Chapter Summaries

A young painter refused Will's increasingly large offers for a portrait of King Arthur and the modern-era Third Magus, while Artoria and Aozaki Touko shared dinner with Gray. After Touko left for the Izuluma Family's banquet, Artoria reflected on her plan to use Chaldea and the Third Magic to return to the past and save Britain.

• Will offered the young painter one million pounds, then two million, for his portrait of two women, but the painter refused to sell it after realizing their identities must be extraordinary.
• Will told the charming woman that the painting depicted King Arthur and the modern-era Third Magus, then decided not to steal it because anything involving a Magic User would be difficult to take.
• Artoria and Aozaki Touko returned to the apartment, where Gray served them dinner, and Touko joined Gray in preparing the meal.
• The next day, Aozaki Touko left by carriage to attend the Izuluma Family's banquet, while Artoria stayed behind.
• Artoria reflected that Chaldea would soon operate and that Touko's Third Magic could let her return to the past, undo her mistake, and save Britain.

Aozaki Touko attended a banquet at Izuluma’s Moon Tower, where she reunited with Lolaireia and met Lainis and Gray. The gathering ended with Lolaireia agreeing to join Lainis’s proposed women’s get-together, with Touko accepting the idea.

• Byron Balgeletta Izelluma welcomed Aozaki Touko to the Moon Tower after her carriage and coachman transformed into toys.
• Lolaireia warmly greeted Touko at the banquet and said she had come to see her personally.
• Touko and Lolaireia discussed their reunion while startled guests dropped their wineglasses.
• Gray encouraged Lainis to approach Touko, and Lainis went over with her to pay her respects.
• Lainis proposed a women’s gathering, Lolaireia asked to join, and Touko agreed.

At the Izuluma Family’s banquet, Byron presented the Golden Princess and Silver Princess as creations capable of touching the Root and placed them under Aozaki Touko’s protection. The sisters asked Touko to take them away from the family, and the Golden Princess began explaining that their father’s methods would kill them.

• Inorai joined Aozaki Touko’s gathering, and the two agreed that they got along well despite their differences.
• Tiadra and Estra appeared at the banquet, overwhelming most attendees with their beauty, which Lolaireia said had the possibility of touching the Root.
• Byron announced that the Golden Princess and Silver Princess would belong to Aozaki Touko, causing the magi’s hopes of seizing them to collapse.
• Tiadra and Estra addressed Touko as their master and asked her to take them away from the Izuluma Family.
• Touko froze Byron when he angrily challenged their request, then asked Tiadra to explain why she wanted to leave.
• Tiadra said she and Estra would die if Byron continued his ineffective methods and argued that they had the right to defend themselves.

The Golden Princess and Silver Princess revealed that their beauty ritual was failing and asked Aozaki Touko for protection from their father Byron’s dangerous experiments. Touko refused to hand them over, while Lainis explained that Byron’s pursuit of the Root depended on the sisters because he had little time left.

• The Golden Princess explained that Byron’s increasingly brutal modifications could kill her and her sister, and that she had hidden the ritual’s flaw so they could meet Touko.
• The Golden Princess and Silver Princess let their transcendent beauty fade and revealed that they could only restore it temporarily by cooperating.
• Byron asked Touko for time to fix the flaw, while Touko declared that she would protect the sisters as her possessions.
• Inorai urged Touko to let Byron continue his experiments, and Gray questioned whether he would regret risking his daughters’ lives.
• Touko reassured the frightened sisters that she would protect them and considered how to satisfy both sides without handing them over.
• Lainis explained to Gray that Byron needed the existing sisters because creating replacements would take too long, while Touko might be able to make new ones quickly.

Aozaki Touko offered Nero Chaos to Byron as a durable subject for the Izuluma Family’s beauty research, and Nero agreed after learning he could gain a magecraft technique and end Touko’s experiments on him. Touko reassured Byron that she would protect him, then prepared to leave with the Golden Princess and Lolaireia.

• Aozaki Touko summoned Nero Chaos and offered him to Byron as an immortal research subject in place of the Golden Princess and Silver Princess.
• Gray briefly readied a birdcage Mystic Code against Nero Chaos, but Lainis calmed her and Gray apologized.
• Nero Chaos objected to being studied by the Izuluma Family, then agreed to cooperate after Touko proposed changing his body and promised him full-time employee treatment afterward.
• Byron worried that Nero Chaos might kill him, and Touko promised to provide protection and support while the Golden Princess challenged Byron’s confidence in reaching the Root.
• Aozaki Touko took the Golden Princess and prepared to leave, and Lolaireia asked to ride with her.

