Chapter Summaries

Fujimaru Ritsuka and his allies used Ritsuka’s blood to lure the fire-trapped Wolf King Robert into an ambush. Robert charged after them through the flames, and the chapter ended as he dodged the first two bear traps.

• Lawrence prepared a huge bear trap while Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty, and the others agreed that Ritsuka’s blood could draw Robert out of the fire.
• Holmes obtained a gem potion from Lawrence, and Artoria rode toward the flames with Ritsuka on her motorcycle.
• Ritsuka cut himself and spilled his blood, prompting Robert to charge through the wall of fire toward him.
• Artoria sped away with Ritsuka, but the burned Robert kept pace, fixated on its prey.
• Robert dodged the first two bear traps as Da Vinci and Mash monitored the ambush.

Anno and the others defeated Wolf King Robert at the final trap, but let it crawl away as Cavall II followed it. Robert mistook Cavall II for Blanka before dissolving, and the Chaldeans prepared to head to Gunshaft Tower and face their remaining enemies.

• Artoria drove the motorcycle over the final trap, and Wolf King Robert was caught as Anno struck it with his black holy sword.
• Anno stopped Artoria from killing Robert, explaining that it could no longer find its vanished homeland and could not recognize Cavall II as anything but Blanka.
• Cavall II caught up to the wounded Robert and licked it as Robert realized its homeland was gone and remembered its family.
• Robert mistook Cavall II for Blanka, saw a vision of its homeland, and dissolved into golden motes as Cavall II mourned beside it.
• The Chaldeans prepared to rest before going to Gunshaft Tower to confront Emiya Alter and James Moriarty.

Emiya Alter prepared Gunshaft Tower for Chaldea's attack while Moriarty insisted the timing was not right for his scheme. After Chaldea celebrated Cavall II's victory, Sherlock Holmes returned with Moriarty and said they had found something during their outing.

• Emiya Alter and Moriarty discussed the remaining defenses at Gunshaft Tower, and Emiya Alter took command of the Sparrow Bees and ordered traps and heavy weapons prepared.
• Artoria praised Cavall II for helping secure a victory and promised to upgrade his dog food, while Fujimaru Ritsuka joked about the dog's royal status.
• Sherlock Holmes returned, and Fujimaru Ritsuka's greeting left James Moriarty dejected about being called an old man.
• Sherlock Holmes dismissed Moriarty's complaints and told Fujimaru Ritsuka that he and Moriarty had discovered something while out together.

Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others planned how to overcome Emiya Alter’s heavily armed ambush on the route to Gunshaft Tower. They decided to distract the defenders from the front while launching Anno and Artoria into the center of the formation from above, then left to carry out the plan.

• Sherlock Holmes warned that Moriarty might be able to control a meteor as a bullet, and Leonardo da Vinci began searching for larger celestial targets from 1999.
• The group examined photographs of Emiya Alter’s defenses and concluded that a direct assault would expose them to overwhelming firepower.
• Lawrence proposed bypassing the defenses by launching their strongest combatants over the formation, and Fujimaru Ritsuka agreed to the plan.
• Anno volunteered to build the launching device, while Lawrence was assigned to draw the defenders’ fire with her Noble Phantasm.
• Sherlock Holmes and Leonardo da Vinci took responsibility for planning the route, and the group set out toward Gunshaft Tower.

Moriarty and Chaldea launched a surprise attack on Emiya Alter’s stronghold using a catapult and a motorcycle decoy. Artoria struck the Sparrow Bees’ defenses from above, while Anno landed before Emiya and challenged him to a sword fight.

• Moriarty built a giant catapult with Lawrence’s gemstones, and da Vinci claimed she had already patented the design.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka and the others coordinated with Lawrence, who used an amplified motorcycle to lure Emiya Alter’s forces away from the stronghold.
• Emiya heard the motorcycle and sent Sparrow Bees to investigate while he followed behind them.
• Moriarty launched Artoria from the rooftop catapult, and she landed at the stronghold and attacked the Sparrow Bees.
• Emiya ordered his surviving troops to fire at Artoria, but Anno landed before him and challenged him to a sword fight.

Fujimaru Ritsuka and his allies used a smoke bomb and the rampaging Coloratura Songstresses to break past Emiya and reach the Gunshaft Tower. Moriarty went inside to confront Evil Professor Moriarty, while Emiya prepared to seal the entrance behind them.

