Chapter Summaries

Fujimaru Ritsuka asked Lawrence whether the happiness in the Singularity was false, troubled by Ryoma and Oryou’s peaceful life. Lawrence reassured him that emotions were real regardless of circumstance and warned him to watch his mental state before investigating the mountain.

• Fujimaru Ritsuka told Lawrence that he felt helpless and asked whether false happiness should be allowed to exist.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka described Ryoma and Oryou’s happiness in the village and repeated the Mountain God’s question about Servants enjoying a brief false happiness.
• Lawrence told Fujimaru Ritsuka that happiness was personal and that the feelings formed through their lives together were genuine.
• Lawrence suspected someone was influencing Fujimaru Ritsuka and warned him not to dwell on the question.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka regained his spirits, and Lawrence told him to be careful during the mountain investigation and monitor his mental state.

Kanna woke from a dream in which Sakumura had killed her father and then left her, while Ritsuka and Nobunaga prepared to investigate the mountain Singularity. At Yoshiro Teahouse, Ritsuka suddenly remembered events from earlier in the Singularity, though he did not know why they had returned.

• Kanna woke in tears after dreaming that Sakumura had killed her father, and she could not remember what happened after Sakumura left.
• Kanna told Ritsuka that she was troubled by illusory hallucinations and said she would wait for him at the mountain gate after lunch.
• Ritsuka and Lawrence discussed Kanna's behavior and planned to investigate the village before heading up the mountain with Nobunaga.
• Nobunaga escaped her paperwork by leaving Nobukatsu with the documents and joining Ritsuka.
• Ritsuka and Nobunaga met Sen no Rikyu at Yoshiro Teahouse, where Ritsuka's memories from earlier in the Singularity suddenly returned.

Fujimaru Ritsuka realized Hoshiguma Yuna had vanished and suspected she was waiting on Black River Mountain under the influence of the Singularity’s creator. He entered the mountain with Sakumura Kanna and Oda Nobunaga, determined to confront whoever was behind the anomaly and reach Yuna.

• Fujimaru Ritsuka suspected Kurokawa Hideo had stolen Oda Nobunaga’s power, and that Yuna’s disappearance was connected to the black substance spreading from the mountain’s crater.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka grew angry at the Singularity’s creator for causing the disappearances and manipulating the villagers, and he clenched his fists.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka found Sakumura Kanna at the mountain gate, and she agreed to let him climb the mountain to resolve the village’s anomaly.
• On Black River Mountain, Hoshiguma Yuna told a shadow that she would fight Fujimaru Ritsuka with all her strength for its sake, then embraced it and promised to fight for its happiness.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka, Sakumura Kanna, and Oda Nobunaga crossed the temple gate and felt an oppressive force as someone watched them from the mountaintop.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka recognized the watcher as Yuna and ran up the mountain to reach her.

Fujimaru Ritsuka, Oda Nobunaga, and Kanna reached the mountain shrine and confronted Hoshiguma Yuna, who stood in their way as the Day-Hiding Demon. As the battle pushed them toward the ridge, Fujimaru spotted a thatched hut that might hold clues to the Singularity.

• Kanna struggled to keep pace with Fujimaru Ritsuka and Oda Nobunaga as they reached the shrine's torii gate.
• Oda Nobunaga tore open the storm, then shot down a hair blade aimed at Fujimaru Ritsuka.
• Hoshiguma Yuna revealed herself as the Day-Hiding Demon and said she had willingly chosen to fight so the entity she served could smile.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka, Oda Nobunaga, and Kanna fought Yuna and Bear Weaver, while the blocked contract left Fujimaru unable to rely on his usual power.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka tried to draw the battle toward the ridge and spotted a tightly shut thatched hut there.

Fujimaru Ritsuka investigated the suspicious hut and lake while Oda Nobunaga fought the Day-Hiding Demon and the Great Brown Bear Demon. After spotting a mysterious figure vanish from the lake, Fujimaru ordered Oda Nobunaga to defeat both demons.

• Hoshiguma Yuna's Day-Hiding Demon attacked Oda Nobunaga, who answered with her Crimson Lotus Karma Fire.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka blasted apart the thatched hut but found nothing different from her previous visit.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka spotted a shadow standing in Lake Kurokawa, but it disappeared when the battle drew her attention away.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka demanded to know why someone had created the Singularity and recorded a message for Chaldea while communications remained blocked.
• Kanna deflected a hair-blade aimed at Fujimaru Ritsuka, who then ordered Oda Nobunaga to defeat the Day-Hiding Demon and the Great Brown Bear Demon.

