Recaps

Shirou and Saber faced Demon Diarmuid after he twisted his Geis into demonic power and turned against them. Saber prepared to fight Lancer while Shirou went to stop the Sea Monster, then surprised her by asking whether he could defeat it instead of merely holding it back.

• Diarmuid revealed that his many Geis had transformed his Saint Graph and made him a powerful, boar-skinned Magical Beast.
• Demon Diarmuid denounced chivalry and accused Shirou of sharing his willingness to use Irisviel for victory.
• Saber broke her alliance with Lancer and resolved to defeat him, while Shirou agreed to confront the Sea Monster.
• Lancer and Kenshinnes chose to target Irisviel rather than prioritize hunting the Sea Monster.
• Shirou asked Saber if he could defeat the enormous Sea Monster, leaving her stunned and doubtful.

Shirou decided to confront the Sea Monster himself and used his three Command Spells to activate the Dead Count Shapeshifter, accelerating his body to ten years in the future. The transformation began as Saber fought Demon Diarmuid and Gilgamesh’s attacks failed to stop the monster.

• Shirou left Saber to face the Sea Monster, while Saber renewed her resolve and attacked Demon Diarmuid.
• Gilgamesh attacked the Sea Monster with Noble Phantasms, but it regenerated, and he refused Tokiomi Tohsaka’s plea to use the Heaven-Opening Sword.
• Shirou told Lady Avalon that he wanted to meet his future self and insisted on confronting the monster himself, despite the spell consuming his life.
• Shirou poured magical energy into his three Command Spells and ordered them to command his body.
• The Dead Count Shapeshifter activated, accelerating Shirou’s body to ten years in the future while risking severe bodily harm.

Shirou reclaimed his future self and awakened as the Nameless King, a battle-focused being who had once ruled Britain. He admitted that his apparent kindness had always been a self-serving attempt to understand happiness, then realized Caster’s Grimoire remaining after Caster’s death meant something was about to happen.

• Shirou pulled the sword from the burning earth and faced his former life as Shirou Amamiya.
• Gilgamesh, Rider, Saber, Lancer, Assassin, and the other participants sensed the tremendous aura and turned toward its source.
• Lady Avalon welcomed Shirou back as her Arthur.
• Shirou used Projection to transform his mind and body for battle, returning as the Nameless King.
• Shirou reflected that his kindness was an act meant to help him study others and discover happiness, apologizing to Saber for misleading her.
• Shirou saw that Caster had died while the Grimoire remained, and understood that something was about to happen.

Shirou used Lady Avalon’s wind magecraft to fly toward the Sea Monster from another world and began attacking it while riding an F-15. After igniting the monster with Heaven’s Holy Grail, he switched to the Blades of Chaos and launched himself at it as his transformation’s remaining time dwindled.

• Shirou asked Lady Avalon to grant him the Blessing of the Wind so he could fly to the Sea Monster’s head, and she stayed behind to avoid being discovered.
• Shirou flew to an F-15 and mentally ordered its pilot to take him toward the monster.
• Shirou used Heaven’s Holy Grail to sever a tentacle and pierce the Sea Monster, setting its massive body ablaze.
• The Sea Monster devoured its burning flesh to extinguish the flames, and Shirou caught Heaven’s Holy Grail as it returned to him.
• With sixty seconds remaining in his Dead Count Shapeshifter state, Shirou changed to the Blades of Chaos, told the pilot to return, and flew toward the monster.

Shirou destroyed the Sea Monster with the Blades of Chaos, erasing it completely. Gilgamesh decided to test Shirou himself, while Saber pressed her advantage over Lancer after Shirou fulfilled his promise.

• Shirou used the Blades of Chaos and Spartan Rage to annihilate the Sea Monster, completing the subjugation in 148 seconds.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka warned Gilgamesh that Shirou was dangerous, and Gilgamesh chose to face the Faker personally as a test.
• Gilgamesh returned with Tokiomi after witnessing the Sea Monster's destruction.
• The other Servants and magi witnessed the Sea Monster's end, leaving Assassin shocked, Rider stirred, and Waver frightened.
• Demon Diarmuid recognized that Shirou's victory had strengthened Saber's resolve, but Lancer's mana suddenly began to weaken during their fight.

After destroying the Sea Monster, Shirou fell from the sky with his magic exhausted and called for Saber to catch him. Saber sensed him overhead and asked Irisviel to use a Command Spell on her.

