Recaps

Jeanne used a Command Spell to empower Shirou, who transformed into Arthur Albion and destroyed Avicebron’s giant with a world-destroying breath. As the golem fell, Avicebron faced the guilt behind his sacrifice of Roche.

• Jeanne commanded the Saber of "Black" to defeat Caster’s giant, and her mana ignited the dragon furnace in Shirou’s body.
• Shirou appeared in a dragonlike form, identified himself as Arthur Albion, and was recognized by Jeanne as the King of Paradise.
• Shirou confronted Avicebron over sacrificing Roche and accused him of seeking punishment while refusing to face his guilt.
• Shirou unleashed Albion’s Dragon Heart and destroyed the giant’s Spirit Cores, its connection to the earth, and the paradise it embodied.
• Avicebron watched his golem burn away and felt the guilt stirred by Roche’s death.

Shirou rescued Roche from Caster’s golem, preventing its Noble Phantasm from being completed, while Caster revealed that Shirou Amakusa Tokisada was the other Ruler and intended to use the Greater Grail for humanity’s salvation. After returning to Milenia Castle, Caules asked Shirou whether he could heal Fiore’s legs.

• Shirou carried the unharmed Roche to Fiore, revealing that he had rescued the boy from the golem’s core.
• Caster told Shirou and Jeanne that Shirou Amakusa Tokisada was a Ruler who had gained a physical body and planned to seize the Greater Grail; Caster then vanished.
• Jeanne wondered whether she had been summoned to stop Amakusa’s plan, while Mordred complained about Caster’s departure.
• The group returned to Milenia Castle, where Shirou joined Mordred and Frankenstein for dinner.
• Caules told Shirou that Fiore wished to walk again and asked whether Shirou could heal her legs.

Shirou refused Caules’s request to heal Fiore’s legs, while Jeanne and Fiore argued over a date with him. After Fiore and Jeanne discussed the threat posed by Vlad III, Jeanne led a team to hunt him, leaving Shirou to guard the Thousandth Tree Clan.

• Shirou said he could heal Fiore’s legs but refused because he would not grant her selfish wish.
• Fiore invited Shirou to her room, but Jeanne claimed their prior date and the two women traded barbs until Jeanne agreed to attend Fiore’s strategy meeting in his place.
• Fiore asked Jeanne to help subdue Vlad III, who had become the monstrous Count Dracula and could turn people into thralls.
• Jeanne insisted they act that night to prevent casualties, and Fiore agreed to gather Archer, Rider, and Berserker for the operation.
• Jeanne asked Shirou to protect the Thousandth Tree Clan’s magi while she led the team away, and a wooden spear and sword clashed in the courtyard.

Mordred beat Dur and the Artificial Lifeform fighters to drive them away from the Holy Grail War, but Shirou stopped her from killing Dur. Dur explained that the Artificial Lifeforms continued fighting to repay Shirou for treating them as people, leaving Shirou confronted with their deep gratitude.

• Mordred defeated Dur and the other Artificial Lifeform fighters during a sparring match and demanded they leave the war.
• Dur refused to give up and said she wanted to repay a debt, so Mordred drew her magic sword and attacked her with lethal force.
• Shirou stopped Mordred from striking Dur, and Mordred fled after he reprimanded her.
• Shirou treated Dur's injuries and asked why she and the others wanted to remain in the war.
• Dur said Shirou had shown them humanity by sparing them on the first night, and the Artificial Lifeforms regarded that mercy as salvation.

Shirou realized Lancer had returned to Milenia Castle to seize the Greater Grail and began searching for a way to destroy the vampire. After the castle came under attack, Shirou left Gordes to fight the ghouls and flew toward Fiore’s scream.

• Dur told Shirou that she and the other artificial lifeforms had stayed behind because they wanted to fight alongside him.
• Shirou sensed danger at Milenia Castle and deduced that Lancer had returned to claim the Greater Grail.
• Shirou ordered the artificial lifeforms to evacuate as ghouls transformed by Lancer attacked the Meeting Room.
• Shirou and Gordes found a Harpe fragment in the warehouse, and Shirou used it to reproduce the undead-slaying weapon.
• Shirou found Lancer missing from the basement, left Gordes to deal with two ghouls, and flew toward Fiore’s scream.

