Recaps

Kiritsugu Emiya chose his handgun over Avalon, while Bai Mo rescued a hijacked passenger plane and pursued the mystery of Jason’s treasure on Aeaea Island. In the underground chamber, he found a gold coin tied to a painful memory from thousands of years earlier.

• Kiritsugu Emiya chose to take his handgun rather than Avalon before the Holy Grail War.
• Bai Mo learned from Sella how Illya had saved Leyritt, then left the private jet to stop a sabotaged passenger plane from crashing.
• Bai Mo landed the plane safely on Aeaea Island, killed Ruruga, and forced Koyanskaya to come down.
• Koyanskaya told Bai Mo that Jason’s treasure might include magecraft to resurrect Bai Ermo, and an earthquake revealed a hidden staircase beneath Circe’s former home.
• Bai Mo and the others descended into the treasure chamber, where Sella found a gold coin that Bai Mo recognized as the one he had once given a woman in the slums.

After leaving the ancient chamber, Bai Mo reached Fuyuki and faced Diarmuid in a fight that drew the attention of the other participants in the Holy Grail War. He left Diarmuid alive, but his overwhelming strength exposed him as a major threat, while Kiritsugu Emiya planned to target Masters who moved against him.

• Bai Mo opened the ancient seal, and the group found a chamber containing a ritual pool, runes, and a skeleton identified as Michael Roa Valdamjong.
• Koyanskaya photographed the runic records, and the group left the chamber after judging the resurrection Magecraft unsafe to attempt.
• In Fuyuki, Bai Mo parted ways with Koyanskaya and offered Sella the choice to stay or leave; Sella chose to contact Madam and remain with him for a while.
• Bai Mo sensed a fighting spirit and flew to the cargo port, where he fought Diarmuid using martial arts while suppressing most of his power.
• The battle drew Iskandar, Hassan, Kiritsugu Emiya, Caster, Tokiomi Tohsaka, Irisviel, and Artoria, who mistook Bai Mo for a powerful Saber.
• Kiritsugu Emiya told Artoria to stay hidden and planned to target Masters who joined a campaign against Bai Mo, including Lancer's Master.

Bai Mo interrupted the gathering of Servants, then found Irisviel and told her that Illya was safe and nearby. He urged Irisviel to take her daughter home, but she refused because she believed she could not protect Illya and could no longer leave the Holy Grail War.

• Iskandar interrupted Bai Mo's duel with Diarmuid and summoned the other Heroic Spirits, drawing Archer and Berserker into the chaotic meeting.
• Archer departed, and Bai Mo and Diarmuid ended their duel before turning their attention to Iskandar; the gathering broke up without a decisive fight.
• Bai Mo waited by Irisviel and Artoria's car and revealed that Illya was safe with Leyritt and Sella at a hotel in Fuyuki.
• Bai Mo explained that he needed the Holy Grail but had come to reunite Irisviel with Illya, and Artoria persuaded Irisviel not to attack him.
• Irisviel refused to go to Illya, saying she could not protect her daughter from the war and that there was no way back for her.

Bai Mo cared for Illya after Irisviel left, then trained against an imagined Lancer while the other participants prepared for the Holy Grail War. The chapter ended with Zouken tempting the desperate Kariya with a fallen man as food.

• Irisviel asked Bai Mo to look after Illya, and Artoria thanked him before leaving with her.
• Bai Mo returned to the hotel, explained what happened to Sella, and helped tell Illya that Irisviel could not visit for now.
• Bai Mo encountered Kayneth in the elevator and postponed his duel with Lancer, then went underwater to train against an imagined Lancer.
• Francesca Prelati watched Gilles de Rais appear before Artoria and decided to leave for Fuyuki, while Kiritsugu told Artoria he would continue the war.
• Bai Mo examined police files and noticed other missing-person cases resembling Ryunosuke Uryuu's murders.
• Zouken Matou found Kariya struggling with hunger and urged him to eat a fallen laborer, but Kariya resisted.

