Recaps

Mordred found happiness after King Arthur acknowledged her as his daughter, but she was devastated when he left Britain with Morgan. As Britain declined under Artoria, Mordred led a rebellion that brought the kingdom to civil war, and she prepared to face her sister at Camlann.

• King Arthur embraced Mordred, praised her as his daughter, and fulfilled her wish for his recognition.
• Mordred refused the throne and chose to serve as King Arthur’s sword, but he and Morgan later left Britain for the Inner Sea of the Planet.
• Artoria announced that King Arthur had departed and that she would inherit the throne, leaving Mordred grieving in his empty office.
• Artoria became Queen, while Mordred left Camelot and established a base in Lundinium as Britain gradually declined.
• Mordred decided to destroy Britain before its decline erased King Arthur’s legacy, then raised an army and began a rebellion that plunged the kingdom into civil war.
• At Camlann, Artoria took up Rhongomyniad after the Sword of Selection was damaged, as Mordred prepared to prove herself to her departed father.

Mordred woke in her Master’s workshop after being defeated by the “Black” Saber and discovered that the red-haired boy she had mistaken for King Arthur was still there. He claimed to be Artorius, King Arthur’s substitute, but Mordred remained certain he was her father and feared he was denying her because she had betrayed him.

• Mordred woke in Kaijiri Shishigami’s workshop and recalled dreaming that King Arthur had defeated her.
• Kaijiri Shishigami told Mordred that her encounter with the “Black” Saber had really happened, and the red-haired boy entered the catacombs.
• Kaijiri Shishigami explained that the “Black” Saber had captured him and Mordred, then offered an alliance after leaving the “Black” faction.
• Mordred listened as the boy and Kaijiri Shishigami discussed the suspicious priest and their refusal to reveal their true names.
• The boy introduced himself as Artorius, a substitute and confidant of King Arthur, but Mordred recognized him as her father and believed he was rejecting her for betraying him.

Mordred accepted an alliance with Shirou after he entrusted Aika’s safety to her if he fell, while the Red faction prepared an assault on the Black faction. As Semiramis’s Hanging Gardens advanced toward Milenia Castle, Atalanta spotted Shirou approaching in the airborne fortress Ehangwen.

• Mordred recognized Shirou as Black Knight Artorius, then questioned why he wanted an alliance with her.
• Shirou told Mordred he trusted her to protect Aika if he lost, and Mordred agreed while insisting that he would not lose.
• Semiramis announced that the Red faction would launch a decisive attack against the Black faction.
• The Red faction advanced toward Milenia Castle aboard the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
• Atalanta spotted Shirou’s Ehangwen approaching through the clouds.

Jeanne told Shirou she needed to meet someone hidden in the Holy Grail War, and he took her aboard Ehangwen to search for them. Shirou then confronted Semiramis’s Floating Garden, exposing her reluctance to risk it and blocking its barrage with Morgan’s holy lance magecraft.

• Jeanne told Shirou that she had to meet an unknown Servant or Master connected to the Red faction, and Shirou agreed to take her.
• Shirou summoned the flying Ehangwen, and its sudden acceleration made him catch the blushing Jeanne.
• Semiramis produced Dragon Tooth Soldiers to prepare for battle against the Kaiser Family’s homunculi.
• Shirou charged Ehangwen at the Floating Garden, forcing Semiramis to evade and revealing that she could not risk damage to the fortress.
• Semiramis fired the Floating Garden’s Black Coffin of Ten Thousand, but Shirou used Morgan’s holy lance Rongomyniad to deflect every beam.

Shirou delivered Ruler to the Floating Garden, then encountered Atalanta aboard his airship and agreed to an archery wager for information about the faction of "Red." Atalanta unleashed her Noble Phantasm, and Shirou prepared to counter it with a single arrow.

• Shirou left Ruler on the Floating Garden, where she confronted Semiramis, then flew toward the main battlefield.
• Shirou discovered that Atalanta had boarded his airship and challenged him to a fight.
• Shirou agreed to compete in archery in exchange for Atalanta telling him what she knew about the faction of "Red."
• Atalanta invoked Phoebus Catastrophe and sent a vast rain of light arrows toward Shirou.
• Shirou raised his black bow and prepared to counter the arrows with a single shot.

