Recaps

Shirou agreed to help Olga-Marie find the keepsake she had lost, then realized Leinys had taken it and confronted her. Leinys admitted she had staged the loss to test Shirou and create an opportunity to gain Olga-Marie’s favor, while also claiming she genuinely wanted to help her.

• Olga-Marie told Shirou that Theresa’s keepsake had gone missing, and Leinys claimed Shirou had a supernatural ability to find lost items.
• Shirou persuaded Olga-Marie to stay and rest while he and Leinys searched the dining car.
• Shirou stopped Leinys in the corridor and asked her to return the pendant, revealing that he had suspected her from the beginning.
• Leinys admitted she had taken the keepsake to test Shirou and hoped Olga-Marie would owe her a favor.
• Leinys explained that Olga-Marie was struggling after her father changed and Theresa died, and said she wanted to help her.

Shirou recovered Olga-Marie’s treasured pendant and accepted her invitation to lunch aboard the Mage’s Eye Collection Train. During their meal, he learned that her tutor Theresa had predicted a Rainbow-ranked Mage’s Eye would appear at the auction before disappearing three months earlier.

• Leinys admitted stealing Olga-Marie’s pendant to push her to open up, and Shirou made her promise not to do it again.
• Shirou returned the pendant to Olga-Marie, who thanked him and invited him to lunch.
• At lunch, Olga-Marie discussed Shirou’s victory in the Holy Grail War and explained that her tutor Theresa had predicted the Rainbow-ranked Mage’s Eye would appear at the auction.
• Olga-Marie told Shirou that Theresa had disappeared three months earlier.

Shirou learned that the featured auction item on the Mage's Eye Collection Train would be taken from one of its passengers, then followed a mysterious mist to meet the train's manager, Rita Rozayen. Rita agreed to treat his unconscious friend after the journey but warned him to leave the train or die; when Shirou asked why, she said she was an artist.

• Yvette L. Leyman told Shirou and Olga-Marie that the auction's featured Mage's Eye belonged to a passenger or a guest arriving on the day of the auction.
• Leinys hosted a tea party for Shirou, Olga-Marie, Yvette, Rin Tohsaka, and Luvia Zelitt, where she tried to win Rin and Luvia over to the Mineralogy Department.
• Shirou searched for the Acting Manager, then followed a mist from his room to the train's forbidden locomotive in the middle of the night.
• Rita Rozayen revealed that she managed the Mage's Eye Collection Train and agreed to travel to Japan to treat Shirou's friend's Mage's Eye curse.
• Rita warned Shirou that he would die if he stayed aboard and, when he asked what she meant, said, "I am an artist."

Rita Rozayen warned Shirou that the Mage's Eye Collection Train faced a threat she could not explain, but he refused to leave the passengers behind. On the third morning, the train went off course and approached the Child of Einnashe, leaving Shirou, Rin, Luvia, and the other guests to face the crisis.

• Rita Rozayen explained that she founded the Mage's Eye auction to protect and place beautiful Mage's Eyes with people who appreciated them, and Shirou challenged her practice of taking and selling them.
• Rita Rozayen warned Shirou to leave the train because a pact prevented her from revealing the enemy, but Shirou refused and thanked her for the warning and for appreciating a forgery.
• On the third morning, the train announced that it had deviated from its route and was projected to crash into the Child of Einnashe within thirty minutes.
• As a blizzard engulfed the train and it stopped in a forest, Shirou, Rin Tohsaka, and Luvia Zelitt left their room to investigate the lounge carriage.
• Shirou found Leinys, Olga-Marie, Yvette, and other magi in the carriage, and Yvette revealed her Emotion-seeing Mage's Eye, a polished Green Malachite.

Shirou led a group into the Child of Einnashe to stop it from growing into a new Ancestor. As the forest disrupted magecraft and Yvette struggled with her Mystic Eyes, Shirou began enhancing her Magecraft Crest.

• Olga-Marie explained that the Child of Einnashe was a snow-and-ice evolution of a seed from the destroyed Ancestor Einnashe.
• Shirou concluded that the group needed to destroy the Child before it could mature, then entered the forest with Rin Tohsaka, Luvia Zelitt, and Yvette.
• Shirou explained that the Child could survive and grow because its mother body had already been destroyed.
• Luvia struggled to control Mana in the forest, while Yvette said her Mystic Eyes had become unstable.
• Shirou touched Yvette’s Magecraft Crest and began using Enhancement Magic on it.

