Chapter Summaries

After a playful morning at the Tohsaka Residence, Chen learned that the red moon was powering Octavian’s enormous Roman Heroic Spirit army. Lin Xue warned that the unstable red moon concealed a dangerous presence, while Kirei Kotomine was secretly investigating its power.

• Chen woke to find Ding Dang playing with Sandora’s hair, then joined the others for breakfast at the Tohsaka Residence.
• Medea and Souichirou Kuzuki arrived at the residence, where Tohsaka began calculating rent for the growing household.
• Chen learned that Emiya planned to train with Sasaki and Saber while the group prepared to attack the Matou Family at night.
• Chen contacted Lin Xue, who explained that Octavian summoned the Roman Heroic Spirits but the red moon supplied the energy sustaining them.
• Lin Xue warned Chen not to send an expedition to the unstable red moon because disturbing it could cause it to collapse or strike the Surface World.
• Lin Xue revealed that Kirei Kotomine had discovered the Reverse Side of the World and was using the Matou Family and Caster to investigate the red moon’s power.

The group attacked the Matou residence, but Pandora and Viska vaporized it with their cannons and the battle shifted to the Reverse Side of the World. There, Zouken Matou revealed a vast Roman Legion and ordered it to attack, leaving the group facing an army of tens of thousands.

• Lin Xue told Wood that Qian Qian would likely be hurt and jealous, but that she and Sandora had probably prepared for his mistake and he should comfort Qian Qian when he returned.
• Wood, Sandora, Emiya, Tohsaka, Sakura, and the others approached the Matou residence to launch a surprise attack.
• Pandora and Viska fired their shoulder-mounted cannons before Wood could stop them, vaporizing the Matou main house and transporting the group to the Reverse Side of the World.
• The group discovered a huge Roman Legion assembled beneath the Red Moon, and Zouken Matou announced that his army would defeat them and secure the Red Moon's power.
• Zouken Matou ordered the Roman Legion to attack, and Wood called for Reno to bring in the ship, deploy landing craft, and open fire.

The narrator’s interstellar forces overwhelmed the Roman Heroic Spirit Legion with orbital bombardment, Marines, Dark Templar, and Photon Cannons. As the battle continued, Zeratul reported that Octavian had been killed and the captured old man was brought before the narrator.

• The narrator ordered Reno to launch a bombardment and deploy landing craft, and Photon Bombs devastated the Roman formations.
• Reno’s Marines landed and attacked the surviving Roman Infantry while Zeratul’s Dark Templar cut through them from the shadows.
• Photon Cannon fire destroyed the Roman cavalry and swept through the infantry as the Hyperion arrived and demanded surrender.
• Kerrigan joined the narrator’s group, and Reno and Tex reported to him while the battle approached its end.
• Zeratul reported that Octavian had died in the bombardment and presented the captured old man as the forces continued clearing the battlefield.

The narrator interrogated Zouken Matou, learned that Kirei Kotomine had given him a black crystal dagger to summon Octavian and the Roman Legion, and then moved with the others to confront Kirei. Cu Chulainn blocked their route and released his full power, preparing for a fight.

• The narrator used Alaya’s holy feather to torture Zouken Matou into revealing that Kirei Kotomine had supplied the crystal dagger and urged him to seek the Red Moon’s power.
• Zouken Matou admitted that he had secretly planned to use his summoned Heroic Spirit army against Kirei, and Sandora ordered him taken away while the narrator sealed his soul in his body.
• Sandora found no useful clues in the black crystal dagger, and the narrator led the group out of the Reverse Side of the World toward Kotomine Church.
• Tohsaka learned that the narrator was an alien emperor and immediately planned to raise his rent, while the narrator and the others continued toward Kirei.
• Cu Chulainn intercepted the group, admitted he had been ordered to stall for time, and released the restrictions on his power until he stood before them in his full-strength form.

Cu Chulainn and Feminine Gilgamesh gained complete Heroic Spirit forms through the Red Moon, forcing the group to split up inside Kotomine Church. Little Pao Pao confronted Gilgamesh and began deciphering Gate of Babylon as she tried to collect its treasures.

• Cu Chulainn revealed his greatly enhanced power, and A Jun sent Saber, Sakura, Medea, Medusa, and Sasaki to fight him while the others headed for Kotomine Church.
• A Jun's group found Feminine Gilgamesh guarding the church, and she accidentally let Tohsaka, Ilya, their Servants, and Vega pass through to the back.
• Little Pao Pao and Ding Dang confronted Feminine Gilgamesh, who summoned Gate of Babylon as Little Pao Pao eagerly collected its treasures.
• Feminine Gilgamesh transformed into golden armor, and Little Pao Pao grabbed her and dragged her across the church.
• Feminine Gilgamesh opened Gate of Babylon around herself, and Little Pao Pao reached into one of its spatial gateways with a translucent hand as she began deciphering how it worked.

