Recaps

Shirou realized Aika was somewhere in the Sky Fortress as Frankenstein was overwhelmed by the black Servants and seemingly died after unleashing her Noble Phantasm. Jeanne d'Arc and Mordred reached Semiramis's audience hall, where Mordred fought the Assassin after Shirou had secretly given her Prydwen.

• Shirou discovered that the Garden's barrier had severed his telepathic link with Aika and realized she was somewhere in the Sky Fortress.
• Frankenstein unleashed her full-power Blasted Tree against Karna, Vlad III, and Siegfried, but their defenses let them survive and the shadows dragged her away.
• Caules watched Frankenstein's Command Spells vanish and mourned that he had failed to help her, while her lightning continued to crackle around Maiden's Chastity.
• Jeanne d'Arc and Mordred reached Semiramis's audience hall, and Jeanne continued toward the garden while Mordred stayed to confront the Assassin.
• Semiramis poisoned Mordred, who resisted the effects and charged the throne with her helmet and the Prydwen Shirou had given her.

Shirou and Atalanta encountered an apparently corrupted Achilles, who attacked them with his chariot, while Jeanne and Shirou discussed Amakusa Shirou's beliefs and the purpose of Jeanne's mission. Jeanne confronted Amakusa on the Floating Garden, where he admitted his plan had failed but remained determined.

• Achilles appeared before Shirou and Atalanta, said Shirou had to die to save the world, and charged at them in his divine chariot.
• Jeanne and Shirou discussed Amakusa Shirou's past, his wish to save humanity, and Jeanne's mission to question him about his plan.
• Jeanne explained that Laeticia's original body had been preserved as a backup, leaving her vessel safe from harm.
• Jeanne wondered what Artorius had come to protect, then set aside her doubts and went to the Floating Fortress's deck garden.
• Jeanne identified Amakusa Shirou Tokisada as the first Ruler, and he admitted that his plan had failed while insisting he could not be persuaded.

Jeanne rejected Shirou Amakusa’s plan to grant humanity eternal life through the Third Magic, and prepared to fight him. Before their battle began, Miss Aika arrived; meanwhile, an unnamed narrator revealed that the fallen Servants’ souls and bodies were being used to build an army for a wish that required everyone but him to die.

• Shirou Amakusa explained his plan to use the Third Magic to grant all humanity immortal souls and eternal peace, then asked Jeanne to join him.
• Jeanne rejected Shirou Amakusa’s offer, arguing that his plan abandoned humanity’s struggles and future rather than saving it.
• Shirou Amakusa drew Mitsu-no-Osa, and Jeanne raised her Holy Flag as they prepared to fight.
• Footsteps interrupted the confrontation, and Jeanne recognized the arrival as Miss Aika.
• An unnamed narrator listed the defeated Servants and revealed that their souls and bodies had been gathered to create an army and fulfill his wish.

Jeanne and Mordred reached the Floating Garden’s audience hall, where Aika revealed she had gathered eight Heroic Spirits as familiars and intended to complete the Holy Grail ritual for reasons unrelated to the Root or saving humanity. Aika’s familiars attacked, and Mordred later lay dying after wounding Semiramis, regretting that she had never spoken openly with Father King.

• Jeanne learned from Laeticia that Aika was over twenty, and Laeticia offered to speak with her; after their conversation, Aika seemed more cheerful.
• Jeanne and Mordred reached the audience hall after struggling through the Floating Garden’s traps and monsters, where they found Aika holding the Holy Grail.
• Aika explained that she had come to complete the ritual and revealed eight black Heroic Spirits she had turned into familiars.
• Jeanne realized Aika did not seek the Root or humanity’s salvation, and Aika declared that she had been connected to a place beyond the world since birth.
• Aika’s eight familiars attacked Jeanne and Shirou Amakusa, while Mordred later collapsed after striking Semiramis with Clarent and suffered a fatal wound.

Mordred woke after Kaijiri Shishigami used a Command Spell to save her, while Shirou and the other Servants fought over Sajyou Manaka’s dangerous plans. Just as Aika considered confessing the future she had seen, a dark-green dagger pierced her chest.

