Recaps

Emiya Kiritsugu revealed that the Holy Grail War’s true purpose was to open a path to the Root, and that Irisviel could become the Greater Grail. As Shirou left after failing to persuade Kiritsugu to join him for dinner, Kirei encountered Cernunnos, the Avenger who claimed responsibility for corrupting the Greater Grail.

• Emiya Kiritsugu told Shirou that Irisviel was meant to sacrifice the Servants and could replace the Greater Grail, but Shirou concluded that she had been struggling with what to do and planned to discuss stopping the war with her.
• Irisviel worried about Shirou’s mysterious Extra-class Servant while she and Saber discussed the unusually weak Avenger summoned by the Einzberns sixty years earlier.
• Kirei followed the reappeared Command Spell to the cavern beneath Mount Enzou and saw the Greater Grail overflowing with curses and visions of a world-ending catastrophe.
• A red-haired woman appeared above the Greater Grail and identified herself as Cernunnos, the Calamity of Curse, and the Avenger who had corrupted it.
• Shirou’s negotiations with Emiya Kiritsugu ended badly, and Shirou left the inn and returned to the streets of Shinto before sunset.

In the Fae Kingdom, Shirou reflected on how his choices differed from Emiya Kiritsugu’s and remembered the start of his pilgrimage with Morgan, now using the name Ash. When Shirou found villagers bullying a red-haired vampire-kind fae, he hesitated between intervening and protecting the pilgrimage.

• Shirou recalled refusing to sacrifice Irisviel and contrasted his actions in the Fae Kingdom with Emiya Kiritsugu’s utilitarian ideals.
• Morgan explained that she had abandoned her name and taken the alias Ash because the four clans opposed her.
• Shirou bribed a suspicious village to let him and Morgan stay while they waited for a predicted calamity.
• Morgan complained that the villagers’ welcome depended on Shirou’s bribe, and Shirou reassured her about her pilgrimage.
• During morning training, Shirou saw villagers pelting a red-haired vampire-kind fae with stones and hesitated to intervene, fearing they might be driven out.

Shirou rescued Bavag from a game involving iron stakes, then learned she accepted being used as a target because she believed it helped the village. Over half a month, Bavag and Morgan became close while Shirou grew popular with the faeries, and Morgan’s hidden identity and determination to complete her pilgrimage remained central to their journey.

• Shirou interrupted faeries who were using iron stakes in a game with Bavag and led her away.
• Bavag explained that she was not being bullied and revealed she willingly served as the target, despite her many scars.
• Shirou learned Bavag’s name and later saw her become close friends with Morgan during their stay in the village.
• Morgan told Bavag exaggerated stories about her pilgrimage, while Shirou observed that Bavag’s injuries decreased as the villagers became more cautious around her.
• Shirou became popular among the faeries, and Morgan joked that he was their Minister of Foreign Affairs while warning him not to get close to certain clans’ girls.
• Morgan reflected on her identity as the Paradise Fae, the destruction of Orkney, and her resolve to finish her pilgrimage despite the faeries’ hatred of her.

Shirou and Morgan drove back a calamity made of cursed hands, but more than thirty fae died and the monster remained alive. As the villagers secretly gathered to avoid fighting again, Shirou and Morgan discovered that Bavag had been dismembered and placed on an altar.

• Dozens of Cursed Hands invaded the village, and Shirou, Morgan, and Bavag organized the defense as the calamities killed many fae.
• Morgan unleashed Rhongomyniad and gravely wounded the giant Hand of Calamity, driving it away at the cost of more than thirty villagers’ lives.
• Shirou reassured the surviving fae that they could prepare and defeat the wounded calamity when it returned.
• Morgan told Shirou that Bavag had been missing since morning, and Shirou searched for her without finding her.
• Shirou found the villagers holding hands and singing in the square, where Bavag’s dismembered body lay on an altar.
• Morgan recognized Bavag by the nail polish she had applied and collapsed in grief as the villagers discussed how to avoid fighting the calamity again.

