Chapter Summaries

Medea watched Bai Yue and Asagami Fujino carry out the Holy Sword Purification Ritual, then overcame the potion’s influence and seized the Holy Sword herself. She began her own purification ritual, determined to make the Holy Sword submit and use it to torment Fujino and Bai Yue.

• Bai Yue and Asagami Fujino carried out the true Holy Sword Purification Ritual while Medea watched jealously, unable to interfere because of the potion’s effects.
• After the ritual ended, Medea used Magic to immobilize Fujino and Bai Yue, silence him, and take the Holy Sword.
• Medea began the Holy Sword Purification Ritual herself and took the Holy Sword’s reaction as a sign that it was excited by her.
• Medea planned to make the Holy Sword submit, force Fujino to witness her abandonment, and later punish Bai Yue for provoking her.
• Medea released something intended to weaken Bai Yue’s resistance as she continued the ritual.

Medea tried to take the Holy Sword Purification Ritual from Asagami Fujino, but the Holy Sword’s owner regained control and breached the bottom of the scabbard, overwhelming Medea and leaving the ritual in Fujino’s hands. Medea woke to find Fujino performing the ritual again, and her jealousy turned to hatred as Fujino challenged her to prove she could win without interference.

• Medea restrained the Holy Sword’s owner and performed the purification ritual while taunting Asagami Fujino, who remained calm.
• The Holy Sword’s owner reclaimed control and intensified the ritual, forcing the bottom of the scabbard open despite Medea’s attempts to regain control.
• The Holy Sword entered the special space beyond the scabbard, producing enough potion-neutralizing substance to expand the space and render Medea unconscious.
• Medea regained awareness and saw Asagami Fujino performing the purification ritual, which made her jealousy deepen into hatred.
• Asagami Fujino accused Medea of lacking confidence and relying on Magic to interrupt her ritual, provoking Medea into silence.

Asagami Fujino provoked Medea into joining a new Holy Sword Purification Ritual, hoping Medea would help calm the sword while competing for Bai Yue’s approval. Medea agreed to take part and watched Fujino begin the unfamiliar Third Scabbard ritual, which left the outcome—and the reason it was taking so long—unresolved.

• Asagami Fujino revealed that she had deliberately provoked Medea, following Bai Yue’s plan to get Medea to participate in the ritual.
• Medea agreed to compete in the Holy Sword Purification Ritual, intending to prove she was the better priestess.
• Bai Yue asked Fujino to perform the new ritual first, using the Third Scabbard after preparing it with substance produced by the Holy Sword.
• Bai Yue proposed comparing the ritual’s duration and the amount of substance produced, while Medea insisted she was a newcomer to the Third Scabbard.
• Fujino began the new ritual as Medea watched and nervously examined the Third Scabbard; the ritual took longer than expected.

Bai Yue discovered that Medea’s Third Scabbard reacted to his touch like the true scabbard, suggesting she had used it before. Medea panicked over what this might imply as they prepared to begin the Holy Sword Purification Ritual.

• Medea measured the material created during Asagami Fujino’s ritual and prepared to take her own turn.
• Bai Yue insisted on inspecting Medea’s Third Scabbard before beginning the ritual, and she reluctantly allowed him.
• While applying the material, Bai Yue changed his touch and felt the Third Scabbard tremble faintly.
• Medea realized the Third Scabbard reacted like the true scabbard’s weak point and feared Bai Yue would conclude she was an experienced user.
• Bai Yue said he would finish applying the material and inspecting it before starting the ritual, leaving Medea anxious about how the scabbard might react.

Medea tested her special Third Scabbard by using it to perform a Holy Sword Purification Ritual, triggering an intense reaction in both the Third Scabbard and her true scabbard. Bai Yue explained that her Third Scabbard was a rare type he liked, and the comparison with Asagami Fujino showed Medea produced nearly one-third more purification substance but took about fifteen seconds longer.

• Medea operated the Third Scabbard and contained the Holy Sword, triggering a severe stress response and causing her true scabbard to release venom.
• Bai Yue explained that Medea’s Third Scabbard was an exceptionally rare type that shared the true scabbard’s sensation, and he said he liked it.
• Medea resumed the purification ritual herself while Asagami Fujino watched.
• The ritual’s effects overwhelmed Medea, and stimulation of a weak point in her true scabbard left her temporarily unable to move or speak.
• Medea used Magic to measure the purification substance, and Bai Yue found that she had produced nearly one-third more than Asagami Fujino but finished about fifteen seconds later.

