Chapter Summaries

Roland and Aoko Aozaki exchanged attacks, revealing that Aoko had borrowed an AT Field from the future and that Roland could redirect her Magic Bullet through time with Bites the Dust. Aoko used True Magic to escape cause and effect, but Roland recognized her defense as the same type of ability as Killer Queen and indicated that its conditions had now been met.

• Aoko Aozaki fired a Magic Bullet made from a borrowed AT Field, and Roland recognized it as a power tied to the First Magic.
• Roland stopped feeding power into his attack and revealed that Aoko had borrowed the AT Field from Alice as a future trump card.
• Roland explained that he had used Bites the Dust to throw Aoko’s Magic Bullet into the past and return its energy to its source.
• Aoko fixed her subjective axis with True Magic, severing herself from present cause and effect so Roland’s attacks passed through her.
• Roland identified Aoko’s state as a temporal defense like Killer Queen and said the condition of time had been fulfilled, leaving Aoko stunned.

Roland revealed that he had used his encounters with Aoko and her True Magic to learn a magician’s perspective on time and begin his ritual. He unleashed a vast field that lifted Misaki City into the sky, and Aoko realized he was accelerating time as the sun rapidly rose.

• Aoko sensed Roland’s timeline turning unstable and demanded to know how he had begun Heaven’s Ritual without its required conditions.
• Roland revealed that he had waited for Aoko to use True Magic so he could learn to perceive time through her perspective, and he invoked Killer Queen.
• Aoko attacked Roland, but he ignored her and expanded a field of reversed gravity that uprooted Misaki City and sent it soaring into the sky.
• Roland told the powerless Aoko to watch as he began the next stage of his plan, and the stones in his hand rapidly weathered into dust.
• Aoko spotted the rising sun moving across the sky at impossible speed and realized Roland had accelerated time.

Roland activated Made in Heaven, accelerating time across the world while living beings remained untouched by its passage. Aoko realized the acceleration could bring the universe to its end before its living creatures and pleaded with Roland to stop, but he continued toward a brand-new world.

• Roland used the First Magic and Fifth Magic to fulfill the conditions for accelerating time, and light gathered around him as C-Moon's power emerged.
• Roland declared that time would accelerate, and the sun began setting and rising again within seconds as day and night rapidly cycled.
• Aoko observed that living creatures were not aging in step with the accelerated universe and feared they would outlast the old world's end.
• Aoko flew toward Roland and begged him not to bring about that ending, but Roland ignored her and proclaimed Made in Heaven.

Roland accelerated the universe toward its end with Made in Heaven, intending to force reality into a repeating cycle, while Aoko Aozaki tried to stop him. After the universe reached its endpoint, Roland revealed that he had brought Aoko to the void before creation and challenged her as they had agreed.

• Roland explained that his accelerated universe would repeat its past Timeline, fixing fate and erasing all future possibilities, while Aoko Aozaki begged him to stop.
• Roland said he had accelerated the world to lock it alongside its existing constraints, and insisted that winning and controlling everything was what mattered to him.
• Aoko Aozaki used the Fifth Magic to accelerate herself and attacked Roland, enduring catastrophic injuries as she struggled to reach him.
• Aoko's punch struck only a tangible afterimage, and Roland revealed that Made in Heaven could surpass even light before accelerating time again.
• Aoko regained consciousness naked in the void between the universe's ending and creation, where the Timeline and her True Magic could not function.
• Roland appeared amid primordial light and told Aoko Aozaki that he had come to challenge her, as they had agreed.

After Touko Aozaki woke beside Alice Kuonji, they watched time accelerate until Misaki City, Earth, and the universe were destroyed. As they faced the end, Touko teased Alice about Roland and persuaded her that he would not let them die without returning for them.

• Touko Aozaki woke badly injured after losing to Aoko and found Alice Kuonji tending her on the Bridge Giant.
• Alice explained that time was accelerating at an ever-increasing rate and that the city and planet would soon be destroyed.
• Touko teased Alice about her relationship with Roland, and Alice blushed as she considered the possibility of a future family with him.
• Alice predicted Aoko would lose to Roland and chose to wait for death rather than approach the battlefield.
• Time destroyed Misaki City, Earth, and the Bridge Giant, engulfing Touko and Alice before the universe met its end.

