Chapter Summaries

After recovering from the encounter with the perverted killer, Li Guoqiang joined the Miscellaneous Affairs Department as a sergeant. His new colleagues were still searching for signs of a supernatural threat at the apartment building where the killer had died, and they planned to introduce Li Guoqiang to their work by taking him to investigate cases.

• Li Guoqiang insisted that his testimony about the corpse sitting up was true, and the deputy commissioner assigned him to the Miscellaneous Affairs Department and promoted him to sergeant.
• After resting and reassuring his girlfriend, Li Guoqiang reported to the department’s warehouse-like office the next day.
• Li Jie, Chan Ka Kui, and Huang Yaozu revealed that the department had been working overtime to search for clues about the special apartment building and the killer’s possible transformation into an evil spirit.
• Leon had suggested that the murdered girl might have possessed the killer and avenged herself, but the department had found no leads and had avoided asking Xu Yue for help.
• Huang Yaozu decided to follow procedure and have the department take Li Guoqiang to handle ordinary cases and see an Earthbound Spirit.

Li Guoqiang learned that the Miscellaneous Affairs Department handled supernatural cases and that its First Commandment was to deny the existence of ghosts. After returning to the swimming pool at night, he found a security captain calmly trying to coax the ghost girl who had drowned there.

• Li Jie explained to Li Guoqiang that the department followed its First Commandment and relied on off-the-books personnel and experts to handle ghosts.
• Li Guoqiang returned to the swimming pool after it had been sealed off and entered through a broken seal.
• Li Guoqiang heard a strange voice near the water-changing station, drew his gun, and shouted for everyone not to move.
• Li Guoqiang startled Captain Lu, who was lying face-down, and provoked the ghost girl into charging at him.
• Captain Lu called out to Li Guoqiang to stop, and the ghost girl hesitated when she realized he was a police officer.

Li Guoqiang learned that the serial killer he had shot might have returned as an evil spirit, while Huang Yaozu investigated a suspicious death and prepared the Miscellaneous Affairs Department for a desperate fight. The chapter ended with Li Guoqiang revealing a string of numbers branded on his arm and Huang Yaozu seeking Xu Yue’s help.

• Captain Lu warned Li Guoqiang that the missing serial killer he had killed might become a possessing evil spirit, and Li Guoqiang hurried home to check on his girlfriend.
• Li Guoqiang settled into his new job, where he met Master Leon and saw marked Earthbound Spirits interacting with security guards.
• Huang Yaozu identified sixteen-year-old Lin Zhaoyu’s apparent hanging as a suicide and used his authority to make the Serious Crimes Unit cooperate.
• Huang Yaozu summoned the team after Li Guoqiang returned with numbers branded on his arm and said the nurse who had put on his cast had disappeared.
• Huang Yaozu decided to ask Xu Yue for help and planned to send He Jinyin to assist.

Li Guoqiang and the Miscellaneous Affairs Department tracked a powerful malevolent spirit through its possessed victims and called on Xu Yue for help. After the trail led to May’s school, Xu Yue transported the team there instantly to confront the threat.

• Li Guoqiang worried that the spirit had grown too powerful, while Chan Ka Kui said the department had called in outside help, likely He Jinyin.
• Xu Yue arrived with He Jinyin and a maid, and Huang Yaozu welcomed him as a trusted ally who had previously given Li Guoqiang a safety talisman.
• The Miscellaneous Affairs Department traced the spirit’s movements through possessed victims and identified a teacher at May’s school as its latest target.
• Li Guoqiang rushed the team toward the school after learning that May was pregnant and might be in danger.
• Xu Yue studied a map, then made the traffic-bound business van and its occupants vanish from the street and reappear at their destination.

Xu Yue sealed the school and hunted the vicious ghost that had possessed a student. He purified it with his Baptismal Chant and restored the gravely injured student, while the search for other dangers on campus remained underway.

• Xu Yue used a crystal of magical power to seal the school and ordered Rizelette, He Jinyin, and the detectives to search for the ghost.
• Li Guoqiang rushed toward his girlfriend's office building but entered a classroom after hearing a scream.
• The possessed female student trapped Li Guoqiang and other students in an illusion, taunting him while hiding behind him.
• Xu Yue tore through the ghostly domain, found the vicious ghost, and began his Baptismal Chant.
• Xu Yue purified the vicious ghost with Holy Light, and the injured female student recovered and woke up.

