Chapter Summaries

The 1994 Fuyuki Singularity began spreading into the future, threatening to alter human history on the scale of parallel worlds. After agreeing to help dismantle the contaminated Greater Grail, Kenneth El-Melloi secretly decided to use his advanced knowledge to change his fate and reshape civilization.

• Roman realized the Fuyuki Singularity was expanding beyond its original time and beginning to distort the future.
• Lord El-Melloi II told Kenneth El-Melloi that the Greater Grail had been contaminated in the Third Holy Grail War and needed to be dismantled.
• Kenneth agreed to cooperate, and the group planned to travel to the Einzbern castle the next morning to negotiate.
• After Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash left, Kenneth concluded that Alaya permitted Chaldea's time travel because it served humanity's survival.
• Kenneth resolved to use his future knowledge and technology to advance civilization and convince Alaya that his survival was more valuable than the original course of history.

Kiritsugu Emiya discovered that Kenneth’s group was approaching Einzbern Castle and sent Saber to provoke them, hoping to make the other Masters see them as a common threat. On the forest path, Kenneth learned Qimen Dunjia and reproduced its techniques with the Moon Spirit Essence before Saber appeared to block the group.

• Kiritsugu Emiya watched surveillance footage of Kenneth’s group approaching the castle and recognized how much the Holy Grail War’s balance had shifted.
• Kiritsugu Emiya ordered Saber to stage a conspicuous fight with Kenneth’s group and promised to use a Command Spell to summon her back if needed.
• Lord El-Melloi II explained Qimen Dunjia to Kenneth as they walked through the forest toward Einzbern Castle.
• Kenneth formed an Eight Trigrams wheel from the Moon Spirit Essence and used it to create a wind blade that cut a tree.
• A young female knight in silver-and-blue armor appeared ahead and blocked Kenneth’s group’s path.

Saber and Scathach fought while Fujimaru Ritsuka’s group tried to subdue Saber, and Kiritsugu Emiya took aim at Ritsuka from a hidden position. Kenneth confronted Kiritsugu and survived his trap by using Moon Spirit Essence to form a Qimen Configuration that slowed the explosions and stripped them of force.

• Saber and Scathach clashed in the forest, and Fujimaru Ritsuka ordered Mash and Lord El-Melloi II to help subdue Saber.
• Kiritsugu Emiya identified Fujimaru Ritsuka as a Master and fired at her, but Kenneth’s Moon Spirit Essence blocked the bullet.
• Kenneth flew toward Kiritsugu’s position as Aozaki Touko guarded Ritsuka, while Kiritsugu retreated and fired at Kenneth without effect.
• Kiritsugu used Time Alter: Double Accel to evade Kenneth’s mercury blade, trigger his planted mines, and prepare to shoot Kenneth with an Origin Bullet.
• Kenneth spread Moon Spirit Essence into a Qimen Configuration, which slowed the explosions and neutralized their force.

Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald used Qimen Dunjia to trap Kiritsugu Emiya, who struggled to escape as his body failed under the strain of Time Alter. On Kunlun, an ancient immortal traced the disturbance in the Thought Disk to Kenneth and became intrigued by the Western magus’s use of Eastern magic.

• Kiritsugu Emiya was shocked to see Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald wield orthodox Eastern Thought Magic through the Thought Disk.
• Kiritsugu Emiya tried to flee, but accumulated strain from Time Alter caused a sudden pain in his heart and slowed him down.
• Kiritsugu Emiya activated Time Alter: Triple Accel, but Kenneth’s Qimen Dunjia domain distorted distance and kept him from reaching safety.
• A young immortal on Kunlun sensed the Thought Disk’s disturbance and used Seeing Through Walls to locate its source.
• The immortal used Retracing Effects to Trace Causes and discovered that the foreigner using Qimen Dunjia was Kenneth, one of the Twelve Lords of the Clock Tower.

