Recaps

Aozaki Touko enlisted the Pope to help create a worldwide Magecraft circle to avert Steel Earth, while Roman finished his assigned ley-line plans after three nights of unpaid overtime. Back at Einzbern, Arcueid asked Touko to make her body pregnant, offering a reward in return.

• Aozaki Touko offered the Pope a chance to reach Heaven if he helped establish a worldwide Magecraft circle, and he agreed after she showed him evidence of the coming catastrophe.
• Roman completed his Earth Vein Construction and Implementation Requirements proposal after working three consecutive nights, and Kayneth invited him out for a drink.
• Roman went to sleep from exhaustion, and Kayneth left without waking him when he failed to get up.
• Aozaki Touko spent the night alone while Irisviel rested during her pregnancy and Arcueid was away with Altrouge.
• Arcueid returned to Einzbern and asked Aozaki Touko to make her body pregnant with a pure-blooded True Ancestor descendant, promising a satisfactory reward.

Aozaki Touko negotiated with Crimson Moon over a possible vessel, then woke beside Arcueid, who had no memory of arriving at Einzbern Castle. Meanwhile, Yaya answered a school call for Aoko and met Shizuki Soujuro, while Touko visited the imprisoned Nero Chaos.

• Crimson Moon asked Touko to help create a body for her descent, but Touko demanded that Crimson Moon offer herself as payment.
• Touko woke beside Arcueid and told her that Arcueid had come from America asking to become pregnant; Arcueid returned to America to find Altrouge.
• Touko told Crimson Moon she would not resurrect her without the strength to suppress her.
• At the Kuonji Western Mansion, Aoko sent Yaya to answer a school call, and Yaya went to meet Shizuki Soujuro at Private Misaki High School.
• Touko visited Nero Chaos in her Reality Marble, where he complained about being imprisoned and dismissed its artificial residents.

Aozaki Touko brought her pregnant wife, Irisviel, to the Aozaki household, shocking her parents with the news that they would become grandparents. Touko agreed to stay in Misaki City until Illya was born, and Aozaki Aoko arrived just as the family learned Touko had also fathered a daughter with Altrouge.

• Nero Chaos learned that Aozaki Touko's Reality Marble reset after seven days, and Touko explained that she wanted its inhabitants to escape it.
• Aozaki Touko ordered Nero Chaos to force Aozaki Aoko to become a Magic User, then left the Reality Marble.
• Aozaki Touko introduced her pregnant wife, Irisviel, to Aozaki Parents, who struggled to accept that their eldest daughter would have a child.
• Touko agreed to stay in Misaki City until Illya was born, and admitted that Altrouge was pregnant with another daughter of hers.
• Aozaki Aoko returned home, saw Irisviel's pregnancy, and asked Touko whether the child was hers.

Aozaki Touko reunited with Aozaki Aoko and revealed her plan to help her awaken the Fifth Magic, using a fabricated threat to motivate her. Meanwhile, Nero Chaos destroyed a leylines node in Misaki City, and Shuraze Yuika considered visiting Touko for help with her blindness.

• Aozaki Aoko realized that Irisviel was carrying Touko's child, and Touko admitted she had kept the pregnancy quiet to avoid trouble.
• Bunbyo Rei asked Shuraze Yuika to visit Touko, suggesting she might cure Yuika's blindness, but Yuika chose to wait until the family gathering was over.
• Nero Chaos sent starving wolves to destroy a leylines node, advancing his plan to make Misaki City's barrier ineffective and force Aoko to awaken.
• Aozaki Touko invited Aozaki Aoko to talk privately and said she intended to teach her magecraft and help her awaken the Fifth Magic.
• Touko falsely claimed she was too injured to fight and invented the dangerous enemy Chaos Tide to persuade Aoko to prepare for the coming battle.
• Aoko saw through Touko's story but agreed to accept the challenge and work toward awakening the Fifth Magic.

Aozaki Touko went to Aoko’s school to teach her magecraft and meet Shizuki Soujuro, while Nero Chaos tried again to draw out the leyline administrator by destroying another node. Touko found Soujuro and questioned him about his fear of death, leaving him to answer that he had thought of Yaya.

