Recaps

Cú Chulainn accepted Shirou as his Master and discovered the boy had twenty-seven magic circuits. Meanwhile, Vlad III encountered Iskandar in the street, and the two kings began a destructive battle that left Waver caught in the middle.

• Shirou agreed to become Cú Chulainn’s Master after Cú Chulainn promised to protect him and warned him not to back out.
• Cú Chulainn gave Shirou Command Spells and found that he had twenty-seven primary magic circuits.
• Vlad III spotted Iskandar flying past in the Gordius Wheel with Waver and decided to fight him.
• Iskandar and Vlad III declared their names and traded lightning and stakes, devastating the street as Waver watched.

The King of Conquerors invited Vlad III to join his army, but Vlad condemned his rule as villainous and challenged his right to judge others. As Vlad transformed and unleashed a swarm of blood-red bats, Kayneth watched the confrontation and revealed that he knew the Grand Duke was a Pseudo-Servant connected to the Dead Apostle Țepeș.

• The King of Conquerors learned that Vlad III had three Mana Furnaces and invited him to join his army.
• Vlad III rejected the invitation, accusing the King of Conquerors of being an unrepentant villain who ruled by might.
• The King of Conquerors admitted he was a villain but defended his Way of the King and asked Vlad who gave him the right to judge.
• Vlad III called himself a villain and a lamb of the Lord, then transformed and summoned countless blood-red bats toward the chariot.
• Kayneth watched the battle through a Familiar and told Sola that Waver Velvet was on the chariot.
• Kayneth revealed that Vlad III was a Pseudo-Servant connected to the Dead Apostle known as the Impaler.

Gilgamesh watched the battle between the King of Conquerors and the Grand Duke before appearing on a streetlamp and attacking them. The King of Conquerors fled Gilgamesh’s Noble Phantasms while the Grand Duke withdrew on Kayneth’s orders.

• At the Tohsaka residence, Gilgamesh watched the battle and discussed the Grand Duke with Tokiomi Tohsaka, who worried about the war and planned to leave resources for Rin.
• The Grand Duke sent bats and stakes against the King of Conquerors, who realized the Grand Duke willingly embraced monstrosity to carry out his judgment.
• Gilgamesh appeared atop a streetlamp and challenged the two kings for calling themselves kings without his permission.
• The King of Conquerors remembered Gilgamesh’s treasury and declared he would conquer him and take his treasures, prompting Gilgamesh to unleash a barrage of Noble Phantasms.
• The King of Conquerors evaded Gilgamesh’s attacks in Gordius Wheel, while Kayneth ordered the Grand Duke to withdraw and let the two opponents weaken each other.

Kiritsugu Emiya abandoned his attempt to target Waver and sent Maiya after Messmer, while Messmer ambushed Proto Saber and Irisviel. Messmer left after impaling Irisviel, but Proto Saber’s Avalon began healing her, and he watched Messmer disappear into the night.

• Kiritsugu Emiya spotted Messmer and redirected his mission, ordering Maiya to switch targets.
• Messmer attacked Proto Saber and Irisviel, setting Proto Saber’s armor and weapons alight with her flames.
• Messmer redirected her attack toward Irisviel and impaled her with her spear.
• Proto Saber told Messmer that Irisviel was not his Master, but Messmer burned and dropped Irisviel before escaping.
• Proto Saber found Irisviel barely alive and used Avalon to begin healing her wound.

Kayneth asked the Grand Duke whether he had truly died and heard the Grand Duke assess Waver as immature but full of potential. An explosion destroyed the Hyatt Hotel, and as Kayneth searched for Sola, Saber approached and challenged them.

• Kayneth asked Lancer if he had really died, and the Grand Duke confirmed that he had.
• The Grand Duke praised Waver’s courage and potential, while Kayneth grudgingly acknowledged his academic talent.
• The Grand Duke sensed danger and shielded Kayneth as explosives destroyed the Hyatt Hotel, protecting the three Mana Furnaces in a cage of stakes.
• Kayneth searched the burning ruins for Sola but received no answer.
• Saber approached beneath the moonlight and called for them to fight.

Kiritsugu Emiya and Maiya used a decoy and gunfire to draw Kayneth into a trap, then Kiritsugu revealed that Sola was their hostage. Kayneth demanded to know what Kiritsugu wanted, while Proto Saber continued fighting the Grand Duke, who recognized Proto Saber’s guilt over failing to protect Irisviel.