Medea watched Asagami Fujino perform the Holy Sword Purification Ritual, then woke after a long ritual of her own and confronted her Master about whether he would abandon her. Their soul-merging kiss revealed his possessive devotion and lustful affection, leaving Medea conflicted.

• Medea agreed to compete with Asagami Fujino over how much venom their scabbards produced during the Holy Sword Purification Ritual.
• During Fujino’s ritual, an unusual substance appeared, and Medea learned Fujino had the same innate trait she did.
• Medea woke after the previous night’s ritual, suspected her Master had left, and learned from him that she had dreamed of his past.
• Her Master pointed out that Medea had continued the ritual after Fujino stopped, and Medea blamed a magic potion despite doubting that excuse.
• Medea’s Master kissed her, merging their souls and revealing that he saw her as his possession and would bear anything for her.
• Medea concluded that his affection was largely lust and a simple attraction to her beauty, and he agreed.

Luviya Serlinta returned home to find Bai Yue using her bathroom and borrowing her yukata, then teased him by claiming she had already used a Holy Sword. He challenged her to prove she was still pure, and the chapter left Luviya wondering whether his disappointment meant he cared for her romantically.

• Medea warned Bai Yue not to break his promise, and he prepared to let the women learn more about one another by watching footage of his deeds.
• Luviya Serlinta arrived at her mansion with a newly shipped sports car and suspected an intruder after Rider sensed someone inside.
• Luviya and Medusa found Bai Yue leaving the bathroom naked, and Luviya chased him to her room as he put on her yukata.
• Bai Yue asked whether Luviya had used a Holy Sword, and she falsely claimed she had before admitting she was joking.
• Bai Yue demanded proof that Luviya was still pure, and his disappointed reaction made her wonder whether he had feelings for her.

Luviya Serlinta challenged Bai Yue to prove his sincerity by drinking fluid from her scabbard, but his willingness to do so left her scrambling to avoid providing it. The chapter ended with Bai Yue suspecting she planned to substitute a fake and insisting she release the fluid in front of him.

• Luviya Serlinta demanded that Bai Yue inspect her, but he instead admired Medusa's Mystic Eyes and gave her glasses that suppressed their power.
• Luviya Serlinta punched Bai Yue, and Medusa restrained him with Chains of Heaven after Luviya realized he had been teasing her.
• Bai Yue said he would do anything for Luviya except choose only her, so Luviya challenged him to drink the fluid stored in her scabbard as proof of his sincerity.
• Bai Yue agreed and urged Luviya to provide the fluid, causing her to panic and decide to find a substitute.
• Bai Yue caught Luviya as she turned away and accused her of planning to use a fake, demanding that she release the fluid from her scabbard in front of him.

Bai Yue pressured Luviya Serlinta into exposing the scabbard so he could draw its fluid directly, while wagering that Medusa would purify his Holy Sword. Just as he appeared to begin, Medusa used her Noble Phantasm to trap him in a realistic dream, though Luviya feared he might be deceiving them instead.

• Medusa reminded Luviya Serlinta that a self-restriction clause could make Bai Yue consume the scabbard’s fluid in front of her, but he signed the contract without hesitation.
• Bai Yue wagered that Medusa would purify his Holy Sword if he dared to draw the fluid directly, and Medusa agreed on the condition that he was not bound by a contract.
• Bai Yue challenged Luviya to expose the scabbard, and she gave in and unequipped its cover so he could draw from it directly.
• Bai Yue told Medusa that purification meant tending his Holy Sword by hand, and Medusa agreed after learning what he meant.
• Medusa used her blindfold Noble Phantasm, Self-Seal: Dark Temple, to control Bai Yue’s consciousness and create a realistic dream as he approached the scabbard.
• Luviya worried that Bai Yue might be deceiving Medusa, recalling that he had once deceived an evil god’s consciousness.

Medusa tried to inspect Bai Yue’s mind with an illusion, but their contact let him recognize the deception and challenge her to a contest of Holy Sword Purification. The chapter ended as the real Medusa entered Bai Yue’s imagined world to accept the challenge.

• Medusa entered Bai Yue’s consciousness and found him imagining himself performing Holy Sword Purification on Luviya’s scabbard.
• Medusa absorbed Bai Yue’s unusually pure magical energy until Luviya pulled her back to reality and warned her of his power.
• Medusa discovered that Bai Yue’s imagined actions could affect her through their soul-level contact, and he revealed that he knew her world was an illusion.
• Bai Yue proposed a contest in which he would use only his mouth while Medusa could use any nonviolent method, with the first to cause a descent winning.
• Bai Yue wagered that the loser would mix the resulting substance into rice, and the real Medusa appeared in his imagined world.

