Chapter Summaries

Beatrix forced Saori and the Arius Squad to accept a mission to assassinate the teacher by threatening Shizuko. When Saori’s team reached the battlefield, two Mo Wangs were already fighting, and Saori was knocked unconscious before she could carry out the assassination.

• Beatrix choked Shizuko and ordered Saori to kill the teacher if she wanted Shizuko returned.
• Saori, Hiyori, and Misaki encountered fleeing students and NIKKEs, then saw two Mo Wangs fighting through the ceiling.
• Hiyori learned from Hoshino that the teachers had appeared while the students were fighting, leaving Hina, Hoshino, and Aru battered and frightened.
• Saori charged into the Mo Wangs’ fight despite Hiyori and Misaki’s protests, and their combined attacks struck her unconscious.
• The Mo Wangs stopped fighting after noticing Saori, while Azusa realized Saori had been trying to attack one of them.

Saori and the Arius Squad revealed that Beatrix had sent them to assassinate Mo Wang, prompting him to order an attack on Arius Academy. As Beatrix threatened the captive Shizuko in the Arios Region, an unknown force launched an assault on her territory.

• The two Mo Wangs revived Saori, and Hiyori admitted that the Arius Squad had come to assassinate Mo Wang.
• Saori took responsibility for the failed mission and revealed that Beatrix had threatened to kill Princess if the squad refused to obey.
• Mo Wang grew furious at Beatrix and ordered Arona to declare Arius Academy an enemy of the General Student Council and mobilize the academies to attack it.
• Beatrix taunted the bound Shizuko and threatened to use her royal blood as a sacrifice if her friends failed.
• An explosion interrupted Beatrix, who saw a large group of unfamiliar students attacking from outside.

Students from across Kivotos joined the assault on Arios, while Mo Wang confronted Beatrix at the underground altar to rescue Shizuko. Mo Wang unleashed Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment against Beatrix, and Black Robe moved to retrieve something from her.

• Rabbit Squad, Hina, Hoshino, and other academy forces broke through Arios's defenses as Beatrix learned that students from across Kivotos had arrived.
• Saori, Misaki, and Hiyori confronted Beatrix and demanded that she return Princess, while Shirako blasted into the altar and loosened Shizuko's chains.
• Mo Wang entered the altar, reunited with Shizuko, and dismissed Beatrix when she demanded his attention.
• Beatrix transformed into a monster and threatened Mo Wang, who answered with Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment and declared his judgment as Kivotos's Sensei.
• Black Robe watched the flames, said Beatrix could not be saved, and jumped from a rooftop with a gray-haired girl to retrieve something from her.

Mo Wang used Harmony’s Sacred Song and a powerful sword strike to defeat Beatrix, but Shiroko Terror and Black Robe appeared afterward. Black Robe retrieved a scroll from Beatrix and claimed to be the mastermind behind everything, leaving Mo Wang demanding to know who he was.

• Harmony’s Sacred Song calmed the Arios Region students, while Sakurako, Hinata, and Makoto argued over who should claim the song.
• Mo Wang’s Harmony-powered attack engulfed Beatrix in flames and left her nearly charred.
• As Shirako approached Beatrix, Mo Wang stopped her, and an unseen shooter finished Beatrix with several bullets.
• Shiroko Terror appeared and revealed that she recognized Mo Wang as her teacher, while Shirako wondered at their resemblance.
• Black Robe appeared, retrieved a tattered scroll from Beatrix, and recognized Mo Wang’s Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment and Harmony’s Sacred Song.
• Black Robe called himself the mastermind behind everything, and Mo Wang asked whether he had arranged it all.

Mo Wang and Nikke Mo Wang fought a powerful Black-Robed Mo Wang, who revealed that he was the Ferryman from the Captain's route. The Ferryman departed with Shiroko Terror aboard the Hyperion, leaving the two Mo Wangs wondering about his immense power and origins.

• Mo Wang attacked the Black Robe, but the stranger caught Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment barehanded and overpowered him.
• Nikke Mo Wang appeared and struck the Black Robe, whose burned hood revealed a face nearly identical to Mo Wang's.
• The Black-Robed Mo Wang introduced himself as the Ferryman and spoke of his many titles and the multiverse.
• The Ferryman summoned the Hyperion, defeated Nikke Mo Wang with Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment: Annihilation, and left with Shiroko Terror.

