Chapter Summaries

Philia and Ishtar confronted Enkidu as he charged toward the temple, while Berserker defended the goddess and forced Enkidu into a prolonged fight. In the Ravine District, Saber and the exhausted Ayaka joined the gathered police, Tiné’s subordinates, and El-Melloi Classroom members as they watched the battle in the forest.

• Ishtar enchanted the land into a raging mass that attacked Enkidu, but he pushed through it and advanced toward the temple.
• Ishtar ordered Harli to send Berserker against Enkidu, and Berserker took a defensive stance to protect her.
• Enkidu told Fanbaba that he wanted to speak with it, then charged Ishtar and reflected that he could sustain a drawn-out battle for only three days and three nights.
• Vera Levitt arrived in the Ravine District with police officers and met Tiné Chelc’s secretary and the El-Melloi Classroom group.
• Saber introduced himself to the gathered magi and officers, while Ayaka, exhausted from the journey, recognized Hansa and Vera and was relieved they were safe.

Ayaka encountered a group of magi who questioned why she looked exactly like their friend Sajou Ayaka, and her hazy memories of Fuyuki began to surface. Saber tested the group by threatening them, but Ayaka stopped him; the encounter ended with the tension eased and Ayaka recognizing that Saber could act without hesitation.

• The red-clad magus and her companions recognized Ayaka's face and asked about her identity and memories of Fuyuki.
• Ayaka recalled living at Semichai Apartment on Genkizaka and named Gotou, Kaimi, and Kakunuma as people who had taught her she was Sajou Ayaka.
• Saber defended Ayaka as trustworthy and threatened to kill the magi, prompting Ayaka to demand that he obey her orders as his Master.
• Saber revealed that his threat had been a test, and the red-clad magus accepted that Ayaka was an inexperienced person caught in a dangerous situation.
• Ayaka scolded Saber and pulled his braids, then realized that his willingness to fight had been genuine despite the act.

Ayaka and the others learned that Ishtar’s rampage could grow stronger if a defeated Heroic Spirit’s soul entered the Lesser Grail, so Rin proposed attacking the temple. In the western forest, the nameless Assassin struggled to find a way to stop the battle’s destruction while Jester urged her to embrace their impending doom.

• Ayaka learned that the Sajou girl Rin had contacted was unrelated to her, and she felt relieved despite being unable to explain why.
• Saber discussed the coalition’s options with Rin, Werner Sisigund, Luvia Edelfelt, Vera Levitt, Hippolytus, and Tiné Chelc’s associates as the battle continued in the western forest.
• Rin explained that defeated Heroic Spirits’ souls flowed into the Lesser Grail, which housed Ishtar, and the group feared that another absorbed soul could strengthen her.
• Rin declared that they would attack the temple and strike Ishtar from behind.
• The nameless Assassin watched the western forest become a destructive clash of powers and struggled to decide whether to attack Jester or use her borrowed magical energy against Ishtar.

The nameless Assassin resisted Jester’s attempt to weaken her resolve, then decided to erase her emotions and transform her Spirit Origin to stop the Divine Beast. Before she could act, a skull-masked presence isolated her from the world and questioned why she yearned for the mountain.

• Jester’s illusion made Assassin imagine giving up, but she crushed his neck and he fell into the black flood.
• Assassin recalled Sigma’s resolve to save Kurooka Tsubaki and decided to follow her own path without emotion.
• Assassin began to transform her Spirit Origin, but a transparent shadow cut her off from the world and stopped her Noble Phantasm’s invocation.
• A skull-masked presence appeared before Assassin and asked why she yearned for the mountain.
• Assassin realized she had discarded the original wish behind her pursuit of the name Hassan-i-Sabbah, and the presence told her she was different from them.

Hassan-i-Sabbah released the nameless Assassin from her guilt and then appeared behind Ishtar, declaring he would bestow the evening bell upon her. As Enkidu fought the Berserker and Ishtar, Hassan engulfed the temple in darkness and launched an overwhelming barrage, while Ayaka’s group sensed the darkness invading their underground passage.