Fiore faced the vampire that had once been Lancer, who demanded to know where she had hidden the Greater Grail. Shirou rescued her and killed the vampire, whose body sublimated as a Heroic Spirit.

• Fiore sensed danger in Milenia Castle and returned to her room to retrieve her Magic Crest.
• The vampire confronted Fiore and demanded the Greater Grail’s location, but she refused to betray Shirou.
• The vampire seized Fiore and ignored her Magic Crest’s attack, preparing to turn her into a familiar.
• Shirou appeared, rescued Fiore, and used Harpe to overwhelm the vampire and prevent its wounds from regenerating.
• Shirou beheaded the vampire, and its body released golden light before sublimating.

After the battle, Shirou and Jeanne discussed the Red faction and planned to lure Amakusa Shirou into a meeting with the Grail as bait. On the Floating Garden, Aika kept the Grail safe as Semiramis questioned why she had chosen her as an ally.

• Jeanne returned to the castle and found Fiore asleep on Shirou’s lap, then sat beside Shirou and exchanged accounts of their battles.
• Jeanne told Shirou that the Red Servants knew the truth but still fought for Amakusa Shirou, and she wanted to meet him.
• Shirou said he would arrange a meeting by using the Grail as bait, reasoning that Amakusa Shirou’s resources were running low.
• Sajyou Manaka watched the aftermath of Lancer’s defeat and admired Saber, while reflecting that Jeanne also loved him.
• Semiramis confronted Aika about the Grail, and Aika said she would keep it safe and eventually share it with her.
• Semiramis asked Aika why she had chosen her as an ally among all the Heroic Spirits.

Sajyou Manaka explained why she had chosen Semiramis, who rejected the idea that they were alike. Jeanne invited Shirou to clear ghouls with her, and Aika encouraged him to go, leaving Jeanne unsure what Aika felt about him.

• Sajyou Manaka planned to offer the Greater Grail fourteen heroic souls so she and her chosen Servants could gain enough power to fulfill greater wishes.
• Semiramis questioned why Aika had chosen Assassin, and Aika said they were cut from the same cloth.
• Jeanne told Shirou that the Holy Church knew Amakusa Shirou had gone out of control but planned to observe rather than intervene.
• Jeanne invited Shirou to help her clear the ghouls hiding in Tuliphas, while privately hoping to make up for his recent battles and spend time with him.
• Aika urged Shirou to go out with Jeanne, and he accepted after she straightened his collar.

Shirou and Jeanne spent the day hunting ghouls, then shared coffee at an open-air café. Jeanne tentatively asked whether Shirou could love someone who admired him, but their conversation ended in awkwardness after he asked if she liked him.

• Jeanne dressed in a plain-colored dress and let down her hair before meeting Shirou outside the hotel.
• Jeanne used Revelation to locate ghouls while Shirou fought them, and they cleared out the ghouls Lancer had left behind.
• Shirou and Jeanne went to an open-air café, where Jeanne ate sandwiches and enjoyed the peaceful evening with him.
• Jeanne asked whether Shirou would accept romantic feelings from someone who had admired him since childhood, and Shirou rejected the idea of turning admiration into romance.
• Jeanne described a hypothetical in which a girl named Jeanne developed romantic feelings for Shirou, and he asked if she liked him.
• Jeanne denied that the question was about her, then sat back down as the pleasant mood between them disappeared.

Mordred wandered the town, troubled by Shirou’s silence about their past, and unexpectedly found him on a café date with Jeanne. She joined them for food and discussed the coming battle, while Shirou’s familiar remark to her stirred his sense of déjà vu.

• Mordred walked the ancient streets, brooding over Shirou’s refusal to reprimand her or let her call him Father King.
• Mordred spotted Shirou and Jeanne sharing food and wiping crumbs from each other’s mouths at an open-air café.
• Jeanne called their outing a date and invited Mordred to join them, despite Shirou’s embarrassment.
• Mordred asked about their mission against Lancer’s remaining ghouls and said she was ready for tonight’s battle.
• Shirou called Mordred “Little Mo” and wondered whether his déjà vu came from King Arthur’s spiritual foundation.

