Recaps

Roland took Kama’s Divine Core, and Kama died after cursing him with her love. As the Holy Grail War neared its climax, Ramesses II launched his collapsing temple at the Greater Grail, while Solomon prepared to respond.

• Kama realized Roland had taken her Divine Core to claim the principle of love and desire, then declared that devouring it would bind him to her cursed love before she dissolved into spirit particles.
• Rin Tohsaka asked whether she had made another mistake, and Roland praised her help before telling her that her debts meant she would work for him for the rest of her life.
• Roland warned Rin that five Servants had returned to the Holy Grail, the minimum conditions for its awakening had been met, and the Beast of Calamity would soon appear.
• Solomon defeated Ramesses II’s divine beasts and reached his throne, where the Pharaoh admitted defeat but resolved to destroy the Greater Grail.
• Ramesses II sacrificed his Shining Great Composite Temple and sent it plunging toward the Greater Grail, while Solomon recognized the target and began reciting a Magic Formula.

Roland confronted Francesca beneath Tokyo, where she used Ramesses II’s falling temple to disrupt the city’s leylines and hinder the Grail ritual. Roland answered by summoning Barbatos to intercept the temple, while another power rewrote the leylines, leaving Ramesses II stunned by the light.

• Roland found Francesca beneath Tokyo and learned she had supplied Kama with black mud taken from a Greater Grail.
• Francesca revealed her fascination with Roland’s contradictory existence as both a transcendent being and Beast VI.
• Francesca used her remaining Command Spells to trigger Ramesses II’s temple attack and throw Tokyo’s leylines into chaos.
• Roland dismissed Francesca’s plan and suggested she had underestimated his Servant.
• Barbatos emerged at Solomon’s command and dragged more than half of Ramesses II’s temple into an alien realm.
• Ramesses II saw Tokyo’s collapsing leylines vanish or be overwritten by an unfamiliar light.

Roland used his combined Killer Queen and Crown of the Ten Kings power to rewrite Tokyo’s leylines, then entered the Greater Grail and swallowed the Beast of Revelation. As he began to digest it, Kama appeared and revealed that she was now Mara.

• Francesca realized Roland had used a power beyond the Crown of the Ten Kings, and he explained that combining it with Killer Queen let him modify reality.
• Francesca praised Roland’s strength and was devoured by a pitch-black shadow as he turned toward the collapsing pyramid.
• Roland reached the Greater Grail, where Sajyou Manaka presented the nearly hatched Beast of Revelation as a gift for him.
• Roland fell into the sea of flesh and swallowed the Beast despite its instinctive terror, while Manaka ignored its pleas for help.
• As Roland began digesting the Beast, he felt an overwhelming sense of fulfilled desire and saw Kama, who identified herself as Mara.

Mara revealed that Goetia had helped her become a complete Beast of Love and Desire by giving her seven Holy Grails, and she began transforming Roland’s fusion space into her own universe. As Mara tried to absorb him, a girl in an emerald-green dress broke into the Beast-only contest and objected to Roland’s relationship with her.

• Mara explained that a foreign Holy Grail had restored her from her Divine Core, and Roland deduced that Goetia had supplied it.
• Mara revealed her complete form and showed that Goetia had given her seven Holy Grails, letting her wield far greater power than an immature Beast.
• Mara transformed Roland’s fusion space into an embryonic universe and claimed their powers would wear each other down until she absorbed him.
• Mara taunted Roland and offered him eternal affection as her lover, while insisting he had no chance to resist.
• A girl in an emerald-green dress broke into the fusion space, startling Mara, and told Roland she refused to approve of the person he was dating.

Sajyou Manaka used the Womb of a Hundred Beasts to enter the battle between Roland and Mara, then allowed the embryonic Beast to consume her as part of Roland’s plan. She returned as a great mother, ready to destroy Mara and protect Roland.

• Sajyou Manaka arrived with the Womb of a Hundred Beasts and enclosed the universe in her {Monster Princess} Barrier.
• Mara activated the embryonic universe’s instinct to consume everything, and its feeding arms devoured Sajyou Manaka.
• Roland revealed that Manaka’s sacrifice had been arranged as the offering needed for the Beast of the Apocalypse to hatch.
• Sajyou Manaka emerged from the Black Mud transformed into a great mother and summoned the seven-headed, ten-horned Shadow of the Red Dragon against Mara.

