Recaps

Aozaki Touko returned to Einzbern Castle with Kohaku and Hisui, where the Androids and her companions welcomed her, and Hadon acknowledged her influence. Meanwhile, Ryougi Shiki wrestled with whether to seek Touko out, while Touko began building a puppet army for the sheer appeal of it.

• Marisbury Animusphere learned that Aozaki Touko was coming to the Clock Tower and saw her vast wealth as an opportunity to fund his research.
• Aozaki Touko returned to Einzbern Castle, where Beo, Irisviel, Illyasviel, and the Androids welcomed her.
• Aozaki Touko introduced Kohaku and Hisui as her new personal maids and asked Illyasviel to train them as head maid.
• Hadon observed the Androids' response to Touko and said he would hand Einzbern over to her if she won the Holy Grail War.
• Ryougi Shiki declined to seek out Touko for now, suspecting that doing so would make her feel like a puppet following someone else's plan.
• Aozaki Touko worked on wooden-and-metal combat puppets for her planned Hundred Puppet Maneuvers technique, inspired by the idea of looking cool in battle.

Aozaki Touko discussed the Holy Grail War and the Third Magic with Hadon, claiming she could reproduce the Third Magic through her own research even if she lost. She later talked with Irisviel about her mass-produced puppet designs, and the chapter ended at dawn outside Einzbern Castle.

• Aozaki Touko tested a wooden puppet and used her Reality Marble to begin replicating hundreds of puppets.
• Illyasviel told Aozaki Touko that Hadon wanted to speak with her, then cleaned the Magic Workshop.
• Hadon told Aozaki Touko he had found Avalon, and she wondered aloud whether King Arthur was a boy or a girl.
• Aozaki Touko said she had touched the edge of the Third Magic and believed she could reproduce it without the Greater Holy Grail.
• After Aozaki Touko left, Hadon asked his Android maids whether she could really complete the Third Magic herself.
• Aozaki Touko told Irisviel that her cheap mass-produced puppets were intended to wear enemies down through attrition.

Aozaki Touko and her family traveled to London, where Lidell welcomed them and offered to show them around. After introducing Irisviel as her wife, Touko left the crowded airport with Lidell, who questioned whether Beo was really her familiar.

• Aozaki Touko and Irisviel woke, prepared for their trip, and flew to London with Illyasviel, Beo, and the Miko Futago.
• Lidell waited at the airport and greeted Touko, then met Irisviel and learned she was Touko's wife.
• Lidell asked whether the three little girls were Touko and Irisviel's children, but Touko deflected the question as the crowd gathered around them.
• Lidell took Touko's group toward the Clock Tower and offered to show them the house she had chosen.
• Lidell doubted Beo was a strong familiar, so Touko suggested she experience Beo's aura.

Aozaki Touko comforted Lidell after Beo’s presence terrified her, then accepted Lidell’s offer of a place to stay and learned that Lidell valued her beyond her connection to the Fifth Magic. The next morning, Touko began teaching potion basics at the Clock Tower and declared confidence in reaching the Root without relying on the Fifth Magic.

• Beo revealed her dangerous presence, frightening Lidell until Aozaki Touko stopped her and comforted Lidell.
• Aozaki Touko and her companions arrived at Lidell’s mansion, where Lidell offered her a place to stay without charge.
• Aozaki Touko told Lidell that she was no longer the heir to the Fifth Magic and that Aoko was the true heir.
• Lidell said she wanted to invest in Touko herself and hurried inside to bathe and change.
• Aozaki Touko addressed a packed classroom at the Clock Tower as a lecturer and offered to teach basic potion knowledge.
• Aozaki Touko answered a monk’s question by saying she could reach the Root without relying on the Fifth Magic.

Aozaki Touko taught a lesson at the Clock Tower, where Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald proposed marriage and she refused him and all other men. After class, Mel-Lydele Archleot told the assembled students that Touko was already married, leaving them stunned and uncertain.

• A monk asked Aozaki Touko whether Dollcraft could reach the Root, and she said that anything taken to its extreme might do so.
• Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald introduced himself and proposed marrying Touko to produce gifted offspring, but she refused and said she would marry no man.
• Mel-Lydele Archleot pointed out that several people hoped to marry Touko, and Touko told them to focus on the lesson.
• Touko taught an accessible introductory lesson and deferred a student's question about doll object recognition until after class.
• After Touko left, Mel-Lydele Archleot announced that Touko was already married, prompting a young man to ask in surprise whether it was true.