Sensei Mo Wang and Nikke Mo Wang discussed the mysterious Ferryman with the other Mo Wangs, then argued over the cleanup left by their altered Blue Archive storylines. The story shifted to Chaldea, where Mo Wang learned that Red A and Shizuka had competed in the kitchen during the Fifth Holy Grail War and began grilling Red A about it.

• Sensei Mo Wang contacted the group chat after the Ferryman appeared, and the Mo Wangs speculated about who he was and what he wanted.
• The Mo Wangs agreed to prepare for the Ferryman’s possible return, while Sensei Mo Wang lamented the damaged Blue Archive storylines and the work still ahead.
• Nikke Mo Wang tried to leave with the NIKKE girls, and Sensei Mo Wang kicked at him before threatening to raid his home.
• At Chaldea, Mo Wang woke, went to the kitchen, and asked Red A and Shizuka for breakfast.
• Shizuka told Mo Wang that she and Red A had competed in the kitchen during the Fifth Holy Grail War, prompting him to question Red A about his many Holy Grail Wars.

Mo Wang was accidentally transported from the Singularity into Tokiomi's Servant summoning ritual, where he landed on Gilgamesh and began the Fourth Holy Grail War. Tokiomi, Kirei, and Rin were left stunned by the unexpected arrival.

• Mo Wang teased Red A about his repeated Holy Grail War missions and offered to fight in his place, then was suddenly teleported away.
• Tokiomi prepared to summon Gilgamesh with Kirei assisting, while Rin secretly watched and wished to summon a Servant herself.
• Rin joined in reciting the summoning incantation, and the ritual caused an explosion that blasted a hole through the Tohsaka Estate.
• Mo Wang emerged from the smoke holding his noodles and sitting on Gilgamesh, leaving him and Tokiomi bewildered.

Mo Wang was summoned as Rin Tohsaka’s Servant during the Fourth Holy Grail War, where he discovered that Golden Gilgamesh belonged to Tohsaka Tokiomi. The chapter left Tokiomi inspecting Mo Wang’s status panel and finding that it listed him as an Assassin with absurdly vague attributes.

• Mo Wang arrived in the Tohsaka Estate, mistook Golden Gilgamesh beneath him for a strange lookalike, and learned that Rin had summoned him.
• Tohsaka Tokiomi welcomed Golden Gilgamesh as his Master while Mo Wang recognized Rin and realized he had been sent to the Fourth Holy Grail War.
• Mo Wang pinched Rin’s cheeks and admired Golden Gilgamesh’s Gate of Babylon, prompting Tokiomi to calm the angry King of Heroes.
• Tokiomi asked Rin about Mo Wang’s class and identity, but Mo Wang guessed at his class and Tokiomi checked his status panel.
• Tokiomi saw that Mo Wang was an Assassin whose Strength and Endurance were both listed as guesses.

Tokiomi struggled to make sense of Mo Wang’s bizarre Servant status panel and his claims about how Servants filled them out. Mo Wang argued with Golden Gilgamesh, teased Rin, and speculated that he had been assigned the Assassin Class because he embodied King Hassan’s essence.

• Mo Wang said his status panel was outdated and bugged, and claimed top-tier Servants filled in their own panels.
• Golden Gilgamesh questioned Mo Wang’s name and identity, and the two traded insults until Tokiomi stopped their argument.
• Tokiomi decided to keep appeasing Golden Gilgamesh, while Rin enjoyed seeing her father flustered.
• Mo Wang promised Rin he would win the championship and continued kneading her cheeks.
• Mo Wang wondered why he was an Assassin and imagined that King Hassan had chosen him for the Class.

Rin Tohsaka ran away from home with Mo Wang so she could visit her sister Sakura at the Matou Family, but the pair wandered around Fuyuki City without finding it. Mo Wang insisted he knew how to read the map as Rin’s patience wore thin.

• Rin Tohsaka sneaked out of the Tohsaka estate in her pajamas with a backpack, and Mo Wang followed her after telling Aoi Tohsaka that Rin wanted to elope with him.
• Aoi Tohsaka told Tokiomi Tohsaka that their daughter had run away with her Servant, while Mo Wang caught up with Rin outside.
• Rin admitted she wanted to see her sister Sakura, and Mo Wang agreed to take her to the Matou Family and bring Sakura back.
• Mo Wang and Rin used a map to search Fuyuki City for the Matou Family, but they wandered until nearly noon without finding it.
• Rin questioned Mo Wang’s map-reading skills, and he defended himself by boasting about his past adventures.