Sajyou Manaka revealed her power as the Beast of Revelation and joined Roland to overwhelm Mara. Mara survived the assault by taking the Beast crown and combining her identities as Kama and Mara, then vowed to make Roland her livestock.

• Sajyou Manaka explained that she would do anything for Roland and blasted Mara away when Mara challenged her devotion.
• Roland and Sajyou Manaka attacked Mara together with waves of Dragon Shadows, crushing her defenses and damaging her false universe.
• Mara called on Beast I for help as Roland and Sajyou Manaka continued to press their attack.
• Mara survived the Dragon Shadows and returned with countless cosmic arms, revealing that she had become both Kama and Mara.
• Mara claimed the Beast crown and declared that she would turn Roland into her livestock.

Goetia gave Mara the First Beast position, and she used its power to attack Roland with an all-consuming love that could corrupt the universe. As Goetia watched from Imaginary Number Space, a vast Ring of Light appeared above the planet, leaving him shocked.

• Goetia surrendered the First Beast position to Mara, who gained the authority and power of a Beast.
• Mara became a formless, omnipresent phenomenon that sought to overwhelm Roland by satisfying every desire and Klesha.
• Roland resisted Mara and hinted that she had mistaken which of them was being outmaneuvered, shocking her.
• Goetia watched the eras collapse and hoped Mara would delay Roland long enough for him to finish his plan to destroy the Human Order.
• Goetia used his Clairvoyance to inspect the Great Hollow and saw a Ring of Light rise above the planet, replacing the sky.

Roland used Mara’s Beast authority and the histories derived from his own possibilities to gain enough power to challenge the universe, then summoned Killer Queen to remodel its rules. As the universe changed around them, Mara wondered if Roland’s power was Beyond Heaven.

• Ramesses II watched Solomon invoke his Third Noble Phantasm, then dissolved into spirit particles while witnessing the display.
• Roland explained that he was copying the Beast’s Privilege and absorbing heat from the histories derived from his own possibilities.
• Mara warned Roland that he could not bear the cost of borrowing Beast power, but Roland absorbed the returning light and heat anyway.
• Roland’s body cracked under the power, and he summoned Killer Queen before his consciousness could collapse.
• Killer Queen’s principle overlaid and remodeled the universe’s rules, leaving Mara unable to control the world she had created.
• Mara looked at the transformed starry sky and asked whether Roland’s power was Beyond Heaven.

Roland completed his paradoxical ritual and gained an uncontrollable power connected to Beyond Heaven, then tested it against Mara’s Anti-World Noble Phantasm. As Mara rebuilt her attack, Roland discovered his power was returning her universe and Authority to the Swirl of the Root.

• Roland explained that his new power was part of Beyond Heaven, then realized Killer Queen and Made in Heaven had vanished as his nature changed.
• Mara recognized that Roland had become far more powerful but believed his inability to control the power gave her a chance to win.
• Mara unleashed World of Love, burning universe, filling a universe around Roland with her duplicates and corrupting flames.
• Roland blocked Mara’s attack and destroyed her duplicates and universe with an uncontrolled release of power, though Mara survived and rebuilt them.
• Roland tried to understand his new abilities as Mara attacked again, then watched her universe and Authority break down and return to the Swirl of the Root.

Roland trapped Mara in a universe he had created and repeatedly killed her with cosmic disasters, while her endless resurrection prevented the ordeal from ending. After Mara’s will and desire collapsed, Roland rejected the conclusion and revived her for another round.

• Mara abandoned her attempts to bind Roland and attacked him with the Flames of Corruption, sacrificing her Noble Phantasm.
• Roland created a miniature universe, gathered its stars into his hand, and unleashed their power on Mara as she fled across the planet.
• Mara resurrected after the cosmic destruction, but Roland continued subjecting her to repeated catastrophes, including a black hole and stellar tides.
• Mara’s resistance and desire collapsed, and her body began streaming toward Roland to be absorbed.
• Roland said, "I refuse to accept it," revived Mara, and announced that they would begin round two.

Roland used his power to torment Mara until she broke down and fused with Kama, then absorbed her principle of love and desire alongside BB. BB told Roland that paradox could help him reclaim what he wanted in the New World and urged him to become a universe.