Kenneth used a Qimen formation connected to the Thought Disk to defeat Kiritsugu Emiya and sever his Command Spells. As Artoria faltered in her battle with Scathach, Kenneth captured Kiritsugu and forced Maiya Hisau and Irisviel von Einzbern to emerge from hiding.

• Kenneth connected his mercury device to the Thought Disk and used a Qimen formation to make the forest his domain.
• Kiritsugu Emiya fired an Origin Bullet at Kenneth, but spatial transfer redirected it, and a mercury blade severed Kiritsugu’s gun hand and Command Spells.
• With her link to Kiritsugu cut off, Artoria weakened, allowing Scathach to intensify her assault.
• Kenneth mocked Kiritsugu’s ruined hopes, then stopped a silver-thread hawk from rescuing him and bound him with mercury.
• Kenneth called into the shadows, and Maiya Hisau and Irisviel von Einzbern emerged.

Kenneth confronted Irisviel after Kiritsugu was defeated, then used a mercury apparatus to make Kiritsugu relive his past and witness the destruction caused by the Holy Grail. Kiritsugu woke restrained before Kenneth, Irisviel, Saber, and the others, who asked how it felt to see the end of his ideals.

• Irisviel offered to surrender the Einzbern Family's claim to the Holy Grail if Kenneth spared Kiritsugu, but Kenneth pointed to her as the price he wanted.
• Kiritsugu relived the tragedies that shaped his pursuit of saving the majority, including killing his father and sacrificing Natalia to prevent a disaster.
• Kiritsugu remembered falling in love with Irisviel and choosing to pursue the Holy Grail despite her willingness to sacrifice herself for his ideals.
• Kiritsugu witnessed the Holy Grail's black mud destroy Fuyuki City and realized the miracle he had pursued brought ruin.
• Kiritsugu woke restrained beneath a mercury helmet as a mirror replayed his vision, while Kenneth and the others watched and Kenneth asked how it felt to witness the end of his ideals.

Kiritsugu Emiya learned that the corrupted Holy Grail would twist any wish into catastrophe, then agreed to give Kenneth the Emiya family Magecraft Crest in exchange for protecting Irisviel and bringing Illyasviel to safety. After the group began dismantling the Grail and redirecting Fuyuki’s leylines, Tokiomi Tohsaka noticed the disruption at his estate.

• Irisviel embraced Kiritsugu Emiya and apologized, while Artoria and Lord El-Melloi II reacted to the past revealed in the mercury mirror.
• Kenneth explained that Angra Mainyu had contaminated the Greater Grail and that its wishes would be granted in catastrophic ways.
• Kiritsugu Emiya agreed to surrender the Emiya family Magecraft Crest in exchange for Irisviel’s condition being solved and Illyasviel being brought safely out of Germany.
• Kenneth transferred Artoria’s Master contract from Kiritsugu Emiya to Fujimaru Ritsuka and helped Aozaki Touko remove the Lesser Grail from Irisviel.
• Lord El-Melloi II led Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others in redirecting Fuyuki’s leylines away from the Greater Grail beneath Ryuudou Temple.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka frowned as he sensed the disturbance caused by the work on Fuyuki’s leylines.

Tokiomi Tohsaka sent Kirei to investigate the changes to Fuyuki’s magical energy while Lord El-Melloi II, Fujimaru Ritsuka, and Mash worked to reroute a ley line. After facing Hassan’s duplicates and Gilgamesh, Mash confronted a Berserker who appeared to be Sir Lancelot, while Fujimaru Ritsuka and Lord El-Melloi II found a man vomiting Crest Worms in an alley.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka ordered Kirei to investigate who was altering the land’s magical energy.
• Lord El-Melloi II, Fujimaru Ritsuka, and Mash prepared a spell core at a ley line node, but Hassan’s duplicates attacked them.
• Lord El-Melloi II trapped and destroyed the Hassans with Stone Soldier Eight Formations.
• Gilgamesh appeared and fought a Berserker, who seized and turned the King of Heroes’ weapons against him.
• Mash’s shield drew the Berserker’s attention, and he protected her until Tokiomi Tohsaka used a Command Spell to make Gilgamesh withdraw.
• Mash attacked the Berserker while Lord El-Melloi II led Fujimaru Ritsuka away to an alley, where they found a man coughing up Crest Worms.

