Chapter Summaries

Iori helped Ritsuka and Mash defeat Goetia, then returned to Chaldea and discussed Ritsuka’s determination to keep helping people. On a later mission, he confronted Merlin over a crystal containing fragments of Ritsuka’s consciousness and demanded to know what Merlin planned to do with them.

• Iori and King Arthur acknowledged each other’s strength before Iori joined Ritsuka and Mash in confronting Goetia.
• Ritsuka refused to give up on humanity, and Iori arrived to protect her and Mash from Goetia.
• After Human Order Restoration, Ritsuka told Iori she would keep going if her actions helped people and made them smile.
• Iori arrived late from an exploration mission and found Merlin holding a crystal of fragments from Ritsuka’s past consciousness.
• Iori demanded Merlin explain how the fragments would help Ritsuka, then threatened to destroy the place if Merlin kept withholding the truth.

Merlin told Iori that Mash and other Chaldea members had been sealed inside a simulated Singularity so they could persuade Ritsuka to stop her self-destructive efforts, and Iori confronted Merlin for hiding the truth before plotting a prank on him. The chapter then shifted to Chaldea’s kitchen, where Emiya prepared meals until Red Enma asked for help dealing with fish sent by Semiramis.

• Merlin revealed that the consciousness fragments were connected to Mash and that Ritsuka’s memories held the key to freeing her.
• Merlin explained that Mash, Da Vinci-chan, the doctor, Shion, the Masters of Group A, and some Heroic Spirits had opposed Ritsuka’s plan, so she had trapped them in a protected, looping Chaldeas.
• Iori accused Merlin of using him, then brought out an Alter clone and threatened to photograph Merlin in an outfit chosen to collect Dr. Roman’s debt.
• Emiya prepared ingredients for Chaldea’s meals, using Chimera ribs, Phoenix Tail Feather, Olympus Divine Wine, and Demon Pig Foreleg.
• Red Enma rushed in and asked Emiya to help process a huge delivery of fish from Semiramis.

Iori watched Chaldea’s kitchen Servants prepare meals and learned that he could order a special dish after completing a mission. After Emiya found provocative photographs of Merlin and retaliated with Lily’s help, the chapter shifted to a silver-haired girl manipulating fate threads as it introduced MoonCell’s flawed attempt to simulate the Throne of Heroes.

• Emiya, Prince Your Highness, Yagyu Munenori, and Hassan of the Hundred Faces defeated and cleaned up a giant fish that had invaded the cafeteria.
• Iori arrived early and watched Captain Nemo, Artoria, Emiya, and other Servants work in Chaldea’s kitchen.
• Red Enma told Iori that mission-completing Heroic Spirits could order a special meal, and Iori asked to add his request to the list.
• Emiya discovered provocative photographs of Merlin in the changing room and went looking for Lily to show them to her.
• A silver-haired girl manipulated threads of fate while the narration described MoonCell’s unsuccessful effort to simulate the Throne of Heroes.

Athena integrated the Heroic Spirit Database into the Brain in a Vat, transforming into a more mature form and deciding to seduce Iori as revenge. When she approached him at the training ground, Iori remained unimpressed, and he later suspected the Brain in a Vat made its users recklessly overconfident.

• Athena used MC and the Brain in a Vat to build a vast virtual tree from the Heroic Spirit Database, then absorbed the completed integration.
• Athena awakened in a transformed body and, thinking of Iori, devised a plan to make him fall for her before abandoning him.
• Athena appeared before Iori at the training ground and awkwardly tried to seduce him in her new form.
• Iori later examined the Brain in a Vat and learned from the Soul King that it was a chaotic lifeform with a conceptual nature, not the Soul King's brain.
• Iori connected Athena's overconfidence to the Brain in a Vat and dismissed her attempted seduction.

Iori chose a new world to visit, where a human reconnaissance pilot discovered a human fighting the Bronze race’s enormous insect swarm. Elsewhere, the stranded crew of the Epimetheus landed on a seemingly uninhabited planet, while the chapter began introducing the galaxy’s great civilizations.

• Iori continued studying Chaldea’s records and used them with the Soul King’s knowledge and his experiences across worlds to build a framework beyond the Three Realms.
• A human soldier received orders to investigate a powerful energy reading, then learned that a Bronze race fleet had been spotted and disobeyed a withdrawal order to search for its hive core.
• The soldier found a vast Bronze race swarm fighting around its own hive and transmitted footage of the battle to his fleet.
• The soldier and his fleet saw a human among the powerful creatures battling the insects.
• The crew of the Epimetheus landed on a remote ocean planet, gathered water, and discussed the danger of their pursuers.
• The chapter began describing the Golden Race as a legendary civilization that had left the universe, then introduced the Silver Race.

