Chapter Summaries

Aozaki Touko took young Tohno Akiha from the Tohno estate to the Kuonji Western Mansion, where the snowy view awakened Akiha’s desire to see more of the world. At the mansion, Kuonji Alice saw Touko arrive with the child and asked whether she had kidnapped her.

• Tohno Akiha left her room and encountered Aozaki Touko at the family gate, where Touko had knocked out a guard.
• Touko persuaded Akiha that resisting unwanted treatment was reasonable, then secured Tohno Makihisa’s agreement to take Akiha away.
• Touko carried Akiha up the snowy hill and told her about the witch’s mansion on their way to the Kuonji Western Mansion.
• Akiha admired the view of Misaki City and told Touko she liked it and wanted to see more of the world.
• Touko entered the mansion carrying Tohno Akiha, and Kuonji Alice teased her about kidnapping a child.

Tohno Makihisa tried to secure the Miyokage Family’s power to suppress the Tohno clan’s Inversion Impulse, but his plan to obtain Kohaku and Hisui ended in violence. At the Kuzuki Western Mansion, Aozaki Touko introduced the girls to Kuonji Alice and prepared to leave for the Clock Tower, where Mel-Lydele Archleot would meet her.

• Tohno Makihisa allowed Tohno Akiha to visit Aozaki Touko and then went to the Miyokage Family seeking a way to suppress the Inversion Impulse.
• Tohno Makihisa learned that Kohaku and Hisui had been sold to someone else for seventy million yen and killed their uncle in a rage.
• Aozaki Touko brought Kohaku and Hisui to the Kuzuki Western Mansion, where Tohno Akiha joined them and Kuonji Alice offered the girls chocolate familiars.
• Kuonji Alice asked when Aozaki Touko would leave for the Clock Tower, and Touko said she would depart within two days.
• Kuonji Alice planned to ask Mel-Lydele Archleot to meet Touko and guide her at the Clock Tower.

Emiya Kiritsugu forced Aoyama Aohana, a magus caught stealing documents, to sign a two-hundred-million-dollar compensation contract before taking her to gather materials related to Norse runes. In Kanbuchi City, Aozaki Touko met the Ryougi family girl, who showed her a deduced future in which Touko saved humanity and created a world governed by her will.

• Emiya Kiritsugu interrogated the captured magus and threatened to kill her unless she signed Aozaki Touko’s two-hundred-million-dollar compensation contract.
• Aoyama Aohana signed the contract in blood, and Emiya Kiritsugu ordered her to accompany him to collect materials useful for researching Norse runes.
• The Ryougi family girl left home alone in the snow and met Aozaki Touko at a park, where Touko offered her warm coffee.
• The girl explained that she had deduced a future where Aozaki Touko completed the Third Magic, saved humanity, and turned human souls into supercomputers that generated individual worlds.
• The girl revealed a world of black skyscrapers and autonomous puppets, where a godlike future Aozaki Touko controlled every law.

Aozaki Touko rejected a calculated future of power as boring and met Root Shiki to establish a personal bond. Their exchange became an equal cooperation, and Root Shiki agreed to preserve Ori’s personality when the time came.

• Aozaki Touko told Root Shiki that the deduced path to supreme power seemed boring, and Root Shiki ended the vision of that possible future.
• Aozaki Touko and Root Shiki exchanged names and agreed they were friends, while Touko hinted at wanting access to the Root.
• When Root Shiki asked what wish Touko wanted fulfilled, Touko instead asked whether Root Shiki had a wish she could fulfill.
• A man approached Root Shiki, who reversed her body’s age and ended the meeting; Touko offered to make a body for Ori, and Root Shiki promised to preserve Ori’s personality.
• Aozaki Touko left, and Root Shiki told the confused man that Touko was her contracted person before heading home with him.

Aozaki Touko confronted Tohno Makihisa after he gave up trying to take the Miko Futago from the Kuzuki Western Mansion, then returned to the plane with Kohaku and Hisui. The journey left her preparing to settle the Rune Runes and complete the Third Magic while the girls grew grateful for their new home.

