Recaps

Shirou discovered that Fujino’s supposed congenital inability to feel pain had been suppressed with medication to conceal an abnormality in her body. After she chose to trust him and undergo an examination, she prepared for it by undressing, leaving Shirou stunned.

• Shirou examined Fujino’s medicines and realized they were painkillers that had suppressed her sense of pain and concealed an abnormality.
• Shirou explained his suspicion to Fujino, then apologized for pressuring her and offered to drop the examination.
• Fujino asked whether she could trust Shirou, and he assured her that she could.
• Fujino decided to have Shirou examine her, and they washed the dishes before returning to the room.
• Fujino asked Shirou to wait outside while she prepared, then called him back after about ten minutes.
• Shirou returned and found Fujino naked on the sofa; she asked him to look at her, and he reluctantly turned toward her.

Shirou examined Asagami Fujino, explained that she had been born with powerful Mystic Eyes, and promised to help her control them and restore her sense of pain. The next day, Fujino settled into Shirou’s agency while Ryougi Shiki, nearing discharge, struggled with the death-seeing eyes she had gained during her coma.

• Asagami Fujino removed her clothes for Shirou’s examination, then consented to a thorough examination after he covered her with his coat.
• Shirou found that drugs had taken away Fujino’s pain sensation and explained that her abnormal brain development had produced Mystic Eyes as powerful as a Gorgon’s.
• Fujino embraced Shirou and thanked him after he promised to teach her to control her eyes and cure her condition.
• The next morning, Fujino helped Shirou prepare breakfast and said she would wait for him at the agency while he went out.
• Ryougi Shiki recalled seeing death lines everywhere after waking from her two-year coma and tried to destroy her eyes, but a doctor stopped her.
• As Shiki awaited the removal of her eye bandages and her discharge, she pointed her fingertips toward her eyes.

Shirou explained that Ryougi Shiki’s Mystic Eyes of Death Perception were an inborn fate, not a condition she could escape by destroying her eyes. When a spirit possessed a corpse and attacked her in the hospital, Shiki chose to live, awakened her eyes, and killed the spirit with a blade Shirou projected.

• Shirou told Ryougi Shiki about a girl whose unusual vision had been suppressed, then explained that Shiki’s eyes were a natural ability she gained after experiencing death.
• Shirou said Shiki could not live an ordinary life and offered to sell her eyes to his employer for five hundred million dollars.
• That night, a corpse possessed by a spirit attacked Shiki, and she escaped by throwing herself and the corpse out of a hospital window.
• Shiki tore off her bandages and declared that she wanted to live as the corpse approached her.
• Shirou arrived to monitor Shiki, explained that spirits had possessed the corpse to kill her, and projected a short blade for her to use.
• Shiki struck the corpse and stabbed the spirit hidden inside it, stopping the attack.

After Shirou brought Ryougi Shiki home, Asagami Fujino became convinced that Shiki was a dangerous killer and a threat to Shirou. As summer vacation approached, Fujino investigated a series of brutal murders from two years earlier and vowed to prove Shiki was responsible.

• Shirou introduced Ryougi Shiki to Asagami Fujino, and Shiki openly said she hated Fujino.
• Fujino and Shiki each sensed something sinister in the other, while Fujino resolved to protect Shirou from Shiki.
• At the end of Golden Week, Shirou left Shiki and Fujino in Touko Aozaki's care and returned to Fuyuki.
• Fujino told Shirou that Shiki had been going out late at night, but Shirou dismissed her concern.
• Fujino linked Shiki's hospitalization after a car accident to a six-victim murder series from two years earlier and vowed to prove Shiki was guilty.

Shirou and Fujino investigated the deaths of eight schoolgirls and the ghostly figure above Wutiao Building, where Shirou sensed a force that could lure him away. After bringing Fujino home, he fell asleep, and she secretly returned to the building alone.