Bai Mo rescued Kariya and Sakura Matou, destroyed the Matou residence, and wiped out Zouken Matou’s hidden stores of worms. After Kariya awoke without his Command Spells, Bai Mo confronted him over his belief that his sacrifices should have guaranteed victory.

• Bai Mo ambushed Zouken Matou, learned about his recent schemes, and took the critically ill Kariya to a hospital for a drastic reconstruction of his body.
• Bai Mo destroyed the Matou residence and carried Sakura Matou out of the burning basement, then chose to care for her rather than leave her to die.
• Bai Mo used a letter to lead police to Zouken’s hidden granary, then struck the area with a Whale-Killing Cannon while protecting the officers and rescued girls.
• Bai Mo concluded that Zouken had lost his remaining resources and left the area, while warning himself that another magus might exploit Zouken’s magecraft.
• Kariya awoke in a hotel to find his Command Spells and worms gone, then grieved over his defeat until Bai Mo rebuked him for expecting his sacrifices to guarantee victory.

Bai Mo forced Kariya to leave and build a life in which he could care for Sakura, while Sakura began to feel more at ease with Bai Mo and Illya. Kariya left with a document envelope and a new purpose, and Sakura stayed with Bai Mo, Illya, and Sella.

• Bai Mo confronted Kariya over his inability to protect Sakura and urged him to leave and become someone capable of caring for her.
• Kariya left the hotel after a white-clad maid gave him a document envelope, determined to build a future for Sakura and Rin's family.
• Bai Mo and Sella discussed the money he had given Kariya and his habit of skipping lunch.
• Illya introduced herself to Sakura as her big sister and reassured her that she would see her family again.
• Illya teased Sakura by saying Bai Mo helped her because he was softhearted, and Sakura's heart quietly began to loosen as she watched them joke.

Francesca tortured and killed Zouken, turning his accumulated power to her own use. She then found the fading Berserker in the Matou Family ruins and used her Command Spells to bind and sustain him, while Zelretch watched Fuyuki City and decided to wait and see what Bai Mo would do.

• Zouken dreamed that Justeaze rejected him and mocked the ruined form he had become.
• Francesca revealed that she had manipulated Zouken’s dream, tortured him, and killed him, gaining what he had accumulated over five hundred years.
• Francesca went to the ruins of the Matou Family estate and found Berserker close to vanishing.
• Francesca used her three Command Spells to bind Berserker and supply him with magical energy, calling him Lancelot.
• Zelretch considered pruning the branch containing Bai Mo in Fuyuki City, but chose to wait and see what surprises he might bring.

Bai Mo met Gilgamesh at a café, then headed to Einzbern Castle after a pillar of light lit up Fuyuki. There, he intervened when Gilgamesh attacked Artoria, but Iskandar’s arrival shifted the confrontation and left Artoria facing Rider.

• Bai Mo met Gilgamesh at a café, where Gilgamesh questioned his interest in the Holy Grail.
• A golden pillar of light rose near the Einzbern base, and Bai Mo and Gilgamesh went to investigate.
• At Einzbern Castle, Artoria left the crater after defeating Caster, but Gilgamesh appeared and attacked her with the Gate of Babylon.
• Bai Mo arrived on a heavy blade blank, blocked several Noble Phantasms, and told Artoria to take Irisviel and leave while he faced Gilgamesh.
• Iskandar arrived in his ox chariot to negotiate with Bai Mo, who pointed him toward Artoria; she challenged Rider as the standoff resumed.

Tokiomi and Kayneth reacted cautiously to Saber’s revealed trump card while Iskandar gathered Artoria, Gilgamesh, and Bai Mo to discuss who should receive the Holy Grail. Gilgamesh claimed the Grail as his own and asked Bai Mo what wish he wanted fulfilled, leaving Bai Mo’s answer unknown.