• Hassan-i-Sabbah told the nameless Assassin that she was a traveler and one of the people his faith required him to protect, then sent her onward without demanding that she abandon her choices.
• Alcides asked his Master for all the magical energy he could use and prepared to make a decisive attack against the temple.
• Hassan-i-Sabbah appeared behind Ishtar and named his attack the evening bell, while Enkidu detected the newcomer and prepared to strike Ishtar.
• Tia Escardos watched the mana around the temple change and readied satellites that could destroy the surrounding land.
• Ayaka, Saber, Rider, Rin, Caules, and Sefn sensed a strange presence swallowing their underground passage from the southwest.
• Hassan-i-Sabbah plunged Ishtar’s surroundings into darkness and attacked her with an escalating barrage of blades, which her bewitched defenses repeatedly blocked.

Assassin revealed his self-sacrificial Noble Phantasm, spreading a deathly shadow that erased the Neo-Ishtar Temple’s divine presence and threatened Ishtar. Ishtar fought back with Ma'anna and Shita, but the shadow persisted, leaving her to turn toward the Divine Beast in the sky as the next danger.

• Assassin activated Meditation Nerve—Zabaniya, using his death to unleash shadows that opposed Ishtar’s divine authority.
• Enkidu sensed the temple’s divinity and the surrounding world disappearing into the expanding shadow, while Harli ordered the Berserker to stop the chain.
• Ishtar warned Harli that touching the shadows could kill her, then launched into the sky aboard Ma'anna as the shadows pursued her.
• Ishtar transformed the cursed serpent into the Seven-Headed War Hammer Shita and smashed the shadow tower, dispersing the shadows and Assassin’s Saint Graph.
• Ishtar realized the shadow remained and turned her attention toward the Divine Beast in the sky, intending to remove the unstable threat before erasing the shadow completely.

Himuro Kenshin, a gifted swordsman from a fallen samurai family, met ashigaru Okada Izou at his dojo and later built a reputation by defeating challengers. At a tournament in Edo, Kenshin reached the finals and looked forward to a duel with Sakamoto Ryoma.

• Himuro Kenshin chose four talents for his simulation, including Famous Sword Mingxin and Time Traveler, and began a new life in Tosa.
• At thirteen, Kenshin invited Okada Izou into the Himora Dojo and sparred with him until Izou announced his family was moving away.
• Kenshin became known as Tosa’s red-haired sword genius, defeating challengers including Takechi Zuizan and Sakamoto Ryoma.
• At twenty-two, Kenshin traveled to Edo for a martial arts tournament and defeated Kageyama Shun with Dragon Nest Flash.
• Sakamoto Ryoma challenged Kenshin to meet him in the finals, and Kenshin advanced by winning his matches, including a difficult fight against Shimada Komanosuke.

Himuro Kenshin defeated Sakamoto Ryoma in the tournament final with Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu’s Tensho Ryusen, then began traveling as a wandering swordsman. While protecting Miss Kamikaze, Kenshin drove off Okada Izou, but found the other guards dead and mourned the sorrow of the era.

• Himuro Kenshin fought Sakamoto Ryoma and won with Tensho Ryusen, leaving Ryoma convinced he would never surpass Kenshin in swordsmanship.
• Kenshin left to travel and challenge swordsmen, while Ryoma privately judged that Kenshin’s considerate nature was his weakness.
• Kenshin accepted a bodyguard job protecting Miss Kamikaze and recognized Okada Izou when Izou arrived to assassinate her.
• Kenshin used Ryumeisen to injure Izou’s ears, then persuaded him to leave by promising they would drink together another time.
• Kenshin found the guards outside the residence dead and silently mourned them, understanding the sorrow of the era.

Himuro Kenshin opened Himora Dojo in Kyoto, where Okita Souji visited at the Shinsengumi’s request and challenged him to a match. After their encounter, the Shinsengumi learned that Serizawa Kamo’s confidant had followed Okita, prompting Kondou Isami to call for their plan against Serizawa to be accelerated.

