Chapter Summaries

Sakura Matou found a half-scale hidden beneath her bed and received permission from Zouken Matou to keep it. When Zouken took her to the Worm Pit, the scale summoned Servant Caster, Sovell Pendragon, who asked Sakura if she was his Master.

• While cleaning her room, Sakura found a half-scale hidden beneath a floor panel under her bed.
• The scale overwhelmed Sakura with malice before calming her with a warm presence.
• Sakura asked Zouken Matou for the scale, and he said it was a keepsake from an old friend and let her keep it.
• Byakuya Matou grew more distant as Zouken brought Sakura to the Worm Pit to inherit his magecraft.
• As worms crawled toward Sakura, the half-scale blazed with light and summoned Servant Caster, Sovell Pendragon.
• Sovell Pendragon gathered Sakura into his arms and asked whether she was his Master.

Sovell rescued Sakura from Zouken Matou and discovered that Zouken had planned to use his scale to summon him in a future Holy Grail War. After destroying Zouken and his soul, Sovell led Sakura out of the basement, beginning their new bond.

• Sovell confronted Zouken Matou after finding Sakura under attack and assured her that he would protect her.
• Sovell killed the insects in the basement and used his Mystic Eyes of Submergence to incapacitate Zouken.
• Sovell examined Zouken’s memories and learned that Zouken had placed his scale beneath Sakura’s bed to arrange for her to summon him in the Fifth Holy Grail War.
• Sovell ground Zouken’s body to dust and shattered his soul, then offered his hand to Sakura.
• Sakura took Sovell’s hand and left the basement with him.

Sovell learned that he had been summoned as Sakura Matou’s Caster for the upcoming Holy Grail War and decided to protect her while waiting for the conflict to begin. The next morning, he introduced himself to Byakuya Matou and Shinji Matou and warned them not to mistreat Sakura.

• Sovell comforted Sakura and sent her to bed after she thanked him.
• Sovell pieced together his circumstances, learning that Sakura was a Matou Master with an imaginary-number affinity and a wish to live.
• Sovell decided not to attack the Tohsaka or Einzbern families before the war, and set a detection spell around the Matou residence.
• Sovell changed into a white suit and escorted Sakura downstairs the next morning.
• Sovell introduced himself to Byakuya Matou and Shinji Matou, then threatened them if they mistreated Sakura; Byakuya was frightened and Shinji nearly fell to his knees.

Sovell brought Sakura to visit Aoi Tohsaka and told her how he had rescued Sakura from the Matou Family’s abuse. Their reunion was interrupted when Kariya arrived and attacked Sovell, apparently mistaking him for a threat to Aoi.

• Sovell accompanied Sakura to visit Aoi Tohsaka, where Rin joyfully welcomed her sister home.
• Sovell recounted how Byakuya had taken over the Matou Family, how Shinji’s magic circuits had been restored, and how Sakura had been saved from Zouken Matou’s abuse.
• Sovell asked Aoi to invite Tokiomi so they could discuss raising children, then apologized when she revealed that she and her husband had not known the truth about the Matou Family.
• Sovell sensed an unfamiliar mage entering the barrier and concealed Sakura and Rin as he prepared to defend them.
• Kariya charged at Sovell, who restrained him with wind before Aoi recognized Kariya and Sovell realized he had likely been mistaken for the enemy.

Kariya Matou learned the truth about Sakura’s adoption, received a Command Seal, and asked Sovell to train him for the Holy Grail War. A year later, Sovell had trained the Matou family, while Kiritsugu Emiya’s walnut-bud contest with Illyasviel ended with Illya catching him cheating.

• Aoi Tohsaka confirmed that Tokiomi Tohsaka had given Sakura to the Matou family based on rash assumptions, and Kariya Matou’s anger awakened three Command Seals.
• Kariya Matou asked Sovell to train him so he could summon and command a Servant and face Tokiomi Tohsaka.
• Sovell trained three members of the Matou family for a year and killed a depraved serial murderer.
• Kiritsugu Emiya competed with Illyasviel von Einzbern to find walnut buds, but Illya caught him counting Chinese wingnut buds as walnuts.

Artoria and Irisviel discussed Kiritsugu’s character and his sorrow over the cruel fate that made Artoria king. Artoria promised to protect Irisviel and revealed that she knew of another Servant who might become their ally, while Sovell sneezed at the Matou Residence.