• Tohno Makihisa abandoned his plan to seize the Miko Futago because he feared Aozaki Touko and the consequences for the Tohno Family.
• Yaya guarded the Kuzuki Western Mansion and regretted that Tohno Makihisa had not given her a chance to fight.
• Aozaki Touko met Tohno Makihisa on his way home, used a coin trick to intimidate him, and let him leave for the sake of Shiye.
• Aozaki Touko told Yaya she had predicted Tohno Makihisa's visit and had sent her to protect the mansion and Azu's family home.
• Aboard a private plane, Kohaku served Aozaki Touko tea, and Touko praised her efforts as Kohaku and Hisui read together.
• Aozaki Touko reflected that she had rescued the girls and planned to settle the Rune Runes before completing the Third Magic.

Aozaki Touko returned to Einzbern Castle with Kohaku and Hisui, where the Androids and her companions welcomed her, and Hadon acknowledged her influence. Meanwhile, Ryougi Shiki wrestled with whether to seek Touko out, while Touko began building a puppet army for the sheer appeal of it.

• Marisbury Animusphere learned that Aozaki Touko was coming to the Clock Tower and saw her vast wealth as an opportunity to fund his research.
• Aozaki Touko returned to Einzbern Castle, where Beo, Irisviel, Illyasviel, and the Androids welcomed her.
• Aozaki Touko introduced Kohaku and Hisui as her new personal maids and asked Illyasviel to train them as head maid.
• Hadon observed the Androids' response to Touko and said he would hand Einzbern over to her if she won the Holy Grail War.
• Ryougi Shiki declined to seek out Touko for now, suspecting that doing so would make her feel like a puppet following someone else's plan.
• Aozaki Touko worked on wooden-and-metal combat puppets for her planned Hundred Puppet Maneuvers technique, inspired by the idea of looking cool in battle.

Aozaki Touko discussed the Holy Grail War and the Third Magic with Hadon, claiming she could reproduce the Third Magic through her own research even if she lost. She later talked with Irisviel about her mass-produced puppet designs, and the chapter ended at dawn outside Einzbern Castle.

• Aozaki Touko tested a wooden puppet and used her Reality Marble to begin replicating hundreds of puppets.
• Illyasviel told Aozaki Touko that Hadon wanted to speak with her, then cleaned the Magic Workshop.
• Hadon told Aozaki Touko he had found Avalon, and she wondered aloud whether King Arthur was a boy or a girl.
• Aozaki Touko said she had touched the edge of the Third Magic and believed she could reproduce it without the Greater Holy Grail.
• After Aozaki Touko left, Hadon asked his Android maids whether she could really complete the Third Magic herself.
• Aozaki Touko told Irisviel that her cheap mass-produced puppets were intended to wear enemies down through attrition.

Aozaki Touko and her family traveled to London, where Lidell welcomed them and offered to show them around. After introducing Irisviel as her wife, Touko left the crowded airport with Lidell, who questioned whether Beo was really her familiar.

• Aozaki Touko and Irisviel woke, prepared for their trip, and flew to London with Illyasviel, Beo, and the Miko Futago.
• Lidell waited at the airport and greeted Touko, then met Irisviel and learned she was Touko's wife.
• Lidell asked whether the three little girls were Touko and Irisviel's children, but Touko deflected the question as the crowd gathered around them.
• Lidell took Touko's group toward the Clock Tower and offered to show them the house she had chosen.
• Lidell doubted Beo was a strong familiar, so Touko suggested she experience Beo's aura.

Aozaki Touko comforted Lidell after Beo’s presence terrified her, then accepted Lidell’s offer of a place to stay and learned that Lidell valued her beyond her connection to the Fifth Magic. The next morning, Touko began teaching potion basics at the Clock Tower and declared confidence in reaching the Root without relying on the Fifth Magic.

• Beo revealed her dangerous presence, frightening Lidell until Aozaki Touko stopped her and comforted Lidell.
• Aozaki Touko and her companions arrived at Lidell’s mansion, where Lidell offered her a place to stay without charge.
• Aozaki Touko told Lidell that she was no longer the heir to the Fifth Magic and that Aoko was the true heir.
• Lidell said she wanted to invest in Touko herself and hurried inside to bathe and change.
• Aozaki Touko addressed a packed classroom at the Clock Tower as a lecturer and offered to teach basic potion knowledge.
• Aozaki Touko answered a monk’s question by saying she could reach the Root without relying on the Fifth Magic.

Aozaki Touko taught a lesson at the Clock Tower, where Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald proposed marriage and she refused him and all other men. After class, Mel-Lydele Archleot told the assembled students that Touko was already married, leaving them stunned and uncertain.

