Recaps

Shirou freed Jeanne from the Ice Coffin and persuaded her to fight beside him against Metatron. As they considered how to escape the mansion inside Metatron, the blonde Metatron stopped them and urged them to relax, enveloping them in light.

• Shirou smashed open Jeanne’s Ice Coffin, pulled her out, and asked her to join him in stopping Metatron.
• Jeanne agreed to stand by Shirou, though she said she could not respond to what she took as his confession while the world remained in danger.
• At lunch, Jeanne introduced the blonde Metatron, who said she was neutral and too weak to help them oppose her other self.
• Shirou and Jeanne learned they were inside Metatron’s body and decided to dismantle the mansion to escape.
• The blonde Metatron stopped Shirou from attacking the mansion and enveloped him and Jeanne in light, telling them to be slothful because time inside her was infinite.

A month after returning from the Fae Kingdom, Shirou settled into a peaceful life with Jeanne and Metatron, though he struggled to remember something important. When a Mahjong machine turned up in storage, Lady Avalon arrived to join their game, leaving the four of them gathered around the table.

• Shirou woke to find Metatron making cereal for breakfast, and Jeanne complained that she wanted Shirou’s cooking instead.
• Shirou reflected on his warm life with Jeanne and Metatron, then felt he had forgotten something important.
• Jeanne and Metatron found a Mahjong machine in storage, and Shirou used his magic to repair it.
• Lady Avalon appeared at the door as a thought-form from Shirou’s mental world and said she had come to play Mahjong.
• Shirou introduced Lady Avalon to Jeanne and Metatron, and the four began playing Mahjong together.

Lady Avalon forced Shirou and Jeanne d'Arc to remember their lives beyond Metatron’s peaceful Singularity, and Shirou chose to leave rather than remain in sloth. When Metatron tried to stop him, Shirou asked her to lend him her power instead of fighting.

• Lady Avalon lectured Shirou and Jeanne d'Arc after winning their mahjong games, prompting Shirou to remember something he had forgotten.
• Shirou found a photograph of his family at the Amamiya Residence and regretted forgetting the people waiting for him.
• Metatron revealed that she had used Sloth to give Shirou and Jeanne d'Arc a peaceful refuge from their accumulated spiritual wounds.
• Shirou rejected Metatron’s offer to remain in sloth and declared that he would keep fighting to prevent the future she described.
• Metatron tried to block Shirou from leaving, but he approached her without a weapon and asked her to lend him her power.

Metatron explained that she planned to preserve humanity’s souls in eternal dreams rather than let future generations suffer, but Laeticia refused to accept humanity’s extinction and challenged her. As Metatron attacked, Shirou returned and joined Laeticia in wielding her divine sword.

• Metatron revealed that she had absorbed Saber and intended to erase humanity’s bodies and minds while preserving their souls in peaceful dreams.
• Metatron showed Laeticia a vision of humanity’s bleak future and asked whether she was wrong to save people from it.
• Laeticia acknowledged Metatron’s love for humanity but refused to let her erase everyone, and Metatron prepared to strike her with Sainte Mont Pillier.
• As Metatron’s attack descended, Shirou appeared behind Laeticia and urged her to keep fighting.
• Shirou and Laeticia joined hands on the divine sword as Shirou poured the dragon’s magical energy into it.

Shirou escaped Metatron and used Jeanne's Saint Catherine sword to force the archangel to confront the cost of fighting them. After the flames of Crimson Lotus Saintess faded, Metatron's power vanished and Jeanne's Saint Graph disappeared, leaving Metatron to descend before Shirou and Laeticia.

• Shirou revealed that he escaped Metatron by using the authority she had left inside Laeticia, and he blocked her Pillar of Flame with the genuine Flame Sword of the Cherubim.
• Metatron prepared to unleash her full authority, but Shirou summoned Jeanne's Saint Catherine sword and threatened to activate Crimson Lotus Saintess, which would destroy Jeanne's Saint Graph along with Metatron's vessel.
• Metatron recognized Shirou and Jeanne's willingness to sacrifice themselves and lowered her arm as Shirou invoked Jeanne's words about humanity's hope.
• Shirou poured magical energy into Saint Catherine, releasing Crimson Lotus Saintess's beautiful flames as the fighting Servants and magi looked on.
• The flames faded, Metatron's Pillar of Flame disappeared, and she said Jeanne's Saint Graph had vanished before descending to Shirou and Laeticia's level.

