Details regarding Vol. 5 of Strange Fake (which apparently Narita has finished and submitted for publishing, we're just waiting for the administrative business to be finished and it to be printed and shipped) have been leaked onto a private Chinese forum that I won't name for the sake of protecting the identity of the source who would lose his job if anyone knew where he worked. These are pretty vague spoilers but here's what he posted, translated as well as I can:
>Flat is shaken by Jack's near defeat and cries
>the small squad of cops that Dumas selected becomes "heroes" (Heroic Spirits? Servants??)
>Alcides fights Gil, Gil uses a divine constuct sword (Merodach?) and tries to blow Alcides away which would also destroy the hospital but Richard uses Excalibur to defeat it and destroy Vimana
>Alcides destroys the entire hospital with one arrow but is then defeated by the "hero" cops, something to do with Dumas's NP making them super effective and bypassing the lion pelt by using Alcides's own heroic feats against him (???) and they stab him with the hydra dagger but he survives somehow (something to do with the pelt becoming poisoned)
>Alcides is saved by Prelati intervening again which was part of the 'deal' they made, that Prelati would give all the people there in the True Berserker fight one free save in exchange for postponing that fight for later
>Zealot tries to kill Prelati and rips out Prelati's heart but Prelati was just another illusion and he calls her strong
>the dead apostle who was on the hospital got that vessel killed by the explosion and switches to another vessel
>apparently Sigma snuck into the hospital and rescued the master of Fake Rider during the battle, moving her to Hansa's church
cont.
>Fake Rider shows up to kick Ishtar's lily white ass when Gugalanna appears over Snowfield, something to do with being one of its duties to destroy all remaining divine spirits and the natural lifespan of Ishtar's vessel becomes a hundred times shorter in one minute of fighting its diseases
>Fake Rider senses his loli is in danger and runs back to her
>Enkidu throws some mud up at Ishtar in the sky and pisses her off because she can't fight him while all exhausted so she leaves and takes Gugalanna with her baffling meteorologists the world over
>Sigma has a scene with Zealot and the sick loli, Zealot asks him if he would kill her to win the war and he tells the truth, yes
>Zealot forgives him because he's just a child and tries to teach him the error of his ways but he doesn't understand
>Flat forces Jack to promise he won't ever try to fight Alcides again, something seems off with Jack like he's not paying attention and he looks at Flat very scarily for a moment
>Buzzcola wonders out loud if he should have picked another HS since Alcides lost to mere humans, Alcides fumes but can't defend himself
>Gil returns to his loli wounded but still proud, if anything just even more excited because there are more interesting opponents he can fight
and that's the end of Vol. 5, the preview scene is for Sigma, Richard, Ayaka, Zealot, Hansa, Gil, Gil's loli, Flat, Jack, Enkidu, Ishtar, True Berserker's Master, and Hippolyta and Hippo's master all sitting around a table and eating some kind of feast similar to the Kings Feast in Zero except everyone basically hates each other and makes no attempt to hide it, ends with Enkidu throwing a beef steak on Ishtar's face.