Aozaki Touko offered Tiadra and Estra the chance to see the outside world, and they sought to deepen their bond with her in exchange for her protection. The next day, Altrouge confronted Touko about the night before and worried that Crimson Moon’s resurrection could threaten their family, while Touko promised she would win.

• Aozaki Touko asked Tiadra what life she wanted, and Tiadra explained that she and Estra longed to see the world but feared the dangers their beauty would attract.
• Aozaki Touko promised to take the sisters outside and said she could accompany them without neglecting her family.
• Tiadra and Estra asked Aozaki Touko to stay the night, and she took them upstairs and tended to them.
• Aozaki Touko visited Altrouge the next day, and Altrouge challenged her about enjoying the previous night with the sisters.
• Altrouge drank Touko’s blood until she felt full, while Touko explained that Crimson Moon’s resurrection could help resolve Arcueid’s Bloodlust.
• Altrouge admitted she feared Crimson Moon’s return could endanger their family, and Touko reassured her that they could defeat Crimson Moon together.

The Pope consulted a girl imprisoned in a church, who confirmed that Aozaki Touko’s Magic circle could reshape the world and revealed that Jesus was the First Magic User and her ancestor. In Fuyuki, Taiga mistook Illya’s dream-game adventures for real monster training before Illya explained that she had fought the monsters in a game while dreaming.

• The Pope visited the imprisoned girl, who said Aozaki Touko’s Magic circle could alter the world’s physical laws if used with another intention.
• The girl suggested that Aozaki Touko understood Christianity’s foundation like King Solomon, and the Pope revealed that Touko had said Solomon granted her wisdom.
• The girl told the Pope and the Executors that Jesus was the First Magic User and her ancestor, then privately called Aozaki Touko Satan.
• Illya practiced swordsmanship in the Aozaki Household’s backyard while Taiga noticed her apparent combat awareness.
• Irisviel described Illya’s battles against monsters, leading Taiga to worry that Illya had been forced to fight them.
• Illya clarified that the monsters were from a game she played in her dreams, not real battles.

Illya invited Taiga into her dream to practice swordsmanship, while Irisviel insisted Illya finish her homework. Aozaki Touko brought Remilia to the Land of Shadow to seek Scathach as a teacher, where Scathach acknowledged Touko had grown best by following her own path.

• Illya agreed that Taiga could join her dream, and Irisviel told Illya to do her homework before practicing there.
• Remilia reluctantly sparred with Aozaki Touko, but she lost her spear and crouched in fear when Touko prepared to strike.
• Aozaki Touko could not bring herself to hit Remilia, and the watching servants called the embarrassed princess adorable.
• Aozaki Touko offered to take Remilia to a powerful teacher, and Remilia agreed to go with her to the Land of Shadow.
• Scathach appeared and said Touko had been better suited to developing through her own path than learning from Scathach.

Remilia asked Scathach to take her as a disciple, and Scathach agreed to test her before turning to battle Aozaki Touko. As Remilia watched the clash, she reflected on how much she still had to learn about runes.

• Scathach recognized Remilia's potential and agreed to consider taking her as a disciple after a fight.
• Scathach struck Remilia when she tried to use her power over fate, explaining that she had foreseen Remilia's foresight.
• Scathach challenged Aozaki Touko to battle, and Touko declared herself stronger before they began fighting.
• Remilia watched from a mountain as Aozaki Touko and Scathach exchanged powerful attacks, and Scathach praised Touko's rapid ability to learn.
• Remilia tried drawing a rune herself, then admitted she could not use the deeper meanings her father had taught her.

After ending her three-day battle with Scathach in a draw, Aozaki Touko arranged for Remilia to study under her while commuting between the Land of Shadow and home. Scathach began training Remilia, who promised to grow strong enough to kill her, and the story left off as another battle erupted in the Land of Shadow.

• Remilia watched Aozaki Touko and Scathach fight for three days before the battle ended in a draw.
• Scathach and Aozaki Touko discussed their mutual interest in fighting again, while Scathach agreed to teach Remilia.
• Remilia agreed to become Scathach’s disciple and eventually try to kill her.
• Aozaki Touko told Remilia she could return home whenever she wished, so she would not have to live permanently in the Land of Shadow.
• A new clash between two women erupted in the Land of Shadow.

Aozaki Touko returned home to Illya after her time in London, while Tohsaka Rin lamented inheriting the Tohsaka Household’s enormous debt at school. Rin refused Matou Shinji’s invitation, remembering their strange magecraft duel and his transformation into a blue-haired girl.

