Chapter Summaries

Roy destroyed the Aozaki magus’s remnant soul after hearing its cryptic account of magic, the Divine Child, and an unknown power, leaving him troubled by the possibility of a prophecy. On his way back to Misaki City with Anastasia, he met Marisbury Animusphere and his young disciple, Kirschtaria Wodime.

• Roy entered the Aozaki Family’s cave and broke through the magus’s barriers with the Sword of Judgment.
• The Aozaki magus described the end of the Age of Gods, the origin of magic, and the need for order before calling Roy similar to “The Beginning.”
• Roy used his Right Hand of God to erase the magus’s remnant soul, then wondered whether its words referred to Evil Gods or a prophecy.
• Roy left the cave with Anastasia, declined Fumihito Eiri’s invitation to stay at the church, and headed back toward Misaki City.
• Marisbury Animusphere introduced his disciple Kirschtaria Wodime to Roy, who remarked on the boy’s exceptional Magic Circuits.

Roy met with Marisbury Animusphere, agreed to help connect Misaki City’s ley line to the Record of Existence, and expected the Fairy Tale Witch to foil Marisbury’s plans. As Riyoda Girls’ Academy’s acting headmistress, Roy questioned Alice Kuonji about her school life and offered to take her home, leaving Alice reluctantly accepting his escort.

• Roy praised Kirschtaria Wodime’s exceptional Magic Circuits and discussed how the modern age limited his potential.
• Marisbury revealed that Touko Aozaki had helped him remove two nodes from Misaki City’s ley-line barrier, and Roy agreed to complete the connection to the Record of Existence.
• Roy told Anastasia that Marisbury had underestimated Alice Kuonji and that his ritual could fail if he was unprepared.
• Roy summoned Alice Kuonji to his office as Riyoda Girls’ Academy’s acting headmistress and challenged her decision to commute rather than live at school.
• Roy asked Alice whether students were engaging in compensated dating, and she denied knowing anything about it.
• Roy insisted on escorting Alice home after school, and she reluctantly agreed.

Rider warned Alice Kuonji that Roy posed a deadly danger, but Alice refused to leave her family mansion. As Alice and Aoko discussed the damaged ley-line barrier and the possibility that Touko had returned, Rider realized Aoko was Touko’s younger sister.

• Roy escorted Alice Kuonji to her mansion, where they found Rider waiting outside.
• Rider recognized Roy and was terrified by his presence, while Roy greeted her politely and then left.
• After entering the mansion, Rider urgently told Alice to move away or risk dying, but Alice refused to abandon her parents’ home.
• Rider struggled to explain her warning, and Alice said she would stay even if it cost her life.
• Alice recalled that three ley-line barrier anchor points had been broken, while Aoko connected strange dolls seen during patrol to Touko’s possible return.
• Rider realized that Aoko Aozaki was Touko Aozaki’s younger sister.

Touko Aozaki offered the Aozaki Family’s ley lines to Marisbury in exchange for a fee, while using Beowulf to test Anastasia and her mysterious existence. Roy recognized Touko’s plan and intervened, striking down the Golden Wolf before it could attack.

• Touko Aozaki arrived in Misaki City and offered to hand over Aoko Aozaki, Alice Kuonji, and the city’s ley lines, while reserving her sister for herself.
• Marisbury agreed to pay Touko a transfer fee if the ley lines helped him complete his plan, and Touko questioned Anastasia about her unusual existence.
• Touko revealed Beowulf, a Golden Wolf from the Age of Gods, and urged it to fight Anastasia so she could study her.
• Roy stopped Anastasia from attacking Beowulf and told Touko that humanity never learned from history, then turned to face the wolf.
• Roy used a celestial displacement technique to appear beneath Beowulf and struck it with a powerful punch that shattered its skull and devastated its body.

Roy subdued the Golden Wolf and discovered that Touko Aozaki had sealed an incomprehensible entity inside herself, so he bound the seal to her soul and began investigating its whispers. Alice Kuonji, Aoko Aozaki, and Rider arrived at the ruined park, where Rider recognized Lord Animusphere and warned her companions of the powerful magus present.

• Roy slammed the Golden Wolf into the ground, leaving it alive but unconscious, then confronted Touko Aozaki about challenging him to test his strength.
• Roy saw a monstrous entity sealed inside Touko Aozaki and learned that she had found it in the Sea of No Return and imprisoned it within her body.
• Roy connected Touko Aozaki's sealing mystic code to her soul, preventing her from escaping the seal by transferring to another body.
• Roy stimulated the sealed entity and listened to its maddening whispers while Touko Aozaki collapsed in pain.
• Touko Aozaki recovered as Alice Kuonji, Aoko Aozaki, and Rider arrived at the ruined park, and Rider recognized Lord Animusphere.