Shirou reinforced Yvette’s, Rin’s, and Luvia’s magecraft crests, improving their magical energy circulation as they crossed the hostile forest. When the Child of Einnashe attacked, the three fought through its vampiric branches and reached its enormous central tree.

• Shirou reinforced the Lehrmann, Tohsaka, and Edelfelt crests, leaving Yvette, Rin, and Luvia flushed but able to move freely through the strange forest.
• Shirou told the three women to handle the approaching enemy, and they agreed to fight the Dead Apostle without him.
• Rin blasted the attacking branches with powerful Gandr curses while Yvette used her processed ruby mystic eye to burn them.
• Rin charged through the snow and smashed branches and trees, while Yvette swapped in an iolite eye to locate the Child of Einnashe’s central tree.
• The group fought through the forest and reached the giant tree at its vital point, where someone reacted, “Eh... You...?”

Luvia destroyed the weakened Child of Einnashe, but the blizzard continued and a far more powerful enemy emerged. The newcomer identified himself as Vlov Arkhangel, the Nineteenth of the Twenty-Seven Ancestors, while Shirou remained unfazed and dismissed him as weak.

• Luvia unleashed the Edelfelt Kaleidoscope and devastated the Vampire Forest after the Child of Einnashe’s main body was defeated.
• Yvette sensed that the forest had weakened, but Shirou noticed the blizzard was growing stronger instead of stopping.
• Vlov Arkhangel emerged from the storm and attacked Rin, but Shirou cut off his hand before it reached her.
• Yvette recognized Vlov as the true source of the blizzard, and the girls froze under his overwhelming killing intent.
• Vlov introduced himself as the Nineteenth of the Twenty-Seven Ancestors, and Shirou apologized for mistaking him for a weaker Dead Apostle before calling him weak.

Shirou Amamiya effortlessly defeated Frolov in their first clash, but an overwhelming freeze transformed the Vampire Forest and separated him from Rin Tohsaka, Luvia, and Yvette. As Frolov prepared to fight again, a powerful black-coated vampire arrived and ordered him to stop.

• Frolov attacked Shirou with his hunting blade, but Shirou blocked his strikes with projected swords and dismissed his strength.
• Frolov unleashed flames, but Shirou scattered them with the Blades of Chaos, then used a chained blade to slam Frolov into the snow.
• A sudden supernatural blizzard froze the forest, swept Rin Tohsaka, Luvia, and Yvette away, and left Shirou facing Frolov alone.
• Shirou recognized the frozen landscape as Frolov's Principle Blood Ring, which Frolov had stolen from his former master, Zelretch Akhenbaum.
• Frolov summoned ice stakes and a giant lance to begin a second round, but a black-coated vampire with a raven appeared and ordered him to stop.

Shirou faced Nero Chaos, who identified his eyes as the Mystic Eyes of Crimson Moon Brunestud and claimed he intended to take them. Nero then attacked with a huge beast emerging from his body, sending Shirou flying, though Shirou struck back by driving a Blade of Chaos into its palate.

• Nero Chaos rebuked Frolov for failing to kill Shirou and said they would complete the hunt together.
• Nero introduced himself as the Tenth of the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostles and speculated that Shirou had been modified by a magus.
• Nero identified Shirou's eyes as the Mystic Eyes of Crimson Moon Brunestud and declared that he would take them.
• Shirou recalled what he knew about Crimson Moon and questioned why the vampires believed he possessed those eyes.
• Nero unleashed a gigantic black crocodile-like beast from beneath his coat and struck Shirou with overwhelming force.
• As Nero's beast sent him flying, Shirou counterattacked by throwing a Blade of Chaos into its upper palate.

Shirou fought Nero Chaos and Vlov Arkhangel on a frozen battlefield, but Nero’s endlessly reviving beasts and Vlov’s freezing attacks threatened to overwhelm him. Rita Rozayen arrived and claimed the right to kill Shirou herself, intending to take his soul as her familiar.