Shirou defeated Atalanta in an archery contest by adapting Nine Lives into an eightfold, dragon-like shot, then questioned her about the Red faction. Atalanta revealed what she knew, declined to cooperate, and left to answer her Master’s order, while Shirou warned they would be enemies next time.

• Shirou used his imagined Archer-style Nine Lives to fire eight arrow trajectories that swallowed Atalanta’s barrage, winning their contest.
• Atalanta recognized that Shirou had recreated a divine technique despite never meeting Heracles, and reluctantly admitted defeat.
• Shirou asked Atalanta about her Master, and she explained that the Red faction’s Masters had entrusted the war to Father Kirei while remaining hidden.
• Shirou speculated that Father Kirei or the Red Assassin had controlled Atalanta’s Master and stripped away his Command Spells, but Atalanta noted he had no proof.
• Atalanta offered to cooperate with Shirou, but he refused because he had already allied with someone else.
• Atalanta received an order from her Master to help in the battle below, and Shirou let her go, warning that they would be enemies when they met again.

Shirou investigated a forest battle and found Shirou Kotomine and Red Caster fighting Black Berserker, Frankenstein. As Kotomine and Caster prepared to retreat, they used Caster’s Theater Company to summon Frankenstein’s creator, leaving her stunned by his calm smile.

• Shirou left the airship and headed toward the battlefield, where Aika reported the observed matchups between the Red and Black factions.
• Shirou discovered Shirou Kotomine fighting Black Berserker with Red Caster’s support and realized Kotomine was using a Noble Phantasm created by Caster.
• Shirou recognized that Frankenstein’s Maiden Chastity and Galvanism let her absorb magical energy and continuously recover during battle.
• Shirou Kotomine decided to retreat after learning Ruler had noticed their actions, but Frankenstein blocked his escape.
• Shirou Kotomine asked Caster to use his Theater Company, and Caster summoned Doctor Frankenstein, whose calm smile left Frankenstein astonished.

Frankenstein relived her tragic origin and attacked the Doctor’s puppet when it offered the love she had always wanted. Shirou calmed her with Suggestion Magic, but she then called him Daddy, leaving him baffled as Sajyou Manaka watched in jealous disbelief.

• Frankenstein remembered how her father rejected her, and how she ultimately killed his family before dying with him in the flames.
• When the Doctor’s puppet reached out to her, Frankenstein flew into a rage and smashed it apart with Maiden Chastity.
• Shirou arrived after Father Kirei escaped and used Suggestion Magic to calm Frankenstein.
• Sajyou Manaka watched through her familiars and grew jealous when Frankenstein clung to Shirou’s hand.
• Frankenstein called Shirou Daddy, and he reluctantly comforted her while wondering how she had changed so suddenly.

Shirou restored Berserker Fran’s reason, but his intervention made her mistake him for her father. After leaving Fran to pursue the suspicious man, Shirou rushed to help Mordred, who faced Vlad III on the main battlefield.

• Shirou’s Suggestion Magic repaired Berserker’s circuits, restoring her reason and causing her to regard him as her father.
• Fran asked to pursue the fleeing enemy with Shirou, but Sajyou Manaka warned him that Mordred was in critical danger against the Black Lancer.
• Shirou left Fran to pursue the suspicious man while he headed for Mordred’s battlefield, and Fran accepted the separation despite her loneliness.
• Vlad III summoned Kazikli Bey and impaled more than five hundred Dragon Tooth Soldiers with stakes.
• Mordred attacked Vlad III, cut through his stakes, and then blasted them away with crimson lightning from Clarent.

Mordred fought Vlad III but was overwhelmed by his endless stakes and the hidden power of Kazikli Bey. As she lay dying, Shirou arrived, took Clarent, and faced Vlad in her place.

• Lancer attacked Mordred from behind, but her Secret of Pedigree helmet blocked the fatal blow.
• Vlad III offered Mordred a place in his ranks, but she refused and continued fighting him.
• Vlad's endless stakes pierced Mordred and shattered her armor as she struggled to defend herself.
• Mordred used a Command Spell-enhanced attack, but Vlad's Kazikli Bey caused stakes to burst from inside her body.
• Mordred crawled toward Clarent, but Shirou reached it first, placed a golden scabbard inside her, and told her to leave the rest to him.

Jeanne confronted Semiramis on the Floating Garden, suspecting that she had broken the Holy Grail War’s rules, while Semiramis questioned Jeanne’s feelings for Artorius. Below, Shirou called Black Lancer Count Dracula and met his storm of stakes with a massive army of projected swords.