• Kayneth sent the Grand Duke to fight Proto Saber and stayed behind to confront Maiya.
• Maiya ignored Kayneth’s formal challenge and fired at him, while Kiritsugu shot from the shadows; Volumen Hydrargyrum deflected both attacks.
• Kayneth identified Maiya as a decoy, tracked Kiritsugu to a rooftop, and attacked him with silver tendrils.
• Kiritsugu used Time Alter to evade Kayneth’s attacks, then showed him a photograph of the captive Sola and demanded his attention.
• Proto Saber held off the Grand Duke, who concluded that Proto Saber felt guilty for failing to protect Irisviel.

Kiritsugu Emiya threatened Kayneth with Sola’s life, but Kayneth used the arrival of the Grand Duke to launch an attack instead. Kiritsugu wounded Kayneth by exploiting Volumen Hydrargyrum’s defenses and prepared to force its magical energy output higher.

• The Grand Duke realized Kiritsugu had likely endangered Kayneth’s side and rushed back, while Proto Saber recognized Kiritsugu had not shared the full plan.
• Kiritsugu demanded that Kayneth withdraw from the Holy Grail War, threatening him with a bomb attached to Sola.
• Kayneth pretended to negotiate and began writing a Self-Geas Scroll, but the Grand Duke’s bats arrived and Kayneth attacked Kiritsugu with Volumen Hydrargyrum.
• Kiritsugu dodged the mercury tendrils and fired at Volumen Hydrargyrum until it formed a thin defensive layer around Kayneth.
• Kiritsugu switched to the Contender and pierced the thin defense, shooting Kayneth in the shoulder.
• Kiritsugu realized he needed to keep pressuring Kayneth so he would increase his magical energy output.

Kiritsugu Emiya’s plan to cripple Kayneth succeeded when Maiya fired an Origin Bullet that destroyed his Magic Circuits. Proto Saber returned to protect Kiritsugu, forcing the Grand Duke to retreat with Kayneth while Maiya lay gravely injured.

• The Grand Duke pinned Kiritsugu Emiya to the rooftop while Kayneth celebrated his revenge and claimed he had rescued Sola.
• Maiya shot at Kayneth, and Volumen Hydrargyrum blocked her first five bullets.
• Maiya’s sixth bullet, an Origin Bullet, caused Kayneth’s Magic Circuits and magecraft to disappear.
• The Grand Duke charged at Kiritsugu, but Maiya tackled him and bought Kiritsugu enough time to use his Command Spell to summon Proto Saber.
• Proto Saber intercepted the Grand Duke’s attack, and the Grand Duke escaped with Kayneth as Kiritsugu and Maiya remained on the rooftop.

Messmer and Horace discussed the abnormal Holy Grail War and the unusually numerous bats in Fuyuki, while the Grand Duke brought the defeated Kayneth to an abandoned warehouse. The Grand Duke decided he could not abandon his mission or leave the war, despite Kayneth’s ruined Magic Circuits and the danger they faced.

• Messmer watched over Fuyuki from the Matou Family's manor as Horace warned her to be cautious around the powerful Servants.
• Horace pointed out the excessive number of bats and told Messmer to go to the church to test her Authority.
• At dawn, the Grand Duke carried Kayneth across Fuyuki and left him in an abandoned warehouse.
• Kayneth lamented that his Magecraft and Magic Circuits were gone, while the Grand Duke worried that their weakened position would make them targets.
• The Grand Duke considered changing Masters but recalled his past and reaffirmed his belief in humanity’s purification and his mission to build the Tower of Babel.

Kayneth asked the Grand Duke to turn him into a Dead Apostle so he could seek revenge on Kiritsugu Emiya, and the blood-bestowal ritual began. In Fuyuki, Caren started reading the Miquella Document after Risei Kotomine gave it to her.

• Kayneth confronted the Grand Duke and demanded to become a Dead Apostle in order to destroy Kiritsugu Emiya.
• The Grand Duke warned Kayneth about the irreversible consequences, and Kayneth accepted them and called him father.
• The Grand Duke cut his wrist and used his blood to begin transforming Kayneth into a Dead Apostle.
• Risei Kotomine visited Caren in the church library, where the Hassans urged her to read.
• Risei handed Caren the Miquella Document, and she opened it while the Hassans worried about its contents.

