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-> ''Humans aren’t allowed to fight on easy mode. Going through hard mode is your assigned challenge and responsibility. You can’t go back anymore. Welcome to a battlefield with no chances of victory, where your only option is to be killed. Only discord and extinction lay here. At the end of your fall lays the ultimate pleasure, a sweet and charming battle for survival—\\
—Come. Let’s go to the simultaneously oldest and newest fun Holy Grail War, humanity’s last Master.''
-->-- '''BB'''

It's Golden Week and time to open up the official communication channel for the first time in more then two years between Chaldea and Seraphix, a distant oil drilling platform owned by Chaldea in the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, the only message coming through is a cryptic SOS dispatch repeatedly asking for help. Fortunately, across time and space, the spectacular superior Artificial Intelligence BB is here to help! She informs them that Seraphix has somehow been transported to the distant future of 2030 into the Mariana Trench, where it has been sinking for a while. And just for them, BB'll use her hacking skills to allow Chaldea's rayshifting systems to transport the protagonist to the future for this occasion.

Then she interferes with the rayshift, dispersing Chaldea's Servants in random locations in Seraphix and welcomes the protagonist to SE.RA.PH, a digital world of Virtual Spiritrons created by digitizing the sinking oil rig where only the strong survive and Servants must kill one another to earn their way out. With no Servants with them, they seem to have little chance of surviving before a woman with strange bladed legs and the same face as BB saves them, offering an alliance to work together and defeat the other 127 Servants.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationExpansion: The manga not only showcases scenes from the GreatOffscreenWar among the various sets of 128 Servants, but also fleshes out more of Seraphix's crew.
* AdaptationalCurves: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Manga adaptation of Passionlip is noticeably more busty than her in-game counterpart but it is actually accurate to her profile measurements. Game Passionlip is '''smaller''' than she should be.
* AnimationBump: The chapter's trailer features fully animated scenes of Meltryllis and Passionlip when they were originally only depicted as still frame images in CCC's opening.
* AscendedExtra: The manga adaptation makes Ishtar one of the sentinels when she originally was just a random enemy fought in the singularity.
* BaitAndSwitch: Nero, Tamamo-No-Mae and Nameless (EMIYA) were supposed to be the ones that accompany the Master of Chaldea to SERAPHIX, as a call back to ''Fate/Extra CCC,'' wherein they're the selectable servants of the protagonist. Here, it's Gawain, Tamamo Cat and Emiya Alter who accompany you on the main adventure, while those three get captured by BB/GO and turned into her own personal Sentinels for the Encore act.
** Even before that, during pre-release press for the event, it's presented as a light-hearted beach resort event called "BB Strikes Back. Let's meet in the digital sea!" Upon release the website changed so that the site appears to be "hacked" by BB, taunting visitors before revealing the real event. Even the game gets in on it, presenting the same fake logo as the event icon until after the intro. This very site even plays along, as you probably clicked on the false title in the Epic of Remnant Chapter list to reach this page.
** One of the early records you find narrates Zepar finding a human host, with the narrator desperate to be free of the connection. While you'd first assume that's the human begging to be free of Zepar, a flashback near the end shows the narrator is ''Zepar'' begging to be free from ''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Kiara]]'', who was a willing participant.
* BookEnds: As stated above, the event icon at first reads "BB Strikes Back: Let's Meet in the Digital Sea. The final quest of the epilogue is actually titled "Let's meet in the Digital Sea"
* BreakingTheFourthWall: BB does this from time to time.
* {{Crossover}}: While it is one to ''Fate/Extra CCC'', it also functions as a semi-sequel with FGO-verse Kiara Sesshouin gaining the powers of her ''CCC'' counterpart and BB being sent from the Moon Cell in the ''CCC'' timeline to counteract this.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In comparison to the other collabs, which tend to be LighterAndSofter than their source material, Seraphix is not only far more connected to the plot of ''Grand Order'' as a whole, but it also poses some uncomfortable questions about the morality of Chaldea under Director Marisbury.
* DebutQueue: This event marked a few additions to the summoning gacha.
** Suzuka Gozen was added to the permanent summoning pool.
** Passionlip, Meltryllis, and Kiara Sessyoin were added to the limited summoning pool, adding the Alter Ego class to the game.
** BB was the free SR servant that was given to participating players, adding the Moon Cancer class to the game.
** The rerun adds Kingprotea as a limited servant.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Meltryllis serves this role for the main story as the main Servant companion and ally of the Protagonist (particularly noticeable since Mash, who's otherwise been DemotedToExtra during ''Epic of Remnant'', doesn't even make an appearance for the bulk of the story outside of the beginning and ending due to the communication cut-off), as well as having significant story focus towards her relationship with Chaldea and her hidden plans to save them from Kiara.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Gawain is killed in the middle of the night by Kiara-as-Mable taking him by surprise.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** While the map of the chapter is supposedly modeled after BB's body, the proportions are just ever so slightly off, especially the hair, which looks nothing like her straight, uniform style.
** BB casually drops the fact that Chaldea can't Rayshift past 20XX. This would have further implications for Cosmos in the Lostbelt, the game's second act.
** Meltryllis at multiple points lets slip bits of information that she really shouldn't know about and always [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty clams up before giving an admittedly solid answer when noted]]. It's because she's drawing on her experiences from the first timeline where things went pear-shaped fighting Kiara.
** In the church, the protagonist notes something that looks like some sort of shattered porcelain off in a corner, with Meltryllis saying it's nothing. It's actually all that's left of the "current" Meltryllis, who allowed herself to die so that the Meltryllis from the future [[KillAndReplace could take her place]] without alerting Kiara.
** Despite BB claiming that SE.RA.PH is her body, the sinking woman in Mariana Trench looks more like Kiara. Turns out there's the third map after the main story is completed, and that one looks more like BB.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Zepar's attempt at using Kiara to regain his body went pear-shaped as she became too much for him to handle.
* LegacyBossBattle: Completing every single mission and quest unlocked a secret battle against Ryougi Shiki, homaging her original {{Superboss}} status in ''VideoGame/FateExtra''. This was only available during its limited time run as the Main Interlude version does not feature missions for unlocking her node.
* LossOfIdentity: This started to happen to Kiara when Zepar [[DemonicPossession possessed her]]...and then it was turned back around on ''Zepar'' when Kiara embraced the darker personality of her alternate selves. The ApocalypticLog detailing their despair gets a little muddled after a certain point of which one is lamenting their situation.
* ShaggyDogStory: In the end, the Protagonist's and allied Servants' attempts at finding and bringing back survivors are for naught, as EMIYA Alter kills the last human who isn't the Protagonist onboard Seraphix (the "other" one having been Kiara all along).
** By the end of the event, the existence of SE.RA.PH is classified as a Singularity paradox and just like any other Singularities, those who directly connected to it "get repaired" into the correct course of time and the memory of the Singularity disappears. Seraphix was dismantled ''before'' the Grand Order, the protagonist's recollection about everyone from SE.RA.PH dips in and out of the memory limbo until Ooku, and Melt, who went through a lot to save them, dies and the summonable version of her is a different one who has no idea why her Master makes sad faces when she acts aloof.
* ShoutOut: In the localization, Emiya expresses his envy of Emiya Alter's weapons with a moan of "[[WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged I want thaaat...]]"
* TakeOurWordForIt: While the player spent the epilogue beating up the true Nero, Tamamo, and Emiya, the cast assures us there was a huge plot just as good as the Kiara arc that they couldn't show due to time constraints.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: While averted now that it's been added to the Main Interlude, it was infamous as despite containing background lore and information that is ''crucial'' to understanding the overarching plot of ''Epic of Remnant'' and even ''Cosmos of the Lostbelt'', the chapter is treated in-gameplay as an event, meaning that its only available for a limited amount of time. That said the event was later rerun with new side content focusing on Kingprotea, who was added at the same time.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: {{Deconstructed}}. As a Demon God Pillar, Zepar [[BlueAndOrangeMorality has a warped and alien view on things]] that makes it incapable of understanding the concept of love, romance, and passion. As a result, when it possessed Kiara and began experiencing passion and desires, its alien view became unable to rationalize it and became addicted to it, which allowed Kiara to easily reverse his possession and gain control over it.