• Jeanne challenged Semiramis to let her meet her Master and threatened to use the Ruler’s Command Spells, but Semiramis insisted she remained loyal to him.
• Jeanne declared Semiramis her enemy, and Semiramis pressed her about her relationship with Black Saber, Artorius.
• Semiramis suggested that Jeanne had fallen in love with Artorius, leaving Jeanne to wonder whether it was true.
• Shirou took up Demon Sword Clarent, stepped between Lancer and Mordred, and called Lancer a vampire and Count Dracula.
• Lancer attacked Shirou with a deluge of stakes, and Shirou countered by projecting a vast army of swords.

Shirou and Vlad III fought to a standstill as Shirou countered the Lancer’s enormous barrage of stakes with projected swords. Vlad tried to detonate stakes inside Shirou, but Shirou revealed a vast sword-filled world that transformed the battlefield, leaving the duel poised to continue there.

• Shirou projected hundreds of swords to destroy Vlad III’s stakes, matching the Lancer’s overwhelming firepower.
• Vlad III recognized Shirou as the legendary king and praised him, but Shirou told him that his concern over his reputation had gone too far.
• Vlad III continued attacking, convinced his kingly path would overwhelm Shirou, while Shirou called their exchange a warm-up.
• Vlad III revealed that fragments of his stakes had grazed Shirou and attempted to detonate them inside him.
• Mordred cried out in alarm, but Shirou completed a Grand Magic and replaced the battlefield with a vast iron foundry filled with countless swords.

Shirou used Unlimited Blade Works to strip Vlad III of his territorial advantage and defeated him with Clarent Blood Mordred. Elsewhere, Karna and Atalanta faced Spartacus’s monstrous transformation and planned to lure him to the Kaiser Family Castle, while Shirou suspected a hidden conspiracy behind the Holy Grail War.

• Shirou explained that Unlimited Blade Works placed Vlad III outside his territory, weakening his fame and abilities.
• Shirou unleashed Clarent Blood Mordred, and its crimson attack left Vlad III shattered and unable to win.
• Karna told Atalanta to lure the transformed Spartacus toward the Kaiser Family Castle so his self-detonation would destroy the enemy stronghold.
• Atalanta agreed to Karna’s plan and fired an arrow at Spartacus to draw him after her.
• Vlad III asked why Shirou had entered the war despite already possessing the true Holy Grail, and Shirou said the war seemed to conceal a conspiracy.

Darnic forced Vlad III to become Dracula by using all three Command Spells, sacrificing his own body and soul to bind himself to the Servant. The transformation began as Vlad attacked Darnic, leaving Shirou and the others to witness the consequences.

• Vlad III accepted that he had lost the battle, but Darnic appeared and urged him to use his Dracula Noble Phantasm.
• Darnic recalled how he had won the Greater Grail sixty years earlier and spent decades pursuing power after the Mage's Association rejected his family.
• Vlad III refused to activate 'Legend of Dracula,' while Shirou asked Aika to stop Darnic and Aika refused to use a Command Spell.
• Darnic used his first Command Spell to force Vlad III to activate 'Legend of Blood' and his second to make him survive until they obtained the Greater Grail.
• Vlad III attacked Darnic and pierced his chest, but Darnic used his final Command Spell to order the Servant to engrave Darnic's existence upon his soul.

Darnic merged his obsession with Vlad III’s soul, transforming the Black Lancer into the vampire Dracula. Shirou fought the newly empowered monster but failed to overcome its regeneration, leaving him to consider releasing Excalibur or finding another way to end it.

• Darnic possessed Vlad III’s soul and fused their identities, creating a monster driven by his clan’s survival and growth.
• Shirou gave Clarent back to Mordred and attacked the Black Lancer with the Holy Sword of the Stars, but Vlad III turned into bats and reformed as Dracula.
• Dracula attacked Shirou with stakes and hardened black robes, while Shirou defended himself and struck back with Gale Force Hammer.
• Dracula regenerated from Shirou’s attack and kicked him away, and Mordred caught Shirou as he realized Excalibur might be necessary to defeat the vampire.

Shirou and Mordred fought Dracula until the approaching dawn weakened him, but the arrival of Spartacus disrupted the battle and drove Dracula to flee. Shirou set out for Milenia Castle to seize the Greater Grail as Spartacus’s rampage threatened to destroy everything nearby.

