Chapter Summaries

Saigō returned to Camelot with Melusine and told Morgan about the threats he had faced in the Greek Lostbelt. Morgan revealed that the Paradise Fairy, Artoria Caster, had been found but escaped, and she left her fate dependent on whether she would abandon her mission.

• Saigō and Melusine arrived at Camelot, where Morgan questioned their delayed return before hearing Saigō describe Zeus, Chaos, and the Alien God.
• Morgan worried about the threats to Britain, and Saigō promised to stand by her and help resolve its troubles.
• Morgan told Saigō that the Paradise Fairy had been abused in a village near Salisbury and that the Black Knight had been found nearby.
• Morgan said Woodworth had been sent to kill the village fairies, but they killed one another before he could act, and the Paradise Fairy escaped into Wind Clan territory.
• Morgan decided she would let the Paradise Fairy live in Britain if she abandoned her mission, but would send her back to Paradise if she refused.
• Morgan revealed that the Paradise Fairy's name was Artoria Caster.

Saigō confronted Oberon in a Camelot restaurant and exposed the lies behind his claim to be the Fairy King. Oberon maintained that he was a Wind Clan fairy who ruled a forest in Wales, while Saigō continued questioning him.

• Saigō and Melusine found Oberon being mocked and pressed for money by fairies in a Camelot restaurant.
• Oberon offered to perform his play A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Saigō interrupted to point out that Oberon was its protagonist.
• The fairies turned on Oberon and fawned over Saigō when he and Melusine entered; Saigō sent everyone away except the restaurant's owner and Oberon.
• Saigō told Oberon that he was neither an ordinary fairy nor simply vain, and Oberon remained composed despite being exposed.
• Oberon claimed he belonged to the Wind Clan and ruled a forest in Wales inhabited by Insect fairies; Saigō said Oberon was not a fairy.

Saigō confronted Oberon and learned that he was Vortigern, the island’s self-destruction mechanism, while Oberon gave him false directions to Artoria. Saigō then chose to seek the Paradise Fairy and reunited with Bávan Shí after she slaughtered fairies outside the restaurant.

• Saigō exposed Oberon’s lies, and Oberon claimed Artoria was in a village southwest of Salisbury before escaping Camelot.
• Saigō told Melusine that Oberon Vortigern was the island’s self-destruction mechanism and explained Morgan’s struggle against him and the Curse of the Gods.
• Saigō rejected Melusine’s suggestion to kill Oberon and decided to find the Paradise Fairy with her.
• Bávan Shí killed fairies outside the restaurant, entered covered in blood, and joyfully embraced Saigō before greeting Melusine.

Saigō brought Bávan Shí and Melusine to Salisbury to find the Paradise Fairy, while Artoria Caster wandered the city alone, hungry and bitter after years of abuse by British fairies. The chapter ended as Bávan Shí confronted Artoria outside a tavern.

• Bávan Shí asked Saigō to take her to Salisbury, and he agreed.
• A restaurant owner overheard Saigō's conversation and planned to spread rumors about Morgan, but Saigō and Bávan Shí killed him with invisible threads.
• Artoria Caster explored Salisbury and worried about the blacksmith she had left behind.
• Artoria recalled how the Mirror Clan had cast her adrift and how villagers had abused her and stolen her treasures.
• Artoria escaped her village after the Fang Clan soldiers arrived and the villagers turned on one another.
• Bávan Shí called Artoria a country bumpkin, and Artoria snapped back at her.

Artoria met Bávan Shí, who teased her but fed her and invited her to Darlington. At the tavern, Artoria met Bávan Shí’s Father and a silver-haired fairy, accepted their offer of food, and quietly faced the possibility that her journey might end with her death and return to Avalon.

• Bávan Shí recognized Artoria as a fairy from Paradise and teased her about being hungry and homeless.
• Bávan Shí gave Artoria a fruit bun and invited her to Darlington if she could not survive on her own.
• Artoria learned that Bávan Shí was Fairy Knight Tristan and followed her into the tavern for a meal.
• Artoria met Saigō and a silver-haired fairy at the bar, and her Fairy Eyes could not discern whether the pair were good or evil.
• Saigō welcomed Artoria to his table, and Artoria accepted his kindness while considering that she might die and return to Avalon.

Chaldea arrived at the British Singularity and learned that curses spreading from its center would bring about Steel Earth within two months. As the crew prepared to confront the crisis and Saigō welcomed their arrival, Chaldea and The Hidden made plans for the expedition.