Shirou and the Black faction let Semiramis pull them into the Hanging Gardens along with the Greater Grail, turning the Red faction’s attempt to seize it into an assault on her fortress. Inside the Queen’s Garden, Semiramis confronted Shirou as he examined its defenses.

• Jeanne asked Mordred what she wished for, and Mordred declared that she would draw the Sword of Selection and become a king greater than Arthur.
• Amakusa Shirou gathered the Red Servants and announced that he would attack the Greater Grail that night despite recognizing the likely trap; Karna volunteered to face the Black Saber.
• At the ambush point, Jeanne refused to join either side, while the Black faction spotted Semiramis’s Hanging Gardens above them.
• Semiramis used a tornado to pull the buried Greater Grail and the assembled Black faction into the Hanging Gardens, where Shirou had planned to enter her fortress.
• Semiramis taunted the intruders through their minds, and Shirou examined a sword and claimed he had finished analyzing the Garden’s structure.

Shirou and the Black faction fought their way into Semiramis's Hanging Gardens, where magical beasts and poison weakened them before the group split up. Shirou faced Karna while Frankenstein pursued Shakespeare, and Karna prepared to stake the battle on their Noble Phantasms.

• Jeanne challenged Semiramis to speak with Shirou, but Semiramis mocked her and sent Babylonian magical beasts to attack the intruders.
• Shirou, Chiron, Mordred, Frankenstein, and Astolfo fought the beasts while the Floating Garden's poison weakened their abilities and drained their strength.
• The beasts withdrew, and Jeanne and Mordred headed toward the audience hall after Jeanne promised Shirou she had something important to confess if they met again.
• Chiron left to face Achilles, while Shirou took responsibility for Frankenstein and Astolfo as they advanced through the garden.
• Karna, Atalanta, and Shakespeare confronted Shirou's group; Frankenstein chased Shakespeare, and Karna blocked Shirou and prepared to fight with his Noble Phantasm.

Karna unleashed his strongest Noble Phantasm, the God-Slaying Spear, to challenge Shirou with an attack powerful enough to overwhelm him. Astolfo fled on his Hippogriff, while Shirou chose to face Karna without using Avalon.

• Karna admitted Brahmastra would not defeat Shirou and summoned the God-Slaying Spear by giving up his golden armor’s remaining protection.
• Shirou welcomed Karna’s full-power attack, and Astolfo realized they could not withstand the spear head-on.
• Astolfo urged Shirou to escape on the Hippogriff, but Shirou told him to flee alone because Karna’s target was him.
• Astolfo left on the Hippogriff after warning Shirou not to die, and Karna focused entirely on Shirou.
• Shirou considered using Avalon to evade the spear but decided to answer Karna’s challenge without it.

Shirou and Karna unleashed the Holy Sword of the Stars and Sun Wheel, Obey Death, in a clash that tore open the fragile world. Shirou was pulled through the rupture, while Sajyou Manaka sensed something was wrong and an unseen familiar voice called him to wake.

• Shirou drew the Holy Sword of the Stars and released six of its thirteen seals, though his selfish desire prevented a seventh decision.
• Karna unleashed Sun Wheel, Obey Death, and his spear began overpowering Shirou's not fully released Excalibur.
• Shirou realized Karna's immense magical energy consumption could let him win by sustaining the Holy Sword with the Heart of Albion.
• The clash tore a crack in the world's fragile fabric, and a powerful suction force pulled Shirou into it.
• In Sighisoara, Sajyou Manaka sensed that something had happened to Shirou, who had vanished from the world.
• Shirou heard a familiar voice calling him to wake as his consciousness remained blurred.

After Shirou’s body was destroyed in his battle with Karna, his soul awakened in Elysium, where he reunited with Lady Avalon. Determined to return to Illya and his friends, Shirou learned that Lady Avalon knew a way to incarnate again.