Shirou remembered Bavag being sacrificed by the faeries and destroyed them in anger, then questioned whether Lady Avalon and his memories of the Fae Kingdom were real. He set aside his doubts and vowed to save both Irisviel and the billions of people at stake, before encountering Tokiomi Tohsaka and Rin together.

• Shirou arrived too late to save Bavag from being prepared as a sacrifice, and he unleashed flames that killed the faeries and destroyed the altar.
• Shirou woke from his memories on a bus and asked Lady Avalon whether she really existed or was a figment of his imagination.
• Lady Avalon appeared to Shirou alone and told him to trust his perceptions and memories, though she did not resolve his doubts.
• Shirou decided he would reject Emiya Kiritsugu's choice between sacrificing one person and saving many, and vowed to save both Irisviel and six billion people.
• Shirou saw Tokiomi Tohsaka gently stroking Rin Tohsaka's hair, a sight that contradicted his image of Tokiomi as a cold father.

Shirou told Tokiomi Tohsaka that the Holy Grail was corrupted and urged him to abandon the war, but Tokiomi refused to believe him. Shirou then played a recording of Zouken Matou describing what he planned to do to Sakura, leaving Tokiomi confronted with the horror of his daughter’s fate.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka met Shirou while Rin argued with him, then asked Shirou to look after Rin and Sakura if anything happened to him.
• Shirou explained that the Greater Grail was corrupted and would bring a world-destroying device, but Tokiomi rejected the warning and insisted they would be enemies.
• Shirou asked Tokiomi about Sakura and accused him of abandoning his daughter by sending her to the Matou Family.
• Shirou played a recording of Zouken Matou describing the Imprint Worms and his plan to torment and transform Sakura, while Sakura cried out in fear.

After showing Tokiomi Tohsaka the truth of Sakura’s abuse at the Matou Family, Shirou sent him to confront Zouken. Tokiomi arrived at the Matou residence, fought Kariya and Tsuruno, and discovered that Sakura treated him with indifference; an hour later, he sat bound and badly beaten before Shirou and the Matou brothers.

• Shirou showed Tokiomi a recording of Sakura’s first night at the Matou Family and accused him of knowingly handing her over to Zouken.
• Tokiomi demanded to know Sakura’s condition, then rushed to the Matou residence after Shirou told him to see her himself.
• Tokiomi punched Tsuruno when he tried to stop him, and Kariya attacked Tokiomi, blaming him for Sakura’s suffering.
• Sakura greeted Tokiomi as Uncle Tokiomi, then crossed the room to Shirou without showing interest in reconciling with her father.
• Tsuruno punched Tokiomi, and an hour later Shirou brought the battered, bound Tokiomi to see the Matou brothers.

Shirou prepared to stop the corrupted Greater Grail from collecting more Servant souls, while Irisviel revealed that the Grail War was turning her back into a vessel. A mysterious red-haired girl exposed herself as the one manipulating Command Spells as Shirou arrived in time to witness Gilgamesh defeat Iskandar.

• Shirou decided to prevent further Servant deaths and headed to his final confrontation with Gilgamesh.
• Hundred-Faced Hassan told Irisviel and Artoria that the Greater Grail was corrupted, and they agreed it had to be destroyed.
• Irisviel collapsed, then explained that the Holy Grail War was transforming her into a vessel for Heroic Spirits; she asked Saber to save her.
• Irisviel realized three Servants had already returned to the Grail and that Archer had killed Rider.
• A red-haired girl revealed that she had used Irisviel's Command Spells to make Saber attack Assassin and Archer kill Rider.
• Shirou reached Fuyuki Bridge and witnessed Gilgamesh decisively defeat Iskandar and destroy his chariot and Noble Phantasm.

After Rider’s defeat, Shirou learned that Archer’s sword could destroy barriers, then discovered that the corrupted Grail’s red-haired avatar had taken control of the Command Spells and captured Saber. Assassin rescued Irisviel, and Shirou recognized Cernunnos as the deity tied to the enemy before recalling his final days in Fae Kingdom Britain.

