Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue formed an alliance with Kaineth and Waver’s group while the rival factions maneuvered to recruit or eliminate the remaining Servants. The chapter left both sides focused on Caster, whose discovery could trigger a conflict.

• Lu Bu dragged Prince Qing away before he could charge into the enemy’s Magic Workshop, and Kaineth accepted Xu Yue’s invitation after Xu Yue’s intervention saved him and Sola.
• Xu Yue left the damaged hotel, noticed an Assassin watching him, and later met Waver and the King of Conquerors, who agreed to ally with him.
• Li Jinglin’s group learned that the Beiyang faction had recruited Saber, Lancer, and Rider, while the Sino-Japanese Alliance planned to find Assassin and Caster and kill any who refused to join.
• The Sino-Japanese Alliance investigated the disappearances of children as a possible lead to Caster, and Xu Yue told Li Jinglin’s group that Caster could not be recruited and might provoke a clash.

Kaineth exposed Irisviel as a decoy while the Masters discussed Caster and the missing supervisor. At the riverside, the alliance attacked Bluebeard, only to be driven back by his enormous monster-like Noble Phantasm.

• Kaineth revealed that Irisviel was not Saber’s Master, and Irisviel admitted that Kiritsugu Emiya was the real Master.
• Xu Yue redirected the discussion toward the approaching alliance of Masters, and Kaineth speculated that the supervisor might have been killed.
• Bluebeard continued harvesting magical energy from children at the sewage outlet and realized that his lair had been discovered.
• Prince Qing’s group decided to attack Bluebeard, dismissing him as weak because his Master, Ryunosuke, was an ordinary person.
• The alliance charged the sewage outlet, but Bluebeard unleashed a huge slime-like monster that demolished the plant and forced them to flee.

Li Jinglin’s group watched the Sino-Japanese Alliance battle a regenerating sea monster while preparing to intervene. After the Alliance nearly destroyed it, an office worker fell from a bridge and was absorbed, restoring the monster to even greater strength.

• Xu Yue warned that the enemy Masters might abandon the fight if it became too troublesome, and Li Jinglin agreed they should wait for the Alliance’s next clash.
• Saber prepared to attack the monster despite Li Jinglin’s concern that doing so could draw them into a pincer attack.
• Prince Qing ordered the Alliance to unleash its strongest attacks, and Roman Brother’s Noble Phantasm tore apart nearly half the monster.
• Anderson threw explosives at the weakened monster while Aobai hurled a boulder into its sludge-like body.
• As the Alliance and Li Jinglin’s group prepared for their next moves, an office worker fell from a bridge, was caught by a tentacle, and melted into magical energy that restored the monster beyond its previous peak.

The Sino-Japanese Alliance tried to finish off the river monster, but its transformation let it withstand three Command Spell-enhanced Noble Phantasms without harm. As the monster threatened the city, Li Jinglin’s group considered joining the battle, and the two factions began to unite against it.

• The monster expanded across the river, forcing the Reincarnators and Heroic Spirits back as Prince Qing ordered another coordinated attack.
• Prince Qing paid Lu Bu an A-rank fee, and the Sino-Japanese Alliance used Command Spells to strengthen three Noble Phantasms.
• The monster’s golden-red force field neutralized all three attacks, while its tentacles inflicted disturbing whispers and sanity loss.
• Lu Bu withdrew into spirit form as Li Jinglin, Artoria, and Xu Yue recognized the monster could threaten the entire city.
• Li Jinglin’s group decided to try joining the fight, and the two factions began moving toward a shared goal.

A mutated tentacled monster threatened Fuyuki, prompting Gilgamesh and both Reincarnator factions to join forces against it. When Gilgamesh unleashed Enuma Elish, Xu Yue appeared and stopped the strike so he could study the sword.

• Gilgamesh descended to confront the tentacled monster as the Reincarnators received a triggered mission called Balance.
• Li Jinglin led the Enemy Legion to the river, and both factions prepared their strongest attacks against the monster.
• Saber charged her Noble Phantasm, Lancer prepared to strike, and the King of Conquerors readied Divine Chariot with Waver.
• Gilgamesh summoned Ea and unleashed Enuma Elish at the monster's mutated boundary.
• Xu Yue blocked Enuma Elish with a strange longsword and told Gilgamesh he wanted to study its structure.