After Little Pao Pao defeated and captured Gilgamesh, the group found Kirei Kotomine beneath the church and learned that he had sought the Truth of the World. Kotomine explained his hourglass theory of the worlds, and the chapter ended with news that the Red Moon’s energy was rising explosively.

• Little Pao Pao looted Gilgamesh’s Gate of Babylon, subdued her, and claimed her as a pet.
• The group followed Gilgamesh through the tunnels beneath Kotomine Church and found Kirei Kotomine incapacitated by Berserker.
• The narrator repaired Kotomine’s injuries, and Kotomine revealed that he had pursued the Red Moon to uncover the Truth of the World.
• Kotomine described his theory that the worlds were opposite ends of an hourglass and that the Red Moon embodied the merged Counter Forces.
• The narrator received word from headquarters that the Red Moon’s energy fluctuations had suddenly increased explosively.

After the Red Moon erupted, Tawell discovered that the Reverse Side of the World was likely an out-of-control Shadow Space, with its control core possibly inside the moon. The Red Moon then transformed into a Blue Moon, and its attack destroyed a probe ship as the outpost scrambled to respond.

• The group returned to Reno's fortified outpost, where he reported that the Red Moon had recently expanded and caused near-zero gravity and intense electromagnetic interference without damaging his troops.
• Tawell analyzed data from the eruption and concluded that the Reverse Side of the World was probably a vast Shadow Space whose control center may have survived inside the Red Moon.
• Tawell explained that the Black Crystal Daggers were Resonance Crystals that had once restricted access to Shadow Space, but their identity verification had failed.
• The sensor detected interference and rising energy as the Red Moon began expanding; a psionic-energy attack destroyed Probe Ship One, while Probe Ship Two fled back toward the outpost.
• Blue patches spread across the Red Moon until it became a Blue Moon, confirming the phenomenon Medea had once described.

A catastrophic psionic eruption transformed the Red Moon into the Blue Moon, forcing the group to evacuate Shadow Earth as its surface began melting. Tawell proposed entering the Giant Moon during its calmer Red Moon phase, and Chen Jun decided to go inside with Ding Dang.

• Tawell reported that the Giant Moon’s energy sea had turned into a high-density psionic ocean, destroying one reconnaissance craft and threatening the nearby outpost.
• The Blue Moon erupted and bathed Shadow Earth in destructive energy, so Tex and Reno organized the evacuation while Tawell’s Research Vessel shielded the survivors.
• The ships jumped to safety on the far side of Shadow Earth, where Tawell warned that the Giant Moon could destroy the planet and cause the Shadow Space to collapse into the real world.
• Tawell proposed approaching the Giant Moon when it returned to its Red Moon state, and Chen Jun said he could enter its interior then.
• Sandora objected to Chen Jun risking the mission alone, but he said he would take Ding Dang with him, and Sandora relented.

Chen prepared to enter the Giant Moon and shut down its failing core before it destroyed the world. After the fleet stabilized the moon’s energy and withdrew, he began his descent during its calm period, but his shuttle failed and he had to jump out.

• Tawell’s model showed that the Giant Moon could collapse into a Void Passage within two more Blue Moon–Red Moon transitions, so Chen planned to reach its core during the next red period and shut down its Energy Furnace.
• Sandora deployed a fleet equipped with Energy Scavengers around the Giant Moon, while the Empire Admiral regulated and redirected the energy they absorbed.
• Chen sent Ilya, Saber, Emiya, and the other visiting mages and Heroic Spirits back through the teleporter, then ordered the fleet to withdraw and Avalon to seal the Shadow Space.
• Chen flew toward the Giant Moon with Ding Dang as its blue surface calmed and turned orange-red, then told Sandora he was about to land.
• Chen tried to operate his shuttle, but it would not move, so he and Ding Dang found the manual and opened the hatch; Chen jumped toward the lunar surface.

The narrator and Ding Dang reached the Giant Moon’s core, where he shut down its malfunctioning control device and retrieved a black data crystal. They escaped the collapsing moon and found Tawell waiting in a shuttle, having stayed behind in case they died.

• The narrator and Ding Dang crossed the Giant Moon’s energy storm and entered its calm core, where they found a shifting cube that appeared to control the moon.
• The narrator contacted Sandora and Tawell, then followed Tawell’s instructions to activate parts of the cube and discovered it was breaking down.
• Tawell told the narrator to retrieve the black crystalline Data Center and warned that shutting down the cube could cause the Giant Moon to collapse inward.
• The narrator stored the crystal and gradually shut down the cube’s energy systems while Ding Dang shielded him from the intensifying storm.
• After the cube stopped and the core collapsed, the narrator and Ding Dang escaped through the energy sea and spotted a shuttle near the moon’s surface.
• The narrator entered the shuttle and found Tawell waiting there; she revealed that she had stayed behind without Sandora’s knowledge, prepared to die with him if he failed to return.

