Chapter Summaries

Crocodile resigned from the Seven Warlords of the Sea and joined Kirishima’s Demon King Travel Group as the Ark Maxim departed Alabasta. News of the group spread worldwide, drawing alarm from the Marines and World Government and interest from the Four Emperors.

• Crocodile declared his resignation from the Seven Warlords of the Sea, knelt before Kirishima, and asked to join his journey; Kirishima accepted indifferently.
• Crocodile announced to the world that he had joined the Demon King Travel Group, and the Ark Maxim flew away from Alabasta.
• Sengoku, Tsuru, Borsalino, and Sakazuki reacted to the news at Marine Headquarters, concerned about the group and Nico Robin.
• The Five Elders ordered CP0 to investigate the group and told one another not to provoke Kirishima without certainty about his plans.
• Big Mom welcomed the prospect of the group visiting her territory, while Kaido challenged Kirishima to come to Wano Country.
• Whitebeard laughed at Crocodile’s decision and reaffirmed his claim to the title of strongest.

Dragon ordered the Revolutionary Army to investigate the Demon King Travel Group as Kirishima Bupai sailed into unknown waters with Enel and Crocodile aboard the Ark Maxim. Enel and Crocodile nearly fought over their standing in the group, but Kirishima’s power stopped them and left both wary of him.

• Dragon told Sabo to focus intelligence efforts on the Demon King Travel Group and its interest in the World Government’s secrets.
• Crocodile reflected on his decision to join the group and resolved to seek new opportunities beside Kirishima Bupai.
• Enel confronted Crocodile, insisting that the Ark Maxim was his ship and objecting to being called a Power Bank.
• Crocodile mocked Enel’s usefulness, and Enel and Crocodile prepared to fight with lightning and sand.
• Kirishima’s faint display of power made both men halt and withdraw their abilities.
• Enel sulked on the other side of the deck, tracing scorch marks and brooding over Crocodile’s insult.

Crocodile offered Kirishima leads about ancient energy, including a hidden core beneath Baldimore and a mysterious sea vortex. Kirishima pointed toward the depths of the Calm Belt, leaving Crocodile and Enel to wonder what he sought there.

• Crocodile asked Kirishima where he intended to go and offered to share intelligence from his years of operations.
• Kirishima asked about the Mother Flame, prompting Crocodile to recall ancient energy and share leads about Baldimore and a mysterious vortex near the Calm Belt.
• Enel boasted that his lightning and Ark Maxim were powerful energy sources and offered to demonstrate their strength.
• Kirishima pointed toward the depths of the Calm Belt, and Crocodile suspected it was the location of the ancient energy vortex he had mentioned.
• Enel fell silent as he considered the dangers of using his powers in the Sea Kings' territory.

Kirishima Bupai detected a dangerous vortex and a Sea King ambush in the Calm Belt, then used a coordinate scroll to set a course for Water 7. As the Ark Maxim was surrounded, he drew Yamato and struck twice, cutting down the advancing Sea Kings.

• Dante reported an increasingly powerful vortex and six or seven powerful Sea Kings closing in on the Ark Maxim.
• Kirishima Bupai redeemed a Fate/stay night Holy Grail War coordinate scroll and ordered a route to Water 7.
• Crocodile and Enel prepared the Ark Maxim to depart as Sea Kings swarmed the ship and the vortex threatened to pull it in.
• Kirishima Bupai swung Yamato twice, sending crossed black blade streaks through the Sea Kings and severing their movements and life signs.

Kirishima Bupai carved a passage through the Calm Belt with two slashes and brought the Ark Maxim to Water 7, where its arrival caused panic. He ordered Crocodile to safeguard the ship before preparing to take Yamato somewhere nice.

• Kirishima Bupai destroyed the Sea Kings and the vortex blocking the Calm Belt with two black slashes, leaving Crocodile and Enel terrified by his power.
• The Ark Maxim passed through the Calm Belt and, several days later, arrived above Water 7.
• Water 7's residents panicked when they recognized the golden ship and Kirishima Bupai as the Demon King, while Iceburg, Franky, and CP9 watched tensely.
• Kirishima Bupai ordered Crocodile to safeguard the Ark Maxim at Dock 1, and Crocodile threatened the dock workers into protecting it.
• Kirishima Bupai gripped Yamato's hilt and said they were going somewhere nice.

Kirishima Bupai brought Enel and Crocodile through a spatial rift to a school athletic field in the middle of the Holy Grail War, where Lancer and Archer were fighting. Their arrival disrupted the battle, and the Servants turned on the newcomers as witnesses.

• Kirishima Bupai opened a spatial passage above Dock 1 in Water 7 and led Enel and Crocodile through it.
• Kirishima Bupai, Enel, and Crocodile emerged at a school athletic field where Lancer and Archer were fighting.
• Lancer and Archer noticed the newcomers, broke off their duel, and judged them too dangerous to let leave alive.
• Lancer charged Crocodile and thrust his spear at him, believing the cigar-smoking man was the group’s weak point.

