Recaps

Roland explained to Othinus that the embryonic Little Garden could eventually model and reshape the universe, giving them a way to place limits on the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven. He left her with his goal of turning the universe into a tool and weapon: an embryonic Imitation Creation Star Map.

• Othinus welcomed Roland back to Blue Dream Company's headquarters and asked about the structure he was creating in the sky.
• Roland explained that his Little Garden was meant to reproduce the universe itself, a task requiring power and understanding beyond Aleister's magical system.
• Roland told Othinus that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven had an upper limit and could be trapped by a dream on the scale of the A Certain Magical Index World, but its awakened form could break free.
• Roland altered the phases without reducing or destroying them, replacing their composition with that of the Cross Church phases, and explained that the Complete Formula Solver let him control the world's structure.
• Roland declared that he intended to master the universe, inscribe his own path within it, and shape it into another cosmology: an embryonic Imitation Creation Star Map.

Roland explained that his defeat by the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven came from the difference between their cosmologies, and he prepared to complete his Imitation Creation Star Map with Zombie’s knowledge of the infinite phases. When the Serpent awakened before the map was finished, Roland revealed that the New Heaven and Earth had another purpose beyond sheltering the defeated Demon Gods.

• Roland explained to Othinus that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven had overwhelmed him because its cosmology encompassed the logic of its worlds, while his own universe had only served as a helper.
• Roland summoned Zombie and asked her for the knowledge she had compiled while creating Infinite Mirror Division.
• Zombie removed her head and gave it to Roland, who promised she would remain safe as long as she followed his rules.
• Roland’s alarm warned him that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven had awakened after only a day and a half, and Othinus offered to stall it.
• Roland told Othinus that he had placed insurance in the New Heaven and Earth and had not created it merely because he could not kill the Demon Gods.

Roland learned that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven had overwhelmed the New Heaven and Earth, trapping Gremlin’s Demon Gods as it destroyed the domain. As the Demon Gods fled and Roland watched, the serpent appeared with the title “The Angel of Pāpīyas of the Sixth Heaven.”

• Roland left Othinus to watch the Present World and went to the damaged Infinite Temple of Time, where Aiwass told him the situation was terrible.
• Aiwass showed Roland how the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven was imposing boundaries on the New Heaven and Earth and destroying its foundations.
• Tezcatlipoca, Niangniang, Nephthys, Nuada, and Chimera fled the expanding darkness, while Tezcatlipoca detonated his prosthetic leg to destroy an attack the serpent swallowed.
• Nephthys guessed that Roland would not let his prison burn with its prisoners, and she sensed that he was watching them.
• Roland realized the serpent had gained greater authority over total annihilation and could shrink the Demon Gods’ safe territory.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven appeared before Roland, struck down Aiwass’s projection, and revealed its title as the Angel of Pāpīyas of the Sixth Heaven.

Roland discovered that Pāpīyas was the enemy he would eventually have to defeat, then developed the rudiments of a power capable of reshaping the universe and entered the blue dream. After his experiment destroyed the universe, he returned and turned his attention to Coronzon.

• Roland realized that his future goal was to defeat Pāpīyas and resolved to become stronger.
• Roland used his growing power to break through the darkness and enter the blue dream, declaring, “For an Azure and Pure World!”
• Aiwass and Aleister watched Roland’s progress while Coronzon emerged early because the Tree of Life’s attainment of eternity threatened to overwhelm her.
• Roland’s activation of his new power overturned and destroyed the universe, while Aiwass, Aleister, and Coronzon tried to warn him.
• Roland returned, and Coronzon realized he intended to make her part of himself before the decisive battle.

Roland strengthened his power through his union with Laura, then spoke with Aiwass before heading to confront Pāpīyas at the boundary between the universe and the new heaven and earth. He arrived ready for a battle where neither of them could survive without fighting.

• Roland and Laura shared an intimate encounter that further developed the Imitation Creation Star Map and the principle of humanity's evil.
• Roland assessed the Star Map's growth and reflected on fate, his path, and the threat posed by Pāpīyas.
• Aiwass appeared to Roland, offered him a blessing, and kissed him before vanishing.
• Roland used the Imitation Creation Star Map to travel to the boundary between the universe and the new heaven and earth.
• Roland encountered the emerging silhouette of the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven, and the two prepared to fight to the death.

