Recaps

Matou Shinji and Matou Kariya watched the battle near Einzbern Castle while struggling with how Kariya could replenish his mana. After Aozaki Touko’s forces defeated the Magic Dolls, Arba sought a way to counter her, while Iskandar decided he wanted to visit Waver’s teacher.

• Matou Shinji urged Matou Kariya to use Berserker to exploit the battle, but Kariya lacked enough mana and left to deal with it.
• Beo destroyed the Magic Dolls attacking Einzbern Castle as Gilgamesh and Tohsaka Tokiomi watched from a flying ship.
• Aozaki Touko and Artoria concluded that the other factions had avoided attacking to keep their identities and abilities hidden, then called Beo back.
• Arba discussed Aozaki Touko’s strength with Avicebron, who proposed creating a powerful Magic Doll but required rare materials and extensive preparation.
• Iskandar asked Waver whether Aozaki Touko was his teacher and suggested that they visit her, leaving Waver trembling with alarm.

After the battle, Aozaki Touko confronted Waver and demanded two hundred million dollars as ransom if he lost the Holy Grail War. Waver relied on Iskandar’s encouragement to face the threat, then refused Touko’s invitation to lunch and prepared to leave.

• Gilgamesh watched Iskandar approach Touko’s group, then flew toward Fuyuki City to await the war’s outcome.
• Touko warned Waver that he needed to prepare for death, while Iskandar urged him to set aside his fear and face the battlefield.
• Touko promised not to kill her former student but demanded two hundred million dollars if he lost, threatening to make him work for her if he could not pay.
• Iskandar joked that victory could bring them ten billion dollars, but Waver doubted they could safely demand it from Touko.
• Touko invited Waver and Iskandar to lunch, and Waver refused, suspecting the invitation might be a trap.

Aozaki Touko rejected Iskandar’s offer to join his conquest, and the two accepted that their goals would make them enemies. Elsewhere, Gilgamesh left the Tohsaka residence with Tohsaka Tokiomi, while Emiya Kiritsugu and Kirei Kotomine watched Kayneth and Sola and planned their next move.

• Iskandar offered Aozaki Touko a place as his subject, but she refused and explained that she wanted to keep control of her own choices.
• Iskandar concluded that he and Touko were destined to become enemies, and Touko wished him well in reaching the sea at the end of his dreams.
• Gilgamesh decided to spare the two kings for now, then ordered Tohsaka Tokiomi to show him around the era.
• Emiya Kiritsugu and Kirei Kotomine watched Kayneth and Sola leave the hotel, then chose to investigate before targeting the Magecraft Furnace.

Sola harshly reprimanded Matou Shinji for trying to enter the dangerous world of magi, while Kayneth watched her fondly. Shinji knew the danger but clung to his dream of learning magecraft, and Sola saw that he still refused to leave.

• Sola continued scolding Matou Shinji and warned him that childish notions in the world of magi could get him killed and bring grief to his family.
• Matou Shinji stayed silent, knowing Sola was right about the twisted world of magi.
• Matou Shinji remembered his longing to cast spells, ignite flames, fly, and witness magecraft, and could not abandon that dream.
• Sola saw Shinji holding back tears but remaining stubbornly in his seat, then turned toward the street and spoke coldly.

Matou Shinji offered Kayneth an alliance against the Saber group, using Aozaki Touko’s destruction of the Matou Household as intelligence to support his proposal. Later, Touko and Artoria walked through Fuyuki while familiars tracked them, and Touko chose to let them watch so she could see the Heroic Spirits firsthand.

• Matou Shinji proposed that Kayneth’s group join forces to eliminate the Saber group and revealed that Aozaki Touko had destroyed the Matou Household and killed Matou Zouken.
• Kayneth judged Shinji’s account credible and sent him to bring out the hidden Master for formal alliance talks.
• Kayneth tried the shop’s special Mapo Tofu, suffered from its extreme spiciness, and watched Karen finish Sola’s bowl without trouble.
• At night, familiars from several factions spotted Aozaki Touko and Artoria walking through Fuyuki and reported their location to their masters.
• Artoria offered to clear away the familiars, but Touko let them observe so she could witness the Heroic Spirits in the war.

Aozaki Touko challenged Diarmuid to experience a Heroic Spirit’s power, then used the Doll Army and her rapid analysis to learn his spear technique. She wounded him in their first exchange, leaving Diarmuid impressed and Saber questioning her own usefulness.