• Lancer retreated from Saber, who was too exhausted to pursue him.
• Irisviel realized the battle was over, and Saber turned sharply toward the sky after sensing something.
• Shirou awoke while falling from a great height and learned that the Sea Monster was destroyed but his disguise and Wind's Protection were gone.
• Shirou cut off his telepathic connection with Lady Avalon and called for Saber to catch him.
• Saber asked Irisviel to use a Command Spell on her.

Saber caught Shirou after he fell from the sky, and he fell asleep in her arms. Later, Shirou woke in a dream where Saber visited him in a revealing dress and told him to rest while she took the lead.

• Irisviel used a Command Seal to command Saber to fly, launching her high into the night sky.
• Saber found Shirou falling and caught him, then scolded him for taking such a risk before he fell asleep in her arms.
• Shirou later woke in his Japanese-style room, dazed and unable to move his consciousness.
• Saber appeared in Shirou’s dream in a dress and explained that she had come because she wanted to see him.
• Saber told Shirou to rest after his battle and said she would do the moving that night.

After the battle, Shirou woke at Einzbern Castle and found himself facing new awkward questions about his night with Saber and Irisviel. Saber trained to settle her excitement from their fight, while she kept her questions about Shirou's Holy Sword of the Stars to herself.

• Artoria tried to reward Shirou after the battle, but he resisted her advances.
• Irisviel woke beside Shirou, secretly pleased to have kept him in her bed, and resolved to propose an alliance with him.
• Irisviel discovered evidence that Shirou had ejaculated in his sleep, blushed, and cleaned him and the bed with magecraft.
• Shirou woke at Einzbern Castle, found Lady Avalon unresponsive, and noticed that his Holy Spear was still erect.
• Shirou met Saber training in the courtyard, and she explained that their thrilling battle had left her too restless to sleep.
• Saber returned with Shirou to see Irisviel but kept her questions about his Holy Sword of the Stars to herself.

Shirou rejected Irisviel’s alliance request at first, then agreed to stay at Einzbern after Assassin warned him that Kirei was searching near his home. After Shirou explained that he was a Master who fought while his hidden Servant supported him, Saber angrily objected, but Irisviel defended his choice.

• Irisviel asked Shirou to form an alliance, but Shirou initially refused because he had already allied with Assassin.
• Assassin warned Shirou that Kirei had ordered a search near Shirou’s home, and Shirou agreed to keep away for the time being.
• Shirou noticed a new white lock of hair in the mirror, then agreed to ally with Saber and Irisviel and stay at Einzbern.
• Shirou called Sister Fujiwara and the Matou Family to explain his absence, then revealed that he was a Master who fought while his Servant stayed hidden and supported him.
• Saber condemned Shirou’s arrangement and demanded to meet his Servant, but Irisviel defended Shirou’s decision and asked why Saber was so agitated.

Shirou reassured Saber that fighting was his own choice, then shared intelligence about the Holy Grail War and discussed his wish to protect those important to him. As he planned to attack Lancer’s faction, Lady Avalon concealed the terrible toll of Dead Count Shapeshifter, but she ultimately agreed to find a way to give him a fourth use.

• Shirou showed Saber his black holy sword and magical power, convincing her to treat him as more than an ordinary child.
• Shirou told Saber and Irisviel that Zouken Matou was dead, Kirei’s Servant remained alive, Kirei had allied with Tokiomi, the Holy Church was involved, Lancer had been corrupted, and an unidentified Assassin-type enemy had entered Fuyuki City.
• Shirou said he wanted to keep the Holy Grail from evil hands and protect the people important to him, which pleased Saber and Irisviel.
• Shirou told Lady Avalon he planned to attack Lancer’s workshop with Saber and asked her to cast Enhancement Magic, while Lady Avalon endured the severe effects of World Correction in secret.
• Lady Avalon warned Shirou that using Dead Count Shapeshifter three more times would leave him near death, then changed her mind and promised to find a way to give him a fourth use.

Shirou declined a new Command Spell to avoid exposing information to Tokiomi, then joined Saber and Irisviel for a nighttime operation. He brought them to Rider and his Master’s base in Miyama Town, but left his plan for approaching them unclear.