• Aozaki Touko accompanied Aozaki Aoko to school, where the sisters joked about Aoko’s fearsome reputation and Touko offered to deal with any unwanted pursuers.
• Nero Chaos went to another suburban leyline node, sent avatars to destroy it, and waited for the administrator to appear.
• Aozaki Touko called to Shizuki Soujuro at school, but he sensed danger and ran until he reached a dead-end alley.
• Aozaki Touko introduced herself as a Magic User and asked Soujuro why he had run; he said he had feared she would kill him.
• Aozaki Touko described Soujuro’s sense of self as faint and asked who he had thought of when he believed he was about to die.
• Shizuki Soujuro answered that he had thought of Yaya.

Shizuki Soujuurou asked Aozaki Touko about the meaning of life, and she promised to help him search for an answer while letting him befriend Yaya. Meanwhile, Aozaki Aoko struggled to learn Gene Lock Release, then found a way to activate it with abundant mana before Touko transported her to a Roman Colosseum and apparently set up a fight with a lion.

• Shizuki Soujuurou asked Aozaki Touko whether she knew the meaning of life, and she offered to help him find his own answer while revealing that Yaya was her creation.
• Aozaki Touko taught Aozaki Aoko the basics of Gene Lock Release, but Aoko could not master it because her mana control lacked precision.
• Nero Chaos decided to attack directly the next day after destroying most of the leyline nodes without drawing out the enemy.
• Kuonji Alice warned that the barrier around Misaki City was nearly destroyed, and Aozaki Aoko used a huge supply of mana to force her first Gene Lock Release.
• Aozaki Touko transported Aozaki Aoko, Kuonji Alice, and herself to a Roman Colosseum, where the crowd cheered for Aoko as the God of Combat and a lion entered the arena.

Aozaki Aoko mastered the first stage of the Gene Lock after enduring a night of battles against powerful opponents created by Aozaki Touko. As Aoko headed toward a confrontation with Nero Chaos, Touko sent Irori and Kozakura to help protect her.

• Aozaki Touko praised Kuonji Alice as a beautiful and mysterious witch while Alice described Touko as the embodiment of a magus family's pursuit of the Root.
• Aozaki Aoko fought Nero, a powerful female Roman emperor, and was repeatedly knocked down despite refusing to surrender.
• Aozaki Aoko recalled defeating a series of bizarre opponents and mastering the first stage of the Gene Lock through the intense battles.
• Aozaki Touko massaged Aoko after the fights, then let her leave the Kuonji Western Mansion without following her.
• Aozaki Touko told Kuonji Alice that she had sent someone to protect Aoko as she faced Nero Chaos.
• Irori and Kozakura introduced themselves to Yaya as Touko's puppets and said they had come to help protect Aoko.

Aoko fled Nero Chaos through the old school building while Touko and Alice watched, confident that the ordeal would push her toward awakening the Fifth Magic. The chapter then shifted to a secluded Buddhist sect, where an unknown monk found a sickly girl revered as a Bodhisattva and declared that she had a greater purpose.

• Aoko confronted Nero Chaos at the old school building after he destroyed the spiritual vein node.
• Aoko fought off Nero Chaos's beast clones and fled when their numbers threatened to exhaust her.
• Touko and Kuonji Alice monitored Aoko, and Touko said she needed only enough resolve to become a Magic User.
• Aoko continued using Magic Bullets against the pursuing beasts as Nero Chaos absorbed his fallen clones.
• An unknown monk found the sickly girl worshiped as a Bodhisattva at the Shingen Tachikawa Eiten Style sect.
• The girl agreed to go with the monk, who said she had a more important purpose than satisfying the believers' desires.

Aozaki Aoko and her allies fought Nero Chaos, who captured Yaya and threatened to crush her unless Aoko awakened the Fifth Magic. With no fear holding her back, Aoko crossed the threshold and began her awakening as Aozaki Touko watched.

• A troubled monk took a girl from a mountain sect after a bloody massacre, seeking a Living Bodhisattva to guide Aozaki Touko.
• Yaya and Kozakura ambushed Nero Chaos at the old school building, but Nero escaped their attacks, captured Irori and Yaya in Genesis Soil, and threatened to crush Yaya’s skull.
• Nero Chaos taunted Aozaki Aoko to awaken the Fifth Magic before he killed Yaya, while Aoko directed her will through the Magic Crest on her arm.
• Aozaki Aoko began chanting as a vast Magic circle spread beneath her and the seasons and weather shifted around her.
• Aozaki Touko watched Aoko’s awakening and saw a red shadow dim and vanish in the distance.

The magical world reacted to Aozaki Aoko becoming the Fifth Magic User and to the Aozaki family’s growing influence. Aozaki Touko and Irisviel welcomed their daughter Illya, and the chapter ended with their family gathering to meet her.

