Chapter Summaries

Aozaki Ritsuka, Mashu, Illya, and Aozaki Aoko arrived in ancient Mesopotamia, where Aoko easily killed a pack of Demonic Beasts. Tohsaka Rin fell from the sky and was caught by Illya, but she revealed that she had fused with the goddess Ishtar, who then asked whether Touko could join them.

• Aozaki Ritsuka welcomed Illya and Aozaki Aoko after they were summoned to ancient Mesopotamia.
• Aozaki Aoko killed the Demonic Beasts surrounding the group with a volley of Magic Bullets.
• Aozaki Ritsuka spotted someone falling from the sky, and Mashu recognized her as Tohsaka Rin.
• Illya leaped up and caught Tohsaka Rin before she hit the ground.
• Tohsaka Rin explained that she and Ishtar had fused, with Ishtar taking the dominant role.
• Ishtar asked the group to summon Touko, but Aozaki Aoko said Touko had gone traveling to another world.

Aozaki Ritsuka and her companions encountered Gonggu, who posed as Enkidu and offered to guide them to Uruk. When Ritsuka learned that Ishtar was one of the Three Goddess Alliance, she realized she might have to fight the mother she hoped to protect.

• Ishtar left Ritsuka and the others to search for something, and Illya destroyed a charging horde of Demonic Beasts with her magic.
• Gonggu, an impostor occupying Enkidu's corpse, approached the group and introduced himself as Enkidu, while Aozaki Aoko remained suspicious of him.
• Ritsuka accepted Gonggu's offer to lead them to Uruk, and he explained the crisis, the Three Goddess Alliance, and the Demonic Beasts.
• Gonggu confirmed that Ishtar was part of the Three Goddess Alliance, leaving Ritsuka distressed at the prospect of fighting her mother.

Merlin revealed that Touko had sent her to help Ritsuka and guide the group toward Uruk. After Gonggu’s identity was exposed, he fled, warning Ritsuka that greater despair awaited her.

• Illya encouraged Ritsuka to believe she could find a way to cooperate with Ishtar, and Ritsuka regained her resolve.
• Merlin appeared, and Roman excitedly asked Ritsuka to get her autograph, revealing his devotion to Merlin’s future virtual-idol persona.
• Merlin confronted Gonggu and recognized him as Enkidu, whose counterpart had already died in this era.
• Gonggu attacked with golden chains, then escaped after Merlin exposed his identity and he realized he was outnumbered.
• Merlin led the group toward Uruk and told Ritsuka that Touko had sent her to help.

Merlin warned Aozaki Aoko, Illya, and Mashu that the Seventh Singularity involved a poor mother and dangers beyond ordinary trouble, while Alester speculated that Ivy sought to become a Magic God by presenting herself as God. At the villa, Aozaki Touko watched Accelerator care for Last Order, then went to meet Kuonji Alice, only for a confident aviation chairman to approach them.

• Merlin teased Illya and the others with an unclear warning about protecting them and a poor mother, then described her habit of giving people brutally honest prophecies.
• Alester told Aihwas he believed Ivy was a Pure Magician seeking to become a Magic God, and concluded that her claim to be God made her a blasphemer to billions of believers.
• Touko watched Last Order play with Accelerator, who ended their pool game and dried her hair while warning that she needed treatment that night.
• Touko left to pick up an important guest and met Kuonji Alice at the airport.
• The chairman of Keyu Aviation approached Touko and Alice, introducing himself and saying he wanted to meet them.

A young man learned that Fate’s Spark made every woman he fell in love with a lesbian, then was kidnapped and blackmailed by Ivy’s mage protector. After leaving the hotel, he was persuaded by the man in black to pursue a male lover, only to be tricked into being sexually dominated again.

• Aozaki Touko reunited with Azu, kissed her, and told the young man that everyone he fell in love with was destined to be a lesbian.
• The young man searched for Ivy but was kidnapped by her mage protector, who warned him to stay away and threatened to expose his crimes.
• The protector extorted the young man and sexually assaulted him at the hotel.
• After leaving the hotel, the young man encountered the man in black, who argued that a male lover could help him defy fate.
• The young man accepted the man in black’s challenge, but the man led him back to the hotel and tricked him into being dominated again.

Maiha Tsuchimikado admired Aozaki Touko’s cooking and learned it was honed while she lived with Kuonji Alice. Later, Shokuhou Misaki fled a group of hunters equipped to counter her Mental Out and reached Touko’s villa, where Touko rescued her with magic.