• Mordred charged Dracula, but Shirou caught her when the vampire knocked her away, and they coordinated their attacks as dawn weakened him.
• Shirou stopped Mordred from releasing her Noble Phantasm when he sensed Spartacus approaching, but Spartacus struck them and Vlad III before continuing toward Milenia Castle.
• Atalanta chased after Spartacus, while Vlad III fled in bat form after being gravely wounded.
• Shirou told Mordred they would seize the Greater Grail, and Jeanne d'Arc offered them one Command Spell each to retrieve it for her.
• Shirou rejected Jeanne's offer and ran toward Milenia Castle with Mordred, while Jeanne followed.
• At the castle outskirts, the rampaging Spartacus exceeded his limits, broke free of his contract's restraints, and prepared to unleash his accumulated magical energy.

Spartacus abandoned his attack on the Kaiser Family Castle and targeted Jeanne, but Shirou carried her and Mordred to safety as Mordred released Avalon. After the blast devastated the battlefield and castle, Semiramis began extracting the Holy Grail from the ruins.

• Spartacus redirected his final attack toward Jeanne, who refused to flee because civilians could be caught in his Noble Phantasm.
• Shirou carried Jeanne and Mordred away and told Mordred to release Avalon while Karna attacked Spartacus with Brahmastra.
• Mordred successfully released Avalon, protecting the three of them from the combined destruction of Spartacus and Karna’s attacks.
• Gordes realized that the Kaiser Family’s forces and castle had been devastated, while Semiramis’s Floating Garden hovered overhead.
• Semiramis unleashed a powerful wind that tore apart the remaining castle and exposed the Golden Cup, which Jeanne recognized as the Holy Grail.

Shirou seized the Greater Grail from Semiramis and escaped with help from Astolfo, while the Red Faction uncovered that Father Kirei had taken control of its Masters and revealed himself as Shirou Amakusa Tokisada. Amakusa declared that he had planned the war for sixty years to achieve salvation for all humankind.

• Shirou flew to the Greater Grail, evaded Semiramis's attacks, and grabbed it before she shot him down with a Magic Bullet.
• Astolfo caught Shirou on her hippogriff, and he retreated with the Grail alongside Mordred and Jeanne.
• Atalanta accused Semiramis and Father Kirei of imprisoning the Red Faction's Masters, while Karna and Achilles learned that the Masters had transferred their Command Spells.
• Father Kirei revealed eighteen Command Spells on his arm and admitted that he had arranged the transfers through the Masters.
• Father Kirei identified himself as Shirou Amakusa Tokisada, a Ruler summoned during the Third Holy Grail War, and declared his goal was salvation for all humankind.

After Amakusa Shirou took control of the Red faction’s Masters, Atalanta and Achilles reluctantly listened to his plan for humanity’s salvation. Fiore sought allies for the weakened Black faction, while Shirou questioned Aika about her Command Spells and learned she had avoided using them by choice.

• Atalanta and Achilles attacked Amakusa Shirou, but Karna and Semiramis stopped them before Amakusa persuaded them to hear his plan.
• Fiore became head of the Thousandth Tree Clan after Darnic’s death and decided to seek alliances with the Black Saber and Red Saber.
• Shirou returned to the base with the Holy Grail and found Aika more concerned about his injuries than the Grail.
• Shirou asked Aika why she had refused to use a Command Spell, and she laughed at his mistaken assumption that she lacked one.
• Aika revealed the Seraph-like Command Spells on her chest and told Shirou she did not want to use them if she could avoid it.

Shirou and his companions traveled to meet the Black faction, while he grew more certain that the Holy Grail War concealed a deeper conspiracy. He examined Jeanne’s Command Spells and discovered the Ruler’s twenty-eight-stroke Divine Judgment.

• Kaijiri Shishigami and Mordred arrived at the inn, and the group decided to send two Servants to meet the Black faction while Sajyou Manaka guarded the Greater Grail.
• Jeanne joined Shirou and Mordred on the drive to Milenia Castle and said she wanted to help ensure a peaceful meeting with the Black faction.
• Shirou recalled Aika’s unusual chest-marked Command Spell and suspected the Holy Grail War’s factions were caught up in a deeper conspiracy.
• Shirou asked Jeanne to take off her clothes to inspect her Command Spells, causing a misunderstanding that nearly led to a slap and a traffic collision.
• Jeanne exposed her back, and Shirou saw her twenty-eight Command Spells, which represented the Ruler’s Divine Judgment.

