Recaps

Shirou recalled his victories over Rome, Albion, and Crimson Moon, then realized he had found a way to save the world and make Morgan happy. The story shifted to a fifteen-year-old girl who discovered Uther and Merlin planned to use her mother Igraine to create a human-form Red Dragon heir.

• Shirou and Morgan raised Mordred, while Guinevere and Shirou raised Artoria, as Britain entered a prosperous era.
• Lucius Tiberius invaded Britain, but Shirou defeated him in a duel and drove the Roman army from the island.
• Shirou, Lancelot, and Galahad fought Albion, and Shirou pierced the dragon's heart after Lancelot gave his life to halt it.
• Shirou led the knights against Crimson Moon, and Morgan and Merlin banished the wounded Moon King into Imaginary Space.
• Shirou realized that Lucius's erasure had revealed a possible way to save the world and make Morgan happy.
• At fifteen, the girl overheard Uther and Merlin plotting to use Igraine's womb to create a human-form Red Dragon heir, then fled to her bedroom and cried.

After learning that Uther intended to replace her with a nonhuman heir, the girl became Savior Ash, seized the throne, and ruled Britain as Queen Morgan. A decade later, her army fought Vortigern at Lundinium, where the battle turned against them until a space-time distortion appeared overhead.

• The girl resolved to become King of Britain herself and began rescuing people across the island as the masked Savior Ash.
• At seventeen, she defeated Uther’s guards, forced him to abandon the Red Dragon plan and transfer the throne to her, and compelled Merlin to serve her before ascending as Queen Morgan.
• Queen Morgan cut the Sword of Selection in half, winning the crowd’s support, then raised Gawain, Agravain, Garethis, Gareth, Artoria, and Mordred as her children.
• In the tenth year of Morgan’s reign, her army besieged Vortigern’s stronghold at Lundinium, where Gawain led the assault and Vortigern transformed into the Black White Dragon.
• Vortigern’s breath scattered Morgan’s army and extinguished the Sun Holy Sword’s radiance, but a space-time distortion appeared above Lundinium.

Morgan’s prosperous reign ended with her retiring after preserving Britain’s Age of Gods, but she began to suspect that her life and world were an illusion. She disguised herself and traveled to Lundinium to investigate the truth.

• Morgan defeated Vortigern, married Guinevere in a political union, and led Britain into a peaceful and prosperous era.
• Morgan repelled a Roman expedition, then fought Albion and used its severed wrist to create a Pseudo-Root that prolonged Britain’s Age of Gods.
• Morgan passed the throne to Artoria, retired to the countryside, and told Merlin that she felt she had forgotten something important.
• Morgan’s suspicions intensified as she realized her early memories were vague and asked Merlin whether an illusion could keep her hypnotized.
• Morgan disguised herself as a blonde, green-eyed young man and went to Lundinium to investigate the Pseudo-Root and the world around her.

Morgan investigated strange coincidences from her past and discovered that an unseen force may have helped her throughout her life. She returned to her childhood bedroom seeking the truth, but found nothing and wondered whether she had imagined it.

• Morgan revisited the places where she fought Albion and Vortigern and broke the Sword of Selection, realizing that each had already been weakened or affected before she acted.
• Morgan became nauseated and tearful after concluding that an unseen force had repeatedly helped her.
• Morgan retraced her pilgrimage as Savior Ash and recalled escaping danger by coincidence, defeating Twrch Trwyth through an unlikely accident, and beating Cait Sith with a mirror from a vanished temple.
• Morgan traveled across Britain for half a month and returned to the Old Royal Palace, believing she would learn the truth there.
• Morgan searched her childhood bedroom with her Fae Eyes but found nothing, then wondered whether she had simply been lucky and reminded herself that she had never relied on anyone.

Morgan recovered memories of Shirou, her beloved younger brother and husband, and realized how empty her life felt without him. She searched the Old Royal Palace and tried to summon him with Black Magic, but the spell failed because he was not on the Heroic Spirit Throne.