Aozaki Touko returned to the Western Mansion and enjoyed a dinner Irisviel had secretly learned to cook, while the household nervously awaited her verdict. Later, Lidell asked Irisviel about how she and Touko became a couple, and Irisviel began explaining why Touko chose her.

• Mel-Lydele Archleot told the magi that Aozaki Touko had taken Irisviel von Einzbern as her wife, and the others dismissed the news as unimportant.
• Aozaki Touko returned home, embraced Irisviel, and welcomed her warmly.
• Irisviel served a dinner she had practiced making for Touko, who praised the soup and relieved the anxious household.
• Lidell and Irisviel admired the snowy moonlit scenery, where Irisviel confirmed she was an android.
• Irisviel explained that Touko had chosen her soon after she emerged from the cultivation tank, though Touko had played no part in her creation.
• Lidell asked whether Touko had ever explained why she chose Irisviel, and Irisviel had not yet answered.

Irisviel told Lidell that she loved Touko and hoped to have a child with her, while Lidell decided not to warn Azu about Touko's ambiguous relationship with her. Elsewhere, Kiritsugu and Aoyama Aohana escaped after robbing a Dead Apostle, and Sola watched Touko in the Clock Tower library as her friends criticized her.

• Irisviel said Touko's promise to make her human had deeply shaped her love, and she hoped to bear a child who could call her Mother and Touko Father.
• Lidell suspected Touko and Azu had an unusual relationship, but chose not to tell Azu because she feared causing trouble between them.
• Emiya Kiritsugu and Aoyama Aohana fled in a Hummer after stealing rune tablets and antiques from a Dead Apostle, then used a machine gun to repel his pursuit.
• Sola's friends complained that Touko had disrupted Sola's prospects with Kayneth, while Sola said the situation was due to the nature of mages, not Touko.

Sola approached Aozaki Touko in the library and explained that she disliked the fate of being married off to a suitable mage, not Kayneth himself. Touko encouraged her to judge Kayneth for herself and revealed that her wife was a real woman, leaving Sola surprised.

• After finishing her book, Aozaki Touko accepted Sola’s offer to guide her to books about Norse folklore.
• As they walked, Sola told Aozaki Touko that she was glad Kayneth had considered ending their marriage alliance.
• Sola explained that she hated the role Kayneth represented as a suitable marriage candidate and the fate her family had chosen for her.
• Aozaki Touko suggested that Sola set aside her prejudice and observe Kayneth’s character, describing him as devoted to love.
• Aozaki Touko told Sola that her wife was a real woman, not a doll brought from Einzbern as a shield.

Sola met Aozaki Touko and admired her independent way of life, while Touko offered cautious advice before leaving. Emiya Kiritsugu delivered rune-inscribed stone fragments to Touko’s workshop, where she teased him about his new reputation and then asked why he had killed his father.

• Sola told Aozaki Touko that she admired her freedom and wished she could live by her own will.
• Aozaki Touko advised Sola to judge reality rationally, while acknowledging that she could be willful if she was truly unhappy.
• Emiya Kiritsugu visited Touko’s workshop and delivered a broken tablet carved with rune runes.
• Touko teased Kiritsugu about being known as the master thief Che Guevara, and he said more runes would arrive later.
• Touko told Kiritsugu she had investigated his past and asked why he had personally killed his father.

Emiya Kiritsugu admitted he did not know how to save the world, and Aozaki Touko persuaded him to devote his money to charity. Three months later, Touko, Irisviel, and Beo went shopping in London, where Touko bought out a clothing store before suggesting coffee.

• Aozaki Touko challenged Emiya Kiritsugu to define how he would save the world, and he admitted he did not know.
• Aozaki Touko proposed using Kiritsugu's stolen wealth for charitable work, and he agreed to give her all his money.
• Emiya Kiritsugu left the workshop feeling both constrained by his debt to Touko and relieved to have a concrete purpose.
• Three months later, Aozaki Touko, Irisviel, and Beo visited a women's clothing store in London.
• Aozaki Touko told the salesgirl to pack all the clothes, then suggested that she and Irisviel go for coffee.

Aozaki Touko met Altrouge Brunestud, who asked the human genius to study and possibly treat her mysterious ailment. Touko remained unafraid and asked what compensation Altrouge would offer, leaving their negotiations unresolved.

