sakura and Little White headed toward the alley where two weak magical energy fluctuations had appeared.

• Matou Sakura asked Little White to find her sister, then left the shop to search in the direction she believed her sister might come from.
• Tohsaka Rin returned to Fuyuki City to investigate the disappearance of her best friend and other students, tracking a young man whose bracelet emitted magical energy.
• Tohsaka Rin followed her father's Hour Hand, found a bloodied shoe, and came face-to-face with the young man.
• Tohsaka Rin discovered Qinyin unconscious in the alley and woke her.
• Little White detected two weak magical energy fluctuations ahead, and Matou Sakura went with her to investigate.

Matou Sakura and Little White found Tohsaka Rin confronting Ryuunosuke Uryuu in a room where children had been hypnotized. After the children escaped and the police took them in, Rin reunited with Sakura, whose memories of the Matou family’s Engraved Bugs resurfaced.

• Tohsaka Rin shielded Kotone and tried to break Ryuunosuke Uryuu’s bracelet by flooding it with magical power, but the bracelet shattered only after an iron door was blasted open.
• Matou Sakura arrived with Little White, and Rin mistook Sakura’s presence for a possible trick before recognizing her voice.
• Little White warned that Ryuunosuke Uryuu carried the scent of human blood, while Rin urged Sakura and the children to flee and Sakura asked Little White to hold him back.
• The children escaped into the street and were found by patrolling police, while Kotone kept what she had witnessed to herself.
• After the police took Kotone away, Rin confronted Sakura about why she had come and then hugged her, recalling Kariya’s warning about the Matou family.
• Sakura trembled as Rin spoke, and memories of the Engraved Bugs flooded her mind.

Tohsaka Rin and Matou Sakura encountered a monster, which Little White destroyed before Matou Kariya arrived. At the castle, Iskandar hosted a drinking banquet with Saber, Gilgamesh, and Kurumi, whose plans to deal with approaching enemies drew the kings’ attention.

• Tohsaka Rin tried to learn what Matou Sakura meant about Uncle Kariya, then used her pocket watch to detect a nearby threat and urged Sakura to run.
• Little White protected Matou Sakura and Tohsaka Rin by blasting the tentacled monster with magic bullets until it could no longer regenerate.
• A swarm of insects consumed the monster’s remains, and Matou Kariya emerged and greeted the two girls.
• Iskandar drove his ox cart into Saber’s damaged castle and explained that he had come to drink with her, then invited Gilgamesh and Kurumi to join them.
• Gilgamesh challenged Kurumi about her motives, and Kurumi said she intended to deal with some approaching enemies as a surge of magical energy rose nearby.

Kurumi trapped Assassin in a dark domain and challenged the assassins to a fight using their own methods. After killing several of them and driving the rest into a retreat, she returned to the kings and accepted wine from Golden Flash, then asked him to return to the Hall of Heroes.

• Kurumi revealed that she intended to kill Assassin and entered the dark domain where her true body had been hiding.
• Kurumi sealed Assassin’s magical energy and hunted the assassins through the blackish-purple mist with a transparent dagger.
• Kurumi killed several assassins in a series of ambushes, and the survivors fled from her.
• Kurumi ended the game and returned to Saber, the Conqueror King, and Golden Flash after the dark sphere vanished.
• Golden Flash rewarded Kurumi with wine, and Kurumi asked him to return to the Hall of Heroes.

At the Banquet of Kings, Kurumi challenged Saber’s hope of changing the past and revealed that the Holy Grail War was a mission with a single rewarded victor, though a mysterious force blocked her explanation of how she knew about timelines. After the kings departed, the Church announced Assassin’s death and ordered the Masters to eliminate Caster; that night, Kurumi aimed at Caster as he poured dark magic into the river.

• Gilgamesh threatened Kurumi, but Iskandar broke up their brewing confrontation and turned the gathering toward talk of the Holy Grail.
• Kurumi told Saber that the past could not truly be changed and that returning to it would create another timeline; a mysterious force obscured her explanation of how she knew.
• Kurumi departed, Gilgamesh and Iskandar left, and Irisviel tried to comfort a shaken Saber.
• The Church announced that Assassin had been killed and Kotomine Kirei had withdrawn, then ordered the Masters to hunt Caster and offered an additional Command Spell as a reward.
• Caster and Ryuunosuke Uryuu began channeling dark magic into the river, while Kurumi took aim at Caster from a bridge with Twilight Morning Star.

Kurumi’s attacks wounded Caster but failed to stop him from summoning the Sea Demon, forcing Saber, Iskandar, and Diarmuid to fight the regenerating monster. Saber became trapped in a swarm of tentacles as Lancer prepared to intervene.

• Kurumi fired an anti-magic bullet at Caster, and a heavy spear from Nightmare struck him and severed his right arm, but he survived both attacks.
• Caster completed his incantation, and the Sea Demon burst from the river and swallowed him.
• Saber and Iskandar attacked the Sea Demon while Diarmuid joined them, but its tentacles regenerated and grew stronger after being cut.
• Kurumi fired another anti-magic bullet into the Sea Demon, making its tentacles fall and thrash wildly without distinguishing friend from foe.
• The Sea Demon trapped Saber among its tentacles, and Diarmuid gritted his teeth and prepared to throw his spear to save her.

Kurumi freed Saber, killed Ryunosuke Uryuu, and used Nightmare’s plasma cannon to strike Gilgamesh’s flying vessel while the battle against Caster continued. Gilgamesh turned his attention toward the new attacker, and the chapter ended with Berserker confronting Kurumi.

• Kurumi shot the tentacle restraining Saber, allowing Saber to break free and cut down the attacking tentacles.
• Kurumi shot Ryunosuke Uryuu, removing the Command Spells that had bound Caster.
• Red Queen fired Nightmare’s plasma cannon into the river, striking Gilgamesh’s flying vessel and drawing his attention.
• Gilgamesh ordered Tohsaka Tokiomi to find Berserker’s Master, while Tokiomi left to pursue him.
• Berserker attacked Kurumi on the steel framework, and she taunted him about his interest in love.

Kurumi fought the corrupted Lancelot on the bridge while the other Heroic Spirits battled Caster and the Sea Demon. She sent Lancelot toward the riverbank, where Diarmuid defeated him, then appeared beside Saber as Saber prepared to unleash her Noble Phantasm.

• Kurumi exchanged attacks with Lancelot on the bridge and used divine spiritual power to knock him toward the riverbank.
• Kurumi noticed Saber moving to prepare her Noble Phantasm and feared she would use it against Caster.
• Diarmuid intercepted Lancelot, destroyed his wing with Gáe Dearg, and sent him crashing into a muddy crater, where he dissolved into mist.
• Saber rushed across the water while Diarmuid stayed behind to fight Lancelot, and the Conqueror King continued battling the Sea Demon.
• Kurumi appeared beside Saber at the designated location, prompting Diarmuid to watch her warily.
• Earlier, Kurumi warned Red Queen to avoid endangering ordinary people, while Red Queen retreated in Nightmare and activated its mirror armor.