• After traveling through the provinces and Qing, Himuro Kenshin returned to Kyoto in the third year of Bunkyu and opened Himora Dojo.
• Okita Souji visited Himora Dojo to approach Himuro on behalf of the Shinsengumi, but he declined to join any group.
• Okita challenged Himuro to a sword match; after more than a hundred exchanges, her strike broke his bamboo sword, and they called the match a draw.
• Okita reported her visit to Kondou Isami, Hijikata Toshizou, Sannan Keisuke, and Saitou Hajime, then agreed to visit Himora Dojo again to spar with Himuro.
• Morishita Heisaku informed Kondou that a confidant of Serizawa Kamo had followed Okita, revealing that Serizawa might know of their contact with Himuro.
• Kondou told the others to move up their plan against Serizawa Kamo.

Himora fought Serizawa Kamo after Serizawa fled an assassination attempt by the Shinsengumi, killing him despite being wounded by a firearm. After recovering, Himora refused Sakamoto Ryoma and Takasugi Shinsaku’s offer to leave Kyoto, knowing that rumors and threats would follow him elsewhere.

• Serizawa Kamo entered the closed Himora Dojo seeking revenge on the Shinsengumi, and Himora warned him to leave.
• Serizawa Kamo shot Himora in the chest, but Himora used Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu: Secret Technique—Tensho Ryusen to kill him before collapsing.
• Himora woke in his dojo, where Sannan Keisuke and Okita Souji thanked him and explained the Shinsengumi’s role in Serizawa Kamo’s death.
• In the first year of Genji, Takasugi Shinsaku and Sakamoto Ryoma visited Himora, and Sakamoto Ryoma urged him to leave Kyoto to avoid assassination.
• Himora refused to leave, and Sakamoto Ryoma and Takasugi Shinsaku departed.

After old friends’ deaths drove Himuro Kenshin back to Tosa, imperial loyalists hunted him as a Shinsengumi member, and he was mortally wounded escaping them. He died by the sea, ending Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, while Yu Feng awoke from the completed simulation with Himuro Kenshin’s Saint Graph and haori.

• Himuro Kenshin left Kyoto after Sannan Keisuke’s death and returned to Tosa, where he mourned Okada Izou at a tavern built over his former home.
• Tosa samurai surrounded Himuro Kenshin and attacked him, forcing him to fight his way out before fleeing gunfire with several bullet wounds.
• Kageyama Shun confronted the injured Himuro Kenshin but let him go, refusing to fight a wounded opponent.
• Himuro Kenshin cut through bullets and a gun before escaping toward the shore, where further gunfire left him fatally wounded.
• Himuro Kenshin died beside Meishin, and the narration declared that Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu had ended without a successor.
• Yu Feng awoke as the simulation ended and received Himuro Kenshin’s Saint Graph and haori.

Yu Feng arrived in Antarctica and followed Olga Marie to the Animusphere main house to meet her father, Marisbury Animusphere. He entered Marisbury’s room, while Olga Marie left in a bad mood.

• Yu Feng recovered from the memories of his simulation during the flight to Antarctica.
• A flight attendant told Yu Feng that they had arrived at the Animusphere main house.
• Olga Marie called Yu Feng over and led him through the estate’s barriers toward her father’s room.
• Olga Marie told Yu Feng that Marisbury was inside, then left, saying the rest was none of her business.
• Yu Feng knocked, received permission to enter, and went into Marisbury’s room.

Yu Feng met Marisbury Animusphere in Antarctica and learned more about what Marisbury knew of his identities. After opening a passage to another world and bringing Rin Tohsaka and Shiki Ryougi along, Yu Feng arrived in Fate/EXTRA Last Encore and recognized the Enlightened One.