Roland halted time’s acceleration to sever the world’s causality, leaving Aoko Aozaki stranded in the void and vulnerable to death. Aoko fought him with her final Magic Bullet before losing consciousness, as Roland prepared for the newborn universe and its singularity.

• Aoko Aozaki suffered as her magical energy ran low, while Roland teased her and explained that he had stopped time to sever the world’s causality.
• Aoko realized that dying in the void would prevent her from carrying over into the new cycle, then chose to attack Roland anyway.
• Roland allowed the void to rush toward Made in Heaven, and Aoko fired her final Magic Bullet against the light consuming her.
• Roland praised Aoko, tossed her unconscious body into the light, and watched the new singularity take shape.
• Light and black mud engulfed Roland, and the Ten Crowns of Domination spread across the newborn universe as his power called to the future.

After losing to Roland in the accelerated end of the universe, Aoko woke in the New World and reunited with Alice, only to find the Kuonji Residence gone. When Roland appeared, Aoko discovered through True Magic that attacking him would leave the planet and its species without a future.

• Aoko woke after the time cycle closed, regretted her defeat by Roland, and worried about Alice facing him alone.
• Aoko dressed, hurried toward the Kuonji Residence, and met Alice on the road; she admitted Roland had not used his full strength.
• Alice explained that Roland had sent the Old World's living beings into the New World under a fixed fate, while Aoko questioned why he had spared them.
• At Shiroinu Mound, Aoko and Alice found the Western-style Mansion missing, and Alice grieved over its loss.
• Roland appeared and welcomed Aoko to his brave new world; Aoko used the Fifth Magic and discovered that attacking him would erase the future of the planet and its species.

Roland restored Alice Kuonji’s Western-style Mansion and explained to Aoko Aozaki how he had completed the cycle while remaining able to alter fate. He then took Aoko out of the timeline, leaving Alice’s Familiar to report their disappearance in alarm.

• Roland returned the Western-style Mansion and repaired the surrounding road with a flash of light.
• Alice Kuonji stayed with Aoko while Aoko told her to inspect the restored house, then asked Roland where Touko had gone.
• Aoko questioned how Roland had completed the cycle without fixing the universe’s future, and Roland confirmed that he had used a paradox involving his arrival from the future.
• Roland told Aoko that the universe he existed in and the universe belonging to him were different, then pressed her shoulder and took her out of the timeline.
• Alice’s Robin reported that Roland had made Aoko disappear, then excitedly speculated about what he was forcing her to do.

Roland explained how he had used Made in Heaven and the Womb of All Beasts to create countless universes and inscribe his fate into the Root, making himself and the worlds share a destiny. He revealed that Aoko Aozaki’s role in bringing forth the Sixth Magic required one final convergence, and she eventually gave up resisting him.

• Roland showed Aoko Aozaki the Tree of Life and explained how he had created new universes by sharing his possibilities with them.
• Aoko warned that the infinite universes would eventually consume Roland, but he said his Beast’s Authority and growing potential would let him endure.
• Roland explained that he had inscribed his records into the Root and made himself the administrator of half the universe, binding his fate to its future.
• Aoko realized that the ritual still required her as the Fifth True Magic User to fix the possibility of the Sixth Magic in place.
• Roland approached Aoko, and after he threatened to let the world remain unsaved, she abandoned her resistance.

Aoko Aozaki confided in Kumari Kanaruko about her relationship with Roland and her worries about having little time alone with him while living with Alice Kuonji. The chapter ended with Roland cuddling Alice at the Western-style Mansion and asking whether she wanted to continue.

• Aoko Aozaki told Kumari Kanaruko that she planned to study at the Clock Tower and had borrowed tuition money from Roland through Touko Aozaki's name.
• Aoko revealed that she had a boyfriend who was staying with her and Alice Kuonji, and she asked how to handle the relationship between them.
• Kumari suggested that Aoko build a welcoming atmosphere for Alice, but Aoko worried that being open about her relationship would make Alice feel isolated.
• Roland held Alice at the Western-style Mansion and asked if she wanted to go again.