• Shirou woke in Elysium and discovered that Lady Avalon had been calling him.
• Lady Avalon explained that Shirou’s body had been destroyed when Karna’s spear overwhelmed him, leaving only his soul in Elysium.
• Shirou grieved that he could no longer return to his family and friends, then resolved to incarnate himself.
• Lady Avalon offered to take responsibility for the accident and revealed that she knew a way for Shirou to incarnate again.

Shirou learned that he could reconstruct a Servant body by replenishing Quasi-Spiritual Particles through Spiritual Particle Synchronization with Lady Avalon. Afterward, he used the Enma-Blade to tear open a rift from Elysium and returned to the surface, where Astolfo urgently called out to him.

• Lady Avalon told Shirou that he could rebuild his body by replenishing Quasi-Spiritual Particles through Spiritual Particle Synchronization.
• Shirou agreed to synchronize with Lady Avalon so he could return to his original world, and he emerged with a reconstructed Servant body.
• Shirou found Lady Avalon unconscious and unable to send him back, so he decided to escape Elysium on his own.
• Shirou used the Enma-Blade to cut open a dimensional rift and stepped through it to the surface of the planet.
• Shirou returned to the surface, where Astolfo grabbed his wrist and shouted at him.

After returning from Avalon, Shirou found himself back just before his battle with Karna and chose to face him again while Astolfo escaped. Shirou projected the memories and battle experience of the Holy Sword Wielder, then raised the Holy Sword of the Stars to unleash its true power against Karna.

• Shirou realized that using Lady Avalon's power had sent him back to the moment before Karna's Noble Phantasm clash.
• Shirou persuaded Astolfo to flee, while Atalanta also withdrew from the coming battle.
• Shirou concluded that his current power could not match Karna's God-Slaying Spear and decided to merge his abilities by becoming the King.
• Shirou projected the Holy Sword Wielder's life, memories, and battle experience until the possession and synchronization were complete.
• Shirou declared himself Karna's opponent and released the true name of the Holy Sword of the Stars.

Shirou recalled Morgan’s method for amplifying the Holy Sword and unleashed Unlimited Excalibur Works against Karna, defeating him. Karna fell satisfied after Shirou promised to save his Master.

• Morgan suggested that her husband project a second Holy Sword to increase its power, and his attempt led to the creation of an unprecedented Noble Phantasm.
• Shirou drew on Albion’s mana and invoked Unlimited Excalibur Works, gathering the light of Holy Swords across Parallel Worlds.
• Shirou’s attack cleaved apart Karna’s Noble Phantasm and left him with a fatal wound.
• Karna accepted defeat with satisfaction, and Shirou promised to save Karna’s Master.
• Karna remembered a legend about a poor woman’s sincere offering of a single lamp.

Shirou watched Karna disappear after the two warriors reached an understanding, then saw a golden-haired spirit resembling Artoria vanish from beside him. Elsewhere in the Hanging Gardens, Jeanne and Mordred fought their way through Semiramis’s defenses, while Achilles and Chiron continued their duel.

• Karna accepted Shirou and Saber’s help, felt relieved, and vanished with a gentle smile.
• Shirou saw a golden-haired girl resembling Artoria appear beside him and disappear as photons.
• Jeanne and Mordred navigated Semiramis’s trap rooms and encountered Dragon Tooth Soldiers.
• Mordred destroyed the Dragon Tooth Soldiers, but Semiramis repeatedly revived them.
• Jeanne used the Baptismal Chant to turn the Dragon Tooth Soldiers to sand, then continued onward with Mordred.
• Achilles and Chiron set aside the Holy Grail War to enjoy a duel despite their bond as former teacher and student.

Achilles and Chiron fought a fierce duel inside Achilles' Noble Phantasm until Sajyou Manaka intruded and Chiron was struck by Vlad III's stake. Manaka revealed control over several supposedly defeated Servants, leaving Achilles to face a growing force of puppet-like Heroic Spirits.