• Saber watched Kiritsugu play with Illyasviel and told Irisviel she had expected her Master to be colder.
• Artoria explained that she had ruled Britain as a woman while appearing publicly as a man, and Irisviel said Kiritsugu grieved for what had been done to her.
• Irisviel described Kiritsugu’s plan for her to act as Saber’s proxy Master while he and Maiya attacked enemy Masters from the shadows.
• Artoria sensed that Irisviel did not expect to survive and swore to protect her.
• Artoria said she wanted to ally with another Servant and revealed that he had left Avalon and contacted Merlin from the surface world.
• Sovell sneezed while teaching Kariya Matou magecraft and wondered if Lia was thinking about him.

Kariya Matou summoned a Berserker using a Holy Relic associated with Lancelot, while Sovell protected Sakura and recognized the concealed Servant. The summoning succeeded, but Kariya reported that the Servant had rank-C mad enhancement and rank-E magic resistance, leaving Sovell puzzled by the latter.

• Sovell prepared Kariya Matou to summon a Berserker with a Holy Relic he had found, while Kariya declared himself ready after a year of training.
• Kariya recited the summoning incantation in the former Matou Family Worm Pit, enduring the strain on his magic circuits.
• A Servant appeared amid wind and lightning, but black mist prevented Sakura from seeing the Servant's parameters.
• Sovell used his dragon's eyes to identify the Servant as Lancelot and helped Kariya recover from the summoning.
• Kariya told Sovell that the Servant's mad enhancement was rank C and magic resistance was rank E, which surprised Sovell.

Sovell had Kariya use a Command Spell to restore Lancelot’s sanity, then learned through the wind that Assassin had been killed at the Tohsaka Residence. The Holy Grail War had begun, and Sovell recognized Assassin’s killer as a dangerous golden Servant.

• Sovell explained that a Command Spell could restore Lancelot’s sanity, and Kariya Matou used one to command Berserker to regain his reason.
• Lancelot endured the clash between the Command Spell and Mad Enhancement, then collapsed and disappeared into black mist while recovering.
• The Thousand Winds informed Sovell that Assassin had invaded the Tohsaka Residence and been killed.
• Sovell used the air near the Tohsaka Residence to witness Assassin, Hassan-i Sabbah, being killed by a golden Servant wielding a vast array of Noble Phantasms.
• Sovell assessed the golden Servant as a serious threat because his unknown abilities might counter Sovell’s wind magecraft.

Sovell investigated the suspicious circumstances surrounding Assassin’s death, then learned that Artoria had arrived in Fuyuki with Irisviel. As night fell, Artoria and Irisviel accepted an invitation from a concealed enemy Servant to choose a battlefield.

• Sovell reviewed Assassin’s final footage and suspected that Assassin’s death at the Tohsaka estate had been staged by the Masters and possibly the supervisor.
• Kariya Matou gave Sovell confirmation that Assassin had been eliminated and that Kirei Kotomine had requested protection from the Holy Church.
• Irisviel and Artoria arrived in Fuyuki with their maids, and Sovell recognized Artoria through his surveillance barrier but decided to stay hidden.
• Artoria accompanied Irisviel to the seaside, where they sensed an enemy Servant waiting in concealment.
• Irisviel asked Artoria whether they should accept the enemy’s invitation, and Artoria agreed to meet the challenge.

Artoria and Irisviel confronted Lancer in a deserted warehouse street while Sovell watched from a nearby crane. As the battle began, Lancer’s charm ability affected Irisviel, and Sovell identified it as a Love Spot.

• Irisviel secretly used Kiritsugu’s transmitter to signal that Artoria was about to fight the enemy.
• Lancer appeared before Artoria and Irisviel, wielding two spears and boasting that Artoria was the only Servant brave enough to answer his challenge.
• Sovell watched from a crane and criticized Lancer for calling the other Servants cowards.
• Artoria sparred verbally with Lancer, then summoned her armor and took a battle stance.
• Irisviel accused Lancer of using charm magecraft on a married woman, and Sovell recognized his ability as a Love Spot.