Roland confronted the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven, restraining his killing intent until he could face it at full strength. After breaking through its attack and provoking it into a charge, he unleashed Divine Strike; the battle’s outcome remained unknown.

• Roland recognized that the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven’s absolute hostility had driven his desire to kill it into revolt, and he held that urge back until the right moment.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven found Roland and attacked with Total Annihilation of All Forms, but Roland’s cosmology resisted the principle within the simulated universe.
• Roland admitted he was the challenger, then revealed his fierce desire to destroy the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven and warned it to prepare for Hell.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven raised its body and charged through a tide of violet-black mist.
• Roland used Divine Strike to send a celestial river of light crashing toward the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven’s two enormous eyes.

The Demon Gods discussed why Roland was keeping the battlefield away from the Present World and Nephthys reasoned that he was preserving its strategic value. Roland then unleashed Divine Strike: Ultimate Infinity, subjecting the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven to an attack with the force of a Level 10,000 Earthquake.

• Niangniang and the other Demon Gods watched Roland and the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven fight, unable to leave the New Heaven and Earth or safely join the battle.
• Nephthys urged Niangniang not to give up and argued that Roland was deliberately keeping the Present World protected as part of his plan.
• Nephthys explained that forcing the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven to expend effort against the Present World’s defenses could give that world strategic value.
• The Demon Gods saw the New Heaven and Earth fill with twisting currents of light as the destruction escalated to a Level 10,000 Earthquake.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven restored its blinded eyes, but Roland’s countless arrows of light struck its body and made it cry out in pain.
• Roland revealed Divine Strike: Ultimate Infinity, the ultimate technique he had formed by combining Artosh’s Divine Strike with his own experience.

Roland battered the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven with his ultimate-infinite Divine Strikes, deliberately pushing it to unleash its hidden trump card. The Serpent nullified his attacks by pouring all its infinity into its principle and invoked the Great Desire Realm Tengu Path.

• Roland used his ultimate-infinite Divine Strikes to wound the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven and overwhelm its defenses.
• Roland blocked the Serpent’s surprise attacks and mocked its ineffective countermeasures as he pressed his assault.
• The Serpent’s body deteriorated, but it refused to retreat and instead charged into Roland’s Divine Strikes.
• The Serpent concentrated all its infinity into Total Annihilation of All Forms, causing Roland’s attacks to vanish without effect.
• The Serpent invoked the Gift of the Sixth Heaven and proclaimed the Great Desire Realm Tengu Path.

Roland escaped the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven’s devastating flame attack with White Hole Power, while Othinus and the Demon Gods watched from safety. As the Serpent launched another assault, Roland pierced its mouth with an unseen weapon, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven unleashed the principle of Total Annihilation of All Forms, and Roland used White Hole Power to escape its flaming lotus.
• Othinus stayed at the Present World’s intersection to guard it, while Niangniang proposed that the Demon Gods join Roland against the Serpent.
• Roland refused their help, saying he no longer needed it and wanted to defeat the Serpent himself.
• The Serpent attacked Roland with its fangs and lotus platform, but Roland pierced its mouth with an invisible sword.

Roland wounded the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven with his Heart Light and Slash Emperor, drawing power from the A Certain Magical Index universe. As the serpent charged again, Roland began invoking the Sword that Rules the Heavens, Inscribed Annals, and declared the moment of culmination.

• Roland repeatedly slashed the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven with his invisible Heart's Armament, while Nephthys recognized it as the Infinite Universe made tangible.
• Roland used Slash Emperor to draw energy from the A Certain Magical Index universe and blast a huge depression into the serpent's chest.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven realized Roland's embryonic Imitation Creation Star Map let him challenge its scale, then decided to risk mutual destruction.
• Roland taunted the serpent about its repeated defeats, provoking it to charge as its size and power increased.
• Roland fed Slash Emperor's energy into the Imitation Creation Star Map, began reciting the Sword that Rules the Heavens, Inscribed Annals, and proclaimed the moment of culmination.

Roland fought the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven across the collapsing world and pierced it with Slash Emperor, inflicting fatal damage before the weapon and world were destroyed. Though the serpent remained dangerous and Roland was nearly spent, he revealed that he had counted on another arrival and looked toward the Sea of Worlds.

