Recaps

Ryougi Shiki learned that her hidden original personality created her and Ori to confront a world she found boring, and she sensed that personality’s love through her feelings for Touko. The next night, Altrouge and her entourage visited Kuonji Alice’s mansion, where Touko tried to ease the tense gathering before the room fell silent.

• Aozaki Touko told Ryougi Shiki that her original personality created her and Ori to deal with a boring outside world, and that she could foresee the future.
• Ryougi Shiki learned that Ori had died in a car accident and that she had awakened an ability after her coma; Touko explained that Shiki and Ori reflected one another while their original personality occupied the space between them.
• After Touko kissed her forehead, Ryougi Shiki sensed the hidden personality’s love in her own feelings and greeted Touko as SHIKI.
• The next night, Altrouge, the Black and White Knights, and the Primate Killer arrived at Kuonji Alice’s mansion, putting Alice on guard until Touko reassured her.
• Most of the guests sat apart from Touko, Alice, Altrouge, and Irisviel, while Lidell quietly warned that Altrouge was only gentle toward Touko.
• The lively gathering fell into silence as the guests faced one another around the tea table.

Irisviel introduced a truth-checking game that exposed Aozaki Touko’s feelings and let Kuonji Alice question Altrouge about her plans for humanity. The game ended with Altrouge admitting she would not launch a world conquest under the Dead Apostles’ current strength, and everyone prepared for another round.

• Irisviel proposed a game using Kuonji Alice’s truth-verifying Magecraft device, and the four participants drew colored balls to choose who asked questions.
• Irisviel asked Altrouge how many people’s blood she had drunk, but Altrouge said she had never counted.
• Altrouge asked Aozaki Touko whether she preferred large or small breasts, and Tingting exposed Touko’s answer as a lie; Touko said she liked everything about Kuonji Alice.
• After the game reached its hundredth round, Kuonji Alice asked Altrouge how she would treat modern humans if she recovered and united the Dead Apostles.
• Altrouge claimed she would secretly control humanity and demand tribute, but Tingting called her statement a lie.
• Altrouge explained that the Dead Apostles lacked the strength to conquer the world and that expanding their numbers recklessly could disrupt the ecosystem, then the group prepared another round.

After a round of Truth or Dare revealed Azu’s extraordinary magical power and her affection for Touko’s younger body, Touko slept in before waking to prepare for her grandfather’s burial. She learned that Irisviel and Azu had reconciled through a private conversation, and the chapter ended as Irisviel brought breakfast.

• Altrouge asked Azu about her magical reach, and Azu said she could change the entire world if she wanted to.
• Touko asked Azu when she would inherit her Magic Crest, but Tingting changed its response after Azu threatened it with a glare.
• Azu asked how Touko would manage multiple wives living far apart, and Touko explained that she could exist in multiple places and times through different bodies.
• Azu embraced Touko’s younger body, while Altrouge asked to hold it and Touko refused.
• Illyasviel woke Touko and reminded her that she had to bury her grandfather that day.
• Altrouge told Touko that Irisviel had spoken privately with Azu during the night, and Irisviel brought breakfast as Azu helped her in the kitchen.

Aozaki Touko and Kuonji Alice prepared a guarded grave for Aozaki Grandfather, then Touko said farewell with her family before leaving for London. At the airport, Touko recognized Ryougi Ori and invited her to visit, while Ori remained uncertain about her future danger.

• Aozaki Touko and Kuonji Alice built a grave and surrounded it with bounded fields and defenses against grave robbers.
• Aozaki Aoko and her family arrived to pay their respects, and Kuonji Alice confirmed that Aozaki Grandfather's spiritual body had disappeared.
• Aozaki Touko departed for London after telling Ryougi Shiki to visit her if she had time.
• Aozaki Touko recognized that Ryougi Shiki was actually Ryougi Ori and said she could not predict whether Ori would die.
• Aozaki Touko invited Ryougi Ori to visit her in London and offered to pay her travel costs, meals, and lodging.
• Kiyomizu Akiryu and his men met Ryougi Ori at the airport and confirmed she was unharmed.

Aozaki Touko taught a Clock Tower class on substitutes for magical potions while an ancient magus sought her help to prolong his life. After class, she offered Lorona advice about researching the Philosopher’s Stone and invited her to talk further.

