Recaps

Shirou decided to protect Justiça despite the danger of opposing the Mage's Association, and his friends supported him. After settling Justiça in a vacant room, he spent the evening cleaning it with her, leaving her with a new sense of being alive; she stopped him before he left by reminding him that their contract was unfinished.

• Sakura felt ashamed of having wished that Justiça would disappear, then cried with relief when she understood Shirou would never abandon her.
• Rin offered to help Shirou fight the Mage's Association, and the others supported his decision.
• Illya woke up and tackled Shirou, accusing him of having attacked her.
• Shirou moved Justiça into a vacant room beside his own and tied up her hair so they could clean it together.
• Shirou and Justiça spent six hours cleaning the room, and Justiça felt fulfilled and more alive than she had in the Winter City.
• Justiça stopped Shirou as he prepared to leave, telling him that their contract had not yet been concluded.

Shirou established a familiar contract with Justiça, then visited Fuyuki Church to ask Karen for information about threats to his new family. Karen agreed to help only in exchange for money, leaving Shirou to consider the cost.

• Justiça insisted that Shirou form a familiar contract immediately, and the two established it using the magical energy she had received from him.
• Shirou returned to Fuyuki Church and listened to Karen's organ performance before asking her for information from the Church and Mage's Association.
• Karen inferred that the Greater Grail was a living being, but said she had little information to offer.
• Karen demanded money for information and unexpectedly asked Shirou to reveal his fetish.
• Shirou learned that Karen's fetish was collecting money and considered his limited spending funds and expenses, including his interest in Japanese swords.

Shirou considered Caren's offer of Church work and learned how her childhood and rare spiritual ability led her to become Chiara Kichijoin's assistant. Caren revealed she had done little beyond handling travel arrangements, and Shirou began to understand how her unusual constitution fit into the story.

• Shirou rejected borrowing money from Irisviel and listened as Caren offered him part-time work as an Executor for the Holy Church.
• Caren recounted how her mother died, how a priest raised her without affection, and how she was sent to Sido Convent after stigmata appeared on her body.
• Caren explained that the Holy Church recognized her rare spiritual mediumship and intended to train her as a weapon before Chiara Kichijoin took her away to become a saint.
• Caren told Shirou that Chiara belonged to the Burial Agency, and Shirou described the group's fearsome reputation and discussed the Misaki Town incident.
• Caren said she had received no combat or religious training and had only booked flights and hotels for Chiara, prompting Shirou to recognize the relevance of her special constitution.

Shirou learned that Karen’s constitution made her vulnerable to demons and heard why she had volunteered to serve as an Agent despite her injuries. He agreed to become her substitute Agent, and they cautiously began a partnership.

• Karen explained that her master, Chiara Kichijoin, had sent her to find Shirou, and she asked him to work as an Agent hunting evil magi.
• Shirou questioned Karen about her ability to fight and her belief that her painful constitution was her fate; he then agreed to take the job on limited hours.
• Shirou invited Karen to shop for groceries and have dinner at his house, and she reluctantly accepted his offered hand before refusing the dinner invitation.
• Shirou became the Fuyuki Church’s Agent substitute despite not believing in God or belonging to the Church.

Shirou failed to convince Irisviel, Illya, Rin, and Sakura to let him quit his dangerous Acting Priest job, then prepared to accompany Karen on an investigation. After half a year as the church’s assistant, Karen told him they had received a big order.

• Shirou told Irisviel and Illya about the Acting Priest work, but they scolded him for taking a dangerous job that forbade magic.
• Rin Tohsaka and Sakura Matou urged Shirou to turn down the job, but he said he had accepted it to protect Justiça.
• Karen blamed Shirou for agreeing to the job, and he worried that his extra work would hurt his school grades.
• Shirou caught Karen when she fell from a stool, then prepared for their first job investigating an abandoned magus's workshop in a neighboring town.
• Shirou wore the Acting Priest cassock and brought a katana instead of accepting Karen's Black Key, while Karen privately found him cool in the uniform.
• Karen offered Shirou canned coffee at the church and told him they had received a big order.

Shirou and Karen prepared to hunt Ode Bolzak, a Dead Apostle who controlled deadly bees and had resurfaced after visiting his newborn granddaughter. Before they left Japan, Justiça gave Shirou a strand of her hair that entered his body as a familiar, and Shirou promised her he would return safely.

