Recaps

Sakura Matou confronted Atram Gresca after he attacked Ayako Miyadera, refusing his offer and declaring him Senior’s enemy. When Atram unleashed lightning with the Primal Battery, Sakura used her Imaginary Numbers magecraft to bind it in shadow.

• Atram defeated Ayako and demanded that she and Sakura surrender, while his Gresca Family subordinates stayed wary of Shirou and Aoko.
• Sakura identified Atram as Senior’s enemy, put the exhausted Ayako to sleep with Shirou’s Suggestion Magic, and revealed herself as the Matou Family heir.
• Atram decided to acquire the Matou Family’s research and offered Sakura a deal, but she refused because he was Senior’s enemy.
• Atram summoned a giant hand of lightning with the Primal Battery and attacked Sakura.
• Sakura encouraged herself with Suggestion Magic and used her Imaginary Numbers magecraft to bind the lightning in shadow.

Shirou returned in time to save Sakura from Atram, then left the Matou family to handle the aftermath. That evening, Aoko planned to stay at Shirou’s home, while Shirou tried to avoid bringing her there because Ye Sizhen was hiding in his room.

• Atram’s subordinates summoned a storm that weakened Sakura’s Imaginary Number Magic, allowing Atram to prepare a powerful lightning attack.
• Shirou appeared behind Atram, dispersed the storm and lightning, and defeated Atram and his subordinates after Sakura fainted from relief.
• Tsuruno Matou and Kariya arrived to handle the aftermath, and Shirou gave them advice on interrogating Atram before leaving.
• Shirou met Aoko, who planned to spend the night at his home and had brought a gift for the pregnant Irisviel.
• Shirou tried to avoid going home because Ye Sizhen was hiding in his room, but Aoko mistook his excuse for a desire to spend the night outside with someone.

Shirou and Aoko spent the night at a love hotel in Shinto after he told Sella he would be staying at Ryudoji Temple. As they grew intimate, Ye Sizhen waited at the Amamiya Residence with the Rose Pastry she had made for Shirou, unaware he was not coming home.

• Shirou asked Aoko to spend the night outside with him, and they chose a love hotel in Shinto.
• Shirou used Suggestion Magic to get past the hotel staff and called Sella to say he would stay at Ryudoji Temple.
• Shirou considered whether magi were targeting his magic and recalled that the Mage's Association could give him a Sealing Designation.
• Shirou thought the person targeting him might be connected to Ye Sizhen rather than the Clock Tower, and planned to ask her the next day.
• Aoko changed into a Misaki High School uniform, then pounced on Shirou on the bed, and the two became intimate.
• Ye Sizhen waited at the Amamiya Residence with the Rose Pastry she had made for Shirou, wondering why he had not returned by nine.

Shirou and Aoko relaxed together after their intimate encounter, bathing in a hotel tub until a magical communication from Ye Sizhen interrupted them. The chapter ended as Shirou recognized the ringing Cup Shell and prepared to answer it.

• Shirou and Aoko finished their encounter and went to bathe together.
• Aoko sat in Shirou's arms in the tub, and the two grew drowsy as they talked.
• The Cup Shell in the laundry basket began emitting magical energy.
• Shirou retrieved the Cup Shell, and Aoko recognized it.

Shirou took a late-night Communication Magic call from Ye Sizhen while bathing at Aoko’s home, and Aoko watched jealously as the two spoke. The call ended with Ye Sizhen inviting Shirou to eat pastries with her the next day while Aoko secretly teased him under the water.

• Aoko questioned Shirou about Ye Sizhen and learned that Sizhen was staying at his house.
• Shirou answered Sizhen’s video call, and she blushed when she saw him bathing.
• Sizhen explained that she had worried because Shirou had not returned home, and he apologized for not contacting her.
• Sizhen told Shirou she had made rose pastries and invited him to eat some the next day.
• Aoko grew jealous as Shirou spoke with Sizhen and teased him beneath the bathwater.

Ye Sizhen decided to leave Shirou’s home and return to her mission after recovering, but Ritseliete found her before Shirou came back. While speaking with Irisviel, Ye Sizhen learned that Shirou’s guardian understood why he had hidden her and then asked whether Irisviel was pregnant.