Roland teased Alice Kuonji about their relationship while she remained in his arms, then pointed out that she had been spending less time with Aoko Aozaki. He proposed a plan to bring the three of them together, and Alice quietly accepted that she would help him.

• Alice stayed silent after Roland asked whether she wanted to continue their secret meetings, and he took her response as agreement.
• Roland teased Alice and removed her shoe while she urged him to take her back to school before Aoko returned.
• Roland told Alice that she and Aoko had been spending less time together, prompting Alice to worry that she had neglected their friendship.
• Roland proposed a plan that would let Alice preserve her friendship with Aoko while including him, and Alice objected but silently resolved to help.

Aoko returned home and, after Roland suggested they rest early, confronted him that night about their agreement. She admitted she could no longer hold back, leaving Roland and Aoko on the verge of giving in to their desire.

• Aoko came home and learned Roland had ordered takeout, while he concealed that something had occupied him during the day.
• Aoko and Alice exchanged awkward excuses about returning home early, and Roland broke the silence by announcing the takeout had arrived.
• After dinner, Roland read in the living room before heading to his room in the East Wing.
• Aoko pulled Roland into her room and, after hesitating, said she had new thoughts about their agreement.
• Roland offered to scrap the agreement and warned that Alice might notice, but Aoko said she could no longer hold back.

Alice Kuonji worried that her distance from Aoko had made the True Magic User feel rejected, so she decided to visit and make amends. She arrived just as Aoko and Roland were getting intimate, leaving Aoko scrambling to hide him.

• Alice Kuonji reflected on her guilt over distancing herself from Aoko and feared their relationship would end badly.
• Alice closed her book and decided to go make up with Aoko.
• Aoko Aozaki embraced Roland and grew bolder as they teased and kissed each other.
• Aoko straddled Roland and prepared to take the lead, but the mansion door creaked open.
• Alice called out to Aoko and announced she was coming in, while Aoko used Mana Burst to lift Roland and search for a hiding place.

Aoko Aozaki hid Roland in the bathtub when Alice Kuonji came to talk and asked what Aoko thought of him. Alice invited Aoko for tea the next evening, and after she left, Roland suggested Aoko should get used to sharing him.

• Alice Kuonji entered Aoko Aozaki's room and asked what Aoko thought of Roland while Aoko hid him in the bathtub.
• Aoko admitted that Roland was a bastard but that she liked him a little, and Alice said she did not dislike him either.
• Alice invited Aoko to her room for black tea the next evening and left after asking her not to blame her afterward.
• Roland revealed he could have turned invisible and asked why Aoko had delayed Alice's departure.
• Aoko recognized that she had felt pleased when Alice sounded sorrowful, and Roland urged her to start getting used to sharing him.

Aoko Aozaki and Alice Kuonji reconciled after Roland brought them together, and Roland then traveled to France to meet Kirei Kotomine. He found Kirei at a turning point in his life and asked whether he believed in gravity.

• Aoko arrived at the Kuonji Residence, where Alice apologized before Roland appeared and the night ended with Aoko and Alice together.
• Aoko and Alice discussed Alice's magic potion and admitted their shared involvement with Roland, then gradually returned to their close friendship.
• Roland paused Made in Heaven's acceleration and went to keep his promise to someone whose fate would emerge in the new universe.
• Kirei Kotomine prayed in a French church, reflecting on his nature, his dying wife, and the fate he believed he could not escape.
• Roland met Kirei outside the church, said he had stopped by the hospital, and asked him whether he believed in gravity.

Alice Kuonji and Roland prepared to leave for London, where Roland intended to gather information and visit an old acquaintance. Ten years later, Lord El-Melloi II discovered that his student was describing a different Holy Grail War from the one he had fought in.