• Karen told Shirou that their target was Ode Bolzak, a former magus who used modified bees to turn victims into ghouls.
• Karen explained that Ode's return to his family home to meet his granddaughter, Haruli Bolzack, had exposed his whereabouts.
• Shirou obtained a month's leave from school, while Sister Fujiwara and Issei misunderstood his reasons for leaving Japan.
• Justiça gave Shirou a strand of her hair, which entered his body, and Shirou promised to return safely as her Master.
• Shirou and Karen traveled toward their destination as Karen explained how Ode's Death Apostle Bees spread ghouls.

Shirou and Karen traveled to a small town in southern France to track the Dead Apostle Ode Bolzak, but an innkeeper drugged them and they were captured. Shirou woke quickly, broke his restraints, and learned that their captor was Natalia Kaminski, an Executor of the Sealing Designation.

• Shirou and Karen reached a small French town where Ode Bolzak had recently moved from Paris, and they chose to investigate without contacting the local church.
• Shirou and Karen posed as a couple while staying at a family-run inn and planning to survey the town the next day.
• The inn's proprietress drugged Shirou and Karen, and they collapsed during dinner.
• Shirou woke in a sealed room, found himself bound and stripped, and realized that the innkeeper had been their captor.
• Natalia Kaminski confronted Shirou, and he shattered his reinforced handcuffs before introducing himself.
• Shirou and Natalia exchanged information, and he learned that she was an Executor of the Sealing Designation.

Shirou and Karen met Natalia Kaminski, a freelance magus posing as a Sealing Designation Executor, after she drugged and captured them. They refused to cooperate for now, but Shirou sensed watchers in town and projected the Blades of Chaos as they prepared for trouble.

• Shirou learned that Natalia used the title of Sealing Designation Executor for convenience and that she was a bounty hunter who worked for rewards.
• Karen woke up, recognized Natalia, and confronted her for drugging them; Natalia offered information and cooperation to help them through the crisis.
• Karen rejected Natalia’s offer because she wanted Ode Bolzak’s bounty for herself, but Shirou declined cooperation for the time being, and Natalia sent them away.
• Shirou sensed people watching them as he and Karen walked to another inn, then revealed that Natalia was descended from a half-Succubus, half-human bloodline.
• Shirou and Karen rented a filthy room, and Shirou projected the Blades of Chaos after saying they could stay only if the townspeople allowed it.

Shirou and Karen discovered that Ode Bolzak was already a living corpse and that a more powerful Dead Apostle controlled the town’s ghouls. After escaping the cottage by faking their deaths in an explosion, they prepared to continue investigating the hidden mastermind.

• Shirou and Karen fled the inn through a crowd of expressionless ghouls and used a bound resident to locate Ode Bolzak’s cottage.
• Shirou killed Ode Bolzak, but Karen noticed the ghouls still surrounded the cottage after their supposed master’s death.
• Shirou examined Ode Bolzak’s corpse and found that its organs had been removed, concluding that another, more powerful Dead Apostle lived in town.
• Shirou explained that the ghouls followed preset triggers, then detonated Unlimited Blade Works to make them believe he and Karen had died.
• Shirou and Karen survived in the cottage cellar behind a protective barrier as the explosion destroyed the cottage and nearby ghouls.

Shirou and Karen returned to Natalia and learned that the magus Heinrich Zeppter had turned the town’s residents into experimental subjects while pursuing a twisted form of resurrection. Natalia asked Shirou to help her, then brought him to her room to replenish her magical energy.

• Shirou and Karen returned to Natalia’s inn and Karen reluctantly asked her to cooperate.
• Shirou told Natalia that he had killed Ode Bolzak, prompting her to reveal that she had once hunted him.
• Natalia showed Shirou and Karen a photograph of Heinrich Zeppter’s grotesque creation and explained how the Zepter family’s resurrection research had become monster-making.
• Natalia revealed that Heinrich was hiding in the town and controlling its ten thousand residents, including Ode Bolzak.
• Natalia asked Shirou to provide her with assistance and took him to her room, where she explained that she needed human vitality to replenish her magical energy.