• Shirou questioned Lady Avalon about the Noble Phantasm that destroyed Rider’s Army of the King and learned it was a world-encompassing weapon designed to destroy barriers.
• Archer met Shirou after defeating Rider, noticed his Command Spells, and vanished after hinting that the war still offered room to maneuver.
• The red-haired girl revealed herself to Irisviel as the corrupted Holy Grail’s source, seized control of the Command Spell system, and ordered Saber to be turned black.
• Saber resisted the command and told Hundred-Faced Hassan to take Irisviel away, allowing Assassin to escape with her.
• At the inn, Shirou learned from Assassin that the enemy was linked to Cernunnos, the deity summoned as Avenger in the Third Holy Grail War.
• Shirou recalled exploring a cavern in Britain with Saviour Ash, Black Knight Hector, and Fairy Knight Tatterdemalion, while accepting that his own story had reached its end.

Shirou’s reconnaissance in Britain revealed the ancient Cernunnos beneath a cavern, and his encounter with it shortened his life, ending his planned retirement with Morgan. In Fuyuki, Gilgamesh attacked Avenger, but Saber Alter intervened to protect the Holy Grail’s terminal.

• Morgan sent Shirou down Britain’s huge cavern, where he found ash rising from below and discovered the dormant Cernunnos.
• Cernunnos’s gaze knocked Shirou unconscious and reduced his remaining lifespan, and he later died six months afterward without proposing to Morgan.
• At Ryudoji Temple, Avenger mocked Gilgamesh and tried to use the Holy Grail’s authority to attack him.
• Gilgamesh blocked Avenger’s rule attack and wounded her with the Gate of Babylon before preparing to kill her.
• Saber Alter appeared and stopped Gilgamesh, explaining that Avenger’s existence maintained the Greater Grail’s stability.

After Saber was captured, Shirou comforted Irisviel and persuaded her to help him prepare for the final battle against Archer and Saber. He revealed that his modified Command Spell could boost his combat power but asked Irisviel to replenish his magical energy, leaving her to realize how desperate he was.

• At Ryudoji Temple, Archer taunted Saber about Enkidu and left to pursue Shirou, while Saber angrily called after him.
• Irisviel blamed herself for losing Saber and explained that Einzbern would abandon its homunculi if she failed the Holy Grail War.
• Shirou promised Irisviel they could live together after the war, and she eagerly accepted his offer.
• Shirou explained how the Dead Count Shapeshifter accelerated his internal time but could not replenish his magical energy, leaving him short of what he needed to fight Archer and Saber.
• Shirou asked Irisviel to replenish his magical energy, and her embarrassment and hesitation made him pressure her before she recognized his desperation.

On the final morning before the Holy Grail War’s last battle, Shirou gained mana from Irisviel through an awkward breastfeeding ritual, then shared a relaxed breakfast with her and the others at the inn. The group rested for the day, and Shirou wrapped Rin Tohsaka’s Holy Shroud around himself in preparation for the battle that night.

• Shirou transferred mana from Irisviel through breastfeeding, leaving her exhausted and both of them embarrassed.
• Shirou woke before five and found Sella and Ritseliete standing guard outside Irisviel’s room.
• Shirou bought ingredients at a convenience store and prepared sandwiches and oatmeal for Irisviel, the maids, and Hundred-Faced Hassan.
• Everyone ate breakfast together and spent the morning resting at the inn before the final battle.
• Hundred-Faced Hassan gave Shirou the Holy Shroud she had received from Rin Tohsaka, and Shirou wrapped it around his body.

Shirou prepared for the final battles, entrusted Avalon to Irisviel, and encouraged Waver to carry on after Rider’s death. At Mount Enzou, Shirou planned to distract the enemy while Irisviel and Hundred-Faced Hassan destroyed the Greater Grail.