• Touko told Saber to protect her while she faced Diarmuid, and Altrouge, Beo, and Irisviel watched from a nearby rooftop.
• Diarmuid cut through Touko’s Doll Army, while Touko studied his spear movements and claimed she was better at close combat.
• Touko took a puppet’s spear and fought Diarmuid, surprising Saber with her suddenly precise technique.
• Touko and Diarmuid’s spears clashed, and Touko wounded his cheek with a thrust based on the technique she had just learned.
• Diarmuid admired Touko’s talent and admitted he was beginning to feel reluctant to fight her, while Saber wondered what use she had as a Servant.

Aozaki Touko learned Diarmuid's spear techniques while fighting him, but both fighters suffered severe wounds before Touko used a kiss with Saber to heal herself through Avalon's power. Touko challenged Lancer to continue the fight, while Iskandar and Waver discussed the unexpected healing method.

• Matou Kariya ordered Berserker to attack Saber or cover Lancer's retreat after deciding Kayneth could not be consulted.
• Aozaki Touko adapted Diarmuid's spear techniques, and the two wounded each other with their magical spears.
• Saber recognized Diarmuid Ua Duibhne and prepared to defeat him to end the curse preventing Touko's wound from healing.
• Touko claimed she could use Avalon's power to heal through a kiss, and Saber kissed her, restoring her body.
• Touko picked up her spear and challenged Lancer to a second round.
• Iskandar laughed about Touko's recovery while Waver questioned whether Avalon could heal curses.

Aozaki Touko fought Berserker while using his techniques to improve her swordsmanship, and Saber began to suspect she recognized him. Matou Kariya struggled to sustain Berserker’s mana consumption and hesitated to use the replenishment liquid Matou Shinji had brought.

• Waver wondered whether Touko had deliberately staged her injury, while Iskandar said they lacked enough information to know.
• Berserker charged at Touko, ignoring Saber and repeatedly shouting “Arthur” as he pursued her; Lancer left the battlefield.
• Touko recovered after kissing Saber, then fought Berserker and studied his techniques with Infinite Martial Arts while Saber watched for danger.
• Kariya struggled with Berserker’s enormous mana consumption, and Shinji urged him to use the replenishment liquid without revealing its source.
• Shinji told Kariya that mana-infused breast milk would arrive the next morning, and Kariya eagerly chose to avoid the current replenishment liquid.
• Touko parried Berserker, kicked him into a high-rise building, and faced his renewed charge as his Demon Sword took on the appearance of a dragon’s maw.

Aozaki Touko and Artoria left the ruined street after the Black Heroic Spirit vanished, while Gilgamesh questioned Tohsaka Tokiomi about his fear of Touko. Thieves stole Sola’s valuables and Kayneth’s Magecraft Furnaces, and as Kayneth rushed back to the hotel, a masked attacker ambushed him on the stairs.

• Aozaki Touko’s sword broke after the Black Heroic Spirit disappeared, and she joked with Artoria about Avalon’s healing power.
• Gilgamesh asked Tohsaka Tokiomi why he feared Aozaki Touko, then left dissatisfied with his answer.
• Three thieves stole Sola’s jewelry and Magecraft Furnaces from the Hyatt Grand Hotel, leaving her bound but unharmed.
• Kayneth sensed that the hotel’s barrier and the Magecraft Furnaces’ signals had vanished, then ordered Diarmuid to search for Sola.
• A masked attacker threw a dagger at Kayneth on the hotel stairs, but his silver whip deflected it and exposed the attacker.

Kayneth rescued Sola after Assassins raided their base, stole his Magecraft Furnaces, and stripped her valuables, while Sola urged him to withdraw from the Holy Grail War. At Einzbern Castle, Aozaki Touko arranged to buy the stolen Furnaces and agreed to treat Kirei Kotomine’s daughter, but Kayneth and Sola arrived before the evidence could be moved away.

• Assassins attacked Kayneth, but Volumen Hydrargyrum shielded him, and the attackers fled.
• Kayneth found Sola unharmed and learned that the thieves had stolen his three Magecraft Furnaces and her jewelry; he sent Lancer to track them.
• Sola decided to seek shelter with Aozaki Touko and urged Kayneth to withdraw, but he refused to treat the other Masters as serious threats.
• At Einzbern Castle, Aozaki Touko agreed to buy the stolen Furnaces from Emiya Kiritsugu and promised to treat Kirei Kotomine’s daughter, Karen.
• A maid announced Kayneth and Sola’s arrival, and Aozaki Touko had an Assassin hide a Magecraft Furnace underground before going to meet them.