Bai Yue and Medusa held a contest inside a shared dream, with Luviya Serlinta joining after discovering what was happening. The contest ended in a draw, and Bai Yue left Luviya wondering whether the bizarre dream had been shared by all three of them.

• Bai Yue and Medusa created dolls that shared their senses and compressed their contest into a few seconds in the outside world.
• Luviya Serlinta entered Medusa's dream through her eyepatch and learned that Bai Yue and Medusa were competing to see whose scabbard reached its limit first.
• Bai Yue invited Luviya to join Medusa, and Luviya accepted, creating another Holy Sword and scabbard for the contest.
• Bai Yue used a Thorn Attack on Luviya, disrupting her focus as the contest continued.
• Luviya and Medusa returned to reality, where the contest had ended in a draw and Bai Yue told Luviya to prepare lunch.

Luviya Serlinta, Medusa, and their companion ended their dream contest by sharing a bizarre lunch made with substances from the scabbard and holy sword. Afterward, Medusa revealed that she wanted to become smaller and cuter because she felt people avoided her striking appearance.

• Luviya Serlinta learned that the contest had ended in a draw, so both she and Medusa had to add their substances to rice.
• Medusa lifted the seal on their senses, and Luviya woke after the accumulated sensations overwhelmed her.
• Their companion showed Luviya a mirror recording of the collection, tasted both glasses, and described Luviya’s as violet-flavored and Medusa’s as like a blood-red rose.
• Medusa and Luviya poured the remaining substance over their rice and ate the unusual meal.
• Their companion asked why Medusa still wore her blindfold, and Medusa admitted she felt people preferred small, cute figures and avoided her when she looked at them.
• Medusa said becoming small and cute was part of the wish she had brought to the Holy Grail War.

Bai Yue explained that Medusa’s beauty, rather than her height, made people shy around her, then kissed her and angered Luviya Serlinta. After Luviya resolved to confront Tohsaka Rin, the story shifted to Lainas, who learned the new matches would pit every Servant against the other six and reunited with the man who had returned after ten years.

• Bai Yue told Medusa that men were intimidated by her beauty and that women were jealous of her appearance, while Luviya Serlinta blamed Medusa’s gloomy manner as well.
• Bai Yue put glasses on Medusa, kissed her without asking, and apologized after Luviya Serlinta pulled them apart.
• Bai Yue silenced Luviya Serlinta and exploited her weakness, leaving her furious when he slipped away; she looked forward to meeting her rival Tohsaka Rin for afternoon tea.
• Lainas recovered from the Queen’s reckless test drive, which destroyed their car, and read the announcement for a six-match contest among the Servants where killing was allowed.
• A man from Lainas’s past joined her and the Queen at their table, and Lainas mocked him for returning after ten years while noticing other women’s scents on him.

Scathach challenged Bai Yue to a fight after recognizing him as an opponent who could fulfill her wish for death. He restored the Land of Shadows and revealed his overwhelming power, leaving Scathach shaken by how little her strongest attack affected him.

• Bai Yue wiped cream from Lainas' mouth as Scathach sensed no danger from him and decided to challenge him to a battle to the death.
• After afternoon tea, Bai Yue transported Scathach and Lainas to the wilderness and restored the Land of Shadows, allowing Scathach to descend in her true form.
• Scathach prepared to fight with her full strength and realized Bai Yue's main body ruled the world and the Root Vortex.
• Scathach unleashed an all-out strike that shattered the Land of Shadows, and Lainas was swept back to the wilderness unharmed.
• Scathach recovered from the attack and admitted that her strongest strike had barely affected Bai Yue.

After erasing the record of Scathach's death, the man challenged her to a duel with equal attributes, and their battle escalated into a brutal contest of endurance and will. The duel ended in an unexpected intimate entanglement, leaving Lainas stunned as the outcome remained unresolved.

• The man explained that he had erased the record of killing Scathach and proposed a fair duel using power equal to hers.
• Scathach and the man fought at superspeed with spears, inflicting severe wounds on each other as Lainas watched.
• After their weapons shattered, they continued fighting with punches, kicks, and headbutts until they could barely move.
• The man kissed Scathach, and she tried to attack his exposed Holy Sword, but he locked their legs together to prevent her.
• Scathach and the man agreed to let the Holy Sword and its sheath decide the duel through sensation, and their sudden, forceful connection left Lainas dumbfounded.