Alice Kuonji and Aoko Aozaki faced Roy, Anastasia, Marisbury, and Touko after Rider withdrew, and Marisbury challenged Alice for control of the spiritual leyline. Alice initially overwhelmed him with her fairy-tale magecraft, but Marisbury’s preparations and defensive artifacts let him unleash a devastating celestial assault, which Alice’s bridge giant was still resisting.

• Rider revealed Roy’s identity as the Supreme Pontiff, then withdrew because the Acherlot family could not oppose him and Marisbury.
• Aoko declared she would stand with Alice despite fearing death, while Touko prepared to confront her sister and Marisbury offered to handle Alice.
• Alice rejected Marisbury’s demand to surrender the leyline and used Feast of the Night to summon fairy-tale creatures against him.
• Marisbury endured Alice’s attacks with defensive artifacts, while Roy observed that the Lord’s wealth and preparations would likely turn the fight.
• Marisbury used the city’s leyline to summon falling spears of light, and Alice called forth the giant London Bridge to shield herself from the bombardment.

Roy and Anastasia defeated Alice Kuonji and her Giant of the Bridge, while Marisbury secured the advantage in his effort to take Misaki City's ley line. The Root opened again, and Aoko Aozaki appeared after defeating Touko and inheriting the Aozaki family's magic.

• Alice Kuonji resurrected after Marisbury's celestial attack, but Roy arrived with Anastasia before Marisbury could use his Divine Age artifact.
• Alice attacked Roy with her Mystic Eye and the Giant of the Bridge, but Anastasia froze the Giant and destroyed it with Viy's power.
• Roy struck Alice down, and Rider wept beside her as she lay badly wounded.
• As Alice's Magic Crest began repairing her injuries, Roy explained that Marisbury had come for the ley line and that he had intervened to prevent further damage to the city.
• A passage to the Root opened, and Aoko Aozaki appeared carrying the defeated Touko, having inherited the Aozaki family's magic.

Aoko Aozaki’s future self fought Roy to protect Alice Kuonji, but Roy overcame her time-based magic and left both girls unable to resist. As Marisbury prepared to take Misaki City’s spiritual leyline, Roy insisted he was not the one trying to seize it.

• Aoko Aozaki’s future self refused Touko’s attempt to provoke her into killing her and declared Roy and his group her enemies for harming Alice.
• Aoko attacked Roy with hundreds of destructive magic bullets, but his angelic wings shielded him from the barrage.
• Roy deciphered Aoko’s personal time travel and struck her across the timeline, severing her thigh; Aoko sent the injury’s cause and effect tens of thousands of years into the future to heal herself.
• Aoko’s borrowed magic wore off, and Roy caught her kick before tossing her toward Alice, leaving both girls exhausted and unable to fight.
• Roy said he had a duty to act against the Witch, while Aoko and Alice defied him; he again denied being the one trying to take their leyline.

After surviving the theft of Misaki City's leyline, Alice Kuonji mourned the destruction of her mansion. Roy offered to restore it and arrange support in London if she agreed to submit to the Holy Church's supervision, leaving Alice to consider his terms.

• Alice Kuonji and Aoko Aozaki realized Roy and Marisbury had left after Marisbury extracted Misaki City's leyline, and Aoko vowed to seek revenge once they were strong enough.
• Aoko and Alice used Rider's help to leave the ruins, while Touko Aozaki remained behind, injured and uncertain where to go.
• Alice Kuonji discovered that losing the leyline had caused her workshop's defenses to run wild and destroy half of her mansion, the keepsake of her parents.
• Roy returned and explained that Marisbury had taken the leyline, then offered to restore Alice's mansion and arrange a London leyline if she accepted the Holy Church's supervision.

Kishinami Hakuno lay ill beneath a canopy while Yongtian Style’s believers gathered to demand her love, unaware that the sect’s head had exploited her ability and planned to sacrifice her for his own ambition. She understood what the believers’ “offering” meant, but remained calm as she listened to them.

• Kishinami Hakuno’s ability to inspire adoration led the head of Yongtian Style to use her as a tool for attracting believers and donations.
• The head isolated Kishinami Hakuno from the outside world and withheld treatment when she became seriously ill, falsely telling her that her disease was incurable.
• The head expanded the sect’s influence and prepared to exploit Kishinami Hakuno before her supposed death, hoping powerful believers would sustain Yongtian Style afterward.
• Believers gathered beyond the curtain and demanded that twelve-year-old Kishinami Hakuno grant them her love.
• Kishinami Hakuno recognized what the believers meant by an “offering” but listened without anger or fear.

