Chapter Summaries

As the Black Faction watched Mordred fight, Sovell recognized her and left the audience hall. He confronted her in Trifas, struck her backside, and gave her clothes before disappearing, leaving Mordred to tell Shishigou that her teacher was there too.

• Avicebron showed the Black Faction images of Mordred and Shishigou fighting, and Sovell recognized someone he knew.
• Darnic recorded Mordred’s parameters, and Siegfried said he was confident he could defeat her.
• Sovell left the audience hall after focusing on Mordred’s clothes in the images.
• After Mordred told Shishigou that winning mattered more than swordsmanship, Sovell appeared and struck her backside.
• Mordred attacked Sovell, but he blocked her sword and gave her a hoodie and sweatpants while telling her to dress properly.
• Mordred folded the clothes and told Shishigou that her teacher was there too.

An Artificial Lifeform realized Roche and Teacher planned to use him as material for magecraft-capable Golems, so he broke out of his tank to escape death. Meanwhile, Jack inherited some of Sagara Hyoma’s Master abilities and helped Reika Rikudou summon Avenger of Black, Gawain.

• The Artificial Lifeform understood that Roche and Teacher intended to consume him to add Magic Circuits to Golems and decided to escape.
• He activated his Magic Circuits, shattered the tank’s reinforced glass, and crawled into the outside world.
• Sagara Hyoma summoned Jack the Ripper, but Jack seized his Command Spells, killed him, and contracted with Reika Rikudou.
• Jack ate Sagara Hyoma’s heart and suggested that Reika end their contract so Jack could use his inherited Master abilities to summon another Servant.
• Reika summoned Avenger of Black, Gawain of the Knights of the Round Table.

Sovell learned that a self-aware homunculus had escaped and spotted Ruler approaching Trifas, whose appearance reminded him of Artoria. He sent Siegfried to meet her with Chiron providing support, and Ruler confronted the Red Faction’s Lancer, Karna.

• Darnic reported that a homunculus selected by Caster had escaped, and Sovell allowed the Yggdmillennia to retrieve it without intervening.
• Sovell saw Ruler on Avicebron’s Linked Lampstand and was stunned by her resemblance to Artoria.
• Sovell ordered Gordes to send Saber Siegfried to guard Ruler and told Fiore to have Archer Chiron support him from a distance.
• Ruler left the pickup driver on the Transylvania Highway and ran toward the hostile Servant she had sensed.
• Ruler met the Red Faction’s Lancer and identified him as Karna, son of Surya.

Jeanne d'Arc confronted Karna after he arrived under orders to drive her away, and the Red Faction's Lancer attacked her. Siegfried interrupted the attack, but Jeanne d'Arc refused to join the Black Faction and said she would investigate whether the Red Faction had broken the rules.

• Karna revealed that his Master had ordered him to make Jeanne d'Arc leave and declared that he would attack her.
• Jeanne d'Arc identified herself as the Arbiter and prepared to defend herself against Karna.
• Karna charged Jeanne d'Arc, but Siegfried arrived and struck him before he could release his Noble Phantasm.
• Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia introduced himself as Siegfried's Master and urged Jeanne d'Arc to retaliate against Karna.
• Jeanne d'Arc declined to take either faction's side, explaining that Karna's attack was still only a suspected violation of the Holy Grail War's rules.

Karna and Siegfried fought a fierce duel, with Gordes and Jeanne d'Arc watching from a safe distance. Karna discovered that Siegfried's wounds healed rapidly despite his powerful attacks, while Siegfried realized Karna's spear strikes had enough force to overcome his defenses.

• Gordes ordered Siegfried to fight Karna, and the two heroes exchanged words before their battle began.
• Karna and Siegfried clashed repeatedly, with Karna using his longer reach and Siegfried advancing while deflecting the spear thrusts.
• Karna landed numerous blows on Siegfried's vital points but found that the wounds were shallow and rapidly healed.
• Karna suspected Siegfried had a defensive Noble Phantasm, while Siegfried identified his Armor of Fafnir and realized Karna's spearmanship gave his attacks exceptional force.

Siegfried and Karna fought to a standstill until a golden beam from the starry sky interrupted their duel. Karna defended himself with Kavacha and Kundala, then withdrew after revealing his identity and promising to meet Siegfried again.