• Roland endured the strain of using Slash Emperor at its peak as he fought the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven in Pāpīyas's Simulated Universe.
• The clash destroyed the World Barrier and exposed the Sea of Worlds as the serpent attacked Roland with a torrent of fire and serpents.
• Roland closed the distance and drove Slash Emperor through the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven, leaving it fatally wounded.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven snapped its fangs and shattered Slash Emperor, then claimed it could survive for hours despite its weakening power.
• Roland said killing the serpent was only a means to an end, rubbed his Silver Ring, and anticipated someone arriving from the Sea of Worlds.

Roland summoned Shitianwu, a Contract Spirit whose power matched the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven, and refined him instantly after revealing that his cosmology had already incorporated the ultimate expression of Magnetic Field The Strong. Earlier, Aleister and Lilith witnessed the world's magic being sealed by the Artificial Heaven Project, while Aiwass explained how magnetic field rotation could eventually return.

• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven attacked Roland, but Shitianwu broke into their domain and saved him.
• Roland explained that powerful Contract Spirits had been hidden in the World Sea and that his cosmology's achievements had drawn Shitianwu to him.
• Roland connected Shitianwu's power to the Slash Emperor, and the Serpent realized Roland had incorporated the ultimate Magnetic Field The Strong into his cosmology.
• Aleister felt the world's magnetic field power vanish as the Artificial Heaven Project erased magic and separated mystery from physical laws.
• Aiwass told Lilith that future children could rediscover magnetic field rotation and that Shitianwu would aid Roland as a blessing.
• Roland seized the Contract Spirit named Shitianwu and refined him instantly.

Shitianwu sacrificed himself to save Roland, restoring his strength and awakening the Imitation Creation Star Map as Roland began ascending toward a multiversal cosmology. The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven attacked him during the transformation but realized his power could not stop Roland’s evolution.

• Roland promised Shitianwu that his new world would guarantee happiness and salvation to those who endured its trials.
• Shitianwu vanished into white light, and his power flowed into Roland and Slash Emperor, reviving Roland and awakening the Imitation Creation Star Map.
• Roland’s wounds healed as his power surged, and a movement of his arm manifested and exhausted tens of millions of galaxies.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven attacked Roland with the full force of Pāpīyas's Principle while Roland was evolving.
• The Serpent of the Sixth Heaven saw Roland’s Star Garment withstand his attacks and recognized that Roland was becoming a multiversal cosmology.

Roland ascended into a newborn multiversal god and overwhelmed the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven. He destroyed the serpent, ending their conflict and leaving him alone amid the Sea of Worlds.

• Roland understood that his new path would be shaped by the obsession driving him forward, then unleashed a tide of worlds against the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven.
• The serpent struggled against the multiversal torrent, suffered unbearable pain, and failed to reach Roland.
• Roland let the torrent subside and gave the serpent an opening to attack, but its full-force charge left him unharmed.
• Roland seized the serpent, tore its body apart, and explained that his power and level now far surpassed its limits.
• Roland crushed the serpent’s final remnant and declared that they were even.

After defeating the threat, Roland restored the A Certain Magical Index World, revived the dead, and returned its Phases to their original states. As magic entered public life and Misaki Shokuhou took charge of the Blue Dream Company, Kamijou Touma arrived with a new power gathering in his right hand, suggesting a promising future.

• Roland cleared the destructive embers from his body, then agreed to Aiwass's plea to save the world.
• Roland reshaped reality, restoring the world, relighting the stars, repairing damage, and bringing the dead back to life.
• The Blue Dream Company proposed making magic openly available, while Roland ensured magicians faced the costs of abusing power.
• Roland asked Misaki Shokuhou to lead the Blue Dream Company and revealed that Imagine Breaker had been placed in its central computer after Kamijou Touma willingly gave it up.
• Kamijou Touma rushed in with light gathering in his right hand, and Aleister realized he was manifesting Magnetic Field Rotation.

Aoko Aozaki returned to the mansion and told Alice Kuonji that Dead Apostle Ancestors existed in the current World Line, unlike the future she had seen. They discovered that the Holy Church had confirmed Roland, victor of the Fifth Holy Grail War, as a living saint, leaving Aoko shocked by his status.