Natalia recovered some of her magical energy by draining Shirou’s vital essence while they slept, leaving him sore the next morning. As they talked, Natalia explained that someone she had once raised and trusted had died.

• Natalia and Shirou shared a bed so she could siphon his vital essence, and she dragged him beneath the covers despite his protests.
• Shirou woke sore, and Natalia said the effects would fade as his body adjusted; she had replenished her magical energy.
• Natalia teased Shirou about the names he had mumbled in his sleep, including Rin Tohsaka and Sakura.
• Natalia told Shirou that Lady Avalon must have loved him because she had never harmed him by draining his vital essence.
• Natalia revealed that a boy she had raised and treated like family had died, and said she had taught him how to fight.

Shirou and Natalia grew closer as they devised a plan to locate Heinrich Zeppter by having Natalia feign death. After Shirou tracked her to the enemy’s workshop, Natalia attacked Arac, but he remained alive even after she split him in two.

• Natalia invited Shirou to join her after the job and said she planned to retire, while Shirou joked that her words sounded like a death flag.
• Natalia used Shirou’s earlier feigned injury as inspiration and pretended to die in the street so villagers would carry her to the doctor.
• Shirou watched from the inn, then asked Karen to guard the fort while he followed Natalia’s magical energy.
• Natalia recognized the doctor’s residence as Heinrich Zeppter’s workshop and attacked Arac after the villagers left.
• Natalia broke Arac’s neck and split him in two with a magically empowered strike, but he was still alive.

Shirou and Natalia watched Heinrich Zeppter’s recording, which revealed his grotesque experiments and hinted that he had become a monster beneath the house. They prepared to investigate the moving floor and hunt for him.

• Natalia forced Arac to point out a television and videotape, then watched the recording with Shirou when he arrived.
• Heinrich Zeppter confessed that he had revived and altered bodies for his own pleasure, then declared he wanted to become a monster.
• The recording showed the floor and other objects writhing before an enormous creature swallowed Heinrich.
• Natalia reassured Shirou that he had a strong heart, and the two concluded that Zeppter was beneath the floor.
• Shirou summoned the Enma-Blade and plunged it into the wooden floor.

Shirou and Natalia discovered Heinrich Zeppter’s underground human factory and Shirou killed the immortal magus. Afterward, Shirou found the Zeppter family’s Magecraft Crest and considered whether to let Natalia sell such a dangerous technique.

• Shirou and Natalia descended into a cavern and found Heinrich Zeppter producing human bodies from a mass of flesh.
• Shirou confronted Zeppter, who claimed to have achieved his transformation through his own research and did not recognize the name Ode Bolzak.
• Zeppter attacked Shirou, but Shirou used the Enma-Blade to destroy the monster and kill him.
• Shirou and Natalia searched through the remains for the Zeppter family's Magecraft Crest.
• Shirou found the Crest and hesitated to tell Natalia, concerned that she would sell the dangerous magecraft.

Shirou and Natalia returned from Heinrich Zeppter’s ruined town, where a disguised intruder tried to abduct Natalia before Shirou exposed her. The attacker admitted she had aided Heinrich, and Natalia recognized her as the doctor called Arac.

• Shirou and Natalia agreed to conceal Heinrich Zeppter’s Magecraft Crest and burned his remains.
• Shirou, Natalia, and Karen slept at the inn as the town and its residents reverted to dust and flesh.
• The fake Caren entered Natalia’s room at night and tried to inject her, but Shirou pinned the intruder to the wall with a sword.
• Shirou explained that a strand of Justeaze’s hair had revealed Caren’s replacement, and the real Caren arrived.
• The fake Caren admitted she had assisted Heinrich, and Natalia recognized her as Arac, Heinrich’s former doctor.

Shirou, Natalia, and Karen confronted Doctor Arach, who revealed her role in Heinrich Zeppter’s experiments and proved immune to their attacks. Shirou decapitated her, but her body dissolved, leaving Natalia uncertain what the strange woman had been.

