Chapter Summaries

The Red Queen struggled to keep Nightmare and the Chains of Heaven intact while Kurumi’s divine radiance transformed Golden Flash’s Noble Phantasms into stars forming an Inverted Birth Tree. Alarmed by the tree’s aura of death, Golden Flash prepared to destroy it with Enuma Elish.

• The Red Queen used Nightmare’s armor and energy shield to withstand Golden Flash’s Noble Phantasm barrage while protecting the Chains of Heaven.
• Kurumi’s divine domain ground the incoming Noble Phantasms into powder and gathered them into a star-filled phantom of the Inverted Birth Tree.
• Golden Flash sensed an aura of death from a circular shape on the tree, then lost his fear when he looked toward its trunk.
• The Red Queen flew toward Nightmare with a newly assembled first-generation reactor as Golden Flash stopped his barrage and drew the Sword of Rupture.
• Golden Flash invoked Enuma Elish against the motionless phantom of the Inverted Birth Tree.

Kurumi’s divine power absorbed the Sword of Rupture’s spatial storm, leaving Golden Flash uncertain while Red Queen fought to protect her and Nightmare. Red Queen’s underwater ambush severed Golden Flash’s left arm and poisoned him, but he bound Kurumi with Chains of Heaven before his body suddenly stiffened.

• Golden Flash’s Sword of Rupture released a spatial storm, but the Inverted Birth Tree stopped and absorbed the spatial fragments.
• Red Queen struggled to defend Nightmare from Gate of Babylon’s barrage as its power failed to keep Chains of Heaven restrained.
• Red Queen swam underwater and waited for Golden Flash to be distracted while Kurumi stared at the Inverted Birth Tree and became lost in confused memories.
• Chains of Heaven broke free and Golden Flash retrieved it, giving Red Queen the opening to strike and sever his left arm with her corrosive magic.
• Red Queen escaped inside Nightmare as Golden Flash’s wound darkened and black veins spread across him; he bound Kurumi with Chains of Heaven, then suddenly stiffened.

Kurumi recovered from the divine power seed’s influence and decided to hunt Golden Flash before Tohsaka Tokiomi could use his remaining Command Spell to aid him. Golden Flash returned to the Tohsaka residence critically corrupted, where Tohsaka Tokiomi refused to spend his final Command Spell and Golden Flash replaced his shattered heart with a Noble Phantasm.

• Kurumi came back to herself after the Chains of Heaven suppressed her divine power seed and resolved to accelerate her plan to seize The Evil of This World.
• Kurumi gave Red Queen a new reactor for Nightmare and ordered her to locate Tohsaka Tokiomi so they could kill Golden Flash that night.
• Golden Flash returned to the Tohsaka residence with spreading corruption after Tohsaka Tokiomi summoned him back from the river.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi refused Golden Flash’s demand to use his final Command Spell to heal him.
• Golden Flash’s heart burst, but he used a Noble Phantasm from Gate of Babylon to replace it and stabilize himself.

Kotomine Kirei killed Tohsaka Tokiomi and formed a contract with the demonized Gilgamesh, while Matou Kariya rushed to the Tohsaka residence to protect Tokiomi but arrived too late. Kurumi watched from the Nightmare as Berserker confronted the surviving Gilgamesh, leaving Matou Kariya trembling with rage over Tokiomi’s death.

• Gilgamesh accused Tohsaka Tokiomi of saving his final Command Spell to make him kill himself, and Tokiomi tried to placate him.
• Kotomine Kirei stabbed Tohsaka Tokiomi with the knife Tokiomi had given him, then cut off Tokiomi’s hand as he reached for a Command Spell.
• Matou Kariya, worried that Tokiomi was in danger, headed for the Tohsaka residence as the Engraved Bugs consumed his body.
• Berserker smashed through the Tohsaka residence’s defenses, while Kurumi concealed the Nightmare overhead and observed the attack.
• Gilgamesh emerged unharmed beside Kotomine Kirei, who had spent one Command Spell, and Matou Kariya saw Tokiomi’s corpse and trembled with rage.

Gilgamesh and Berserker fought amid the destruction of the Tohsaka residence while Kurumi waited for a chance to attack Kotomine Kirei. Kurumi struck both targets, but her shots wounded them rather than killing them.