• Aoko Aozaki visited the Clock Tower and used her status as a True Magic User to obtain confidential information about Dead Apostle Ancestors.
• Aoko returned to the mansion and told Alice Kuonji that Dead Apostle Ancestors existed in the current World Line.
• Alice reminded Aoko that Roland had said he wanted to join the Holy Church, and Aoko accessed the Roland Terminal to learn more.
• Alice concluded that the Holy Church needed to consider Roland himself as the bigger picture.
• Aoko found a message stating that the Holy Church had formally confirmed Roland as a living saint.

Roland traveled to a church school to receive his investiture document as a Living Saint, while Father Dawnh arrived with a trailer full of Holy Relics and weapons. After Roland unloaded the cargo with a casual gesture, Dawnh recognized the miracle associated with Roland’s right hand.

• Roland learned that the church school was the appointed location and that an Executor of the Burial Agency had to deliver his investiture document.
• Father Dawnh arrived early at the cleared church school with a thirty-ton trailer and began unloading its contents alone.
• Roland used an unexplained power to unload and arrange the Holy Relics and weapons in an instant.
• Father Dawnh realized that Roland’s right hand had performed a miracle associated with the Living Saint.

The Holy Church recognized Roland as a living Saint after he demonstrated that he could reproduce the Church’s miracles, then appointed him its Walks the Earth with broad authority. As Roland prepared to involve himself in the Burial Agency, Priest Dawn realized that Roland intended to reform its dangerous Unifier, Narbareck.

• Saint Jeanne d'Arc confirmed that she had descended at the Lord's revelation to follow Roland, prompting the Holy Church to summon him to the Vatican for an emergency council.
• Roland demonstrated miracles before the Pope, Cardinals, and Executors, convincing the council to recognize him as a living Saint and grant him the right to act at his discretion.
• The Holy Church appointed Priest Dawn as Roland's emissary and gave Roland the title of the Holy Church's Walks the Earth, placing clergy, Executors, and the Burial Agency under his command if needed.
• Roland told Priest Dawn that Narbareck had previously invited him to take the Burial Agency's eighth seat and asked Dawn to send her his regards and keep the position open.
• Roland declared that he intended to guide Narbareck, and Priest Dawn feared what the Saint's intervention would mean for the Burial Agency's Unifier.

Roland watched Priest Dawnh leave, then recalled how the Church and Mage's Association concealed supernatural disasters from the public. While Roland was with Shiki Ryougi, Root Shiki took control of her body and revealed that she had come to discuss Roland's connection to the Root.

• Priest Dawnh drove away in the tow truck after acknowledging Roland.
• Roland reflected on how the Church and Mage's Association hid disasters and prevented Mystery from spreading.
• Roland recalled persuading Shiki Ryougi to skip her morning practice and spend time with him.
• Root Shiki took control of Shiki Ryougi's body and told Roland that she had information to convey personally.
• Root Shiki let Shiki Ryougi share her sensations and urged Roland to focus on their encounter, calling it what he had longed for: entering and leaving the Root.

Roland discussed his need for a path beyond his perfect multiversal power with {Shiki}, who explained that his past use of Made in Heaven had already brought him into contact with a greater rule. They identified the beings that governed infinite parallel worlds as incomplete {Star Spirits}.

• Roland admired the Ryougi Family's heritage before joining {Shiki} in the bath, where she warned that their intimacy could bring Mana's birth forward.
• Roland admitted that his balanced multiversal power left him short of a path toward higher realms and asked {Shiki} for guidance.
• {Shiki} told Roland that the shortest shortcut was a detour and pointed to the power he had gained by devouring Mara as proof he had already touched a higher principle.
• Roland connected Stands and Made in Heaven's New World to rules extending beyond a single universe and recognized that he had already encountered such a rule.
• Roland proposed that beings able to regard themselves across infinite parallel worlds were the Counter Force, and {Shiki Ryougi} identified them as incomplete {Star Spirits}.

Roland learned from {Shiki} why Gaia and Alaya had failed to mature into Star Spirits: they had emerged alongside humanity and became locked in a struggle for survival. {Shiki} explained that Roland could reshape Type-Moon’s relationship between its main timeline and parallel worlds because he was an outsider whose origins and powers were bound to the setting, leaving him as the pillar supporting its future growth.