• Ye Sizhen decided she would say goodbye to Shirou that morning and return to her work in Japan after a brief separation.
• Ritseliete found Ye Sizhen asleep in the room beside Shirou’s, stopped her from reaching for her shell, and brought her to Irisviel.
• Ye Sizhen apologized to Irisviel for staying secretly in Shirou’s home, and Irisviel assured her that she understood Shirou had rescued her.
• Ye Sizhen told Irisviel that she planned to leave when Shirou returned, but Irisviel urged her to rest longer and reassured her.
• Ye Sizhen imagined becoming Shirou’s wife, blushed, and changed the subject by asking Irisviel whether she was pregnant.

Ye Sizhen learned that the boy she loved, whom she had come to Fuyuki to find, was actually Shirou Amamiya, and Irisviel explained their shared history from the Fourth Holy Grail War. Ye Sizhen realized Shirou was living the happiest life he could, leaving her unsure whether she belonged in it.

• Ye Sizhen congratulated Irisviel on her pregnancy and learned the baby would be named Illya.
• Irisviel explained that Shirou had promised to be Illya’s older brother and father, and Ye Sizhen admitted she had come to Fuyuki seeking Shirou Amamiya.
• Irisviel revealed that Shinji was Shirou Amamiya, leaving Ye Sizhen devastated when she realized her beloved had used an alias.
• Irisviel told Ye Sizhen that she had been a Master in the Fourth Holy Grail War and recounted how Shirou encouraged her to betray Einzbern and end the war.
• Ye Sizhen admired Shirou’s extraordinary life but felt lonely and unworthy after realizing he was already living what he believed to be his happiest life.

Ye Sizhen left Shirou a letter explaining that she had been ordered to capture him but chose to let him go, and revealed where Rin Tohsaka was being held. Shirou hurried to rescue Rin, while Ye Sizhen met her true master, Kiz, and claimed she had captured Shirou.

• Ye Sizhen told Irisviel that she was leaving Japan and left a letter for Shirou before departing the Amamiya Residence.
• Shirou read Ye Sizhen's letter, learned that she had been tasked with capturing him and that Rin Tohsaka was confined in an abandoned factory, then set out to rescue her.
• Ye Sizhen traveled to a seaside manor outside Fuyuki City, where she met Kiz, the ancient magus who had granted her the Thought Crest Privilege.
• Kiz asked Ye Sizhen whether she had captured Shirou, and she answered that she had.

Ye Sizhen prepared to fight Kiz’s powerful allies to protect Shirou Amamiya, learning that they included the immortal Wu Zhiqi and Atlas alchemist Latio Kudelis Heilam. After revealing that she had lied about capturing Shirou, she activated her Thought Crest and launched an attack, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Kiz introduced Ye Sizhen to Wu Zhiqi and Latio Kudelis Heilam, who demanded to know where Shirou Amamiya was.
• Ye Sizhen recognized Wu Zhiqi as the legendary demon immortal and resolved to protect Shirou from the three powerful magi.
• Latio questioned Ye Sizhen about her killing intent and asked her to reveal Shirou’s location.
• Ye Sizhen admitted that she had lied and had never captured Shirou.
• Ye Sizhen surrounded the visitors with her puppets and masks, activated Divine Era Magic, and sent an invisible mass impact toward them.

Ye Sizhen fought Latio, Kiz, and Wu Zhiqi, but Wu Zhiqi defeated her and she unleashed the Thought Plate to drag them into a spacetime distortion. As Ye Sizhen faced death, Shirou appeared and fired a strange arrow into the distortion.

• Ye Sizhen survived the bone monsters' explosive attack by turning the manor into a domain where her Thought Magic controlled matter and space.
• Latio revealed that the Bone Giant, Tangray, was formed from her own bones and that its personality came from her divided thoughts.
• Wu Zhiqi vanished past Ye Sizhen's defenses and struck her through a building, leaving her paralyzed beneath the rubble.
• As Wu Zhiqi prepared to kill her, Ye Sizhen connected the Thought Plate's planet-scale mass to the area and seized Wu Zhiqi's ankle, pulling them toward a spacetime distortion.
• A twisted arrow flew into the black point of the distortion, and Ye Sizhen recognized Shirou.