• Altrouge Brunestud’s knight approached Aozaki Touko at a café, and Touko sent Beo and Irisviel back to the Clock Tower.
• Aozaki Touko and Altrouge tested each other’s strength while playfully scratching the White Beast beneath the table.
• Altrouge explained that she had sought Touko out because of rumors about her medical abilities and asked for help with an old ailment.
• Aozaki Touko warned that she might not be able to treat someone like Altrouge, but Altrouge agreed to let her examine her.
• Aozaki Touko asked what compensation Altrouge would pay, and Altrouge suggested that access to her body was already a reward.

Aozaki Touko agreed to treat Altrouge for one hundred billion dollars, keeping the arrangement secret until Altrouge recovered. After Altrouge left to gather money and research equipment, Touko reflected on an unusual perception she had experienced and headed home to Irisviel.

• Aozaki Touko told Altrouge she would treat her for one hundred billion dollars, with payment allowed in installments.
• Altrouge proposed raising the money by killing the White Winged Lord or borrowing from Vavylm, and Touko warned her to keep the treatment confidential.
• Aozaki Touko watched the meeting from a rooftop in a young spare body because Altrouge had brought the Primate Killer; the Touko in the café was a puppet.
• Altrouge left to obtain money and advanced research equipment, suspecting Touko might be using her connections to acquire it.
• Aozaki Touko considered the strange perspective she had gained while blurring her humanity and decided to investigate it, then went home to Irisviel.

Aozaki Touko accepted a desperate young man’s request to treat his dying mother, and a month later the woman awoke cured. Her son revealed that he had paid Touko with the entire family fortune, leaving his mother stunned.

• Aozaki Touko taught a crowded potion class at the Clock Tower, where students sought her help with their problems.
• Numata prostrated himself before Touko and begged her to save his dying mother, offering a case of gold.
• Touko agreed to examine Numata’s mother and warned that the treatment might cost enough to bankrupt his family.
• A monk reflected that Touko might save the world if someone could guide her, then left to seek such a person.
• A month later, Numata’s mother awoke in the Clock Tower hospital, and he told her that Touko had cured her illness.
• Numata admitted that he had paid Touko the entire family fortune, shocking his mother.

Aozaki Touko considered Marisbury Animusphere’s proposal to fund Chaldea while continuing to treat Altrouge with specially developed blood. After Altrouge woke from her healing sleep, she sensed Touko’s humanity growing more pronounced as Touko spoke of creating the perfect human.

• Aozaki Touko read Marisbury Animusphere’s proposal to establish Chaldea and questioned why he had chosen her as its sole prospective investor.
• Marisbury explained that Touko’s restraint and the Clock Tower aristocrats’ lack of available cash made her the best candidate.
• Aozaki Touko said she was interested in Human Order but would verify the proposal before agreeing.
• Altrouge drank Touko’s specially prepared blood for treatment, declared Touko her most precious treasure, and discussed her possessiveness and the possibility of Touko becoming a Dead Apostle.
• After waking from her healing sleep, Altrouge sensed that Touko’s blood had become increasingly human and wondered if Touko was connected to Lilith.
• Aozaki Touko said she had taken another step toward creating the perfect human.

White Beast transformed into human form at Irisviel’s invitation to join dinner, revealing herself as a Catgirl and prompting Irisviel’s delight. Altrouge introduced her pet and vassal as Bremeth, Primate Killer, who possessed absolute authority to kill humans.

• White Beast looked to Altrouge for permission, and Altrouge approved of her taking human form.
• White Beast transformed into a silver-haired girl with animal ears.
• Irisviel called White Beast a Catgirl and expressed excitement at seeing one in person.
• Altrouge introduced White Beast as Bremeth, her pet and vassal, and identified her as Primate Killer with absolute authority to kill humans.

Aozaki Touko spent time with Altrouge, Irisviel, and Bremeth, while Altrouge revealed her mature form to win Touko’s attention. On a stormy night, Aozaki Aoko joked with Yaya about becoming a high school girl and Yaya’s age as a doll.

• Aozaki Touko discussed Bremeth’s human-killing authority with Altrouge and Fina Blood Svel, while Irisviel shared soup with Bremeth.
• Aozaki Touko relaxed against Irisviel after dinner, and Bremeth’s White Beast sought Irisviel’s attention.
• Altrouge teased Aozaki Touko, then changed from her petite form into her mature appearance and invited Touko into her arms.
• Aozaki Aoko watched the rain and joked with Yaya about graduating and becoming a high school girl.
• Yaya claimed she felt bashful, and Aozaki Aoko pointed out that Yaya’s age as a doll made her a little girl.