• Matou Kariya ordered Berserker to kill Gilgamesh, and the two Heroic Spirits exchanged Noble Phantasms across the Tohsaka residence.
• Matou Kariya's Engraved Bugs consumed his flesh and blood to supply Berserker with mana while Kotomine Kirei watched and anticipated killing Kariya himself.
• Kurumi aimed Nightmare's weapons at Gilgamesh and Kotomine Kirei, while Red Queen suggested treating Kirei's psychological illness through dreams.
• Kurumi fired a laser that pierced Gilgamesh's abdomen, then shot Kotomine Kirei several times, wounding his shoulder, arm, thigh, and abdomen.

Kurumi transformed into her divine state and attacked Gilgamesh, while Kariya’s body gave out and Berserker vanished. Gilgamesh countered with Enuma Elish, shattering the space around the Tohsaka residence and sending a spatial torrent toward Kurumi as Nightmare trained its recharged laser weapons on Kotomine Kirei.

• Kurumi entered her divine state and used divine flames to attack Gilgamesh, erasing the Chains of Heaven as they emerged.
• Kariya collapsed from the strain of sustaining Berserker, and the Servant vanished after being hurled into the ruins.
• An old man appeared beside Kariya and remarked that he would not accept dying before seizing the Holy Grail and saving Tokiomi.
• Gilgamesh unleashed Enuma Elish, using a spatial rift to extinguish Kurumi’s divine flames and break apart the Tohsaka residence’s space.
• Nightmare climbed above the fractured battlefield, charged its laser weapons, and aimed at Kotomine Kirei.

Kurumi and Gilgamesh’s battle ended with Gilgamesh disappearing after exhausting his mana, while divine Kurumi forgot her own name and needed Red Queen to bring her back to normal. Kurumi then considered whether she could escape the Main God, but returned to the cockpit focused on finding Matou Kariya and finishing the conflict the next day.

• A dark-blue beam killed Kotomine Kirei, leaving Gilgamesh without his Master.
• Gilgamesh refused to flee, fought divine Kurumi, and used a strange Noble Phantasm to escape her divine flames briefly.
• Gilgamesh exhausted his mana and began disappearing; he asked Kurumi’s name, but she could not remember it, and the flames consumed him before he learned it.
• Main God confirmed Gilgamesh’s death, and Red Queen used Matou Sakura’s pocket watch to bring Kurumi out of her divine state.
• Kurumi wondered whether the Holy Grail and the Root could help her escape the Main God, then asked where Matou Kariya was and whether the remaining battle would end tomorrow.
• Red Queen said they would send the Heroic Spirits back to the Hall of Heroes, take The Evil of This World, and return to the Main God Space.

Kurumi and Red Queen attacked Matou Zouken’s clones while Nightmare fought Berserker and Matou Kariya died. Kurumi pursued the remaining Engraved Bugs across Fuyuki, leaving only a few marked targets as Nightmare joined the cleanup.

• Kurumi ordered Red Queen to mark Matou Zouken’s clones and instructed Nightmare to give Matou Kariya a dignified death.
• At night, Nightmare fought Berserker outside the burning Matou residence while Matou Kariya lay dying from his injuries and Engraved Bugs.
• Kurumi tracked down Matou Zouken and destroyed swarms of Engraved Bugs with Raikiri and divine flame as he fled through his clones.
• Red Queen reported that Matou Kariya was dead and that she had burned his remains to ashes.
• Kurumi trapped and incinerated fleeing Engraved Bugs while Nightmare used its palm flamethrowers to help clear the marked targets.
• Kurumi and Red Queen reduced the marked clones to only a few remaining red dots.

Kurumi confirmed that Matou Zouken and his Engraved Bugs were gone, while Saber and Emiya Kiritsugu approached the empty Holy Grail site. A mysterious power offered Artoria a chance to return to the past, and Kurumi received a mission to send Artoria into a dream that fulfilled her wish.

• Nightmare and Red Queen scanned Fuyuki City and nearby regions, confirmed Matou Zouken was dead, and Kurumi focused on obtaining The Evil of This World to remove the divine power seed.
• Saber traveled with Emiya Kiritsugu toward the Holy Grail, troubled by Irisviel's death, the other Heroic Spirits' apparent deaths, and Kurumi's absence.
• A wounded Artoria heard a mysterious voice offering her a chance to return to the past and make her country prosper; she accepted a contract and was enveloped in light.
• Kurumi received the side mission "Dreaming Back a Thousand Years," which required her to send Artoria into the past and fulfill her wish, and she decided to find Artoria after the regional scan was complete.
• Kurumi and Red Queen discussed the mission's deception, the risks of Kurumi's divine state, and ways to limit the harm caused by The Evil of This World.