• Doctor Arach introduced herself to Shirou and admitted that she had altered Heinrich Zeppter’s brain and memories after his experiments had already killed thousands.
• Natalia and Karen attacked Doctor Arach, but she regenerated from Natalia’s silver bullet and used her Mystic Eyes to knock Natalia into a wall and make Karen collapse.
• Shirou stabbed Doctor Arach with the Enma-Blade, explaining that she did not possess the concept of death and that he could kill her whenever they met.
• Doctor Arach claimed that Shirou would eventually join her side, but Shirou beheaded her with the Enma-Blade.
• Doctor Arach’s head and body dissolved into smoke, and Natalia asked Shirou what the woman had been.

Shirou and Natalia discovered that Karen’s coma and fever came from a reaction between her Masochistic Medium Constitution and Doctor Arach’s Mage’s Eye. Unable to heal her, they considered seeking help from the Rail Zeppelin, a train that auctions and transplants Mage’s Eyes.

• Natalia and Shirou found Karen unconscious with a dangerously high fever after Doctor Arach’s attack, and Shirou’s healing thaumaturgy failed to help her.
• Shirou recognized that Karen had stigmata, and Natalia explained how her Masochistic Medium Constitution let her detect and exorcise demons by enduring their violations.
• Shirou resolved to protect Karen from being retrained as an exorcist and said he would ask someone he knew to examine her.
• Natalia suggested that the Rail Zeppelin might offer a way to heal Karen, and she explained that it collected, auctioned, and transplanted Mage’s Eyes.

Shirou returned from France with the unconscious Karen and found an invitation to the Mage's Eye Collection Train auction waiting at home. He then visited Rin Tohsaka, where Aoi revealed she had been paying him with Rin's money, leaving Rin stunned as Shirou took her aside.

• Natalia told Shirou that Touko Aozaki’s past disruption had made admission to the Mage's Eye Collection Train auction invitation-only, and Shirou parted from Natalia at the Paris airport with Karen.
• Shirou brought Karen to Amamiya Residence, where Irisviel and Sakura agreed she could stay until she woke, and Sella arranged for her care.
• Shirou found an invitation from the Acting Manager of the Mage's Eye Collection Train in his desk drawer.
• Shirou visited the Tohsaka residence to see Rin, but Aoi welcomed him in while Rin was away.
• Rin returned and learned that Aoi had been inviting Shirou over and giving him spending money taken from Rin's funds.
• Shirou asked Aoi to let him borrow Rin, and Aoi left them alone.

Shirou showed Rin Tohsaka an invitation to the Mage's Eye Collection Train and asked her to accompany him, despite her concern about Sakura misunderstanding their relationship. Three nights later, they reached the London station and encountered Luvia Zeleta Edelfelt.

• Shirou told Rin that someone had placed the invitation in his room, and Rin suspected someone was deliberately drawing him to the auction.
• Shirou decided to attend the Mage's Eye Collection Train and asked Rin to come along as his companion.
• Rin agreed to go with Shirou despite worrying that Sakura might misunderstand their relationship.
• Three nights later, Shirou and Rin arrived at the abandoned London station wearing disguises suited to the event.
• Luvia Zeleta Edelfelt recognized Shirou and greeted him enthusiastically.

Shirou reunited with Luvia aboard the Mage's Eye Collection Train, where she and Rin quickly hit it off. As the train departed for the auction, a flamboyant girl recognized Shirou as a Clock Tower legend and approached him.

• Luvia rushed to hug Shirou and reminisced about their past meeting in London.
• Luvia noticed Rin and bonded with her over their sharp intuition and martial arts backgrounds.
• A whistle sounded, mysterious white mist enveloped the platform, and the Mage's Eye Collection Train arrived to carry the invited magi away.
• Shirou, Rin, and Luvia boarded the train and observed its unusual assortment of guests.
• A pink-haired girl in Lolita fashion recognized Shirou and greeted him as a legend of the Clock Tower.

On the Mage's Eye Collection Train, Shirou discovered that magi were watching him because of rumors about his relationships, not the Holy Grail War. Lord Ulysses confronted him over Sola's praise, while Leinys and Olga-Marie watched from behind the old Lord.