A pirate crew discovered a habitable planet and awakened a massive Bronze race brood nest, while Iori arrived and rescued the reconnaissance team aboard Sun God Ra’s Golden Ark. The chapter ended with the humans watching Iori shine above the ship as the insect swarm attacked.

• The captain led his crew to explore a remote habitable planet and ordered them to mine its grasslands.
• The ground split open and a vast Bronze race brood nest rose from beneath the grassland, releasing swarms of insects.
• The captain ordered his crew to flee after learning the nest was a Bronze race warship, then heard that a high school student had transformed into a Golden giant.
• Iori encountered the insect swarm as the reconnaissance team’s airship was destroyed, and he rescued the team aboard Sun God Ra’s Golden Ark.
• The reconnaissance team looked up and saw Iori floating above the Golden Ark, radiant with golden light.

Iori destroyed the insectoid anthill with a controlled combination of the white horse’s divine fire and the World-Saving Divine Blade, leaving a vast inland sea and permanently scarred terrain. The Golden Ark’s crew questioned his identity, while a distant girl sensed a noble being had descended upon their world.

• Iori summoned a pseudo-Sun and unleashed the white horse’s divine fire against the Silver Shield protecting the insectoid anthill.
• Iori halted the white horse’s destructive storm and fused its power with the World-Saving Divine Blade to pierce and destroy the anthill.
• The attacks’ aftershocks erased part of the continental shelf, evaporated vast quantities of seawater, and created an inland sea; Iori celebrated his control over the white horse’s power.
• A golden-haired girl sensed a noble being’s descent and concluded that it had arrived upon her world.
• Aboard the Golden Ark, Eileen and the Epimetheus crew asked Iori whether he was human, and he called himself a traveler who was only a little stronger than usual.
• The crew speculated that the Golden Ark was connected to the Golden Race and noticed a Federal reconnaissance soldier standing among them.

Iori rescued human survivors and pirates, offered them shelter aboard the Golden Ark, and repaired a damaged starship engine while exploring interstellar technology. The Federation’s Captain Augustus arrived to thank him and meet the powerful stranger who had saved their people.

• Iori told the rescued crew they could rest on the planet and promised to return their ship once he had studied its interstellar technology.
• The Federation fleet identified the Golden Ark’s energy as vastly beyond a warship’s firepower, learned that Sergeant Johansen was alive, and Captain Augustus set out to meet Iori.
• The survivors speculated that Iori and the Golden Ark were connected to the Golden Race prophecy while they explored the ship’s upper levels.
• Iori and Athena examined the pirate ship Epimetheus, and Iori restarted its damaged engine by kicking it into operation.
• Iori provided food and water for the survivors, then welcomed Captain Augustus and his guards aboard the Golden Ark and offered them refreshments.

Iori revealed his immense psychic power to Augustus and Reynolds, then began constructing a shipyard and forging a vast warship on the damaged planet. A month later, the ship’s hull had taken shape, and Iori prepared to build its internal systems as a permanent strategic base.

• Augustus asked whether Iori was connected to the Golden Race, and Iori claimed his abilities alone had destroyed the Bronze race ant nest.
• Iori demonstrated his power to Augustus and Reynolds, leaving them convinced that he could kill them with a single gesture.
• Reynolds warned Iori that the two princes could draw him into political struggles, while Augustus admitted they lacked the breadth of mind to rule.
• Iori announced he would stay on the planet to build a shipyard, then caused a volcano to fly toward the group.
• Over the next month, Iori transformed the volcano into a furnace and forged a warship from rare materials using the planet’s heat.
• With the outer hull complete, Iori began preparing the ship’s internal systems for its role as a strategic hub and main base.

Iori completed Uranus, a colossal warship powered by the combined aspects of sun, earth, and steel, and used it to repel the Silver Race and Bronze race assault. He demonstrated the ship’s divine weapons and defenses, then began using the Heavenly Cloud Sword to drain energy from the remaining insect forces.