• Shirou decided not to claim a new Command Spell because doing so would require reporting to Rin Tohsaka and risk leaking information to Tokiomi Tohsaka.
• Lady Avalon admitted she had given Shirou a desire-recreating dream, then teased him about dreaming of Saber.
• Shirou met Saber and Irisviel for their first joint nighttime operation, and Irisviel drove them toward Miyama Town at reckless speed.
• Shirou revealed that the ordinary-looking residence belonged to Rider and his Master, not Kaineth Archbold.
• Shirou explained that he was avoiding a direct attack on Kaineth’s workshop and planned to use a more energy-saving strategy, while Saber worried he might defect to or ally with Rider.

Shirou visited Iskandar and Waver with Saber and Irisviel, then sought an alliance with Waver rather than Rider. He claimed that Waver’s teacher, Kenshinnes, had been taken hostage by a corrupted Lancer, and began presenting evidence.

• Artoria agreed to let Shirou handle the meeting, and he led the group to the Makkenjis’ house to see Iskandar.
• Iskandar welcomed Saber and Irisviel into Waver’s room, where Waver panicked at the sight of them and learned Shirou had destroyed the Sea Monster.
• Shirou apologized for offending Waver, then announced that he wanted to cooperate with Waver rather than Rider.
• Shirou appealed to Waver’s desire for recognition, but Rider stopped Waver from falling for the flattery and demanded an explanation.
• Shirou claimed that Lancer had been corrupted and taken Kenshinnes hostage, then showed Waver a photograph as evidence.

Shirou told Waver that Diarmuid had become a vengeful monster and that Kenshinnes was being held in line through Sola, then pushed Waver to decide whether to help his hated teacher. Waver chose to rescue Kenshinnes, and Shirou laid out a plan to draw Lancer away and kidnap Sola.

• Shirou showed Waver, Rider, Saber, and Irisviel a photograph of Lancer transformed into a monstrous boar-like figure and explained his connection to the Diarmuid legend.
• Shirou revealed that Lancer was using Kenshinnes's fiancée, Sola Naizare Sophia-li, as leverage, and Waver worried that his theft of Kenshinnes's Holy Relic had caused the situation.
• Waver resolved to save Kenshinnes despite hating him, and Shirou agreed to help; Rider pledged to follow Waver's decision.
• Shirou introduced himself to Waver as the final Master of the Holy Grail War, calling himself Shinji.
• Shirou outlined a plan in which Saber would lure Lancer away, Waver would arrange a private meeting with Kenshinnes, and Shirou would infiltrate the Hyatt Hotel to kidnap Sola.

Shirou’s plan sent Saber to keep Lancer occupied while Waver challenged Kaineth inside the Hyatt Hotel. The chapter ended with Waver discovering that Shirou intended him to fight Kaineth with modern firearms in a hotel Shirou had booked floor by floor.

• Shirou told Waver that Kaineth would attack him to maintain appearances and said Waver would have to fight back until Sola was rescued.
• Saber lured Lancer to a rooftop near the Hyatt Hotel, where Rider joined her to watch their duel.
• Shirou explained that the rooftop would let Saber unleash her full power if the plan failed, and Saber accepted his strategy despite his deception of Waver.
• Kaineth received Waver’s letter challenging him to a duel and left his suite to meet his former student on the hotel’s middle floors.
• Shirou revealed that he had booked the Hyatt Hotel’s fifteenth through thirtieth floors and prepared modern firearms for Waver to use against Kaineth.

Shirou prepared Waver to face Kenshinnes with a building full of magical traps, while Waver recognized that Shirou’s tactics echoed his own theory about overcoming differences in talent. Kenshinnes advanced through the trapped hotel floor with Volumen hydrargyrum, and Waver began analyzing its abilities as he searched for a way to defeat it.

• Shirou explained that he had funded the preparations with his grandfather’s money, gave Waver a handbook of hotel traps, and told him to memorize it.
• Waver realized Shirou was a first-generation magus and became determined to prove their shared belief that experience and technique could overcome bloodline and magical talent.
• Kenshinnes arrived at the Hyatt Hotel, detected Waver’s magical traces, and summoned Volumen hydrargyrum to hunt him through the building.
• Shirou’s machine guns and Claymore traps attacked Kenshinnes, but Volumen hydrargyrum blocked the barrages and left him unharmed.
• Waver reviewed Shirou’s more elaborate traps and assessed Volumen hydrargyrum’s attacks, defenses, and detection methods.

