Chapter Summaries

After becoming the first modern-era Counsellor Magician, Aozaki Touko said she planned to research how to prolong Earth's survival but kept her reasons secret. She then led Beo through the Clock Tower's Old Heart and prepared to punch through the floor in search of a white-haired, red-eyed woman.

• The Clock Tower Lords unanimously elevated Aozaki Touko to Counsellor Magician, and she invited them to a banquet three days later.
• McDonell asked Touko about her next research project, and she said she would focus on ensuring Earth's continued existence without revealing what she knew about the future.
• Inorai suggested that Touko had seen the same world as the Atlas Institute, and Touko gave an ambiguous reply.
• After the ceremony, Touko sent Irisviel back to the surface with Lidell and wandered through the Old Heart with Beo.
• Touko told Beo to retreat, covered herself in Runes, gathered magical energy into her fist, and struck the floor, unleashing violent winds through the passageways.

Aozaki Touko and Beo reached the Fae Realm, where they met Merlin, who claimed to know Touko from the future. Merlin warned Touko about Blood’s End and described seeing her burn to ashes in the flames of love, leaving Touko to launch a massive Rune spell.

• Beo was blasted through Albion’s passageway, and Touko dug her out before agreeing to find Chimera for her to eat.
• Touko and Beo entered the Fae Realm and met Merlin, who said she knew Touko from a past encounter with Touko’s future self.
• Merlin explained that someone had kicked her into this world line, where she had become a woman beside a female version of King Arthur.
• Merlin asked Touko whether she knew about Blood’s End and said Touko had taught her the term.
• Merlin said she had watched Touko burn to ashes in the flames of love, and Touko responded by spreading hundreds of thousands of Runes across the ground.

Aozaki Touko accepted Merlin’s warning after calculating the possible futures, while Merlin said she had contacted her because she found Touko in Albion. In Finland, Kirei Kotomine met a priest who described him as empty and urged him to find love, leaving Kirei considering the stranger’s words before his mission against a Dead Apostle.

• Aozaki Touko used the Third Stage Gene Lock to calculate disastrous possibilities, then accepted Merlin’s warning about desire exceeding one’s abilities.
• Merlin said she had contacted Touko because they were close to each other in Albion and she wanted to talk.
• Emiya Kiritsugu and Aoyama Aohana planned to steal Christianity-related items from a castle before its Dead Apostle owner left for an auction.
• The Rogue Priest borrowed a lighter from Kiritsugu and Aohana, then told Kirei Kotomine that the man in their van seemed like him but had found happiness.
• Kirei Kotomine questioned whether he was empty and whether the stranger was happy, then listened as the Rogue Priest advised him to fall in love.

In Albion's Mausoleum, Beo asked Aozaki Touko to teach her martial arts after deciding she was tired of being beaten, and Touko chose Baji Quan for her. Meanwhile, in Finland, a Dead Apostle was cornered outside his castle as two thieves and two Executors converged, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Beo and Aozaki Touko returned to Albion's Mausoleum, where Beo defeated a Chimera and Touko stored its body in her Reality Marble.
• Beo told Aozaki Touko she wanted to learn martial arts so she would no longer be easily beaten, and Touko planned to find her a Baji Quan teacher.
• In Helsinki, a Dead Apostle fled two Executors toward his castle and found Che Guevara and Aoyama Aohana stealing his angel statue.
• The Rogue Priest offered Che Guevara and Aoyama Aohana a share of the Dead Apostle's treasures if they helped kill him, and Emiya Kiritsugu stopped the Apostle from reaching the castle with gunfire.
• Aoyama Aohana set down the statue after Che Guevara let go, while the Dead Apostle offered the thieves all his antiques in exchange for a clear path; Emiya Kiritsugu remained wary.

Emiya Kiritsugu asked Aozaki Touko to transfer money so he could divide the antiques recovered from a Dead Apostle among himself and two Executors. Touko agreed to send one hundred million, leaving Kiritsugu to settle the spoils with his companions.

• The Rogue Priest killed the nearly five-hundred-year-old Dead Apostle, then demanded a renegotiation of the spoils from Emiya Kiritsugu and Aoyama Aohana.
• Aoyama Aohana aimed her gun at the Rogue Priest, but he explained that he and Kirei Kotomine wanted a larger share because she had not joined the battle.
• Emiya Kiritsugu contacted Aozaki Touko with a rune-made device and asked her to transfer money for the division of the antiques.
• Aozaki Touko asked why Kiritsugu did not simply kill the two Executors, and he said they were difficult to deal with and there was no need.
• Emiya Kiritsugu requested one hundred million, and Aozaki Touko agreed to transfer it.