• Maiha Tsuchimikado praised Aozaki Touko’s cooking, and Kuonji Alice explained that Touko had practiced it during their years together.
• Aozaki Touko admitted she had cooked for Alice partly to win her over, and Alice accused her of having ulterior motives.
• Shokuhou Misaki ran through the city as helmeted pursuers on high-speed roller-blade suits hunted her with equipment designed to counter her Mental Out.
• Shokuhou Misaki used a red Love Potion to pass through a wall, then continued toward Aozaki Touko’s villa as the pursuers closed in.
• Shokuhou Misaki rang the villa’s doorbell and trusted Touko to save her as the hunters charged.
• Aozaki Touko appeared, embraced Shokuhou Misaki, and used magic to blast the pursuers, leaving them burned and sprawled on the roadway.

After the villa incident was covered up as an accident, Homura River Aiho and Tetsuzou Tsuduri mistook Shokuhou Misaki’s exhaustion for evidence of abuse and broke into Aozaki Touko’s home. They apologized after discovering the truth, and Touko jokingly demanded that Aiho bare her chest as an apology.

• Officials ordered Homura River Aiho not to investigate the villa and classified the disaster as an accident caused by delinquent students.
• Homura River Aiho and Tetsuzou Tsuduri saw exhausted Shokuhou Misaki at the villa entrance and assumed she had been abused.
• The two security officers rushed into the villa, where they found Aozaki Touko massaging Shokuhou Misaki and realized they had misunderstood.
• Homura River Aiho and Tetsuzou Tsuduri apologized for entering the residence, and Aozaki Touko said their apology lacked sincerity.
• Aozaki Touko jokingly told Homura River Aiho that apologizing required her to bare her chest, prompting Tetsuzou Tsuduri to object.

Shokuhou Misaki reflected on her growing closeness to Aozaki Touko while receiving a massage, then asked why Touko treated her so kindly. Touko gave her a choice between two Spirit Gear items for self-defense, and Misaki chose one.

• Homura River Aiho agreed to treat Aozaki Touko and her companions to a meal, and Touko jokingly said she might bring over twenty thousand people before settling on three.
• Shokuhou Misaki relaxed as Aozaki Touko massaged her legs and wondered whether she could enjoy Touko’s care in the future.
• Misaki asked why Touko was so good to her, and Touko said she acted according to her mood.
• Misaki suggested her feminine charm might make Touko want to pursue her, but Touko teased her about her flat chest.
• Touko offered Misaki a Lucky Necklace that traded later bad luck for escape from danger, or Fate Bracelets that protected people who mutually acknowledged each other.
• Misaki considered both Spirit Gear items, glanced at Touko, and made her choice.

Aozaki Ritsuka bravely addressed King Gilgamesh in Uruk and asked for the Holy Grail, but he refused to hand it over. She then asked what he wanted in exchange.

• Aozaki Touko left Shokuhou Misaki to sleep alone, then slipped into Kuonji Alice's bed and was caught sneaking in.
• Kuonji Alice teased Touko about her absence, and Touko turned the teasing into an affectionate embrace.
• Aozaki Ritsuka stepped forward to address Gilgamesh, who laughed and granted her permission to speak.
• Gilgamesh used the Holy Grail as a wine cup, astonishing Ritsuka and Illya with his wealth and his casual treatment of it.
• Gilgamesh said he already knew about Chaldea and refused Ritsuka's request to give them the Holy Grail.
• Ritsuka acknowledged she could not simply take his possession and asked Gilgamesh what he wanted.

Gilgamesh agreed to give Ritsuka and her companions the Holy Grail if they worked odd jobs in Uruk, while Ishtar confronted him and backed down when he warned her that fighting could harm her unborn child. At their new base, Ritsuka and the others met Anna, whom they recognized as a young Medusa.

• Gilgamesh offered the Holy Grail in exchange for Ritsuka and her companions doing odd jobs in Uruk, and Siduri showed them their new base.
• Ishtar broke into the royal palace to question Gilgamesh about Ritsuka, but he taunted her about her pregnancy and threatened to attack with Noble Phantasms.
• Ishtar abandoned the confrontation to protect her unborn child and flew away, while Ritsuka sneezed in Uruk without knowing why.
• Siduri led Ritsuka and her companions to an earthen house, where they saw a hooded girl named Anna.
• Merlin introduced Anna, and Illya and Ritsuka recognized her as a younger version of Medusa.