Shirou arrived in time to close the passage Ye Sizhen had opened to the Thought Plate, then confronted Wu Zhiqi as she attacked him. He held his own against the Divine Era demon king, while Latio recognized the potential of his abilities to help the Atlas Institute save the world.

• Shirou shot through the spatiotemporal gap Ye Sizhen had opened, closing the passage to the Thought Plate.
• Wu Zhiqi attacked Shirou with her shackles as Ye Sizhen shouted for him to run.
• Shirou projected twin-bladed chains and matched Wu Zhiqi's strength, leaving Ye Sizhen astonished.
• Wu Zhiqi hurled Shirou into the ground, but he released a volley of swords that forced her to defend herself.
• Latio watched Shirou create powerful swords with little magical energy and thought his abilities might help the Atlas Institute avert destruction.

Shirou fought Wu Zhiqi while Latio tried to recruit him to help defeat her, but he refused because Latio had hurt Sizhen. As Shirou prepared to fight all three opponents, Kiz surrendered, saying they could not win or achieve their goal by continuing.

• Shirou fought Wu Zhiqi, whose Fiery Golden Eyes immobilized him, but he managed to wound her for the first time in three thousand years.
• Latio offered to help Shirou defeat Wu Zhiqi in exchange for his help with her research, while Wu Zhiqi said she intended to kill Latio afterward.
• Shirou refused Latio’s offer because she had hurt Sizhen and challenged Wu Zhiqi, Latio, and Kiz to attack him together.
• Kiz surrendered and told Shirou that their group could not defeat him or accomplish its objective by continuing the fight.
• Shirou remained wary and questioned whether Kiz would truly accept defeat.

Shirou treated Ye Sizhen’s injuries and questioned the three people who had targeted him, learning that Latio wanted his Projection Magic for Kudelis’s plan to avert the world’s destruction, while Wu Zhiqi wanted to consume his soul. After Shirou refused them, Kiz challenged him to explain why humanity had become what it was, accusing him of running away.

• The Mage of the Mage’s Association offered a future alliance, promised to leave Japan, and agreed to sever ties with his disciple; Shirou chose a temporary truce so he could treat Ye Sizhen.
• Shirou healed Ye Sizhen and asked the three visitors to explain their objectives.
• Latio said Kudelis wanted to use Shirou’s Projection Magic to create a computational engine that could prevent humanity’s extinction.
• Wu Zhiqi revealed she wanted to eat Shirou’s ancient soul, but Shirou refused because it had already been promised to someone.
• Kiz said his objective resembled Kudelis’s and challenged Shirou over humanity’s loss of purpose, accusing him of running away.

Kiz revealed that he planned to use Shirou Amamiya's Projection Magic to create a new planet, powered by the lives of sixty million people and Heroic Spirits. Shirou rejected the plan and prepared to kill Kiz, but Kiz proposed a bet before they could fight.

• Kiz explained that he wanted to create a new planet as a new parent for humanity and other life.
• Kiz revealed that the planet's creation would require Heroic Spirits and the sacrifice of about sixty million people.
• Shirou rejected Kiz's proposal, saying he would not treat human lives as numbers to be weighed against a goal.
• Shirou prepared to fight Kiz, but Kiz raised his hands and admitted he could not win.
• Kiz asked Shirou to make a bet.

Shirou rejected Kiz’s wager that he would abandon his justice, defeated Wu Zhiqi when she attacked him, and took the injured Ye Sizhen home. As they set off together, Ye Sizhen asked how he had found her.

• Kiz challenged Shirou to a wager that witnessing the world’s suffering would change his sense of justice, and Shirou accepted, promising he would never change.
• Latio refused to give up on Shirou and left, while Wu Zhiqi decided to wait until he became even more delicious before eating him.
• Wu Zhiqi attacked Shirou with her chains, but Shirou summoned the Blades of Chaos and destroyed her with a single strike.
• Shirou invited the injured Ye Sizhen to recuperate at his home and suggested they apologize to Eiri together.
• Ye Sizhen agreed to return with Shirou and asked how he had found her.

Shirou brought Ye Sizhen back to the Amamiya Residence, where she apologized to Irisviel and was allowed to stay while she trained and prepared to build her own pavilion in Europe. Half a year passed peacefully as Irisviel’s due date approached, and Sella worried over the unprecedented prospect of a homunculus giving birth.