Xu Yue ended the school’s ghost incident and offered the Miscellaneous Affairs Department new ways to handle evil spirits. He left them with a blessing after revealing plans to make ghost-hunting more effective and profitable.

• Xu Yue used an altered Baptismal Chant to destroy the ghost, shocking Li Guoqiang and the revived girl.
• After the Miscellaneous Affairs Department contained the incident, Xu Yue took its members to the God of Cookery Group and explained the danger vicious ghosts posed to ordinary people.
• Xu Yue gave Huang Yaozu Spirit-Piercing Ammunition designed to kill evil spirits.
• Xu Yue announced that he would publish a report on 173 uses for evil spirits, hoping to encourage more people in the magecraft world to deal with them.
• Xu Yue blessed the Miscellaneous Affairs Department members, easing their hidden injuries and ailments, then departed with Rizelette.

In 2002, Xu Yue returned to Fuyuki to strengthen the Greater Holy Grail and prepare for the Fifth Holy Grail War. He reached a tacit agreement with Gilgamesh not to interfere with each other, while Sakura began visiting Shirou Emiya to care for him and gather intelligence.

• Xu Yue arrived in Fuyuki and planned to expand the Greater Holy Grail using mana crystals he had accumulated.
• Xu Yue bought a residence near the Emiya home and Gilgamesh came by for a meal.
• Xu Yue offered to cooperate with Gilgamesh, but Gilgamesh declined while agreeing not to oppose his plans.
• Shirou Emiya injured his arm because of Xia Ji's Eight Exercises and withdrew from the archery club.
• Old Man Matou sent Sakura to care for Shirou and gather information, while Shinji continued to berate and beat her, leaving her passive around Shirou.

Xu Yue failed to buy Ryudou Temple but hired Souichirou Kuzuki and acquired the surrounding land to access the Greater Holy Grail. After receiving Command Spells early, he prepared to summon a Heroic Spirit ahead of the Holy Grail War.

• Xu Yue tried to buy Ryudou Temple, but the head priest refused to sell the ancestral property.
• Xu Yue offered Souichirou Kuzuki a purpose and hired him after the head priest deferred to Souichirou's wishes.
• Xu Yue bought the land around Ryudou Temple and built a wooden courtyard with access to the Greater Holy Grail beneath the hill.
• Xu Yue received Command Spells while modifying the Greater Holy Grail and arranged the remaining Master slots, assigning one to Tang Niu.
• Xu Yue decided to begin summoning a Heroic Spirit early and returned to prepare.

Xu Yue summoned Medea in his mana crystal workshop and secured a wary agreement to cooperate in the Holy Grail War. Medea criticized his crystal production, but Xu Yue showed her the scale of modern industry before provoking her by teasing her about her pointed ears.

• Xu Yue summoned Medea at the Port City mana crystal extraction workshop and sensed that she carried an Upper Realm seed rather than a descending will.
• Medea distrusted Xu Yue because he was handsome and smelled promiscuous, but they agreed to cooperate while recognizing each other's leverage through Command Spells and her Noble Phantasm.
• Medea criticized the workshop's mana crystals and offered to extract higher-quality crystals at twice its output.
• Xu Yue told Medea that more than a thousand factories operated worldwide, surprising her with the scale of modern production.
• Xu Yue lifted Medea's hood, pinched her pointed ear, and teased her for acting like a little animal.

Xu Yue and Medea studied ways to improve the Greater Holy Grail system, then prepared to visit Ilya at Einzbern Castle as the Fifth Holy Grail War approached. Xu Yue also intended to gauge whether the Upper Realm’s influence could affect Heracles, whom Ilya had summoned early.

• Medea recognized Xu Yue’s exceptional magical talent and agreed to assist him, though he told her not to do so with all her strength.
• Xu Yue took Medea around Fuyuki, where they discussed improving the Greater Holy Grail ritual.
• Xu Yue and Medea studied The Evil of This World and concluded it could nourish the ritual and help expand its passage using humanity’s malice.
• Ilya of the Einzbern Family had already summoned Berserker Class Heracles, whom Xu Yue regarded as a benchmark for the war’s strongest Heroic Spirits.
• Xu Yue asked Medea to accompany him to visit Ilya, explaining that he knew her parents and had business and friendships with her family.
• Xu Yue planned to bring Rizelette to Einzbern Castle Outside the Upper City because she and Ilya had been close.

Xu Yue checked on Ilya and Heracles, then helped arrange several Servants and allies ahead of the Holy Grail War. With the war eight days away and nearly all the participants summoned, he removed the glasses he had worn to conceal his identity.

