Chapter Summaries

Bai Mo defended Medea from Poseidon and urged her to return home, but she gave him the Thread of Fate, which showed him visions of possible futures. After the visions ended, Bai Mo carried Medea toward the fleet of Colchis while the gods watched.

• Poseidon sent a seawater warhorse to attack Bai Mo, but Athena intervened and stopped the assault.
• Bai Mo told Medea she had done nothing wrong and urged her to go home, while deciding he might have to ally with Athena.
• Medea gave Bai Mo the Thread of Fate, and it transported him through visions of a victory feast, the gods harming humanity, and a possible future in which he ruled as king of the gods.
• Bai Mo returned to reality, scooped up Medea, and flew toward the fleet of Colchis.
• Athena left, Hera followed, and Poseidon remained behind watching coldly.

Bai Mo fought through Poseidon’s storm and armies of sea monsters to carry Medea toward the fleet of Colchis, refusing Athena’s attempt to make him abandon her. Just as Aeëtes recognized his daughter and sent boats to rescue them, Poseidon rose from the sea and trapped Bai Mo and Medea in enormous waves.

• Poseidon raised towering waves and summoned tornadoes and sea monsters to stop Bai Mo from returning Medea to Colchis.
• Medea used True Magic to guide Bai Mo through the storm while he fought sea monsters and protected her.
• Athena used her power to fill Bai Mo with absolute reason and urge him to abandon Medea, but he stayed true to his promise and continued fighting.
• After nearly three hours, Bai Mo broke through the sea monsters’ blockade and spotted the fleet of Colchis.
• Aeëtes recognized Medea on Bai Mo’s back and ordered boats to rescue them, but whirlpools swallowed the boats.
• Poseidon emerged from the ocean and surrounded Bai Mo and Medea with enormous waves, trapping them at sea.

Bai Mo rejected Athena’s offer of protection, threw Medea toward the returning Argo, and defied Poseidon and the other Olympian gods. After he cast Athena’s olive branch into the sea and warned Zeus about the prophecy, the gods erupted in anger and Athena decided to cut ties with him.

• Poseidon demanded that Bai Mo surrender Medea under their sacrificial agreement, while Jason brought the Argo back through the storm to help.
• Athena urged Bai Mo to offer her the Thread of Fate and revealed that she believed he was the prophesied child who could overthrow Zeus, but Bai Mo accused her of manipulating him.
• Bai Mo hurled Medea toward the Argo, then fought Poseidon as Athena repeatedly offered him protection in exchange for his loyalty.
• Bai Mo denounced Hera, Aphrodite, Poseidon, Ares, and Athena, then threw Athena’s olive branch into the sea and declared that no one could control his life.
• Bai Mo warned Zeus that his actions might fulfill the prophecy, provoking the gods on Olympus, while Athena concluded that she had to cut ties with him.

Bai Mo gambled on absorbing Zeus’s lightning to escape the world, but the strain nearly killed him before he awakened Magnetic Field Rotation and cut Poseidon in half. As Poseidon begged Zeus to save him, Zeus unleashed an even more powerful lightning strike at Bai Mo.

• Athena told Zeus that Bai Mo was the person born under Cronus’s curse and said Prometheus had made him impossible to turn back.
• Poseidon and Hades attacked Bai Mo, who asked the system whether enough energy could take them out of the world.
• Bai Mo tried to absorb Zeus’s lightning, but his heart failed under the energy’s strain.
• Bai Mo’s heart beat again, and he awakened Magnetic Field Rotation, using the Peerless Demon Blade to slice Poseidon in half.
• Poseidon begged Zeus for help, and Zeus summoned a lightning strike more than fifty times stronger than the previous one.

Bai Mo used Zeus’s lightning and his own life force to unleash Selfless Demon Blade, killing Poseidon before being transported toward Fuyuki City. He survived with his magnetic field realm stabilized at 250,000 horsepower, but learned the technique had cost him a fifth of his lifespan.

• Bai Mo recalled how Great Saber had stopped him from practicing Selfless Demon Blade after he lost consciousness during training.
• Bai Mo endured Zeus’s lightning, combined it with his own power, and unleashed Selfless Demon Blade to sever Poseidon’s head.
• Jason, Aeëtes, and the Colchis soldiers watched in shock as Bai Mo disappeared and the gods’ assault ended.
• While Bai Mo fell through the space between worlds, he reflected on the people and promises he had left behind and stabilized his magnetic field realm.
• Bai Wunan visited Great Saber in the training space and warned that the treasure had drawn out Bai Mo’s power ahead of time.
• The system told Bai Mo that he retained 250,000 horsepower but had burned through a fifth of his lifespan using Selfless Demon Blade.

