Chapter Summaries

Roy’s encounter with Liu Xiu revealed that she was created by Imperial Concubine from the bloodlines of the King of Chu and Liu Ji, and that Roy was likely her father. Meanwhile, in Japan, Imperial Concubine fought Sajyou Manaka and Gilgamesh, who joined forces and planned to sever her connection to Great Source Magic.

• Yin Lihua eased Liu Xiu’s embarrassment when Roy brought up Imperial Concubine, while Solomon reported that his Clairvoyance could not reveal her history.
• Liu Xiu told Roy that Imperial Concubine had once given her the sword of Emperor Gaozu, and Roy explained that Liu Xiu resembled the woman he had known two thousand years earlier.
• Liu Xiu fled the restaurant with Yin Lihua and revealed that Imperial Concubine had created her from the bloodlines of the King of Chu and Liu Ji.
• Yin Lihua realized Roy might be the King of Chu, and Roy appeared before the two women and told Liu Xiu to call him Father.
• In Kansai, Imperial Concubine fought Sajyou Manaka and Gilgamesh, who struggled to overcome her immortality and vast power.
• Gilgamesh agreed to sever Imperial Concubine’s connection to Great Source Magic so Sajyou Manaka could attack her, and Imperial Concubine sensed that Manaka was the greater threat.

After Consort Yu escaped Sajyou Manaka and Gilgamesh, Roy reunited with Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua in Tokyo and explained the hidden history behind the end of the Qin Dynasty. Sajyou Manaka then arrived at their restaurant, claiming to know Roy, though he did not recognize her.

• Consort Yu withdrew from her confrontation with Sajyou Manaka and Gilgamesh, then decided to travel west toward London.
• Gilgamesh left Sajyou Manaka after helping drive Consort Yu away, and Sajyou Manaka prepared to meet Roy, whom she called her Angel.
• Roy showed Liu Xiu the seal of the King of Chu and the First Emperor’s tiger tally, confirming his identity as her biological father.
• Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua bowed to Roy, and he took them to a restaurant in Ginza to speak privately.
• Roy explained Human Order Pruning and revealed the hidden events surrounding the First Emperor, Consort Yu, and his decision to yield the world to Emperor Gaozu.
• Sajyou Manaka arrived at the restaurant and entered after Roy invited her in, while Roy said he did not recognize her.

Roy met Sajyou Manaka, whose obsessive devotion and connection to the Root made her a formidable Holy Grail War Master, then reunited with Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua before they left to face the war. As Scathach prepared to meet her disciple, an unknown attacker ambushed Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua near Tokyo Bay.

• Sajyou Manaka confessed her devotion to Roy and promised to obtain the Holy Grail or fulfill his wish herself.
• Roy asked Liu Xiu about her Master, but Liu Xiu refused to reveal the Master’s identity and said she would fight Roy if he entered the war.
• Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua departed after meeting Roy, while Sajyou Manaka warned them that other Servants would be waiting for them.
• Scathach urged Mishaya Reienkan to show courage and brought her along as she set out to meet her disciple.
• Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua went to Tokyo Bay to keep the fighting away from civilians, where an enemy launched an azure-flamed spear at them.
• Liu Xiu shielded Yin Lihua and drew the Chixiao Sword to meet the attacker’s spear.

Roy confronted Brunhilde at Tokyo Bay and learned that her Master was Roa, who had used three Command Seals to make her fall madly in love with him. After Brunhilde unleashed a devastating attack, Roy shattered her spear and defeated her, while Roa was cornered by Arcueid in Tokyo.

• Roy caught Brunhilde's flaming spear barehanded, and she revealed her name before declaring him her beloved.
• Roa used three Command Seals to intensify Brunhilde's love for Roy, then severed their connection and prepared to flee Tokyo.
• Arcueid appeared in Roa's escape route and confronted him, leaving him unable to escape.
• Brunhilde's love and hatred transformed her spear into a thousand-meter weapon, which she hurled at Roy.
• Roy used his Divine Right to shatter Brunhilde's spear and stop her attack, and she fell wounded onto the riverbank.

Scathach arrived at Tokyo Bay and fought Roy, who defeated her spirit form before she called on the Shadow Land to restore her true power. She prepared to face him with a time-limited body equal to her original strength, leaving their battle about to begin.

• Scathach left Mishaya Reienkan inside a protective rune circle and rushed to Tokyo Bay, where she ambushed Roy with Gae Bolg.
• Roy swallowed Scathach’s first spear with Gluttony, dodged her second strike, and punched her into the bridge ruins.
• Roy mocked Scathach’s weakened spirit form and challenged her with the Magic Spear she had given him.
• Scathach praised Roy’s growth, then opened the gates to the Shadow Land to bring out a body with power equal to her true form.
• Scathach told Roy her restored body was time-limited and that she had restrained her full descent to avoid destroying the world during their fight.