Fujimaru Ritsuka and Sakumura Kanna confronted the altered Singularity and headed toward the shrine at the summit of Black River Mountain. Ritsuka remembered that this was her third visit and continued on to find the truth behind the Singularity.

• Fujimaru Ritsuka awoke in the woods, cut off from Chaldea, and made her way toward a nearby village.
• Sakumura Kanna remembered her true identity as Sakumura Anno's adopted daughter and the first principal of Kyoto National Elementary School, then armed herself and set out to find him.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka found the village deserted and met Kanna at the mountain gate, where Kanna recognized her as her Master.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka and Kanna discussed who had created the Singularity and climbed Black River Mountain toward the shrine.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka recalled that this was her third visit to the Singularity and entered the shrine, seeking its source.

Fujimaru Ritsuka and Sakumura Kanna confronted Sakumura Anno at Black River Mountain, where the collapsing Singularity revealed a deeper layer containing Oda Nobunaga and Hoshiguma Yuna. Ritsuka woke in another altered world and climbed the mountain, while Kanna demanded that Anno explain why he had created the Singularity.

• Fujimaru Ritsuka and Sakumura Kanna found Sakumura Anno beside the lake and accused him of creating the Singularity, but he vanished into smoke.
• Black River Mountain began collapsing, and Ritsuka pulled Kanna away from a boulder as a blood-red light pulsed beneath the lake.
• Sakumura grasped the Holy Grail, revealed as a red sword, and accepted responsibility for everything born from the Singularity.
• Ritsuka fired the Divine Authority Seal at the thatched hut and realized Oda Nobunaga and Hoshiguma Yuna were on a deeper layer of the world.
• Ritsuka woke alone in another altered world and climbed toward the summit, where Kanna called out to Sakumura Anno and demanded his reasons.

Sakumura Anno admitted that he had deceived Fujimaru Ritsuka to prolong his view of the Singularity’s happiness, then challenged Ritsuka to defeat him. After regaining his memories and contact with Chaldea, Ritsuka climbed the mountain and found Oda Nobunaga, Hoshiguma Yuna, Mama Bear, and Sakumura Kanna at the hut.

• Sakumura Anno confessed that he had used his questions to delay Ritsuka and see the Singularity’s happiness for longer, and told Ritsuka to defeat him.
• Ritsuka woke in the forest with his lost memories restored and communications with Chaldea back online.
• Ritsuka told Lawrence, Leonardo da Vinci, and Mash what had happened, then set out to resolve the Singularity.
• Ritsuka drank the tea left in Sen no Rikyu’s teahouse and climbed to the shrine and mountain hut.
• Ritsuka found Oda Nobunaga, Hoshiguma Yuna, Mama Bear, and Sakumura Kanna at the hut, where Yuna questioned whether the Singularity truly needed to be destroyed.

Fujimaru Ritsuka's group headed toward the lake to find Sakumura, while Kanna, whose memories had returned, resolved to stand beside him. Kanna attacked the group with a blade embodying Black River Mountain's will, and Ritsuka ordered Oda Nobunaga and Hoshiguma Yuna to stop her so they could reach Sakumura.

• White Yukina led the group toward the lake, believing it held the answer and the way to Sakumura.
• Kanna recalled her past with Sakumura and mourned that she had not spoken to the real him, then said she wanted to see him and claim her own happiness.
• Kanna summoned a sword of red light and struck at Oda Nobunaga, forcing her back until Mama Bear caught her.
• Oda Nobunaga identified Kanna's blade as the manifestation of Black River Mountain's will and warned that the mountain had sided with Sakumura.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka ordered Oda Nobunaga and Hoshiguma Yuna to defeat Kanna, and they revealed their true forms as battle began.

Oda Nobunaga and Yukina restrained Sakumura Kanna, shattering the Singularity’s disguise and revealing Sakumura Anno’s true form. Anno transformed into Magatsu Toyokumo no Ayakashi no Mikoto and attacked, while Okita Souji Alter blocked his strike with Purgatory.

• Oda Nobunaga called on Kanna to consider Anno’s pain, and Yukina and Mama Bear subdued her as she broke down in tears.
• The Singularity’s false sky shattered, revealing its true darkness and the crimson ring above it.
• Sakumura Anno declared that he would face his sins and explained that he had created the Singularity to glimpse the peaceful happiness he had never known.
• Anno claimed the name Magatsu Toyokumo no Ayakashi no Mikoto and unleashed his power across Black River Mountain.
• The awakened Okita raised her head at the foot of the mountain as the calamity god attacked Mama Bear, and Okita Souji Alter blocked his sword with Purgatory.