• Nero Chaos recalled Aozaki Aoko’s newly awakened power defeating him and rested while recovering from the fight.
• Inorai and an elderly Lord discussed the birth of a second Aozaki Magic User and prepared a gift for Touko’s unborn child, whom Inorai believed would be a girl.
• Lidell joked with her adoptive father about being able to act freely because of her friendship with Touko, while he suggested she might become Touko’s wife or bear her child.
• Marisbury Animusphere ordered continued surveillance of Touko and instructed his staff to send a properly chosen gift after her child was born.
• Aozaki Touko held newborn Illya while Irisviel reflected on how motherhood had changed her priorities and thanked Touko for bringing her happiness.
• Touko invited the family into the hospital room, and Aozaki Mom, Aozaki Father, and Aozaki Aoko came in to meet Illya.

Aozaki Touko asked the Holy Church to bring her Ciel, Roa’s unkillable former host, while joking that her unborn daughter’s name could cause a world war. At the Gravekeepers, Ciel was ordered to help prolong a Dead Apostle’s torture.

• Altrouge held newborn Illya and discussed names for her unborn child with Aozaki Touko and Arcueid.
• Aozaki Touko told Shuraze Yuika that she had returned to Misaki City to ask the Holy Church for Ciel, then revealed she had only been teasing about a world-threatening crisis.
• After Aozaki Touko vanished, Shuraze Yuika regained her sight and realized she could no longer hate Touko.
• At the Gravekeepers, Ciel explained that magecraft could strengthen a Dead Apostle’s regeneration, and Narubaleck ordered her to provide its details.
• Narubaleck told Ciel she had a mission for her.

Ciel was ordered to travel to Japan to assist Aozaki Touko, while Touko’s household settled into domestic life as Altrouge prepared for the baby. Altrouge returned Arcueid’s stolen long-hair concept, and Ciel arrived at the Tohno Family estate to meet Touko.

• Narubaleck told Ciel that the higher-ups wanted her to go to Japan and assist Aozaki Touko, then demanded she write down her Dead Apostle healing spell before leaving.
• Touko and Altrouge lounged together at the Kuzuki Western Mansion while the others went about their day, and Touko complained that the child had left her lonely.
• Aoko and Arcueid returned from shopping with clothes for Touko, Altrouge, and the baby.
• Altrouge released the concept of Arcueid’s stolen long hair, restoring Arcueid’s waist-length golden hair and her former regal bearing.
• Kohaku led Ciel through the Tohno Family estate to the room where Touko was waiting, reassuring her that Touko was a good person.

Aozaki Touko brought Ciel to witness the plan to awaken Roa inside Tohno Shiki and end his current incarnation. Arcueid's insults roused Roa, who then attacked Touko after seeing her kiss Arcueid, but Touko trapped him behind a barrier.

• Ciel followed Kohaku into the basement, where Aozaki Touko showed her the chained Tohno Shiki and explained that Roa's memories had not fully awakened.
• Tohno Akiha left the basement after saying that killing family members afflicted with Inversion Impulse was her duty.
• At Aozaki Touko's direction, Arcueid read insults that provoked Roa's consciousness into surfacing inside Tohno Shiki.
• Roa awakened and addressed Arcueid as his Princess, then became enraged when Aozaki Touko kissed her.
• Roa broke free of his chains and attacked Aozaki Touko, but her runic barrier hurled him into a wall and kept him trapped.

Aozaki Touko trapped Roa’s soul in a Reality Marble after he tried to escape death by reincarnating, then crushed the world around him to demonstrate her power. As Roa faced destruction, Touko questioned why he had deceived Arcueid at the True Ancestor banquet.

• Aozaki Touko and Ciel teased Roa about his past and her relationship with Arcueid, provoking him into threatening them.
• Roa detonated his magic to begin another reincarnation cycle, but awakened as a soul on Mount Everest inside Aozaki Touko’s Reality Marble.
• Aozaki Touko revealed that she had restored the Third Magic and captured Roa’s soul before he could reincarnate.
• Aozaki Touko’s enormous hand closed around the planet, destroying it while Roa desperately tried to resist.
• As Roa awaited death, Aozaki Touko asked whether he had deceived Arcueid to help her gain freedom.

Aozaki Touko killed Roa, and Ciel agreed to work under her after Roa’s death left her unsure of what to do. Back at the Tohno residence, Touko promised to find a way to cure Tohno Akiha’s Inversion Impulse and planned to examine her that night.