Saber and Lancer began their duel while Kiritsugu and Maiya watched for the enemy Master, but Caster unexpectedly appeared and subdued Maiya. Caster released her and gave her a lily of the valley that eased her physical sluggishness, leaving Kiritsugu wary of the returned Assassin and the unknown Caster.

• Irisviel entrusted Saber with victory and offered to support her with Healing Magecraft as Saber faced Lancer.
• Kiritsugu and Maiya reached the Warehouse District and split up to observe the battle and search for Lancer's Master.
• Kiritsugu spotted Assassin on the crane and abandoned his planned shot at Lancer's Master to gather intelligence.
• Caster detected Maiya watching him, pinned her down with control of the atmosphere, and spoke to Kiritsugu through her microphone.
• Caster gave Maiya a lily of the valley before vanishing, and Maiya told Kiritsugu that it had eased some of her sluggishness.

Artoria gained the upper hand against Lancer after his Red Spear disrupted Invisible Air, but Lancer used the discarded Yellow Spear to catch her in a dangerous attack. Artoria survived and sent him crashing into a shipping container, then prepared to press her advantage when an unexpected event interrupted the fight.

• Artoria and Lancer fought across the warehouse district until Lancer's hidden Master authorized him to use his Noble Phantasm.
• Lancer revealed the Red Spear, whose magic-breaking effect dispersed Invisible Air and exposed Artoria's sword.
• Rider watched the battle from Fuyuki Bridge with Waver Velvet and predicted that Lancer would lose if the fight continued.
• Artoria discarded her armor and intensified her attack, while Lancer feigned a stumble and retrieved the Yellow Spear from the debris.
• Artoria sensed the danger of the Yellow Spear, restored her armor, and struck Lancer with a full-force slash that sent him into a shipping container.
• Artoria moved to attack the injured Lancer, but something unexpected happened.

Rider, revealed as Iskandar, interrupted the duel between Artoria and Lancer and tried to recruit them into conquering the world. After they refused, he challenged the other Heroic Spirits in Fuyuki to reveal themselves.

• Iskandar arrived between Artoria and Lancer in his thunderous chariot and declared himself Rider, King of Conquerors.
• Iskandar offered Artoria and Lancer the Holy Grail in exchange for joining his conquest, but both refused.
• Artoria revealed her true name and declared that neither she nor her sword would submit to Iskandar.
• Waver scolded Iskandar for revealing his identity, while an unseen mage threatened Waver for stealing his Holy Relic.
• Iskandar defended Waver, condemned the hidden observers as cowards, and called on every summoned Heroic Spirit to gather.
• Kiritsugu Emiya and Maiya Hisau heard Iskandar's challenge from the container yard.

Gilgamesh appeared in the Warehouse District and challenged the Servants, but Sovell Pendragon arrived as Caster and introduced himself as the King of the Wind. Sovell’s healing petals aided Irisviel and Lancer, and he left the battlefield focused on Artoria, who greeted him with familiar teasing.

• Waver recognized the golden Servant as the Tohsaka Family’s Archer, Gilgamesh, who had killed Assassin.
• Gilgamesh condemned the two Servants calling themselves kings and looked down at Rider and the others.
• Sovell Pendragon appeared amid azure petals and introduced himself as Caster, also accepting the title King of the Wind.
• Sovell’s petals eased Irisviel’s Magic Circuit discomfort and helped Lancer expel stagnant blood.
• Sovell approached Artoria and greeted her affectionately, while Artoria teased him about his grand entrance.

Sovell and Artoria faced Archer, but Berserker suddenly joined the battle and expertly deflected Archer’s Divine Weapons. The chapter ended with Archer enraged and preparing a volley from thirty-two golden ripples.

• Archer attacked Sovell with Divine Weapons after Sovell mocked him, but Sovell and Artoria deflected the barrage together.
• Sovell revealed that he still had something up his sleeve as Berserker appeared from a cloud of black mist.
• Kariya Matou, watching through his Familiar, ordered Berserker to kill Archer after Sovell’s plan to have him study Archer’s first attack.
• Berserker caught and deflected Archer’s weapons without moving, then cut apart the streetlamp Archer stood on and forced him to the ground.
• Archer erupted in fury and summoned thirty-two ripples filled with weapons.

Archer withdrew after Tokiomi Tohsaka used a Command Spell to restrain him, and Berserker departed after looking toward Artoria. Rider left the battlefield, Lancer escaped Artoria again, and Artoria realized Sovell was her enemy as Caster and moved to protect Irisviel from him.