Archer and Cu Chulainn faced Enel’s overwhelming lightning, while Kirishima Bupai remained calm and ordered Crocodile to take the Servants down. Cu Chulainn then charged Kirishima, enraged by his contemptuous command.

• Archer attacked Enel, who answered with Divine Judgement and struck him with a massive thunderbolt.
• Archer survived the lightning strike but was badly injured, and Cu Chulainn recognized Enel as a dangerous opponent.
• Crocodile set a beach chair out for Kirishima Bupai, who briefly looked at the stunned Shirou Emiya before sitting down.
• Kirishima told Crocodile to take down Archer and Cu Chulainn.
• Enraged by Kirishima’s words, Cu Chulainn charged straight at him.

Enel intercepted Cu Chulainn’s attack on Kirishima, while Archer tried to exploit the clash to strike Kirishima and Crocodile stopped him. The battle continued with Cu Chulainn injured and Archer trapped in Crocodile’s sandstorm.

• Enel struck Cu Chulainn’s Gáe Bolg with a Thunder Dragon, and the collision blasted apart much of the athletic field and injured Shirou Emiya.
• Cu Chulainn survived the lightning attack, took injuries, and prepared to fight Enel again.
• Archer used the explosion as cover to rush Kirishima and attack him with twin blades.
• Crocodile stepped in front of Kirishima and trapped Archer inside a giant sand hand with Sand Burial.
• Crocodile used Heavy Sandstorm to cut Archer, interrupt his projection, and drain his strength.

Enel and Crocodile overwhelmed Cu Chulainn and Archer until Rin Tohsaka and Sakura Matou arrived. Kirishima Bupai then stopped everyone’s movement with a glance, interrupting Archer’s attempt to activate Unlimited Blade Works and leaving Archer collapsed on one knee.

• Cu Chulainn attacked Crocodile with Gáe Bolg Alternative, but Crocodile blocked the spear beam with a giant sand blade.
• Enel transformed into a Thunder God and brought a massive lightning palm down toward Cu Chulainn.
• Rin Tohsaka ordered Lancer to fall back as Sakura Matou rushed toward the injured Shirou Emiya.
• Archer tried to activate Unlimited Blade Works, but Kirishima Bupai froze him and everyone else in the school field with a glance.
• After the stillness ended, Archer fell from Crocodile’s sandstorm hand and landed on one knee, coughing and struggling to breathe.

After Kirishima Bupai overwhelmed the fighters at the athletic field, he left with Crocodile and Enel and dismissed the Holy Grail War as boring. As they walked through Fuyuki, they encountered a clash between Iskandar and the King of Heroes.

• Kirishima Bupai’s power left Archer, Cu Chulainn, Rin Tohsaka, Sakura Matou, and Shirou Emiya shaken, while Kirei Kotomine watched with delight.
• Kirishima criticized the Holy Grail War and its polluted Grail, then opened a spatial passage and left with Crocodile and Enel.
• Kirei Kotomine and the other survivors remained on the devastated athletic field as Kirishima threatened to kill them the next time they met.
• Kirishima, Crocodile, and Enel stopped at a café before leaving and walking through Fuyuki’s late-night streets.
• Iskandar raced through a storm of Noble Phantasms in his chariot, laughing as he challenged the King of Heroes.

Kirishima Bupai intervened in Gilgamesh and Iskandar’s battle, effortlessly stopping Gilgamesh’s Noble Phantasms and provoking the King of Heroes. Gilgamesh unleashed Ea and struck at Kirishima with Enuma Elish, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Gilgamesh attacked Iskandar with a barrage of Noble Phantasms while Waver Velvet and Tokiomi Tohsaka watched nearby.
• Kirishima Bupai, Enel, and Crocodile arrived, and Gilgamesh redirected his weapons toward them.
• Kirishima stopped the Noble Phantasms in midair with an invisible barrier, then let them fall to the ground.
• Kirishima taunted Gilgamesh and told him he could use a decent sword, driving Gilgamesh into a rage.
• Gilgamesh summoned Ea and unleashed Enuma Elish at Kirishima.

Kirishima Bupai erased Gilgamesh’s Enuma Elish and shattered the Sword of Rupture, then ordered Crocodile to defeat Iskandar. Kirishima finished both Heroic Spirits with Dimension Slashes, leaving Tokiomi Tohsaka terrified amid the ruined city block.

• Kirishima stopped Gilgamesh’s Enuma Elish with one hand and dissolved its power.
• Kirishima shattered the Sword of Rupture, causing Gilgamesh’s Spirit Origin to collapse.
• Crocodile engulfed Iskandar and his divine bull-drawn chariot in a draining sandstorm, while Waver Velvet watched in despair.
• Kirishima used Dimension Slashes to erase the falling Gilgamesh and the sandstorm that held Iskandar.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka watched the two Heroic Spirits vanish and trembled in fear.