• An elderly magus in a wheelchair offered all his property for Touko to treat him, and Touko said she could extend his life by only two or three years before directing him to the infirmary.
• Touko taught a lesson on finding substitutes for extinct magical potions using materials compiled by Kuonji Alice.
• Lorona’s blond friend praised Touko and asked whether Lorona should persist in researching the Philosopher’s Stone, revealing that Lorona was the friend he meant.
• Lorona asked Touko for advice about the Philosopher’s Stone, and Touko suggested that the Atlas Institute’s Contract Order could help her access its completed Philosopher’s Stone.
• Touko invited Lorona to talk after class about her views on the Philosopher’s Stone, leaving Lorona nervously agreeing.

Aozaki Touko met the alchemy prodigy Lorona and considered recruiting her as an assistant, then met Inorai Balgeletta Atroholm, the Lord of the Department of Creation, who tried to draw her into the Democratic Faction. Touko rejected the value of factional politics, and Inorai ended by offering her the chance to obtain someone beautiful.

• Aozaki Touko spoke with Lorona at a café and considered taking her on as an assistant if she proved suitable.
• The blond boy urged Lorona to seek Touko's support, then jokingly suggested she seduce Touko; Lorona doubted Touko was interested in her.
• Inorai Balgeletta Atroholm met Aozaki Touko in her Clock Tower office and explained that Touko had become a symbol of the Democratic Faction.
• Aozaki Touko said she had no interest in factional struggles and explained that her research helped people speak calmly to her, even when she held a gun to their heads.
• Inorai described Touko's influence in the Clock Tower and asked about the rumors surrounding her preferences.
• Inorai asked whether Touko wanted to obtain someone even more beautiful.

Aozaki Touko considered Inorai’s offer of the Golden Princess and Silver Princess in exchange for helping the Izuluma Family with Android technology, while Inorai judged her value to an elderly visitor. In London, Aoyama Aohana and Emiya Kiritsugu awaited a mission and unexpectedly discussed having a child together.

• Inorai offered Aozaki Touko the Golden Princess and Silver Princess and proposed passing her techniques to children who could inherit the Izuluma Family’s Magic Crest.
• Aozaki Touko deferred her decision until she could see the next generation’s finished product, and she and Inorai reached a tacit agreement.
• After Aozaki Touko left, Inorai told an old man that she found Touko difficult to recruit but sensed she had the power to kill her.
• Aoyama Aohana and Emiya Kiritsugu waited outside a mansion in London for their boss’s summons and talked about keeping mission money to buy a house.
• Aoyama Aohana asked Emiya Kiritsugu if he would father her child, leaving him stunned.

Emiya Kiritsugu accepted Aozaki Touko’s job to find Christian antiques for money to support the children in his orphanages. Later, Lidell asked Touko about the ceremony for granting a Grand title, and Touko said it was held in Albion’s Mausoleum beneath the Clock Tower.

• Aozaki Touko offered Emiya Kiritsugu a paid job collecting old Christian artifacts, and he agreed to begin immediately.
• Emiya Kiritsugu proposed raiding the Vatican for relics, but abandoned the idea when Touko warned she would not protect him if he were exposed.
• Touko promised to donate one hundred million to charity, though she would not say whether it meant dollars or yen.
• Lidell showed Touko her new outfit and asked whether she was prettier than Azu, but Touko chose Azu.
• Lidell asked where the ceremony for granting a Grand title took place, and Touko identified Albion’s Mausoleum beneath the Clock Tower.

Aozaki Touko, Irisviel, Lidell, and Beo explored Albion's Mausoleum and reached its uppermost level, the Mining City, where dangerous dealings awaited newcomers. After Touko unnerved a predatory vendor, the group moved on and Lidell took photos of Touko and Irisviel.

• Lidell explained Albion's Mausoleum's significance and invited Irisviel to attend Touko's Grand ceremony, while Altrouge volunteered to go too.
• Touko carried Irisviel at high speed through the mausoleum, while Beo carried a terrified Lidell to the Mining City.
• Touko inspected a vendor's stall and accepted a purple herb after the frightened vendor offered it as a gift.
• Lidell left the vendor behind, and the narration revealed that he had considered robbing the newcomers and selling their blood and organs.
• Lidell photographed Touko and Irisviel together, directing them to move closer and put an arm around each other's waist.

Aozaki Touko toured the Excavation City with Irisviel, Beo, and Lidell before dining with Inorai, who discussed how they could travel deeper into Albion. A mysterious girl appeared to Touko as a phantom, and the chapter left Touko planning to reach the Old Heart through the Bureau of Secret Remains Dissection.