Metatron (Sloth) confronted Metatron and revealed that Shirou had prevented the world from being pruned 1,500 years earlier. As Sloth began to disappear, Metatron transferred her power to her and ordered her to help humanity, leaving Sloth protesting as Shirou recognized her.

• Metatron mourned that her angel army had gone berserk after her crown was damaged in the explosion of Crimson Lotus Saintess (La Pucelle).
• Metatron (Sloth) stopped time and confronted Metatron, explaining that she had come to help humanity and that her time spent with Shirou had made her happy.
• Metatron (Sloth) revealed that the world would have been pruned 1,500 years earlier without Shirou, who had searched for the Holy Grail, gathered treasures, and hunted Dragon Kind to prevent it.
• As Metatron (Sloth) began to dissolve, Metatron admitted that Sloth had helped her retain her sense of self and restrained her impulses.
• Metatron transferred her power to Metatron (Sloth) and told her to complete her final task by helping humanity, while Sloth protested that she did not want to work.
• Shirou recognized the girl as Metatron, then wondered whether she was Sloth-chan.

Shirou gathered the magical energy around him and awakened an Eternal Engine as he fought the rampaging angels, while Laeticia watched his Spirit Origin approach collapse. Aika contacted Laeticia telepathically, leaving a possible way to help Shirou just as his final battle neared its limit.

• Metatron (Sloth) began repairing the damaged Crown while Shirou and Laeticia held off the angels surrounding the Floating Garden.
• After magical-energy support stopped, Shirou used his Dragon Heart and gathered magical residue to sustain his attacks, and Caules recognized the power as Frankenstein's legacy.
• Shirou's new Eternal Engine let him fight the vast angel army, but the strain began collapsing his Spirit Origin.
• Laeticia realized Shirou was nearing defeat and resolved to find a way to help him.
• Aika spoke to Laeticia telepathically and greeted her.

Shirou and Aika stopped the rampaging angels with the Golden Cup, allowing the Slothful Angel to regain control and end the battle. After the Floating Garden collapsed, Shirou reunited with Aika and said farewell to the other Servants, leaving his promise to Semiramis confirmed.

• Aika took over Laeticia's body and joined Shirou in battle, asking him to use all three Command Spells.
• Shirou used the Command Spells to unleash the Golden Cup's bounded field, freezing every angel across the planet's surface.
• The Slothful Angel restored the crown and regained control of the angels, ending the battle as the Floating Garden began to collapse.
• Shirou carried Laeticia to safety on the Chalk Ship and reunited with Aika at Milenia Castle, where her transformed Command Spell marks remained.
• Shirou bid farewell to the other Servants, and Semiramis accepted that their old resentment was settled before asking whether his words about her eyes were true.
• Shirou assured Semiramis that her eyes really did resemble his wife's.

Shirou said goodbye to Semiramis, Atalanta, and Mordred before traveling toward Paris with Aika and Laeticia. At the hotel, Aika and Laeticia planned to join him in the bath, but Aika hesitated when the moment came.

• Shirou bid farewell to Semiramis, who vanished with a wistful smile, and Atalanta promised to find him again and have a child with him.
• Shirou urged Mordred to make up with her sister, and she agreed before leaving.
• Shirou reunited with Aika and Laeticia, then agreed to accompany them to Paris after Laeticia invited them to France.
• At the airport hotel, Aika and Laeticia insisted on sharing a three-person suite with Shirou.
• While Shirou bathed, Aika and Laeticia sneaked into the changing room and prepared to join him, but Aika panicked and said she was not ready.

Aika and Laeticia impulsively joined Shirou in the bath, where their embarrassment gave way to playful intimacy. The next morning, the three left the hotel together, now much more comfortable with physical affection.