• Shiki told Shirou, Fujino, and Touko that she had seen eight figures flying above Wutiao Building before all eight suicides had occurred.
• Shirou and Touko explained that Shiki had seen the girls’ records from before their deaths, and Fujino decided to confront the living person behind the incidents.
• Fujino asked Shirou to call her by her first name, then happily took his hand.
• Shirou and Fujino went to Wutiao Building, where Shirou felt an urge to fly away with the ghostly girl, but he persuaded Fujino to leave and visit her apartment instead.
• Fujino woke at two in the morning, left Shirou asleep on her sofa, and returned alone to Wutiao Building.
• Fujino entered the building’s elevator and saw a girl in a nun-like uniform reflected in its mirrored walls.

Asagami Fujino confronted Kirijo Misaya on Wutiao Building’s rooftop and destroyed the ghostlike woman’s projected sky with her Mystic Eye. Shirou learned from Touko Aozaki that Kirijo was behind the jumping deaths, but his unexplained reference to seven victims left the count of eight ghosts unresolved.

• Asagami Fujino resisted Kirijo Misaya’s Suggestion Magic and initially failed to affect her with the Twisted Mage’s Eye.
• Fujino used self-suggestion to overcome Kirijo’s influence, then twisted the projected sky and swept Kirijo into its center until she vanished.
• Shirou reported the rooftop battle to Touko Aozaki, who identified Kirijo Misaya as a descendant of an ancient Miko lineage.
• Touko explained that Kirijo’s scenery was a projection and that Fujino had torn it apart with her Mystic Eye.
• Shirou asked Touko to handle the cleanup and investigate whether anyone else was behind Kirijo, then hung up when Touko questioned why he said seven girls had died instead of eight.

Shirou spent the day teaching Shiki and Fujino, then took them shopping and walked back through Kanbushi City with Fujino holding his hand. Fujino asked him not to let go as night fell.

• The ghosts above the Wutiao Building disappeared, and the high school girls’ suicides stopped drawing attention.
• Shirou taught Shiki and Fujino basic magical knowledge and watched Shiki assemble her sword during their lesson.
• Shirou persuaded Shiki to shop for summer clothes, and she bought several hitoe kimonos and a red leather jacket.
• On the walk back, Fujino asked Shirou to hold hands with their fingers interlocked.
• Shirou held Fujino’s hand, and she asked him not to let go.

Fujino gave her phone number to a group of thugs and arranged to meet them, believing they could lead her to Shiki and help her protect Shirou. When she learned the men had never been looking for Shiki, Fujino began questioning them in a trembling rage.

• Shiki noticed Shirou and Fujino holding hands, while Shirou silently gave up on rejecting Fujino’s affection.
• Shirou and Shiki confronted several men who had followed them and leered at Fujino, and Shiki quickly beat them down.
• Fujino gave the men her phone number and left Shirou and Shiki, intending to use the thugs to protect Shirou from Shiki.
• At one in the morning, Fujino met the five men in a secluded alley and asked what their relationship was with Shiki.
• The men said they had been hitting on Fujino rather than seeking Shiki, and Fujino demanded to know why they had lied.

Asagami Fujino accidentally killed five men who harassed her and asked Araya Souren to conceal the crime so Shirou would not learn about it. At the office, Shirou cared for a recovering Touko Aozaki, who flirted with him and asked him to leave Aoko and Arisu for her.

• Asagami Fujino realized she had killed the five men who had approached her in the alley.
• Fearing Shirou would discover what she had done, Fujino accepted help from Araya Souren, who promised to conceal the crime.
• Shirou explained that Touko Aozaki had been bedridden with a severe cold while Fujino had been absent from the office.
• Touko teased Shirou about worrying over her and offered to take him as her partner if he left Aoko and Arisu.

Shirou and Shiki investigated Ogawa Apartment after Touko told them that a woman had died there despite calling for help, and the residents claimed they had heard nothing. On their way to the building, Shiki confronted Shirou about his feelings for Touko and asked what he was hiding about Fujino.

• Touko used her Mystic Eyes to tempt Shirou and control his right hand until Shiki walked in and helped free him.
• Touko told Shirou about a woman who died after crying for help at Ogawa Apartment, where the residents denied hearing her.
• Shirou agreed to investigate the apartment with Shiki, and they rode there on Touko's sidecar motorcycle.
• Shiki teased Shirou about his relationship with Touko, and Shirou admitted that he liked her.
• Shiki asked Shirou whether he knew what had happened to Fujino and accused him of hiding something from her and Touko.