• Aozaki Touko crushed Roa’s miniature world, and Arcueid confirmed his death when her stolen power returned.
• Ciel accepted Aozaki Touko’s offer to stay by her side and later work in Tokyo, then went to find Kohaku for arrangements.
• Arcueid asked whether she should tell Ryougi about the details of Roa’s death, and Aozaki Touko said she would discuss it with Ryougi while leaving out the kiss for now.
• Aozaki Touko met Tohno Akiha in the living room and told her that Tohno Shiki had disappeared completely.
• Tohno Akiha said she would want Aozaki Touko to kill her if her Inversion Impulse ever took over, but Touko vowed to prevent that future.
• Aozaki Touko said she needed to examine Tohno Akiha’s body and planned to stay overnight and begin the examination in her room.

Ciel moved into the Tohno Family residence, while Kishimo Arcueid and Araya Souren visited Aozaki Touko to ask whether she would use the Third Magic to save humanity. Touko refused and warned that Kishimo Arcueid’s influence might lead her toward a future she wished to avoid, but she did not drive her away or kill her.

• Kohaku welcomed Ciel to the Tohno Family residence and offered to help her retrieve her belongings from the hotel.
• Kishimo Arcueid persuaded Kohaku to bring her and Araya Souren to meet Aozaki Touko.
• Araya Souren asked Touko to materialize the souls of all humanity, and Touko said she could do it but would not.
• Kishimo Arcueid confirmed Touko’s power and asked why Touko was wary of her.
• Touko explained that Kishimo Arcueid might lead her toward a future in which she tried to save the world, but said she liked her and would not kill her.

Aozaki Touko arranged for Kishimo Arcueid to serve as a nun in the Holy Church, while warning Kohaku to stay away from her dangerous charm. Later, under a crimson moon in Misaki City, Touko and Arcueid waited for Altrouge's child, a pure-blooded True Ancestor, to be born.

• Aozaki Touko told Kishimo Arcueid she would save her if she asked for help.
• Aozaki Touko pressured Bunbyo Rei to let Kishimo Arcueid serve as a nun and meet Church leaders.
• Kishimo Arcueid agreed to Touko's request and asked Bunbyo Rei to teach her about Christianity.
• Kohaku told Aozaki Touko that Kishimo Arcueid's presence stirred her urges, and Touko warned her to keep her distance.
• Aozaki Touko and Arcueid waited at the Western Mansion as Altrouge prepared to give birth beneath a crimson moon.

Altrouge gave birth to a daughter as the blood moon and strange disturbances signaled a fate-altering birth. Aozaki Touko named the baby Remilia Brunestud, and the chapter ended with Remilia trying to nurse from Touko before Altrouge fed her.

• Arcueid and Aozaki Touko waited anxiously for the birth while Blood and Stulute guarded the Western Mansion.
• The blood moon intensified, animals fled, and Bunbyo Rei heard a sound like fate turning as the newborn cried out.
• Altrouge emerged with the baby, and Remilia reached for Aozaki Touko, who carefully took her into her arms.
• Aozaki Touko named the blue-haired baby Remilia Brunestud, explaining that the name suited her hair and fate-related power better than the planned name Gilles de Rais Brunestud.
• Remilia tried to nurse from Aozaki Touko, who had no milk, so Altrouge took the baby and fed her.
• Aozaki Father, Aozaki Aoko, Irisviel, the Black and White Knights, and others hurried over to see Remilia.

Touko and Altrouge reminisced about how their schemes brought them together, then Altrouge chose to spend the night caring for Remilia, leaving Touko alone. The next morning, Illya learned Touko was traveling to Tokyo and joined her for breakfast.

• Altrouge came downstairs and found Touko lying awake in the living room after Remilia's birth.
• Touko and Altrouge admitted they had once planned to use or control each other, but those schemes had drawn them closer.
• Altrouge went upstairs to stay with Irisviel and care for Remilia, while Touko remained alone for the night.
• Sella woke Illya and told her Touko was traveling to Tokyo to handle matters related to preventing the world's end.
• Illya came downstairs, greeted Touko, and ate breakfast as Touko asked whether she was ready.

Aozaki Touko visited Kayneth’s flower shop with Irisviel and Illya, then discussed a confidential magic-circle project with Kayneth. She later found Roman relaxing at Kayneth’s home and offered him paid leave, which he hoped to take after their plan was complete.