• Aika hesitated to join Shirou in the bath, but Laeticia believed her claim that mixed bathing was a Japanese custom.
• Laeticia stripped to her underwear and dragged Aika toward the bathroom, where both girls slipped and fell inside.
• Shirou found them and agreed to let them wash his back, leaving Aika and Laeticia flustered by his physique.
• The three shared an intimate bath, and the following morning Aika and Laeticia woke sprawled across Shirou's chest.
• Shirou checked that they had packed everything, and Aika linked arms with him as they left the hotel.

Shirou asked Aika and Laeticia to leave their world with him, but they stayed to protect its future and promised they would reunite. After traveling to Paris, Shirou returned to Pan-Human History and found himself in Fuyuki City.

• Shirou invited Laeticia and Aika to live with him in his world, but Laeticia refused because she could not abandon her family.
• Aika refused to leave, explaining that she would work to avert humanity's decline in the world Shirou had saved and loved.
• Laeticia pledged to help Aika, and Aika promised Shirou they would meet again when their work was done.
• Shirou boarded a flight to Paris and told Aika he would always keep a room open for her.
• Shirou stood in Fuyuki City, listening to its modern sounds and feeling that he had returned home.

Shirou returned to Fuyuki after a month away and reunited with his worried family, then asked Rin to investigate why the Holy Grail had summoned him. As he settled back into his usual routine, he noticed the women at home were meeting without him and suspected they were planning a surprise.

• Shirou returned to Fuyuki City exactly one month after being summoned and bought souvenirs for the women at home.
• Ritseliete opened the door, and Illya and Sakura rushed to Shirou, crying and knocking him to the floor as Eiri checked that he was really home.
• Shirou explained to the gathered women that the Holy Grail had summoned him to fight as a Servant in a Parallel World.
• Shirou asked Rin to help investigate the summoning, and Rin agreed.
• Shirou resumed school, club activities, and life at home, but noticed Rin, Sakura, Eiri, and Illya meeting without him while Ritseliete and Sella guarded the room.
• Shirou worried that everyone was ostracizing him, then decided they were probably planning a surprise birthday party.

After returning to Fuyuki, Shirou followed organ music to the reopened church and met Caren Ortensia, its new caretaker and a Church investigator. Caren told him the Greater Grail had reappeared, while Shirou insisted he had destroyed it himself.

• Shirou resolved to ask his family about their recent meetings, then followed music from the Fuyuki Church to its chapel.
• Shirou listened as Caren Ortensia played the organ, and she introduced herself as the church’s new caretaker.
• Caren revealed that she had come on the Church’s orders to investigate the Holy Grail reportedly observed again in Fuyuki.
• Shirou questioned Caren about her connection to Father Risei and then grabbed her wrist, insisting he had dismantled the Greater Grail.
• Caren asked Shirou to accept Church supervision and touched his cheeks before stepping away.

Shirou confronted Karen about the Holy Grail and left determined to prove the Greater Grail did not exist. Meanwhile, Irisviel and the others hid their new Greater Grail—Justiça, the reborn Winter Saintess—from him, until Justiça insisted on meeting Shirou.

• Shirou learned Karen had found something resembling a Holy Grail but could not identify it, and he left the church promising to prove the Greater Grail did not exist.
• Rin, Sakura, Irisviel, and Illya discussed Shirou's suspicions and agreed they had to keep their secret ritual hidden from him.
• Irisviel revealed that she and the others had secretly created a new Greater Grail while trying to bring Shirou back after his disappearance.
• The women had fused the three Mana Cores with a fragment of Justiça's altar, reviving the Winter Saintess as a human-like Greater Grail.
• Justiça entered the living room and asked to meet Shirou, whose help had revitalized the Einzbern Clan.

Shirou suspected that his family and Rin Tohsaka were hiding a new Holy Grail War from him, while Justiça asked Irisviel to let her meet Shirou in disguise. After a dinner where Eiri and Illya were said to be sick and kept out of sight, Shirou encountered them in the hallway.