• Mordred awoke in her tomb and learned that Kaijiri Shishigami had used a Command Spell to keep her alive; she asked him for a cigarette, but he refused.
• Shirou Amakusa Tokisada and the black Heroic Spirits overwhelmed Jeanne and captured her, while Sajyou Manaka began absorbing Jeanne and her remaining Command Spells into her collection.
• The arrival of Red’s Rider, Black’s Saber, and Red’s Archer disrupted the fight, allowing Jeanne to escape and attack Sajyou Manaka.
• Shirou stopped Jeanne from striking Aika and defended his Master, dismissing Jeanne’s Revelation that Aika was doing something bad.
• Aika realized that Shirou trusted her unconditionally and began to consider telling him about the future she had seen, but an unknown dark-green dagger pierced her chest.

Shirou tried to save the mortally poisoned Aika with Avalon, but she died after confessing her love for him. As Semiramis sent the Holy Grail to Amakusa Shirou, Jeanne tried to destroy it, but Amakusa caught it and prepared to enact his plan to save humanity.

• Semiramis revealed that she had poisoned Aika and betrayed her, leaving Aika wounded as the Holy Grail rolled away.
• Shirou placed Avalon in Aika’s chest, but her poisoned Magic Circuits and fading life weakened his manifestation.
• Aika touched Shirou’s cheek, told him she loved him, and died.
• Semiramis threw the Holy Grail toward Amakusa Shirou while Jeanne rushed to stop it.
• Jeanne struck the Holy Grail with her flag, but failed to destroy it, and Amakusa caught it.
• Amakusa explained that his arms could connect to every Magecraft Foundation and began to act on his plan using the Grail.

Amakusa Shirou activated the Greater Grail to bring salvation to humanity, causing it to manifest Jeanne Metatron and announce that destruction would descend upon the world. Elsewhere, Sajyou Manaka realized that the Holy Grail War would end with the destruction of humanity, though she did not know how that future had come about.

• Atalanta shot Amakusa Shirou in both wrists to stop him from connecting his Magic Circuits to the Greater Grail.
• Amakusa Shirou used his status as Master to make a wish upon the Grail filled with eight souls, asking it to save humanity.
• The Greater Grail began its autonomous calculations, and Jeanne and Laeticia suddenly grew weak and fell asleep.
• Pillars of light spread across Eastern Europe as a winged, divine version of Jeanne manifested and identified herself as Jeanne Metatron.
• Jeanne Metatron announced that salvation and destruction would descend upon the world, declaring that destruction was God's mercy.
• Sajyou Manaka recalled that she had closed off her Future Sight to experience love, then realized the Holy Grail War would end with the world and humanity destroyed.

Sajyou Manaka chose not to use her omniscience and planned to prevent the world's destruction by killing the other Heroic Spirits, but she was defeated. Jeanne Metatron emerged from the Ruler's shell and announced that she would save humanity by destroying Old Humanity, leaving Shirou impatiently challenging her to act.

• Sajyou Manaka refused to look into her future and planned to eliminate every Heroic Spirit except her knight during the Holy Grail War in Romania.
• Jeanne Metatron emerged from the Ruler's shell and declared that humanity's destruction would be its salvation.
• Jeanne Metatron explained to Amakusa Shirou that she intended to end Old Humanity peacefully and preserve the planet for a future sapient species.
• Amakusa Shirou rejected Jeanne Metatron's judgment, but she pointed out that he was repeating the arguments Jeanne had used against his own plan to remake humanity.
• Shirou told Jeanne Metatron to stop lecturing and destroy the world if she intended to, prompting Amakusa Shirou to protest.

Shirou and his allies left Metatron's Floating Garden after she granted humanity seven days before destroying the world. Back at Milenia Castle, Shirou began a ritual beside the sleeping Manaka as the Association prepared for an apparently hopeless battle.

• Metatron announced that she would give humanity seven days before bringing salvation to the earth, and Shirou chose to leave with Manaka and Laeticia.
• Amakusa Shirou used a Command Spell to force Semiramis to flee the Floating Garden rather than die fighting Metatron.
• Shirou, Atalanta, and Achilles departed, then encountered Astolfo and learned how he had escaped the fortress.
• Semiramis appeared aboard Shirou's airship, while Shirou considered how a Divine Era Magus might help resist Metatron's immense angel army.
• The Mage's Association and Holy Church learned of Metatron's plan, and the Association began preparing for battle as the Church accepted the judgment.
• At Milenia Castle, Shirou placed his palm against the Magic Circle surrounding the sleeping Manaka.

Shirou kept Aika alive by continuously supplying her with magical energy until Fiore and the Artificial Lifeforms took over, allowing him to rest. At the cafeteria, he reunited with Laeticia and began learning about the situation after their return.

