Chapter Summaries

Kiritsugu Emiya defeated Kirei Kotomine after surviving his reinforced attacks and shot him dead with an Origin Bullet. Kiritsugu left Fuyuki Church, having put his former self and past behind him.

• Kirei Kotomine used Living Step to close in on Kiritsugu Emiya, but Kiritsugu evaded his punch with twentyfold Time Control acceleration.
• Kiritsugu fired a barrage of overlapping shots, and Kirei used a Command Spell to reinforce his body and withstand the bullets.
• The reinforcement severely injured Kirei, and his body collapsed as he lost consciousness.
• Kiritsugu pressed an Origin Bullet to Kirei's forehead and killed him with a shot.
• Kiritsugu left Fuyuki Church without looking back, while the Heavenly Father watched from the cross.

At Ryuudou Temple, Michael explained why Achilles could not defeat Gilgamesh, who then arrived and challenged him. Michael calmly accepted the fight, declaring victory certain before their battle began.

• Michael and Aozaki Aoko gathered at Ryuudou Temple, where he placed the Lesser Holy Grail in the courtyard.
• Aozaki Aoko worried about Achilles fighting Gilgamesh, and Michael explained how Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasms countered Achilles's abilities.
• Gilgamesh appeared at the temple, recognized Sajo Aika as the World-Devouring Goddess, and found Michael impossible to observe with his Star of Wisdom and Omniscience.
• Michael invited Gilgamesh to fight immediately, while Aozaki Aoko offered to gang up on him if needed.
• Michael faced Gilgamesh and declared that victory was already decided.

Michael and Gilgamesh fought in a shadow copy of Fuyuki City, where Gilgamesh unleashed Ea’s Enuma Elish and Michael effortlessly stopped it. Michael recreated Ea and revealed its true power, leaving the shadow world and Gilgamesh erased by his final strike.

• Michael brought Gilgamesh into a colorless shadow of Fuyuki City, separating their battle from the present world.
• Gilgamesh summoned Ea and a host of Noble Phantasms, then fired Enuma Elish at Michael, destroying Fuyuki City in the shadow world.
• Michael halted Gilgamesh’s attack with an unseen barrier and shattered the strike with a gesture.
• Michael analyzed Ea and created an identical weapon, astonishing Gilgamesh.
• Michael drew out Ea’s primordial power and swung it, collapsing the shadow world and erasing Gilgamesh.

After Michael returned from defeating Gilgamesh, the Holy Grail War ended with Arash as the final Servant. Michael kept the corrupted Holy Grail for its uses, while Arash returned to the Throne of Heroes after bidding farewell to Kischurche.

• Aozaki Aoko and Sajo Aika investigated the tremor at Ryuudou Temple, and Aika explained that an unstable space had caused the Ley Line to erupt.
• Michael appeared and confirmed that Gilgamesh had been dealt with, then turned his attention to the damaged Holy Grail.
• Kischurche returned with Arash, completing the final task and bringing the Holy Grail War to an end.
• Arash declined to make a wish and suggested destroying the corrupted Holy Grail, but Michael said he still had uses for it.
• Arash said farewell to Kischurche and returned to the Throne of Heroes, leaving Kischurche melancholy.

Paracelsus chose to remain in the world with Michael and Sajo Aika, and Michael began closing the Fourth Holy Grail War. When the Holy Grail released mud corrupted by All the World's Evil, Aozaki Aoko touched it and endured an illusion that forced her to confront her guilt before Michael dispelled its effects.

• Paracelsus told Michael he wanted to stay in the world, follow him and Lady Aika, and reach the beginning and end of all things.
• Michael offered to summon Paracelsus's true Heroic Spirit body and welcomed him to remain.
• Michael removed the Holy Grail's seal, and black mud seeped through a crack in the gate and flooded Ryuudou Temple.
• Michael explained that the mud contained mana corrupted by All the World's Evil, then put his hand into it as Sajo Aika did the same.
• Aozaki Aoko touched the mud, faced an illusion of guilt and painful choices, and broke free by rejecting its false version of Tōko Aozaki.
• Michael dispelled the lingering effects on Aozaki Aoko and drew back the spreading mud as a black sun poured more of it down like a waterfall.