Aozaki Aoko learned that her sister Touko had agreed to let her inherit the Aozaki Household’s Magic Crest and the Fifth Magic. Troubled by what the inheritance could mean for their relationship, Aoko left the house in the rain.

• Yaya told Aozaki Aoko that Touko had married Irisviel, and Aoko reacted with disbelief before dismissing Yaya’s marriage proposals.
• Aoko and Yaya watched a television report announcing that Aozaki Touko would accept the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• Aozaki Grandfather arrived and declared that Aoko would inherit the Aozaki Household’s Magic Crest, saying Touko had already agreed.
• Aoko worried that inheriting the Magic Crest could damage her bond with Touko and left the house with an umbrella.
• Aozaki Grandfather also left the Aozaki Household by an unknown means.

Aoko began inheriting the Aozaki Magic Crest while Aozaki Grandfather told her he would soon die, and Bunbyo Rei tried to persuade Yaya to stop the transfer. In London, Altrouge received blood treatment from Aozaki Touko, who later learned from a letter that Aoko was inheriting the Fifth Magic and her grandfather planned to die soon.

• Aozaki Grandfather ordered Aoko and Yaya to wait outside his workshop, then brought Aoko inside and told her Kuonji Alice would teach her after she inherited the Magic Crest.
• Aoko questioned whether Alice would teach her properly, and Aozaki Grandfather said he would die in about three days before beginning the transfer.
• Bunbyo Rei warned Yaya that the inheritance could drive Aozaki Touko and Aoko into conflict, but Yaya refused to stop Aoko and said Touko would resolve the problem.
• Altrouge drank Aozaki Touko's blood for treatment, locked the bedroom door when Irisviel came to call them to lunch, and fell asleep after feeding.
• Aozaki Touko read a letter reporting Aoko's inheritance of the Fifth Magic and Aozaki Grandfather's impending death, which surprised her.

Aozaki Touko decided to return to Japan after her grandfather’s death, and her household planned to accompany her. Meanwhile, at the Clock Tower, Lorona told a disappointed student that Touko would eventually return to receive the Grand title.

• Beo wondered whether Touko could extend Aozaki Grandfather’s life, but Touko admitted she did not know the Fifth Magic’s true nature.
• Touko agreed to return to Japan, and Irisviel, Altrouge, Illyasviel, Kohaku, Hisui, and Lidell all expressed a desire to go with her.
• Touko decided everyone would travel together and told Irisviel she wanted to wait until after the Holy Grail War to have a child.
• At the Clock Tower, a blond student complained to Lorona that Touko had gone back to Japan and might not return.
• Lorona said the Twelve Lords had decided to grant Touko the Grand title for reviving the Foundation of Magecraft for the Runes.

Aozaki Touko returned to Misaki City with Irisviel, Altrouge, and their companions, then visited her dying grandfather, the Fifth Magic User. She introduced her companions as family and friends, leaving Grandfather stunned when Illyasviel von Einzbern also claimed to be Touko’s wife.

• Aozaki Touko discussed the rumors about her inheritance of the Fifth Magic with classmates at the Clock Tower.
• Aozaki Touko and her companions explored Misaki City, where a Counter Guardian appeared before a mysterious woman made it vanish and said Shiki would soon visit her.
• Aozaki Touko brought Irisviel, Altrouge, and the knights to Grandfather’s cave, surprising him with the powerful group accompanying her.
• Aozaki Touko told Grandfather that she had brought her family and friends to see him.
• Illyasviel von Einzbern introduced herself to Grandfather as Touko’s wife, leaving him at a loss for words.

Aozaki Grandfather gave gifts to Touko and her companions, distributed his possessions, and calmly died before appearing once more as a spirit. After returning to the Aozaki Household, Touko introduced Illyasviel as her wife, shocking her parents and Aoko.

• Illyasviel accepted an elixir from Aozaki Grandfather, while Lidell tried to claim one as Touko’s future wife and Altrouge received an elixir meant to heal her old injuries.
• Aozaki Grandfather gave Touko a Mystic Code for Alice and offered Touko the Magic Workshop and the household’s spiritual veins, leaving Aoko only the Magic Crest to inherit.
• Aozaki Grandfather stopped breathing, then appeared as a spirit to request a simple burial and told Touko to leave his body in the Magic Workshop for a few days.
• Altrouge asked whether the Princess could turn Aozaki Grandfather into a Dead Apostle, but Touko said he had chosen to die; that night, his spirit watched the household before returning to the cave.
• Touko returned to the Aozaki Household and introduced Illyasviel as her wife, startling her parents and Aoko.
• Aozaki’s Mother asked what would happen to Azu.