• Morgan found her childhood dog plushie and remembered that it was connected to Shirou.
• Morgan recalled Shirou as her younger brother and husband, broke down in grief, and decided that life without him was meaningless.
• Morgan rushed through the Old Royal Palace searching for Shirou and found only an empty storage room where she remembered his childhood room.
• Morgan used Black Magic on the plushie to try to summon Shirou, but the spell failed because he was not on the Heroic Spirit Throne.

After Shirou vanished, Morgan searched their shared haunts and collapsed into grief, unable to accept life without him. In a mental-world garden, Merlin’s echo revealed that history had been replaced and began explaining Morgan’s past.

• Morgan searched the forest and the places tied to her memories with Shirou, but found no sign of him.
• Morgan visited their shared workshop, then returned to her childhood room and grieved until exhaustion overtook her.
• Morgan woke in a garden and accused Merlin of hiding Shirou’s whereabouts.
• Merlin explained that she was an echo living in Morgan’s mental world and that neither her real self nor Morgan had noticed history’s replacement alone.
• Merlin began telling Morgan that her life as Queen of Britain had been real history.

Merlin revealed that Shirou had become the Counter Force itself, replacing Gaia and reshaping history to create a world where Morgan could be happy. Morgan refused to accept life without him and realized she might make his return her happiness; meanwhile, Shirou watched the world begin to collapse under a pruning phenomenon.

• Merlin told Morgan that Shirou had secretly joined with Alaya, killed the weakened Gaia, and become the world's new Counter Force to save her.
• Merlin explained that Shirou's body, mind, soul, and consciousness had been annihilated, leaving him as a guardian concept, and urged Morgan to stop searching for him.
• Morgan awoke from Merlin's dream, grieved that Shirou was gone, then declared that she wanted him back and realized the Counter Force might prioritize his return if it meant her happiness.
• Shirou stood on Mount Camlann as the world entered a pruning phenomenon, with continents collapsing, oceans boiling, and human civilization being erased.

Shirou became the planet’s new Counter Force to prevent Britain’s destruction and secure Morgan’s happiness, losing his sense of self in the process. Morgan recovered the memory of his sacrifice and tried to retrieve his vanished soul, but Alaya warned that reviving him would destroy the world.

• Shirou rejected Alaya’s offer to become a Guardian and contracted to replace Gaia as a new Counter Force, with the world’s continuation and Morgan’s happiness as his priorities.
• Shirou said goodbye to Morgan and became “The End,” halting the Harvesting and allowing the world and Divine Age Britain to continue.
• Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg traced how Shirou’s accumulated powers qualified him to become a Counter Force and concluded that Morgan’s will now centered the anomalous world.
• Morgan returned to Camlann, recovered memories of Shirou’s sacrifice, and used her influence over the world to retrieve his vanished soul.
• Alaya warned Morgan that reviving Shirou would make the world collapse, but Morgan called the warning foolish.

Morgan ascended to multiversal power and took Shirou’s soul to create a new world for them, while Merlin was summoned by a seven-year-old Shirou Amamiya in 1994 and reunited with her Arthur. During the Fourth Holy Grail War, Merlin chose to love Shirou through self-sacrifice, but using her second Dead Count Shapeshifter left her unable to move.

• Morgan gathered energy from countless Parallel Worlds and ascended through planetary, galactic, and universal scales to become the multiversal End Goddess.
• Morgan took Shirou’s soul and set out to create a new world where they could begin a new life together.
• Merlin ended her recollection and prepared to return to Avalon, but Shirou Amamiya’s summoning ritual pulled her into the Far East in 1994.
• Merlin recognized the seven-year-old Shirou as her Arthur and greeted him as his Servant.
• Merlin resolved to imitate Morgan and Arthur’s self-sacrifice by protecting Shirou during the Fourth Holy Grail War.
• After using Dead Count Shapeshifter for the second time, Merlin became unable to move.

Shirou returned to Lady Avalon instead of leaving her behind, healed her, and decided they would face Saber together. After dismantling his final Command Spell to give him magical energy, they discovered that the act had ended their contract, leaving Lady Avalon without a supply of magical energy as they considered another way to replenish it.