• Tokiomi dismissed Kirei’s concerns about Bai Mo and said he would not affect the Holy Grail War.
• Kayneth sent Lancer to Einzbern Castle while he stayed at the hotel.
• Iskandar proposed that the kings settle who should claim the Holy Grail through discussion rather than fighting, and Artoria and Gilgamesh joined him.
• Gilgamesh produced fine wine, and the kings discussed their qualifications and visions of kingship.
• Gilgamesh declared that the Holy Grail belonged to him and asked Bai Mo what wish he would entrust to it.

Bai Mo explained that he pursued the Holy Grail to help a friend, and Gilgamesh revealed a golden Holy Grail from his treasury. Gilgamesh offered it to Bai Mo, asking him to save a city destined for destruction, while Tokiomi Tohsaka panicked over the situation.

• Bai Mo told Saber and the others that he wanted the Holy Grail for a friend who had given him a second life.
• Gilgamesh produced a golden Holy Grail, shocking Artoria, Irisviel, Bai Mo, and Tokiomi Tohsaka.
• Gilgamesh offered the Holy Grail to Bai Mo and revealed his curiosity about the blood and hatred surrounding him.
• Bai Mo threatened to read Gilgamesh's memories if he would not explain his motives, and Gilgamesh said he wanted someone to save a city fated to be destroyed.
• Tokiomi Tohsaka considered using his Command Spells but feared the consequences, then swore and urgently tried to summon Risei Kotomine.

Bai Mo found that the Holy Grail lacked enough energy to fulfill his wish, then gave it back to Gilgamesh, who proposed that Bai Mo judge the kings’ ideals before deciding what to do with it. Their debate over kingship left Artoria shaken, but before Bai Mo could give his verdict, assassins attacked the gathering and he killed them all with a single strike.

• Bai Mo tested the Holy Grail, learned from the system that it could not grant his wish, and wished for several people to reunite, but nothing happened.
• Bai Mo returned the Holy Grail to Gilgamesh and agreed to help investigate the city Gilgamesh feared would be destroyed.
• Gilgamesh proposed that Bai Mo judge the kings’ ideals before deciding what to do with the Holy Grail, and Iskandar and Artoria agreed.
• Artoria declared that she wanted to change Britain’s fate, but Iskandar argued that a king should have desires and should not regret the path taken, leaving Artoria questioning herself.
• Bai Mo noticed assassins surrounding the garden before he could announce his decision, then killed hundreds of them with one strike of the Ksitigarbha Blade.

Bai Mo gave Artoria the Holy Grail after explaining why he preferred her ideals of kingship, but Gilgamesh revealed that the Grail could not reverse Britain’s fate. As Artoria collapsed in despair, Bai Mo sensed Illya was in danger and rushed away.

• Bai Mo gave the Holy Grail to Artoria and argued that her willingness to sacrifice for her people made her a better ruler than Iskandar or Gilgamesh.
• Artoria thanked Bai Mo, then wished for the Holy Grail to save Britain from destruction.
• Artoria’s wish failed, and Gilgamesh explained that the Holy Grail was only a store of magical energy and could not undo Britain’s fate.
• Artoria struck the Holy Grail away in despair, hitting Waver, while Gilgamesh laughed and left.
• Bai Mo sensed that Illya was in danger and vanished, while Waver was left holding the Holy Grail without anyone willing to claim it.

Illya and Sakura sneaked out to look for their parents, but they encountered Rin and Ryunosuke Uryu in a dangerous alley. Bai Mo killed Ryunosuke after making him relive the pain he had inflicted on his victims.

• Illya and Sakura talked about their families, and Sakura revealed that her parents had sent her away and no longer wanted her.
• Illya persuaded Sakura to sneak out of the hotel with her to find their parents.
• After wandering through Fuyuki, Illya and Sakura found Rin hiding from Ryunosuke Uryu, who was approaching with two dazed children.
• Rin shoved a cabinet into Ryunosuke's path and urged Sakura and Illya to run, but Ryunosuke grabbed Rin and reached for the girls.
• Bai Mo severed Ryunosuke's hand, forced him to experience the pain of his victims, and killed him by cooking his brain with Magnetic Field Power.

