Prisma Illya

[Nyarly Alter]

Not only did Shirou steal Illya's series but it looks like Miyu has as well effectively. I guess it's an Emiya thing.

Prisma Emiyu at its peak

Nice that Cursed Arm also got his moment.

[Hawkeye]

So is this like Cursed Arm from the Miyuverse or something? Cause that is definitely Cursed Arm, but that's the Zabiniya Shinji used and while the two were always similar, that is pretty distinct.

[ImmaXehanort]

Emiya: Sup? Mind if I continue to be the GOAT?

[Rafflesiac]

Sakura saving Shirou with Rule Breaker is peak kino, Hiroyama I kneel.

Blessed fanfiction. Guess Kerry's more of a Zouken here in that he was willing to sacrifice his goal to achieve it. GARCHER returns for the final dunk and Miyu, in true badass fashion, doesn't look at the explosion. 10/10 chapter.

[Some Jerk]

There was indeed sus shit going on with Emiya's absence from Miyu's mass-summon.

• So Sakura wasn't an Ainsworth Doll? Just a reanimated zombie that didn't realize its heart was missing? Imaginary Numbers bullshit at its finest. But hey, Sakura got resurrected because of it (in a lucid state of mind, no less!).
• Shirou gets a much-needed conversation with Kiritsugu in the afterlife. And I don't just mean in Prillya; there was a lot of shit in the Fate timelines that could've been avoided if Kiritsugu had just been honest with Shirou from the start...
• Sakura still had Chloe's Rule Breaker copy and used it to separate Emiya from Shirou. They managed to save each other!
• With the separation, Emiya finally gets summoned. And there's Cursed-Arm Hassan. They shoot their Miyu-mandated shots at Darius, who gets yanked out of the Giant King and only barely stops Emiya's arrow...
• ...But he forgot about Miyu. She gives the arrow a push. Darius is exploded.

At last, the battle is over. So here's the current state of the plot:

• If Darius is still alive after all of that, he's either a fried and mangled pile of magic circuits with no strength left, or a Pandora's Box-spawned ghost with no host body. Either way, he's almost certainly been neutralized this time. (We hope.)
• There's still a major pressing issue that Darius interrupted with his Giant King hijack: Pandora's Box is still active. It's not over yet.
• Chloe is still dead. With Emiya having manifested, his cameo in Illya's dream alongside Chloe before the time warp, and Miyu holding the Archer Card, Chloe's fate may finally get addressed.
• Illya is still dead. Aside from her tagging along with Pandora throughout the past, her fate is still ambiguous. We still don't know what her mystery box is either.
• If Illya is revived, what will happen to Miyu? Will she merely lose her God Child powers, or are we looking a horrible paradox?
• Pandora is still inside the Giant King.
• Gil-kun and Tanaka are still AWOL.

[TheSeaDragon]

First time along timelines Archer adress Sakura by name. Neat

[Quoren]

Wonder if this is actually leading towards the end. It's definitely on pace for it, but he could easily do a fourth series if he wants to cause the world of Pandora's Box to go out of control and suck everyone in for another level of isekai. There's still the whole thing with Darius' stone slabs, the OC Heroic Spirit cards, and this giant mythology going on. That could just be explained in the material book, but seems like a lot of effort over a decade for no payoff.

[GDB]

I'm kinda sad we will never know what was Darius' deal with all the playwriting lexicon and his vines. It's very much a case of "don't think, feel", and I don't expect whatever comes from Illya yeeting herself in the past to address it.

Not sure about the vines, but if I recall the playwriting stuff was him trying to etch his own legend into the world or something, before the gang pushed him to the current state of "screw it, I'll just overwrite everything with force".

[Dark Squirrel]

Not sure about the vines, but if I recall the playwriting stuff was him trying to etch his own legend into the world or something, before the gang pushed him to the current state of "screw it, I'll just overwrite everything with force".

Guess I'm too used to comically evil bad guys monologing about their plans at one point or another, now I'm surprised when we don't get an in-depth explanation of whatever doomed evil plan was being attempted.
Plus it enjoyed far more prominence than the current half-assed Grail Mud/giants plan, so it's a bit surprising it's never addressed at all.

Something something dwindling media literacy I suppose.

[warellis]

Shirou gets a much-needed conversation with Kiritsugu in the afterlife. And I don't just mean in Prillya; there was a lot of shit in the Fate timelines that could've been avoided if Kiritsugu had just been honest with Shirou from the start...

I have to wonder why this wasn't in HF honestly.

[Takashi]

It would be awful for fate ubw.

[Broke]

It would be awful for fate ubw.

"You don't have to be a Seigi no Mikata. Find your own happiness in life."

"Understandable. Have a nice day."

[Seigi no Mikata]

Well this was one amazing birthday gift.

[Some Jerk]

Well this was one amazing birthday gift.

Well, in case I didn't miss it: Happy Birthday!