Risei Kotomine left Caren with the half-dead Hassans after she read ominous passages in the Miquella Document. Elsewhere, Waver endured Iskandar’s schemes while Cú Chulainn taught Shirou Primordial Runes and warned him to use Command Spells to recall his Servant in danger.

• Risei Kotomine left the library for a television appearance, and Caren read passages on pages 666 and 776 of the Miquella Document.
• Waver complained to Iskandar about the previous night’s dangers as they watched Risei explain the explosions and strange reports on the news.
• Iskandar announced that he wanted to steal Gilgamesh’s treasures, leaving Waver to regret becoming his Master.
• Cú Chulainn taught Shirou the meanings of Primordial Runes and explained that Shirou’s twenty-seven magic circuits made the knowledge worth learning.
• Shirou asked whether Command Spells could change Cú Chulainn’s class, but Cú Chulainn told him to save them for recalling his Servant in danger.

Proto Saber struggled with whether to force Kiritsugu to abandon the Holy Grail, while Messmer attacked Kirei Kotomine at the Church. The chapter ended with Messmer thrusting at Kirei again after he claimed he was no longer a Master.

• Proto Saber recalled Kiritsugu's ruthless actions and considered killing him, but rejected the idea because it would not stop the war or save Illya.
• Irisviel told Proto Saber that Kiritsugu had gone too far to give up his pursuit of the Holy Grail.
• Messmer entered the Church and found Kirei Kotomine, whose right hand bore three Command Spells.
• Messmer attacked Kirei, who dodged her spear only enough to take a shoulder wound burned by its flames.
• Kirei said his Servant had been eliminated and he was no longer a Master, but Messmer ignored him and thrust again.

Kirei Kotomine survived Messmer’s attack after King Hassan intervened, while Horace realized Dove had a deeper purpose in sending them to the Holy Grail War. Horace and Messmer concluded that Dove wanted them to confront faith itself, leaving their pursuit of the Third Magic tied to discovering and fulfilling Dove’s intent.

• Kirei Kotomine used a Command Spell to summon King Hassan, who blocked Messmer and ordered her not to kill him.
• Kirei Kotomine withdrew from the church, while Caren watched his departure and Messmer noticed the book in her hands.
• Horace asked Messmer to define faith as evil, and she discovered that she could do so inside the church.
• Horace reasoned that Messmer’s power to identify and burn evil came from Dove, suggesting Dove had a purpose in the Holy Grail War.
• Horace and Messmer discussed Dove’s silence and the possibility that Dove wanted humanity to become independent of faith.
• Horace warned Messmer that winning the Holy Grail War might not secure the Third Magic and that they would need to follow Dove’s wishes.

The emperor brought Waver Velvet to the Matou Family residence, intending to destroy its worm pit and rescue Sakura, but found the house empty. Makiri revealed that Messmer had taken Sakura away, and the emperor left without finding anyone.

• Messmer burned the Miquella Document Caren was reading, then awkwardly agreed to put its cost on the Matou Family's tab.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka inspected the site of Kayneth and Kiritsugu Emiya's fight and identified a silvery-white puddle as mercury.
• The emperor took Waver Velvet to the Matou Family residence, recalling his conversation with Kariya Matou about protecting Sakura.
• The emperor searched the residence and basement for worms and Sakura, but found nothing and left empty-handed.
• Makiri watched the emperor's chariot depart and revealed that Messmer had taken Sakura away because the Matou Family was no longer safe.

The Grand Duke's citywide ritual began contaminating Fuyuki's leylines, prompting Tokiomi Tohsaka to send Gilgamesh after him. Beneath Ryuudou Temple, Messmer's attempt to burn Angra Mainyu's black mud triggered a summoning circle targeting angels, and she began losing control as the Grand Duke sensed the ritual had started early.

• The Grand Duke covered Fuyuki City with blood-red bats and dropped black stakes that contaminated its leylines.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka asked Gilgamesh to defend his land, and Gilgamesh set out to confront the Grand Duke.
• Messmer burned Angra Mainyu's black mud in the Great Hollow, absorbing magical energy and growing stronger.
• Horace noticed a citywide summoning circle targeting angels and warned Messmer that her power was accelerating it.
• Messmer told Horace she could not quite control herself, while the Grand Duke wondered if the Lord had begun the ritual for him.

The Grand Duke heard Messmer declare that faith was evil and, driven into despair, seized the heavenly fire to remake the world through destruction. In Fuyuki City, Kiritsugu Emiya gained the upper hand against the transformed Kayneth and aimed his final pistol at him.