Waver used Shirou’s traps to exploit Volumen hydrargyrum’s defensive limits and briefly overwhelm Kenshinnes, but Kenshinnes recovered and captured him. Waver talked his way out of immediate punishment, just as bells rang from his body and Shirou asked if he was still alive.

• Waver lured Kenshinnes into a trap by firing at him and using temperature differences to fool Volumen hydrargyrum’s detection.
• Waver activated a trap that transported Kenshinnes into an alternate space under Mariana Trench-like pressure, collapsing Volumen hydrargyrum.
• Kenshinnes escaped the trap, restrained Waver, and prepared to punish him.
• Waver recited Shirou’s prepared apologies and flattery, persuading Kenshinnes to release him.
• Bells rang from Waver’s body, and Shirou asked whether he was still alive.

Shirou revealed that he had orchestrated the night's events and poisoned Sola to force Kenshinnes to withdraw from the Holy Grail War. Kenshinnes chose Sola over the Grail, while Lancer remained unaware as he fought Saber.

• Kenshinnes confronted Shirou and discovered Sola unconscious on the bed.
• Shirou admitted that he had poisoned Sola and warned Kenshinnes not to use healing magic.
• Waver accused Shirou of deceiving him, then charged at him and was thrown to the floor.
• Shirou demanded that Kenshinnes withdraw from the Holy Grail War in exchange for Sola's antidote.
• Kenshinnes considered attacking Shirou, but Sola began to suffer as Shirou revealed that she had less than five minutes left.
• Kenshinnes chose to give up the Holy Grail War rather than lose Sola.

Shirou tricked Kenshinnes into signing a binding oath to withdraw from the Holy Grail War by pretending Sola had been poisoned. After Kenshinnes sacrificed Lancer and demanded the antidote, Shirou revealed that Sola was unharmed and woke her, leaving Kenshinnes devastated.

• Kenshinnes demanded a Self-Compelled Testament, and Shirou added clauses forbidding Kenshinnes, his Servant, and members of the El-Melloi Faction from harming him.
• Kenshinnes used his final Command Spell to order Lancer to kill himself, ending his participation in the Holy Grail War.
• Shirou admitted there had never been an antidote, and Kenshinnes collapsed in despair.
• Sola sat up unharmed and told Kenshinnes that she had never been poisoned.
• Sola explained that Shirou had subdued her, given her a drug that kept her conscious while asleep, and let her hear his conversation with Kenshinnes.

After Shirou Amamiya's schemes ended the night's conflict, Kenshinnes lost the Holy Grail War but won Sola's affection, while Rider's praise gave Waver a new sense of confidence. As Kenshinnes prepared to leave Japan, he invited Shirou to study magecraft at the Clock Tower.

• Sola embraced Kenshinnes and told him to hold her tightly, realizing she could not leave him alone.
• Kenshinnes's faction withdrew from the Holy Grail War, and Rider admitted to Waver that he had known Shirou was deceiving him.
• Waver nearly used a Command Spell against Rider, but Rider praised him as a worthy Master and Waver was overwhelmed with joy.
• Irisviel and Saber arrived as Kenshinnes and Sola prepared to leave Japan, and Kenshinnes decided to propose to Sola in London.
• Kenshinnes urged Shirou to win the Holy Grail War and invited him to continue his magecraft studies at the Clock Tower.

After Sola kissed Shirou and invited him to visit London, Irisviel and Saber drove him home in an awkward mood. On Fuyuki Bridge, the Assassin ambushed their car but was caught by Hundred-Faced Hassan and Ghoul of the Strange Arm, then used magecraft to attack the giant Hassan.

• Shirou declined Kenshinnes's invitation for the moment, and Sola kissed him on the cheek and secretly invited him to visit her in London.
• Irisviel and Saber drove Shirou home in silence while Irisviel teased him about Sola's kiss.
• The Assassin waited on Fuyuki Bridge and aimed his rifle at Irisviel's car, believing Shirou could not stop an attack from inside it.
• Hundred-Faced Hassan ambushed the Assassin, and he discovered that she wielded a sword-shaped Noble Phantasm.
• Ghoul of the Strange Arm attacked the Assassin from behind, but the Assassin activated Time Control—Double Accel and knocked Hundred-Faced Hassan aside.
• The Assassin rushed at Gozul and plunged his dagger toward the giant Hassan's head.