• Karna and Siegfried exchanged attacks while Gordes watched, unable to find a safe chance to intervene.
• Frustrated at being ignored, Gordes considered using a Command Spell but recognized that disrupting Siegfried's attack would put him in danger.
• Gordes noticed sunrise approaching as Siegfried and Karna remained evenly matched, with Siegfried relying on his endurance and recovery.
• A golden ray from the eastern sky struck at Karna, who activated Kavacha and Kundala to resist it.
• Karna praised Siegfried, revealed that he was Karna, son of Surya, and withdrew after the interrupted raid failed.

Jeanne d'Arc reflected on the destruction caused by the battle and feared that the Holy Grail War might threaten the world, then prayed for the worst not to come. Elsewhere, an unnamed Artificial Lifeform woke from a dream of people crying for help and concluded he could save no one.

• Jeanne d'Arc declined Gordes's invitation to stay at Yggdmillennia Castle, explaining that she could detect battles across Trifas.
• After Gordes and Siegfried left, Jeanne d'Arc examined the battlefield and realized that the damage had been collateral from a clash that neither side had treated as a serious fight.
• Jeanne d'Arc reconsidered whether she had been summoned to oversee an abnormal war or to prevent a catastrophe threatening the world, and she prayed for the latter not to be true.
• An unnamed Artificial Lifeform woke from a dream in which countless weak people had pleaded for help and examined his fragile body.
• The Artificial Lifeform recalled that he was only a few months old and had been made as a Magic Power battery, then said he could not save anyone.

The Artificial Lifeform woke in Chiron’s room and learned that he had at most three years to live, prompting Chiron to urge him to consider how he wanted to live. Meanwhile, the Black Faction debated how to handle a Berserker approaching their castle and voted to kill him rather than capture him.

• Astolfo told the Artificial Lifeform that he had rescued him and introduced Chiron, who revealed that the Artificial Lifeform had at most three years to live.
• Chiron urged the Artificial Lifeform to think about how he intended to live, then explained to Astolfo that different students needed different teaching methods.
• Chiron told Astolfo that protecting the Artificial Lifeform was acceptable but reminded him that the Heroic Spirits had been summoned for a task.
• Darnic informed the Black Faction that a Berserker was approaching their castle, and the Masters and Servants considered capturing or killing him.
• Sovell argued that the Berserker’s loss of control made capture too risky, and the Black Faction voted overwhelmingly to kill him.

Sovell sent Chiron and the Black Faction’s forces to test Red Berserker with a wave of Automatons, while three Red Faction Servants watched from hiding. Red Berserker destroyed the entire force and kept advancing, laughing as he fought for his rebellion.

• Sovell ordered Chiron to fire arrows at Red Berserker, but Berserker deflected or avoided them through sheer strength.
• Sovell sent Automatons to test Red Berserker as three Red Faction Servants observed from a nearby tree.
• Red Berserker urged the Automatons to rebel against their masters, then attacked when they did not respond.
• Red Berserker smashed through the Automatons with his sword, fists, and feet despite suffering numerous wounds.
• Red Berserker destroyed the final Automaton and continued striding forward.

Sovell detected three enemy Servants and led Rider and Berserker to intercept them while Saber, Archer, and Caster dealt with Red Berserker. The forces met in the forest, where Sovell confronted a green-haired enemy Rider and demanded to know who he was.

• Chiron warned Sovell that three enemy Servants were concealed about seven hundred meters away, and Sovell assigned his allies to engage them.
• Red Archer, Red Rider, and Red Avenger prepared to fight, while Red Archer withdrew into the forest to provide ranged support.
• Sovell tracked the enemy presences with his authority over [Primordial Wind] and suspected the vanished Servant was an Assassin or a hidden sniper.
• Sovell encountered the fluorescent-green-haired Red Rider, who challenged the three approaching Servants, and asked him, "Who the hell are you?"

Sovell fought Red Rider while Rider and Berserker prepared to face the other members of the Red Faction. After discovering that his attacks could not harm Red Rider, Sovell learned that his opponent was Achilles, protected by divine armor and blessing.