Aozaki Touko agreed to shelter Sola while Kayneth searched for the Magecraft Furnace thieves, and she discussed Sola’s feelings about marriage. Meanwhile, Avicebron told Arba that victory required a powerful magus as a Magecraft Furnace Core, while Touko treated Kirei Kotomine and left him waking in a white room the next morning.

• Kayneth asked Touko to keep Sola with her, and Touko agreed while Kayneth left to hunt for the thieves.
• Touko praised Kayneth’s talent and teased Sola about her ideal marriage partner, prompting Sola to admit she admired Touko as a woman.
• Avicebron told Arba that a powerful magus was needed to serve as a Magecraft Furnace Core and make a strong Magic Doll.
• Touko examined Kirei Kotomine’s body, soul, and Origin, then put him to sleep and began correcting his brain and soul.
• Kirei woke the next morning in a white room with a woman in a maid outfit beside his bed.

After Aozaki Touko’s treatment restored Kirei Kotomine’s emotions, he returned to his family and tearfully apologized to Karen. Meanwhile, Matou Shinji sought Kayneth’s help to target Tohsaka Tokiomi’s Archer team, while Irisviel and Touko imagined a happy future with Illya.

• Kirei Kotomine woke feeling fully cured after Aozaki Touko’s treatment, and the maid relayed Touko’s instructions for him to pay and visit his family.
• Kirei Kotomine returned to the church, embraced Karen, and wept as he apologized for failing as a father and husband.
• Matou Shinji and Matou Kariya asked Kayneth to collaborate, and Shinji proposed eliminating Tohsaka Tokiomi’s Archer team first.
• Kayneth preferred to hunt the Assassin team, but Shinji argued that attacking Archer would draw hidden opponents into the open.
• Irisviel and Aozaki Touko went shopping with a little girl and talked warmly about raising Illya and the happiness of family life.

Aozaki Touko joined Gilgamesh in a public contest of luck after Fujimura Taiga won the lottery’s first prize. Their confrontation drew the crowd’s awe, and Touko reunited warmly with Taiga before revealing that the shopping-district explosion had been part of her movie shoot.

• After kissing Irisviel, Aozaki Touko continued through the shopping district with Irisviel and Beo.
• Gilgamesh drew second prize at an Umbrella Corporation lottery, while Fujimura Taiga won the one-million-yen first prize.
• Aozaki Touko drew second prize herself, identified herself as Umbrella’s owner, and challenged Gilgamesh to compare their luck.
• Aozaki Touko and Gilgamesh confronted each other onstage, their powerful auras silencing the crowd, and Gilgamesh accepted the challenge.
• Aozaki Touko greeted Fujimura Taiga warmly, and Taiga asked about Touko’s planned fantasy movie.
• Aozaki Touko told Taiga that the previous day’s shopping-district explosion had been filmed for the movie.

Aozaki Touko, Gilgamesh, and Fujimura Taiga competed to predict the weather, but Touko and Gilgamesh changed the sky to force their predictions. After Gilgamesh unleashed his primordial sword to scatter the clouds, Touko suggested neither could win, and Gilgamesh prepared to use Enkidu's Sword to make water fall from the sky.

• Aozaki Touko introduced Irisviel as her wife, and Fujimura Taiga earnestly asked Touko to take good care of her.
• Aozaki Touko brought Gilgamesh and Fujimura Taiga to the roof of the Umbrella commercial building for a weather-prediction contest.
• Gilgamesh predicted rain in three hours, Touko predicted rain in one hour, and Taiga guessed rain in two hours.
• Aozaki Touko altered the clouds to bring rain within an hour, and Gilgamesh accused her of cheating.
• Gilgamesh used his primordial sword to scatter the clouds, leaving Taiga stunned by the display of power.
• Aozaki Touko said neither contestant could win, and Gilgamesh brought out Enkidu's Sword to make water fall from the sky.

Aozaki Touko defeated Gilgamesh in a coin-toss contest despite his attempt to cut off the world’s favor, while Matou Kariya and Kayneth launched a coordinated attack on the Tohsaka Household. Berserker and Lancer broke through its defenses and charged inside to kill Tohsaka Tokiomi.

• Irisviel explained that Enkidu's Sword could summon a growing flood that would destroy Fuyuki City, and Taiga persuaded Gilgamesh and Aozaki Touko to switch to a coin-toss contest.
• Taiga deliberately guessed incorrectly and withdrew, leaving Aozaki Touko and Gilgamesh to compete; their correct guesses continued for six tosses.
• Aozaki Touko proposed that she would answer opposite to Gilgamesh, who accepted after isolating the area from the world's influence.
• Gilgamesh foresaw that every possible choice would make him lose, used a luck-enhancing Noble Phantasm, and still lost when the coin landed on tails after Touko called it.
• Kayneth instructed Matou Kariya to attack the Tohsaka Household with Berserker while Lancer destroyed its magical defenses.
• Berserker and Lancer broke through the Tohsaka Household's defenses and charged inside to kill Tohsaka Tokiomi.

