Chapter Summaries

After Assassin revealed that Tohsaka Tokiomi had signed a contract involving Sakura, Aoi considered wishing for her family to live peacefully, while Rin resolved to confront her father. At Fuyuki Church, Gilgamesh told Kotomine Kirei that he desired pleasure, leaving Kirei to deny understanding.

• Assassin revealed that Tohsaka Tokiomi had signed the contract involving Sakura, then vanished after cutting himself.
• Sakura confirmed that she had seen her father sign the document, and Aoi entered and apologized to her daughters.
• Archer proposed that Aoi use the Holy Grail to wish for her family to live an ordinary life, but Rin said she would ask Tokiomi herself and make him give up his ambitions if necessary.
• Kirei reported Assassin's disclosures to Tokiomi, who reacted with excitement at learning that both daughters had Servants.
• Kirei wondered what his interest in causing trouble brought him, and Gilgamesh answered that it was pleasure.

Kotomine Kirei accepted his true nature and learned the truth of the Holy Grail War from him, while Gilgamesh considered finding a compatible Master. Elsewhere, Artoria dreamed of fighting Zeus in Ragnarok before waking beside a silver-haired woman, and Alice teased her about Yue and the Taiji Ritual.

• Gilgamesh showed Kotomine Kirei his delighted reflection, prompting Kirei to accept his true nature.
• Kotomine Kirei told Gilgamesh the truth about the Holy Grail War, and Gilgamesh decided to find a compatible Master and arrange for Assassin.
• Kayneth celebrated the return of his Command Spells and prepared to summon a new Caster.
• Artoria dreamed of witnessing a Ragnarok battle between Zeus and Arthur Pendragon, then woke beside a silver-haired woman before Alice teased her about Yue and the Taiji Ritual.

Jeanne summoned the Holy Grail War participants and suspended the war to organize a hunt for Gilles de Rais, the Red Faction Caster, whose renewed crimes threatened an entire city. She offered Command Spells as rewards for helping subjugate him, while the assembled Servants prepared to act.

• Jeanne awoke, sensed that Caster had been summoned again, and decided the participants had to find and destroy Gilles de Rais before he could commit further atrocities.
• Jeanne called the participants to her and offered her Command Spells as rewards for their cooperation.
• Iskandar and Webber joined the gathering, where Servants and familiars from both factions assembled and Webber noticed the Black Faction Rider's aura resembled a mass of vengeful spirits.
• Jeanne suspended the Holy Grail War and commissioned everyone to subjugate Gilles de Rais after explaining that he had continued murdering children and summoned a dangerous creature.
• Jeanne offered to waive one Command Spell spent in a one-on-one fight and promised an additional Command Spell to as many as three successful subjugators, with different compensation for the Black Faction.

Jeanne searched for Gilles de Rais while Bai Yue tried to comfort her and teased her with an intimate request. Tohsaka Tokiomi prepared to hunt Caster and learned that Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald was Carter's summoner.

• Jeanne blamed herself for the children Gilles had harmed, but Bai Yue explained that Gilles had modified them before his escape and asked Jeanne to reward him with another taste of their earlier intimacy.
• Jeanne used holy water to project a map of nearby Servants and concluded that Gilles was somewhere within the marked region, beyond her search range.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi decided to eliminate Caster to protect the secrecy of Magic and obtain another Command Spell, while planning to keep the reward from his allies.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi worried that Rin would stay out of the hunt but that Sakura might order Berserker to interfere.
• Kotomine Kirei reported that Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald was Carter's summoner.

Tohsaka Tokiomi ordered Kotomine Kirei to find Caster, while Kirei secretly planned to break free of his teacher. As the search continued, Bai Yue met Shiki and Fujino at a café and revealed that he believed Caster was hiding somewhere off land.

• Tohsaka Tokiomi learned that Kayneth and Kotomine Risei were missing and asked Kotomine Kirei to locate Caster.
• Kotomine Kirei assured Tohsaka Tokiomi he would search, while privately resolving to free himself from his teacher.
• Bai Yue, Artoria, Irisviel, and Illya searched a shopping mall, where Irisviel used Magic to check for signs of Caster.
• Shiki learned that Ryunosuke Uryu had died and that Bluebeard had been summoned again, prompting a widespread search.
• Bai Yue met Shiki and Fujino at a café, and Shiki questioned him about why he was not searching for Caster.
• Bai Yue said he already had a rough idea where Caster was and believed he was probably not on land.