• Shirou refused to take Avalon from Irisviel, deciding that she should keep its protection while he faced Archer and Saber.
• Shirou recalled Saber’s wish for an honorable duel and worked out a strategy for the coming battles despite his concern about fighting her without Avalon.
• Waver called Shirou, grieved for Rider, and heard Shirou urge him to become worthy of being Iskandar’s Master.
• Shirou, Irisviel, and Hundred-Faced Hassan left for Mount Enzou after the McGillicutty couple had been returned.
• At Mount Enzou, Shirou proposed that he intercept Avenger, Archer, and Saber while Irisviel and Hundred-Faced Hassan destroyed the Greater Grail.

Shirou faced Gilgamesh on Mount Enzou and transformed to withstand the King of Heroes' barrage. He then used a single-count spell to unfold his Imaginary Number Space, leaving Gilgamesh wondering what Shirou intended to do next.

• Irisviel kissed Shirou goodbye and asked him to put his safety first, while Shirou promised to try to bring Saber back.
• Shirou realized he was gradually returning to his prime, then met Gilgamesh on the mountain steps.
• Gilgamesh challenged Shirou to show everything he had and launched a 360-degree barrage of Noble Phantasms.
• Shirou used a Command Spell to enter his Dead Count Shapeshifter state and repel the weapons with his Wind King Barrier.
• Shirou cast a single-count spell that replaced the mountain path with his Imaginary Number Space, a vast sea of flowers beneath a starry sky.
• Gilgamesh criticized the flower-filled world, and Shirou stood watching him as the King sensed something was wrong.

Shirou fought Gilgamesh inside Unlimited Blade Works, where enemies were forged into Holy Swords and Shirou could summon endless stored swords. After Gilgamesh’s attacks failed to overwhelm him, Shirou pursued the King of Heroes into the sky, and their battle continued beneath the stars.

• Shirou’s Unlimited Blade Works forged Gilgamesh’s severed left arm into a Golden Holy Sword and filled the Inner Sea of the Planet with swords.
• Shirou and Gilgamesh exchanged massive barrages of Noble Phantasms, but Shirou’s supply did not run out.
• Gilgamesh summoned the twin swords Ig-Alima and Sul-sagana, and Shirou countered with a Holy Sword forged from Gilgamesh’s arm.
• Shirou’s Wedge of Heaven shattered Gilgamesh’s twin swords, so Gilgamesh escaped aboard Vimana and attacked from the sky.
• Shirou blocked Gilgamesh’s bombardment with Fae Sword Excalibur, flew after Vimana, and dodged a rain of Noble Phantasms.
• Shirou and Gilgamesh continued their aerial battle above the clouds, with explosions illuminating the moon.

Shirou shot down Gilgamesh’s Vimana with the Fae Sword Caladbolg, but Gilgamesh prepared the Heaven-Opening Sword to end Unlimited Blade Works. Beneath Mount Enzou, Irisviel and Hundred-Faced Hassan battled the Shadow Servants while Kirei Kotomine questioned Shirou’s motives, and Irisviel insisted Shirou had always had a wish but put himself last.

• Shirou overtook Gilgamesh’s Vimana and struck it with the Fae Sword Caladbolg, sending the airship spiraling down in flames.
• Gilgamesh acknowledged Shirou as a worthy warrior and drew the Heaven-Opening Sword as Unlimited Blade Works began to end.
• Irisviel and Hundred-Faced Hassan encountered Kirei Kotomine beneath Mount Enzou, where he summoned a legion of Shadow Servants.
• Irisviel animated a silver Giant Eagle while Hundred-Faced Hassan used her knowledge of the Assassin shadows and Shirou’s blade to fight them.
• Kirei argued that Shirou had no wish of his own and was like him, but Irisviel rejected the comparison and said Shirou always put himself last.

Kirei Kotomine killed Irisviel while Gilgamesh unleashed Ea to destroy Shirou Amamiya’s Inner Sea of the Planet. As Shirou smiled amid the collapsing world, he revealed that he had planned the battle to trick Gilgamesh into using the sword.