Kenneth successfully removed the Lesser Grail from Irisviel and helped restore her, while Fujimaru Ritsuka arrived with an unconscious Matou Sakura. After Matou Zouken escaped by taking Matou Kariya’s body and the group learned he had joined the war, Zouken decided to ally with Tokiomi Tohsaka to stop their plan to drain the Greater Grail.

• Kenneth used Moon Spirit Essence to separate the Lesser Grail from Irisviel, and Saber awakened Avalon to heal her.
• Aozaki Touko began repairing Irisviel as Kenneth left with the Lesser Grail’s core.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka arrived carrying an unconscious Matou Sakura, and Kenneth learned that Matou Zouken had escaped in Matou Kariya’s body with the Command Seals.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka saw that the Matou residence had been reduced to ruins.
• Matou Zouken recognized that the group planned to drain the Greater Grail and decided to cooperate with Tokiomi Tohsaka.

Kenneth’s team treated Matou Sakura and Irisviel at Einzbern Castle before Gilgamesh and Tokiomi Tohsaka arrived to confront them. Scathach drew Gilgamesh away into the forest, while Hassan of the Hundred Faces ambushed Kenneth.

• Kenneth used Moon Spirit Essence to examine Sakura and found that Matou Zouken’s insects had poisoned and eaten away parts of her body.
• Matou Zouken told Tokiomi Tohsaka that Sakura had been abducted by Chaldea’s allies and claimed Kariya had betrayed him.
• Kenneth’s team stabilized Sakura and Irisviel, while Fujimaru Ritsuka, Lord El-Melloi II, and the others resumed severing the city’s ley lines.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka arrived with Gilgamesh and demanded to know where the Chaldea group had gone; Kenneth admitted that they had taken Sakura and hinted at what she had endured in the Matou Family.
• Gilgamesh attacked Scathach with the Gate of Babylon, and she drew him into pursuit through the forest after Kenneth gave her permission to fight.
• Hassan of the Hundred Faces sprang from the shadows and attacked Kenneth with poisoned daggers.

Kirei Kotomine and the Assassins ambushed Kenneth, first disabling his Moon Spirit Essence with specially prepared Black Keys. Kenneth then met Kirei’s Baji Quan attack with the same technique and sent him reeling, leaving Kirei stunned by Kenneth’s superior martial skill.

• Kenneth recognized that Kirei Kotomine had sent the Assassins to exploit the apparent separation of Master and Servant.
• Kenneth turned the Moon Spirit Essence into a field of silver spikes and triggered hidden wind-and-flame rune traps against the Hassan clones.
• Kirei Kotomine struck the Moon Spirit Essence with gemstone-inlaid Black Keys, disrupting its magic and stopping its movement.
• Kirei charged Kenneth with Iron Mountain Lean, but Kenneth countered with the same Baji Quan technique.
• Kenneth overpowered Kirei in their shoulder collision, injuring him and forcing him back several steps.

Kenneth decisively defeated Kirei Kotomine in close combat and killed Hassan of the Hundred Faces after Kirei spent two Command Spells to order an attack. Kirei charged Kenneth in a final, desperate bid for an end, and Kenneth stopped him with spikes of Moon Spirit Essence.

• Kenneth offered Kirei Kotomine a chance to surrender after demonstrating superior martial skill.
• Kirei used two Command Spells to order Hassan of the Hundred Faces to kill Kenneth.
• Hassan launched a direct assassination strike, but Kenneth evaded it and pierced Hassan's spirit core with a Hidden Blade.
• Kirei accepted his defeat and charged Kenneth with his remaining strength.
• Kenneth transformed Moon Spirit Essence into spikes that riddled Kirei and brought his charge to a halt.