After the Argo returned to Thessaly with the Golden Fleece, Jason tried to keep his distance from Medea and secretly sought a potion that could put her to sleep forever. Medea caught him with two women, punished them, and revealed that she had already made the potion he wanted, leaving Jason trapped in fear of her and Poseidon.

• Pelias reluctantly allowed Thessaly to celebrate Jason and the Argo's return, while Jason asked Medea to fulfill a list of demands and pray at Athena's temple.
• Jason told a wizard to make a potion that would put someone to sleep forever, hoping to deal with Medea without confronting her directly.
• Jason slept with two dancing girls, but Medea found them in his room and wounded them with magical iron brambles and blades.
• Jason persuaded Medea to spare the women by claiming he had mistaken them for her, then changed the subject and went with her.
• Medea told Jason she had made an eternal-sleep potion as a child and crushed the bottle, while Jason realized he had no safe way to escape her.

Alaya recorded Bai Ermo as a Saber-class Heroic Spirit, while Bai Mo continued searching for a way out and trained in a strange space. After months of meditation and exploration, he reached a calmer state and encountered Oga, whom he mistook for Nagging Whale.

• Alaya recorded Bai Ermo’s mythological imprint and confirmed him as a Saber-class Heroic Spirit.
• At the Clock Tower, a lecturer taught about Bai Ermo’s role in the decline of the gods, while Kiritsugu learned Einzbern would provide a golden scabbard for the Holy Grail War.
• Bai Mo sensed someone watching him before entering his training space, and a wielder of true magic noticed him but chose not to interfere.
• Kiritsugu met the homunculus maids Sella and Leyritt, who were assigned to care for Illya while he prepared to travel to Fuyuki.
• Bai Mo meditated for three months without success, explored the sea, befriended a pod of orcas, and eventually returned to meditation with a more accepting state of mind.
• Oga appeared beside Bai Mo after six months, and Bai Mo mistook him for Nagging Whale before falling off a cliff.

Oga taught Bai Mo Limitless Tremor Zen and his other whale-style martial arts, then reflected on his own life after hearing why Bai Mo had rejected Athena’s offer. After a year and a half of training, Oga taught Bai Mo his strongest technique, Orca Heaven and Earth Way-Ultimate True Form, leaving Bai Mo horrified by the transformation.

• Oga taught Bai Mo Limitless Tremor Zen and explained that he and Great Saber controlled who could enter their space.
• Oga asked why Bai Mo had refused Athena’s offer, and Bai Mo said he wanted to live according to his own heart rather than become what others expected.
• Bai Mo urged Oga to leave the space and enjoy life, but Oga explained that leaving would destroy the world and himself.
• Oga taught Bai Mo the principles of Orca Tyrant Fist and his other martial arts, while Bai Mo trained for a year and a half and stabilized his power.
• Oga began teaching Bai Mo Orca Heaven and Earth Way-Ultimate True Form, and Bai Mo was forced to memorize Oga’s terrifying transformed shape.

Tokiomi prepared a faded flag as insurance while Gilgamesh questioned his caution, and Illya’s quiet life at Einzbern Castle was shattered when Bai Mo appeared in a magical explosion. After Leyritt tried to flee with Illya, Bai Mo healed her and stood against the Einzbern guards to defend their freedom.

• Tokiomi showed Gilgamesh the faded flag he had prepared as a safeguard, but Gilgamesh dismissed his fear of a godslayer as disappointing.
• Illya borrowed a storybook and read in her room while Leyritt and Sella worried about the fate of Einzbern’s homunculi.
• A burst of energy destroyed part of Einzbern Castle, and Bai Mo appeared before Illya in the snow, asking where and when he was.
• Leyritt fled with Illya through the castle breach, fighting off familiars and Mystic Codes until Bai Mo stopped an attack and healed her wounds.
• Bai Mo rejected the guards’ claim that Leyritt and Illya were Einzbern property and prepared to fight when they refused to let the two go.

Bai Mo rescued Illya and the Einzbern homunculi, spared Ahadon while urging him to free any homunculi who developed their own thoughts, and arranged passage from Germany to Fuyuki. During the flight, Sella began telling Bai Mo about herself and Leyritt.

• Bai Mo used a controlled gale to defeat the homunculi and Mystic Codes sent after Illya, then followed the wind to Ahadon inside Einzbern Castle.
• Bai Mo spared Ahadon and urged him to free future homunculi who developed thoughts of their own; Ahadon agreed to do so for the two he considered failures.
• Bai Mo bought cakes for Illya, Leyritt, and Sella, then took them to the airport and arranged a private jet to Japan.
• During the flight, Bai Mo reflected on the Third Magic and the Holy Grail War while Illya and Leyritt slept.
• Bai Mo shared cake with Sella, asked about her and Leyritt, and Sella began answering while the others slept.

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.