• Remilia learned that Altrouge was exceptionally powerful, and Aozaki Touko told her she would need to break Touko’s seal to uncover the truth about their past.
• Scathach praised Altrouge’s strength and asked for someone capable of killing her, while Altrouge suggested Touko might know such a person.
• Aozaki Touko gave Scathach an outfit, and Scathach left to try it on.
• Aozaki Touko returned to Illya and explained her London work in terms suited to an ordinary person before joining her and Irisviel for dinner.
• Tohsaka Rin brooded over the three-hundred-billion-dollar debt she inherited with the Tohsaka Household.
• Tohsaka Rin declined Matou Shinji’s invitation, recalling their duel and his transformation into a blue-haired girl.

Tohsaka Rin went to meet Aozaki Touko while her worried sister, Tohsaka Sakura, secretly followed her to the hotel. Touko greeted Rin at the rooftop pool and told her that she was almost old enough to marry and have children.

• Matou Shinji lured Tohsaka Rin into agreeing to meet Touko by teasing her with stacks of money, then left without giving her any.
• Tohsaka Sakura suspected Rin was hiding an improper way of making money, but Rin reassured her and left with Touko's bodyguards.
• Sakura secretly marked the cars and followed Rin to the Hyatt Hotel, where she watched her enter.
• Tohsaka Rin met Aozaki Touko beside the rooftop pool and hinted that the Tohsaka Household was still struggling financially.
• Aozaki Touko noted that Rin was nearly sixteen and told her that sixteen was Japan's legal marriageable age.

Aozaki Touko told Tohsaka Rin that the Holy Grail War would begin early and pushed her to participate, giving her a rusty iron cage as a summoning relic. Touko then brought Rin to an auction in Fuyuki City, where a Doll with a Blank Soul had drawn dangerous supernatural factions, but assured Rin she only had to accompany her.

• Aozaki Touko explained that she would add magical energy to the Holy Grail and move the Holy Grail War forward, while Tohsaka Rin questioned whether she could win with Touko participating.
• Tohsaka Rin decided not to join the war, but Aozaki Touko promised to grant her wish if she won and refused to waive her debt.
• Aozaki Touko gave Tohsaka Rin a rusty iron cage to use as a relic for summoning a powerful Heroic Spirit.
• Aozaki Touko told Tohsaka Rin that an auction at the Kaiyue Hotel would feature a Doll with a Blank Soul, attracting factions including the Holy Church and Dead Apostles.
• Tohsaka Rin worried that she could not manage the concealed outsiders, but Aozaki Touko said Rin only needed to accompany her to the auction.

Tohsaka Rin and Sakura discussed the early Holy Grail War with Aozaki Touko, while Sakura grew closer to Touko and Illya. Later, Rin attended a secret auction with Touko, where bidders’ interest in the body-replacing dolls made their identities a dangerous secret.

• Tohsaka Rin asked Aozaki Touko for information about the deity she planned to summon, but Touko withheld the Heroic Spirit’s name.
• Tohsaka Sakura found Rin with Touko at the hotel and learned that the Holy Grail War would begin ahead of schedule.
• Touko promised Sakura she would keep Rin alive during the war, and Sakura teased Rin about being careless.
• Illya invited Sakura to swim, and Sakura asked Illya to call her Aunt Sakura.
• Tohsaka Rin attended a secret auction with Touko, where a masked attendee explained that doll buyers would change bodies before investigators could identify them.
• Rin pointed out that some healthy people were bidding for dolls in advance, and the masked attendee warned that they could be attacked by desperate rivals.

At Aozaki Touko’s auction, Lainis recognized the El-Melloi Family’s missing Magecraft Furnaces and resolved to find the person who sold them. When Tohsaka Rin admired an Age of Gods gem, Touko offered to buy it for her, leaving Rin torn between wanting it and fearing what accepting the gift would mean.

• An evil-ghost-masked man lusted after Tohsaka Rin but backed down in fear after recognizing Aozaki Touko beside her.
• Beo began the auction and sold the three Magecraft Furnaces, which Lainis recognized as the ones her family had rented and been charged for after their presumed destruction.
• Lainis decided to find the seller and make him answer for the El-Melloi Family’s losses, while Aozaki Touko looked forward to seeing how he would face El-Melloi II.
• Beo presented a gem said to come from Aphrodite’s temple, and Tohsaka Rin recognized its extraordinary value.
• Aozaki Touko offered to buy the gem for Tohsaka Rin, who hesitated because accepting such a costly gift felt like surrendering her emotional defenses.