• The Grand Duke interpreted Messmer’s declaration as the Lord rejecting faith and realized his lifelong devotion had been in vain.
• The Grand Duke took the heavenly fire, embraced madness, and vowed to burn the world so it could rise from the ashes.
• Horace watched the Grand Duke’s transformation and wondered what Dove was planning.
• Kayneth attacked Kiritsugu Emiya with his Dead Apostle powers, but Kiritsugu evaded him and wore down his regeneration with mithril-tipped bullets.
• Kiritsugu approached the wounded Kayneth, acknowledged that he had destroyed everything Kayneth had, and aimed his last pistol at Kayneth’s head.

Sola saved Kayneth from Kiritsugu as the Great Hollow erupted in flames, and Messmer battled Gilgamesh while transforming into a true angel. Gilgamesh prepared to unleash Ea, leaving Tokiomi overwhelmed by the magical energy being drained from him.

• Sola interrupted Kiritsugu as he was about to shoot Kayneth, and she helped Kayneth escape while Kiritsugu withdrew from the ruins.
• Gilgamesh arrived above the Great Hollow on Vimana and clashed with Messmer, who repeatedly unleashed Pseudo-Destructio Sodomae.
• Messmer invoked Seraphim Brazen and transformed as scarlet flames spread through the Great Hollow.
• Gilgamesh's Chains of Heaven failed to bind Messmer, whose divinity was concealed by Horace's Great Runes.
• Gilgamesh summoned Ea and began charging his strongest Noble Phantasm, while Tokiomi convulsed as Gilgamesh drained his magical energy.

Gilgamesh drew the Uruk Great Cup as Messmer’s Noble Phantasm sent a burning serpent descending over the Great Hollow. Elsewhere, Kayneth accepted blood from Sola and headed toward the Hollow, where Waver confronted him and Kayneth challenged him to explain what he had proved by entering the war.

• Gilgamesh took the Uruk Great Cup from his treasury just as Messmer unleashed his Noble Phantasm and the Serpent of Fire began descending.
• Sola offered Kayneth her wrist, and he drank her blood to restore himself as a Dead Apostle.
• After Sola left, Kayneth sensed Angel and his father at the Great Hollow and set out toward them.
• Kayneth encountered Waver Velvet and told him to leave, but Waver ran after him and blocked his path.
• Kayneth pressed Waver about whether he pitied him and asked what he thought he had proved by stealing the Holy Relic and entering the Holy Grail War.

Kayneth adopted Waver as his heir, transferred the El-Melloi family legacy to him, and used his Command Spells to dismiss Lancer. The Grand Duke then made a new contract with Kirei Kotomine, while Risei Kotomine wept before the church altar as the flames spread.

• Kayneth urged Waver to fight for what he wanted, and Waver asked to inherit the El-Melloi family.
• Kayneth declared Waver his adopted son and heir, then transferred the family's legacy to him.
• Kayneth used all three Command Spells to order Lancer to leave the war.
• The Grand Duke's contract with Kayneth ended, destabilizing his Spirit Origin, so Kirei Kotomine offered him a new contract.
• Kirei Kotomine and the Grand Duke established a contract, and the Grand Duke reignited his flames.
• Risei Kotomine knelt before the altar and cried out that the Lord had forsaken them.

Caren took the overseer's remaining Command Spells, while Shirou used two of his own to transform Cú Chulainn into his strongest warrior form for the battle against the Grand Duke. As Cú Chulainn gained the advantage, Kirei Kotomine attacked Caren with Black Keys while King Hassan watched.

• Caren demanded and received the leftover Command Spells from Risei Kotomine, then left with King Hassan following her.
• Cú Chulainn entered the burning mountain to stop the Grand Duke, leaving Shirou behind with instructions to use his Command Spells if needed.
• Shirou spent two Command Spells to turn Cú Chulainn into a true warrior and let him fight in his strongest form.
• Cú Chulainn transformed into a Lancer, summoned Gáe Bolg, and pierced the Grand Duke's heart, then pressed the attack with Rune-powered strikes.
• King Hassan confronted Kirei Kotomine at the Great Hollow, and Kirei attacked Caren with Black Keys, pinning her to the ground.

Caren killed Kirei Kotomine with help from Hundred Faces, and King Hassan accepted a contract to serve her. As Kirei's death destabilized the Grand Duke, he and Cú Chulainn each burned their Spirit Origins for a final attack.