• Xu Yue visited Ilya at Einzbern Castle, confirmed Heracles was suppressed by the world's rules, and declined her offer to form an alliance.
• Xu Yue left Rizelette with Ilya and concluded that Heracles was bound enough to make his plans easier.
• Tang Niu summoned Cu Chulainn as Lancer, but stopped responding after going to make Mapo Tofu for a fan.
• Xu Yue arranged for Tang Niu to help Mage Killer Priest and had Medea summon Sasaki Kojirou at Ryudou Temple, giving Old Man Matou a chance to hide.
• Xu Yue looked toward Fuyuki, noted that almost everyone but Shirou Emiya had been summoned, and removed his glasses.

Xu Yue bought Ryudou Temple’s mountain gate and assigned Sasaki Kojirou to protect a mana crystal refining workshop. He then visited Hogunohara Academy with Medea and Souichirou Kuzuki, where they discovered a crude mana-draining barrier and spotted Shinji.

• Xu Yue persuaded the abbot of Ryudou Temple to sell the mountain gate, then had it excavated and transported away.
• Xu Yue gave Sasaki Kojirou a truck, mana crystals, and identification, and tasked him with guarding a mana crystal refining workshop in Fuyuki.
• Xu Yue arrived at Hogunohara Academy with Medea, disguised as his secretary, and Souichirou Kuzuki guiding them.
• Medea sensed a crude barrier around the school that would drain the bodily mana of everyone inside once activated.
• Xu Yue recognized Shinji among the students and concluded that Shinji was using Sakura’s crest to pose as a Magus and serve as Rider’s temporary Master.
• Students noticed Xu Yue and Medea and whispered about their striking appearances.

Tohsaka Rin learned that Xu Yue might be in Fuyuki and discovered that his secretary was likely a Caster-class Heroic Spirit. She planned to use Archer’s class advantage to deter them and propose an alliance, leaving Archer to carry out her warning.

• Tohsaka Rin connected her classmates’ descriptions of the visitors to Xu Yue and considered whether he had joined the Holy Grail War as a Master.
• Archer reported that Xu Yue’s secretary was a Heroic Spirit who was probably Caster class.
• Tohsaka Rin decided that Archer should establish deterrence before she sought an alliance with Xu Yue and his Servant to eliminate the other families.
• Tohsaka Rin explained that the Tohsaka Family owned a share in Xu Yue’s Fuyuki refining workshop and that Xu Yue had treated her mother.
• Archer agreed to warn Xu Yue and his Caster, despite doubting that they would cooperate.

Shirou Emiya learned that the wealthy owner of the God of Cookery Group was Xu Yue, an old acquaintance of Kiritsugu’s, while Tohsaka Rin and Archer prepared to confront the Caster-class pair. Archer warned that his mana supply and weapon projections made his long-range attacks dangerously powerful, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Shirou Emiya recognized Xu Yue as the man Issei Ryudou described as the God of Cookery Group’s owner, and he recalled meeting him at Kiritsugu’s funeral.
• Issei Ryudou wondered why Xu Yue had not visited Shirou, but Shirou accepted that they had their own lives and did not dwell on it.
• Shirou spotted Tohsaka Rin on a rooftop, but she disappeared before he could tell whether he had really seen her.
• Tohsaka Rin told Archer that the Caster-class pair lived near Ryudou Temple and that she wanted him to show his strength.
• Archer explained that mana crystals let him project weapons and use Broken Phantasms as routine attacks, warning that his assault might kill the pair if they were weaker than expected.

Cu Chulainn scouted Medea’s territory, but Archer’s enormous warning shot triggered an explosion that devastated the surrounding woods. Xu Yue and Medea confronted Tohsaka Rin and Archer, who surrendered, while Cu Chulainn survived the blast and vowed revenge.

• Cu Chulainn watched Medea’s courtyard and planned to test its defenses when Archer fired a supersonic missile from the city.
• The missile struck the courtyard’s barrier and erupted into a huge explosion, sending Cu Chulainn racing from the shockwave.
• Rin protested that Archer’s warning shot had nearly killed their targets, and Archer insisted the territory should have protected them.
• Xu Yue and Medea appeared on the rooftop, recognized Archer, and prompted Rin and Archer to surrender.
• Xu Yue accepted Rin’s temporary agreement to help him claim the Holy Grail as Medea held a destructive spell ready.
• Cu Chulainn emerged from the river beneath Kua River Bridge, battered but alive, and swore to make Archer pay.