Bai Yue traced Bluebeard to a sea lair, while Bluebeard and Kayneth prepared a forbidden ritual and learned Jeanne had marked them as targets. Back at the hotel, Bai Yue resumed teasing Shiki as he tried to purify her urge to kill, and Shiki awkwardly agreed to his outrageous idea involving both Shikis.

• Bai Yue concluded that Bluebeard was hiding at sea and kissed Shiki to absorb her accumulated negative emotions.
• Bluebeard and Kayneth prepared a ritual on a living reef island, with Kayneth studying a grimoire and planning to bind himself to Sola.
• A familiar informed Bluebeard that Jeanne had ordered his elimination, and whispers from an abnormal presence excited and distorted him and Kayneth.
• Shiki returned to the hotel after failing to catch Matou Zouken, while Asagami Fujino went to hunt him down.
• Bai Yue approached Shiki to continue purifying her negative emotions and privately proposed an outrageous way to tease her.
• Shiki objected that Bai Yue's idea would embarrass her too, then awkwardly admitted that she might agree.

Ori and Bai Yue carried out their plan to shock Shiki by beginning the Tai Chi Combination Ritual while Ori controlled their shared body. Shiki regained control midway through and, after enduring the ritual, asked Ori what Holy Sword Purification involved.

• Ori agreed to let Bai Yue begin the Tai Chi Combination Ritual, intending to hand control back to Shiki partway through.
• Bai Yue carried Ori to the bed and began the ritual as Shiki sensed unusually intense emotions from inside their body.
• Ori withdrew, and Shiki regained control and saw what Bai Yue was doing, leaving her shocked and unable to move.
• Shiki cursed Ori for helping Bai Yue, while Ori teased her and insisted she could resist if she truly wanted to.
• After Bai Yue did something Shiki found even more outrageous, she asked Ori what Holy Sword Purification was and how it worked.
• Ori explained the truth behind the ritual and asked Shiki if she would help.

Shiki punished Ori after completing his purification ritual, then realized Asagami Fujino had overheard the commotion. At dusk, Artoria recognized the wine Ori had Alice pour for him as a product of the earlier ritual, while Jeanne worried that Gilles would act after nightfall.

• Shiki locked Ori away, then stabbed him after he stopped the ritual and threatened him against repeating it.
• Shiki noticed Asagami Fujino had come out of the bathroom and likely overheard what had happened.
• Artoria rode a ferris wheel with Illya and watched Ori and Alice sharing a cabin nearby.
• At dinner, Artoria poured Ori a thick, clear drink and recognized its familiar scent and his intoxicated expression from the Tai Chi ritual.
• Jeanne grew anxious that Gilles or his summoned creatures would move once night fell, while her body reminded her that it was hungry.

Jeanne ate with Mr. Bai before agreeing to help lure Gilles out by kissing him during a livestream. Meanwhile, Tohsaka Tokiomi and Kotomine Kirei prepared to deploy the Assassins against three Red Faction Masters once Caster was confirmed dead.

• Mr. Bai told Jeanne that Gilles was at sea and said he had a way to force him to appear.
• Jeanne tried burgers and sauces with Mr. Bai, then learned his honey sauce was made with her magical energy.
• Mr. Bai proposed provoking Gilles by having Jeanne throw herself into his arms and share a French kiss with him.
• Jeanne agreed to the plan, and Mr. Bai gave her a bottle of his sauce to hold in her mouth and feed to him.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi and Kotomine Kirei discussed their plan to launch Assassin attacks on three Red Faction Masters after Caster's death was confirmed.

Tohsaka Tokiomi considered the risks facing his talented daughters while the factions learned that Jeanne was heading to the harbor. Gilles de Rais saw a Black Knight kiss Jeanne in a crystal ball and ordered the living island and its flesh mass to advance.

• Tohsaka Tokiomi reasoned that Rin would win if they ever faced each other, while his choice to send Sakura to the Matou family had spared her from becoming a specimen.
• Kotomine Kirei told Tohsaka Tokiomi that Jeanne had been spotted moving toward the harbor, where Caster of the Black Faction was preparing something.
• Jeanne drank the liquid Bai Yue had prepared, and the Black Knight appeared before her and kissed her.
• Gilles de Rais discovered a crow familiar near the island, but stopped attacking it when it mentioned Jeanne and dropped a crystal ball for him.
• Gilles saw the Black Knight kiss Jeanne in the crystal ball, crushed it in fury, and ordered the living island to advance.

Assassin of the Black Faction provoked Bluebeard by attacking Jeanne, drawing the factions toward the harbor to confront him. A gigantic alien entity emerged from the sea and began mentally contaminating observers as it expelled an egg, leaving the gathered forces facing an urgent threat.