• Lady Avalon rested on the temple steps and said goodbye to Shirou, but he returned and chose not to use the third Dead Count Shapeshifter.
• Shirou carried Lady Avalon into the woods and used up his remaining magical energy healing her physical injuries.
• Shirou revealed that he had dreamed of his memories in Britain and called Lady Avalon his teacher, and they agreed to fight Saber together.
• Lady Avalon dismantled Shirou's final Command Spell and converted it into Magic Blocks, giving them enough magical energy to face Saber at full strength.
• Shirou and Lady Avalon realized that removing the Command Spell had ended their contract and cut off their magical energy supply.
• Shirou asked Lady Avalon about drawing magical energy from someone else, and she confirmed that she knew the magecraft.

With the final battle against Saber approaching, Lady Avalon transferred mana to Shirou, then enhanced his defenses and muscles. Shirou prepared to face Saber with projected swords, knowing he could no longer rely on the Dead Count Shapeshifter or Unlimited Blade Works.

• Lady Avalon told Shirou that a mana channel was too dangerous for a third-rate magus and urged him to hug her to supply mana.
• Lady Avalon kissed Shirou and completed the Mana Transfer with him before sending him outside to wait.
• Shirou considered how to fight Saber without the Dead Count Shapeshifter, concluded he would have to rely on projected swords, and used Trace on to summon a silver longsword.
• Lady Avalon returned and cast Divine Era Enhancement Magic on Shirou, strengthening his defenses and muscles before the battle.

Shirou and Lady Avalon reached Ryudoji Temple, where they found the Holy Grail and confronted Black Saber and Avenger. Avenger ordered Saber to kill Shirou, and the compelled Saber charged at him.

• Shirou asked Lady Avalon to stay and live with him after the Holy Grail was destroyed, though she mistook his meaning.
• Shirou and Lady Avalon arrived at Ryudoji Temple and saw the Holy Grail shining above the clearing.
• Shirou recognized that Avenger looked like Bavag but concluded they were not the same person.
• Avenger insulted Shirou and used a Command Spell to order Black Saber to kill him.
• Black Saber charged Shirou, who threw his Blades of Chaos at her, but she knocked them aside.

Shirou and Lady Avalon trapped Black Saber in Fake Unlimited Blade Works, where Shirou used the sword-filled illusion to fight her. The battle turned dangerous when Black Saber targeted Lady Avalon with her Noble Phantasm, leaving Shirou to choose how to intervene.

• Shirou tested Black Saber's enhanced strength and realized her speed had decreased after her corruption.
• Lady Avalon transferred Shirou, Black Saber, and Avenger into Fake Unlimited Blade Works, an illusion she created using Shirou's magical energy and their bond.
• Shirou and Lady Avalon explained how the sword-filled space worked, and Shirou attacked Black Saber with genuine projected Noble Phantasms.
• Shirou used the space's swords and his speed to keep Black Saber from gathering strength, while Avenger angrily urged Saber to kill him.
• Black Saber ignored Shirou and began releasing her Noble Phantasm at Lady Avalon, forcing Shirou to decide whether to protect her or attack Saber.

Shirou used Time Control and Projection Magic to protect Lady Avalon from Black Saber's Excalibur Morgan with Avalon, then faced Black Saber alone. He revealed the Boosted Gear on his left arm as proof of his dragon power, leaving the duel poised to continue.

• Shirou accelerated his body with Time Control and raced ahead of Black Saber’s Excalibur Morgan attack.
• Shirou projected Avalon and used its isolation to block Black Saber’s reversed holy sword blast.
• Shirou told Lady Avalon to rest and chose to continue the battle against Black Saber alone.
• Shirou admitted that he had once called himself Arthur in another world and had now gained the concept of Arthur.
• Shirou projected the Boosted Gear on his left arm and revealed his dragon power to Black Saber.

Shirou used the Red Dragon Gauntlet and Time Control to withstand Black Saber’s attacks, then launched a clash of Noble Phantasms and revealed the Dragon-Slaying sword Ascalon. The duel continued as Shirou fought Black Saber with the holy sword against her demonic blade.

• Shirou charged the Red Dragon Gauntlet to its limit while using Time Control to evade Black Saber’s Light Cannons.
• Shirou and Black Saber fired their Dragon Bullet and Sword of Victory, Morgan at each other, and their attacks struggled in a destructive stalemate.
• Shirou activated Time Alter Hexagon Accel and rushed through the clash to attack Black Saber.
• The Red Dragon Gauntlet extended Ascalon, and Black Saber recognized it as a Dragon-Slaying Holy Sword.
• Shirou fought Black Saber with Ascalon as the two swords and their Dragon auras clashed.