• Yu Feng questioned Marisbury about how much he knew, and Marisbury identified Pantaleon, Ai Lian, and Kaede Ryougi.
• Yu Feng returned to London and found Rin Tohsaka and Shiki Ryougi waiting in his room; Rin demanded an explanation, then insisted on joining his journey.
• Yu Feng opened a deep-blue passage with the Sword of the Pure Knight, and Rin and Shiki each took one of his hands before entering with him.
• Yu Feng awoke in a flooded, ruined structure and recognized the setting as Fate/EXTRA Last Encore.
• Yu Feng identified the golden figure before him as the Enlightened One, a Savior-class Servant.

Yu Feng left the Enlightened One’s realm with a Seed of the World and was immediately summoned by Rin Tohsaka as a Ruler in the Fate/Apocrypha Holy Grail War. They traveled toward Trifas to seek the Greater Holy Grail, but arrived as a battle between Servants was underway.

• The Enlightened One gave Yu Feng a Seed of the World and sent him back through the blue doorframe, warning him of calamity.
• Yu Feng was summoned by Rin Tohsaka, learned they were in Romania during the Red and Black Holy Grail War, and agreed to seek the Greater Holy Grail to bring Saber out of the Throne of Heroes.
• Rin told Yu Feng she had been selected as a Master for the Black faction, while Yu Feng discovered he could use only Pantaleon's and Ai Lian's abilities.
• Yu Feng and Rin set out for Trifas, but after they slept through the day, they traveled there at night and sensed a battle between three Knight-class Servants.
• Yu Feng carried Rin toward the fighting after sunrise, where they saw two Servants battling and recognized Saber among those nearby.

Yu Feng and Rin Tohsaka arrived in Trifas, where Yu Feng intervened in Karna and Siegfried’s battle before steering Jeanne d’Arc toward investigating the Red faction’s Assassin. At Yggdmillennia castle, Yu Feng rejected joining the Black faction and demanded cooperation, forcing Vlad the Impaler III to hear his proposal.

• Yu Feng identified Jeanne d’Arc as the Holy Grail War’s Ruler, then joined Karna and Siegfried’s fight and battled Karna to a standstill before Karna withdrew.
• Yu Feng told Jeanne d’Arc to investigate the Red faction’s Assassin, while Rin Tohsaka insisted that Jeanne keep her distance from both factions and took Yu Feng to Yggdmillennia castle.
• Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia brought Rin and Yu Feng to meet Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia, Vlad the Impaler III, and the assembled Black faction.
• Yu Feng announced that he had come to discuss cooperation rather than join the Black faction, then threatened to take two of their Servants with him.
• Vlad the Impaler III accepted Yu Feng’s challenge and asked how he wanted to cooperate.

Yu Feng secured an alliance with the black faction by revealing that Shiro Tokisada Amakusa had imprisoned the red faction's Masters, then went to investigate Spartacus's attack near Yggdmillennia Castle. There, he met Atalanta and Achilles, whose increasingly confident deductions led them to suspect he was Assassin.

• Yu Feng offered the black faction information and support against the red faction in exchange for a truce, and Vlad the Impaler III agreed.
• Yu Feng revealed Shiro Tokisada Amakusa's identity and explained that the red faction's Masters were imprisoned, while Vlad assigned the black faction's Servants their opponents.
• The black faction learned that Spartacus was attacking its Stone Golems, and Vlad ordered Darnic and Avicebron to capture him.
• Yu Feng left for the forest while Rin Tohsaka stayed with Fiore Yggdmillennia and Chiron.
• Atalanta and Achilles watched Spartacus rampage, then Yu Feng suddenly appeared beside them.
• Achilles reasoned that Yu Feng was Assassin, and Atalanta wondered why his sound logic made her feel misled.

After the Black faction captured Spartacus and clashed with Achilles, Astolfo escaped with a homunculus, prompting Yu Feng to persuade Vlad the Impaler III to let them go. Yu Feng then left Rin Tohsaka to investigate Assassin’s appearance in Sigrsvöllr.