Scathach defeated Gilgamesh with help from Iskandar and Lord El-Melloi II, leaving Tokiomi Tohsaka without his Servant. Kenneth then revealed Sakura’s abuse by Matou Zouken and the Holy Grail’s corruption, shattering Tokiomi’s ideals.

• Gilgamesh recognized Scathach as the Queen of the Land of Shadows and prepared to unleash [Enuma Elish].
• Iskandar and Lord El-Melloi II disrupted Gilgamesh’s aim with [Stone Soldier Eight Formations], allowing Scathach to strike with [Gáe Bolg Alternative] and pierce his heart.
• Gilgamesh faded away, [Vimana] crashed, and Tokiomi Tohsaka was defeated.
• Kenneth showed Tokiomi and Fujimaru Ritsuka a memory of Sakura being tortured by Matou Zouken’s Crest Worms.
• Tokiomi realized Matou Zouken had deceived him, and Kenneth revealed that the corrupted Holy Grail could only grant a wish that would destroy the world.

Tokiomi reunited with Sakura and apologized for sending her to the Matou family, while Waver apologized to Kenneth and received his encouragement. Kenneth and the others then went to the ley-line convergence beneath Ryuudou Temple, where Matou Zouken was waiting.

• Tokiomi embraced Sakura, wept, and apologized for what he had done to her; Sakura comforted him.
• Kenneth thanked Iskandar for helping them, and Iskandar brought Waver forward to apologize to Kenneth.
• Waver apologized for stealing Kenneth’s Holy Relic and received encouragement to keep working hard.
• Kenneth led the group to the hollow beneath Ryuudou Temple, where Matou Zouken was waiting.

Tokiomi Tohsaka and Artoria confronted Matou Zouken and Berserker Lancelot as Kenneth’s group reached the Greater Grail’s core to dismantle it. Kenneth began analyzing the Grail’s ancient Magic Circuits, but the system revealed the circuits of Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka attacked Matou Zouken over his treatment of Sakura, but Zouken escaped the flames by dispersing into Crest Worms and summoned Berserker Lancelot.
• Artoria blocked Lancelot’s charge and recognized him as Sir Lancelot, while Fujimaru Ritsuka urged Kenneth to proceed toward the Grail.
• Matou Zouken reappeared to block the path, and Tokiomi Tohsaka stayed behind to fight him so Kenneth’s group could continue.
• Kenneth deployed [Moon Spirit Essence] across the Greater Grail’s core while Lord El-Melloi II guided the dismantling plan.
• Scarlet Magic Circuits appeared beneath the ground, and Lord El-Melloi II identified them as the circuits of Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern.
• Kenneth directed [Moon Spirit Essence] to spread along the circuits and analyze them.

Kenneth studied the Winter Saint’s magical circuits and concluded that the Third Magic let subjective thought reshape objective reality, explaining the Holy Grail’s wishes and the materialization of Heroic Spirits. The Holy Grail then tested him with a vision of temptation, but Kenneth recognized it as Angra Mainyu, prompting the Grail to erupt with black mud and attack him.

• Kenneth used [Moon Spirit Essence] to record the Winter Saint’s vast magical circuits while Lord El-Melloi II watched in awe.
• Kenneth reconsidered his theory of Heaven’s Feel, using the Greater Grail, Servant summoning, and the Grail’s wish-granting power to deduce that the Third Magic bridged soul and matter.
• The underground cavern dissolved and a golden Holy Grail appeared, tempting Kenneth with the promise of limitless power and fulfilled wishes.
• Kenneth rejected the temptation and identified the Holy Grail as Angra Mainyu.
• The Grail turned black and cracked, releasing a wave of cursed mud that surged toward Kenneth.