• Artoria threatened to kill Emiya if he continued opposing her, while Anno challenged him alongside her.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka launched a smoke bomb at Emiya’s forces, and Sherlock Holmes led the Coloratura Songstresses into the battle.
• Emiya discovered that James Moriarty had been disguised as a Sparrow Bee, then let the group proceed toward the Gunshaft Tower.
• Moriarty declared that he would personally destroy his dream, and Fujimaru Ritsuka rode to the tower with Lawrence as the Servants followed.
• Anno entered the Gunshaft Tower with the group, while Emiya ordered the Sparrow Bees to seal its entrance with an explosion.

Fujimaru Ritsuka and the Servants fought their way through the Gunshaft Tower, where they discovered far more Phantom Spirits than expected. As they advanced toward a powerful enemy upstairs, Leonardo da Vinci explained that Andersen saw in Ritsuka both an enduring childlike heart and the potential to destroy everything.

• Mash detected Sparrow Bees, Coloratura Songstresses, King Lear, and Demonic Beast Chimeras inside the Gunshaft Tower, surprising Lawrence and the others.
• Lawrence used Gem Shields and a Mirror Boundary explosion to clear the Sparrow Bees from the first floor.
• Anno and Artoria fought through the Coloratura Songstresses in the stairwell while Fujimaru Ritsuka supported them with spells.
• Lawrence sensed a powerful Phantom Spirit upstairs and warned that it resembled King Lear but was not him.
• Leonardo da Vinci explained that Shakespeare valued Ritsuka as a source for a story, while Andersen saw both a childlike heart and a capacity for destruction in him.

Anno, Artoria, and Fujimaru Ritsuka’s group fought their way to the top of Gunshaft Tower, where they confronted the evil Moriarty. Moriarty revealed that killing him would end the Shinjuku Singularity, and Fujimaru ordered Saber to attack.

• Anno and Artoria defeated Macbeth by piercing his Spirit Core with their swords.
• Mash detected Emiya Alter following the group, but Anno and Artoria chose to press on past the three descending King Lears.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka’s group reached the top of Gunshaft Tower and met the evil Moriarty, while the good Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes observed him.
• Moriarty said he had calculated Fujimaru’s arrival and explained that a meteorite would become a magic bullet aimed through Gunshaft Tower.
• Moriarty confirmed that killing him would end Shinjuku, and Fujimaru ordered Saber to attack him.

Anno, Artoria, and their allies defeated Evil Moriarty, who vanished after declaring it was time for his exit. Sherlock Holmes warned that the crisis was not over when the Holy Grail failed to appear and Demon God Pillars emerged atop Gunshaft Tower.

• Evil Moriarty fought Chaldea's group while claiming that the battle's outcome had been predetermined.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mash, and Sherlock Holmes questioned the mismatch between Moriarty's powerful Saint Graph and his limited output.
• Good Moriarty directed Lawrence to attack Evil Moriarty's flank, creating an opening for Anno and Artoria.
• Anno cleaved Evil Moriarty's coffin apart, and Artoria pierced his Spirit Core with her Holy Sword.
• Evil Moriarty vanished in a streak of golden light, and Mash confirmed that his Saint Graph had been eradicated.
• Sherlock Holmes warned that the matter was not over when the Holy Grail failed to appear and Demon God Pillars manifested.

Baal appeared at Gunshaft Tower and revealed that he had spent three thousand years planning to kill Fujimaru Ritsuka out of hatred. Sherlock Holmes connected Baal’s plan to an anomaly in human history and demanded to know how closely Baal was tied to James Moriarty.

• Baal emerged in humanoid form at Gunshaft Tower and accused Fujimaru Ritsuka of ruining the Demon God Pillars’ three-thousand-year plan.
• Anno and Artoria stood between Baal and Ritsuka as Baal declared that killing Ritsuka was his reason for destroying the world.
• Holmes recognized Baal’s scheme as the anomaly Manlio had investigated and recalled the prediction that humanity would be destroyed in 2018 even without the Incineration of Humanity.
• Baal revealed that his fusion of Heroic Spirits and Phantom Spirits came from three thousand years of research into human legends and identified himself as one of Solomon’s seventy-two Demon Gods.
• Holmes pointed at Baal and demanded to know how deeply he was connected to James Moriarty.

Moriarty revealed that he had betrayed the group and used Sherlock Holmes’s power to pursue his plan, while Anno’s apparent alliance with Ritsuka was exposed as a deception. The chapter ended with Anno identifying himself as the Saber of Shinjuku, implanted with the Phantom Spirit Laomedon the Great Deceiver and allied with Moriarty and Baal.