• Archer accused Tokiomi Tohsaka of quelling his wrath, then withdrew after his Master used a Command Spell.
• Berserker glanced toward Artoria beside Sovell and left without attacking the others.
• Rider let Artoria pursue Lancer, then departed with Waver in his chariot.
• Lancer obeyed his Master's order to retreat, and Artoria failed to catch him before he assumed spirit form.
• Artoria confronted Sovell for not helping her stop Lancer, and Sovell reminded her that they were enemies as Caster and Saber.
• Artoria drew Irisviel behind her and warned Sovell not to harm her.

Sovell revealed that he was not hostile to Artoria and Irisviel, introduced Sakura as his student and Master, and arranged a temporary nonaggression pact with Kiritsugu Emiya. As Sovell’s group left the harbor, he killed a hidden Assassin, and Kirei Kotomine suffered the death through their shared senses.

• Sovell caught Artoria’s kick, teased her by stealing her boot, and reassured Irisviel that he meant them no harm.
• Sovell introduced Sakura to Artoria as his modern-era student and Master, and Sakura called Artoria her teacher’s wife.
• Sovell contacted Kiritsugu Emiya, and they agreed to a temporary nonaggression pact until the other Servants were eliminated.
• Sovell told Sakura to rely on Berserker for protection and explained to Artoria why he had summoned him in that class.
• Sovell spotted an Assassin hiding in a boom crane and killed him with an azure arrow.
• Kirei Kotomine convulsed as he experienced the hidden Assassin’s death through their shared sensory link.

Irisviel raced Artoria to the Einzbern villa in a Mercedes while Sovell sped ahead on his modified motorcycle, and Kiritsugu was still absent. Elsewhere, explosives destroyed Kayneth’s Magecraft Workshop in Fuyuki, but Kayneth and Sola-Ui survived thanks to his Mystic Code.

• Artoria made Sovell leave the two-seat Mercedes and retrieve his motorcycle so all three could travel from Mion River Harbor.
• Irisviel drove recklessly toward the Einzbern villa while Sovell challenged her on his modified Kawasaki and sped ahead.
• Artoria arrived at the villa shaken, and Irisviel decided Kiritsugu should modify her car while noting that he had not returned.
• Kiritsugu’s explosives demolished the hotel where Kayneth had built his Magecraft Workshop, but Kayneth and Sola-Ui survived using the Volumen Hydrargyrum.

Sovell declared Kiritsugu Emiya’s operation against Lancer’s Master a failure, while Tokiomi Tohsaka learned that Kayneth had survived and accepted his offer of an alliance. Sovell then visited the Greater Grail and found a miracle he named Hell.

• Sovell told Kiritsugu Emiya and Irisviel that the operation had failed and said he had seen what happened.
• Kirei Kotomine briefed Tokiomi Tohsaka on the Servants’ identities and abilities, and Tokiomi worried about the strength of the other factions.
• Assassin reported that Kiritsugu had destroyed the Hyatt Hotel but that Kayneth and his fiancée had escaped to an abandoned factory.
• Tokiomi received Kayneth’s invitation to form an alliance and judged that events had unfolded as he expected.
• Sovell used the wind to investigate the Great Hollow, approached the Greater Grail, and saw a miracle he named Hell.

Sovell discovered that the Greater Grail had been corrupted by Angra Mainyu during the Third Holy Grail War and warned Kiritsugu Emiya that it could no longer safely grant wishes. Faced with the collapse of his ideal, Kiritsugu Emiya chose to abandon the war and escape with Irisviel, intending to rescue Illya.

• Sovell concluded that Angra Mainyu's soul had corrupted the Greater Grail, turning its magic into evil that would twist any wish.
• Kiritsugu Emiya and Maiya Hisau found the abandoned factory empty, and Sovell contacted Kiritsugu Emiya to explain the Grail's corruption and reveal that Irisviel might survive the war.
• After returning to the Einzbern Forest, Kiritsugu Emiya struggled with the loss of his ideal while Irisviel comforted him.
• Kiritsugu Emiya asked Irisviel to run away with him and promised to rescue Illya and protect them both.
• Irisviel agreed to run away, and she kissed Kiritsugu Emiya.