• Fiore warned Shirou that his spiritual foundation would dissipate within hours if he continued sustaining Aika, but Elutsia and the Artificial Lifeforms offered to take over the treatment.
• Elutsia began transmitting magical energy to Aika, and Dur led Shirou away, assuring him that Aika could last at least a week with their help.
• Dur took Shirou to the cafeteria, where he encountered Laeticia, who had awakened and rushed into his arms in relief.
• Laeticia prepared a large pot of stew for Shirou, and they ate together while she began telling him about the situation.

With humanity facing Metatron, Shirou discovered that Laeticia retained angelic power and began training her to fight. Fiore asked him to become her Servant so she could supply his magical energy, but Shirou refused to abandon Aika; he and Fiore ended the conversation with his bond to Aika unchanged.

• Shirou learned that Laeticia could summon pillars of light using angelic power left within her after Jeanne Metatron was separated from her.
• Shirou decided Laeticia could become key to defeating Metatron and began training her in magecraft for the final seven days.
• Shirou trained Laeticia through the evening, checked on Aika, and returned to his room.
• Fiore visited Shirou and asked him to form a Master-Servant contract with her, citing his need for a supply of magical energy.
• Shirou refused because he would not betray Aika or sever their bond, and Fiore accepted his decision.

Shirou discussed Fiore’s future and stopped her from trying to supply him with magical energy by undressing. Fiore asked him to help transfer her Magecraft Crest to Caules, and the chapter left her accepting that she and her brother would follow separate paths, despite feeling lonely.

• Shirou reflected that Fiore’s humanity and moral sense made her unsuited to the harsh life of a magus.
• Fiore offered to supply Shirou with magical energy, then began taking off her clothes before Shirou stopped her and asked if there was another way.
• Fiore revealed that she wanted Shirou to help transfer her Magecraft Crest to Caules so she could have the Magic Circuits in her legs removed and abandon magecraft.
• Fiore explained that Caules had urged her to choose the life she wanted, though he refused her invitation to leave the Thousandth Tree Clan with her.
• Shirou reassured Fiore that choosing an ordinary life took resolve, and Fiore thanked him while admitting she would still feel lonely.

Shirou comforted Fiore by having her stay in his room, prompting Laeticia to suspect they had become intimate and resent the situation on the Saint Lady’s behalf. The next morning, Shirou prepared to transplant the Fulvigi siblings’ Magecraft Crest, and Fiore asked to whisper something to him before the surgery.

• Fiore suggested staying in Shirou’s room, and Shirou agreed before carrying her to his bed.
• Laeticia arrived the next morning and found Fiore leaving Shirou’s room in disarray.
• Shirou explained that Fiore had stayed because he did not want her returning alone, while Laeticia grew jealous and scolded him.
• Shirou and Laeticia finished their morning magic lesson and returned to the castle for the siblings’ Crest transplantation surgery.
• Fiore asked Shirou to come closer so she could whisper something to him before the operation.

After Fiore transferred most of her Magic Crest to Caules and began a new life as an ordinary human, Shirou set out with Laeticia to recruit the surviving Red Servants for the fight against Metatron. He found Achilles drowning his regrets in a tavern and provoked him into confronting his guilt over Chiron’s death.

• Shirou completed the Magic Crest surgery, and Fiore gave most of her Crest to Caules before leaving the life of a magus.
• Fiore told Caules that humanity still had a savior, while Caules joked that the world might end in five days.
• Shirou and Laeticia left the castle to find the surviving Red Servants and went to a tavern in Tuliphas to meet Achilles.
• Achilles rejected Shirou’s invitation to join the fight, so Shirou insulted Chiron and drew Achilles into a brawl.
• Shirou accused Achilles of disgracing Chiron by giving up, and Achilles finally stopped fighting and thanked him.

Shirou helped Achilles regain his resolve, then spent a day dating Atalanta near Tuliphas. Atalanta agreed to fight the angels with him as the threat of Metatron loomed.

• Shirou beat Achilles until he regained his determination to keep fighting, then left the tavern with Laeticia as Semiramis watched from the darkness.
• Shirou found Atalanta in a forest near Tuliphas, and she pulled him into a daylong date after hearing from Astolfo that he had been dating other girls.
• Atalanta challenged men who approached her to defeat Shirou, turning their date into a public arm-wrestling tournament that Shirou won.
• Shirou admitted he had enjoyed the date, and Atalanta said she would fight the angels alongside him as his wife.