Bai Mo explained Sakura’s past to Rin and promised to keep her away from the Matou Family, then chose to travel to Mifune City despite the danger. Before he could say goodbye to Illya and Sakura, the hotel collapsed, and a Command Spell flashed from the ruins as he went to investigate.

• Bai Mo scolded Illya for taking Sakura out alone and learned that Rin Tohsaka had come looking for her.
• Bai Mo told Rin that he had destroyed the Matou Family and rescued Sakura, then showed Rin a memory of the horrors Sakura had faced there.
• Bai Mo persuaded Rin not to pressure Sakura and arranged for Rin to meet her mother before leaving Rin at a police station.
• The system offered Bai Mo a choice between Tokyo in a parallel world and Mifune City, and he chose the dangerous trip to Mifune City.
• Bai Mo sensed that Leyritt and Sella were safe beneath the collapsed hotel, moved Illya and Sakura to a nearby rooftop, and leaped toward a crimson Command Spell in the ruins.

Kiritsugu’s attack on the Hyatt Hotel turned into a battle with Lancer and Kayneth, until black mud erupted and swallowed Diarmuid. Bai Mo tried to contain the disaster, but Francesca appeared, and Diarmuid returned transformed to attack Artoria.

• Kiritsugu destroyed the Hyatt Hotel with explosives, but Lancer ambushed him, forcing him to summon Saber with a Command Spell.
• Kayneth emerged from the rubble and attacked Kiritsugu with Volumen Hydrargyrum, but Kiritsugu destroyed it with an antique firearm and a special bullet.
• Black mud erupted beneath the fighters and endangered the evacuated crowd, so Bai Mo struck the ground with his Orca Tyrant Fist to contain its spread.
• Diarmuid sacrificed himself by throwing Gáe Buidhe to intercept Kiritsugu’s shot, while Kayneth escaped and lost his Command Spells.
• Francesca emerged from the black mud and greeted Artoria, but Bai Mo cut her in half with a Magnetic Field Heavenly Blade.
• A transformed Diarmuid emerged from the mud and wounded Artoria, then raised his spear to strike at her neck.

Bai Mo stopped Fran from killing Artoria, then challenged the corrupted Diarmuid to the promised duel using martial skill alone. Diarmuid died after Bai Mo defeated him, and Kayneth finally thanked his loyal Servant.

• Bai Mo saved Artoria from Diarmuid, and Fran announced a confrontation at Ryuudou Temple the next day before disappearing into the Black Mud.
• Kiritsugu and Artoria prepared to leave, while Kayneth revealed that his Command Spells were gone and Diarmuid remained out of control.
• Bai Mo returned Gáe Buidhe to Diarmuid and dispelled his own protective power so they could fight using martial skill alone.
• Bai Mo learned to control the magical energy surging through Diarmuid's twin spears, shattered both weapons, and struck Diarmuid's heart with their colliding energy.
• Diarmuid asked whether Kayneth was safe, and Kiritsugu offered Kayneth an Origin Bullet and proposed that they join forces against Francesca.
• Diarmuid said he had wished to serve Kayneth, who thanked him, and the Servant dissolved into golden light.

After Irisviel was kidnapped, Bai Mo and the others learned that the Holy Grail could not grant Kiritsugu Emiya’s wish. They formed a united front to rescue her and stop Francesca, while Kayneth investigated Caster’s concealment magic.

• Bai Mo realized Irisviel had been taken after Artoria left the Einzbern castle, and he brought the others to safety without telling Illya.
• Artoria told the group what happened at the meeting of the three kings, and Kiritsugu Emiya learned the Holy Grail could not grant his wish.
• Kiritsugu Emiya broke a mirror in grief over Irisviel and the sacrifices he had made for the Holy Grail War.
• Bai Mo agreed to stay and fight Francesca, persuading Kayneth and the others to join forces with him.
• Kayneth arranged to contact the Clock Tower and the Holy Church and offered to recruit Waver, while Kiritsugu shared his plans for Ryuudou Temple.
• Bai Mo revealed that Caster was still alive and showed Kayneth the magic circle he used to conceal his presence.