Shirou and Shiki investigated Ogawa Apartment and discovered it was a Taiji-shaped supernatural experiment tied to Shiki. Shiki stayed behind to face Fujino, who emerged from hiding and unleashed her power after Shiki told her Shirou had abandoned her.

• Shirou explained to Shiki what he had learned about the men who approached them, and Shiki agreed to keep it from Touko.
• Shirou and Shiki entered Ogawa Apartment, where Shiki sensed a disturbing presence and they found no living residents.
• Shirou mapped the joined buildings and realized one half held dolls while the other held the long-dead, making the apartment an experiment created for Shiki.
• Shiki fought off the swift Corpse-people while Shirou examined a corpse, and Shirou concluded that the creatures and the apartment were connected to the Corpse-person that had attacked Shiki at the hospital.
• Shiki persuaded Shirou to leave and consult Touko, then met the hidden Fujino in the west building and claimed Shirou had abandoned her.
• Fujino rejected Shiki's taunts, screamed in anguish, and used her power to twist what she saw.

Cornelius Alba confronted Touko Aozaki at her workshop, and their encounter turned into a fight when he discovered she was ill. At Ogawa Apartment, Ryougi Shiki saw through Asagami Fujino’s power and countered her attacks, leaving Fujino despairing.

• Cornelius Alba visited Touko Aozaki and claimed the apartment Shirou and Shiki had investigated was his workshop.
• Touko, weakened by a severe cold, tried to send Alba away while hiding that she could not fight him effectively.
• Alba noticed Touko’s ibuprofen and showed killing intent, so Touko attacked him with rune Magecraft, but he extinguished her flames and prepared to retaliate.
• Ryougi Shiki evaded Asagami Fujino’s destructive attacks as Fujino accused her of lying about Shirou abandoning her.
• Fujino twisted Shiki’s neck and leg with her Mage Eye, but Shiki cut away the distortion and explained that she had learned to see Fujino’s gaze as a red-and-green spiral.
• Fujino fell into despair and repeatedly projected her gaze, but Shiki deflected every attack.

Shiki confronted Fujino with the killings she had committed and raised her sword to kill her. Meanwhile, Shirou rescued Touko from Arba’s flames, leaving Arba ignored as Shirou scolded Touko for smoking while sick.

• Shiki knocked Fujino down and told her that Shirou wanted her dealt with because she had killed five people.
• Shiki challenged Fujino’s hope that Shirou would forgive her, then swung her sword at Fujino’s neck as memories flashed through Fujino’s mind.
• Arba defeated the sick Touko Aozaki with familiars and raged at her for belittling his achievements.
• Arba covered Touko in blue flames, but Shirou rushed in, carried her out unharmed, and ignored Arba.
• Touko nestled against Shirou and flirted with him, while Shirou scolded her for smoking while sick.

Shirou returned to Touko’s workshop and effortlessly destroyed Alba Cornelius’s monsters, revealing that he had defeated Touko’s familiar years earlier. After Shirou cut off Alba’s hand to stop his attack, Alba surrendered, leaving the remaining matters to Touko.

• Shirou carried Touko to safety while she taunted Alba and claimed Shirou was her familiar.
• Alba ordered his monsters to attack Shirou, who annihilated them with a storm of projected swords.
• Touko revealed that Shirou had defeated her Golden Beast, Rugo Beowulf, eight years earlier.
• Alba chanted a powerful spell, but Shirou stopped it by appearing before him and cutting off the hand holding his staff.
• Alba abandoned his resistance, and Shirou left the troublesome matters to Touko.

Shirou and Touko defeated Cornelius Alba, and Touko killed him after he called her by her hated title. Afterward, Touko explained that Araya Souren had created Ogawa Apartment and began recounting his history and goal of reaching the Vortex of the Root.

• Arba accused Shirou of interfering with his revenge and mocked Touko for failing to earn the title of Blue.
• Touko confronted Arba, revealed that her workshop had trapped him in a distorted sense of time, and explained that she had spent an hour preparing while he was delayed.
• Shirou warned Arba that Touko had a death-triggered trap capable of destroying the building, but Touko said she would avoid using it to keep the Association from noticing her.
• Touko killed Arba with Runes after he called her the Crimson of Pain, then collapsed from pushing herself too hard.
• Touko told Shirou she had inferred their true enemy's identity and objective, then identified Araya Souren as the likely creator of Ogawa Apartment.
• Touko explained that Araya had been a Tendai monk who became a mage after losing faith in his ability to save humanity, and that he pursued the Vortex of the Root to understand humanity or end its suffering.