Mo Wang and Rin Tohsaka went to the Matou residence to find Sakura, but Mo Wang forced his way inside and rampaged through the house. They reached the basement just as Sakura stood among a swarm of bugs, and Rin recognized her sister.

• Mo Wang and Rin discovered that the map was twenty years old, then asked a passerby to point them to the Matou residence.
• After no one answered the gate, Mo Wang kicked it off its hinges and announced that his entry was an assassin’s technique.
• Shinji Matou spotted the intruders and warned Matou Zouken that a Servant had broken in.
• Mo Wang searched the residence by kicking down doors while Rin followed, increasingly exasperated.
• Mo Wang carried Rin into the basement, where they found Sakura standing in front of a swarm of bugs, and Rin called out to her sister.

Mo Wang and Rin broke into the Matou residence to rescue Sakura, where Mo Wang confronted Matou Zouken and made short work of his Crest Worms. Rin reunited with Sakura, while Mo Wang pursued Zouken after kicking him out of the basement.

• Rin tried to rush to Sakura, but Mo Wang stopped her and pointed out Matou Zouken nearby.
• Mo Wang called Zouken by his old name and introduced himself as Galaxy Bat Man, prompting Zouken to attack with Crest Worms.
• Mo Wang used Ruan Mei’s insecticide to kill the swarm, and Zouken sent more bugs surging through the residence.
• Mo Wang kicked Zouken through the basement ceiling, then Rin hurried to check on Sakura while the Second Master remained unconscious.
• Sakura reunited with Rin and asked why she had come, leaving Rin struggling to explain.

Mo Wang confronted Matou Zouken at the Matou residence and killed him with Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment, destroying the house while saving Sakura and Rin. Kariya Matou arrived to find the home burning and feared Sakura had died, unaware that she was safe.

• Mo Wang told Matou Zouken that his younger self had asked him to kill the monster he would become, but Zouken refused to die and unleashed a swarm of Crest Worms.
• Mo Wang summoned Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgment and burned Zouken and the Crest Worms to nothing as memories returned to Zouken.
• Rin and Sakura stood outside the burning Matou residence, and Rin lamented that their visit had ended with their sister's home destroyed.
• Kariya Matou saw the blaze while returning with ice cream, rushed to the residence, and cried out for Sakura when he found the house gone.

After Kariya Matou mistook Mo Wang for a kidnapper and attacked him, Mo Wang knocked out Kariya and Berserker Ran, then fled with them and Rin and Sakura before help arrived. He brought everyone to a luxury hotel, where he convinced Rin that money power was a force capable of defeating even cosmic gods.

• Kariya Matou saw Rin and Sakura with Mo Wang, mistook him for an enemy, and sent Berserker Ran to attack.
• Mo Wang knocked Berserker Ran unconscious with his Baseball Bat, then struck her again after Kariya used a Command Spell to make her rise.
• Kariya charged Mo Wang and was knocked unconscious with a hand blade.
• Mo Wang carried Kariya and Berserker Ran away with Rin and Sakura as sirens and fire trucks approached.
• Mo Wang used Rin's gemstone to book a luxury suite at a Fuyuki hotel.
• Mo Wang told Rin that money power could defeat cosmic gods, and she excitedly asked to learn it.

Mo Wang brought Rin and Sakura to a luxury suite, subdued Lancelot, and scrubbed away his black coating and Madness Enhancement. Kariya woke up confused and tried to summon Lancelot, while Mo Wang told him he was Rin’s Servant.

• Mo Wang took Rin and Sakura into a luxury suite, where Lancelot woke and attacked him before Mo Wang slapped him unconscious again.
• Rin suggested killing Lancelot, but Mo Wang said he would wash away or seal the Berserker’s Madness Enhancement.
• Mo Wang scrubbed Lancelot with a shampoo-soaked rag until the black coating vanished and his purple armor showed; Lancelot then woke calmer and confused.
• Kariya woke on the floor, and Mo Wang told him he had suffered serious trauma and was now a eunuch.
• Kariya recognized Rin and Sakura, mistook Mo Wang for an enemy Master, and called for Berserker, only to find Lancelot lying nearby.
• Mo Wang told Kariya that he was Rin’s Servant and lifted Rin, who struggled and told him to put her down.

Rin's accidental summoning drew her and Sakura into the Holy Grail War, while Mo Wang took control of Kariya's Servant and helped Kariya accept the loss of his magical energy. Lancelot recognized Mo Wang as his new Master, leaving Mo Wang excited to reunite with him and talk about his daughter.