• Astolfo attacked Spartacus with Trap of Argalia, but Vlad the Impaler III restrained and incapacitated Spartacus with Kazikli Bey.
• Darnic sent Siegfried and Frankenstein to fight Achilles, who was eventually driven off by Chiron’s arrow and escaped in his chariot.
• Astolfo fled the castle with a homunculus, and Yu Feng convinced Vlad the Impaler III to let them go so the Black faction would not lose Siegfried.
• Avicebron agreed that a compatible mage could serve as a vessel for his Noble Phantasm, and Astolfo returned alone after releasing the homunculus.
• Darnic told Vlad the Impaler III that Assassin had appeared in Sigrsvöllr, and Vlad ordered Archer’s group to investigate.
• Yu Feng told Rin Tohsaka he was going to Sigrsvöllr to look into Jack the Ripper, while Rin stayed behind among the Yugdomirenia gems.

Yu Feng waited for Jack the Ripper to emerge in Sigrsvöllr, then helped expose her by dispelling her fog. After Black Archer wounded Jack and withdrew, Yu Feng met Mordred and Shiji Kairi, whose unease at Yu Feng’s hostility left the confrontation unresolved.

• Yu Feng sensed Mordred and Shiji Kairi in Sigrsvöllr and secretly decided to use Shiji Kairi as bait to draw Jack out at night.
• Fiore and Chiron joined Yu Feng, who revealed that he carried Pantaleon’s abilities and memories and that his Spiritron Fluctuations showed Divinity from the Age of Gods.
• When Jack’s poisoned fog appeared, Yu Feng fired an emerald arrow that sent a hurricane through it and exposed Jack to Mordred and Shiji Kairi.
• Jack charged Mordred, but an arrow from Black Archer exploded nearby and badly injured Jack, forcing her to retreat.
• Yu Feng told Mordred that Black Archer had fired and withdrawn, while Shiji Kairi noticed Yu Feng’s intense hostility toward him and silently backed away.

Yu Feng met Mordred and Shiji Kairi, warned them about the Red faction’s Assassin and Master, and learned they had gone missing after being caught in an illusion. As the Black faction prepared for the approaching battle, Yu Feng returned to Rin Tohsaka and took her gems while trying to get her to leave Trifas.

• Yu Feng told Mordred and Shiji Kairi that he had joined the Black faction and wanted the Holy Grail, then warned them to avoid the Red faction’s Assassin and her Master.
• Mordred and Shiji Kairi realized they had entered an illusion, but Yu Feng left before learning what happened to them.
• Vlad the Impaler III told Yu Feng that Mordred had gone missing and announced that Semiramis’s Hanging Gardens of Babylon was approaching, bringing the battle closer.
• Fiore reported that Yu Feng’s true names included Pantaleon and another figure from the Age of Gods, and Vlad the Impaler III declared that Yu Feng would become his enemy after the Red faction was defeated.
• Yu Feng cleared Rin Tohsaka’s gems away and urged her to leave Trifas, but she chose to stay, so he kept the gems and fled as she shouted after him.

As the Red Faction attacked Château de Judgement, Yu Feng wounded Achilles with the Underworld’s power and fought him and Karna together. Yu Feng held his ground against both Servants while Vlad the Impaler III led the Black Faction’s defense.

• Yu Feng sent Rin Tohsaka into the castle as Vlad the Impaler III assigned the Servants their roles and ordered the Black Faction to meet the invading army.
• Vlad the Impaler III and Frankenstein led the homunculi against the Dragon Tooth Soldiers, while Atalanta’s Phoibos Catastrophe killed many homunculi before Frankenstein destroyed its source.
• Achilles charged into battle, but Yu Feng shot him with an arrow imbued with the Underworld’s power, preventing his wound from healing.
• Achilles attacked Yu Feng at close range, but Yu Feng’s strike was intercepted when Karna arrived to subdue him.
• Karna joined Achilles against Yu Feng, who focused on Achilles and fought the pair without being overwhelmed.
• Vlad the Impaler III watched Yu Feng hold off the two Servants and was surprised by his strength.