• Roland questioned whether Gaia and Alaya qualified as Star Spirits, and {Shiki} explained that the Root stood above the many worlds branching from it.
• {Shiki} explained that Gaia and Alaya had emerged before either matured, then fought over the survival of the planet and humanity until their possible futures became trapped in destructive cycles.
• Roland asked whether Type-Moon’s base world could be distinguished from its parallel worlds, and {Shiki} said his position as an outsider allowed him to do what the Root would not.
• {Shiki} pointed out that Roland had rebooted the timeline around Aoko Aozaki’s arrival as a True Magic User, joining events from different eras without disrupting the world’s continuity.
• {Shiki} told Roland that he was supporting Type-Moon and forcing the ceiling of its world ever higher.

{Shiki} explained that Roland’s influence had created a World Line where Type-Moon could combine possibilities from both Fate and Tsukihime, setting him up to become its ultimate endpoint. Roland realized that the key divergence was the Fate–Tsukihime split, while {Shiki Ryougi} hinted that she had quietly prepared something for him.

• {Shiki} explained that Roland’s past actions and the people he influenced had created a new World Line with vast potential for humanity.
• {Shiki Ryougi} told Roland that Type-Moon was expanding its possibilities and resetting World Lines to draw people and events toward him.
• Roland recognized that the crucial branching point was the divergence between the Fate and Tsukihime worlds.
• Roland discovered that the World Line he occupied contained both the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors and the possibilities of Fate, giving Crimson Moon stronger potential futures.
• {Shiki Ryougi} denied deliberately interfering but admitted she had stirred a small breeze, adding that she would not let the Counter Forces or Crimson Moon face an absolutely hopeless fate.

Roland spent time with {Shiki Ryougi}, who explained that the forces surrounding him would eventually be drawn into the timeline centered on him. Following Church records on the Dead Apostle Ancestors, Roland encountered Cath Palug, who led him to a church and a mysterious black-haired girl.

• {Shiki Ryougi} offered to grant Roland a wish, and he chose to spend their remaining time together intimately.
• {Shiki Ryougi} warned Roland that the Dead Apostle Ancestors, the Mage's Association, True Magic Users, and the Counter Force would eventually be swept into the timeline centered on him.
• After joining the Burial Agency, Roland received information about the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostle Ancestors from Narbareck and set out to follow the clues.
• Roland encountered Fou on a deserted mountain path and recognized him as Cath Palug, Beast IV, who had never entered the FGO World Line.
• Cath Palug led Roland to a nearby church, where Roland saw a girl with long black hair and deep ruby eyes.

Roland encountered Altrouge Brunestud, the Black Princess, outside a church and learned that she had destroyed a priest who tried to become a Dead Apostle. After Altrouge ordered Fou to kill him, Roland remained facing the threat.

• Fou led Roland to a church, where he met a girl who identified herself as Altrouge Brunestud.
• Roland recognized Altrouge as the Black Princess, a powerful Dead Apostle Ancestor, without showing alarm.
• The church doors opened to reveal ghouls and the remains of the priest and his followers.
• Altrouge explained that the priest had tried to transform himself with hidden Dead Apostle flesh, then begged her for power, so she killed him and his servants.
• Altrouge threatened Roland for recognizing her, but he said he was still serving the Holy Church and declined to kneel.
• Altrouge ordered Fou to kill Roland.

Roland faced Cath Palug, the White Beast and first Dead Apostle Ancestor, while Altrouge Brunestud watched. Roland’s power left Cath Palug helpless, and the chapter ended with him hurling the transformed beast through the battlefield in a spinning charge.

• Cath Palug charged Roland, but his attack became stuck in Roland’s chest without injuring him.
• Roland explained that Cath Palug’s Primate Murder Authority had worked, but its power was too limited to threaten him.
• Altrouge Brunestud moved to safety as Cath Palug transformed into a giant white wolf and unleashed his full power.
• Roland seized Cath Palug, discovered the White Beast was female, and swung her around.
• Altrouge Brunestud dodged as Cath Palug shot past her through the dust, and Roland shouted, “White Fou’s spinning charge!”