• Aozaki Touko and Irisviel posed for a travel photo while Beo intimidated onlookers and led the group toward a restaurant.
• Inorai met Aozaki Touko outside the restaurant and explained that the Bureau of Secret Remains Dissection suspected she had bypassed its entrance controls.
• Inorai invited the group to eat Chimera meat, and Aozaki Touko let her keep Beo's identity confidential.
• Aozaki Touko saw a phantom girl atop a tower, heard her greet Touko, and returned to herself when Irisviel touched her shoulder.
• Inorai asked which route Aozaki Touko would take to the Old Heart, and Touko chose to go through the Bureau of Secret Remains Dissection.

After becoming the first modern-era Counsellor Magician, Aozaki Touko said she planned to research how to prolong Earth's survival but kept her reasons secret. She then led Beo through the Clock Tower's Old Heart and prepared to punch through the floor in search of a white-haired, red-eyed woman.

• The Clock Tower Lords unanimously elevated Aozaki Touko to Counsellor Magician, and she invited them to a banquet three days later.
• McDonell asked Touko about her next research project, and she said she would focus on ensuring Earth's continued existence without revealing what she knew about the future.
• Inorai suggested that Touko had seen the same world as the Atlas Institute, and Touko gave an ambiguous reply.
• After the ceremony, Touko sent Irisviel back to the surface with Lidell and wandered through the Old Heart with Beo.
• Touko told Beo to retreat, covered herself in Runes, gathered magical energy into her fist, and struck the floor, unleashing violent winds through the passageways.

Aozaki Touko and Beo reached the Fae Realm, where they met Merlin, who claimed to know Touko from the future. Merlin warned Touko about Blood’s End and described seeing her burn to ashes in the flames of love, leaving Touko to launch a massive Rune spell.

• Beo was blasted through Albion’s passageway, and Touko dug her out before agreeing to find Chimera for her to eat.
• Touko and Beo entered the Fae Realm and met Merlin, who said she knew Touko from a past encounter with Touko’s future self.
• Merlin explained that someone had kicked her into this world line, where she had become a woman beside a female version of King Arthur.
• Merlin asked Touko whether she knew about Blood’s End and said Touko had taught her the term.
• Merlin said she had watched Touko burn to ashes in the flames of love, and Touko responded by spreading hundreds of thousands of Runes across the ground.

Aozaki Touko accepted Merlin’s warning after calculating the possible futures, while Merlin said she had contacted her because she found Touko in Albion. In Finland, Kirei Kotomine met a priest who described him as empty and urged him to find love, leaving Kirei considering the stranger’s words before his mission against a Dead Apostle.

• Aozaki Touko used the Third Stage Gene Lock to calculate disastrous possibilities, then accepted Merlin’s warning about desire exceeding one’s abilities.
• Merlin said she had contacted Touko because they were close to each other in Albion and she wanted to talk.
• Emiya Kiritsugu and Aoyama Aohana planned to steal Christianity-related items from a castle before its Dead Apostle owner left for an auction.
• The Rogue Priest borrowed a lighter from Kiritsugu and Aohana, then told Kirei Kotomine that the man in their van seemed like him but had found happiness.
• Kirei Kotomine questioned whether he was empty and whether the stranger was happy, then listened as the Rogue Priest advised him to fall in love.

In Albion's Mausoleum, Beo asked Aozaki Touko to teach her martial arts after deciding she was tired of being beaten, and Touko chose Baji Quan for her. Meanwhile, in Finland, a Dead Apostle was cornered outside his castle as two thieves and two Executors converged, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Beo and Aozaki Touko returned to Albion's Mausoleum, where Beo defeated a Chimera and Touko stored its body in her Reality Marble.
• Beo told Aozaki Touko she wanted to learn martial arts so she would no longer be easily beaten, and Touko planned to find her a Baji Quan teacher.
• In Helsinki, a Dead Apostle fled two Executors toward his castle and found Che Guevara and Aoyama Aohana stealing his angel statue.
• The Rogue Priest offered Che Guevara and Aoyama Aohana a share of the Dead Apostle's treasures if they helped kill him, and Emiya Kiritsugu stopped the Apostle from reaching the castle with gunfire.
• Aoyama Aohana set down the statue after Che Guevara let go, while the Dead Apostle offered the thieves all his antiques in exchange for a clear path; Emiya Kiritsugu remained wary.

Emiya Kiritsugu asked Aozaki Touko to transfer money so he could divide the antiques recovered from a Dead Apostle among himself and two Executors. Touko agreed to send one hundred million, leaving Kiritsugu to settle the spoils with his companions.