• Roland reflected on how his future self's power covered him like a shell and how he needed experience to guide his growth.
• After enduring countless deaths, Mara broke down in tears and clung to Roland, while her personalities as Mara and Kama fused.
• Roland embraced Kama and began absorbing her principle of love and desire, while BB appeared as another incarnation of Humanity's Evil and taunted her.
• Roland stopped BB and Kama from competing over him, and the two merged into one as the membrane around Roland began to break apart.
• BB explained that paradox could let Roland reclaim what he wanted in the New World, then asked him to become a universe first.

Roland emerged from the fetal membrane with his power restored and his principles merged, then offered Solomon a wish through the Holy Grail. As Solomon began his transformation into Romani Archaman, Roland prepared to use two Contract Spirits to obtain items from Jackie Chan Adventures.

• Solomon prepared to intervene as the darkness condensed, but Roland emerged safely after mastering Humanity's Evil and restoring his body.
• Roland revealed that Kama and Sajyou Manaka had become part of him, then told Solomon he could make a wish with Manaka's Holy Grail.
• Solomon struggled to choose a wish, and Roland urged him to think as a person rather than as the King of Magecraft.
• Solomon wished to become something new, and Roland watched the Holy Grail's light envelop him, knowing his friend would return as Romani Archaman.
• Roland sent Sajyou Manaka home to prepare a feast, then used the Key of All Spirits to exchange two Contract Spirits for items from Jackie Chan Adventures.
• Roland dismissed a dried lizard and was startled by the second item, an aged piece of paper.

Roland recruited the newly human Solomon, now called Roman, to help prevent the Incineration of Humanity, binding him to a lifetime of work before granting him a role based on his knowledge rather than raw power. He brought Roman to Chaldea, where Roman began demonstrating his worth in the Spiritron Summoning project.

• Roman worried that the Incineration of Humanity might be his fault and agreed to give up his freedom to help stop it.
• Roland made Roman sign a Contract requiring him to work for Roland for the rest of his life after the Human Order was saved.
• Roland explained that Roman's knowledge would be more useful than combat power and promised him a way to help Chaldea solve difficult problems.
• Waver and Marisbury discussed the risks of investigating the Holy Grail War's aftermath and the pressures surrounding Chaldea.
• Roland introduced Roman to Marisbury as Chaldea's new supervisor and insisted he take part in its real plan despite his lack of magical abilities.
• Roman recited an incantation while holding a dried lizard, beginning a demonstration for Chaldea's Spiritron Summoning project.

After helping Chaldea and spending time with his family, Roland prepared to leave Fuyuki and met with Scáthach in a universe he had created. He asked her how he could wield universal power immediately, and her suggestion that he seek a prize capable of granting it pointed him toward a new possibility.

• Marisbury invited Roman to participate in Chaldea’s affairs after Roman dismantled the Great Barrier, and Roman quickly advanced in Chi True Magic.
• Roland returned to his leisurely life, while Rin Tohsaka and Sakura Matou left for the Clock Tower after reconciling.
• Roland left Fuyuki and created a universe-like space where he met Scáthach.
• Scáthach described two possible paths for her continued growth: becoming a universe through her own power or letting the Shadow Realm overtake the world.
• Roland asked how he could wield the power of a universe immediately, and Scáthach proposed seeking a prize that could grant such power.
• Roland considered Scáthach’s suggestion and looked to the Key of All Spirits.

Roland traveled through the ocean between worlds and entered a reality whose rules offered him powerful, unawakened concepts. He recognized the ruined planet as the world of No Game No Life, thousands of years before the main story, and identified his era as No Game No Life: Zero.

• Roland rode the Key of All Spirits through the ocean between worlds and synchronized with a targeted reality.
• The world’s underlying rules offered Roland concepts such as Karmic Sin, Black Shadow, and Change, which he concealed rather than devouring.
• Roland arrived on a barren planet covered in ash, craters, and signs of battle, where the atmosphere contained deadly magical energy.
• Roland found steel wreckage and used a projected map to identify the territories of the world’s races, including the Flügel.
• Roland recognized the world as No Game No Life and concluded that he had arrived six thousand years before its main story, in the era of No Game No Life: Zero.