• Achilles and Chiron fought hand-to-hand in a space that isolated their duel from outside interference.
• Achilles struck Chiron with a feint, but Chiron kicked him away after noticing a third party's attack.
• Vlad III appeared and Manaka revealed herself as the one who had intervened in the duel.
• Achilles attacked Manaka, but Vlad III defended her and was overwhelmed by Achilles.
• Achilles threw his Noble Phantasm at Manaka, but Karna destroyed it with Brahmastra Kundala.
• Spartacus, Siegfried, and Avicebron appeared among Manaka's Servants, and Achilles asked what she wanted.

Achilles charged Sajyou Manaka, who intended to destroy the world for Saber, but her control of the Holy Grail’s authority stopped him. Chiron struck her with his instant Noble Phantasm, forcing her to teleport, while Achilles remained trapped and Sajyou Manaka survived.

• Achilles learned that Sajyou Manaka was willing to destroy the world because she had fallen in love with Saber, and he decided to fight her.
• Achilles used Comet Run to break through the five undead Servants and attack Sajyou Manaka, but she stopped his fist and immobilized him with the Holy Grail’s authority.
• Sajyou Manaka recognized that Achilles could not bring himself to kill a woman and told him his attack lacked killing intent.
• Chiron fired Scorpio Shot and pierced Sajyou Manaka’s heart, but she shifted space-time with Space Transfer and escaped the fatal strike.
• Chiron warned Achilles to run as Sajyou Manaka survived and the wounded Archer knelt nearby.

Chiron sacrificed himself to help Achilles escape Sajyou Manaka, who turned him into a dark Archer and continued hunting for targets. Shirou defeated Atalanta in their latest clash and tried to enlist her help rescuing the captured Masters, invoking their unfinished wager when she refused.

• Chiron urged Achilles to flee, and Achilles escaped despite his reluctance.
• Sajyou Manaka took control of Chiron, transforming him into a dark Archer before heading toward Dies irae.
• Shirou dodged Atalanta’s arrows, defeated her with Unlimited Blade Works, and proposed a temporary truce to rescue the Masters controlled by Assassin.
• Atalanta refused to help, suspecting Shirou had a scheme and recalling that he had rejected her offer to cooperate.
• Shirou reminded Atalanta that he had won their wager and had not yet claimed his prize.

Shirou challenged Atalanta to a race through the Infinite Corridor, wagering that she would help him if he won. He crossed the finish line first using Time Control, but the spell’s backlash left him vomiting blood.

• Shirou agreed to Atalanta’s terms for a race, and she swore by Artemis to do as he asked if he won.
• Atalanta sprinted ahead through the Infinite Corridor, confident that Shirou could not match her speed.
• Shirou overtook Atalanta with a burst of speed, then fell nearly level with her as they neared the finish.
• Shirou used Time Control’s Septuple Acceleration to surge past Atalanta and win the race.
• Atalanta reached Shirou and found him vomiting blood from the backlash of the spell.

After Shirou won Atalanta’s race at the cost of severe injuries, Atalanta declared that she had fallen in love with him and claimed him as her husband. She led him to the room where five captured magi were being held.

• Shirou explained that using Time Alter Septuple Accel had won him the race but left him badly injured and his Magic Circuits berserk.
• Atalanta tended to Shirou’s face and told him that the winner of her race was meant to become her husband.
• Atalanta admitted that she loved Shirou because he had risked his life for a promise, though Shirou rejected the marriage.
• Shirou asked Atalanta to take him to the captured magi, and she led him through the corridors to a room with five people muttering around a table.

Shirou and Atalanta rescued the poisoned Masters and arranged for the Thousandth Tree Clan to collect them. During a telepathic call, Caules confronted Shirou about the Holy Grails and revealed that Manaka had disappeared, possibly entering the Floating Garden.

• Atalanta explained that Assassin had poisoned the Masters, and she and Shirou carried them through the temple to a teleportation room.
• Atalanta contacted the Thousandth Tree Clan, and Shirou asked Fiore whether anything had happened before learning that her Archer had died.
• Caules questioned Shirou about Manaka disappearing with what appeared to be a Holy Grail.
• Shirou admitted that the Holy Grail used as bait was one he had possessed since his lifetime, while Manaka also had another real Holy Grail.
• Caules said Manaka's whereabouts were unknown and suspected she had entered the Floating Garden.