• Assassin kissed Jeanne to provoke Bluebeard, then went to the shore as Jeanne sensed Gil's furious burst of Magic.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi reasoned that the Black Faction had lured Bluebeard out and persuaded the Hero King to act without using a Command Spell.
• Artoria and Alice raced to the harbor, where they saw Jeanne and prepared for the approaching Magic.
• A colossal alien mass rose from the sea and began expelling an egg, prompting observers to realize they had to destroy it.
• Irisviel recognized the entity's mental contamination, and a nearby observer gouged out his eyes before collapsing and transforming.
• A flame reduced the transformed observer to ashes.

As the alien creature unleashed swarms of monsters toward Fuyuki, Artoria and the other Saber prepared to destroy them with their ultimate attacks. Their combined blasts wiped out the flying and sea-bound creatures and struck the mother creature, while Tohsaka Tokiomi held back from ordering Gilgamesh to reveal his trump card.

• Irisviel told Artoria that the alien creature could not be controlled and had come to feed, threatening to consume Fuyuki City.
• The mother creature split open and sent flying monsters toward the group while others raced through the sea.
• Artoria agreed to handle the flying creatures as the other Saber took Illya and prepared to attack the sea-bound swarm.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi considered ordering Gilgamesh to use his trump card but decided to watch the two Sabers first.
• Red Berserker charged toward the Sabers, but Black Berserker knocked him aside as Jeanne prepared to use a Command Spell.
• The two Sabers released their golden swords' power, sweeping away the monsters and striking the mother creature with converging torrents of light.

As Caster and Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald began opening a gate for a terrifying being from another world, the magi realized that magical attacks would only help it descend. Iskandar launched Assassin toward the monster, but the creature’s focused mental attack stopped him just short of its head.

• The radiant light destroyed most of the demonic monsters, but Caster and Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald emerged fused together and began regenerating into an octopus-like creature.
• Irisviel realized Caster was widening a gate for a being from another world, and Bai Yue warned that magical attacks would strengthen the gate.
• Golden Flash bombarded the monster with Noble Phantasms while Bai Yue intercepted his attacks and Assassin moved to kill Bluebeard.
• Iskandar carried Assassin closer in his chariot, then swung him through the air toward the monster as his young Master could no longer endure the mental contamination.
• Assassin cut through the monster’s tentacles, raced across the sea, and ran along its arm while resisting its attacks and corrosive mist.
• The monster opened six eyes and stopped Assassin with a focused mental attack, while Iskandar entered his Reality Marble and diverted the contamination from his Master to one of his divine bulls.

As mental contamination drove the Archers into a violent clash at the port, Assassin of the Black Faction offered Matou Kariya a loophole to attack Tohsaka Tokiomi himself. Kariya confronted Tokiomi at the Tohsaka mansion and attacked with his insect swarm, but Tokiomi’s flames began burning it away.

• At the port, Jeanne found that the monster’s mental contamination was driving the Archers toward madness, while Command Spells had little effect near the creature.
• Matou Kariya left the battle with Berserker and learned from Assassin of the Black Faction that the contract with Matou Zouken might not prevent Kariya from attacking Tohsaka Tokiomi personally.
• Matou Kariya headed for the Tohsaka mansion, reasoning that Berserker could break its barrier without directly attacking Tohsaka Tokiomi.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi sensed Kariya’s approach and watched as Berserker destroyed the mansion’s barrier before stopping.
• Matou Kariya confronted Tohsaka Tokiomi in the courtyard and sent a swarm of insects against him, but Tokiomi’s flames ignited the swarm and rapidly reduced it to ash.

Tohsaka Tokiomi defeated Matou Kariya, but Kotomine Kirei betrayed him and killed him, then attempted to contract with Gilgamesh. Matou Zouken seized the contract through Matou Kariya, leaving Gilgamesh furious and bound to Zouken instead.

• Tohsaka Tokiomi burned Matou Kariya’s insects and set him on fire, while a battle at sea ended with Caster and his Master dead and Assassin eliminated.
• Kotomine Kirei used two Command Spells to order Assassin to attack, then stabbed Tohsaka Tokiomi with the dagger Tokiomi had given him and placed it in Matou Kariya’s hand.
• Bai Yue recognized that Kotomine Kirei had killed Tohsaka Tokiomi and intended to become Gilgamesh’s Master, a result Bai Yue had deliberately allowed.
• As Kotomine Kirei formed a contract with Gilgamesh, Matou Zouken took control of Matou Kariya, used him to seize the connection, and transferred it from Kirei.
• Gilgamesh killed Matou Kariya, but realized the contract had transferred through him to Matou Zouken and cursed Kotomine Kirei for failing to secure it.