• Shirou killed Nero Chaos’s crocodile familiar, which returned to Nero and revived inside his body.
• Vlov Arkhangel attacked Shirou with his freezing Principle Blood Ring, leaving Shirou’s arms frostbitten when he blocked the strike.
• Nero Chaos summoned an army of powerful beasts and challenged Vlov to survive the fight, while Shirou realized the familiars would keep reviving as long as Nero remained alive.
• Rita Rozayen appeared and argued that Nero and Vlov had entered her territory without permission, while Shirou listened and learned that the Ancestors wanted his Mage Eye.
• Rita Rozayen demanded that she personally kill Shirou and claim his soul as her familiar, and Nero Chaos accepted.

Rin Tohsaka, Luvia, and Yvette were confronted by the ancient Dead Apostle Lubare, while Shirou fought Nero and Frolov in Frolov’s blizzard-covered otherworld. Shirou adapted to the storm and cut down Nero’s beasts, leaving Nero to realize how he was countering them.

• Rin Tohsaka, Luvia, and Yvette woke in an otherworldly blizzard after being separated from Shirou, and Rin attacked a figure approaching through the snow.
• Lubare introduced himself and declared that he would turn the three magi into his Familiars; Luvia and Yvette recognized him as a notorious ancient Dead Apostle who had survived a confrontation with Bartholomew Lorelei.
• Lubare ordered his Familiars to attack Rin, Luvia, and Yvette.
• Shirou faced Nero and Frolov while Rita Rozayen watched from the rear, and Nero sent enormous beasts charging through Frolov’s blizzard.
• Shirou projected swords through the storm and killed every beast before it could reach him, prompting Nero to realize how Shirou was overcoming the blizzard.

Shirou recovered his strength through his contract with Justiça and used his projected Vortex Sword to unleash Enuma Elish against Nero Chaos. The world-rending attack tore through Nero’s beasts and the frozen landscape, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Shirou wounded Nero Chaos with the Blades of Chaos, but Nero regenerated by rejoining his severed body with his beastly chaos.
• Nero explained that his Principle Blood Ring held 666 Beast Factors and lives, making him a collective that could only be killed by destroying them all at once.
• Shirou revealed that Justiça could send him magical energy through their contract, allowing him to recover his strength.
• Shirou projected the Vortex Sword and declared that he would destroy Nero’s entire world rather than kill each of his 666 lives separately.
• Shirou unleashed Enuma Elish, which shattered space, tore apart the blizzard and beasts, and crumbled the snowy plain.

Shirou unleashed the Vortex Sword against Nero Chaos, but Rita Rozayen exploited his distraction and trapped him in her Rose Mage’s Eye. Meanwhile, Lubare defeated Rin, Luvia, and Yvette, then sensed an eerie silence on the snowfield.

• Shirou’s Vortex Sword attack began to overwhelm Nero Chaos, but Rita Rozayen entered his mind while he focused on wielding it.
• Rita used Principle Blood Ring No. 15, the Rose Mage’s Eye, to trap Shirou in a world of roses that eroded his senses.
• Yvette exhausted her Jewel Mage’s Eyes and collapsed, while Rin Tohsaka and Luvia Zelitt fought Lubare and his kin.
• Rin and Luvia tried to attack Lubare at close range, but he knocked them unconscious with a snap of his fingers.
• Lubare prepared to turn the defeated girls into Dead Apostles, then noticed that the snowy battlefield had fallen unnaturally silent.

Lou-Fei-Le-Wu-Si Ulysses chose to help Shirou’s allies confront the Lake Dead Apostle and his kin. Shirou woke in a luxurious room to find Morgan standing over him.

• Olga-Marie and Leinys helped Rin Tohsaka, Luvia, and Yvette after they were knocked unconscious.
• Shirou asked Lou-Fei-Le-Wu-Si Ulysses to take over if he failed to return within an hour, then went ahead alone.
• Lou-Fei-Le-Wu-Si reflected on how Shirou Amamiya had changed Kenshinnes and Sola and decided to repay his debt to Shirou.
• Lou-Fei-Le-Wu-Si confronted Dead Apostle Rubareh and said he would clean up the mess left by Bartholomew’s daughter.
• Shirou woke in a luxurious room after Rita Rozayen had used her Mystic Eyes on him and recognized Morgan at the doorway.