Aozaki Touko met Kamijo Touma and temporarily suppressed the misfortune tied to his right hand, letting him win a lottery for a limited-edition figurine. Meanwhile, Alester secretly labeled Ivy a blasphemer to the major churches, setting the Magic Side against her and threatening wider turmoil.

• Aozaki Touko returned Kamijo Touma's lost phone, and his right hand erased the magical protections on her body when they touched.
• Touko tested Kamijo's Imagine Breaker and told him his power was linked to his terrible luck, then jokingly offered him a knife to cut off his hand.
• Touko said she could briefly suppress Kamijo's power and granted him a fortunate ordinary day before disappearing.
• Kamijo received a lottery notification and learned that he had won a limited-edition Headless Mami figurine.
• An angel warned Alester that he was provoking a dangerous enemy after he had secretly told the Roman Orthodox Church, the Church of England, and the Russian Orthodox Church that Ivy was a blasphemer.

Aozaki Touko learned that major churches and Alester were considering her a threat, but she remained relaxed with Kuonji Alice in a dessert shop. A mage in a Panda Costume waited outside to assassinate her, while Touko seemed aware of him and continued sharing dessert with Alice.

• Alester resolved to eliminate Aozaki Touko after seeing her seal Imagine Breaker, while Aihwas speculated that Touko might be an incarnation of God.
• Laura ordered the Church of England to prepare for war against Ivy and the Mage's Association, despite Ivy being her friend.
• Fiamma of the Right urged the Pope to punish Ivy, but the Pope refused to act until the intelligence was confirmed.
• Aozaki Touko told Kuonji Alice that the churches had discussed her alleged blasphemy, and Alice criticized Touko for provoking them.
• A mage wearing a Panda Costume infiltrated Academy City and waited outside the dessert shop to kill Touko with his one-hit-kill magic.
• After an hour, Touko glanced at the waiting mage, then offered half her crepe to Alice.

Stiyl Magnus failed to persuade Anisha Marshall to surrender the Mage's Association, while Othinus and Laura considered the powers and loyalties that would shape the coming conflict. The chapter left both sides preparing for a war in which Ivy's strength and reputation made the Church of England's prospects uncertain.

• A magician in a Panda Costume lost track of Touko and Alice as they left the dessert shop, then abandoned his assassination attempt, while Alester watched his failure from the Windowless Building.
• Stiyl Magnus visited Anisha Marshall at the Clock Tower and failed to persuade her to surrender, as Anisha declared her loyalty to Ivy and confidence in Ivy's power.
• Othinus appeared and confirmed that her restored Magic God power was a decisive factor, though she could not yet control it reliably.
• At St. George's Cathedral, Stiyl reported Anisha's refusal to Laura, who suspected Touko had hidden trump cards and discussed the Church's poor prospects against Ivy.

Illya learned that her current Heroic Spirit form could unleash the Life Tree's power without endangering her true body, but doing so could turn her into a demon king and destroy the world. Meanwhile, Aozaki Touko spoke with Laura and a gathered group of religious forces, who demanded to know whether she was a blasphemer.

• Illya entertained Uruk's children with stories, then worried that she was running out of tales to tell them.
• Merlin explained that Illya's current form was only a projection and suggested she could unleash the Life Tree's power if the situation became desperate.
• Illya considered the power's catastrophic consequences and left, deciding the time had not yet come to use it.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu recovered from the backlash of contacting the Church of England on Aozaki Touko's orders.
• Laura contacted Aozaki Touko while surrounded by magicians and Saints, including Ollerus, and asked whether Touko was a blasphemer.

Aozaki Touko declared herself God and began remaking the world, raising the sun and turning the water on Earth red as the first of the plagues. As religious forces prepared to attack Academy City and the Mage's Association rallied behind Ivy, Misaka Mikoto watched an emergency broadcast reveal that magic existed.

• Aozaki Touko told Laura and the others she would destroy the old world and cover it with a new one when the sun rose.
• Aozaki Touko raised the sun, ending night across Earth and prompting fear and speculation worldwide.
• Kanzaki Kaori and the others found that a river in England had turned red, and Laura called for a holy war against Ivy in Academy City.
• Anisha Marshall told the Mage's Association's leaders that war was coming and urged them to fight for Ivy's promised rewards.
• Misaka Mikoto saw reports that seas and rivers had turned red before an emergency broadcast announced that magic users existed.

After a broadcast identified Aozaki Touko as Ivy and blamed her for the coming Third World War, Misaka Mikoto rushed to Touko’s home and was told she would explain herself once everyone arrived. Meanwhile, the Mage’s Association fought the church in Britain, where Laura found the church outmatched and still waiting for the Knight faction to act.