• Anno threw a Holy Sword at Sherlock Holmes, but Moriarty used Holmes as a shield and escaped with him in black mist.
• Moriarty returned in his former evil appearance and declared that he had gained Holmes’s power and betrayed the group.
• Anno said the group could not defeat Baal, then walked to Moriarty as Ritsuka’s contract with him disappeared.
• Moriarty identified Baal and Anno as the final members of the Phantom Demon Alliance and listed the alliance’s members.
• Anno revealed that his contract with Ritsuka and his Saint Graph had been deceptions, and that he was the Saber of Shinjuku, implanted with Laomedon the Great Deceiver.

James Moriarty explained how he and Demon God Baal created an Imaginary City in Shinjuku to overcome the inevitability that Holmes would defeat him. Moriarty revealed that he had erased his memories and goodness to infiltrate the group, and the chapter ended with Emiya Alter appearing as Baal and Anno Alter were exposed.

• Moriarty explained that Shinjuku was an Imaginary City where Phantom Spirits and Heroic Spirits could be fused.
• Moriarty said he allied with Baal to kill Fujimaru Ritsuka, while Moriarty sought to surpass Sherlock Holmes.
• Moriarty explained that he believed he could defeat Holmes only by becoming someone on Holmes’s side, and Fujimaru Ritsuka realized Moriarty had genuinely been their ally before his betrayal.
• Moriarty revealed that he, Baal, and Anno Alter had erased their memories and that he had played the role of Good Moriarty while Anno acted as his suspecting companion.
• Anno knocked away a bullet, and Emiya Alter appeared atop the tower, identifying Baal and Anno Alter.

Anno revealed that he had chosen to aid Baal out of a desire to act freely, then fused with the Demon God Pillar to pursue his revenge. Chaldea and Emiya prepared to fight the fused Anno and Baal, with Emiya wielding Anno’s blackened Holy Sword.

• Emiya admitted that his contract required him to fight alongside Anno, while Anno explained that a Phantom Spirit had imposed the contract and granted him Deception.
• Anno said he had helped Baal because he wanted a brief taste of freedom, and Baal proposed that Chaldea and Emiya join forces against him.
• Emiya agreed to leave the Demon God Pillars to Fujimaru Ritsuka, while Moriarty declared that his revenge and righteousness would end in the coming battle.
• Baal fused with Anno, turning the Demon God Pillar into twin swords and transforming the White Knight into an evil form.
• Emiya retrieved Anno’s Holy Sword from the tower wall and took it into battle, while Lawrence shielded Fujimaru Ritsuka and Artoria from Moriarty’s magical bullets.
• Emiya charged the fused Anno and Baal with the black Holy Sword as Fujimaru Ritsuka’s group advanced.

Emiya defeated Demon God Baal, fused with Anno, by trapping it in his Reality Marble and using Unlimited Lost Works. Baal’s final words ended its alliance with Moriarty, while Artoria continued fighting Moriarty and Baal still seemed to have something to say to Fujimaru Ritsuka.

• Emiya used the Holy Sword’s light to wound Baal, then drew Baal into his Reality Marble when it charged toward Fujimaru Ritsuka.
• Emiya fired a bullet that deployed his Reality Marble inside Baal and released its swords, tearing Baal apart with Unlimited Lost Works.
• Baal’s body began forcibly regenerating and unleashed a self-destructive magical bombardment, blasting Emiya into a wall.
• Emiya drank Lawrence’s gemstone potion as Baal collapsed and declared its alliance with Moriarty over.
• Moriarty bid farewell to Baal and Anno, while Fujimaru Ritsuka stared down Baal as it seemed to have one last thing to say.

Moriarty revealed that the Bennu Bird meteorite was the seventh bullet of Der Freischütz, destined to strike Fujimaru Ritsuka and destroy Shinjuku. He explained that he had gambled on this outcome by manipulating Baal and erasing both their memories, then left Ritsuka realizing the plan had been set in motion for his sake.

• Baal declared that Fujimaru Ritsuka would die, then vanished and left Anno behind.
• Anno admitted that fusing with Baal had severely weakened him, said goodbye, and disappeared in golden light.
• Artoria prepared to kill Moriarty, but he warned that she and the planet were already finished.
• A meteorite identified as the predicted Bennu Bird appeared over Shinjuku despite Sheba's surveillance.
• Moriarty explained that the Bennu Bird was Der Freischütz's demon-controlled seventh bullet and would strike the person most important to the shooter.
• Moriarty revealed that he had arranged the plan with Baal by weakening himself and erasing their memories, and Fujimaru Ritsuka began to realize what that meant.