Xu Yue directed the Reincarnators and Heroic Spirits in attacking the monster’s brain while Golden Flash continued his transaction above. As the exhausted fighters struggled to make progress, Jeanne arrived and restored their strength and sanity, giving them hope of winning.

• Xu Yue identified the monster’s brain as its weakness and explained that the fighters had to enter its dream realm while managing their declining sanity.
• The Reincarnators and Heroic Spirits rotated between attacking the brain and restraining the monster’s tentacles, but their progress remained slow and their supplies dwindled.
• Jeanne descended with a sacred banner and used her Command Spells to restore the exhausted Heroic Spirits.
• Jeanne guarded the banner and chanted a hymn that rapidly restored the fighters’ sanity, stamina, injuries, and mana.

Xu Yue crushed the weakened monster and left its corpse for the Reincarnators, while the groups plotted over who would claim the final blow. King of Conquerors drew most fighters into his Reality Marble, but Nathan and Prince Qing escaped and prepared to face Li Jinglin and Xu Yue in the illusion.

• Xu Yue finished examining Ea, and Golden Flash took the weapon back as the Reincarnators competed for the monster’s final blow.
• Xu Yue crushed the monster with an invisible force and preserved its corpse as the Reincarnators’ spoils.
• Li Jinglin and Xu Yue planned to use King of Conquerors’ Reality Marble to trap their opponents and set up a final attack.
• Kaineth agreed to help restrain the Servants, while King of Conquerors warned that Nathan and Prince Qing could escape using traversal abilities.
• King of Conquerors activated his Reality Marble, but Nathan and Prince Qing escaped capture and agreed to fight Li Jinglin and Xu Yue.
• Both sides entered the illusion again as the planned confrontation began.

Xu Yue and Li Jinglin faced Nathan and Prince Qing in the illusion, where Prince Qing countered Li Jinglin’s sword formation and Nathan prepared a supposedly decisive attack against Xu Yue. Nathan unleashed seventh-tier magic, Extreme Holy Strike, leaving Xu Yue’s response unknown.

• Li Jinglin’s sword formation caught Prince Qing and Nathan, but Prince Qing used a rusty ancient sword to absorb its Sword Intent and break it.
• Prince Qing told Nathan to advance while he held Li Jinglin back, and Li Jinglin warned Xu Yue to escape if he had a scroll.
• Xu Yue chose to try fighting Nathan, while Li Jinglin switched to close combat to keep Prince Qing occupied.
• Nathan created mirror images, explained that he would wear Xu Yue down rather than underestimate his unknown trump card, and completed his preparations.
• Nathan cast the seventh-tier magic Extreme Holy Strike at Xu Yue.

Xu Yue survived Nathan’s Seventh-tier magic and killed him with Ryūjin Jakka, while Li Jinglin held Prince Qing back long enough for Xu Yue to strike the dying monster. The group returned to the World of the Living as the sea monster synchronized with reality under the Reality Stone’s control.

• Nathan engulfed Xu Yue in Seventh-tier magic, but Xu Yue emerged from the crater unharmed.
• Xu Yue reshaped the battlefield and killed Nathan with Ryūjin Jakka.
• Prince Qing realized Nathan had died and attacked Li Jinglin without holding back.
• Li Jinglin restrained Prince Qing and shouted for Xu Yue to finish the monster.
• Xu Yue drove his blade into the dying monster’s brain, and the group returned to the World of the Living as the sea monster synchronized with reality.

After the sea monster died, Xu Yue’s side avoided a renewed battle when Jeanne declared a temporary truce in the Holy Grail War. As both alliances withdrew, Xu Yue recovered a spiritual core from the monster’s corpse.

• The King of Conquerors ended his Reality Marble, and Prince Qing, Li Jinglin, and Xu Yue emerged; Nathan did not return, and Romulus accepted Anderson as his new Master.
• Prince Qing called for Xu Yue’s death, but Jeanne declared a temporary truce and asserted control over the war after the supervisor’s death.
• Prince Qing led the Sino-Japanese Alliance away after exchanging threats, while Li Jinglin’s alliance prepared to leave the battlefield.
• Xu Yue reminded Li Jinglin that the sea monster’s remains were spoils of war and retrieved a spiritual core from a sealed cavity in its corpse.

During the truce, Xu Yue examined his victory’s spoils and spent time with Artoria and Irisviel while recovering and planning his next steps. The Sino-Japanese Alliance assigned people to watch him around the clock, and one frustrated observer continued tracking him as he enjoyed his respite.