Okita Souji learned of Sakumura Anno’s profound loneliness and confronted him as he became the Magatsu God, a Divine Spirit Servant embodying Black River Mountain. His allies fought to stop him and begged him to return, but Sakumura continued seeking death through battle.

• Okita Souji saw Sakumura Anno’s lonely journey through the provinces and wept as she realized how much he had lost.
• Oda Nobunaga and Mash explained that Sakumura had become a Saber and that his Saint Graph had expanded into a Divine Spirit through the Holy Grail and Black River Mountain.
• Hijikata Toshizo and Saito Hajime blocked Sakumura’s twin sword strikes, while Ryoma and Oryou-san attacked him.
• Sakumura knocked Oryou-san and Ryoma away, then pursued them with a giant naginata.
• Sakumura Kanna lent her power to Hoshiguma Yuna, who restrained Sakumura with strands of hair and pleaded for him to return.
• Sakumura severed Hoshiguma Yuna’s restraints and continued fighting, intent on repaying his sins and dying in battle.

Magatsu Kami, revealed as Sakumura Anno, asked Ryoma whether their dream could have succeeded and summoned Chaldea to destroy his Singularity. As Sakumura’s Reality Marble exposed his loneliness, Okita Soji struck him down and fell with him, but Yukina’s hair intervened to keep him alive.

• Okita Soji attacked Magatsu Kami with her Mumyo Three-Stage Thrust, but her sword could not injure him; he caught her as she fell.
• Magatsu Kami placed Okita Soji on Oryou-san, asked Ryoma whether they could have built a perfect country, and shot an arrow that shattered the artificial sky.
• Magatsu Kami summoned Chaldea to destroy the Singularity and drew everyone into his Reality Marble, where the others witnessed Sakumura’s solitary passage through life.
• Kanna mourned Sakumura, while Okita Soji understood his choice and severed his wings and light.
• Okita Soji embraced Sakumura and fell with him from the cliff, but Yukina’s hair flew out to keep him alive.

Sakumura abandoned her plan to die and asked Lawrence and Leonardo to preserve the Singularity as a temporary vacation spot. As the group settled into the reopened village, Sakumura and Okita Souji visited Sakumura Souji in her shrine.

• Hoshiguma Yuna pulled Sakumura up from beneath the cliff, and Okita Souji slapped him before pleading with him not to die.
• Ryoma and the others reassured Sakumura that they would stay by his side, and Sakumura apologized to Fujimaru Ritsuka for deceiving them.
• Sakumura asked Lawrence and Leonardo to keep the Singularity open for a few days as a tourist attraction, and Lawrence agreed.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka found Sen no Rikyu struggling to resist the matcha at the reopened Yoshiro Tea House while the Shinsengumi gathered there.
• Sakumura and Okita Souji visited Sakumura Souji in her shrine, where Sakumura Souji teased him about the three wings on his back.

Kanna reunited with Sakumura and told him how deeply she had grieved after his death, while accepting that she could only remain his daughter. As Sakumura and Okita stood together beneath the cherry tree, Black Yuna prepared to challenge her for him.

• Black Yukina urged Kanna to approach Sakumura and shoved her toward him when she hesitated.
• Sakumura caught Kanna, and she told him she had missed him and described the life she had lived after his death.
• Kanna explained that she did not blame Sakumura for dying but was still devastated by losing him; Sakumura apologized and comforted her.
• Okita Soji took Kanna's hand, and Sakumura, Okita, and Kanna stood together beneath the cherry tree as a family.
• Kanna realized she could only be Sakumura's daughter, while Black Yuna declared she would challenge Okita and win.

Hoshiguma Yuna challenged Sakumura to a serious fight, and he agreed to meet her above Lake Kurokawa. After explaining that he had taken the Holy Grail and made Kurokawa Hideo his puppet, Sakumura overwhelmed Yuna and Mama Bear, leaving Yuna to surrender.

• Yukina challenged Sakumura to a fight and asked him to listen to her if she won.
• Sakumura agreed to fight Yukina and flew to Lake Kurokawa after asking Okita Soji and Kanna to wait.
• Hoshiguma Yuna accused Sakumura of reviving Kurokawa Hideo, and Sakumura explained that he had made the already-revived man his puppet.
• Yuna transformed into the Day-Hiding Demon and attacked Sakumura alongside Mama Bear.
• Sakumura defeated Mama Bear and countered Yuna's attacks, so Yuna returned to human form and surrendered.