Michael closed the spatial hole in the sky and offered Aozaki Aoko the chance to become the Third Magic user, but Sajo Aika’s jealous reaction interrupted him. After an earthquake trapped Shirou Sengo beneath rubble, Kiritsugu Emiya and Irisviel went to help survivors, and an unnamed man rescued the boy.

• Michael collapsed the spatial passage by shattering the space around the hole in the night sky.
• Michael offered Aozaki Aoko a part-time role as the Third Magic user, then stumbled when Sajo Aika questioned his words about Aoko.
• Kiritsugu Emiya came upon earthquake damage that reminded him of the past and decided to get out of the car to help.
• Irisviel took Maiya Hisau’s hand and joined Kiritsugu Emiya, saying they were family.
• Shirou Sengo, trapped beneath rubble and nearly out of breath, struck the wall until he lost consciousness.
• An unnamed man caught Shirou Sengo’s hand, pulled him from the rubble, and asked his name.

Byakuya Matou confirmed that Zouken Matou was dead and decided to end the Matou Family’s magecraft tradition. He encouraged Shinji to pursue an ordinary future and falsely told him that Sakura had returned to her original home.

• Byakuya celebrated Zouken’s apparent death and reflected on how he had become the Matou Family’s head without ever wanting its magecraft responsibilities.
• Shinji told Byakuya he planned to study magecraft, but Byakuya urged him to abandon it and aim for Tokyo University instead.
• Shinji agreed to pursue his studies and asked whether Sakura still had to practice magecraft.
• Byakuya claimed Sakura had gone back to her original home and promised Shinji he would see her again when he grew up.
• Byakuya joked with Shinji about growing up and becoming a man.

Kairi Shishigami woke after Chen Gong's departure and was summoned to discuss Sakura Matou's custody with Tokiomi Tohsaka. Michael brought Sakura to her parents, and Kairi arrived to explain the psychological damage she had suffered in the Matou Family.

• Kairi Shishigami woke hungover after drinking with Chen Gong, whose departure left him considering adopting a child and continuing his family's lineage.
• Shafful told Kairi that Michael wanted to see him about Sakura Matou and that Tokiomi Tohsaka was discussing her custody with Michael.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka thanked Wodime and Animusphere for helping him, while Kischurche reflected on how his outlook on mages had changed.
• Michael had Sakura brought to the reception room, where Aoi Tohsaka and Tokiomi saw her vacant expression and asked what had happened.
• Michael said Sakura's temporary guardian, Lord Shishigou, would explain her condition as Kairi Shishigami entered the room.

After learning what Zouken Matou had done to Sakura, Tokiomi and Aoi Tohsaka agreed that Kairi Shishigami would become her guardian. Sakura stayed clinging to Kairi, who promised to treat her as his own daughter and protect her.

• Tokiomi Tohsaka reacted with disbelief as Kairi Shishigami explained that the Matou Family had turned to insect magecraft and that Sakura had suffered there.
• Tokiomi thanked Kairi for saving Sakura, and Sakura ignored her parents' calls to come home while holding on to Kairi's sleeve.
• Michael proposed that Kairi become Sakura's guardian and that Kischurche teach her Imaginary Numbers Magecraft.
• Kairi accepted the guardianship proposal, and Tokiomi agreed that Sakura should be raised outside the Tohsaka family.
• Kairi promised Tokiomi and Aoi that he would treat Sakura as his daughter and keep anyone from bullying her again.

After his death, Kirei Kotomine wandered into a Chinese restaurant where Michael Stefan Animusphere served him mapo tofu and spoke to him about love, flaws, and human worth. Kirei quietly considered Michael’s words as he ate.

• Kirei Kotomine wandered through a white void and arrived at a bustling city street.
• Kirei followed an instinctive calling into a Chinese restaurant and recognized its chef as Michael Stefan Animusphere, the Dead Apostle 20th Progenitor.
• Michael offered Kirei his signature mapo tofu, and Kirei was moved to tears by its taste.
• Kirei asked why the dish tasted bitter, and Michael told him the bitterness represented his life and the world’s love for him.
• Michael told Kirei that human beings were naturally flawed and that everyone had value, comparing people to coins of differing worth.