• Artoria set aside her worries about Avalon, sat beside Saigō, and ordered food and drink while Bávan Shí complained.
• Captain Nemo brought Chaldea’s airship to the Isle of Britain, where Shion and Holmes identified the central region as the source of planet-spreading curses and set stopping them as the mission’s goal.
• Holmes warned that Zarathustra might obstruct Chaldea and urged everyone to resist even if the god became their enemy.
• Saigō watched the coastline and declared that he would make the world’s final days a grand performance.
• After Chaldea landed, Shion warned Ritsuka Fujimaru’s team that they had two months to stop the curses and asked them to gather information about Steel Earth if they failed.
• Kadoc stayed behind while Peroroncino and Caenis chose to join Kirschtaria’s expedition, and Goldolf argued that Chaldea needed a Heroic Spirit to remain at headquarters.

Chaldea prepared to land in Britain and seek help from Pan-Human History Heroic Spirits, while Saigō brought Artoria Caster to Camelot to meet Morgan. Artoria admitted her doubts about Paradise’s mission, and Morgan reassured her that her confusion was natural.

• Da Vinci decided to accompany Ritsuka’s group to Britain, while Holmes stayed behind to analyze information and urged Ritsuka to seek Pan-Human History Heroic Spirits.
• Chaldea opened its hatch and sent Ritsuka and the others toward what its staff feared might be their final battle.
• Saigō brought Artoria Caster to Camelot, where Bávan Shí bickered with her and invited her to visit Darlington.
• Melusine told Saigō that she needed no friends because all her feelings were devoted to him.
• Morgan welcomed Artoria as family and called her a younger sister, frustrating Bávan Shí.
• Artoria confessed that she was lost between Paradise’s mission to save the fairies and her resistance to them, and Morgan forgave her candor and comforted her.

Morgan showed Artoria the origins of Britain’s Fairy Kingdom and her own memories, revealing how the fairies’ ancient sins led to the island’s suffering and how the prophecy had manipulated Artoria. Artoria accepted Morgan’s invitation to live as her younger sister and chose to defend the land beneath her feet.

• Morgan drew Artoria into a Water Mirror spell so she could experience the history and memories behind Morgan’s rule.
• Artoria witnessed how the Six Primordial A-Rays failed to forge the Star Holy Sword, how the fairies poisoned Cernunnos, and how their sins led to Britain’s cursed history.
• Artoria experienced Morgan’s childhood, her time as the savior Ash, and the betrayals that led her to end the Fairy Calendar and rule Britain by force.
• Morgan explained that the Child of Prophecy story had been altered to manipulate Artoria and urged her to abandon a mission that would sacrifice her life for the fairies’ sins.
• Artoria asked whether defending the British Singularity opposed Pan-Human History, and Morgan told her that her homeland was the land beneath her feet.

Morgan explained her conflict with Chaldea to Artoria and allowed her to live as she wished, while Saigō learned that Artoria Pendragon and Mordred had appeared in Britain as Heroic Spirits. Artoria then changed into clothes Morgan had worn during the Fairy Calendar, given to her by Bávan Shí.

• Morgan told Artoria that Chaldea would fight to save its own world and warned that Britain’s clan chiefs might obstruct her journey to ring the Bone Bells.
• Morgan promised to punish the evil fairies and build a new nation for the kind fairies, then permitted Artoria to choose how she would live.
• Saigō praised Morgan’s growth, and Morgan discussed her past relationship with Artoria Pendragon and her hatred of Merlin.
• Saigō told Morgan that Artoria Pendragon and Mordred had appeared in Britain as Heroic Spirits, and Morgan recognized them as her sister and the daughter she had created.
• Bávan Shí brought Artoria to a room of clothes and gave her an outfit Morgan had worn during the Fairy Calendar.

Artoria and Bávan Shí left after teasing each other, while Chaldea encountered King Arthur and a group of Knights of the Round Table summoned to aid them in Britain. After exchanging information about the Lostbelt and its threats, the knights learned that some of their members might already be in Britain, possibly among the enemy.

• Artoria changed into an outfit resembling Morgan's, and Bávan Shí begrudgingly praised her before Artoria teased her about calling her auntie.
• Caenis and the Chaldea group escaped a dangerous, memory-erasing mist with Tristan, then discovered Mash was missing.
• A summoning circle appeared, bringing King Arthur and numerous Knights of the Round Table to Chaldea.
• King Arthur recognized the summoned knights, and Holmes suggested that Mash might represent Galahad while Percival and Gareth could be elsewhere in Britain, possibly on the enemy's side.
• Chaldea briefed King Arthur and the knights on the Lostbelt, the Dragon of Albion, and the Zoroastrian evil god; King Arthur said she knew little about either threat.

Chaldea learned about Morgan’s rule over Britain from Oberon, who also revealed that Mash had been sent away by Morgan’s Water Mirror magecraft. In Camelot, Saigō asked Artoria Caster whether she had resolved to forge the Holy Sword, and she admitted she was not sure she had the will to do so.