• Li Jinglin examined the monster’s core and found that it could absorb ambient energy and store negative energy, while Kaineth praised Xu Yue for killing a Master.
• Kaineth told everyone to rest separately until Ruler gave notice, and the King of Conquerors left with Waver.
• Li Jinglin warned Xu Yue that others might target him because of his command ability and Nathan’s death, then left to coordinate the group.
• Xu Yue offered to replenish Artoria and Irisviel’s mana, and Artoria welcomed him after he supplied food.
• Xu Yue planned to digest his gains and later ask Jeanne to announce the resumption of war, while the Sino-Japanese Alliance began rotating watchers to monitor him.
• An exhausted Alliance observer watched Xu Yue stroll with two beautiful women and complained about being assigned surveillance duty during the truce.

Xu Yue continued modifying Irisviel and the Lesser Holy Grail while the Sino-Japanese Alliance planned to target him during the ceasefire. Beiyang sent the Qian brothers to investigate after two Veteran Reincarnators went missing near the shopping street, where Xu Yue had often appeared.

• Xu Yue discussed Irisviel's new emotions and continued his work to connect her to the Root through the Lesser Holy Grail.
• Prince Qing gathered the Sino-Japanese Alliance and proposed abandoning other objectives to kill Xu Yue with an attack from beyond visual range.
• Anderson and the other Reincarnators worried about targeting Xu Yue while he stayed with Saber and her Master, but Prince Qing insisted they would wait for an opening.
• The five remaining Beiyang Elite Reincarnators exchanged information about two missing Veterans and suspected Xu Yue might be involved.
• Qian Zuo and Qian You disguised themselves as twin maid cosplayers and entered the shopping street to scout for Xu Yue.

Qian Zuo and Qian You discovered that the Sino-Japanese Alliance had gathered on the commercial street to target Xu Yue, but Mister Wang exposed their disguise before they could send him a warning. They escaped after blinding their pursuers, leaving Mister Wang furious and the street under lockdown.

• Qian Zuo and Qian You observed suspicious Sino-Japanese Alliance Reincarnators and concluded they were planning something against Xu Yue.
• Qian Zuo called Xu Yue to alert him, then tried to send a text explaining the danger.
• Mister Wang exposed the twins as Beiyang operatives and destroyed Qian Zuo's phone before the message could be sent.
• Mister Wang threatened to capture Qian Zuo and Qian You, who recognized him as a newly advanced Intruder of Wings of Freedom.
• Qian Zuo distracted the men by lifting his skirt while Qian You detonated a Weight Flashbang, allowing the twins to escape.
• Mister Wang ordered his men to pursue them and seal off the entire street.

Qian Zuo and Qian You were cornered by Mister Wang’s forces, but Xu Yue arrived and killed Mister Wang instantly. Xu Yue led the brothers toward an escape before reinforcements arrived.

• Mister Wang ordered his men to find Qian Zuo and Qian You and threatened them with a brutal fate.
• Qian Zuo and Qian You were discovered in an alley and killed a Veteran Reincarnator who attacked them.
• Mister Wang confronted the brothers, but Xu Yue appeared behind him after responding to their call for help.
• Mister Wang taunted Xu Yue for coming without Saber, then Xu Yue beheaded him before he could react.
• Xu Yue told Qian Zuo and Qian You to escape with him before reinforcements arrived, and they followed.

After Xu Yue killed Mister Wang with a single strike, his enemies assessed his strength and realized they had lost their chance to hunt him. Meanwhile, King of Conquerors told Waver he hoped to recruit Xu Yue, whose potential and personality he intended to learn more about.

• Xu Yue praised Qian You and Qian Zuo for helping him escape the encirclement, and they reflected on his rapid rise in strength.
• Anderson, Liu Wangyang, Prince Qing, and Eunuch Chen examined Mister Wang's corpse and concluded Xu Yue had killed him with one controlled strike.
• Prince Qing blamed Mister Wang for delaying the call for reinforcements, while the others warned that Xu Yue was now too strong and alert to hunt easily.
• Waver asked King of Conquerors why he was so interested in his teacher, and King of Conquerors said Xu Yue would make a fine subordinate.
• King of Conquerors planned to learn what Xu Yue valued and to guide him subtly despite the Space's restrictions.