• Shirou confessed that he had tracked Ye Sizhen with a magical device hidden in her cheongsam, and Ye Sizhen crushed it before returning to Fuyuki City with him.
• Ye Sizhen apologized to Irisviel for coming to Japan to harm Shirou, and Irisviel accepted the apology and agreed to let her stay in the Guest Room area.
• Rin Tohsaka protested Ye Sizhen’s residence at the Amamiya Residence, then accepted it after Irisviel mediated and secured permission to visit freely.
• Sakura Matou became depressed when she met Ye Sizhen, while Taiga Fujimura panicked over Ye Sizhen’s resemblance to her in character.
• The family spent half a year together as Irisviel’s due date neared, and Sella grew anxious about the risks of Irisviel giving birth.

Shirou and Irisviel welcomed their daughter Illya, and Shirou embraced his new role as her brother and father. The story then shifted to Sajyou Ayaka in 1999, as she prepared for her older sister to leave home and remembered her missing father.

• Irisviel gave birth to a healthy baby girl, and Sella and Ritseliete named her Illya.
• Shirou held Illya and vowed to protect her and Irisviel.
• Irisviel struggled through Illya's first day at home, then drew Shirou into an intimate encounter that kept him away until morning.
• Sajyou Ayaka woke early on the day her older sister was leaving home and went to the garden where she practiced magecraft.
• Ayaka remembered that her father, Sajyou Hiroki, had disappeared nine years earlier after taking part in a Sub-Holy Grail War in Japan.

Sajyou Ayaka reflected on her sister Sajyou Manaka’s strange happiness and feared she might never return after leaving home. Elsewhere, Hyoma Sagara returned to the Far East to join a Sub-Holy Grail War, where he planned to summon an Assassin.

• Sajyou Ayaka remembered how Sajyou Manaka had raised her and how her sister’s appearance and behavior had changed three years earlier.
• Sajyou Manaka prepared an elaborate English breakfast, and Ayaka wondered whether she had fallen in love with a Briton.
• Sajyou Manaka left home, and Ayaka suddenly feared she would disappear as their father had before, but found that she was already gone.
• Hyoma Sagara returned to his homeland to prepare for Heroic Spirit Summoning and told the Thousandth Tree Clan that he would choose an Assassin Servant.
• The account described how Assassin Servants had dominated early Sub-Holy Grail Wars by using concealment and assassination to kill mages.

Sajyou Manaka confronted Hyoma Sagara as he prepared to summon Jack the Ripper, took his Command Spells, and killed him with overwhelming magic. She then prepared a summoning circle and the Golden Scabbard to summon her Prince.

• Hyoma Sagara chose Jack the Ripper as his Assassin and prepared to use a prostitute as a catalyst.
• Sajyou Manaka entered Hyoma Sagara’s hotel room and asked him to transfer his Command Spells to her.
• Hyoma Sagara attacked Sajyou Manaka, but her shadows severed his arm and swallowed his Command Spells.
• Hyoma Sagara unleashed magical flames, but Sajyou Manaka extinguished them and let her shadows kill him.
• Sajyou Manaka cleared space, drew a summoning circle, and set out the Golden Scabbard as her catalyst.

Sajyou Manaka, an omnipotent girl who had given up on expecting to feel anything, summoned a Heroic Spirit instead of the King Arthur she had anticipated. His unfamiliar appearance and presence surprised her, and she fell in love with him at first sight, discovering her own feelings and humanity.

• Sajyou Manaka learned that her connection to the Root made her omnipotent, so she forbade herself from seeing her own future.
• After glimpsing that she would fall in love during a Holy Grail War, Sajyou Manaka stopped observing her future and waited for the destined day.
• Sajyou Manaka placed the holy sword's scabbard in the summoning circle, expecting to summon King Arthur.
• A red-haired youth appeared and asked Sajyou Manaka whether she had summoned him and whether she was his Master.
• Sajyou Manaka was astonished by the youth's unfamiliar appearance and magical energy, then fell in love with him at first sight.
• Sajyou Manaka recognized the youth as her destined partner and discovered her own genuine self and preferences.

Shirou was pulled from his game with Illya and summoned as a Servant by Sajyou Manaka in a world where the Greater Grail vanished after the Third Holy Grail War. After learning this world’s history, he wondered whether its Grail was still pure, but recognized that the situation was far from safe.