• Shirou left the church after Justiça questioned him about a renewed Holy Grail reaction in Fuyuki City, and he suspected a hidden Holy Grail War.
• Shirou planned to check Irisviel for Command Spells, while Justiça asked to disguise herself as Irisviel and speak with him.
• Shirou returned home and found Rin Tohsaka visiting; she and Taiga Fujimura said Eiri and Illya were resting with ordinary colds.
• Shirou ate dinner with Taiga Fujimura, Sakura Matou, and Rin Tohsaka, then helped with the dishes and saw Sakura off.
• Shirou went to check on Eiri and Illya and encountered them in the hallway.

Shirou noticed that Irisviel’s behavior had changed, not realizing that Justiça had taken her place, and agreed to meet her that night. Justiça questioned him about his feelings and the Third Magic, while Shirou’s intimacy with her revealed that she still shared Irisviel’s sensitivity.

• Illya and Justiça, disguised as Irisviel, tried to pass themselves off as mother and daughter, but Shirou sensed that something was wrong.
• Justiça insisted that she was Irisviel and asked Shirou to meet her in his room that night.
• Justiça questioned Shirou about the girls he liked and his thoughts on the Third Magic.
• Shirou grew intimate with Justiça as she continued asking questions, and he concluded that her sensitivity remained like Irisviel’s.

Shirou checked Irisviel and Illya for Command Spells and concluded that no Holy Grail War had begun, leaving him relieved as he went to school. At the archery club entrance, he met Rin, Sakura, and Ayako, where a comment about Shinji’s popularity left the club members staring at him.

• Shirou made Justiça pass out while checking Irisviel for a Command Spell, then left her undressed and unconscious in his room.
• Justiça woke up, feared Shirou had violated her, and resolved to protect the Einzbern family from him.
• Shirou checked Irisviel and Illya for Command Spells and found none, so he decided to confront Karen when he had time.
• Shirou and Sakura went to archery practice, where they met Rin and Ayako at the entrance.
• Ayako complained that Shinji skipped practice, and the club members fell silent when Shirou said Shinji was more popular with girls than he was.

At Homonculus Academy, Rin Tohsaka asked Shirou to demonstrate his archery, then collapsed during lunch from complications with her Magecraft Crest. After she recovered in the infirmary, she invited him to her house for dinner and Chinese cooking lessons that weekend.

• Rin Tohsaka asked Shirou to teach her archery, and he agreed to shoot for her.
• Rin Tohsaka collapsed in front of Shirou, who carried her to the infirmary.
• Shirou stayed with Rin Tohsaka until she woke about an hour later and explained that her Magecraft Crest had worsened.
• Rin Tohsaka invited Shirou to Tohsaka's house that weekend for dinner and Chinese cooking lessons, calling it a date.

Shirou returned home to find Irisviel eager for time alone with him, then arranged to visit Rin Tohsaka the next day. When he arrived at the Tohsaka Residence, Rin collapsed before she could prepare lunch, leaving Shirou to discover that something was wrong with her.

• Shirou came home early, and Irisviel drew him into an intimate encounter while Justiça secretly watched.
• Shirou told Sakura Matou he would be out the next day and confirmed his visit to Rin Tohsaka by phone.
• Irisviel teased Shirou about visiting Rin and promised not to tell Sakura.
• Shirou found Rin unresponsive over the intercom, broke the protective spell on the entrance, and entered the mansion.
• Shirou found Rin collapsed on a sofa, woke her, and heard her explain that she had been preparing lunch before he arrived.

Shirou cared for Rin Tohsaka after she fainted from a fever, then went to find cold medicine and accidentally walked in on Aoi Tohsaka changing. After they apologized and settled down to talk, Aoi began examining Shirou and made a curious remark about boys.

• Shirou carried the feverish Rin to bed and promised to stay while she rested.
• Rin told Shirou that her cold medicine was in her mother's room, and he went to retrieve it.
• Shirou accidentally entered Aoi Tohsaka's room while she was changing and used Silence Magic to muffle her scream.
• Shirou and Aoi apologized repeatedly before agreeing to call the misunderstanding even.
• Aoi said she had wanted to meet Shirou and remarked that boys were amazing as she looked him over.