Roy and Scathach fought at the Peak of Humanity in Tokyo Bay, while Shadow Land’s rules contained the worst of their destruction. As both neared exhaustion, Ramesses II prepared to begin his ritual on an artificial island, confident that his power could overcome the unknown Servants.

• Scathach overlaid Shadow Land’s phase on the Holy Lance so she and Roy could fight without unleashing their full power on the planet.
• Roy and Scathach exchanged countless blows, and their battle erased parts of Tokyo as Servants and magicians watched in shock.
• Liu Xiu and Yin Lihua struggled to understand the battle, then noticed that the wounded Brunhilde was still alive.
• Ise San Genri gathered the Ise Sanichi Clan’s spiritual veins and sacrificed patients’ life force to supply mana for Ramesses II and his Great Temple ritual.
• Roy and Scathach paused to recover from their wounds, but Ramesses II began summoning his radiance on the artificial island, convinced he would win the Holy Grail War.

Scathach and Roy prepared to decide their duel with her strongest spear thrust, while other kings gathered to challenge Ramesses II in his Great Temple. Scathach admitted that Roy had become irreplaceable to her and warned him not to die.

• Ramesses II manifested a vast temple above Tokyo Bay and declared his radiance to humanity.
• Marisbury sent Solomon and Joan to confront Ramesses II, while Anastasia refused to leave because she trusted Roy; Gilgamesh also set out for the battlefield after speaking with Sajyou Manaka.
• Liu Xiu rescued the unconscious Brunhilde and rode a crimson dragon toward Ramesses II's temple.
• Solomon shattered Ramesses II's magical beam with a punch, and Gilgamesh arrived to challenge the pharaoh with his axe.
• Scathach prepared Annihilation Stab against Roy and told him he could not die because he had become irreplaceable to her.

Roy defeated Scathach in their duel, though her final spear thrust left him badly wounded before she returned to the Shadow Land. As Roy turned toward Gilgamesh and the others at Tokyo Bay, Ramesses II’s battle with King Solomon and Gilgamesh escalated inside the grand temple.

• Roy blocked Scathach’s Annihilation Stab with Original Sin and Jacob’s Ladder, but her spear pierced his chest; Scathach judged him the victor because he had withheld his full power and had a resurrection spell.
• Scathach pulled her spear from Roy’s wound, then dissolved as the Shadow Land returned beyond the world; Roy decided to recover before visiting her again.
• Mishaya Reienkan survived the battle’s aftermath and resolved to become as powerful as Scathach.
• Gilgamesh raised his axe to fight Ramesses II while King Solomon charged the Sun King without waiting.
• Ramesses II summoned two hot-sand sphinxes, but Solomon destroyed them with Jacob’s Ladder, prompting the pharaoh to unleash eight more.
• Gilgamesh attacked Solomon, who stopped his axe with his fists, while Ramesses II watched the two kings fight.

Roy confronted Ramesses II in the Radiant Grand Composite Temple and invoked the Ten Plagues against him, turning their battle into a divine judgment. The first plague began flooding Tokyo with blood as Roy continued through the next plagues.

• Liu Xiu arrived at the temple and assured Joan that she had no interest in the Holy Grail, while Joan admitted that she feared innocent people would suffer.
• Roy entered the temple, and Gilgamesh challenged him over his god-slaying power and apparent closeness to the gods.
• Sajyou Manaka used a Command Seal to force Gilgamesh to slap himself, humiliating him and driving him from the hall.
• Roy declared that he would kill Ramesses II and ordered him to free Moses and the Hebrews or face the Ten Plagues.
• Ramesses II attacked Roy with sunlight, but Roy answered with the Plagues, turning Tokyo's waters red and filling the temple with blood.

Roy destroyed Ramesses II’s temple with a spell that split the Pacific, then left Tokyo Bay to fulfill his promise to Arcueid and confront the Serpent of Akasha. The Holy Grail War’s aftermath remained uncertain as Roy reunited with Arcueid and found Roa pinned beneath her foot.

• Ramesses II unleashed his temple as a final attack, but Roy’s Moses Parts the Sea spell split the pyramid and the Pacific, destroying the pharaoh and a nearby US carrier battle group.
• Marisbury considered how the catastrophe could affect his plans to establish Chaldea, while Joan of Arc, Liu Xiu, and King Solomon agreed to return to their hotel and leave the surviving Brunhilde in Joan’s care.
• Solomon told Joan of Arc that Roy had gone toward Tokyo, and said Marisbury could ask Roy for his wishes instead of relying on the Holy Grail.
• Roy tracked the Serpent of Akasha to northern Tokyo and found Arcueid standing over Roa, whom she had pinned to the ground.
• Roy greeted Arcueid, thanked her for keeping their old promise, and confronted the frightened Roa.