• The Rogue Priest killed the nearly five-hundred-year-old Dead Apostle, then demanded a renegotiation of the spoils from Emiya Kiritsugu and Aoyama Aohana.
• Aoyama Aohana aimed her gun at the Rogue Priest, but he explained that he and Kirei Kotomine wanted a larger share because she had not joined the battle.
• Emiya Kiritsugu contacted Aozaki Touko with a rune-made device and asked her to transfer money for the division of the antiques.
• Aozaki Touko asked why Kiritsugu did not simply kill the two Executors, and he said they were difficult to deal with and there was no need.
• Emiya Kiritsugu requested one hundred million, and Aozaki Touko agreed to transfer it.

Kirei Kotomine asked Emiya Kiritsugu about the emptiness in his heart, and Kiritsugu advised him to seek an ordinary life or consult Aozaki Touko at a steep price. After the castle’s antiques were moved, Kiritsugu contacted Aozaki Touko to discuss Kirei’s condition.

• Kirei Kotomine followed Emiya Kiritsugu into the castle to ask how he had overcome his inner emptiness.
• Emiya Kiritsugu explained that his dream of becoming a Justice Partner had left him empty, while Aozaki Touko’s charity work had given him purpose at a punishing cost.
• Emiya Kiritsugu advised Kirei Kotomine to leave his Executor duties and pursue romance, but Kirei doubted that would solve his problem.
• Kirei Kotomine asked Emiya Kiritsugu to contact Aozaki Touko about treatment and agreed to pay her consultation fee.
• Emiya Kiritsugu, Aoyama Aohana, Kirei Kotomine, and Rogue Priest finished moving the antiques, and Emiya Kiritsugu contacted Aozaki Touko.

Aozaki Touko tested a treatment for Kirei Kotomine’s emotional deficiency by linking his emotions with Emiya Kiritsugu’s, allowing Kirei to experience happiness for the first time. The link left both men sharing each other’s emotional states for three months.

• Aozaki Touko offered to treat Kirei Kotomine’s condition for a fee of one billion dollars and explained that his emotional deficiency was likely innate.
• At the Rogue Priest’s request, Aozaki Touko demonstrated the treatment by inscribing patterns on Kirei Kotomine and Emiya Kiritsugu.
• Kiritsugu thought of the children at his orphanage, and Kirei felt happiness for the first time by sharing Kiritsugu’s emotion.
• Kirei and Kiritsugu sensed each other’s emotional states, including Kirei’s emptiness and Kiritsugu’s warmth.
• Aozaki Touko explained that their emotions were linked within three hundred meters and warned that the connection would last three months.

Aozaki Touko encouraged Emiya Kiritsugu and Kirei Kotomine to keep exploring their new bond, then spent the night teasing Altrouge before returning to the Clock Tower. There, she met an elderly patient and began a class while Lorona anxiously hoped to become her assistant.

• Aozaki Touko agreed to consider Kirei Kotomine's future daughter as payment, and Emiya Kiritsugu and Kirei Kotomine decided to stay together while the magecraft lasted.
• Aozaki Touko told Altrouge she wanted to obtain the Princess of the Moon, then joined her in bed and began touching her despite Altrouge's protests.
• Aozaki Touko went to the Clock Tower, where an elderly man arrived seeking treatment and she agreed to see him after class.
• Lorona nervously listened to Aozaki Touko's lecture, hoping to pass her test and become her assistant.
• A blond boy asked Lorona whether Aozaki Touko had looked at her when she entered the classroom.

Lorona waited at Citrus Private Hospital to show Touko the Gundam she had made and ask about becoming her assistant. While she waited, a golden-haired nurse explained how her family had sent her to serve Touko, and Touko arrived as the nurse teased her about liking rebellious women.

• Lorona recalled her hopes of becoming Touko's assistant and presented her Gundam research as a way to impress her.
• Touko told her students that the Mage's Association would distribute the Runes and offer them a fifty-percent discount to her students.
• Lorona followed Touko toward the infirmary, where Touko said she had wanted to discuss something with her.
• Lorona waited at Citrus Private Hospital and accepted a dinner brought by the golden-haired nurse.
• The nurse deduced that Lorona wanted to become Touko's assistant and told her that her family had given her to Touko as a servant.
• Touko arrived, began eating, and the nurse asked whether she liked rebellious women.

Lorona became Aozaki Touko’s assistant after showing her the Gundam she had built, and Touko explained that her research aimed to prevent Earth’s future decline into Steel Earth. Lorona wondered whether Touko could see the future and asked her to share what she knew about that possible fate.

• Aozaki Touko praised Lorona’s Gundam and invited her to become an assistant, which Lorona eagerly accepted.
• Touko told Lorona that she was researching ways to extend Earth’s life and prevent the future known as Steel Earth.
• Touko described a future in which Earth’s life force withered, civilization collapsed, and extraterrestrial UOs slaughtered the remaining humans.
• Lorona asked whether Touko could see the future, and Touko said she had some precognitive abilities but had not learned about Steel Earth through them.
• Lorona asked Touko to tell her what she knew about Steel Earth.