Waver invited Xu Yue and Artoria to the King of Conquerors’ tea party, where the three kings discussed their ideals and the Holy Grail. The King of Conquerors tried to use the gathering to reveal the nature of their existence to Xu Yue, but Golden Flash realized that Xu Yue already knew.

• Waver told Xu Yue that the King of Conquerors had invited him, Artoria, and Golden Flash to drink together.
• Xu Yue and Artoria accepted the invitation and went to the garden where the King of Conquerors and Waver were waiting.
• The King of Conquerors welcomed Xu Yue and Artoria with wine and described the Holy Grail War as a contest to determine who was most worthy of the Grail.
• The King of Conquerors explained that each Heroic Spirit’s goals and duties were their answer to the contest, while watching for Xu Yue’s reaction.
• Golden Flash arrived, complained about the gathering, and realized the King of Conquerors had invited Xu Yue to hint at the nature of their existence.
• Golden Flash recognized that Xu Yue already knew about their existence and silently questioned why the King of Conquerors was trying to tell him.

Xu Yue joined the Three Kings' Banquet as the King of Conqueror and Golden Flash discovered he was a newly promoted regular. After the kings declared their ideals and Assassin appeared, the King of Conqueror challenged Artoria's belief that a king must be solitary by unveiling his Reality Marble.

• Golden Flash revealed that Xu Yue already knew of the Heroic Spirits, and the King of Conqueror offered to take him under his command before learning he was a newly promoted regular.
• The Three Kings stated their claims and wishes concerning the Holy Grail, but none convinced the others.
• Masked Assassins appeared, and Golden Flash said they had been persistently targeting him.
• The King of Conqueror asked whether a king must be solitary, and Artoria answered that a king had to be alone.
• The King of Conqueror opened his Reality Marble, transforming the surroundings into a desert and summoning his army, while Xu Yue's aura made Golden Flash realize he had underestimated him.

Iskandar unleashed Ionian Hetairoi to destroy Assassin, then rejected Artoria’s ideal of kingship and left with Waver. Xu Yue comforted Artoria, arranged for Tokiomi to reinforce the Holy Grail War ritual, and learned that Kariya Matou’s companions were searching for Tokiomi’s wife and daughters.

• Iskandar summoned Ionian Hetairoi and led his army in a charge that eliminated Assassin before the bounded field dissolved.
• Iskandar told Artoria that he no longer acknowledged her as a king, warned her that her dream was a curse, and departed with Waver in the Divine Chariot.
• Golden Flash praised Xu Yue and vanished, leaving Xu Yue to comfort the troubled Artoria and replenish her mana with food.
• Xu Yue visited Tohsaka Tokiomi and instructed him to help reinforce the Fuyuki Holy Grail War ritual so it could recharge in ten years.
• Tokiomi reported that strange people were searching the hotel, and Xu Yue identified them as Kariya Matou’s companions looking for Tohsaka Aoi and her daughters.

Tohsaka Tokiomi learned that Kariya Matou had become a Master and was searching for Aoi and her daughters with a group of Reincarnators. The Reincarnators found the women’s location and sent Kariya to investigate, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Xu Yue told Tohsaka Tokiomi that Kariya Matou had summoned Berserker and joined a group of companions searching for Aoi and her daughters.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi realized the group was connected to the Masters who had ambushed his home and took comfort in Xu Yue and Jeanne’s ability to protect his family.
• Zhang Qiang and the Reincarnators used local witnesses and other methods to narrow down where Aoi, Rin, and Sakura were staying.
• Prince Qing told Kariya Matou that the women had been located, and Kariya eagerly set off to search for them and promised to fight for the Reincarnators.

Kariya Matou found Aoi, Rin, and Sakura, but they rejected his claim that he needed to save them, and Rin blasted him away when he tried to act. As Kariya spiraled into madness, nearby Reincarnators decided to capture him and surrounded Aoi and her daughters.

• Kariya Matou found Aoi, Rin, and Sakura and insisted that he could save them as a Master in the Holy Grail War.
• Aoi told Kariya that they were living well and did not need his help, while Rin said they were happy with Tokiomi and their teacher.
• Kariya tried to grab Aoi again, but Rin headbutted him and then sent him flying with a burst of magical energy.
• Kariya blamed Tohsaka Tokiomi for his misery until Aoi told him she never would have married him, sending him further into madness.
• The Reincarnators decided to capture Kariya and sent several men to surround Aoi, Rin, and Sakura.