Kurumi went to Fuyuki Central Park to use the Greater Holy Grail as a chance to escape the Main God's control, despite fearing the dangers of crossing a spatial storm. She resolved to take the risk and unleashed her divine power, drawing Artoria toward her as Emiya Kiritsugu approached the Holy Grail.

• Kurumi told Red Queen to pack the villa, arrange for Aoi to take Sakura, and prepare to leave the Fate/Zero Plane after the Holy Grail War.
• Kurumi stored Nightmare and considered using the Greater Holy Grail to escape through the Root, knowing the Main God would take everything in her spatial backpack.
• Kurumi hesitated over the risks of being erased or dying in a spatial storm, then decided to seize the chance to escape the Main God.
• Kurumi entered Central Park and released her divine power, suppressing the rampant magical power as her appearance transformed.
• Artoria saw Emiya Kiritsugu approach the Holy Grail, sensed Kurumi's divine power, and rushed to find her.
• Artoria stopped before Kurumi, who was surrounded by divine radiance with a gigantic Inverted Birth Tree behind her.

Kurumi used the power of the Inverted Birth Tree to show Artoria a dream of her past and give her a chance to fulfill her wish of saving Camelot. As Artoria began rebuilding the kingdom, Emiya Kiritsugu’s consciousness entered the Greater Holy Grail.

• Artoria challenged Kurumi, who confirmed that she had sent the other Heroic Spirits back and that Artoria was the Holy Grail War’s final winner.
• Kurumi froze Artoria and flooded her with memories of a battlefield where a bloodied version of herself made a contract with a god.
• Artoria awoke in a dream of Camelot at her coronation, believing she had returned to her own era.
• Artoria began using her knowledge of modern governance to lead Camelot toward prosperity, while Kurumi spent divine power sustaining the dream.
• Kurumi noticed that Emiya Kiritsugu’s consciousness had entered the Greater Holy Grail.

Artoria learned that Kurumi might have been swallowed by the Greater Holy Grail’s black mud and chose to return to the present as a Heroic Spirit. In the present, the black mud overwhelmed Artoria and threatened the old residential district as Kurumi completed her divine spell.

• Artoria learned that Kurumi had been swallowed by the black mud in a possible timeline and asked to return to help her.
• Artoria chose to leave Camelot and return to the present as a Heroic Spirit, while her other consciousness took over and prepared to reveal Camelot’s king was a woman.
• Emiya Kiritsugu used his Command Spells to make Saber release Excalibur against the corrupted Greater Holy Grail.
• Artoria awakened and fired Excalibur at the black mud, but it held the mud back for only a few seconds.
• Kurumi sent an energy seed into Artoria before the black mud swallowed her, then completed her divine spell as the mud engulfed part of the old residential district.

Kurumi struggled to contain “The Evil of This World” as it consumed the old residential district, then risked internal explosions to draw out more divine power. She sealed all the black mud into a small sphere, but collapsed with her divine power exhausted and her injuries overwhelming her.

• Kurumi used a hexagram formation and an Inverted Birth Tree to suppress “The Evil of This World,” but streams of black mud spread through the old residential district.
• Kurumi drove spiritual-power needles into her divine power seed, triggering an internal explosion that released stronger divine power and briefly repelled the black mud.
• Kurumi burned several streams of black mud with divine flames, then expanded the hexagram formation to enclose the remaining evil.
• Kurumi triggered another internal explosion to strengthen the formation and sealed “The Evil of This World” inside a small black sphere.
• Kurumi’s divine power ran out, and she could no longer suppress her injuries.

After defeating The Evil of This World, Kurumi entered the Greater Holy Grail to reach the outside of the Fate/Zero plane, while Artoria was left believing Kurumi had died. Kurumi emerged at a small hole in the Grail and wondered if she had reached the Root.

• Kurumi's injuries began healing as she concealed Red Queen and received confirmation that her quests were complete.
• Kurumi carried The Evil of This World to the Greater Holy Grail and jumped inside.
• Artoria crawled from the rubble, saw the Greater Holy Grail dissolve, and believed Kurumi had perished with The Evil of This World.
• Artoria mourned Kurumi, then set off to find the girl she believed might know where Kurumi was.
• Kurumi passed through the Greater Holy Grail and reached a small hole, where she wondered whether she was at the Root.

Kurumi searched the void for a plane that could hide her from the Main God and found a concealed small world within a powerful, war-torn plane. After marking it, she returned to her divinized body at the edge of the Type-Moon Plane and began tearing open space to escape.