Michael helped Kirei Kotomine awaken to the joy he felt in suffering and urged him to seek meaning in his nature before sending him back to the world. Hasegawa Kaede and Sakurajima Saori returned home after withdrawing from the Holy Grail War, and their conversation ended with them agreeing on a hopeful future together.

• Michael gave Kirei Kotomine a gold coin that showed him a world consumed by destruction and revealed his delight in its suffering.
• Kirei Kotomine accepted his twisted nature, while Michael told him to seek the meaning of evil before sending him out of the vision.
• Kirei Kotomine awoke at dawn amid the wreckage, with mapo tofu and the gold coin beside him.
• Hasegawa Kaede and Sakurajima Saori returned home after agreeing with Tokiomi Tohsaka to relinquish their Master qualifications in exchange for compensation.
• Hasegawa Kaede described his new story to Sakurajima Saori, and she said she did not dislike his proposed ending of becoming a couple.
• Hasegawa Kaede named the story “Fate” and reflected that each person was the hero of their own story.

After the Fourth Holy Grail War, Tōko Aozaki learned that the Clock Tower had unanimously approved placing her under Sealing Designation for creating a puppet identical to herself. Michael warned her and heard her out as she offered him her puppet-making technique in exchange for his help.

• Kishō's remains returned to the Clock Tower while the fractured El-Melloi family's inheritance drew the other mage families' attention.
• Michael told Tōko Aozaki that the Lords had agreed to place her under Sealing Designation after she transferred her soul and consciousness into a puppet identical to her original body.
• Michael said the Crowning Resolution was still debating whether to strip El-Melloi of its Lord's seat and warned that Sealing Designation enforcers would come for Tōko afterward.
• Tōko realized Michael had come to warn her rather than capture her, and she joked with him about her preference for a wealthy partner.
• Tōko asked Michael for help and offered to trade him her technique for creating the new puppets.

Tōko Aozaki negotiated with Michael for funds and sold him her puppet-making techniques as the Sealing Designation Bureau prepared to pursue her. Before leaving to go into hiding, she entrusted Aoko to Michael and gave him her original body.

• Tōko Aozaki bargained with Michael over her puppet-making techniques, eventually agreeing to sell them for one hundred million pounds before his fifty-percent discount.
• Michael gave Tōko Aozaki a black card with fifty million pounds and warned that executors would soon come to arrest her.
• Michael told Tōko Aozaki that Aoko possessed both the Third and Fifth Magics, though she was publicly known as the Fourth Mage wielding the Fifth Magic.
• Michael revealed that Primate Murder had appeared early in France and that its victims' blood formed a fruit said to grant immortality.
• Tōko Aozaki declined to visit Aoko, entrusted her sister to Michael, and offered him her original body stored in the basement before leaving.

Michael left Touko Aozaki’s workshop after the Sealing Designation Bureau arrived, then spoke with Inolai about Touko and the Bartholomew heiress’s campaign against Primate Murder Anach. Meanwhile, Dawn drove the Mercy Demon's Song across the English countryside.

• Michael found Touko Aozaki’s soulless original body in the workshop basement and stored it in the Imaginary Pocket as the Sealing Designation Bureau arrived.
• Michael greeted Charles Phraaga Makremis and left the workshop, while Charles dismissed a subordinate’s suggestion to detain him and ordered the search to continue.
• Inolai praised Touko’s progress in magecraft and told Michael that the future head of the Bartholomew Family had joined the campaign against Primate Murder Anach.
• Dawn drove the Mercy Demon's Song along a muddy country road while singing along to “yesterday.”

Father Dawn drove through the night to deliver supplies to the Holy Church’s outpost, where Executors were trying to contain Primate Murder Anach after it devoured two towns. He arrived a day late to find the third town mostly lost and the forest hunting the outpost’s defenders.

• Rin called Dawn and added more supplies to his delivery, delaying his arrival at the front.
• Dawn drove for three days on little sleep while considering how poorly ordinary weapons worked against Dead Apostles.
• Dawn reached the outpost a day late and explained to Executor captain Fiona that he had needed to detour for supplies.
• Fiona told Dawn that most of the town had been swallowed, those who entered the forest had vanished, and vampiric monsters were attacking the outpost.
• Dawn and Fiona looked toward the forest and discussed Primate Murder Anach and whether it might leave once it was full.