Sakumura healed Mama Bear after nearly killing her in their fight, then used the Mountain God's power to create hot springs. He reunited with the Shinsengumi, reflected on their past, and ended the chapter sharing a happy moment with Okita Soji.

• Lawrence scolded Sakumura for injuring Mama Bear, and Sakumura apologized by creating hot springs beneath Black River Mountain.
• After Mama Bear recovered, Lawrence went to find Leonardo da Vinci, while Sakumura flew to Yoshiro Teahouse to visit the Shinsengumi.
• Saito Hajime noticed Sakumura had changed, and Sakumura said he had glimpsed the world he wanted to see.
• Yamanami Keisuke suggested that Sakumura had created the Singularity to bring everyone together, and Sakumura shared a tender moment with Okita Soji.
• Hijikata Toshizo drove Sakumura and Okita out of the teahouse, and Sakumura wished Kondo Isami and Inoue Genzaburo could have been there.
• Okita told Sakumura that meeting him had been her greatest fortune and happiness, and she looked forward to spending more time with him in Chaldea.

Sakumura Anno shared a peaceful hot spring gathering with Sakamoto Ryoma, Okada Izo, and Takasugi Shinsaku, reflecting on the Singularity he created to imagine a gentler life for them. Ryoma then revealed that Oryou wanted to challenge Sakumura over territory, and promised to support her.

• Okada Izo and Takasugi Shinsaku praised Sakumura’s gentle nature while Ryoma explained that the Singularity let them imagine lives outside their troubled era.
• Takasugi Shinsaku and Okada Izo wrestled in the hot spring as Sakumura imagined a peaceful life studying birds.
• Sakumura told Ryoma that their shared dreams and memories had allowed him to create the Singularity, and Ryoma apologized for leaving him to bear their loss.
• Ryoma said Oryou wanted to challenge Sakumura over territory and promised to support her.

Sakumura fought Oryou-san above Lake Kurokawa while Ryoma watched and prepared to support her. Sakumura overwhelmed Oryou-san with his wings, and Ryoma intervened to block his next attack as the battle continued.

• Oryou-san challenged Sakumura to fight, and he blocked her opening beam with his wings before clashing with her weapon to weapon.
• Oryou-san transformed into human form and attacked Sakumura with Ama-no-Sakahoko while Ryoma waited below with the other spear.
• Sakumura defended passively until he blasted Oryou-san away with his wings and struck her from the air.
• Sakumura used his wings to send Oryou-san plummeting, then hurled a crimson naginata at her.
• Ryoma manifested Ama-no-Sakahoko as a rifle and neutralized Sakumura's attack, allowing the battle to continue.

Ryoma and Oryou-san joined their Noble Phantasm to clash with Sakumura, and Lawrence intervened to keep Ryoma from dying. After the battle, Hijikata Toshizo remembered the Shinsengumi’s fallen “sincerity” as the Shinsengumi present fell silent.

• Ryoma and Oryou-san unleashed [White Dragon, Hasten to Watatsumi Plain] against Sakumura’s [Heartfeather Wheel: Wingless Sparrow’s Cry].
• Lawrence released her Noble Phantasm to prevent Ryoma from dying in the collision, while Sakumura and Ryoma were both injured.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka explained that Takasugi and Okada had been caught in the clash and were still unconscious after receiving basic treatment.
• Saito Hajime and Yamanami Keisuke declined to challenge Sakumura, and Hijikata Toshizo said his duel with Sakumura had ended forever.
• Hijikata Toshizo said the only things worth remembering were his life before his death and the Shinsengumi’s fallen “sincerity,” and Sakumura quietly agreed.

As the Singularity neared its end, Lawrence and Sakumura reflected on the lives and choices that had shaped them, and on the peaceful life Sakumura might have lived in another era. Lawrence urged him to spend the remaining time with the people he loved before returning to his duty, and he flew down toward the village.

• Lawrence watched Black River Upper Village from the mountaintop as Sakumura joined her.
• Lawrence and Sakumura discussed how their historical roles and shared nature had shaped who they became.
• Sakumura admitted he wanted the peaceful life represented by the person he could have been in the village.
• Lawrence told Sakumura to spend more time with Okita Souji and Kanna before his wings vanished and the Singularity ended.
• Lawrence set off to find Ritsuka, while Sakumura spread his wings and flew toward the village.