• Yvette introduced herself as Kenshinnes's student, but Shirou recognized that her story was a lie and demanded her purpose.
• Yvette admitted she was spying on Kenshinnes and revealed that the carriage's magi had been watching Shirou.
• Yvette explained that Shirou's fame came from rumors linking him to the Aozaki Sisters and the witch of Kuonji, then teased him about Rin Tohsaka and Luvia.
• Lord Ulysses silenced Yvette and confronted Shirou, asking whether he was the prodigy Sola had praised after returning from Japan.
• Rin Tohsaka and Luvia struggled under Ulysses's oppressive aura as he stared down Shirou.

Shirou met Lord Ulysses aboard the Mage's Eye Collection Train, where the old man repaired Shirou's Mage's Eye Killer glasses instead of attacking him. Afterward, Shirou encountered Olga-Marie and Leinys, who introduced themselves before the train's employee announced its punctual arrival.

• Lord Ulysses explained his admiration for Kenshinnes and his resentment toward Shirou, then revealed that Shirou's glasses had been tampered with and repaired them.
• Rin Tohsaka, Luvia, and Yvette relaxed after Lord Ulysses left, and Olga-Marie Animsphere introduced herself as the daughter of Lord Animsphere.
• Olga-Marie challenged Shirou about his purpose at the auction, and Shirou replied that mages should act within their means.
• Leinys Archzorti apologized for Lord Ulysses's behavior, identified herself as Kenshinnes's adopted sister and niece, and led Olga-Marie away.
• Yvette praised Shirou for attracting the attention of prominent mages, and a train employee announced that the train was running on schedule.

Shirou, Rin, and Luvia boarded the Mystic Eyes auction train, where a dispute between Luvia and the flirtatious Yvette disrupted their room arrangements. After Luvia learned Rin’s surname, the two recognized their families’ bitter history and began trading accusations, leaving Shirou caught between them.

• Rodin and Leandra explained the train’s four-day itinerary, the third-day Mystic Eyes auction, and the option to display or implant purchased eyes.
• Rin invited Luvia to share a room with her and Shirou, while Yvette declared herself Shirou’s mistress and was sent away after provoking Luvia.
• Luvia introduced herself to Rin, learned she was a Tohsaka, and threw her to the floor over the families’ history.
• Yvette used her Mystic Eyes to catch Shirou in the dining carriage the next morning and teased him about his dark circles.
• Rin and Luvia accused each other’s families over the Third Holy Grail War and Fuyuki, while Shirou tried to understand their feud.

Shirou learned that Waver had returned to the Clock Tower and built a celebrated teaching program, while Rin and Luvia continued bickering aboard the auction train. Yvette revealed that the train’s manager, Rita Rozayen, was one of the Twenty-Seven Ancestors of the Dead Apostles, leaving Shirou newly wary of the auction’s owner.

• Rin and Luvia traded insults and nearly challenged each other to duel over who would share a room with Shirou, until he struck Luvia with his sword and told them to behave.
• Yvette told Shirou that Waver had returned to the Clock Tower, taken charge of the El-Melloi Classroom, and trained several mages who rose to Master or Color Rank.
• Yvette explained that Waver credited a friend from the Far East with encouraging him when he was at his lowest, and Shirou hid his reaction to the hint.
• Rin and Luvia joined Shirou for breakfast, where the train’s auctioneer introduced a Burning Mage’s Eye and Yvette explained that the premium items would appear the next day.
• Yvette revealed that Rita Rozayen, the Mage’s Eye Collection Train’s manager, was one of the Twenty-Seven Ancestors of the Dead Apostles.

Shirou learned that the Mage's Eye Collection Train forcibly stole passengers' Mystic Eyes and decided to seek out its former manager, a Dead Apostle Ancestor. After meeting Leinys and finding Olga-Marie distraught in a wrecked room, he learned she had lost a keepsake talisman from Theresa.

• Yvette explained that the train kidnapped people and gouged out their Mystic Eyes, and Shirou said he intended to meet its former manager.
• The auction displayed a Gold-rank Plundering Mage's Eye, and Olga-Marie asked whether the train also handled legendary Rainbow-rank Mystic Eyes.
• The auctioneer avoided denying that Rainbow-rank eyes were involved, and Shirou sensed her gaze turn toward him.
• Leinys asked Shirou to help Olga-Marie, whom they found sobbing in her disordered guest room.
• Olga-Marie told Shirou that her talisman, a keepsake from Theresa, was missing.