• Holmes explained that Mithraism had nearly vanished by King Arthur’s era, while Kay questioned Chaldea’s account of the evil god and Caenis angrily challenged him.
• Mordred pointed out that Morgan’s Queen Mother mattered more immediately, and Tristan told the group that fairies were Britain’s main inhabitants.
• Artoria Pendragon remembered Merlin and raised the need to find the missing Mash.
• Oberon introduced himself to Chaldea, explained that Morgan’s Water Mirror had transported Mash, and described Britain’s fairy clans and Morgan’s harsh rule.
• Saigō asked Artoria Caster whether she had decided to complete her pilgrimage and forge the Star Holy Sword, and she admitted she lacked unwavering resolve.

Saigō encouraged Artoria Caster to find her own purpose, then ordered Barghest to protect her during her pilgrimage to ring the Bone Bells. After they departed, Saigō planned to add Cernunnos to the Halloween Queen’s Celtic Pantheon, while Oberon returned to Chaldea’s camp outside Salisbury.

• Saigō told Artoria that she could reject the mission imposed on her and urged her to discover her own reason for acting.
• Artoria chose to go on the pilgrimage because she wanted to help Morgan and gain strength, and Saigō approved her decision.
• Saigō explained the dangers posed by Britain’s clans and ordered Barghest to accompany Artoria, granting her authority to mobilize the army and kill traitors.
• Saigō reminded Artoria to remain herself if the pilgrimage brought memories of her Pan-Human History counterpart or Avalon’s supposed destiny.
• After Artoria and Barghest left, Saigō looked at Cernunnos’s corpse and declared that the god would join the Halloween Queen’s Celtic Pantheon.
• Oberon returned to Chaldea’s camp outside Salisbury and transformed from a white moth into a young man as Ritsuka Fujimaru greeted him.

Chaldea planned to meet Aurora in Salisbury and gathered a delegation, while Mordred asked to join them despite the Round Table’s distrust. Before they departed, Oberon revealed that Morgan’s younger sister was on a pilgrimage, prompting the knights to suspect the sister was Artoria.

• Oberon explained that Chaldea’s large group could not enter Salisbury unnoticed, and Ritsuka and Artoria reassured him that he had done enough.
• Oberon said Aurora, the Wind Clan’s chieftain, was willing to meet Chaldea, so Ritsuka, Oberon, Kirschtaria, Caenis, Da Vinci, and Artoria agreed to go to Salisbury.
• Mordred asked to accompany Artoria, and Kay accused her of plotting against the king; Artoria stopped their argument and allowed Mordred to come.
• Oberon revealed that Morgan’s younger sister was making a pilgrimage to ring every clan’s Bone Bells and had already visited Orkney.
• Da Vinci noted that Morgan had no younger sister in Pan-Human History, and the knights looked toward Artoria as they considered who the sister might be.

Artoria Caster traveled toward Salisbury while reflecting on her time with the Mirror Clan, the truth behind the Child of Prophecy rumors, and a dream of Artoria Pendragon’s life. She remained determined not to let that other King Arthur’s fate dictate her own mission, even as she approached the place where the two Artorias were about to meet.

• At the Lord's Manor in Salisbury, Aurora told Ritsuka and the others that Morgan’s younger sister had appeared recently and might be the Child of Prophecy.
• Aurora described Morgan’s taxes and her King Consort’s Slaughter Theater as sources of suffering, though the narration revealed that Aurora was deceiving Chaldea.
• Aurora said Morgan’s younger sister was coming to Salisbury with Fairy Knight Gwalchmei.
• Artoria Caster recalled how the Mirror Clan welcomed her, helped her ring two Bone Bells, and revealed that the supposed prophecy and Morgan’s persecution of the clan were lies.
• After receiving Paradise’s power, Artoria Caster dreamed of Artoria Pendragon’s life and resolved not to accept the mission of becoming the Star Holy Sword merely because of that other king’s fate.

Artoria resolved not to sacrifice Britain’s innocent fairies to complete her mission, while Chaldea was lured into a trap in Salisbury by Aurora. As Chaldea escaped, Barghest attacked them with cursed black flames, and the chapter ended with Mordred and Caenis fighting her.

• Artoria asked Barghest about the fairies of Manchester and decided she would reject any mission that required their deaths or the deaths of her other fairy friends.
• Aurora told Ritsuka Fujimaru that Fairy Knight Gwalchmei was approaching Salisbury, then revealed that Chaldea’s presence had put the city’s fairies at risk and summoned armed guards.
• Mordred threatened Aurora, but the King of Knights ordered Chaldea to retreat before they could be surrounded by Salisbury’s soldiers.
• As Chaldea escaped the manor, Barghest attacked them with black flames, and the King of Knights shielded Ritsuka while Mordred and Caenis engaged Barghest.
• Barghest’s black flames set nearby buildings ablaze, forcing Mordred to retreat as Caenis thrust her spear toward the flames.