The Holy Church and Mage's Association classified Kirishima Bupai and his attendants as an existential threat after he defeated Gilgamesh and Iskandar, and organized a campaign to eliminate him. The surviving forces gathered at Ryuudou Temple while their leaders prepared a powerful sealing ritual, Divine Judgment.

• Risei Kotomine, Kirei Kotomine, and representatives of the Holy Church and Mage's Association reviewed the battle and agreed to unite the remaining forces against Kirishima Bupai.
• Kirishima Bupai left the ruined intersection through a cross-shaped spatial fissure as fires spread through Fuyuki City.
• The surviving Masters and Servants assembled at Ryuudou Temple, where Medea maintained a composite barrier and the others prepared to face the Demon King.
• Risei Kotomine and the assembled Church and Association forces drained Fuyuki's leylines to prepare the Greater Source Seal, Divine Judgment.

Kirishima Bupai arrived at Ryuudou Temple with Crocodile and Enel, erased its barrier, and killed Assassin with ease. Enel then fought Heracles, whose repeated deaths and resurrections drove Illya to spend all three of her Command Spells as the battle continued.

• Kirishima Bupai, Crocodile, and Enel appeared at Ryuudou Temple and ignored Medea’s spatial interference barrier.
• Kirishima erased the temple’s mountain-gate barrier and stone doors with Yamato, then froze and disintegrated Sasaki Kojirō when he attacked.
• Kirei Kotomine reacted to Assassin’s death with excitement, while Rin Tohsaka, Saber, and Shirou Emiya watched in alarm.
• Heracles charged at Kirishima and his companions, and Enel struck him with his Thunder God form, costing Heracles one life before he began healing.
• Enel rained lightning down on Heracles, repeatedly killing him as God Hand’s radiance dimmed.
• Illya used all three of her Command Spells, ordering Berserker to unleash his power, break through his limits, and return in his strongest form.

Heracles spent three Command Spells to unleash his final attack on Enel, but Enel killed him with Divine Judgement. Crocodile then attacked Medea at the barrier’s nexus, while Soichiro Kuzuki was badly wounded trying to stop him.

• Illya and Shirou watched as Heracles, empowered by three Command Spells, charged Enel in a final burst of Mad Enhancement.
• Enel unleashed Divine Judgement at full power, destroying Heracles and leaving Illya and Shirou devastated.
• Crocodile turned his attention to Medea and unleashed a sandstorm that eroded her defenses and drained her magical energy.
• Soichiro Kuzuki attacked Crocodile to protect Medea, but Crocodile blocked his punch with a sand blade and sent him crashing into a distant wall.

Kirishima Bupai defeated Medea, Berserker, and Saber, leaving Shirou Emiya, Rin Tohsaka, and Sakura Matou devastated. With the Heroic Spirits annihilated, the corrupted Holy Grail erupted from beneath Ryuudou Temple and released All the World's Evil.

• Crocodile killed Medea with his sandstorm as Enel dealt with Berserker.
• Saber revealed Excalibur and unleashed its full power against Kirishima Bupai, but he absorbed the blast without effort.
• Kirishima crushed Saber's connection to Shirou Emiya, and Artoria vanished, leaving her sword behind.
• Shirou Emiya broke down as Rin Tohsaka and Sakura Matou watched, while Kirei Kotomine eagerly called for the Holy Grail to appear.
• Mount Enzou shook as the corrupted Grail erupted in black mud, and Tokiomi Tohsaka recognized the arrival of All the World's Evil.

Kirishima erased the corrupted Holy Grail just as it was about to unleash its power, ending the catastrophe in Fuyuki City. He left through a dimensional rift with Crocodile and Enel, while the survivors remained in stunned silence.

• The corrupted Holy Grail formed as Kirei Kotomine welcomed its malice and urged it to grant his wish for more pain and despair.
• Kirishima raised his hand and annihilated the Holy Grail, its gathered magical energy, and the concept of all the world's evil.
• The black mud and ominous rift vanished, ending the magical pressure and stopping the destruction threatening Fuyuki City.
• Kirei Kotomine, Rin Tohsaka, Shirou Emiya, Sakura, and the overseers were left shocked by the Holy Grail's sudden destruction.
• Kirishima declared that it was over and departed through a dimensional rift with Crocodile and Enel.

The author apologized for rushing Kirishima Bupai’s Fuyuki City story to its end and thanked readers for following along. The book ended there, and the author hoped to meet readers again in a future story.

• The author admitted that Kirishima Bupai’s rapid victories through Fuyuki City had been written to meet an update quota.
• The author thanked readers for continuing to follow the rushed story and leaving comments and tips.
• The author announced that the book was ending, not because Kirishima had found his way home or grown tired of his life.
• The author wished readers well and said they planned to prepare more carefully for their next book.