• Kirei Kotomine overwhelmed Irisviel and Hundred-Faced Hassan, then pierced Irisviel’s heart with Black Keys and tore it apart.
• Gilgamesh realized Shirou was the second opponent, after Enkidu, to force him to use his full power.
• Gilgamesh unleashed Ea’s Enuma Elish, causing Shirou’s Imaginary Number Space to collapse.
• Shirou smiled as his world fell apart and admitted he had deceived Archer to make Gilgamesh draw Ea.

Shirou used the power of his Fae Domain to copy Gilgamesh’s Vortex Sword and defeated the King of Heroes with his own Enuma Elish. Gilgamesh accepted his loss, gave Shirou the Elixir of Youth, and urged him to defeat Saber before vanishing back to the Greater Grail.

• Shirou explained that Unlimited Blade Works was a Fae Domain with the ability to analyze and reconstruct weapons used inside it.
• Shirou copied Gilgamesh’s Vortex Sword after Gilgamesh unleashed it within Unlimited Blade Works.
• Shirou struck Gilgamesh with his own Enuma Elish, ended the Fae Domain, and left the King of Heroes mortally wounded.
• Gilgamesh accepted defeat and warned Shirou to defeat Saber, or he would kill him himself.
• Gilgamesh gave Shirou the Elixir of Youth, which Shirou drank to heal his body and restore his magical energy.

Shirou’s allies saved Irisviel from Kirei Kotomine, and Emiya killed Kirei with a sniper shot. As Shirou approached Ryudoji Temple, Lady Avalon rested and dreamed of her first meeting with him, when Merlin realized his soul came from another world.

• Irisviel revived after Archer’s soul entered her and Avalon healed her, then stabbed Kirei Kotomine with a projected dagger.
• Emiya secretly shot the dagger’s hilt, driving it into Kirei Kotomine’s heart and killing him.
• Shirou found the exhausted Lady Avalon near Ryudoji Temple and continued toward the final battle after she told him to defeat Saber.
• Lady Avalon fell asleep and dreamed of Merlin visiting Tintagel to investigate the seven-year-old Shirou’s Projection Magic.
• Merlin’s Clairvoyance could not see Shirou, and she realized his soul came from outside their world.

Merlin brought Shirou before King Uther and persuaded him to adopt the otherworldly boy as a future king, abandoning the plan to create an heir with the Dragon Factor. Shirou began his royal training and met Morgan, whose hostility softened after he eagerly embraced her as his big sister.

• Merlin realized Shirou came from outside the world and brought him to King Uther, asking to make him her disciple.
• Merlin urged Uther to adopt Shirou and abandon the plan to create a Dragon Factor heir, promising to raise him to save Britain.
• Shirou became Uther’s nominal adopted son and studied kingship, combat, and other royal skills under Merlin.
• Morgan feared Shirou might threaten her claim to the throne, then tripped him in the garden and mocked him.
• Shirou hugged Morgan and called her his big sister, but she blasted him unconscious with a curse projectile.
• Morgan carried Shirou to her bedchamber and told him not to get so close, while Shirou said he liked her most.

Shirou pledged to help Morgan become Queen of Britain and make her happy, while Morgan mistook his devotion for a romantic confession and fell in love with him. Years later, after the siblings agreed Morgan would rule Britain, they learned Uther planned to marry her to King Lot, and Shirou began considering ways to stop the match.

• Shirou told Morgan he wanted her to inherit the throne and promised to devote himself to her happiness.
• Morgan interpreted Shirou's pledge as a confession, became flustered, and drove him from her bedchamber.
• Shirou trained under Merlin, became a knight-in-training at ten, and grew into a formidable swordsman and projector by thirteen.
• Shirou and Morgan secretly agreed that she would become Queen and he would support her, though they imagined different futures for their partnership.
• Morgan told Shirou that Uther intended to marry her to King Lot of Orkney, and Shirou began proposing ways to resist the arrangement.