Roy found Kishinami Hakuno, an abused girl whose boundless, desire-driven love made her the embryo of the Third Beast. After slaughtering the Yongtian Style believers who sought her, Roy told Hakuno he had come to save her, and she questioned whether he was truly human.

• Kishinami Hakuno awaited her believers’ desires, while Roy entered the Buddhist hall and identified her as Human Evil, declaring that he had come to save her.
• Roy fought off and killed the Yongtian Style believers and their master, leaving Kishinami Hakuno as the only survivor.
• Roy drew aside the curtain, recognized Hakuno as the embryo of the Third Beast, and resisted her seductive influence.
• Hakuno offered to bear Roy’s guilt and satisfy his desires, while Roy explained that her universal love would lead her followers toward ruin.
• Hakuno spoke fondly of Andersen’s Fairy Tales and offered herself to Roy, but he insisted that he had come to save her.
• Hakuno doubted that humans could save one another and asked whether Roy was human; Roy answered that he was.

Roy saved the gravely ill Kishinami Hakuno and brought her to a private hospital, where he warned Anastasia about Hakuno’s dangerous influence. He told Hakuno to abstain from indulging her desires while she recovered, framing their struggle against Human Evil as a war that would require firsthand experience.

• Roy corrected Kishinami Hakuno’s ideas about humanity and promised to save and restrain her, then carried her out with Andersen's Fairy Tales.
• Roy arranged for Kishinami Hakuno to receive hospital care, and her health improved as she recuperated in a private ward in TOKYO.
• Anastasia told Roy that Hakuno’s allure stirred people’s desires and had turned the medical staff into her followers, so Roy warned her to stay away.
• Roy visited Hakuno and asked her to live abstinently while she recovered, explaining that he intended to face and control the temptation she represented.
• Hakuno agreed to follow Roy’s rules until he left, while Roy urged her to use her abilities to direct people’s faith toward their Lord.

Roy learned that Echidna had completed the Third Magic, then helped Marisbury begin the ritual that would create a Holy Grail in Tokyo and connect it to the Record of Existence. The ritual began automatically, setting the stage for the coming Holy Grail War.

• Roy explained to Anastasia that Beasts represented humanity’s shared virtues taken to extremes, and joked that people could escape Human Evil by ceasing to be human.
• Echidna gave Roy the completed original text of the Third Magic, which enabled the materialization of souls within Golden Supreme Heaven.
• Roy and Marisbury activated the ritual at Shinjuku Gyoen, merging the ley lines of Misaki City and Tokyo to create the Holy Grail’s energy source.
• Roy used the Third Magic and Command Seals to complete the ritual’s framework and warned Marisbury to remain in Shinjuku until the Grail chose its Masters.
• Roy told Marisbury that Servants could appear in any Class, while Marisbury resolved to win the Holy Grail War and establish Chaldea.

Sajyou Manaka abruptly came alive and began acting with warmth, startling her younger sister Sajyou Ayaka. She left Ayaka with a homemade Chinese breakfast and hinted that her efforts were meant to move someone she loved.

• Sajyou Hiroki left for work after warning Ayaka to stay away from the workshop and listen to her sister.
• Sajyou Manaka emerged from her room smiling, wearing a silver cross and carrying a Bible, and encouraged the bewildered Ayaka to be confident.
• Manaka used magecraft to prepare dough and cooked a Chinese breakfast for Ayaka.
• Ayaka praised the meal, while Manaka privately thought it would move the homesick person she loved.
• Manaka asked Ayaka whether her nail polish looked pretty, and Ayaka happily agreed.

Sajyou Manaka’s Command Seal awakened her emotions and fixed her love on Roy, while Kishinami Hakuno joined Roy at the Imperial Hotel. Marisbury revealed his Cherubim Command Seal and began summoning a Biblical prophet, still wondering who had received the highest-ranked seal.

• Sajyou Manaka explained to Sajyou Ayaka that love had transformed her, then privately resolved to remove her rivals for Roy’s affection.
• Roy entered Kishinami Hakuno into the Holy Church’s classified records as a potential Beast and resisted her attempt to tempt him.
• Marisbury warned Roy that Kishinami Hakuno seemed dangerous, then revealed that the Shinjuku Holy Grail had given him a Cherubim Command Seal.
• Roy urged Marisbury to summon his Heroic Spirit, and Marisbury prepared a circle in the Imperial Hotel suite using mineral powder and an ancient ring.