Kirei Kotomine asked Emiya Kiritsugu about the emptiness in his heart, and Kiritsugu advised him to seek an ordinary life or consult Aozaki Touko at a steep price. After the castle’s antiques were moved, Kiritsugu contacted Aozaki Touko to discuss Kirei’s condition.

• Kirei Kotomine followed Emiya Kiritsugu into the castle to ask how he had overcome his inner emptiness.
• Emiya Kiritsugu explained that his dream of becoming a Justice Partner had left him empty, while Aozaki Touko’s charity work had given him purpose at a punishing cost.
• Emiya Kiritsugu advised Kirei Kotomine to leave his Executor duties and pursue romance, but Kirei doubted that would solve his problem.
• Kirei Kotomine asked Emiya Kiritsugu to contact Aozaki Touko about treatment and agreed to pay her consultation fee.
• Emiya Kiritsugu, Aoyama Aohana, Kirei Kotomine, and Rogue Priest finished moving the antiques, and Emiya Kiritsugu contacted Aozaki Touko.

Aozaki Touko tested a treatment for Kirei Kotomine’s emotional deficiency by linking his emotions with Emiya Kiritsugu’s, allowing Kirei to experience happiness for the first time. The link left both men sharing each other’s emotional states for three months.

• Aozaki Touko offered to treat Kirei Kotomine’s condition for a fee of one billion dollars and explained that his emotional deficiency was likely innate.
• At the Rogue Priest’s request, Aozaki Touko demonstrated the treatment by inscribing patterns on Kirei Kotomine and Emiya Kiritsugu.
• Kiritsugu thought of the children at his orphanage, and Kirei felt happiness for the first time by sharing Kiritsugu’s emotion.
• Kirei and Kiritsugu sensed each other’s emotional states, including Kirei’s emptiness and Kiritsugu’s warmth.
• Aozaki Touko explained that their emotions were linked within three hundred meters and warned that the connection would last three months.

Aozaki Touko encouraged Emiya Kiritsugu and Kirei Kotomine to keep exploring their new bond, then spent the night teasing Altrouge before returning to the Clock Tower. There, she met an elderly patient and began a class while Lorona anxiously hoped to become her assistant.

• Aozaki Touko agreed to consider Kirei Kotomine's future daughter as payment, and Emiya Kiritsugu and Kirei Kotomine decided to stay together while the magecraft lasted.
• Aozaki Touko told Altrouge she wanted to obtain the Princess of the Moon, then joined her in bed and began touching her despite Altrouge's protests.
• Aozaki Touko went to the Clock Tower, where an elderly man arrived seeking treatment and she agreed to see him after class.
• Lorona nervously listened to Aozaki Touko's lecture, hoping to pass her test and become her assistant.
• A blond boy asked Lorona whether Aozaki Touko had looked at her when she entered the classroom.

Lorona waited at Citrus Private Hospital to show Touko the Gundam she had made and ask about becoming her assistant. While she waited, a golden-haired nurse explained how her family had sent her to serve Touko, and Touko arrived as the nurse teased her about liking rebellious women.

• Lorona recalled her hopes of becoming Touko's assistant and presented her Gundam research as a way to impress her.
• Touko told her students that the Mage's Association would distribute the Runes and offer them a fifty-percent discount to her students.
• Lorona followed Touko toward the infirmary, where Touko said she had wanted to discuss something with her.
• Lorona waited at Citrus Private Hospital and accepted a dinner brought by the golden-haired nurse.
• The nurse deduced that Lorona wanted to become Touko's assistant and told her that her family had given her to Touko as a servant.
• Touko arrived, began eating, and the nurse asked whether she liked rebellious women.

Lorona became Aozaki Touko’s assistant after showing her the Gundam she had built, and Touko explained that her research aimed to prevent Earth’s future decline into Steel Earth. Lorona wondered whether Touko could see the future and asked her to share what she knew about that possible fate.

• Aozaki Touko praised Lorona’s Gundam and invited her to become an assistant, which Lorona eagerly accepted.
• Touko told Lorona that she was researching ways to extend Earth’s life and prevent the future known as Steel Earth.
• Touko described a future in which Earth’s life force withered, civilization collapsed, and extraterrestrial UOs slaughtered the remaining humans.
• Lorona asked whether Touko could see the future, and Touko said she had some precognitive abilities but had not learned about Steel Earth through them.
• Lorona asked Touko to tell her what she knew about Steel Earth.

Aozaki Touko discussed ways to delay the future Steel Earth apocalypse with Altrouge, then attended a Clock Tower banquet where someone tried to drug her with a Love Potion. The chapter ended with Lidell asking what Touko had done about the offender.