Matou Zouken seized control of the Hero King and Berserker, while Tohsaka Rin learned of her father's death, the corrupted Holy Grail, and the war's true purpose. At the Einzbern castle, Alice learned that Tohsaka Tokiomi, Kotomine Kirei, and Matou Kariya were dead, leaving the Red Faction severely weakened.

• Matou Zouken took control of the Hero King and his son's Berserker, while the enraged Hero King killed Kotomine Kirei.
• Tohsaka Rin preserved Tohsaka Tokiomi's body and read his instructions for protecting the Tohsaka Magic Crest.
• Archer told Tohsaka Rin that the Holy Grail was corrupted and that the war was really a ritual to open a path to the Root.
• Tohsaka Rin agreed to stop anyone from making a wish on the Holy Grail and decided to keep her father's death from Sakura and her mother for now.
• Alice received word that Tohsaka Tokiomi, Kotomine Kirei, and Matou Kariya had died, and Artoria realized that the Red Faction had lost half its Masters.

Artoria and Alice learned that Tohsaka Tokiomi and two other Red Faction Masters had died in a mutual killing, then joined a bizarre Taiji Ritual to purify Artoria’s Holy Sword. Jeanne discovered that the Holy Grail was polluted and reluctantly performed a similar ritual with Bai Yue, leaving both rituals completed and the Grail’s danger unresolved.

• Alice told Artoria and Irisviel that Tohsaka Tokiomi and the other two Masters had killed one another at the Tohsaka Family residence.
• Artoria reaffirmed that she would face her emotions, then joined Alice and Bai Yue in the Taiji Combination Ritual to purify her Holy Sword.
• Jeanne sensed that the Holy Grail had become evil after Gil’s defeat, and Bai Yue explained that pollution from the Greater Holy Grail was flowing into it.
• Jeanne accepted Bai Yue’s request for an absurd Taiji Ritual, believing they would return to the Throne of Heroes after the war and might never meet again.
• Jeanne extracted holy water while purifying a Holy Sword, and Artoria later finished the ritual with Alice and Bai Yue, exhausted.

Artoria, Alice, and Jeanne carried out increasingly intimate rituals intended to awaken Artoria’s emotions and purify a holy sword and mental contamination. As Artoria endured the final purification, her vision shifted to a devastated world where she saw a striking figure.

• Artoria recovered from the first ritual and, despite her confusion, followed instructions to collect and apply the substance produced by her scabbard, with Alice performing the ritual beside her.
• Jeanne feared losing her restraint during the extraction ritual, then agreed to produce holy water herself and apply it externally to cleanse his mental contamination.
• Jeanne objected to his request that she apply the holy water directly from its source, but accepted his further instructions to purify the holy sword afterward.
• Artoria and Alice pressed their scabbards against the holy sword and polished it between them, while Artoria struggled to endure the sensations and maintain her concentration.
• Artoria’s consciousness wavered, and her vision changed to a desolate, transformed world where she saw a striking figure.

While Artoria’s Holy Sword Purification Ritual showed her memories of a battle against Zeus, she lost control and her consciousness went blank. Meanwhile, Bai Yue rested with Fujino and Shiki, before Ori appeared to explore the meaning of the Tai Chi Combination Ritual, prompting Bai Yue to suggest something even more wicked.

• Artoria saw a memory of a battle in which a holy-sword wielder struck Zeus with a devastating attack, then lost control of the purification ritual as the vision continued.
• Bai Yue pulled Fujino into his lap, and she fell asleep while dreaming of memories from his past.
• Shiki threw daggers at Bai Yue when he teased her about the liquid he had extracted earlier, then closed her eyes to ignore him.
• Ori revealed that Shiki’s original personality had let her out so she could understand the Tai Chi Combination Ritual through Shiki.
• Bai Yue suggested carrying out a ritual even more wicked than the Tai Chi Combination Ritual, leaving Ori surprised.

Ori and Shiki took turns carrying out the SPA Ritual while the original personality revealed a story about someone who had divided his memories. Shiki took control to complete her half, leaving her flustered and angry at his provocative request.

• Ori punched him after he teased her about being shy, then stepped on him while scolding him in a Queen-like manner.
• Ori realized Shiki had awakened and was pretending to sleep, then began the SPA Ritual and called her out.
• The original personality told Shiki about a man who had split his memories into two parts and urged her to learn his story herself.
• Ori threatened Shiki with an even more excessive ritual and persuaded her to take over for the remaining half of the SPA Style.
• Shiki took control of the body, blushed at his request, and slapped him before continuing the ritual.