Marisbury summoned King Solomon as his Caster, while the Einzbern family abandoned its Holy Grail War after learning that the Third Magic had been claimed. Emiya Kiritsugu stole their Lesser Grail and King Arthur’s scabbard, and Solomon showed signs of remembering Roy as he began to explore the modern world.

• Marisbury summoned King Solomon, who answered that he would win the Holy Grail War for his Master.
• Jubstacheit learned that the Third Magic had been taken and ordered the Einzbern family to abandon the war and close its workshop.
• Emiya Kiritsugu rejected Ahad’s decision, then planned with Hisau Maya to steal Illyasviel and retrieve King Arthur’s scabbard.
• An explosion damaged the Einzbern castle, and Illyasviel and the sacred relic disappeared.
• Solomon recognized something familiar in Roy and asked whether they had met before.
• Marisbury introduced Roy to Solomon, who agreed to be called Caster and went to observe modern society.

Sajyou Manaka summoned Gilgamesh for the Holy Grail War, but the Wise King recognized her as a threat and warned Sajyou Ayaka to stay away from her. Elsewhere, Mishaya Reienkan met Scathach, whom her father had summoned as a Servant.

• Sajyou Manaka summoned Gilgamesh without a catalyst, and he condemned her while proposing marriage to the eight-year-old Sajyou Ayaka.
• Gilgamesh sensed King Solomon and another mysterious figure, then warned Sajyou Ayaka to avoid Sajyou Manaka before leaving to explore the modern world.
• Sajyou Manaka decided to keep Gilgamesh as a powerful tool despite his hostility and turned her attention back to Sajyou Ayaka.
• Mishaya Reienkan met Scathach in the Reienkan mansion courtyard as her father explained that he had summoned her in the Holy Grail War.

Roy learned that Roa had resurfaced in France and fled to Tokyo, while Hansa Cervantes received a Command Seal and became a Master. Elsewhere, Alteria accepted Jester Karture’s submission and considered using silver hair as a catalyst to summon a Heroic Spirit.

• Roy discussed modern life with Solomon, and Solomon tried strawberry cake while Anastasia took selfies.
• Marisbury reported that his familiars had found no Masters, and Solomon offered to reveal everything he knew about the Holy Grail War.
• Hansa told Roy that Roa had resurrected in Ciel, slaughtered a village, and fled to Tokyo, while Merem Solomon had brought White Princess there.
• Hansa received a Command Seal, prompting Roy to remark that the Holy Grail War was becoming more interesting.
• Jester Karture pledged himself to Alteria and explained the Holy Grail War after showing her his Command Seal.
• Alteria considered using a strand of silver hair as a catalyst to summon a Heroic Spirit.

Alteria summoned Emperor Guangwu and Yin Lihua using Roy Crowley’s hair, while Hansa summoned Joan of Arc for the Holy Grail War. The chapter left Joan adjusting to the modern era as she dined with Roy, Anastasia, and Solomon.

• Alteria took Jester’s Command Seals and used Roy Crowley’s hair to summon Emperor Guangwu and Yin Lihua.
• Emperor Guangwu said her wish to reunite with Yin Lihua had been fulfilled and showed no interest in the Holy Grail.
• Hansa summoned Joan of Arc with a fragment of her banner and introduced her to Roy as the Supreme Pontiff who had restored her reputation.
• Joan nervously greeted Roy and learned that the Church had recognized her as a Saintess.
• Anastasia photographed Joan at a Ginza restaurant while Joan struggled with modern clothes, cameras, and a soft bed.
• Roy watched Anastasia and Joan talk, then remarked to Solomon that he was quiet and austere.

Roy recognized Liu Xiu as his second-generation descendant and identified Yin Lihua as her empress when the pair approached his table. After Roy asked whether Liu Xiu had met the Imperial Concubine, she was shaken by his apparent knowledge of a secret buried for two thousand years.

• Solomon struggled to answer Roy's questions about his wives and the Queen of Sheba before they noticed two Heroic Spirits outside.
• Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua explored modern Tokyo, then sensed Roy's group across the street and decided to approach them.
• Roy sensed that Liu Xiu carried his bloodline and Humanity's Order Protection, while Joan worried that the visitors might provoke a daytime fight.
• Roy invited Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua to join his table, identified Liu Xiu as Emperor Guangwu, and recognized Yin Lihua as her empress.
• Roy asked Liu Xiu whether she had met the Imperial Concubine, leaving Liu Xiu stunned that he seemed to know her long-hidden secret.