• A monk asked Aozaki Touko whether Dollcraft could reach the Root, and she said that anything taken to its extreme might do so.
• Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald introduced himself and proposed marrying Touko to produce gifted offspring, but she refused and said she would marry no man.
• Mel-Lydele Archleot pointed out that several people hoped to marry Touko, and Touko told them to focus on the lesson.
• Touko taught an accessible introductory lesson and deferred a student's question about doll object recognition until after class.
• After Touko left, Mel-Lydele Archleot announced that Touko was already married, prompting a young man to ask in surprise whether it was true.

Aozaki Touko returned to the Western Mansion and enjoyed a dinner Irisviel had secretly learned to cook, while the household nervously awaited her verdict. Later, Lidell asked Irisviel about how she and Touko became a couple, and Irisviel began explaining why Touko chose her.

• Mel-Lydele Archleot told the magi that Aozaki Touko had taken Irisviel von Einzbern as her wife, and the others dismissed the news as unimportant.
• Aozaki Touko returned home, embraced Irisviel, and welcomed her warmly.
• Irisviel served a dinner she had practiced making for Touko, who praised the soup and relieved the anxious household.
• Lidell and Irisviel admired the snowy moonlit scenery, where Irisviel confirmed she was an android.
• Irisviel explained that Touko had chosen her soon after she emerged from the cultivation tank, though Touko had played no part in her creation.
• Lidell asked whether Touko had ever explained why she chose Irisviel, and Irisviel had not yet answered.

Irisviel told Lidell that she loved Touko and hoped to have a child with her, while Lidell decided not to warn Azu about Touko's ambiguous relationship with her. Elsewhere, Kiritsugu and Aoyama Aohana escaped after robbing a Dead Apostle, and Sola watched Touko in the Clock Tower library as her friends criticized her.

• Irisviel said Touko's promise to make her human had deeply shaped her love, and she hoped to bear a child who could call her Mother and Touko Father.
• Lidell suspected Touko and Azu had an unusual relationship, but chose not to tell Azu because she feared causing trouble between them.
• Emiya Kiritsugu and Aoyama Aohana fled in a Hummer after stealing rune tablets and antiques from a Dead Apostle, then used a machine gun to repel his pursuit.
• Sola's friends complained that Touko had disrupted Sola's prospects with Kayneth, while Sola said the situation was due to the nature of mages, not Touko.

Sola approached Aozaki Touko in the library and explained that she disliked the fate of being married off to a suitable mage, not Kayneth himself. Touko encouraged her to judge Kayneth for herself and revealed that her wife was a real woman, leaving Sola surprised.

• After finishing her book, Aozaki Touko accepted Sola’s offer to guide her to books about Norse folklore.
• As they walked, Sola told Aozaki Touko that she was glad Kayneth had considered ending their marriage alliance.
• Sola explained that she hated the role Kayneth represented as a suitable marriage candidate and the fate her family had chosen for her.
• Aozaki Touko suggested that Sola set aside her prejudice and observe Kayneth’s character, describing him as devoted to love.
• Aozaki Touko told Sola that her wife was a real woman, not a doll brought from Einzbern as a shield.

Sola met Aozaki Touko and admired her independent way of life, while Touko offered cautious advice before leaving. Emiya Kiritsugu delivered rune-inscribed stone fragments to Touko’s workshop, where she teased him about his new reputation and then asked why he had killed his father.

• Sola told Aozaki Touko that she admired her freedom and wished she could live by her own will.
• Aozaki Touko advised Sola to judge reality rationally, while acknowledging that she could be willful if she was truly unhappy.
• Emiya Kiritsugu visited Touko’s workshop and delivered a broken tablet carved with rune runes.
• Touko teased Kiritsugu about being known as the master thief Che Guevara, and he said more runes would arrive later.
• Touko told Kiritsugu she had investigated his past and asked why he had personally killed his father.

Emiya Kiritsugu admitted he did not know how to save the world, and Aozaki Touko persuaded him to devote his money to charity. Three months later, Touko, Irisviel, and Beo went shopping in London, where Touko bought out a clothing store before suggesting coffee.