Bai Mo talked with Artoria about her wish to change Britain’s fate and persuaded her to stop denying herself and live in the present. As the final battle approached, Kayneth and Kiritsugu Emiya argued over their plans and loyalties while preparing for the fight at Ryuudou Temple.

• Bai Mo found Artoria eating late at night, and she admitted she wanted the Holy Grail to change the events that led to Britain’s fall.
• Bai Mo argued that Artoria’s wish would amount to surrendering Britain to Morgan, and Artoria abandoned the idea of changing her past.
• Bai Mo encouraged Artoria to live in the present and asked her to look after Sakura after the Holy Grail War; Artoria agreed to protect Sakura and Irisviel’s group.
• Kiritsugu Emiya prepared his sniper rifle on the rooftop while Kayneth sent information to the Clock Tower about Beelzebub and Bai Mo.
• Kayneth confronted Kiritsugu over his readiness to act when Lancer died and threatened him over Sola-Ui, while Kiritsugu said he wanted the Holy Grail destroyed.

Bai Mo entered the Black Mud barrier at Ryuudou Temple and fought Fran, who claimed the barrier would steadily devour him and that she could regenerate indefinitely. He used the Orca Tyrant Fist to disrupt her restoration and seized her as her body began to shatter.

• Rider tested the barrier with his chariot, but Iskandar found that it devoured magical energy and told Bai Mo to stay outside.
• Artoria entered the temple as part of a feint and fought Gilles de Rais, Berserker, and the sea demons while the barrier drained her magical energy.
• Bai Mo confronted Fran in the temple and withstood her strongest magical attack before striking her with the Orca Tyrant Fist.
• Fran regenerated from the Black Mud and claimed Bai Mo could not defeat her unless he destroyed Fuyuki's ley lines.
• Bai Mo used Magnetic Field Power to track Fran's restoration and struck her again, causing her body to crack apart as he grabbed her head.

Bai Mo broke Francesca’s barrier with a Magecraft crystal, freeing the other combatants to act. He cornered Francesca and demanded to know where Irisviel was, but when she presented the Holy Grail, Gilles de Rais appeared and was cut in half by a blade.

• Bai Mo shattered Francesca’s illusion barrier after using a Magecraft crystal made from Mr. Ruruga’s remains.
• Saber regained her strength and struck Berserker, while Iskandar’s chariot trampled Caster’s sea monsters and Caster vanished in bloody smoke.
• Gilgamesh left the Tohsaka residence in Vimana and flew toward Ryuudou Temple.
• Bai Mo broke through the rock above Francesca and demanded that she reveal Irisviel’s location.
• Francesca raised the Holy Grail and claimed Irisviel was there, as Gilles de Rais appeared and was severed at the waist by a blade.

Bai Mo took the Holy Grail from Fran and discovered a vision of Irisviel within it before Black Mud erupted from beneath Ryuudou Temple. As Francesca wielded the mud’s power against Fuyuki, Bai Mo charged into her attack.

• Bai Mo killed Gilles de Rais, took the Holy Grail from Fran, and saw a grotesque mass of Irisviel-like bodies as the Grail’s energy surged.
• Illya sensed that Irisviel was in danger and rushed toward Ryuudou Temple with Leyritt, while Bai Mo evacuated the others and carved a trench to contain the erupting Black Mud.
• Francesca appeared atop the Black Mud and questioned why Gilles de Rais’s death did not make her sad; Kiritsugu Emiya ordered Artoria to destroy the eruption with her Noble Phantasm.
• The Black Mud swallowed Artoria’s holy sword’s radiance, and Kirei Kotomine identified Francesca’s power as Beelzebub’s Authority of Gluttony, explaining that she had connected herself to Fuyuki’s ley lines.
• Francesca unleashed a vast torrent of black magical energy at the group, and Bai Mo charged into it and spread the energy across the sky.