After the Giant Moon’s defeat, the narrator explained that the Holy Grail and the Counter Forces had been changed by the crisis, and offered the displaced Heroic Spirits places in the Empire. Saber and Archer agreed to consider a new path, while Ilya learned that the Empire would give her a new body.

• The narrator reassured Tohsaka that the group could visit again through a teleportation device left in her basement, then revealed the Heroic Spirits’ complete forms and explained that the Holy Grail would no longer appear.
• The narrator revealed that Alaya and Gaia had been gravely weakened by the Red Moon and had agreed to accept the Empire’s protection in exchange for transferring some Heroic Spirits; both Counter Forces confirmed the arrangement to Saber and Archer.
• Sandora explained the agreement to Tohsaka and invited Saber and Archer to join the Empire, while Tohsaka struggled to accept that the Counter Forces needed help from outsiders.
• The narrator told Ilya that her body was nearing the end of its lifespan and promised that the Empire would create a new one for her.
• Archer accepted the Empire’s offer, and Artoria agreed to consider following a new path with it.

Chen brought Saber and Red A to Avalon after counseling them about their regrets over the past. Qian Qian welcomed him home with an affectionate but punitive bite, then met the newly arrived Heroic Spirits.

• Chen approved Medea and Souichirou Kuzuki's move to Avalon, where Souichirou received residency and a teaching job.
• Chen told Red A that he was Shirou Emiya's future self and urged him to stop seeking to kill his past self; Red A said he had already abandoned that plan.
• Chen gave Artoria records of another world's Britain and urged her to accept her past, prompting her to call him Boss.
• Chen and the Heroic Spirits reached Avalon, where Qian Qian greeted him, bit him for cheating, and then faced the recruits.
• Sasaki, Medusa, and the other Heroic Spirits saluted Qian Qian and called her Boss's Wife.

Chen introduced Avalon to the newly arrived Heroic Spirits, where they learned that Ding Dang was their creator goddess and met the staff who would manage their new district. After returning home, Chen found Gilgamesh complaining about her living arrangements and Anweina stuck halfway through the television screen.

• Chen showed Artoria and the other Heroic Spirits Quiet Wind Garden, revealed Ding Dang as Avalon’s goddess, and watched Cu Chulainn get struck by divine lightning after he mocked her.
• Lilina returned from Azeroth aboard Alexstrasza and introduced Artemis and the other church staff, whom Chen assigned to manage the Heroic Spirits’ neighborhood.
• Chen told the Heroic Spirits to settle into Avalon and directed them to Artemis for housing, introductions, and visits to their original worlds.
• Back home, Chen welcomed Pandora and Viska, while Gilgamesh complained that Little Pao Pao had trapped her on the floor.
• Ding Dang joined Gilgamesh and Little Pao Pao, and Chen found Anweina stuck halfway through the television after she tried to pass through it.

After returning home from the battle against the Red Moon, A Jun and his family spent a quiet day recovering. He went for an evening walk with Qian Qian, and they reminisced about childhood before heading home for dinner.

• Anweina got stuck halfway out of the television, and A Jun pulled her free while Gilgamesh panicked at the sight of the ghost maid.
• Alaya woke after helping Gaia prepare to rebuild the Kopru Star Sector, explained that Pandora had been excluded for proposing Planetary Fortresses everywhere, then fell asleep while A Jun groomed her feathers.
• The household rested after lunch: Ruiko went to sleep, Pandora and Viska returned to Shadow City with Vega, Sandora sunbathed, and Little Pao Pao kept Gilgamesh close while making her share her treasures.
• Qian Qian invited A Jun out for a walk, and the two strolled beside the river as evening fell.
• Qian Qian and A Jun recalled childhood games by the river, then she leaned against him and said she was glad he had not changed; A Jun suggested they go home for dinner.

Qian Qian revealed that her growing powers let her manipulate local timelines, while the family shared a lively dinner before Jun and Sandora visited Tawell’s research facility. There, Tawell uncovered records linking the Red Moon Core to the Empire’s forgotten Plan X, which had sought to harness Void energy.

• Qian Qian admitted she had slowed time so she could spend longer with A Jun and said she could now separate and control timelines within a city block.
• Jun and Qian Qian returned home, where Ding Dang proudly demonstrated her hoop-jumping and Ruiko’s absence was explained by the time difference between worlds.
• Jun and his family spent dinner together, then two days passed before Tawell summoned Jun and Sandora to see her research results.
• Tawell showed Jun and Sandora a cube from Fate World whose records revealed that the Empire’s Plan X had gathered ninety percent of the Shilin Apostles to devise a way to harness Void energy.
• Sandora recognized Plan X but said she did not know what it had produced, and Jun realized the Red Moon Core was its living result.