• While Shirou played a fighting game with Illya, his body began to glow, and he promised he would return before being transported away.
• Shirou awakened inside a summoning circle and met Sajyou Manaka, who greeted him as Saber and promised to grant his wish.
• The Grail informed Shirou that this world diverged from his own during the Third Holy Grail War, when the Greater Grail disappeared during its attempted relocation by the Third Reich.
• Shirou learned that a magus calling himself the Thousandth Tree Clan had incited the Reich to seize the Grail and then vanished with it.
• Shirou considered whether the missing Fuyuki Grail might be uncontaminated, then realized that a supposedly harmless Wish Machine could still be dangerous.

Shirou prepared dinner for Sajyou Manaka, who was overwhelmed by his cooking, and the two later traveled to Romania for the Holy Grail War. After settling in Sighisoara, they headed to the church to meet the priest serving as overseer and a Master.

• Shirou took over cooking after Sajyou Manaka brought home groceries, then served her a large spread of dishes.
• Sajyou Manaka loved Shirou’s cooking and decided she would someday make a dish he praised.
• Shirou and Sajyou Manaka left Japan for Romania and chose Sighisoara as their base near Tuliphas.
• They stayed inside to avoid Kaiser Family spies, then went to the mountain church to meet the priest overseeing the war.

Shirou visited the church in Sighisoara and met Shirou Kotomine, the Holy Grail War’s overseer and a Red faction Master. After revealing that he served an unaffiliated Master as Saber, he met Kotomine’s Assassin and was asked whether he would cooperate with the Mage’s Association.

• Shirou Kotomine prayed for the Holy Grail War to begin and awaited the arrival of Red faction Master Kaijiri Shishigami, while anticipating that Darnic Preston Yggdmillennia would summon Vlad III.
• Shirou Kotomine sensed a visitor and met Shirou, who had come to introduce himself to the Church without Aika.
• Shirou told Kotomine that his Master had taken the Command Spells from Hyoma Sagara and was participating independently of the Red and Black factions.
• Shirou identified himself as Saber and explained that Aika had stayed outside the church.
• Kotomine introduced his Servant, the Red Assassin, who teased Shirou as he studied her unfamiliar, strangely familiar presence.
• Kotomine asked Shirou whether he planned to cooperate with the Mage’s Association.

Shirou Amamiya refused Shirou Kotomine’s offer to trade information and left the church with Sajyou Manaka. Shirou Kotomine then ordered Karna to eliminate Ruler and increased surveillance on Shirou, while continuing to pursue his plan to save humanity.

• Shirou Kotomine tried to learn Shirou Amamiya’s True Name by offering information about the other factions, but Shirou refused and left the church.
• Shirou Kotomine told Red Assassin that his True Name Discernment could not identify Shirou, and he rejected her suggestion to attack him immediately.
• Shirou Kotomine summoned Karna and ordered him to eliminate Ruler, granting him permission to use his Noble Phantasm if necessary.
• Shirou Kotomine had Red Assassin continue watching over the imprisoned Red faction Masters and increase familiar surveillance of Shirou.
• Shirou Kotomine reflected that Shirou was a dangerous unknown factor but still hoped to recruit him for his ideals.
• Shirou reunited with Sajyou Manaka and told her what he had seen and heard at the church.

Shirou read an exaggerated biography of King Arthur and learned that this world regarded Artoria as a legendary hero greater than Gilgamesh. He decided to pose as Artoria’s shadow warrior, Faker, Artorius, while the final Servant of the Red faction was summoned in Romania.

• Aika gave Shirou a biography of King Arthur, which he read while dining with her.
• Shirou discovered that the book portrayed Arthur and Morgan as lovers and credited Arthur with defeating powerful foes, including Crimson Moon Brunestud.
• After asking passersby about the book, Shirou learned that this world’s Arthurian legend was widely accepted as a slightly exaggerated account of history.
• Shirou concluded that Artoria’s reputation would surpass Gilgamesh’s and decided to identify himself as her double, Faker, Artorius.
• In a cemetery in the Romanian capital, the final Servant of the Red faction was summoned and asked their Master if they were the one who had summoned them.