Shirou examined Jeanne’s wing-shaped Command Seals, then arrived at the Yggdmillennia castle as Avicebron prepared to awaken his ultimate golem, Adam. The chapter left Shirou facing the Black faction’s leaders, where Gordes challenged his claim to the Black Saber title.

• Shirou examined Jeanne’s Command Seals and touched her back without permission, leaving her embarrassed and angry.
• Roche brought Avicebron the core needed to complete his Noble Phantasm, and Avicebron began the ritual to create Adam.
• Avicebron summoned Adam, a giant golem whose unfinished body rose from the lake, and prepared to install its core.
• Fiore, Gordes, and Caules greeted Shirou and Jeanne at the castle entrance, with Fiore acting as head of the Black faction.
• Gordes objected when Shirou called himself the Black Saber, and Shirou recognized Gordes as a member of the Musik family.

Shirou visited the Yggdmillennia castle with Jeanne and Mordred, where he reunited with Frankenstein and healed wounded homunculi. At the dinner, Fiore introduced her Servant Archer, while Shirou noticed that Caster and his Master were absent.

• Gordes questioned Shirou about Siegfried, and Fiore invited Shirou and the others into the castle for dinner.
• Jeanne's stomach growled, so Shirou agreed to enter the castle rather than continue their conversation outside.
• Frankenstein greeted Shirou as her father and showed him around the castle, where he healed several wounded homunculi.
• A homunculus led Shirou to Astolfo, whom Serenike had restrained on a bed; Astolfo escaped and followed Shirou out of the room.
• Shirou regrouped with Jeanne and Mordred for the buffet dinner, where Fiore introduced her Servant Archer, Chiron.
• Shirou noticed Caster and his Master were absent, while Mordred approached Chiron glaring at him.

Shirou agreed to a non-aggression pact with the Black faction in exchange for their release of the homunculi, while Jeanne struggled with jealousy over Fiore's attention toward him. The group discovered Caster had defected and feared he had lured Roche away to use him as the core of his Noble Phantasm, just as the castle came under attack.

• Fiore offered to release the Kaiser Family's homunculi in exchange for Shirou's protection, and Shirou accepted a non-aggression pact with the Black faction.
• Jeanne challenged Shirou over his dealings with Fiore, then apologized after Shirou asked whether she was angry.
• Caules revealed that Caster had defected to the Red faction and severed his connection with his Master.
• Fiore sent Caules to find Roche after realizing the boy might have gone looking for Caster.
• Chiron explained that Caster needed a magus as the core of his Noble Phantasm, and Shirou suspected Caster had chosen Roche.
• The banquet hall shook as rubble fell, and the group realized they were under attack.

Caster summoned Adam Kamon, the Gordius Wheel, to turn the world into a paradise, but Shirou and the others fought to stop it. Mordred shattered the giant’s head, though Jeanne warned that the battle was not over.

• Caster revealed that Adam Kamon could transform the world into Eden, and Shirou shot him before he could finish his speech.
• Caster tried to merge with the giant and become its fuel, but Mordred pulled him away and kept him alive.
• Shirou asked Fiore for permission to destroy the Black faction’s Noble Phantasm, and she ordered him to help defeat it.
• Shirou and Mordred attacked Adam Kamon while Chiron and Astolfo supported them, and Astolfo’s Noble Phantasm brought the giant to one knee.
• Mordred unleashed Clarent Blood Arthur and shattered Adam Kamon’s head, but Jeanne warned that the battle was not over.

Shirou and the Heroic Spirits fought Adam Kamon, whose regenerative power came from turning the land around it into paradise. After Jeanne recovered her resolve, Shirou proposed using her Command Spells to order him to destroy the giant.

• Jeanne faltered as she recognized the giant’s holiness, but Shirou took her hand and brought her back to her resolve.
• Jeanne explained that Adam Kamon’s self-regeneration came from its Inherent Barrier transforming the surrounding land into paradise.
• Shirou concluded that they had to destroy the giant’s head and heart at once while severing its connection to the earth.
• Shirou and Jeanne switched places with Mordred and Frankenstein, then retreated toward Milenia Castle.
• Shirou asked Jeanne to use her Divine Judgment to replenish his mana and command him to destroy the giant.