Shirou witnessed Arthur's past through a dream and saw him choose to reclaim Cornwall from Vortigern without seeking another lord's help. The chapter ended as Arthur and a small band of knights rode to confront King Mark, hoping to win him over through a duel.

• Swift Makul blocked Emiya Kiritsugu's attack on Gozul as dozens of Hassans appeared, forcing Kiritsugu to flee into the Miyou River.
• Shirou's dream showed him Arthur's past, where the red-haired knight healed wounded men with a miraculous power.
• Arthur learned that King Mark had surrendered Cornwall to Vortigern and that the knights had been driven from the city.
• Arthur decided to reclaim Cornwall with his own small force, refusing to ask another lord for reinforcements.
• Arthur and the knights rode to King Mark's residence, intending to challenge him to a duel and restore his resolve.

Shirou witnessed Arthur discover that Cornwall had been poisoned and its people killed, then confront Morgan in the city. Morgan’s role in the tragedy remained uncertain as she addressed an unseen listener after Arthur left.

• Arthur led his knights to Cornwall, expecting King Mark to secretly support him against Vortigern.
• Arthur and his companions found the city full of corpses, and Merlin concluded that someone had poisoned its water supply.
• Arthur found a dying girl and comforted her with a lie that her family and the other townspeople were safe.
• Arthur followed a familiar aura to the bell tower and confronted Morgan, suspecting her of poisoning Cornwall.
• Arthur attacked Morgan with Caliburn, but the beam passed through her, leaving Shirou to suspect she was only a projection.
• After Arthur departed, Morgan asked an unseen listener whether they believed she had caused the tragedy.

Shirou confronted Fae Consort Morgan in the dreamlike past and struggled to deny her claim that they were connected as siblings across different Britains. Morgan revealed that their fates would remain intertwined, then moved to embrace him.

• Morgan turned toward Shirou, confirmed that she had not caused the city's destruction, and said she had come to wait for someone.
• Morgan greeted Shirou as her little brother from the future, while Shirou insisted that she had mistaken him for someone else.
• Morgan pointed out that Shirou was desperately searching his memories, and he could find no memory of her or of being King Arthur.
• As Morgan approached, Shirou saw her face overlap with the golden-haired girl in his heart and recoiled in self-loathing.
• Morgan said their fates had been intertwined since his arrival in the world and that she would follow him even into another Britain.
• Morgan opened her arms to embrace Shirou, but stopped just before touching his back.

Shirou discovered that he shared a causal bond with the Fae Consort and questioned her about his forgotten past, but she refused to explain her connection to the Morgan he knew. The next morning, he ate breakfast with Saber and Irisviel, where he met the homunculus maid Ritseliete.

• Shirou stabbed the Fae Consort's illusion and found that his own illusion could physically wound her, leading him to conclude that they shared an invisible causal bond.
• Shirou asked whether he had once been Arthur and what the Fae Consort's relationship was to the Morgan he knew, but she fell silent and told him to get lost.
• Shirou protested to Lady Avalon about his strange dream, but she denied causing it and left him wondering how to treat her as a former teacher.
• Shirou joined Saber and Irisviel for breakfast at Einzbern Castle and learned that Saber had grown fond of eating rice.
• Irisviel introduced Ritseliete, the homunculus maid who had prepared breakfast, and Shirou suspected she was an older failed Lesser Holy Grail model.
• Irisviel noticed Shirou staring at Ritseliete's figure and asked whether he liked breasts, making him cough in embarrassment.

Shirou joined Irisviel and Saber for breakfast before Irisviel arranged an afternoon shopping trip, while Shirou investigated the previous night's ambush and the remaining Holy Grail War factions. As Irisviel coaxed Saber into bathing with her, Shirou entered the bathhouse and found them both naked.

• Irisviel teased Shirou about staring at Ritseliete's breasts, and Artoria left the dining room after Shirou reassured her he was not vulgar.
• Irisviel invited Shirou and Saber to go shopping in Shinto at noon, and Shirou agreed.
• Shirou recalled that Emiya Kiritsugu had ambushed them at Fuyuki Bridge to sabotage the Holy Grail War, then tried unsuccessfully to contact Hundred-Faced Hassan.
• Irisviel told Saber they should gather information about Gilgamesh and Iskandar, then persuaded her to bathe together before their outing.
• Shirou went to the bathhouse and found Irisviel and Saber bathing naked.