Aozaki Touko discussed ways to delay the future Steel Earth apocalypse with Altrouge, then attended a Clock Tower banquet where someone tried to drug her with a Love Potion. The chapter ended with Lidell asking what Touko had done about the offender.

• Touko accepted her mission to help delay the Steel Earth, while Altrouge asked how she planned to avert the apocalypse.
• Touko suggested replenishing Earth's vitality with energy from another planet and asked whether draining the Moon could help, angering Altrouge because Crimson Moon was her father.
• Touko and Lidell discussed a Clock Tower banquet where a magician tried to give Touko a Love Potion.
• Lidell offered to have the magician killed, but Touko refused, and Lidell asked what she had done instead.

Aozaki Touko discovered that her luck had dramatically improved and revealed that she was going to Fuyuki City to save a girl from a terrible fate. At the Tohsaka Household, she faced a frightened Tohsaka Tokiomi while his daughters watched from the doorway.

• Aozaki Touko guessed Lidell’s coin tosses correctly ten times and attributed her unusual luck to a mission to save the world.
• Aozaki Touko refused Lidell’s suggestion to eliminate Fuyuki’s magus families, saying she wanted to resolve a regret and save a girl from falling into the abyss.
• Aozaki Touko arrived at the Tohsaka Household as Einzbern’s representative in the Holy Grail War.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi tried to compose himself as Aozaki Touko assured him she had no intention of killing him for now.
• Tohsaka Rin and her sister watched from the doorway, and Rin realized that her father feared the seemingly gentle Aozaki Touko.

Aozaki Touko visited the Tohsaka household and revealed that she had come to change Sakura’s tragic future. After Sakura agreed to see what awaited her, Touko sent her into a dream that began with Sakura awakening in a dark cellar among crawling insects.

• Aozaki Touko asked Tohsaka Tokiomi for his daughters’ names, and he introduced Tohsaka Rin and Tohsaka Sakura.
• Rin tried to protect Sakura, but Tokiomi told Sakura to go to Touko; Touko invited both sisters over and examined them.
• Touko held Sakura and reassured her, then said she had come to save Sakura from a pitiful future.
• Sakura asked to see her future, and Tokiomi supported her decision despite Touko warning that the vision might be frightening.
• Touko drew a rune on Sakura’s brow, putting her to sleep, and Sakura awoke in a cold, dark cellar surrounded by insects.

Aozaki Touko told Tohsaka Tokiomi that the Holy Grail had been corrupted by All the World's Evil and proposed a ritual to eliminate it, requiring the Tohsaka and Matou households to fund the preparations. She then offered Tokiomi a contract selling the Tohsaka Household priority to enter the Root, leaving him to weigh the enormous debt against his family’s future.

• Aozaki Touko warned Tohsaka Tokiomi that the Holy Grail contained All the World's Evil and offered to show him the Greater Holy Grail.
• Touko asked the Tohsaka Household to establish a ritual foundation and gave Tokiomi a list of costly materials needed to purify the corruption.
• Tokiomi agreed to fund the ritual after Touko said he could split the expense with the Matou Household or borrow the money from her under threat of asset seizure.
• Touko offered Tokiomi a contract granting the Tohsaka Household priority to enter the Root in exchange for three hundred billion dollars.
• Tokiomi saw that the debt would fall to Rin if he died, while Touko said he could not know whether he would retain his sense of self after touching the Root.

Aozaki Touko forced Tohsaka Tokiomi to consider signing a contract that would place the Tohsaka family under her control in exchange for a chance to reach the Root. As Touko took Rin and Sakura to inspect Ryuudou Temple, Sakura revealed a dream of a future that Touko said would not come to pass.

• Aozaki Touko explained that she controlled the Lesser Grail and that Tokiomi could not reach the Root without accepting her terms, so he asked to review information about the Greater Holy Grail before deciding.
• Touko agreed to stay in Fuyuki for two days and said she would inspect the Grail and kill Matou Zouken.
• Sakura insisted on accompanying Touko, and Tokiomi agreed after Touko promised to protect her.
• Sakura said a dream had shown her becoming Touko's subordinate, while Touko denied giving her that information.
• On the way to Ryuudou Temple, Sakura described a dream of black buildings, a bodhisattva-like woman beside Touko, and an uncle; Touko recognized it as a false future and told Sakura not to take it seriously.