Atalanta used Agrius Metamorphose to become a powerful demon, sacrificing her human form so she could help Shirou fight the angels. Shirou returned and found her transformed, but she begged him to leave while he refused.

• After Shirou left, Atalanta revealed Agrius Metamorphose and recalled how the pelt came from the Calydonian boar and the massacre that followed its division.
• Atalanta resolved to give up the happiness she had found with Shirou and transform herself to gain the power to help him fight the angels.
• Atalanta invoked Agrius Metamorphose and became Atalanta Alter, enduring intense pain and hunger as she gained immense magical power and regenerative abilities.
• Atalanta Alter sensed someone approaching and saw Shirou return to invite her to stay at the castle.
• Atalanta Alter warned Shirou to stay away, but Shirou refused to leave.

Shirou restrained Atalanta Alter and reassured her that he still saw her as beautiful, prompting her to accept him as her master and ask him to train her. A week later, with no sign of Assassin, Shirou shared drinks with Kaijiri Shishigami and Mordred, and Shishigami began telling them how his family had abandoned its failing magecraft lineage.

• Atalanta Alter panicked and fled, but Shirou caught and restrained her despite her claws wounding him.
• Shirou told Atalanta Alter he considered her beautiful and admired her wish to bring happiness to children, and she demanded that he take responsibility for training her.
• Shirou brought Atalanta Alter back to the castle, where she continued to quarrel with Laeticia over Shirou's attention.
• Shirou searched for Semiramis for six days without finding her, while Atalanta suggested that Assassin might have disappeared.
• Shirou, Kaijiri Shishigami, and Mordred drank together in the Catacombs, and Shishigami revealed that his European family's magecraft had declined after relocating to Japan.
• Shishigami explained that his ancestors chose to sell their souls rather than let the family's magecraft end.

Kaijiri Shishigami told Shirou and Mordred how a curse tied to his Magecraft Crest had left him unable to have descendants, and Shirou suggested he try removing the Crest. Later, Shirou offered Mordred the Sword of Selection, but she rejected it and told him that being his child mattered more than claiming the throne.

• Kaijiri Shishigami explained that his family's contract had revived their Magecraft Crest but cursed him to have no descendants, and that an adopted daughter's death had ended their attempts to pass on the Crest.
• Kaijiri Shishigami said he had entered the Holy Grail War hoping to remove the poison from his Crest and continue his bloodline.
• Shirou suggested Kaijiri Shishigami cut out his Crest, as Fiore had done, and offered to help if he chose to try it.
• Shirou left with Mordred to practice swordsmanship while Kaijiri Shishigami wondered whether he wanted a child for the family line or for another reason, then dreamed of his dead adopted daughter.
• After sparring, Shirou presented Mordred with the Sword of Selection, but she stopped herself from taking it and struck him for tempting her.
• Mordred told Shirou she no longer dreamed of claiming the sword and was happy simply to be his child, then sat in his lap and teased him about her mother.

Semiramis survived after Shirou rescued her, and she found herself newly intrigued by him. As the survivors prepared for the final battle against the angels, they debated who would provide mana to Shirou, but Gordes insisted that he should be the one.

• Semiramis woke in the church, learned the pigeons had fetched Shirou to save her, and decided to seek out a new diversion now that her ambition to rule humanity was over.
• Fiore outlined the plan to travel from Tuliphas to Bucharest and then fly to the final battlefield, while the group confirmed mana supplies for the Servants.
• Laeticia volunteered to supply mana to Shirou, but Fiore refused because Laeticia could not protect herself or use basic Enhancement Magic properly.
• Caules offered to provide Shirou with mana, saying he was well enough after surgery and needed to act as head of the Fulvigi Family.
• Gordes objected to the siblings' decision and declared that, as the Master of Black Saber, he should provide Shirou's mana.

Gordes and the Artificial Lifeforms competed to provide Shirou with mana, but an enemy alarm interrupted their discussion. Semiramis arrived offering to help fight Metatron, then stormed away after Shirou explained that he had saved her because her eyes resembled his wife’s.

• Gordes insisted that he should provide Shirou with mana, but Dur brought Artificial Lifeforms who volunteered instead.
• An enemy alarm sounded before Shirou could choose who would supply his mana.
• Semiramis appeared at Milenia Castle and offered to join the fight against Metatron on the condition that Shirou take responsibility for the previous night.
• Fiore and the others left Semiramis alone with Shirou, who explained that he had saved her because her eyes resembled his wife’s.
• Semiramis blushed and stormed out, while Shirou called after her and discovered Fiore, Atalanta Alter, and Laeticia had been eavesdropping.