Roy destroyed the Serpent of Akasha’s soul, freeing Arcueid from the power Roa had stolen, and Arcueid called Roy her hero before leaving to rescue Merem. Sajyou Manaka then brought Roy to her family home, where she introduced him to her younger sister Ayaka as her boyfriend and tried to keep Ayaka away from him.

• Roy used the Third Magic to annihilate the Serpent of Akasha’s soul, ending Roa’s reincarnation and returning Arcueid’s stolen power.
• Arcueid told Roy he was her hero, then hurried off to save Merem from Alteria.
• Sajyou Manaka revealed that Gilgamesh had ended their contract and promised to capture him for Roy.
• Manaka invited Roy to the Sajo Family residence, where her younger sister Sajyou Ayaka greeted them.
• Manaka told Ayaka that Roy was her boyfriend, and Ayaka shyly asked whether she should call him brother-in-law.
• Manaka led Roy to her room and ordered Ayaka to leave them alone after helping bring in the food.

Roy accepted Sajyou Manaka’s devoted care and wondered what surprise she was preparing for him. Manaka then killed her father to obtain sacrifices, while Roy returned to the hotel and learned that Brunhilde was close to disappearing from depleted magical energy.

• Sajyou Manaka served Roy a lavish Chinese meal and told him she was preparing the thing he wanted most as a surprise.
• After Roy left, Manaka ate the food he had left behind and told Sajyou Ayaka that she planned to send him a surprise.
• Sajyou Hiroki returned home exhausted, and Manaka stabbed him with the Azoth Sword after asking him to die for her.
• Roy returned to the hotel, heard Joan explain Brunhilde’s situation, and went to see the captured Valkyrie.
• Roy examined Brunhilde and realized that her remaining magical energy would likely run out by sunrise.

Roy explained that Brunhilde’s love for Sigurd and her urge to kill him came from Odin’s curse, then promised to free her from her fate. Meanwhile, Sajyou Manaka led Sajyou Ayaka into Shinjuku Gyoen at night, where she began to ask her a question.

• Roy told Brunhilde that her love for the person who rescued her was imposed by Odin’s curse, not a genuine love for Sigurd.
• Brunhilde said Roy’s kindness made her love him and want to kill him, while Roy promised to remove her curse someday.
• Sajyou Manaka took Sajyou Ayaka through Tokyo’s curfew-bound streets toward Shinjuku Gyoen, saying she would let Ayaka see their father.
• Sajyou Manaka used a spell to enter the closed park and led Ayaka to an open area before asking her a question.

Sajyou Aika killed her father and tried to sacrifice Sajyou Ayaka to summon the Beast, while Roy learned that Aika was using the Holy Grail to trigger Human Evil and moved to stop her. The chapter ended with Aika confirming to Ayaka that she had killed their father and that Ayaka would soon join him.

• Sajyou Aika explained to Sajyou Ayaka that magi could sacrifice anything, then demanded Ayaka offer her soul for the Beast of 666.
• Sajyou Ayaka found hundreds of corpses in the clearing, including her father, Sajyou Hiroki, as Aika reached for her.
• Kishinami Hakuno revealed that she had entered the Beast's growth stage and sensed another Beast being summoned through the souls of Tokyo's ten million inhabitants.
• Roy identified Sajyou Aika as the one tampering with the Holy Grail and warned that her attempt to summon a Complete Form would destroy her and humanity.
• Sajyou Aika admitted to Sajyou Ayaka that she had killed Sajyou Hiroki and told her younger sister she would soon see him again.

Sajyou Aika summoned the Beast of 666 to fulfill Roy’s wishes, but Roy stopped her attempt to unleash its Complete Form. Aika then used the Holy Grail to force the Heroic Spirits to sacrifice themselves, while Roy tried to preserve their memories.

• Sajyou Aika summoned the Beast of 666 from the pit beneath Shinjuku Gyoen, and Gilgamesh fought it before the Beast swallowed him.
• Roy stabbed Sajyou Aika to interrupt her Great Magic and prevent the Beast from reaching its Complete Form.
• Sajyou Aika confessed that she had summoned the Beast for Roy and, after he praised her, resolved to do even more for him.
• Sajyou Aika created Command Seals with the Holy Grail and ordered all Heroic Spirits to commit suicide so their deaths would open a passage to the Root.
• King Solomon, Joan of Arc, Brunhilde, Liu Xiu, and Yin Lihua were forced to turn their weapons on themselves, and Roy gathered their fading information to preserve their memories.

Roy saved Sajyou Manaka from becoming the Beast’s sacrifice, leaving her asleep as a vessel containing Human Evil. Solomon’s humanity began to awaken, and Marisbury prepared to use the remaining Holy Grail power to make a wish.