Shirou visited Aoi Tohsaka, learned that Irisviel had told her about him, and promised to keep her changing-room mishap secret. He cared for the sick Rin and stayed at the Tohsaka home, where he began helping Aoi prepare lunch.

• Aoi told Shirou that Rin worked out regularly and revealed that she had heard about him from Irisviel.
• Shirou offered to pass a message to Sakura, but Aoi declined and explained that she was unsure how to approach her daughter.
• Shirou remembered that Rin was waiting for cold medicine, and Aoi gave him a special remedy while asking him to take care of Rin.
• Aoi asked Shirou not to tell Rin, Sakura, Irisviel, or Tokiomi that he had seen her changing; Shirou promised to keep it secret.
• Shirou returned to Rin, gave her the medicine, and watched her fall asleep before telling Aoi that she was improving.
• Shirou agreed to stay until evening and joined Aoi in the kitchen to help prepare lunch.

Shirou comforted Aoi Tohsaka after Sakura’s name triggered her guilt and arranged to keep spending time with her. That night, he began examining Sakura’s magecraft, concerned that her Imaginary Numbers attribute could put her at risk.

• Aoi praised Shirou and told him that Rin trusted him enough to let him stay in the Tohsaka house.
• When Shirou mentioned Sakura, Aoi became distressed and blamed herself, so Shirou comforted her and helped her cook.
• Shirou complimented Aoi and shared lunch with her, leaving her cheerful and eager to talk with him again.
• At dinner, Sakura noticed Shirou seemed happy, and he changed the subject by offering to examine her magecraft.
• Sakura agreed to Shirou’s examination and bowed to him in her room at the Amamiya Residence.

Shirou examined Sakura’s Magic Circuits and admitted he had asked her to undress because he wanted to see her, while Sakura said she had understood and wanted him to look at her properly. Later, Justiça visited Shirou and asked to hear about his time in the Fae Kingdom, leaving their unusual arrangement for these conversations only partly explained.

• Shirou asked Sakura to remove her clothes for a Magic Circuit examination, though he knew it was unnecessary and wanted to see her.
• Sakura let Shirou examine her while wearing only her underwear, then revealed she had known his real reason and asked him to look at her properly.
• That night, Shirou returned from training and found Justiça waiting in his room, though he mistook her for Irisviel with a new personality.
• Justiça asked Shirou to tell her about his life before they met, and he agreed to recount his experiences in the Fae Kingdom.
• The narration revealed that Justiça had begun visiting Shirou for intimate chats about a week earlier, and that he had demanded she kneel before him during them.

Shirou told Justiça how Morgan had rescued him from the fairies, while the new Three Founding Families argued over what to do with the resurrected Greater Grail. Irisviel later confessed to Shirou that the families had created Justiça while searching for him, leaving him to decide her fate.

• Shirou recounted how he had become a fairy slave in another Britain and how Morgan had rescued him when he was close to despair.
• Illya, Rin Tohsaka, and Sakura Matou disagreed over whether to hold a Sub-Holy Grail War or dismantle the Greater Grail, Justiça.
• Justiça arrived and said Shirou should decide what happened to her because she had been resurrected to call him back.
• Irisviel told Shirou that Einzbern, Matou, and Tohsaka had created the new Greater Grail using the Mana Core and fragments of the original while searching for him.

Shirou learned that the woman who had visited him nightly was Justiça, the Einzbern ancestor who had reproduced the Third Magic. Faced with the choice of holding another Holy Grail War or ending Justiça’s life, he declared that she would live as his familiar and remain with his family.

• Shirou recognized Justiça as the Winter Saintess and learned that she, not Irisviel’s other personality, had been visiting him.
• Eiri explained that Justiça had been judging Shirou and that she had come to trust him.
• Justiça offered Shirou the choice of holding the Fifth Holy Grail War or dismantling the Greater Grail, which would end her life.
• Illya begged Shirou not to let Justiça disappear, so he knocked Illya unconscious and handed her to Eiri.
• Shirou declared that Justiça would become his familiar, remain with his family, and be protected from anyone who tried to take her.