Aozaki Touko won the Aphrodite-related gemstone for one hundred billion yen, then used its mystery and the Third Magic to enhance her beauty. She left the auction with Tohsaka Rin for a shopping trip, while Tohsaka Sakura secretly followed and realized they were on a date rather than discussing the Holy Grail War.

• Aozaki Touko bid one hundred billion yen and won the gemstone related to Aphrodite, astonishing Tohsaka Rin with her wealth.
• Beo presented a portrait of the Third Magus and King Arthur, which Aozaki Touko recognized as a painting made during her London date with Artoria.
• Aozaki Touko explained to Tohsaka Rin that she used the gemstone and the Third Magic to amplify her beauty, then toned down the effect before they went shopping.
• Aozaki Touko took Tohsaka Rin by the hand and led her into Fuyuki City's commercial district.
• Tohsaka Sakura secretly followed Tohsaka Rin and Aozaki Touko, discovering that they were shopping intimately instead of discussing the Holy Grail War.

Tohsaka Rin helped Aozaki Touko choose cute clothes and underwear while Touko teased her about being her girlfriend. Rin then brought Touko the matching piece of underwear at the fitting room, where the chapter left them waiting.

• Aozaki Touko told a saleswoman that Rin was her girlfriend, and Rin blushed but did not correct the misunderstanding.
• Touko teased Rin about being captured by her charm and asked the saleswoman to help her dress cutely for Rin.
• Rin chose black lace underwear for Touko, while the saleswoman and other customers teased her about their relationship.
• The saleswoman gave Rin the matching piece of underwear and hurried away to help another customer.
• Rin went to the fitting room and told Touko she had brought the matching piece, and Touko asked her to wait.

Tohsaka Rin spent the day shopping and going out with Aozaki Touko, then came home to find Tohsaka Sakura and Tohsaka Aoi waiting for her. Elsewhere, Holy Church Executors guarded a mansion where a girl inheriting the First Magic was being kept under watch.

• Tohsaka Rin hid in Aozaki Touko’s fitting room when she spotted Tohsaka Sakura nearby, and explained that she did not want Sakura to learn she had lied about discussing the Holy Grail War.
• Tohsaka Rin helped Aozaki Touko fasten her bra, and Touko later teased Rin while helping her change into a new outfit.
• Tohsaka Rin and Aozaki Touko bought clothes, shared a Western-style dinner, watched a movie, and then returned to their respective homes.
• Tohsaka Rin entered her house and found Tohsaka Sakura and Tohsaka Aoi waiting in the living room.
• In Misaki City, Holy Church Executors guarded the mansion of a girl who had inherited the First Magic, while they also kept watch on Kuonji Alice and worried about the girl’s power changing the world.

The Blonde Girl confronted Kuonji Alice about the First Magic knowledge behind Aozaki Touko’s planetary-scale magic circle, and Alice affirmed that she trusted Touko to use it to save the world. At home, Illya discovered Touko’s transformation gem and activated an uncanny power after following Rieses’s advice.

• The Blonde Girl gave Kuonji Alice a document describing a planetary-scale magic circle founded on the First Magic and warned that it could create an alternate world.
• Alice admitted she had helped construct the circle and said she trusted Aozaki Touko, after which the Blonde Girl left with the document.
• Illya learned that Touko and Irisviel had gone on a seaside date and found a box labeled as a Magical Girl transformation gem.
• Illya opened the box and tried its transformation spell, but Rieses interrupted and told her that saying “transform” was enough.
• Illya spoke the shorter spell, briefly altered the space around her, and made Rieses recognize Aozaki Touko’s magical presence.

Gray and Lainis visited the Aozaki household after Lainis sensed the magical surge from Illya’s transformation into a Magical Girl. Illya welcomed them, and after they settled in, she asked Lainis about keeping the supernatural hidden.

• Lainis praised Gray’s appearance and reassured her that she would not become King Arthur, while Gray admitted she still felt uneasy about her face.
• Lainis’s Mystic Eyes reacted to Illya’s powerful magical energy, and she led Gray toward its source after discussing Soul Gems.
• Illya tested her new Magic Wand at home and accidentally conjured a dangerous fireball before dispersing it.
• Lainis and Gray arrived at the Aozaki household, where Illya greeted them and learned they had come to investigate the magical surge.
• Gray clarified that she was not King Arthur’s daughter, and Illya invited the visitors inside for tea.
• After Sella served them, Illya asked Lainis what she meant by preventing a leak of the supernatural.