Francesca continued attacking Bai Mo while drawing power from Fuyuki’s ley lines, so Iskandar decided to trap her and the black mud inside his Reality Marble while Bai Mo severed the Holy Grail’s connection. Iskandar and Waver charged into battle together, while Zouken Matou appeared before Tokiomi Tohsaka at the Tohsaka residence.

• Francesca explained that she was grateful her friend had died to help her pursue her blasphemous ambition, and she repeatedly regenerated as Bai Mo attacked her.
• Waver offered the Holy Grail as a weapon, but Iskandar rejected the idea and proposed trapping Francesca inside Ionioi Hetairoi while Bai Mo dealt with the Grail beneath it.
• Iskandar explained to Waver why he would not use the Grail to gain a body, and Waver spent all three Command Spells ordering Rider to follow his wishes, fulfill his wish, and return victorious.
• Iskandar pulled Waver back beside him, then charged Francesca in his chariot and drew her and the black mud into his Reality Marble as Gilgamesh watched.
• Zouken Matou entered Tokiomi Tohsaka’s room and claimed he had come to help, prompting Tokiomi to raise his cane and activate bounded fields.

Bai Mo brought Illya into the Holy Grail to search for Irisviel’s soul, and Illya managed to reach her mother inside the mass of twisted flesh. As Irisviel appeared close to death, Bai Mo unleashed a tremendous power and began a desperate attempt to change her fate.

• Bai Mo told Illya that Irisviel could still be saved and asked whether she wanted to try, despite Kiritsugu Emiya’s objections.
• Bai Mo protected Illya with his power and took her to the Holy Grail beneath the pit.
• Inside the darkness, Bai Mo urged Illya to sense Irisviel, and Illya reached toward the heap of flesh despite her fear.
• Illya’s call reached Irisviel, and Bai Mo pulled her out of the mass of flesh.
• Irisviel said goodbye to Illya as her ruined body neared death, but Bai Mo interrupted and unleashed immense power, slicing off part of the Holy Grail while crimson branches and bone marrow emerged from his right hand.

Zouken tricked Tokiomi into believing he could help him claim the Greater Grail, but Tokiomi used their secret code to turn the plan against Francesca. As Bai Mo destroyed the Holy Grail and confronted Francesca, she broke free of the Chains of Heaven and was struck down, while Artoria saw a vision of a four-winged ruler.

• Zouken told Tokiomi that Francesca controlled the Greater Grail and urged him to use Gilgamesh's powers against Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo recreated Irisviel's heart, brought her and Illya to the surface, and destroyed the Holy Grail.
• A soldier carrying Waver warned everyone that a black mud monster was about to emerge, and Gilgamesh prepared to attack.
• Tokiomi revealed that Zouken had secretly sent him a coded message instructing him to have Archer kill Francesca and take the Greater Grail.
• Tokiomi's Chains of Heaven bound Francesca, but she broke free as Ea's sword winds swept over the battlefield.
• Bai Mo punched through Francesca and turned her body into bloody mist, while Artoria saw a vision of suffering beneath a four-winged figure.

After Bai Mo killed Francesca, Beelzebub appeared as a Beast of Humanity, summoned through the Greater Grail and Ea. Gilgamesh ordered Artoria to attack, but Beelzebub erased the holy sword’s radiance and the Noble Phantasms.

• Bai Mo and Gilgamesh identified the towering four-winged figure as Beelzebub.
• Gilgamesh explained that Tokiomi had used Ea to kill Francesca, inadvertently enabling Beelzebub to descend.
• Tokiomi’s plan was revealed: he had feared Francesca might use the Greater Grail against Bai Mo and wanted to secure the path to the Root for himself.
• Beelzebub condemned humanity and raised a finger as the threat of plague spread fear among those present.
• Gilgamesh opened the Gate of Babylon and urged Artoria to attack Beelzebub with her holy sword.
• Artoria’s radiance and the Noble Phantasms vanished into darkness when Beelzebub rubbed his fingers together.