• Sajyou Manaka sacrificed herself to merge with the Beast, but Roy severed its seven heads and reversed the fusion, restoring her body and carrying her away as she fell asleep.
• Kishinami Hakuno explained that Sajyou Manaka had successfully contained the Beast and would need to sleep while her body and soul adapted to the evil within her.
• Roy told Marisbury that the Holy Grail still held enough power for a wish, though the ruined ley line beneath the city would damage the region for decades.
• Solomon arrived, and Roy’s words stirred a genuine human consciousness within him despite his role as a bridge between God and humanity.
• Marisbury examined the shattered Holy Grail and suggested using a Command Seal to make Solomon kill himself, but Solomon said the Command Seal had almost no effect on him.

After becoming human and taking the name Roman, Solomon reunited with Roy, who offered him a job while Roman warned him about a vision of humanity’s destruction. At the Clock Tower, Bartholomew Lorelei confronted Marisbury and demanded an explanation for his actions, leaving him facing the gathered lords.

• Roman arrived at Roy’s hotel suite, and Roy welcomed him back and asked him to use the name Roman.
• Roman told Roy that after wishing away his powers, he saw a future of raging flames and the collapse of human order.
• Roy calmed Roman and told him to work for him because he had no identity, money, or means to support himself.
• Bartholomew Lorelei arrived at the Clock Tower meeting and took the seat of honor as the new head of her family.
• Lorelei demanded that Marisbury explain how his actions had shaken the foundations of magecraft, and the gathered lords turned their attention to him.

The Clock Tower discussed the Shinjuku Holy Grail incident and agreed to send Kelsnic to inspect Fuyuki’s upcoming Fourth Holy Grail War. In London, Roy supervised Kishinami Hakuno’s growth as a Beast, assigned Roman to work for the Church, and received news of Ilmiya’s mission in Wales.

• Marisbury explained the Shinjuku incident to the Lords, and Bartholomew Lorelei decided to blame the Holy Church to preserve the Clock Tower’s reputation.
• Ulysses questioned whether the Einzbern Family’s Fuyuki Grail could grant wishes or reach the Root, and Kelsnic volunteered to inspect the Fourth Holy Grail War.
• Roy watched Kishinami Hakuno preach at St. Paul’s Cathedral and explained that her physical body restrained her growing Beast.
• Roy introduced Roman to Shirou Amakusa and assigned him to help with Church work while studying medicine at Oxford.
• Roy reflected on Roman’s choice to become an ordinary person and kept the comatose Sajyou Manaka under his care.
• Ilmiya told Roy that she had been assigned to monitor a Welsh village whose residents sought to resurrect King Arthur.

Roy visited Alteria beneath the Pyrenees and took Primate Murder back to the Church, while Marisbury secretly created Olga Marie Yasmire Animusphere at the Animusphere workshop. Alteria then prepared to continue searching for the unknown mastermind and Ortensia.

• Ilmiya accepted the mission to prevent King Arthur's resurrection at Blackmore Graveyard as part of becoming an official executor.
• Marisbury performed a secret ritual in the Animusphere workshop and named the growing infant Olga Marie Yasmire Animusphere.
• Alteria explained that she had abandoned the pursuit of Merem Solomon to conserve her strength against a possible unknown enemy, then the group encountered Roy.
• Roy asked Alteria for Primate Murder, and she agreed to hand over the White Beast so Roy could take it to the Church.
• Alteria's knights questioned the decision, but she argued that Primate Murder had not helped them against powerful foes and ordered them to search for the mastermind and Ortensia.

Roy settled Fou and oversaw the new lives of Alice Kuonji, Aoko Aozaki, and Sajyou Ayaka in London. Meanwhile, Marisbury established Chaldea, and a Burial Agency team led by Shirou Amakusa and Kishinami Hakuno arrived in Fuyuki City, where Kirei Risei and Kirei Kotomine awaited them.

• Roy subdued Primate Murder, named it Fou, and made it the church's mascot.
• Roy discussed Roman's workload, encountered Aiwass, and reviewed the church's affairs while Anastasia visited him.
• Alice Kuonji settled into a restored mansion near the Clock Tower, Aoko Aozaki joined its Creation Department, and Sajyou Ayaka entered the Modern Magecraft Department.
• Marisbury secured government support, funding, staff, and an Atlas Institute promise to build Chaldea in Antarctica.
• Kirei Risei brought Kirei Kotomine to Fuyuki City's airport to welcome a Burial Agency member sent by the church.
• Shirou Amakusa and Kishinami Hakuno arrived in Fuyuki City with pilot Father Dawn for a mission assigned by the Supreme Pontiff.