• Kariya learned that Rin had summoned Mo Wang and that Mo Wang had killed Matou Zouken, prompting Kariya to laugh and cry with relief.
• Mo Wang explained that he had used insecticide to kill the Crest Worms in Kariya's body, leaving Kariya without magical energy.
• Kariya discovered that Mo Wang had taken his Command Spells, then listened as Mo Wang persuaded him to accept the change and imagine a future with Tohsaka Aoi.
• Lancelot awakened, removed his helmet, and formally recognized Mo Wang as his Master after seeing the remaining Command Spell.
• Mo Wang excitedly pulled Lancelot aside and told him about his many failed attempts to summon him and his daughter, Mordred.

Mo Wang explained to Lancelot that Mashu was his son Galahad transformed into a daughter, then revealed that Saber was Lancelot’s King Arthur. Lancelot struggled with his loyalty but accepted Mo Wang as his Master, while Mo Wang checked the time and considered having Ran loot Golden Gilgamesh’s treasury.

• Mo Wang showed Lancelot a picture of Mashu and told him she was Galahad transformed into a daughter.
• Mo Wang teased Lancelot about his affair with the queen and learned that most of the Knights of the Round Table knew Artoria was a woman.
• Sakura overheard that King Arthur was a girl, and Rin reacted with disbelief.
• Mo Wang told Lancelot that Saber was participating in the Holy Grail War and urged him to explain everything to her.
• Lancelot admitted he might not be able to fight Saber wholeheartedly, but Mo Wang reassured him and Lancelot accepted him as his Master.
• Mo Wang checked the time and considered whether Ran could loot Golden Gilgamesh’s treasury.

Mo Wang took Rin and Sakura to Ryuudou Temple, where he discovered that communications with Chaldea were disrupted but Servant summoning still worked. Meanwhile, Irisviel and Saber explored Fuyuki and ate at McDonald's, before Saber spotted Mo Wang spending Rin's money; the chapter left Rin arguing with him about the cost of the Holy Grail War.

• Mo Wang left Matou Kariya with Lancelot and took Rin and Sakura to Ryuudou Temple, where he searched for a signal to contact Chaldea.
• Mimi told Mo Wang that communications were being interfered with but that she could still help summon Servants, so he eagerly prepared to stir up trouble.
• Irisviel took Saber to McDonald's, where Saber devoured ten hamburgers and learned that someone nearby could eat even more than she could.
• Mo Wang ate the food Rin had paid for, and Rin protested that he had spent nearly half her savings.
• Mo Wang teased Rin about the expense of the Holy Grail War and the cost of maintaining a Servant, while Saber noticed him at the restaurant.

Mo Wang met Saber and Irisviel at a fast-food restaurant, where their tense encounter turned into a conversation about the Holy Grail War and the young Masters. He left Irisviel unsettled by predicting that her daughter would eventually have to fight in the war.

• Rin tried to borrow half of Sakura’s savings to cover her expenses in the war.
• Saber sensed danger from Mo Wang, identified him as a Servant, and shielded Irisviel before nearly drawing Excalibur.
• Mo Wang revealed Saber’s identity as King Arthur and persuaded her and Irisviel to sit down instead of fighting in the restaurant.
• Mo Wang introduced himself as Galaxy Bat Man, while Rin revealed she was a Master and Sakura introduced herself as Mato Sakura.
• Irisviel learned that Rin was from the Tohsaka Family, and Mo Wang said Rin’s father was also a Master and predicted Irisviel’s daughter would fight in a future Holy Grail War.

Mo Wang returned from meeting Saber with her hair ribbon and told Lancelot about her current situation. That night, he set out to confront the Holy Grail War’s opponents, taking Rin and Sakura with him despite Matou Kariya’s protests.

• Mo Wang stole Saber's hair ribbon and vanished, leaving Saber and Irisviel to report that the Tohsaka Family had summoned two Servants.
• Mo Wang returned to the hotel, where Matou Kariya and Lancelot questioned him about Rin and Sakura.
• Mo Wang told Lancelot that Saber was guarding her Master's wife in men's clothes and might steal her away.
• Mo Wang dressed for battle and decided to visit his opponents on the Holy Grail War's second night.
• Mo Wang took Rin and Sakura along, explaining that Rin needed to use a Command Spell and Sakura would keep her sister company.