• Caren revealed that she had stabbed Kirei while a Hundred Faces substitute had taken her place, then struck him again with a poisoned dagger.
• Kirei died smiling after telling Caren she would remember killing her father, and King Hassan declared that he would be her Servant.
• The last fragments of Hundred Faces faded away after helping Caren survive and carry out the assassination.
• The Grand Duke sensed Kirei's death and began burning his Spirit Origin, while Cú Chulainn resolved to contain his suicidal attack away from Shirou.
• The Grand Duke unleashed Kazikli Bey Flare as Cú Chulainn burned his Spirit Origin and answered with Gae Bolg.

Cú Chulainn and the Grand Duke were eliminated, but Messmer’s ritual consumed the Grand Duke’s Spirit Origin and began overwriting reality. Gilgamesh’s attack failed, and Proto Saber and Kiritsugu Emiya could not stop Messmer, who gave the world six days before her domain spread everywhere.

• Cú Chulainn comforted Shirou before fading away, and the battle’s aftermath confirmed that Cú Chulainn, Caster, and Kirei Kotomine were dead while Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald’s fate was unknown.
• Messmer’s flames consumed the Grand Duke’s Spirit Origin and began encroaching upon reality, advancing the Seraphim’s advent.
• Gilgamesh attacked with Ea, but the flames judged his evil, burned him, and eliminated him despite the Gate of Babylon’s resistance.
• Kiritsugu Emiya fired spiritual-entity-killing bullets at Messmer, but they passed through her without effect.
• Proto Saber unleashed Excalibur after releasing the Thirteen Restraints, but the attack only halted Messmer’s flames for a moment.
• A voice from within the flames announced that Messmer’s domain would encompass the world in six days, leaving everyone to face an impending judgment.

With the world’s boundary eroding and only six days remaining before it is burned, Kiritsugu Emiya gathered the surviving Masters and began planning a response. Tokiomi Tohsaka summoned a childlike Gilgamesh, while Kayneth confirmed they were trapped and announced that he had a plan.

• The surviving Masters gathered outside the Great Hollow as Tokiomi Tohsaka explained that the deity had given them six days.
• Kiritsugu Emiya argued that the deity’s mention of a choice meant they still had a chance, then asked Kayneth to help make a plan.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka used Gilgamesh’s Holy Relic to summon him again, but Gilgamesh appeared in his childhood form and promised to help.
• Kiritsugu Emiya found that communication magecraft had failed, and Kayneth determined that erosion had sealed the boundary between worlds, preventing anyone from entering or leaving.
• Waver urged the group to strengthen their forces and defeat the enemy, and Kayneth said he had a plan.

Kayneth proposed using Kiritsugu Emiya's Time Alter and Young Gilgamesh's resources to perform Spirit Origin Ascension on Iskandar, and the group began preparing the ritual. As Kiritsugu watched Irisviel tend to Shirou and Caren, Proto Saber began explaining why she had answered the summons.

• Kayneth proposed elevating Iskandar's Spirit Origin by accelerating the ritual with Kiritsugu Emiya's Time Alter.
• Young Gilgamesh offered his magical energy, materials, and Noble Phantasms, on the condition that he could go first after the ritual.
• Kayneth assigned Tokiomi Tohsaka and Waver roles in preparing the ritual while Kiritsugu Emiya kept watch.
• Irisviel healed Shirou and Caren as Kiritsugu Emiya thought of Illya, whom he had left at Einzbern Castle.
• Proto Saber told Kiritsugu Emiya that she had come to the war because she had received a commission.

Proto Saber told Kiritsugu Emiya about another timeline in which he destroyed the corrupted Holy Grail, rescued Shirou, and died in despair, then urged him to keep going for Illya. Meanwhile, Shirou followed Caren’s directions to the Matou manor, where he found a frightened girl Master with a glowing book and its emerging Servant.

• Proto Saber recounted how another Kiritsugu Emiya rejected the corrupted Grail, rescued Shirou from the fire, and later died unable to reach Illya.
• Kiritsugu Emiya dismissed Proto Saber’s account but asked what would have happened if he had avoided the war, and she told him his family had lived happily in another timeline.
• Kayneth told Shirou to protect his last Command Spell and search for the Master of the other Servant.
• Caren pointed Shirou toward the girl, then secretly followed him as he crossed the ruined, strangely deserted city.
• Shirou reached the Matou manor and found a frightened girl clutching a glowing book, whose Servant emerged to reassure her.