• Aozaki Touko challenged Emiya Kiritsugu to define how he would save the world, and he admitted he did not know.
• Aozaki Touko proposed using Kiritsugu's stolen wealth for charitable work, and he agreed to give her all his money.
• Emiya Kiritsugu left the workshop feeling both constrained by his debt to Touko and relieved to have a concrete purpose.
• Three months later, Aozaki Touko, Irisviel, and Beo visited a women's clothing store in London.
• Aozaki Touko told the salesgirl to pack all the clothes, then suggested that she and Irisviel go for coffee.

Aozaki Touko met Altrouge Brunestud, who asked the human genius to study and possibly treat her mysterious ailment. Touko remained unafraid and asked what compensation Altrouge would offer, leaving their negotiations unresolved.

• Altrouge Brunestud’s knight approached Aozaki Touko at a café, and Touko sent Beo and Irisviel back to the Clock Tower.
• Aozaki Touko and Altrouge tested each other’s strength while playfully scratching the White Beast beneath the table.
• Altrouge explained that she had sought Touko out because of rumors about her medical abilities and asked for help with an old ailment.
• Aozaki Touko warned that she might not be able to treat someone like Altrouge, but Altrouge agreed to let her examine her.
• Aozaki Touko asked what compensation Altrouge would pay, and Altrouge suggested that access to her body was already a reward.

Aozaki Touko agreed to treat Altrouge for one hundred billion dollars, keeping the arrangement secret until Altrouge recovered. After Altrouge left to gather money and research equipment, Touko reflected on an unusual perception she had experienced and headed home to Irisviel.

• Aozaki Touko told Altrouge she would treat her for one hundred billion dollars, with payment allowed in installments.
• Altrouge proposed raising the money by killing the White Winged Lord or borrowing from Vavylm, and Touko warned her to keep the treatment confidential.
• Aozaki Touko watched the meeting from a rooftop in a young spare body because Altrouge had brought the Primate Killer; the Touko in the café was a puppet.
• Altrouge left to obtain money and advanced research equipment, suspecting Touko might be using her connections to acquire it.
• Aozaki Touko considered the strange perspective she had gained while blurring her humanity and decided to investigate it, then went home to Irisviel.

Aozaki Touko accepted a desperate young man’s request to treat his dying mother, and a month later the woman awoke cured. Her son revealed that he had paid Touko with the entire family fortune, leaving his mother stunned.

• Aozaki Touko taught a crowded potion class at the Clock Tower, where students sought her help with their problems.
• Numata prostrated himself before Touko and begged her to save his dying mother, offering a case of gold.
• Touko agreed to examine Numata’s mother and warned that the treatment might cost enough to bankrupt his family.
• A monk reflected that Touko might save the world if someone could guide her, then left to seek such a person.
• A month later, Numata’s mother awoke in the Clock Tower hospital, and he told her that Touko had cured her illness.
• Numata admitted that he had paid Touko the entire family fortune, shocking his mother.

Aozaki Touko considered Marisbury Animusphere’s proposal to fund Chaldea while continuing to treat Altrouge with specially developed blood. After Altrouge woke from her healing sleep, she sensed Touko’s humanity growing more pronounced as Touko spoke of creating the perfect human.

• Aozaki Touko read Marisbury Animusphere’s proposal to establish Chaldea and questioned why he had chosen her as its sole prospective investor.
• Marisbury explained that Touko’s restraint and the Clock Tower aristocrats’ lack of available cash made her the best candidate.
• Aozaki Touko said she was interested in Human Order but would verify the proposal before agreeing.
• Altrouge drank Touko’s specially prepared blood for treatment, declared Touko her most precious treasure, and discussed her possessiveness and the possibility of Touko becoming a Dead Apostle.
• After waking from her healing sleep, Altrouge sensed that Touko’s blood had become increasingly human and wondered if Touko was connected to Lilith.
• Aozaki Touko said she had taken another step toward creating the perfect human.

White Beast transformed into human form at Irisviel’s invitation to join dinner, revealing herself as a Catgirl and prompting Irisviel’s delight. Altrouge introduced her pet and vassal as Bremeth, Primate Killer, who possessed absolute authority to kill humans.

• White Beast looked to Altrouge for permission, and Altrouge approved of her taking human form.
• White Beast transformed into a silver-haired girl with animal ears.
• Irisviel called White Beast a Catgirl and expressed excitement at seeing one in person.
• Altrouge introduced White Beast as Bremeth, her pet and vassal, and identified her as Primate Killer with absolute authority to kill humans.