Lainas watched Scathach and the holy sword’s wielder turn their deadly fight into a contest of endurance, with repeated stress reactions deciding who could strike while the other was vulnerable. Scathach ultimately declared him the winner, but her defeat gave her a new goal: to grow stronger and challenge the powerful beings in other worlds.

• Lainas used Magic to listen as Scathach and the holy sword’s wielder continued their duel through the Holy Sword Purification Ritual.
• Scathach and the wielder repeatedly suffered stress reactions at nearly the same time, turning several rounds into draws.
• Lainas accidentally touched the sheath and experienced an involuntary reaction herself.
• The sheath weakened during a later clash, and Scathach fell into a near-fainting state while the holy sword continued attacking.
• Scathach declared that the wielder had won, then resolved to pursue greater strength and challenge the powerful beings he had told her about.

Lainas agreed to undergo the Holy Sword Purification Ritual so she could receive information about another world and gain an advantage in the Holy Grail War contest. The ritual ended with him deliberately using her secondary scabbard, and Lainas asked whether the other participants had experienced the same thing.

• He told Lainas that Scathach had enough magical energy to recover, while Scathach slept and reviewed information about the Hakone World.
• He said Lainas needed to undergo the Holy Sword Purification Ritual to receive his memories, and that experience would help in a Holy Grail War contest.
• Lainas reluctantly agreed, and he began with the Tai Chi Combination Ritual, inspecting her secondary scabbard and transferring material from the true scabbard into it.
• When the formal purification began, he used the secondary scabbard instead of the true one, and Lainas realized he had intended to do so.
• Lainas asked whether the other Holy Grail War participants had also used the wrong scabbard.

Bai Yue performed Holy Sword Purification rituals with Lainas’s secondary scabbard and discovered that she felt pleasure when the ritual’s residue spilled out. The chapter ended as Bai Yue and Lainas prepared to perform the true ritual with both her primary and secondary scabbards at once.

• Lainas questioned Bai Yue about the Holy Sword Purification Ritual, but he refused to explain its details.
• Bai Yue used the Mechanical Holy Body to create a Holy Sword and carrier, then performed the ritual with Lainas’s secondary scabbard.
• Bai Yue repeated the ritual, and Lainas forced them apart, causing the accumulated residue to spill out.
• Bai Yue realized that Lainas felt pleasure when the residue escaped, but she denied it and refused his offer to test her reaction again.
• Bai Yue stopped pressing Lainas, and they prepared to activate both scabbards for the true purification ritual.

After enduring a Holy Sword Purification Ritual, Lainas destroyed the recordings of her loss of control and received limited access to an information library. The next day, Mordred became excited about the Holy Grail War’s announced matches and a mysterious ticket that could take her to other worlds.

• Lainas underwent a purification ritual with both the primary and secondary scabbards, and the combined effects overwhelmed her self-control.
• The ritualist recorded Lainas’s reaction to the secondary scabbard’s release, prompting her to destroy the crystal ball and camera once she regained her senses.
• Lainas learned that the ritual had given her a time-limited hourglass granting access to an information library, and that two other contestants had also undergone purification.
• Lainas suspected Kallen Olsy and either Tohsaka Sakura or Asagami Fujino were the other participants, then planned to enter the library through a dream.
• Mordred welcomed the announced Holy Grail War matches and eagerly anticipated a mysterious ticket to worlds featuring Asura Gods, Buddhas, and Gift Games.

Illya’s mother caught her sneaking in to watch the Holy Sword purification ritual and teased her into plainly stating what she wanted to do. Mordred watched in stunned disbelief as Artoria behaved affectionately and playfully, leaving her unsure whether the scene was an illusion or her father’s true self.

• Illya crept toward her mother’s room, where Bai Yue and Alice were performing the purification ritual, and Mordred followed her to the doorway.
• Illya and Mordred accidentally pushed the door open and tumbled into the room, startling Artoria and Alice.
• Artoria carried Illya to the Altar and teased her about repeatedly watching the ritual, then invited her to participate.
• Artoria removed the seal around Illya’s scabbard and urged her to say explicitly what she wanted.
• Illya stammered out the improper words describing the act she wanted, while Mordred watched in shock and questioned whether Artoria’s behavior was an illusion.