Shirou defeated Black Saber and refused to kill her, then confronted Avenger and discovered that she was Bavag. The name restored Bavag’s memories, leaving her mentally unstable.

• Shirou overwhelmed Black Saber, knocked her Reversed Holy Sword away, and kicked it beyond her reach.
• Shirou spared Black Saber and turned toward Avenger, the red-haired instigator.
• Avenger attacked Shirou with invisible magical slashes, but he cut them down and restrained her.
• Shirou asked Avenger whether she knew the name Bavag, and her memories began to return.
• Bavag curled up and muttered as her mental state became unstable.

Shirou learned that the manifested Holy Grail would release the Black Mud if he destroyed it, and he refused to abandon the city. Avanger revealed she could stop the manifestation by sacrificing herself, then tore out her heart and began to disappear in Shirou’s arms.

• Black Saber warned Shirou that the Grail was a door connected to the Greater Grail beneath Mount Enzou and that destroying it would unleash the Black Mud.
• Shirou decided to stay and contain the Black Mud with his Fae Domain, while telling Black Saber to take Irisviel and escape.
• Avanger recovered her memories, said that killing her would terminate the Grail’s manifestation, and then moved beneath the Grail.
• Avanger tore out her own heart, and Shirou caught her as her body began to vanish.
• Avanger asked Shirou why he possessed a black sacred sword, and he said it had been a gift from someone important to him.

After the Fourth Holy Grail War ended, Tristan awoke from a two-week coma and learned that the Shirou she had met in her dream was the name her King had used as a human. Shirou then found himself in the past at the moment of his farewell with Morgan, where he confessed that he had returned to another world and formed new bonds, and Morgan admitted she was jealous.

• The Avenger vanished after asking Shirou his name, and the Greater Grail crisis ended through her self-sacrifice.
• Shirou collapsed from exhaustion as Saber and Lady Avalon rushed to him.
• Tristan awoke in her room after Lancelot rescued her from the great cavern and learned she had been unconscious for about two weeks.
• Tristan asked Gawain and Lancelot about Shirou, and Lancelot said it was the name their King had used as a human.
• Shirou awoke in the past beside Morgan at the end of his life and told her he had returned to his original world and continued fighting there.
• Morgan admitted she was jealous of Shirou's new bonds and left a red mark on his neck with her fingernail.

As Shirou neared death, he and Morgan spoke about his curse and the unequal nature of their relationship. Shirou revised his will to name Morgan his heir as his relative, then proposed marriage, and she asked him to put the ring on her finger.

• Morgan told Shirou she had felt unable to resent him because he had given her so much, then revealed that he had been cursed upon entering the Fae Kingdom.
• Shirou said the curse had not been meaningless because he was happy after realizing Morgan’s dream.
• Shirou announced that Morgan would inherit Camelot’s throne, not as his witch but as his last relative in the world.
• Shirou showed Morgan a platinum ring and proposed that they get married.
• Morgan shyly offered her left hand and asked Shirou to put the ring on her ring finger.

After Shirou died, Morgan became the Queen of the Fae Kingdom. In the present, Saber remembered a private conversation in which Shirou urged her to seek happiness through the Holy Grail, and she remained convinced she did not deserve it.

• Morgan celebrated her wedding ring and embraced Shirou, who died peacefully in her arms.
• Morgan changed into mourning clothes and became the Queen of the Fae Kingdom.
• Artoria felt nervous when Irisviel left her alone with Shirou at the Einzbern castle.
• At lunch, Shirou asked Artoria what she wanted from the Holy Grail, but she could not reveal her wish to erase herself and entrust Britain to someone else.
• Shirou told Artoria he wanted her to find happiness and promised to help her obtain the Holy Grail.
• Artoria returned from the memory late at night and thought that a sinner like her had no right to be happy.