• Iori named the completed Golden Ark Uranus after it launched from the planet and expanded to a planet-like scale in space.
• The Human Fleet prepared to defend the planet from the Silver Race starship and its Bronze race asteroid nests.
• Uranus absorbed the enemy’s beams and destroyed an asteroid nest with World-Saving Divine Lightning amplified by its divine systems.
• Iori explained how sun, earth, and steel powers and resources from multiple worlds had been combined to build Uranus.
• Iori used King of the World to make Uranus function as a protected world, rendering the enemy’s attacks ineffective.
• Iori inserted the Heavenly Cloud Sword into Uranus’s weapon system and drew energy from the insect army toward the ship.

Iori brought Uranus into the Hero Race’s home star region, whose hyperspace entry triggered violent energy disturbances. Reynolds explained that the Hero Race had once helped other civilizations before changing and descending into clan warfare.

• Uranus emerged from the Star Way and disrupted the unstable, energy-dense star region around the Hero Race’s home planet.
• Reynolds realized his pirate crew would not have survived the region aboard the Epimetheus and was grateful they had joined Iori’s ship.
• Alpha questioned how any race could have lived in the hazardous star region, and Reynolds said it had once held habitable planets and a Star Way.
• Reynolds explained that the Hero Race had once traveled among the stars and helped civilizations facing threats and natural disasters.
• Reynolds said the Hero Race later split into clans and began fighting one another, contrary to the records that described them only as destroyers.

Iori investigated the Golden Race’s barrier around the Hero Race’s ruined home planet and discovered that its fragments were being preserved so the planet could eventually reform. He then sensed a consciousness in one fragment and learned that planets had souls and that destroying a home planet could irreversibly affect its people.

• Iori reasoned that the destruction of the Hero Race’s home planet had triggered their collective madness and led the Golden Race to restrain the survivors.
• Iori entered the Golden Race barrier after its monitoring system recognized him and opened the shield array.
• Iori used the Goddess of Wisdom to determine that the protected asteroid belts would gather and form a planet again in about twenty-one thousand years.
• Iori sensed a mental fluctuation from a cooled planetary core and made contact with it.
• Iori received the planet’s memories and learned that home planets were connected to their inhabitants through invisible bonds, whose severance could harm an entire race.

Iori formed a pact with Gaia, the reborn spirit of the Hero Race’s destroyed home planet, and received a quest to restore it by obtaining body parts from five members of the Hero Race. As the Uranus left the Chaos Star Domain, the Silver Race confronted it, and Iori let the Shinigami crew fight back.

• Iori learned that the Hero Race’s home planet had been destroyed by civil war and that its lingering curse drove the race’s members to fight one another.
• Iori named the planet’s reborn spirit Gaia and formed a pact that tasked him with defeating five members of the Hero Race to restore the planet.
• Iori returned to the Uranus, where Alpha and the crew prepared the ship to leave the chaotic star domain without jumping through unstable space.
• More than a hundred Silver Race ships emerged around the Uranus and formed up for battle.
• Alpha ordered the crew to activate the Dawn Series, and the Uranus exchanged powerful attacks with the Silver Race fleet.
• Silver Race observers identified the Uranus as an unknown and valuable warship and called for more forces to destroy it.

Iori faced Leiketi and Almanderus, who repeatedly rewound time to find a way past his defenses. He anticipated their attacks and hid the Uranus, but as Leiketi pushed herself through more timelines, Iori posed a cryptic question before their battle continued.

• The Silver Race voted to deploy Nodos and capture the Golden Warship for study.
• Iori sensed an attack in space, summoned Susanoo, and repeatedly deflected Leiketi and Almanderus’s time-crossing spear strikes.
• Leiketi rewound time over and over, struggling to understand how Iori could detect and resist Almanderus’s power.
• Iori anticipated an attack on the Uranus, moved the ship into the Mountain and River Scroll, and countered Almanderus by cutting its spear.
• Leiketi continued leaping through Worldlines despite her exhaustion, while Iori prepared to fight and asked what kind of line was most dangerous.

Iori defeated Leiketi and Almanderus by turning their accumulated time-travel karma against them, then destroyed Almanderus in battle. He gained Corrected Blessing, took Leiketi into his small world, and the Silver Race noticed Nodos’s disappearance.

• Iori used the Golden Short Sword to return Leiketi’s accumulated karmic consequences, shattering the ring beneath her and knocking her unconscious.
• Almanderus attacked Iori in a berserk state, but Iori used the Divine Warrior and a spear empowered by Fated Youth and Rushing Through the Wilderness to destroy it.
• Iori opened a spatial rift to Uranus, obtained a stone bracer, and captured Almanderus’s lingering essence in a gemstone.
• Iori received the Corrected Blessing, which let him observe possible futures and reverse time at a cost to his body.
• Iori sent the unharmed Leiketi into his small world rather than returning her to the Silver Race.
• The Silver Race detected that Nodos’s fluctuations had disappeared and considered whether it had been killed or had made a spatial jump.