• Alice Kuonji regained the experience and power she had accumulated in the accelerated timeline, then kissed Roland before Aoko reminded him to prepare for the next stage of his plan.
• Roland said he had bought a map of London and planned to visit an old acquaintance there.
• Lord El-Melloi II taught his students about magecraft foundations and reflected on his precarious position, his debts, and his efforts to preserve the El-Melloi name.
• A student asked Lord El-Melloi II about the Holy Grail War and described a contest with ranked Command Spells and an upcoming Fifth Holy Grail War.
• Lord El-Melloi II realized the student meant a different Holy Grail War and was left confused.

Waver questioned reports that Marisbury Animusphere was entering a Fifth Holy Grail War in Tokyo, then met Roland, who confirmed the Grail was real and revealed that the war was a conspiracy driven by selfish desire. Waver realized Tokyo’s Grail might be the original Holy Grail, the cup that received the blood of God.

• Waver doubted the reports of a recreated Holy Grail until his student said Marisbury Animusphere was preparing to enter the war and establish Chaldea.
• Waver warned his student about the dangers of the Holy Grail War, ordered them not to spread the news, and checked Marisbury’s movements.
• Waver returned to his office and found Roland waiting; Roland startled him by repeating Waver’s earlier words and asking him to take a seat.
• Waver asked Roland whether joining the war would get him killed, and Roland said Waver would likely die before being revived in another form.
• Roland confirmed that Tokyo’s Holy Grail was genuine but said the war was a conspiracy, prompting Waver to recognize that it might be the true Holy Grail.

Roland and Waver discussed the genuine Holy Grail and the Holy Church’s failure to identify it, while Aoko and Alice’s rivalry over Roland led to a chaotic reconciliation. Aoko explained that Roland needed to devour his other half to mature as Beast VI and revealed that the woman who could help bring it forth was someone who could become his mother.

• Roland told Waver that the Holy Grail was genuine, that the Holy Church had failed to recognize it, and that a girl had taken it from them.
• Alice grew unsettled watching Aoko’s closeness with Roland, then followed Aoko to Roland’s room and discovered her wearing Alice’s uniform.
• Alice confronted Aoko over borrowing her clothes, and the three reconciled after Alice punished Aoko and joined Roland.
• Aoko explained that Roland remained incomplete and could mature Beast VI sooner by devouring his other half.
• Aoko warned that Roland could not consume the other half without a woman who possessed the necessary qualification, then said the woman could become his mother.

Roland met Lev Lainur Flauros, a talented researcher who had joined Chaldea to pursue his family's Grand Order of restoring magecraft’s former glory. Lev agreed to contact Marisbury, and Roland planned to use Marisbury’s need for money to persuade him to withdraw from the Holy Grail War and give up his Master authority.

• Waver told Roland that Marisbury was difficult to reach, but that a highly regarded researcher from the Department of Archaeology could contact him.
• Lev Lainur Flauros entered Waver’s office, agreed to pass along Roland’s request, and explained that he joined Chaldea to pursue his Grand Order.
• Lev described his ambition to use an Anomaly History in which King Arthur never returned the Sacred Sword to restore the flourishing of Mystery.
• After Lev left, Waver asked what Roland intended to do with Marisbury, and Roland said he would offer him a reason he could not refuse because he was short of money.

Roland negotiated with Marisbury for ownership of Chaldea and Marisbury’s Master position and Holy Relic, then agreed to provide enough wealth to fund the project after Marisbury demanded more. Roland received the Command Spells and revealed his own Holy Relic, while Sajyou Ayaka searched for her older sister and found Sajyou Manaka in the garden.

• Roland offered to fund Chaldea in exchange for ownership, oversight rights, and Marisbury’s place as a Master in the Holy Grail War, along with his Holy Relic.
• Marisbury demanded more money, and Roland agreed to support Chaldea with his treasure; Marisbury transferred his Command Spells and Holy Relic to Roland.
• Waver saw Roland’s new Command Spells and the ancient ring he planned to use as a Holy Relic, while Roland said he needed to prepare for a particular Master.
• Sajyou Ayaka waited until her father left, then entered the Sajo Family garden to look for her sister.
• Sajyou Manaka appeared behind Ayaka, who greeted her idolized older sister.