Dawn and Fiona inventoried the weapons and supplies delivered for the operation against Primate Murder, then Fiona told Dawn that the Fifth Seat wanted to see him. Dawn went to the central church and found Merlin Solomon speaking with a noble girl and a white-haired young man.

• Dawn joked with Fiona about the turmeric and Sichuan pepper powder in the cargo while they inventoried the supplies.
• Fiona told Dawn that the Fifth Seat was waiting for him at the central church.
• Dawn made his way through the town to the church, where an Executor confirmed his identity and directed him to the garden.
• Dawn entered the garden and saw Merlin Solomon talking with a blonde noble girl and a white-haired young man.
• Merlin welcomed Dawn and said he was relieved that the difficult transportation mission had ended safely.

Dawn recognized Rita Rozayanne and Michael Stefan Animusphere, then suffered Michael’s terrifying punishment for their past encounter. Michael and Merlin decided to bring the reluctant Dawn along on their hunt for Primate Murder Anach.

• Dawn identified Rita Rozayanne as the 15th Progenitor and Michael Stefan Animusphere as the 20th Progenitor.
• Dawn remembered helping Merlin raid Michael’s castle and feared Michael still resented him.
• Michael stopped Dawn’s senses and began mutating him until Merlin told him to stop.
• Michael suggested taking Dawn along to hunt Primate Murder Anach, and Merlin agreed.
• Dawn panicked at the prospect and wondered whether Sichuan pepper powder might deter Primate Murder.

Michael met with Rojyan, who asked him to help hunt a Dead Apostle who had stolen Mystic Eyes after he dealt with Primate Murder. Lorelei led Bartholomew’s forces into the Black Forest to face Primate Murder, refusing to retreat from her coming-of-age trial.

• Rojyan teased Michael about his fiancée and their past intimacy, and Michael insisted she remained his dearest friend.
• Rojyan asked Michael to help catch the Dead Apostle who had robbed her Mystic Eyes Collection Train, and she smashed the stone table in anger.
• Lorelei rejected her teacher’s warning against confronting Primate Murder and declared she sought a perfect victory.
• Lorelei’s teacher prepared the Choir’s clone battalion to support her with a defensive ritual and carry out a strike against Primate Murder’s core.
• Lorelei ordered the force to attack, treating Primate Murder as prey for an elegant hunt.

Michael, Merlin, and Dawn journeyed deeper into Primate Murder Anach, the deadly Black Forest that cut mages off from the Greater Source. After finding a slaughtered Holy Church unit, Dawn recognized a dead Executor he had known and realized how helpless he was in the forest.

• Dawn stopped to rest, but a Magic Tree attacked him before Merlin destroyed it with Vacuum Blades.
• Michael explained that the deeper parts of Primate Murder were deadly and that he had entered its deepest region before; Merlin confirmed he had done so.
• The group continued through the forest, where Primate Murder's isolation of the Greater Source severely weakened mages.
• Michael and Merlin found dozens of dead Holy Church fighters among the remains of shattered Magic Trees.
• Dawn recognized the dead Executor as someone he had trained with, mourned his death, and accepted that survival depended on staying close to Michael and Merlin.

Michael, Merlin, and Dawn rested in a burned clearing in Primate Murder’s Black Forest while Merlin explained that he wanted Anash’s crimson fruit to suppress Arcueid Brunestud’s bloodlust. The chapter ended with Michael and Merlin discussing the emotions that make True Ancestors vulnerable.

• Michael burned the forest around them into a glassy dead zone, and the group settled there for the night.
• Dawn went to sleep while Michael and Merlin shared divine wine beside the fire.
• Michael asked Merlin why he had brought him into the Black Forest, and Merlin said he wanted Anash’s crimson fruit.
• Merlin explained that he hoped the fruit would suppress Arcueid Brunestud’s bloodlust so she could leave the Thousand Year Castle.
• Michael suggested removing the bloodlust through soul surgery, but Merlin said a True Ancestor’s emotions were part of its existence.