The Silver Race withdrew after losing Nodos and began debating whether to deploy another one, while Iori traveled toward humanity’s capital as his fame spread across the universe. During a stop on a habitable planet, he built a secluded campsite and hot spring with Ciel, then relaxed alone in the bath.

• The Silver Race warships fled through the Star Way, and Paeato ordered representatives to discuss deploying Yutila of Destruction.
• Iori continued toward humanity’s capital aboard the Uranus as the Human Federation publicized the Golden Ark’s victory and his recognition grew among races across the universe.
• Iori landed on a habitable planet and hosted a banquet with the crew, while Alpha and Beatrix both searched for him.
• Iori and Ciel built a secluded campsite and renovated a natural hot spring, then argued over how the bathing areas should be divided.
• Iori soaked alone in the hot spring beneath the starry sky.

Iori fell asleep in the hot spring while Ciel and Athena argued over who would join him, then competed elsewhere instead. Hippolyta returned to camp and entered the women’s bath, unaware that Iori was nearby; he woke as she approached and wondered whether to reveal himself.

• Iori relaxed in the hot spring and drifted into sleep as Athena arrived at the bathhouse.
• Ciel confronted Athena, and the two discovered the bath curtains had been switched before leaving to settle their conflict with a game competition.
• Hippolyta returned from hunting, noticed Ciel and Athena playing together, and reflected that Athena should admit her feelings for Iori.
• Hippolyta recognized the hot spring and entered the women’s bath, unaware that Iori was inside the neighboring bath.
• Iori woke when Hippolyta approached and debated whether to warn her that he was nearby.

Iori and Hippolyta discussed her regrets over failing to protect Guinevere and her desire to experience human emotions. He agreed to use Athena’s secret art to seal her divinity, but began declaring the transformation before Hippolyta was ready.

• Iori unexpectedly found Hippolyta bathing in the hot spring, and they talked about her past as Guinevere’s Guardian Knight.
• Hippolyta admitted that she felt like a failure and envied Iori’s bond with Ciel and the strength that gave him purpose.
• Iori encouraged Hippolyta to leave her past burdens behind and face a more exciting future as his companion.
• Hippolyta told Iori she wanted to understand human emotions, even if becoming human meant losing her divine power.
• Iori confirmed that Athena’s secret art could seal Hippolyta’s divinity, then began declaring it immediately, leaving her startled.

Iori and the Uranus reached the Human Federation capital region, where the First Prince Meriyagos welcomed him after Iori insisted on meeting outside the capital planet’s star system. The chapter ended with Meriyagos greeting Iori and praising his interstellar travels and achievements.

• Hippolyta woke beside Iori, became embarrassed by their nudity, and revealed that Athena muttered Iori’s name and touched herself.
• Iori traveled with his people aboard the Uranus through Federation territory without further Silver Race attacks.
• A Federation envoy invited Iori to the capital on behalf of Meriyagos, and Iori agreed while refusing to bring the Uranus into the capital star system.
• Iori passed through the capital planet’s defenses and arrived at its spaceport, where he noticed the Vinos Royal Family’s changing image in its historical displays.
• Meriyagos welcomed Iori in person, explained that his siblings were absent, and praised Iori’s exploits and travels.

At a reception on the capital planet, Iori refused to share the Golden Ark’s technology with the Human Federation because doing so would draw the Silver Race’s attention, then asked for information about Princess Dianaira’s expedition. Aboard the Uranus, the defeated Leiketi woke and asked to speak with Iori.

• The First Prince brought Iori to a grand reception, where the gathered dignitaries focused their attention on Iori.
• On a terrace, Meliagros asked about Iori’s origins and sought access to the Golden Ark’s technology, but Iori warned that the Silver Race would target anyone who accepted it.
• Meliagros declined to risk a confrontation with the Silver Race and dismissed the Golden Race’s legacy as myth, describing Dianaira’s interest in finding its Nodos.
• Iori asked for the Argo’s route and coordinates so he could find Dianaira, then implied that Meliagros would not remember their conversation.
• Leiketi woke aboard the Uranus, learned that Iori had spared her, and asked to speak with the one who defeated her.