After Rin surrendered, Xu Yue hosted her and Archer, identified Archer as the world’s protagonist, and drew concern from Mage Killer and Gilgamesh over his power. The city covered up the explosion as a meteorite strike, while Rin returned to school to search for barrier nodes and warn Shirou and Issei about the danger.

• Rin brought Archer to Xu Yue’s heavily reinforced home, where Xu Yue hinted that Archer’s identity was for Rin to discover herself.
• Mage Killer told Cu Chulainn to test Archer’s identity at the school and avoid Xu Yue’s territory until its Master left.
• Gilgamesh revealed that he had known Xu Yue since his arrival and had agreed not to interfere with him, worrying Mage Killer.
• Ilya and Rizelette sensed the explosion and prepared to return, while Fuyuki authorities passed it off as a meteorite incident with no casualties.
• At school, Shirou dispersed students questioning Issei, and Rin returned to locate the remaining barrier nodes and warned them to go home early.

Shirou Emiya stumbled upon Cu Chulainn fighting Archer after staying late at school, and Cu Chulainn killed him to keep the battle secret. Tohsaka Rin used a precious ruby to try to save Shirou, while Archer gave up his chance to change his own fate for now.

• Shinji asked Shirou Emiya to clean the Archery Club, and Shirou stayed late to do it.
• On his way home, Shirou heard fighting and saw Cu Chulainn and Archer battling on the school field.
• Cu Chulainn noticed Shirou, chased him, and stabbed him before Archer could intervene.
• Tohsaka Rin recognized the wounded student as Shirou and decided to use her treasured ruby to try to save him.
• Archer watched Rin cast her magic and set aside his plan to let Shirou die, deciding to deal with him another time.

After Cu Chulainn killed Shirou Emiya, a ruby pendant and a Holy Relic restored him, and Xu Yue sent him home with cryptic hints about Kiritsugu’s legacy. Cu Chulainn then attacked Xu Yue, but his own ribs pierced his body, leaving him barely alive.

• Shirou Emiya woke without a chest wound and found a ruby pendant beside him.
• Xu Yue told Shirou Emiya that the pendant’s owner and a Holy Relic inside him had saved him, and hinted at Kiritsugu’s legacy and a future donor of an arm.
• Xu Yue warned Shirou Emiya about a life-saving item in the storage room, then sent him home to consider what had happened.
• Cu Chulainn revealed himself to Xu Yue and threatened to kill him unless he summoned a Servant.
• Cu Chulainn lunged at Xu Yue, but his ribs burst through his body, and he collapsed with only a little life left.

Xu Yue defeated Cu Chulainn, healed him, and forced him into a painful lesson before sending him to continue his mission. Cu Chulainn attacked Shirou Emiya, but Saber drove him back, and Cu Chulainn realized Shirou was the final participant in the Holy Grail War.

• Cu Chulainn used his Noble Phantasm against Xu Yue, but Xu Yue’s reversed First Strike from Behind struck first and sent him flying.
• Xu Yue healed Cu Chulainn with mana crystals, restrained him, and began twisting his fingers to correct his behavior.
• Shirou Emiya reflected on his strange body and recent injuries when Cu Chulainn crashed through the ceiling and attacked him.
• Shirou fled to the storage room, where Saber’s first strike sent Cu Chulainn flying and restored his senses.
• Cu Chulainn recognized Shirou as the final person Xu Yue had intended to bring into the Holy Grail War.

Shirou Emiya accidentally summoned Saber, who saved him from Cu Chulainn as the Holy Grail War began in earnest. Saber was badly wounded by Cu Chulainn’s Noble Phantasm, and the battle continued after Red A and Tohsaka Rin arrived.

• Shirou Emiya entered the storage room and automatically summoned Saber, who drove Cu Chulainn away from him.
• Saber completed her contract with Shirou Emiya and fought Cu Chulainn, but his attacks put her at a disadvantage.
• Xu Yue suspected Cu Chulainn was being corrupted, while Medea reported that she and Kojirou had driven intruders away from the Mana Crystal Workshop.
• Cu Chulainn pierced Saber’s chest with his Noble Phantasm, leaving her severely injured despite her wound closing on the surface.
• Red A arrived and engaged Cu Chulainn, while Tohsaka Rin gave Shirou Emiya a mana crystal to replenish Saber’s mana.