• Aozaki Touko reunited with Sola and Kayneth at the flower shop and teased Kayneth about the Soul Gem’s transformation side effect.
• Aozaki Touko introduced Illyasviel von Einzbern and Irisviel von Einzbern, then took Kayneth aside to discuss a confidential magic-circle project.
• Sola showed Illya the flowers and explained how red roses could express love between people of any gender.
• Kayneth returned to her living room and prepared tea for an important guest while Roman ate cake on the sofa.
• Aozaki Touko arrived, checked on the mission’s progress, and offered Roman paid leave; Roman asked to take it after the plan was completed.

Aozaki Touko and Roman discussed the End Avoidance Mechanism’s planned planetary magic circle and the risks of sabotage as they prepared for the apocalypse’s aftermath. Later, Touko reflected on how Lorona had grown into a capable adult while they worked through years of accumulated paperwork.

• Aozaki Touko offered Roman a paid vacation and said she planned to disband the End Avoidance Mechanism once it had achieved its goal.
• Kayneth returned to his male appearance, and Touko discussed her Soul Gems and her hope that Illya would become a genuine Magical Girl.
• Roman reported that subordinate Holy Grails had been placed around the world, but warned that interference could disrupt the planetary magic circle.
• Kayneth told Touko that an Umbrella executive had leaked secrets after being seduced, and that his superior had killed him.
• Aozaki Touko recognized that Lorona had grown into a mature woman, and Lorona brought her coffee as they returned to work.

Roman spoke with Illya about Aozaki Touko, keeping the details of her past from her while praising her extraordinary strength. Later, Touko watched the End Avoidance Mechanism's banquet from a villa balcony, where Kayneth joined her.

• Roman agreed that Illya could call him Uncle Roman and gave her strawberry cake and tea.
• Illya asked how Roman had met Touko, but he said she was too young to hear the story and offered only a little information.
• Roman described Touko as a genius and one of the strongest people in the world, while Illya doubted his claims.
• Roman explained that Touko's gold-trimmed invitations granted access to auctions for blank dolls that could contain new souls.
• Touko watched the End Avoidance Mechanism's employees celebrate their holiday at a banquet, and Kayneth joined her on the balcony.

Kayneth agreed to return to London in disguise as Aozaki Touko’s maid, partly to see Waver. Meanwhile, Touko and Irisviel watched Illya enter a dream adventure created for her, where Suigintou sent her to defeat Shinku over a stolen cake.

• Aozaki Touko offered to take Kayneth to London under the cover of her maid, and Kayneth agreed to go see Waver.
• Touko put Illya to sleep, and Illya awoke in a dream before Suigintou, who appointed her a hero and gave her a greatsword.
• Suigintou told Illya to defeat Shinku and reclaim the cake, warning that Illya would return to the dream nightly until she succeeded.
• Illya set off to fight slimes while Touko and Irisviel watched from their bedroom through a display.
• Irisviel recalled wishing she could have had a fairy-tale childhood, and Touko explained that she had made the Reality Marble for Illya to play and befriend the Rose Maidens.

Illya learned that her dream companions were the Rose Maidens, while Remilia searched London for her fated maid and discovered that someone had blocked her attempt to investigate an assassination. Touko visited Gray in London, where Gray was living under Saber's care, and prepared to speak with her teacher, Waver.

• Illya told Touko about being summoned in a dream to fight Shinku, and Touko encouraged her to befriend Suigintou and the other Rose Maidens.
• Remilia searched London with Arcueid for her destined silver-haired maid but found no trace of her.
• Remilia tried to use her power over fate to investigate Merem Solomon's assassination, but someone had obstructed her.
• Touko and a maid visited Gray's apartment, where Gray welcomed Touko and offered to make tea while she spoke with Waver.

Aozaki Touko visited Waver and offered him a Soul Gem that could enhance his magecraft, while hinting that his true power would come later. As Touko and her companions left, she prophesied that Waver would reunite with Iskandar, and Gray hurried home to prepare dinner for Artoria.

• Aozaki Touko met with Waver, who admitted he still owed her two hundred million dollars, while Miss Kenshin challenged his remarks about Kayneth.
• Waver explained that he respected Kayneth and lamented his own lack of magical talent, prompting Touko to offer him a Soul Gem as an external magical organ.
• Touko told Waver the Soul Gem could be used nine times and joked that its side effect was turning him into an armored Kamen Rider; Waver accepted it.
• As she departed, Touko prophesied that Waver would reunite with Iskandar and promised to bring the King of Conquerors from the Throne of Heroes if the prophecy failed.
• Gray hurried home, worried that Artoria had not yet eaten dinner.