Aozaki Touko and Taiga watched the battle at the Tohsaka residence, where Gilgamesh drove off two attacking Heroic Spirits after their Masters recalled them. The residence was destroyed, and Touko later teased Taiga by pretending she might kill her for witnessing the supernatural.

• Gilgamesh returned to the Tohsaka residence and bombarded Berserker and Lancer with Noble Phantasms as Tokiomi hid nearby.
• Gilgamesh prepared to use El-Malaha, but Kariya and Kayneth each used a Command Spell to recall their Servants.
• Tokiomi apologized to Gilgamesh, who ordered him to find the two fleeing Heroic Spirits before departing.
• Tokiomi crawled from the ruins and lamented that the destroyed residence could no longer be left to Rin.
• Touko stopped preparing to unleash her Fourth Order power after seeing the attackers escape, then pretended she would kill Taiga for learning about the supernatural.

Aozaki Touko teased Fujimura Taiga before visiting the Fuyuki City Cathedral with Irisviel and Beo. There, Karen deduced that Touko could foresee the future and realized Touko might have changed the terrible fate awaiting her.

• Aozaki Touko teased Fujimura Taiga, who fled after Touko warned her not to reveal what she had learned.
• Irisviel said she wanted to take Taiga as her disciple, and Touko agreed that it would be interesting.
• Aozaki Touko, Irisviel, and Beo met Karen at the Fuyuki City Cathedral, where Karen discussed the unexplained destruction in Fuyuki City.
• Karen joked that Touko would mistreat her, and Touko told her she had grown up well and would visit again after the Holy Grail War.
• After Touko left, Karen connected Touko's predictions about Tohsaka Sakura and Kirei Kotomine's unborn child to her own likely tragic future.

Kayneth considered new tactics after another failed battle, while Matou Shinji and Matou Kariya struggled to find allies. At Einzbern Castle, Artoria asked Aozaki Touko to identify the Black Heroic Spirit, and Touko urged her to guess.

• Kayneth dismissed Matou Shinji's call, then discussed joining forces against powerful enemies and proposed attacking their Masters directly with Lancer.
• Matou Shinji and Matou Kariya acknowledged that Kayneth might refuse to cooperate and that their mana and search options were limited.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi arrived at the Hyatt Hotel too late to find Kayneth and considered reporting his location to the King of Heroes.
• Aozaki Touko told Altrouge she wanted to prolong the Holy Grail War and enjoy fighting before completing the Third Magic.
• Artoria asked Aozaki Touko who the Black Heroic Spirit was, and Touko told her she should be able to guess.

Artoria learned that Lancelot was the Black Heroic Spirit, and Touko commanded her to impose sanctions on him. Meanwhile, Gilgamesh learned that Touko had changed Kirei’s nature, and Waver and Iskandar investigated a vast magic array before an Assassin attacked them.

• Touko confirmed to Artoria that Lancelot was the Black Heroic Spirit and ordered her to impose sanctions on him.
• Kirei returned home to find Gilgamesh waiting, and he ordered his Assassins to stand down rather than fight their ally.
• Kirei told Gilgamesh that Touko’s treatment had let him experience ordinary emotions and fulfill his wish to enter the world of ordinary people.
• Gilgamesh told Kirei that his original nature was evil, then left the room.
• Waver and Iskandar examined a huge magic array in Fuyuki City and suspected Touko had created it.
• An Assassin attacked Iskandar, who parried the strike, leaving Waver shaken.

Artoria joined Iskandar and Gilgamesh for a proposed banquet of kings, but refused to negotiate over the Holy Grail before the other kings proved their strength. Touko arranged the banquet in her courtyard, where the kings gathered as the feast was prepared.

• Iskandar invited Artoria to a banquet where the kings could compare their ideals and decide who was most suited to the Holy Grail.
• Artoria rejected settling the Grail’s ownership through words and said she intended to eliminate every Heroic Spirit by force.
• Artoria agreed to discuss the kings’ ideals, and Touko ordered the maids to prepare a banquet in the courtyard.
• Touko warned that anyone who damaged her castle would owe compensation, leaving Waver worried about his growing debt.
• Iskandar entered the courtyard and admired the lavish feast the maids had prepared.