• Touko accepted her mission to help delay the Steel Earth, while Altrouge asked how she planned to avert the apocalypse.
• Touko suggested replenishing Earth's vitality with energy from another planet and asked whether draining the Moon could help, angering Altrouge because Crimson Moon was her father.
• Touko and Lidell discussed a Clock Tower banquet where a magician tried to give Touko a Love Potion.
• Lidell offered to have the magician killed, but Touko refused, and Lidell asked what she had done instead.

Aozaki Touko discovered that her luck had dramatically improved and revealed that she was going to Fuyuki City to save a girl from a terrible fate. At the Tohsaka Household, she faced a frightened Tohsaka Tokiomi while his daughters watched from the doorway.

• Aozaki Touko guessed Lidell’s coin tosses correctly ten times and attributed her unusual luck to a mission to save the world.
• Aozaki Touko refused Lidell’s suggestion to eliminate Fuyuki’s magus families, saying she wanted to resolve a regret and save a girl from falling into the abyss.
• Aozaki Touko arrived at the Tohsaka Household as Einzbern’s representative in the Holy Grail War.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi tried to compose himself as Aozaki Touko assured him she had no intention of killing him for now.
• Tohsaka Rin and her sister watched from the doorway, and Rin realized that her father feared the seemingly gentle Aozaki Touko.

Aozaki Touko visited the Tohsaka household and revealed that she had come to change Sakura’s tragic future. After Sakura agreed to see what awaited her, Touko sent her into a dream that began with Sakura awakening in a dark cellar among crawling insects.

• Aozaki Touko asked Tohsaka Tokiomi for his daughters’ names, and he introduced Tohsaka Rin and Tohsaka Sakura.
• Rin tried to protect Sakura, but Tokiomi told Sakura to go to Touko; Touko invited both sisters over and examined them.
• Touko held Sakura and reassured her, then said she had come to save Sakura from a pitiful future.
• Sakura asked to see her future, and Tokiomi supported her decision despite Touko warning that the vision might be frightening.
• Touko drew a rune on Sakura’s brow, putting her to sleep, and Sakura awoke in a cold, dark cellar surrounded by insects.

Aozaki Touko told Tohsaka Tokiomi that the Holy Grail had been corrupted by All the World's Evil and proposed a ritual to eliminate it, requiring the Tohsaka and Matou households to fund the preparations. She then offered Tokiomi a contract selling the Tohsaka Household priority to enter the Root, leaving him to weigh the enormous debt against his family’s future.

• Aozaki Touko warned Tohsaka Tokiomi that the Holy Grail contained All the World's Evil and offered to show him the Greater Holy Grail.
• Touko asked the Tohsaka Household to establish a ritual foundation and gave Tokiomi a list of costly materials needed to purify the corruption.
• Tokiomi agreed to fund the ritual after Touko said he could split the expense with the Matou Household or borrow the money from her under threat of asset seizure.
• Touko offered Tokiomi a contract granting the Tohsaka Household priority to enter the Root in exchange for three hundred billion dollars.
• Tokiomi saw that the debt would fall to Rin if he died, while Touko said he could not know whether he would retain his sense of self after touching the Root.

Aozaki Touko forced Tohsaka Tokiomi to consider signing a contract that would place the Tohsaka family under her control in exchange for a chance to reach the Root. As Touko took Rin and Sakura to inspect Ryuudou Temple, Sakura revealed a dream of a future that Touko said would not come to pass.

• Aozaki Touko explained that she controlled the Lesser Grail and that Tokiomi could not reach the Root without accepting her terms, so he asked to review information about the Greater Holy Grail before deciding.
• Touko agreed to stay in Fuyuki for two days and said she would inspect the Grail and kill Matou Zouken.
• Sakura insisted on accompanying Touko, and Tokiomi agreed after Touko promised to protect her.
• Sakura said a dream had shown her becoming Touko's subordinate, while Touko denied giving her that information.
• On the way to Ryuudou Temple, Sakura described a dream of black buildings, a bodhisattva-like woman beside Touko, and an uncle; Touko recognized it as a false future and told Sakura not to take it seriously.

Aozaki Touko confirmed that the Greater Holy Grail was corrupted, then attacked the Matou Household to kill Matou Zouken. Matou Zouken tried to exploit her disgust at his insects, but the Rose Maidens attacked from the air while Matou Shinji and Matou Tsuruno watched from behind a barrier.