After Lin Xue warned that deciphering the Rubik’s Cube could unleash dangerous creations of the Shilin People, the narrator ordered its analysis delayed and later tried to distract himself in Shadow City. The cube remained a mystery, and Lin Xue was left recovering from the damage caused by her vision.

• Sandora confirmed that the Empire’s plan to challenge the Void had never produced a known Energy Furnace, but she realized the Rubik’s Cube might have been created near the Empire’s slumber.
• Lin Xue rushed into the research hall, warned the narrator not to decipher the cube, and revealed that it contained dangerous creations the Shilin People could not control.
• The narrator ordered medical care for Lin Xue, while Tawell lowered the cube’s analysis priority and agreed to seek approval before accessing its core data.
• The narrator wandered through Shadow City and met Misaka 10915 and Misaka 11325, who explained that their school had assigned them to make Cactus bombs.
• After dealing with the Misakas’ dangerous assignment, the narrator returned home and worried about Lin Xue, who was still recovering in a Medical Pod.

Lin Xue woke after overusing her precognitive ability, and Wood suppressed her mental power to ease her visions of the future. She warned him that the Rubik’s Cube was dangerous, then kissed him before awkwardly pretending not to remember it.

• Wood stood guard while Lin Xue slept in the Medical Pod, using his ability to suppress her rampaging mental power.
• Lin Xue woke with double vision that showed her one minute into the future, and Wood suppressed her mind until the visions disappeared.
• Lin Xue told Wood that the Rubik’s Cube recorded the Empire’s slumber process, had been created by the Shilin People, and could cause severe harm if forcibly decrypted.
• Wood asked whether Lin Xue had called him A Jun, but she denied it and muttered a string of insults while claiming to recite the periodic table.
• Lin Xue kissed Wood, then acted confused when he demanded an explanation and changed the subject.

After kissing Chen Jun, Lin Xue avoided explaining herself, while Chen Jun encountered Silvia and discovered that mass-produced Shilin Mainframes visited her candy shop and showed faint emotions. Ding Ling then arrived with a mysterious doll named Suigintou and asked Chen Jun to find out how she had come to Earth.

• Lin Xue acted evasively after kissing Chen Jun, leaving him confused as he wandered through Shadow City.
• Chen Jun bumped into Silvia outside her candy shop in a deserted martial-law zone and accepted one of her cards.
• Silvia told Chen Jun that Shilin Mainframes and a white-haired boy with Misaka Misaka sometimes visited her shop for candy and cakes.
• Three Shilin Mainframes arrived to collect candy, addressed Chen Jun as Your Majesty, and Silvia said one of them had been especially delighted by his gentle words.
• Chen Jun recalled Lin Xue's warning that Silvia would play an important role, then left the shop without learning more about her.
• Ding Ling visited Chen Jun's group with a case containing a doll called Suigintou and asked him to discover how she had come to Earth.

Ding Ling brought a sealed suitcase containing Mercury Lamp, a Rozen Maiden searching for her missing Father, and Bubble’s excitement over the doll sparked a chaotic confrontation. Mercury Lamp attacked the household, Alaya’s counterattack damaged the roof, and the others finally pinned Mercury Lamp beneath a pile of bodies.

• Ding Ling told the narrator that Mercury Lamp had appeared at her home and was searching for her missing Father.
• The narrator asked Bubble to open the suitcase, and Bubble tried to carry it off as a collectible before it opened on its own.
• Mercury Lamp emerged, refused the narrator’s greeting, and mistook the group’s attempt to approach her as a trap.
• Mercury Lamp attacked the narrator with a storm of sharp black feathers, wrecking the sofa and filling the room with debris.
• Alaya joined the fight with a barrage of white feathers and accidentally blasted a hole through the roof.
• The household rushed Mercury Lamp and pinned her beneath a pile of people.

After Suigintou’s arrival and a chaotic fight wrecked the Living Room, A Jun investigated how she had crossed into their world. Ding Dang then discovered that the World Tree had already malfunctioned, hinting that the crossing involved a much larger imbalance between worlds.

• A Jun saw the ruined Living Room and blamed Suigintou, while Qian Qian and Sandora admitted they had let the fight get out of hand because it was fun.
• A Jun tried to question Suigintou, but she refused to trust him and was taken away by Pandora; Ding Ling described how Suigintou had suddenly appeared outside her bedroom window.
• A Jun ordered Siweisi to search for spatial disturbances and similar worlds, then gave Ding Ling an Empire-standard chip as a reward for her information.
• A Jun took Ding Dang to the World Tree, where her system self-check triggered a crisis before she found the restoration manual and rebooted it.
• Ding Dang confirmed that the World Tree had malfunctioned before the self-check and realized that an ordinary dimensional traveler could not have caused it, then cried that she was in huge trouble.