Kayneth weighed abandoning the Holy Grail War while Sola questioned whether victory was worth the risk. At Touko’s feast, Iskandar declared that he wished to become human and asked Touko to join him in conquering the world, prompting Saber to defend her.

• Kayneth watched three kings gather in the courtyard and considered the dangers of the Holy Grail War, while Sola suggested that he give up.
• Kayneth gave Sola a necklace, and she accepted it while telling him that abandoning the war would not be a problem.
• Touko invited the kings to state their wishes, and Iskandar said he wanted to become human.
• Touko challenged Iskandar’s desire to conquer the world and refused to help him while he still held that ambition.
• Iskandar invited Touko to become his vassal, and Saber declared that Touko would never submit and that her sword would protect her.
• Iskandar asked whether Saber had become Touko’s vassal, leaving the others watching for Saber’s answer.

At the kings’ banquet, Aozaki Touko explained why she opposed Iskandar’s return to the modern world, while Artoria revealed that she wanted to change Britain’s fate. Iskandar and Artoria argued over what a king owed a country, and the chapter ended as Touko prepared to offer her opinion.

• Aozaki Touko told Iskandar that she would not let him become human because his conquests could plunge the modern world into chaos.
• Iskandar declared that he would still seek the Holy Grail, while Gilgamesh claimed the Grail as one of his treasures and Artoria called him a scoundrel.
• Artoria said the Holy Grail could not grant her wish and revealed that she had entrusted her wish to Aozaki Touko: to return to the past and prevent Britain’s destruction.
• Iskandar criticized Artoria for regretting her own rule, and Gilgamesh mocked her devotion to Britain.
• Artoria challenged Iskandar’s kingship, arguing that his ambition had caused his empire to split apart.
• Aozaki Touko raised her hand to offer an opinion, and Iskandar invited her to speak.

Aozaki Touko and Saber confronted Berserker at the Matou Household, and Saber chose to fight Lancelot herself to end his torment. As their battle continued, Artoria prepared to strike him with Excalibur.

• Aozaki Touko defended Artoria’s rule, and Waver admitted he preferred pursuing a dream with Iskandar despite believing most people would choose Saber.
• Aozaki Touko told Saber she would not force her to kill Berserker, but Artoria resolved to punish Lancelot herself.
• Aozaki Touko and Saber entered the Matou Household basement, where Matou Kariya summoned Berserker to attack them.
• Saber clashed with Berserker and drove him out of the basement, while Aozaki Touko turned to confront the Matou household members.
• Artoria used Wind King Barrier to expose Lancelot’s opening, then raised the Holy Sword and called upon Excalibur.

After Saber defeated Lancelot, Aozaki Touko confronted the Matou Household and spared its members after learning about Matou Kariya’s connection to Tohsaka Aoi. She gave Matou Shinji a Soul Gem that awakened his magecraft, leaving him transformed and holding a Tachi.

• Saber’s Holy Sword erased Lancelot, and she left, intending to return to the past and save Britain.
• Aozaki Touko confronted Matou Tsuruno, Matou Shinji, and Matou Kariya after Emiya Kiritsugu traced Lancelot’s surveillance cameras to the Matou Household.
• Matou Kariya begged Aozaki Touko to spare Tsuruno and Shinji, and she agreed after hearing he was Tohsaka Aoi’s childhood friend.
• Aozaki Touko teased Matou Kariya about her close conversation with Aoi, and Kariya fainted before hearing the full explanation.
• Aozaki Touko gave Matou Shinji a Soul Gem that could grant him magecraft in exchange for obeying her, and he swallowed it.
• Matou Shinji transformed after shouting “Draw your blade!” and grasped the Tachi that appeared before him.

Gilgamesh attacked Kayneth and Lancer at the Kaiyue Hotel, while Tohsaka Tokiomi stood aside and let the king handle Kayneth. The battle began with Lancer engaging Gilgamesh and Kayneth preparing his Moon Dew Spirit Marrow.

• Waver watched Saber eliminate Berserker, and Iskandar warned him that they might be targeted next.
• Gilgamesh learned that Lancer had returned to the Kaiyue Hotel and set out with Tohsaka Tokiomi to confront him and Kayneth.
• Kayneth reinforced the hotel's defenses and evacuated its guests while Kirei Kotomine sent a female Assassin to try to kill him.
• Gilgamesh stormed the Kaiyue Hotel and attacked Lancer and Kayneth, while Lancer shielded Kayneth and fought back with his mystic spears.
• Kayneth unleashed his Moon Dew Spirit Marrow and challenged Tohsaka Tokiomi, who backed away and hid behind Gilgamesh.