Shirou learned that Araya Souren was likely hiding within Ogawa Apartment and targeting Ryougi Shiki, so Touko sent him there using her flying spell. Touko also confronted Shirou about concealing Asagami Fujino’s recent violence, as a flashback showed Fujino torturing men who knew Shiki.

• Touko explained that Araya Souren could see human origins and had pursued the Root, leading Shirou to suspect that Araya was hiding in Ogawa Apartment itself.
• Shirou persuaded the sick Touko to send him to the apartment with her Touko's Travel spell, and she kissed him before activating it.
• Touko warned Shirou that Shiki might already have encountered Araya and blamed him for withholding information about Fujino.
• Touko revealed that she knew Fujino had twisted the limbs of five young men, and a flashback showed Fujino tormenting them for lying about knowing Shiki.

Fujino remembered Shirou’s warning and awakened her Clairvoyance during a fight with Shiki, injuring them both to win. As the two injured girls left the hall, Araya Souren confronted them, and Shiki recognized him from two years earlier.

• Fujino recalled that she had kept her promise to Shirou and had not killed the five men Araya Souren had arranged to attack her and Shiki.
• Shiki threatened Fujino with a blade, and Fujino awakened her Clairvoyance and twisted her own shoulder and Shiki’s ankle to defeat her.
• Fujino and Shiki helped each other leave the hall despite their injuries, but Araya Souren blocked their way.
• Shiki sensed the danger and recognized Araya Souren, who confirmed they had met two years earlier.

Shirou confronted Araya Souren at Ogawa Apartment and learned that he planned to take Ryougi Shiki’s body to reach the Root. Shirou healed Shiki and Fujino, then left, trusting them to defeat Araya; Araya trapped Shiki in his barrier and advanced on her.

• Shirou entered Ogawa Apartment despite Araya Souren’s spatial barrier and questioned him about his plan to reach the Root.
• Araya revealed that he intended to take Ryougi Shiki’s body, and Shirou refused to help him.
• Shirou told Araya that someone else would defeat him, then healed Shiki and Asagami Fujino before leaving the lobby.
• Fujino distorted the floor above Araya, burying him under rubble while Shirou departed.
• Araya reappeared elsewhere in the lobby and used the Triple Six Paths Barrier to immobilize Shiki as she charged at him.

Shirou and Ryougi Shiki defeated Araya Souren, who explained that he sought true wisdom within himself before turning to ash. Afterward, a third personality within Shiki introduced herself to Shirou and revealed that her connection to the Root kept her constantly aware of everything.

• Araya Souren thwarted Asagami Fujino’s attacks with his barrier and overpowered Ryougi Shiki.
• Asagami Fujino stabbed Araya Souren with Shiki’s sword, injuring him and disrupting his triple barrier before he knocked Fujino unconscious.
• Ryougi Shiki broke free, overcame Araya Souren’s barrier, and defeated him with the broken blade.
• Shirou questioned the dying Araya Souren, who said he sought true wisdom within his own heart, then collected the Sarira as Araya turned to ash.
• A newly alert personality in Ryougi Shiki’s body greeted Shirou and explained that she was the self born within Garan no Dou, connected to the Root and unable to sleep.

After the battle, Shirou said goodbye to Ryougi Shiki, who granted his wish to see her again someday before leaving. He carried the injured Fujino to Touko's office, where she thanked him and resolved to become someone worthy of him.

• Shirou left the Ogawa Apartment with the unconscious Fujino while Ryougi Shiki explained that Shiki would not remember their meeting.
• Ryougi Shiki asked Shirou what he wished for, and he asked to see her again someday.
• Ryougi Shiki kissed Shirou on the forehead and promised him an answer to his wish.
• Fujino woke as Shirou carried her toward the office and learned that Shiki had returned to her apartment.
• Fujino thanked Shirou for believing in her and promised to work toward becoming a girl worthy of him.