Moriarty revealed that he had made Fujimaru Ritsuka someone precious to him so he could use goodness to destroy goodness, while the magic bullet threatened Gunshaft Tower. As Artoria and Emiya left to try to stop the meteor, a mysterious laughing figure appeared before Moriarty.

• Moriarty declared that he cherished Fujimaru Ritsuka and planned to crush goodness by becoming good, while claiming Sherlock Holmes was his power.
• Artoria picked up Anno's Holy Sword, [Chalkiness of Sighs], and left with Emiya to combine their Holy Swords against the meteor.
• Da Vinci told Lawrence that a causality-based weapon prevented Fujimaru Ritsuka's Spiritron Transfer, leaving him trapped at Gunshaft Tower.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka told Moriarty he did not regret staying, and Moriarty began to respond.
• A sphere of light flew past Moriarty as a mysterious figure laughed, causing Moriarty to retreat and demand to know who was there.

Edmond Dantès, Jeanne d'Arc Alter, Shakespeare, and Andersen arrived at Gunshaft Tower as reinforcements for Fujimaru Ritsuka, startling Moriarty. Andersen said he had something to give Ritsuka, while Shakespeare confronted Moriarty about absorbing Sherlock Holmes.

• Edmond Dantès arrived and urged Ritsuka to run through hell with him again.
• Jeanne d'Arc Alter appeared beside Dantès, revealed that Lawrence's jewel elixir had helped her survive, and brought reinforcements.
• Shakespeare and Andersen emerged, and Ritsuka welcomed them despite Andersen's complaints about Shinjuku.
• Andersen said he had something to give Ritsuka, while Shakespeare asked Moriarty whether Holmes no longer existed because Moriarty had absorbed him.

William Shakespeare and Hans Christian Andersen summoned phantom detectives to help Fujimaru Ritsuka fight James Moriarty. The detectives offered their power to Fujimaru, telling him that only he could attack Moriarty.

• William Shakespeare explained that James Moriarty had absorbed Sherlock Holmes and gained the advantage of Holmes's power.
• William Shakespeare and Hans Christian Andersen unleashed their Noble Phantasms, summoning Phantom Spirits at the top of Gunshaft Tower.
• Father Brown and the other phantom detectives introduced themselves to Fujimaru Ritsuka and explained that they had come to help.
• The phantom detectives told Fujimaru that he had to accept their power and attack James Moriarty himself.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka became determined as the detectives offered him the power of all the gathered spirits.

Fujimaru Ritsuka and the Phantom Spirits fought James Moriarty after he drew on the Holy Grail’s power. As Artoria Alter and Emiya prepared to stop the falling Bennu Bird, Ritsuka stepped forward and accused Moriarty of being the culprit.

• Jeanne d'Arc Alter recounted what had happened, and Moriarty revealed the Holy Grail’s magical energy as he prepared to fight seriously.
• Lawrence weakened Moriarty with her Noble Phantasm and shielded Fujimaru Ritsuka while Edmond Dantès and Jeanne d'Arc Alter attacked him.
• Artoria Alter and Emiya prepared to destroy the Bennu Bird and Gunshaft Tower before the meteor struck.
• Moriarty seized the Holy Grail and tried to overwhelm his opponents, but Round-faced Father Brown prompted Fujimaru Ritsuka to act.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka stepped forward, pointed at Moriarty, and declared, "You are the culprit!!!"

Moriarty realized that being exposed as the culprit weakened him, and learned that his attachment to the time he spent with Fujimaru Ritsuka had made his defeat inevitable. After Artoria and Emiya destroyed the Bennu Bird, Moriarty apologized to Ritsuka before disappearing, but Ritsuka refused to dismiss him as someone else.

• Moriarty lost his strength when he acknowledged that he was the culprit, and he asked Fujimaru Ritsuka why his plan had failed.
• Fujimaru Ritsuka, Lawrence, Mash, and Leonardo da Vinci explained that Moriarty had been happy while fighting alongside them, and Moriarty admitted that he had wavered because he had never experienced justice before.
• Artoria unleashed Excalibur Morgan and Chalkiness Morgan to destroy the Bennu Bird and its meteor, while Emiya shot the falling fragments into debris.
• Moriarty apologized to Ritsuka for betraying and manipulating him, then asked him to think of the villain before him as a terrorist who merely shared the same face as his former self.
• Ritsuka refused Moriarty’s request.