Episode
Fate/stay night: Distant Trace of a Dream
Overview
Shirou takes Saber out on a date to try and convince her not to use the Grail and go back to her own time, but to stay in this time instead.
Details
- Series
- Fate/stay night
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 2006-05-20
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Distant Trace of a Dream is Episode 20 in Season 1 of Fate/stay night. It aired on 2006-05-20. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 19: The Golden King
Saber's fight with Assassin and Shirou's fight with Souichirou reaches its climax. Souichirou shatters Shirou's blades again, sending him flying down to where Rin and Sakura are and it is upto Saber to defeat Assassin and make it down in time to save everyone. With Saber still affected by Caster's Noble Phantasm Rule Breaker, she isn't able to defeat Caster when all of a sudden their fight is interrupted by an unknown Servant. It seems that Saber is familiar with this Servant, but it turns out he's the eighth Servant in this Holy Grail War.In light of the appearance of the eighth Servant, Saber finally reveals to Shirou the shocking events of the previous Holy Grail War.
Episode 21: The Star of Creation That Divided Heaven and Earth
With the appearance of the mysterious Archer-class Servant, Saber tells Shirou to escape while keeps him occupied. However Shirou, knowning that Saber couldn't defeat him before, foolishly tries to attack him head on and with the snap of his fingers Shirou is quickly defeated. Will Saber have the strength to defeat him, esepecially now knowing his true identity; owner of all the world's treasures, the King of Heroes of ancient Uruk, Gilgamesh.Kirei Kotomine also seems to play a major part in the Holy Grail War and it's not because he's the mediator.
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Episode 18: Decisive Battle
Shirou, Saber and Rin are at the steps to the temple.Assassin appears, he lets Shirou and Rin go past and fights Saber. Shirou and Rin head past Assassin and past him they see Sakura, in rather odd cloths who is in what seems to be pain as she is glowing red. She is in a pit arena area and as they prepare to go down there they are attacked from behind which Shirou notices and blocks the attack with Archer's swords. Souichirou appears and Shirou tells Rin to go ahead as he fights Souichirou and she goes to rescue Sakura. Meanwhile Saber and Assassin fight continues on. They compliment each other on being one of the best swordsmen they have ever faced and Assassin tells Saber that his identity, Sasaki Kojirou doesn't really exist. He is fabricated from people's minds of being a great swordsman so he is a fictional heroic soul. He says he has no desire for the Holy Grail therefore; his true desire is this, a fight with a worthy opponent.We find out more on the past of Rin & Sakura and how they once were bestfriends. Caster is watching this smiling says she just needs one magician for the sacrifice. Everything seems to be going as she had planned.
Episode 22: Result of a Wish
Saber can't seem to get Shirou of her mind but that is short lived when she finds out from Rin that Ilya has a terrible fever and may not last long. Meanwhile Shirou is still missing, having not returned from the night before and Saber knows that there's only one place he could be, the church. It doesn't take long for Saber to notice the wounded Shirou on the floor but she's unable to do anything because she's greeted by Lancer. Saber must decide whether she truly desires the Holy Grail as she's given a means in acquiring it.Kirei Kotomine reveals what really happened at the end of the last Holy Grail War and what will Shirou and Saber do knowing the true meaning of the Holy Grail?
Episode 17: Mark of the Witch
Shirou wakes up after having yet another dream of Saber's past and is clearly shaken up by what happened. That morning, during breakfast, Ilya is introduced by Rin as another person to be staying there for a while and Taiga seems to accept it well. Meanwhile there have been news on even more gas leaks, meaning that the Master at Ryudouji seems to be escalating his plans. While Shirou, Rin and Saber are planning what to do about this, Ilya enters the room with a great deal of information on this topic.
Episode 23: The Holy Grail
After the incident at the church, Saber and Shirou return home only to find Rin on the floor and badly injured. It turns out that Kirei Kotomine attacked her, while Shirou and Saber were occupied and that's not all because he has also taken Ilya and plans to make her the sacrifice for the Holy Grail. Aided with Rin's final advice, they both head to Ryudouji where Kirei is going to summon the Holy Grail. Saber will battle again with Gilgamesh and Shirou will have to leave her and deal with Kirei, who obviously has some sort of personal vendetta against Shirou.The final fight has just begun.
Episode 16: The Sword of the Promised Victory
The battle is at the turning point, where Rin is about to be squashed by Beserker and Saber is unable to save her. As a last resort Saber decides to use her Noble Phantasm to defeat Beserker, no matter how it would affect her. Realizing that Saber could disappear from this, Shirou forces her to stop and decides to take matters into his own hands.The advancement of Shirou's character as we find what he is really able to do.
Episode 24: The All Too Distant Utopia
Shirou has found himself trapped in the same place Kirei Kotomine trapped Shirou's father. Surrounded by death Shirou must escape this place through will power alone, if he want's to end this Holy Grail War once and for all. Saber is also having trouble defeating the somewhat unbeatable Gilgamesh yet there is hope, with the power of "Avalon" The Ever-Distant Utopia.What will truly come about from destroying the Holy Grail? Will things be able to go back to normal?
Episode 15: The Twelve Trials
Archer has been defeated by the unbeatable Beserker and now Shirou, Saber and Rin are trying their best to escape the same fate. They are able to find shelter to bide some time, because Shirou has to find a way to replenish Saber's mana while Ilya looks for them. With Archer's sacrifice, Rin is that much more determined to get out of this alive and comes up with an elaborate plan. The beginning of a fight between Saber and Berserker commences.
Episode 14: The End of the Ideal
Rin, Saber and Archer just outside of Ilya's mansion. They see Ilya walk out so they soon head inside to rescue Shirou.Rin asks Archer to slow Berserker down by himself while the rest of them escape. Archer says fine but asks if it's ok to kick Berserker's ass while doing so. Rin kind of smiles and they run off, leaving Archer to fight Berserker. Before they leave Archer yells out Emiya Shirou. Shirou stops and Archer tells him, Get this straight: You are not one who fights. You're nothing more than one who creates. Throw irrelevant thoughts away. There's only one thing you can do. Master that one thing! Archer then causes part of the ceiling to fall separating them so that Shirou will run away.The fight between Archer and Berserker commences.
Episode 13: Winter Castle
Shirou falls asleep and sees a dream of a flashback of Saber's past. We see Saber in plain olden time cloths walking up to a sword in a stone.Saber wakes up and notices Shirou is gone. She talks to Rin and despite Archer's objection they go looking for him, suspecting he has been kidnapped by an enemy.Shirou wakes up in Ilya's house as her captive. Ilya says how she wants Shirou to become hers.
Episode 12: Splitting The Sky
Shirou is very worried about the well being of the students, staff, and of the school after yesterday's events, he's especially worried about Taiga who seems to be recovering well. Shirou is now determined to put an end to this and plans to go after Shinji before he can make another force field and with Sabers support they head out. However before that, Shirou has some important information to disclose to Rin about Shinji's Servant, Rider about the Noble Phantasm she used.