Kenneth entered the Greater Grail’s world of consciousness and confirmed that Angra Mainyu was the concept of evil created from a summoned young man and amplified by the Grail. He used cyan Samadhi flames to set the black mud ablaze, revealing Angra Mainyu’s true form as the fire began to consume him.

• Kenneth let the Grail’s will invade his mind and recognized the black mud as the accumulated malice known as All the World's Evil.
• Kenneth recalled how the Einzbern Family summoned the young man Angra Mainyu as Avenger, and how the Greater Grail amplified the concept of evil imposed on him.
• Black Irisviel tried to seduce Kenneth, but he summoned cyan flames and explained that his connection to the Grail let him materialize concepts too.
• Black Irisviel attacked Kenneth with a storm of cursed spikes, but he dropped the cyan flame onto the black mud.
• The flame spread across the sea of black mud and burned away Black Irisviel’s disguise, revealing the bandaged young man Angra Mainyu.
• Angra Mainyu struggled in the flames and asked what they were as Kenneth named them Samadhi.

Lord El-Melloi II and Scathach dismantled the Greater Grail after Kenneth destroyed Angra Mainyu, while Tokiomi confronted Matou Zouken and Justeaze ended the old mage’s life. With the Grail severed from Fuyuki’s spiritual veins, Kenneth claimed its remains and considered studying Magic through the world of Bleach.

• Lord El-Melloi II and Scathach activated their combined formation and drained the Greater Grail’s magical energy.
• Kenneth burned away Angra Mainyu, causing the darkness within the Grail’s mental realm to disappear.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka attacked Matou Zouken as the Grail emerged, but Zouken’s core Crest Worm continued crawling toward it.
• Justeaze Lizrich von Einzbern recognized Makiri Zolgen and held the Crest Worm until its remaining life faded.
• Scathach used Gae Bolg Alternative to sever the Greater Grail’s connection to Fuyuki’s spiritual veins, and Iskandar and Scathach vanished.
• Kenneth claimed the Grail’s remains and planned to study Magic using knowledge from the world of Bleach.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi combined Einzbern android records with Soul Society’s Reishi-based technology to begin creating a new artificial soul and body. The newly manufactured girl awakened a terrifying burst of spiritual pressure, triggering a massive explosion.

• Mayuri Kurotsuchi studied records on the Third Magic, Angra Mainyu, and Einzbern androids, and recognized that Reishi could make soul materialization possible in Soul Society.
• Mayuri compared the Einzbern family’s android technology with his research into creating complete artificial souls, including his work on Nemu Kurotsuchi.
• Mayuri entered Irisviel von Einzbern’s bodily parameters into Nemu Kurotsuchi’s original creation data and prepared an experiment using Reishi circuits.
• Mayuri activated the cultivation chamber, where Reishi and Einzbern genes rapidly formed a silver-haired girl’s body.
• The girl’s body erupted with immense spiritual pressure, followed by a massive explosion.

After Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s experiment caused a devastating explosion, Sosuke Aizen sensed a power resembling creation and became intrigued by a new variable. As Seireitei focused on Rukia Kuchiki’s coming execution, Aizen visited Mayuri before he could make his own plans.

• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto recognized the explosion as another disturbance caused by Mayuri Kurotsuchi’s experiments.
• Sosuke Aizen sensed the explosion’s power and wondered whether someone else had discovered a way to create by overturning the world’s laws.
• Nemu Kurotsuchi found Mayuri Kurotsuchi alive in the ruined laboratory, where he considered the experiment’s failure a useful step toward understanding how to create an artificial human.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi concealed the explosion as an accident involving experimental Kido, and the First Division reprimanded him and docked his pay.
• Central 46 sentenced Rukia Kuchiki to execution one month later for transferring her Shinigami powers to a human without authorization.
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi considered using Rukia’s case to pursue the Hogyoku, but Sosuke Aizen came to see him before he could form a plan.