Roland learned that Disboard’s Old Deus were waging a war to claim the Suniaster and become the One True God, then discovered that Imanity and the Kingdom of Elkia had already appeared as a sixteenth race. He traveled to find out more and confronted the Elf Chink Nilvalen, demanding information about Imanity in exchange for her life.

• Roland examined the restored wreckage and learned how the Old Deus, the Suniaster, and the fifteen surviving races shaped the war.
• Roland studied the map, spotted Imanity’s small territory, and decided to visit it after gathering more information.
• Chink Nilvalen planned to escape the Dwarves’ attack and postpone capturing a Phantasmal Species, then considered making preparations involving Elkia.
• Roland appeared before Chink, touched Elkia’s location on her map, and demanded that she tell him about Imanity and the kingdom, offering her life as payment.

Roland questioned Chink Nilvalen about the human Kingdom of Elkia and its divine protector, learning that a powerful Old Deus had named and defended humanity. Their conversation was interrupted by the King's Leaf Fleet's pursuit of a Divine Beast, which Chink identified as an incarnation of the God of Victory protecting humanity.

• Chink recognized Roland as an Old Deus and explained that she had once dismissed her patron god Cairneas before the Dwarven fleet shattered her confidence.
• Roland asked Chink about humans, and she described how the Kingdom of Elkia grew from a small settlement into a recognized power after an Old Deus defended it and bestowed the name human race.
• Chink told Roland that the human protector had fought the God of War and that she had hoped to settle a misunderstanding with him to avoid provoking that god.
• A fleet admiral warned Chink that the King's Leaf Fleet's capture formula had been breached and its formation broken, but she ordered the fleet to maintain its position.
• Roland sensed the approaching creature, and Chink revealed that it was not a Phantasmal Species but a Divine Beast and an incarnation of the God of Victory protecting humanity.

A colossal boar avatar of the God of Victory attacked Hingko’s Skyship, but Roland intervened and trapped the beast inside his AT Field. Roland overpowered its charge and launched a massive crimson spear strike, leaving the boar pinned beneath the descending attack.

• A Death Storm surrounded the pursuing boar, which appeared as a fifty-meter-long monster and fired a beam at Hingko’s Skyship.
• Roland sealed off the battlefield with his AT Field and revealed that the boar was an avatar with an unactivated Divine Core.
• The boar charged Roland through the air, and Roland transformed into a giant of light to catch its tusks and halt its attack.
• The boar intensified its charge with blue-green flames, but Roland restrained it and formed a spear from his AT Field.
• The crimson divine-light spear struck down toward the immobilized boar as it struggled and roared.

Roland defeated Boar, an incarnation of destruction, and sealed it after testing the power of the God of Victory. Back on the Skyship, he offered Chink Nilvalen a chance to join him, then noticed a Flügel approaching as an uninvited guest.

• Roland overpowered Boar by pinning it to the earth with crimson light and beating it into submission.
• Roland used the Key of All Spirits and the Silver-White Light to temporarily seal Boar as a statue.
• Roland returned to the Skyship, where Chink Nilvalen explained that the Elves had survived the battle by staying under his AT Field.
• Roland asked Chink Nilvalen to join him and accepted her crystal containing information about the God of Victory and recent events.
• Roland spotted a weapon-like girl flying through the Spirit Remains, and Chink Nilvalen recognized her as a Flügel.

Roland left Hingko and Chink Nilvalen aboard the ship to confront Jibril, a solitary Flügel who had been hunting the God of Victory’s Divine Beast. Jibril mistook Roland for a valuable prize, but his response unsettled her as their encounter began.

• Hingko warned Roland that the approaching Flügel could be a scout for an assembled army, but Roland insisted she was the only enemy.
• Roland left Hingko and Chink Nilvalen, urging Hingko to consider his invitation before they met again.
• Hingko considered abandoning Cairneas and switching sides, but kept her plan to develop the Void Zero Blessing as her priority.
• Roland met Jibril in empty space after she followed the Divine Beast’s trail and introduced himself by name.
• Jibril explained that hunting the God of Victory’s Divine Beast was a rare honor and called Roland a monster.
• Roland challenged Jibril’s judgment and smiled at her like a hunter toying with prey.

Jibril recognized that Roland was not a true Old Deus and challenged him, believing that gave her a chance to kill him. Though Roland immobilized her with the pressure of his soul, she adapted, broke through enough to move, and unleashed her Heavenly Strike.