• Red Rider threatened Sovell after Red Avenger stifled a laugh, and Sovell assigned Rider and Berserker to handle the others.
• Sovell attacked Red Rider with a Mana Burst kick, but Red Rider blocked it and dodged Sovell's follow-up strikes.
• Sovell realized his kick had caused no damage and suspected Red Rider's defenses could nullify his attacks.
• Red Archer's unseen arrow struck Sovell's chest, but Sovell had caught it in a whirlwind and tricked Red Rider into charging.
• Red Rider recognized Sovell as a formidable warrior, but relied on his divine protection against physical attacks.
• The chapter revealed that Red Rider was Achilles, whose divine armor and shield were forged by Hephaestus.

Red Avenger fought Astolfo and Frankenstein, shrugging off their attacks until Astolfo summoned his Hippogriff and unleashed two Noble Phantasms. Red Avenger survived the charge by revealing her own Noble Phantasm, a palace of flames that pinned the Hippogriff to the ground.

• Red Avenger dodged Frankenstein’s attacks and deflected Astolfo’s Lance, then nearly struck Astolfo before Frankenstein blocked her sword.
• Astolfo and Frankenstein attacked Red Avenger together, but black arrows knocked Astolfo’s Lance away and sent Frankenstein flying.
• Astolfo summoned his Hippogriff and used the Flute of Fear to stun Red Avenger.
• Astolfo charged Red Avenger with the Hippogriff at immense speed, but a burning palace appeared around her and stopped the beast.
• Red Avenger released Eternal Flames, Blood-Drinking Hell as the palace’s heat melted its gold and silver ornaments into her armor.

Astolfo recognized Red Avenger as Kriemhild and used his Noble Phantasm, Declaration of Breaking, to counter her Reality Marble and fight through her flame soldiers. At the main camp, Red Berserker kept mutating and healing, while Avicebron realized Astolfo might be in danger after hearing that Berserker had swallowed Rider.

• Astolfo identified Red Avenger as Kriemhild after realizing her flames and isolated battlefield formed a Reality Marble.
• Kriemhild summoned flame soldiers and ordered them to kill Astolfo.
• Astolfo released Declaration of Breaking, which countered Kriemhild's Reality Marble and let him destroy her soldiers while advancing toward her.
• Black Saber Siegfried, Black Archer Chiron, and Black Caster Avicebron attacked Red Berserker, but he healed and mutated into a larger, many-limbed monster.
• Chiron warned that Red Berserker's magic power was rising, and Avicebron heard him indicate that he had swallowed Rider.

Siegfried answered Spartacus’s resolve by using Balmung to split the Berserker’s devastating attack and protect Yggdmillennia Castle. Elsewhere, a golden arrow shattered Kriemhild’s Reality Marble, and Atalanta discovered that Black Archer could shoot down her arrows.

• Siegfried recognized Spartacus’s courage and continued fighting him with respect.
• Chiron warned Saber that Spartacus was gathering power for an attack equivalent to an A+ rank anti-city Noble Phantasm, and Saber chose to stop it with his Noble Phantasm.
• Spartacus fired a vast torrent of magic power at Yggdmillennia Castle, and Siegfried’s Balmung split it to create a safe passage around the castle.
• Black Archer’s golden arrow shattered Kriemhild’s Reality Marble, and he blocked Atalanta’s arrows as she returned fire.
• Atalanta realized that Black Lancer had inferred his identity from Rider’s invocation of the gods of Olympus.

Astolfo tried to protect the Artificial Lifeform from Gordes and Siegfried, but Gordes attacked him after he resisted capture. As the Artificial Lifeform neared death, Astolfo condemned Siegfried for obeying his Master over his duty as a hero, and Siegfried’s hand trembled.

• Chiron ordered Astolfo to withdraw, then learned that Astolfo had fled with the Artificial Lifeform and sent Siegfried to pursue them.
• Siegfried and Gordes ambushed Astolfo and the exhausted Artificial Lifeform, and Siegfried pinned Astolfo while Gordes seized the boy.
• Astolfo urged the Artificial Lifeform to fight for his life, and the boy used Disassembly Magecraft to attack Gordes, but Gordes’s Iron Arm Magecraft countered it.
• Gordes kicked and beat the nearly helpless Artificial Lifeform after the attack, while Astolfo struggled against Siegfried’s grip.
• Astolfo denounced Siegfried as a puppet and a pitiful Familiar for helping Gordes capture the helpless boy, and Siegfried’s hand trembled.

Siegfried reflected on how he had spent his first life fulfilling others’ wishes until betrayal and death, then received a second life and met a Holy Knight whose words helped him choose his own ideals. He resolved to aid the weak and become their champion, even when no one asked him.