Aurora manipulated Chaldea and Barghest into a confrontation, leaving both sides trapped between fighting and risking a larger ambush. Barghest summoned the Halloween Queen’s false sun to protect Artoria, but the arrival of the Knights of the Round Table forced Kirschtaria to order Caenis to attack.

• Caenis blocked Barghest’s Black Flame and judged that she could defeat her, while Kirschtaria noted that the nearby fairies and Aurora had vanished.
• Artoria arrived and stood beside Barghest, who explained that Aurora had summoned her to face Chaldea but sent no reinforcements.
• Barghest activated the Gift of the Sun, strengthening herself, and began retreating with Artoria rather than charging into battle.
• The Knights of the Round Table arrived after receiving a warning through the wind, surrounding Barghest and Artoria.
• Kirschtaria concluded that Aurora had forced both sides into conflict and ordered Caenis to keep Barghest there.

Bávan Shí arrived to confront Chaldea and unleashed the divine armaments granted to her by Saigō, overwhelming the Knights of the Round Table. As the battle threatened to break their defenses, Romulus descended and raised the walls of Rome to shield them.

• Bávan Shí appeared at the Salisbury manor after Morgan sent her through Water Mirror magecraft, and Barghest asked her to cover Artoria and Chaldea.
• The King of Knights ordered the group to attack, and Mordred and Kay fought Bávan Shí while the other knights engaged Barghest.
• Mordred and Kay wounded Bávan Shí with their taunts, so she summoned Meher’s divine chariot and used Saigō’s gift to pierce both of them.
• Bávan Shí recited Zoroastrian sacred words and unleashed Meher’s Divine Armaments at thought-speed, forcing the Knights of the Round Table to defend Ritsuka and the King of Knights.
• Romulus descended with his spear and transformed the ground into the Seven Hills of Rome, raising a wall that temporarily blocked the incoming armaments.

Bávan Shí’s Gift failed to break Rome’s defenses, but Melusine’s transformed Dragon of Albion overwhelmed the battlefield and forced Chaldea to retreat as Aurora’s army approached. The King of Knights prepared to clear their escape route with the Star Holy Sword, while Artoria Caster watched and resolved to forge its true form someday.

• Bávan Shí withdrew her Gift after damaging Salisbury’s estate, leaving the Knights of the Round Table injured but alive.
• Melusine arrived as the Dragon of Albion, used the Halloween Queen’s Gift to transform her life form, and withstood Romulus’s attacks.
• Romulus became a giant red mech and clashed with Melusine, devastating Salisbury as fairies fled.
• Aurora ordered Salisbury’s soldiers to attack Chaldea, hoping to protect herself from Queen Morgan and gain an advantage.
• Oberon warned Chaldea that Aurora’s forces were coming, and the King of Knights ordered everyone to retreat.
• Artoria Caster watched the King of Knights gather the Star Holy Sword’s radiance and resolved to forge the true sword of her own accord, while Barghest moved to protect her.

Chaldea escaped Aurora’s trap in Salisbury and regrouped in a forest, where Holmes reasoned that the Fairy Knight Tristan’s power might belong to Zoroaster himself. Merlin then appeared and offered to explain Britain’s situation.

• Barghest and Artoria were transported by Bávan Shí as Artoria’s Excalibur struck Salisbury’s defensive wall and opened a breach.
• Gawain used Sword of Rotation Victory to break through Aurora’s fairy army, and Chaldea escaped the city.
• After fleeing for a day and night, Ritsuka’s group camped by a river and recounted the ambush to Holmes.
• Holmes concluded that Tristan’s power resembled the Zoroastrian god Meher’s, then suggested their opponent might be Zoroaster himself.
• Holmes warned the group not to trust Britain’s fairies, and Merlin appeared, offering to tell them about the country.

Merlin revealed the fairies’ hidden history to Chaldea and led them toward Orkney to rescue Mash. In Salisbury, Saigō and Morgan condemned Aurora, prompting her to call for rebellion before the Queen’s guards arrived and both sides began looking for ways to betray their leaders.

• Merlin explained that Britain’s fairies descended from those who murdered a kind god, and that Artoria Caster had abandoned her mission to forge a holy sword.
• Merlin told Ritsuka that Mash was sealed in ice in Orkney, and Chaldea set out to free her.
• Aurora feigned innocence as Bávan Shí killed a guard, then accused Tristan of attacking her and threatened to appeal to Morgan.
• Saigō arrived and announced that Morgan and he had sentenced Aurora to death, then declared her planned rebellion a capital crime.
• Aurora urged Salisbury’s soldiers to overthrow Morgan, but the Queen’s guards emerged through Water Mirrors, leaving both armies weighing betrayal and escape.