• Aozaki Touko stopped communicating with the Greater Holy Grail after Tohsaka Tokiomi accepted that it had been corrupted, then sent him to take Rin and Sakura home.
• Aozaki Touko surrounded the Matou Household with a barrier and entered with seven Rose Maidens, while Matou Shinji recognized her killing intent.
• The Rose Maidens destroyed the Matou Household's defenses as Matou Zouken emerged from the ruins and challenged Aozaki Touko.
• Aozaki Touko said she had come to kill Matou Zouken, who summoned swarms of insects and tried to make her withdraw by disgusting her.
• Shinku and the Rose Maidens cleared the insects and attacked from the air with Magic Bullets, while Matou Shinji was trapped behind the barrier.
• Matou Tsuruno reached Matou Shinji and reacted with delight when he learned the attackers seemed intent on killing Matou Zouken.

Aozaki Touko killed Matou Zouken after exposing the dream and memories he had buried, then left the Matou Household while Matou Tsuruno and Matou Shinji discussed his death. At the Tohsaka Household, Tohsaka Aoi told Tohsaka Tokiomi that Sakura depended on Aozaki Touko and suggested Touko could raise her, prompting Tokiomi to ask if Aoi had already noticed something.

• Matou Zouken hid underground and believed surviving Aozaki Touko’s attack counted as a victory, but Touko identified him as Makiri Zolgen and reminded him of his youthful wish to eliminate evil.
• Matou Zouken remembered Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern and became enraged, then emerged from hiding after Touko showed him a photograph of Irisviel.
• Aozaki Touko killed Matou Zouken with a Magic Bullet, and he recalled his original dream before his consciousness stopped.
• Aozaki Touko told Matou Tsuruno and Matou Shinji to explain the destruction as a gas explosion, then confirmed that Matou Zouken was completely dead.
• Matou Tsuruno celebrated outliving Matou Zouken, while Matou Shinji asked why his father was happy about his grandfather’s death.
• At the Tohsaka Household, Tohsaka Aoi told Tohsaka Tokiomi that Sakura depended on Aozaki Touko and said Touko could raise her; Tokiomi asked whether Aoi had already noticed.

Tokiomi Tohsaka accepted that Aozaki Touko would take control of the Tohsaka Household, while hoping her protection would help his daughters and his pursuit of the Root. In Fuyuki City, Touko was cornered by thugs but Fujimura Taiga intervened, and the thugs recognized Taiga as the Fujimura Group leader’s granddaughter.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka told Aoi Tohsaka that Aozaki Touko intended to claim Sakura, Rin, and the Tohsaka Household’s spiritual land.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka explained that resisting Touko could get the family destroyed, while cooperating could give Rin and Sakura better opportunities and let him pursue the Root under her protection.
• Aozaki Touko walked through Fuyuki City and was surrounded by thugs who threatened her and demanded money.
• Fujimura Taiga struck the blond thug with her Bamboo Sword and declared that she would protect Touko.
• Touko thanked Taiga and offered to treat her to a meal, while Taiga prepared to face the thugs again.
• A thug recognized Fujimura Taiga as the Fujimura Group leader’s granddaughter, prompting several thugs to flee.

Fujimura Taiga rescued Aozaki Touko from thugs, who then died in a series of freak accidents, and escorted her to meet her grandfather. At the Fujimura mansion, Taiga learned that Touko was a powerful financial magnate, while Fujimura Raiga recognized how extraordinarily lucky his granddaughter had been.

• Fujimura Taiga watched the thugs flee before a collapsing building and falling billboard apparently killed them all.
• Aozaki Touko introduced herself to Fujimura Taiga, soothed her after the frightening incident, and accepted her offer of an escort.
• Fujimura Taiga brought Aozaki Touko to the Fujimura mansion and introduced her to Fujimura Raiga.
• Fujimura Raiga welcomed Aozaki Touko and learned from her that Taiga loved him.
• Fujimura Raiga explained that Aozaki Touko owned a multinational financial conglomerate, shocking Fujimura Taiga.

Aozaki Touko visited Fujimura Taiga and her grandfather, leaving Taiga with her contact information despite their joking talk of marriage. The next day, Touko brought Taiga to meet the Tohsaka Household about acquiring its property and revealed plans for a themed amusement park and a film starring a female King Arthur.

• Fujimura Raiga encouraged Taiga to marry Touko, but Taiga said she liked Touko only as a friend and was not interested in dating.
• Touko gave Taiga a postcard with her contact information, and Raiga privately felt reassured that his granddaughter had befriended someone influential.
• The next day, Touko welcomed Taiga to her hotel room, then took her through Fuyuki City toward the Tohsaka Household to discuss a property contract.
• Touko told Taiga she planned to acquire Tohsaka property for a comprehensive amusement park featuring performances and films with heroes from different eras.
• Touko revealed that her film would feature King Arthur as a girl and that she might play Arthur's companion or lover, leaving Taiga doubtful about changing the story.