• A mage on a broadcast named Ivy as the source of the coming Third World War, and Ivy magically slapped him twice when he insulted her.
• Misaka Mikoto recognized Ivy as her teacher, Aozaki Touko, and hurried to Touko’s residence; Shokuhou Misaki also decided to go there.
• Tsuchimikado Maiha let Misaka Mikoto in, and Mikoto found Touko calmly cooking dinner in the kitchen.
• Misaka Mikoto urged Touko to explain herself before the world turned against her, and Touko promised to explain once everyone had arrived.
• In London, a Blonde Girl assassinated a church member while carrying out her mission to support Touko’s ritual.
• Laura reported that the Mage’s Association was overpowering the church, while the Knight faction continued to wait for the Queen’s orders.

Aozaki Touko prepared a banquet as powerful enemies converged on Academy City, while Alester tried to manage the approaching conflict. When Yuinami Awaki arrived to order Touko to leave, Touko refused and trapped her, leaving the battle poised to begin inside the city.

• A red-haired fighter, the Adriatic Sea Queen Fleet, and Kanzaki Kaori headed toward Academy City to confront Ivy, while Kanzaki raced to arrive before the others.
• Alester chose to see whether Ivy would leave Academy City and relied on his backup plans as Aihwas watched the approaching crisis.
• Touko prepared a lavish dinner for the enemies coming to her home and told Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto that war had already begun around the world.
• Yuinami Awaki arrived with Alester’s request that Touko leave Academy City, but Touko refused and said she would fight there instead.
• Touko demanded two hundred million dollars from Awaki for trespassing, then trapped her in an altered area where her Space Transfer no longer worked and pale hands seized her.

Yuinami Awaki escaped from Aozaki Touko’s villa but was secretly compelled to return, while Touko prepared a Last Supper before the coming battle with Fiamma of the Right. As the banquet began, Academy City’s Dark Side rejected orders to assassinate Ivy, leaving the conflict poised to begin.

• Aozaki Touko had Shokuhou Misaki erase Yuinami Awaki’s trauma, then assigned Awaki to livestream the Last Supper.
• Yuinami Awaki fled to her apartment, watched news of the Magic Side’s setbacks, and tried to leave again, but returned to Touko’s villa under Shokuhou Misaki’s control.
• Fiamma of the Right arrived with Kanzaki Kaori, and Aozaki Touko invited them inside to eat before the battle.
• Kinuhata Saiai, Frenda Seivelun, and Mugino Shizuri watched the livestream as Mugino refused an order to assassinate Ivy.
• Kakine Teitoku also angrily rejected the mission to assassinate Ivy.

Aozaki Touko explained that the war had been pushed by powerful people who wanted her dead, while claiming her own purpose was to free humanity from a predetermined fate. She left the gathering poised to judge humanity, but did not reveal the standard by which she would decide who deserved saving.

• Kakine Teitoku refused to take part in an assassination plot against Ivy, while Shokuho Misaki warned that it would bring endless reprisals.
• At a televised final banquet, Kanzaki Kaori asked Ivy why she had caused the conflict, and Ivy said others had started it by branding her a blasphemer.
• Vasilisa and Fiamma of the Right made clear that evidence would not stop the war, and Fiamma insisted Ivy had to be defeated in battle.
• Aozaki Touko said the war benefited those seeking to expand their power and obstructed plans by Fiamma of the Right, Alester, and Laura.
• Aozaki Touko told Kanzaki Kaori that she intended to return humanity's fate to people, but would first judge who qualified to be saved.

Aozaki Touko and Kuonji Alice drew their enemies into an amusement park, where the battle spread as bread familiars attacked the magicians. Meanwhile, more than thirty Godzillas emerged from the oceans, and a U.S. military strike appeared to kill one as the remaining monsters continued toward Japan.

• Fiamma of the Right attacked Aozaki Touko, but she moved the battle to an amusement park and sent Kuonji Alice to deal with the others.
• Yuinami Awaki teleported into a bakery and saw bread, knives, and other food items come alive and stream out into the streets.
• Monsters, including more than thirty Godzillas, awakened across the world's oceans and headed toward the continents.
• Kanzaki Kaori cut through approaching baguette familiars and left to find the other magicians, while Vasilisa ate one of the baguettes and followed them.
• A U.S. military commander dismissed the Godzillas as harmless, then watched tactical missiles strike one and the livestream confirm its death.