Aozaki Touko and Aozaki Aoko discussed why Touko gave up inheriting the Fifth Magic, with Aoko pressing her sister to explain her choice. Touko said she had her own path and asked why Aoko had accepted the Magic Crest, leaving the sisters’ deeper reasons unresolved.

• Aozaki Touko quietly signaled Aozaki Aoko to keep Irisviel’s age secret while Irisviel told Aozaki Mom she was twenty.
• Aozaki Mom asked Altrouge her age, and Altrouge claimed she was fourteen before accepting praise for her beauty.
• After the household went to sleep, Aozaki Aoko found Touko waiting in the living room and asked why she had rejected the Magic Crest.
• Aozaki Touko said Aoko was better suited to inherit the Fifth Magic, but Aoko argued that using and developing the Magic were equally important.
• Aozaki Touko explained that the Fifth Magic was not her pursuit and asked why Aoko had accepted the Magic Crest.
• When Touko offered Aoko a carefree life with beautiful women, Aoko challenged her choice of companions, and Touko joked that handsome men would get beaten to death.

Aozaki Aoko and Aozaki Touko reconciled after Touko explained that she had given up the Fifth Magic because Aoko mattered more to her. The next day, the sisters set out to visit Azu, discussed the mysterious red figure and the Counter Guardian, and met a kimono-clad girl who asked if Touko was Aozaki Touko.

• Aoko admitted that she had accepted the Fifth Magic partly because she wanted to stand on equal footing with Touko, and Touko said Aoko was more precious to her than the Magic Crest.
• Touko comforted Aoko as she cried, then whispered something to her, and Aoko whispered back after blushing.
• The next morning, Aozaki Mom watched Touko and Aoko leave to visit Azu while Irisviel and Illyasviel helped her in the kitchen.
• On the road, Aoko told Touko that a red figure had appeared to her, and Touko explained that it was likely the Counter Guardian, formed from Alaya and Gaia.
• Touko said a little girl had helped drive the red figure away and pointed out a kimono-clad girl, who asked whether she was Aozaki Touko.

Aozaki Touko met Ryougi Shiki and brought her to the Kuzuki Western Mansion to discuss their mysterious encounter in the park. There, Shiki listened as Touko and Kuonji Alice discussed Touko’s grandfather’s death and her impending appointment as a Grand, while Touko left the park incident unexplained.

• Aozaki Touko met Ryougi Shiki at dawn, and Shiki demanded to know why they had met in the park; Touko said they needed somewhere more suitable to talk.
• Yanagi Akiryu tried to stop Touko from taking Shiki, but Shiki told him and the hidden guards to leave, and he obeyed after Touko promised not to hurt her.
• Touko led Shiki and Aozaki Aoko to the Kuzuki Western Mansion, where Kuonji Alice offered Shiki chocolate from Songs of Sixpence.
• Touko and Alice discussed Touko’s grandfather, who had died while talking with her the previous day, and the rumors that Touko might have killed him.
• Touko told Alice that she planned to return to London after the funeral because she was about to be crowned a Grand.

Aozaki Touko and Kuonji Alice discussed Touko’s wife, Irisviel, and the future child who could preserve Alice’s life and Magic Crest. Later, Ryougi Shiki asked Touko about the unknown personality who had met her in the park, and Touko arranged to speak with that personality.

• Kuonji Alice confronted Aozaki Touko about not bringing Irisviel to the Western Mansion, and Touko explained that she had been monitoring Misaki City with familiars.
• Aozaki Touko promised to bring Irisviel and the others to meet Kuonji Alice the next day, then made Alice breakfast and explained Irisviel’s role as the Lesser Grail.
• Kuonji Alice worried that having a child with Touko would bind her more closely to Touko, while Touko said she had already solved the problem of Irisviel dying after the Holy Grail War.
• Ryougi Shiki asked Aozaki Touko what had happened during their park meeting and who the unknown personality within her was.
• Aozaki Touko asked Shiki to let that personality come out and speak with her, and Shiki agreed.