Shirou visited the sleeping Aika and found a bento that convinced him her awakening was near. As the group prepared to confront Metatron, Rokudo Rinkha and Jack the Ripper returned to fight alongside Shirou.

• Shirou told Laeticia, Fiore, and Atalanta that Semiramis had offered to supply his magical energy after he compared her eyes to his previous-life wife's.
• Shirou sneaked into the infirmary to visit Aika and found a bento whose familiar taste made him believe she had prepared it from the future and would soon awaken.
• Shirou and the others departed the castle with magi and Artificial Lifeforms for their final battle, backed by Semiramis's magical reinforcement and the Mage's Association.
• The group reached Henry Coandă International Airport and boarded ten golem-operated planes, with Shirou and Laeticia assigned to confront Metatron's true body.
• Rokudo Rinkha and Jack the Ripper reunited with Shirou and revealed that they had returned from Finland of their own choice to help him fight.

Shirou prepared Laeticia for battle by giving her a divine sword, then revealed that the angels surrounding Metatron's Divine Throne were machines containing divine authority. He left the meeting with a captured angel and an undisclosed plan for dealing with the million-strong army.

• Rokudo Rinkha told Shirou that a rumor claimed Saber was recruiting mistresses, then left with Assassin while Jack called Shirou Daddy.
• Shirou boarded a plane with Laeticia and projected the Cherub's Flame Sword for her to use in battle.
• Shirou told Laeticia that he wanted her to survive, and she promised to do her best.
• Shirou explained that he, Atalanta Alter, and Semiramis had captured an angel to test his theory about Metatron's forces.
• Shirou cut open the angel and revealed its mechanical interior, then challenged the others' plans to fight a million angels directly.
• Shirou said he had captured the angel to study it for another purpose, but did not reveal his plan.

Shirou devised a plan to infect Metatron’s angel network and led the team to the divine throne. After Laeticia summoned Jacob’s Ladder, Shirou and the others reached it, leaving Laeticia clinging to him in fear.

• Shirou explained that the angels communicated through a network and proposed hacking it under the operation name “Achilles’ Heel.”
• Shirou, Semiramis, and the others captured and modified angels, then sent them to spread false commands that threw the angel army into chaos.
• When Metatron’s defenses prevented their aircraft from approaching the throne, Shirou urged Laeticia to summon Jacob’s Ladder.
• Laeticia prayed and manifested a shining ladder from the clouds, allowing the team to leap from their aircraft onto it.
• Laeticia clung to Shirou after they landed, too frightened to let go.

Shirou and Laeticia confronted Metatron, whose immense power let her freeze time and survive Shirou’s strongest Noble Phantasm. Metatron restrained Shirou and sentenced him to live eternally as the last Old Humanity Individual, destined to guard the birth of New Humanity.

• Shirou and Laeticia reached the garden and faced Metatron, who revealed that she had chosen Shirou as the Preserver of humanity.
• Shirou and Laeticia attempted a surprise attack, but Metatron froze time across the world and released her Noble Phantasm.
• Shirou summoned Holy Swords from countless Parallel Worlds and unleashed Excalibur: Unlimited Excalibur Works, apparently vaporizing Metatron.
• Metatron revived, bound Shirou with three golden rings, and said his attack confirmed her choice of him.
• Metatron declared that Shirou would survive eternally as the sole Old Humanity Individual and later guard the birth of New Humanity.

Shirou was drawn into Metatron’s body, where she intended to make him human again by giving birth to him. Inside a familiar version of his home, he met a lazy blonde girl and found Jeanne frozen in an ice coffin, still accepting Metatron’s judgment and unable to help him.

• Metatron revealed that she planned to erase Old Humanity because she believed civilization was doomed, then said she would atone after the New Humanity was born.
• Shirou told Metatron that he was a revenant rather than a living human, but she said she had anticipated this and would give him another chance to become human.
• Metatron absorbed Shirou into her body and said she would become his mother so he could be reborn as a human.
• Shirou woke in a space resembling his home, where a lazy blonde girl ordered him to make lunch and said she was not Jeanne.
• The blonde girl directed Shirou to Jeanne, whom he found frozen in an ice coffin; Jeanne said she had accepted Metatron’s judgment and was praying and atoning for Old Humanity.