After Saber returned to her own time, Bedivere failed to return her sword, leaving her trapped as the King of the Dead. In the aftermath of the Fourth Holy Grail War, Shirou recovered at Einzbern Castle while Eiri considered what to do next.

• Artoria returned to the forest after the war and chose to stop pursuing the Holy Grail, deciding to rest after Britain’s fall.
• Artoria ordered Bedivere to return her Holy Sword to the lake, but he repeatedly hesitated and came back to find her gone.
• Bedivere’s failure to return the sword left Artoria unable to die or reach the Fae Village, and she became the wandering King of the Dead.
• Rin Tohsaka and Tokiomi Tohsaka reported a false account of the Fourth Holy Grail War, while Kenshinnes used his authority to prevent further investigation.
• Shirou recovered enough to walk around Einzbern Castle after spending a week in bed, and Eiri said she had lost her purpose and could not return to Einzbern.

After the Holy Grail War, Shirou returned to the Amamiya Residence with Lady Avalon while Irisviel and the Einzbern homunculi stayed in the forest. He discovered a farewell message from Assassin and brought two foreign women home, leaving Taiga stunned and demanding an explanation.

• Irisviel decided to remain in Japan with Sella, Ritseliete, and the other homunculi, while Lady Avalon stayed with Shirou because she claimed Saber had asked her to look after him.
• Three days later, Shirou left Einzbern Castle with Irisviel and Lady Avalon to return to the Amamiya Residence.
• Shirou spotted Hundred-Faced Hassan and Loli Hassan waving from Fuyuki Bridge, jumped from the car to find them, and discovered his old skull mask bearing the words “Thank you.”
• Shirou realized Assassin had left the message to thank him for recognizing her as a Servant, then returned to the car and endured Irisviel and Lady Avalon’s scolding.
• At the Amamiya Residence, Taiga Fujimura welcomed Shirou home, then panicked when she saw Lady Avalon and Irisviel with him and demanded to know who they were.

Four years after the Holy Grail War, Shirou lived peacefully at the Amamiya Residence despite increasingly frequent collapses caused by his damaged body. Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald’s letter suggested that Touko Aozaki could make him a replacement body, leaving Shirou with a possible solution to his worsening condition.

• Ritseliete woke Shirou and explained that he had collapsed in the hallway the previous night, then changed him into pajamas while he was unconscious.
• Shirou joined Irisviel, Lady Avalon, and Taiga Fujimura for breakfast and reflected on the household’s peaceful life and his recurring blackouts.
• Shirou received Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald’s reply about treating the lasting damage from the Holy Grail War.
• Kenneth recommended that Shirou ask Touko Aozaki, the world’s greatest Doll Master, to create a new vessel or prosthetic body for him.

Shirou traveled to Misaki City hoping to find Touko Aozaki and ask her to make a prosthetic limb, but Arisu Kyōnoji told him Touko had been killed by her sister eight years earlier. Arisu let him into her mansion to rest, leaving Shirou inside with his search apparently at a dead end.

• Shirou learned from Kenshinnes that Touko Aozaki might be able to make a prosthetic vessel that would let him use Projection Magic without damaging his soul.
• Shirou traveled alone from Fuyuki City to Misaki City to seek information about Touko through Arisu Kyōnoji.
• Arisu Kyōnoji told Shirou that Touko had died eight years earlier, killed by her own sister.
• Shirou asked to rest after his long journey, and Arisu let him into her mansion.
• Shirou admired the gloomy mansion and its large television while Arisu explained that a former roommate had left it there.

Shirou visited Arisu Kyōnoji’s home, drank tea with her, and spent the afternoon clearing weeds from her garden. After he left to return home before dinner, Arisu found herself wondering whether she might enjoy interacting with other people again.

• Arisu Kyōnoji brewed tea while wondering why Shirou Amamiya seemed so sincere and why she had let him into her home.
• Arisu found Shirou pulling weeds in her garden, and he paused to wash his hands and join her for tea.
• Shirou told Arisu he had lived in Britain and recalled his time in the Fae Kingdom, while Arisu watched him work in the garden.
• Shirou cleared the garden of weeds, then left to get home before dinner without asking more about Touko Aozaki.
• Arisu looked at the newly tended garden and realized she had enjoyed spending time with Shirou.