• Jibril deduced that Roland wore a Divine Core but was not a genuine Old Deus, and resolved to stake her life on defeating him.
• Roland tore apart the surrounding space and filled it with lethal Spirit Remains, forcing Jibril into a direct confrontation.
• Jibril approached Roland, but the pressure of his soul left her unable to move, and he casually teased her.
• Jibril analyzed the soul pressure and used a special Magic Formula to increase her own mass, gradually freeing her arm.
• Jibril compressed the surrounding spirits into a spear and unleashed her Heavenly Strike at Roland.

Jibril unleashed her full-power Heavenly Strike against Roland, but he emerged unharmed, defeated her, and carried her away in her shrunken child form. Roland then appeared before Riku and offered him Little Jibril as a gift to cook with the gathered mushrooms.

• Jibril used Heavenly Strike, drawing all her power from the Elf Corridors in an attempt to kill Roland.
• Roland survived the strike, erased its remaining energy, and picked up the weakened, shrunken Jibril.
• Jibril accepted that she had lost and became intrigued by Roland’s knowledge and power from another world.
• Roland took Jibril with him, and she warned him that a senior Flügel might follow the Heavenly Strike’s energy trail.
• Riku encountered Roland while gathering mushrooms, and Roland introduced himself before offering Little Jibril to be stewed with them.

Azril reported that Jibril had vanished after pursuing a battle involving Elves, Dwarves, and the God of Victory, and Artosh revealed his eagerness to face the unknown being who abducted her. Roland arrived in the Kingdom of Elkia with Riku and Jibril, and Riku asked what he wanted from them.

• Azril returned to Avant Heim bloodied and told Artosh that she had lost Jibril's trail after detecting traces of a Heavenly Strike.
• Azril explained that captured Elves had linked Jibril's disappearance to a Dwarf ambush and the God of Victory's boar incarnation, whose trail had also vanished.
• Artosh said an unknown Old Deus from beyond time and space had abducted Jibril and would grow strong enough to challenge him by overcoming other races and gods.
• Artosh ordered Azril to let Machines, Elves, Dwarves, and Dragons become nourishment for the challenger, rejecting investigation as an act of weakness.
• Riku brought Roland and Jibril to the Kingdom of Elkia, where Jibril mocked the modest settlement and Riku explained that Kurone Dora ruled it.
• Riku bowed to Roland and asked whether there was anything he wanted from him.

Roland visited the Kingdom of Elkia, where Riku and Clonie Dora explained how the God of Victory’s protection worked and how Imanity survived by keeping its true history hidden. After Jibril recognized the humans’ clever strategy, Roland revealed that he had come because he wanted to become a Campione.

• Jibril praised Riku for recognizing Roland despite his restrained presence, and Riku recalled how the God of Victory had once called him a warrior and urged him to establish a kingdom.
• Riku guided Roland through Elkia and introduced his sister Clonie Dora as the kingdom’s queen and the person best suited to manage its domestic affairs.
• Jibril questioned why Imanity remained weak despite its advantages, and Riku explained that the God of Victory protected the kingdom’s royal authority rather than its people and intervened only when that authority faced destruction.
• Riku recounted how the God of Victory’s wandering incarnations caused disasters that frightened other races into treating Imanity cautiously, while humans concealed the truth and lived within the resulting protection.
• Jibril recognized that Imanity had turned its weakness and hidden circumstances into a strategy, but Riku said his people had little valuable to offer Roland.
• Roland told Riku that he had come to Elkia because he wanted to become a Campione.

Riku summoned the God of Victory after Roland revealed that Riku had kept a way to contact him secret. Verethragna arrived, and Roland declared he wanted to kill the god and become a Campione.

• Jibril questioned Roland about seeking the God of Victory, and Roland explained that defeating him was necessary for becoming a Campione.
• Roland exposed Riku's hidden knowledge and promised that humanity's circumstances would change if the God of Victory were lost.
• Riku acknowledged that humanity had grown dependent on the god's protection and admitted he could call him by name.
• Riku quietly invoked the God of Victory, and a powerful storm swept into the palace.
• The youthful god identified himself as Verethragna after Roland said he wanted to kill him and become a Campione.