Morgan accepted a marriage arranged by Uther and traveled to Orkney, intending to kill King Lot rather than let him touch her. Shirou revealed he had taken King Lot’s place and declared his love for Morgan, and the chapter ended with the two agreeing to work separately toward unifying Britain before reuniting.

• Morgan asked Shirou what he would do if she married King Lot, but his practical support enraged her, and she agreed to the marriage.
• Six months later, Morgan went to King Lot’s bedroom with a knife, intending to kill him and return to the royal palace.
• Shirou seized Morgan’s wrist and revealed that he was King Lot, then told her he hated the idea of her marrying another man and called her his woman.
• Morgan embraced Shirou, and they spent the night together as newlyweds.
• Morgan planned to remain in Orkney as queen consort while Shirou returned to Uther and Merlin, so they could pursue the unification of Britain separately and reunite later.

Shirou and Morgan planned Britain’s future together as Morgan became its ruler and Shirou followed the path toward becoming King Arthur. After defeating Vortigern with Rhongomyniad, Shirou heard the dying king declare that Britain’s age of mystery had ended and that Shirou could not save it.

• Morgan revealed that three personalities lived within her and Shirou explained that he had known about Morgan, Vivian, and Morgan le Fay for years.
• Shirou urged Morgan to have children who could help them rule Britain, and they created Gawain through magecraft using Morgan’s eggs and Shirou’s genetic material.
• Morgan replaced the imprisoned King Lot as Orkney’s ruler, declared herself the true King of Britain, and expanded her territory while secretly meeting Shirou each month.
• After Uther died and Vortigern seized power, Shirou was adopted by Hector, took the name Artorius, and pulled the Sword of Selection from the stone at eighteen.
• Shirou traveled Britain with Merlin and Kay, gained Excalibur and Avalon, and gathered knights including Gawain and Agravain before Merlin gave him Rhongomyniad.
• Shirou defeated Vortigern with Rhongomyniad, and the dying king warned that the age of mystery had ended and Britain had no future while Shirou lived.

After defeating Vortigern, Shirou rejected a political marriage to Guinevere and revealed his ten-year relationship with Morgan to the Knights of the Round Table. He went to share the news with Morgan, but she attacked him and warned him away, and Shirou suspected Merlin had told her about the Pruned Event.

• With Vortigern dead, Shirou considered how to announce his relationship with Morgan, but Merlin introduced him to Guinevere as a marriage candidate.
• Merlin urged Shirou to marry Guinevere for her father's political support, then confessed that she had fallen in love with Shirou and wanted him to have a happy ending.
• Shirou rejected the marriage alliance, telling Guinevere he loved another woman, and she blessed his choice despite her sorrow.
• Shirou revealed his relationship with Morgan to the Knights of the Round Table; most accepted it, while Agravain fainted and Kay supported him.
• Shirou visited Morgan's chambers to share the news, but Morgan bound and stabbed him before ordering him never to return.
• Shirou asked whether Merlin had told Morgan about the Pruned Event, and Morgan's reaction confirmed his suspicion.

Shirou rejected Morgan’s plan to step aside and insisted that he wanted her to be happy, while Merlin proposed that Guinevere become his secondary wife to ease tensions with the Round Table. A year later, Shirou married both women, and Britain entered a peaceful decade of prosperity as Merlin searched for a way to prevent the world from becoming a Pruned Event.

• Morgan told Shirou that Merlin had revealed the Pruned Event and urged him to accept her as a secret mistress rather than make her Queen Consort.
• Shirou insisted that he wanted Morgan to be happy, and Morgan broke down in tears as they remained divided over the world’s will.
• Merlin thanked Shirou for changing Morgan, then proposed that he marry Guinevere as a secondary wife to mediate between Morgan and the Knights of the Round Table.
• One year later, Shirou married Morgan and Guinevere, who supported him in different roles as Britain’s Queen and Camelot’s public symbol.
• Over the following ten years, Britain prospered through renewed trade and potato cultivation, while the Knights of the Round Table resolved conflicts and Merlin searched for a way to avoid the Pruned Event.