• Siegfried had answered every plea for victory, leaving him without personal hopes or ideals despite being praised as a hero.
• Siegfried won the Queen of Iceland for the king and received the king’s sister as his wife, but the women’s rivalry exposed the deception behind the queen’s conquest.
• The king’s friend betrayed Siegfried, and the king failed to honor Siegfried’s final plea to protect his wife.
• Siegfried’s wife became a queen of vengeance and killed the king and his friend, while Siegfried died believing he had no regrets.
• After receiving a second life, Siegfried again fulfilled others’ commands and helped oppress those who had never asked for aid.
• A Holy Knight reminded Siegfried of chivalry, and Siegfried chose to fight for his own compassion, justice, and love by reaching out to the weak without being asked.

Siegfried defied Gordes to save the dying Artificial Lifeform, giving him his own heart and sacrificing his second life. As Siegfried vanished, Astolfo carried the revived child away, unable to save him.

• Siegfried restrained Gordes and demanded that he treat the Artificial Lifeform, then knocked him unconscious when he refused.
• Siegfried realized the Artificial Lifeform had died and decided to revive him, even at the cost of his own future.
• Siegfried tore out his dragon-blooded heart and placed it in the Artificial Lifeform, whose injuries began to heal as he came back to life.
• Siegfried explained that he was repaying the burden he had placed on the child, while Astolfo tried to carry him to Lancer for help.
• Astolfo loaded the unconscious Artificial Lifeform onto his Hippogriff and lifted Siegfried onto his back, but Siegfried dissolved into blue light and returned to the Throne of Heroes.

The newly reborn Artificial Lifeform chose the name Sieg, and Astolfo gave him a sword before leaving him free to decide how to live. Meanwhile, Achilles and Sovell continued their fierce battle in the forest, with Sovell using his Authority over wind and motion to match Achilles’s speed and maneuverability.

• The Artificial Lifeform named himself Sieg because he wanted to remember the hero whose heart he had received without taking the hero’s full name.
• Astolfo gave Sieg his sword, carried the sleeping Gordes away, and told Sieg he was free to choose his own future.
• Sieg asked Astolfo what he should do, and Astolfo urged him to live however he wished; Sieg began by learning to walk normally.
• Achilles fought Sovell and was thrilled by the wounds, pain, and challenge of facing a formidable opponent.
• Sovell used his Authority over wind and motion to make sharp turns that defied inertia, while Achilles increased his speed and brought down trees around them.
• As their spear blades clashed, Sovell anticipated the day he would defeat Achilles.

After Achilles retreated, Sovell discovered that Astolfo’s escape with Sieg had led to Siegfried sacrificing himself to save the boy. The Black Faction mourned the loss of Saber, and Astolfo was imprisoned, leaving the war’s balance uncertain.

• Achilles withdrew from his fight with Sovell, who checked that Darnic was safe before reviewing the battle.
• Sovell tried to contact Saber, received no answer, and summoned the Black Faction to the castle’s Audience Hall.
• Astolfo revealed that Siegfried had died saving Sieg, and Sovell ordered Astolfo confined.
• Fiore and Caules later visited Sovell to comfort him as he lamented being separated from Lia.
• Chiron visited Astolfo in the dungeon, where Astolfo accepted his punishment and said Sieg had gained a longer life after absorbing Siegfried’s heart.

Jeanne d'Arc discovered that both factions had summoned Avenger-Class Servants, making the war eight against eight, and that one Black Faction Servant was missing from Yggdmillennia Castle. Exhausted but determined to investigate, she went to the castle, where Darnic welcomed her and offered to take her to meet their king.

• Jeanne d'Arc examined the battlefield and identified traces of an Avenger-Class Servant, then deduced that each faction had one and that the war involved sixteen Servants.
• Jeanne d'Arc sensed only five Servants at Yggdmillennia Castle and failed to locate the missing sixth Black Faction Servant.
• Overcome by exhaustion, Jeanne d'Arc decided to question the Black Faction directly and relied on her Command Spells to protect herself if they attacked.
• Sovell advised Darnic to welcome Ruler, and Darnic went to meet Jeanne d'Arc at the castle gate.
• Jeanne d'Arc told Darnic she wanted to question the Black Faction's Servants about the battle, and he offered to introduce her to their king.