After recovering from a severe cold, Shirou realized Touko Aozaki had taken advantage of his helplessness and that they had become lovers. He stayed at the office to resume work on the Ogawa Apartment case while Touko continued teasing him.

• Fujino cried against Shirou's shoulder as she struggled with heartbreak.
• Touko told Shirou he had a serious fever and cared for him while he was bedridden.
• After Shirou recovered, he discovered Touko had bound him with runes and the two had slept together.
• Shirou dressed and began sorting through work related to Ogawa Apartment and Araya Souren's remaining pawns.
• Touko told Shirou a client had arrived and asked him to help her get dressed.

Shirou recovered and joined Shiki and Fujino at the Fireworks Festival, where Shiki secured his promise to make her a sword. The story then shifted to Shirou’s weekends at the Kuonji Mansion, where Aoko, Touko, and Arisu competed for his affection as the chapter began recounting how their arrangement started.

• Shirou hurriedly helped Touko get dressed before Fujino and Shiki entered, and Shiki recognized that Touko had taken more than ordinary care of him.
• Shirou promised to make Shiki a sword in exchange for her silence, while Fujino grew jealous of their private conversation.
• Shirou, Shiki, and Fujino attended the Fireworks Festival, watched the fireworks, and Shiki took Shirou’s hand as Fujino asked to hold it too.
• At the Kuonji Mansion, Shirou spent time with Aoko, Touko, and Arisu, who competed over his attention in the living room.
• The narration traced the situation back to Touko’s second Misaki Town invasion operation, when she showed Shirou and Arisu a videotape.

Shirou tried to stop the Aozaki sisters from fighting, then rushed home after Taiga Fujimura reported that Irisviel had collapsed. His healing magecraft could not stop Irisviel’s worsening condition, and she told him her life had reached its end.

• Shirou paused Arisu’s invitation to break up Aoko and Touko’s fight in the living room.
• The next morning, Shirou prepared breakfast and cared for Arisu, Aoko, and Touko before Taiga called to say Irisviel had collapsed.
• Shirou hurried to Amamiya Residence and found Irisviel in pain despite Ritseliete and Sella’s efforts to treat her.
• Shirou used healing magecraft on Irisviel, but her breathing soon grew ragged again.
• Suspecting the Einzbern family, Shirou prepared to confront them, but Irisviel stopped him and said her condition had nothing to do with them.
• Irisviel told Shirou that her life had reached its end.

Shirou learned that Irisviel’s body was reaching the end of its designed lifespan and vowed to save her. Makiri explained that only the Third Magic could alter her soul, leaving Shirou to consider how he could reach that solution.

• Irisviel told Shirou that her lifespan had reached its limit, but Shirou refused to accept her death and promised to find a way to keep her alive.
• Irisviel recalled their years together, thanked Shirou for giving her a happy life, and asked him to smile and say goodbye.
• Shirou decided to seek help and awakened Makiri, who explained why Artificial Lifeforms had short lifespans and why Irisviel’s soul was the source of her decline.
• Makiri said that only the Third Magic could change an Artificial Lifeform’s lifespan by altering her soul, and Shirou admitted he could not go so far to save someone unrelated to him.

Shirou asked Lady Avalon how to extend Irisviel’s short lifespan, and she prophesied that Irisviel could live as long as a human if she became pregnant and gave birth. After briefly worrying that a biological child might replace him in Irisviel’s affections, Shirou accepted the plan and decided to discuss it with her.

• Shirou asked Lady Avalon to help save Irisviel, and she said she could guide him but could not extend Irisviel’s life herself.
• Lady Avalon explained that Irisviel could overcome her homunculus lifespan by becoming pregnant and giving birth, and revealed that Einzbern had originally planned for Irisviel to marry an outside mage and have a child.
• Shirou rejected Makiri’s proposal to freeze Irisviel, rebuild the Greater Grail, and sacrifice an innocent person as a Lesser Holy Grail.
• Lady Avalon teased Shirou that he feared a biological child would make Irisviel neglect him, and Shirou admitted he had felt discouraged for a moment.
• Shirou decided that Irisviel having a child would also give him a younger sibling, and he resolved to discuss the plan with her the next day.