• Kurumi searched the void for a plane to enter before the Main God’s return countdown expired.
• Kurumi found a vast plane filled with shattered continents and powerful evil auras, then discovered a hidden small world without the evil presence.
• Kurumi marked the small world and dissipated her consciousness back to her body at the edge of the Type-Moon Plane.
• Kurumi used her divine power and Gamma’s demonic crest to tear open spatial rifts as fragments surged toward her.

Kurumi fled the Main God by plunging into a spatial storm, where a giant of light briefly subdued the storm before disappearing. Two powerful brothers investigated the storm but left after receiving news of trouble in their clan, while Kurumi reached a relatively safe region inside it.

• Kurumi ignored the Main God's warnings and swam through spatial turbulence to escape the Type-Moon Plane.
• A giant of light emerged from the Type-Moon Plane, subdued the spatial storm, and vanished after noticing two shadows in the chaos.
• Sixth Brother and Fourth Brother recognized the giant of light and speculated that a treasure lay hidden inside the storm.
• Sixth Brother coiled around the storm and anchored it, but could not see inside or swallow it.
• Kurumi reached a safer region in the storm and paused to rest before heading for its edge.
• Fourth Brother told Sixth Brother that trouble had arisen in their clan, so Sixth Brother left a spiritual mark on the storm and departed with him.

Kurumi and Red Queen developed potions from “The Evil of This World” while trapped in the eye of a spatial storm, hoping to counter the seed of divine power. Elsewhere, Mo Xiao and another figure discussed Kurumi as a rare version of themselves with a chance of reaching their goal, and agreed to conceal her spatial coordinates.

• Kurumi restored her strength with the seed of divine power while Red Queen analyzed “The Evil of This World” and warned that swallowing it could corrupt her.
• Red Queen modeled possible remedies, and Kurumi used divine flames to refine several potions from the black mud.
• Kurumi and Red Queen discarded failed mixtures into the storm, where a force of time drew one away as a spacetime stone.
• A woman observed the discarded mixture and called it another spacetime stone abandoned by the first-generation Main God.
• Mo Xiao appeared beside the storm and discussed Kurumi with the woman, who said Kurumi was among the million versions of them closest to success.
• Mo Xiao departed, and the woman agreed to keep helping conceal Kurumi’s spatial coordinates.

The Main God was severely damaged by an unknown force and fled across planes to Reincarnator No. 1025896. Kurumi survived the spatial storm and reached the barrier around her destination, but with little time left and no way through, she considered reincarnating.

• The Main God traced the Blackwater's journey to Reincarnator No. 1025896, who had consumed it after obtaining it from Shang Hai.
• An unknown force struck and restrained the Main God, which escaped to Reincarnator No. 1025896 in a tiny orb of light.
• Kurumi crossed the spatial storm, followed her spiritual imprints, and entered a small world filled with evil auras.
• Kurumi used repeated Aleph bullets to reach the edge of the small world before her remaining time ran out.
• Kurumi failed to penetrate the world's artificial barrier and wondered whether she could reincarnate.

Kurumi neutralized the divine power in her body and chose a pregnant woman in a layered space as her host for reincarnation. She sent her consciousness into the woman’s womb, leaving Red Queen to guard her body, while Gu Yuan discovered that someone had infiltrated his clan’s territory.

• Kurumi asked Red Queen to find a safe place to guard her body and learned that Red Queen could survive for several hundred years without combat or large-scale calculations.
• Kurumi absorbed refined black mud to neutralize the divine power in her origin, weakening her aura and leaving her mentally exhausted.
• Kurumi searched through nested spaces for an exceptional host and marked a pregnant woman whose life aura, along with her partner’s, suggested strong talent.
• Kurumi sent her consciousness and a trace of origin into the pregnant woman’s womb, while Red Queen stayed behind to protect Kurumi’s body.
• Gu Yuan arrived with members of his clan, learned that someone had infiltrated the area, and ordered them to capture the intruder.

Kurumi adjusted to life as Gu Yuan’s daughter in the Gu Clan while caring for her frail younger sister, Xun'er. After the sisters made a pinky promise, a servant summoned them to the council hall at Gu Yuan’s request.

• Kurumi gave Xun'er malt candy and reflected on how her birth had depleted their mother’s strength and damaged Xun'er's foundation.
• Kurumi worried that the upcoming bloodline test would shape the sisters’ standing in the Gu Clan and hoped to find a way to restore Xun'er's foundation.
• Kurumi refused to give Xun'er more candy, then comforted her and promised she would never hate her.
• Kurumi and Xun'er linked pinkies and promised to keep their word for a hundred years.
• A servant appeared by the stream and told the sisters that Gu Yuan wanted them in the council hall.