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-> ''Humans aren’t allowed to fight on easy mode. Going through hard mode is your assigned challenge and responsibility. You can’t go back anymore. Welcome to a battlefield with no chances of victory, where your only option is to be killed. Only discord and extinction lay here. At the end of your fall lays the ultimate pleasure, a sweet and charming battle for survival—\\
—Come. Let’s go to the simultaneously oldest and newest fun Holy Grail War, humanity’s last Master.''
-->-- '''BB'''

It's Golden Week and time to open up the official communication channel for the first time in more then two years between Chaldea and Seraphix, a distant oil drilling platform owned by Chaldea in the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, the only message coming through is a cryptic SOS dispatch repeatedly asking for help. Fortunately, across time and space, the spectacular superior Artificial Intelligence BB is here to help! She informs them that Seraphix has somehow been transported to the distant future of 2030 into the Mariana Trench, where it has been sinking for a while. And just for them, BB'll use her hacking skills to allow Chaldea's rayshifting systems to transport the protagonist to the future for this occasion.

Then she interferes with the rayshift, dispersing Chaldea's Servants in random locations in Seraphix and welcomes the protagonist to SE.RA.PH, a digital world of Virtual Spiritrons created by digitizing the sinking oil rig where only the strong survive and Servants must kill one another to earn their way out. With no Servants with them, they seem to have little chance of surviving before a woman with strange bladed legs and the same face as BB saves them, offering an alliance to work together and defeat the other 127 Servants.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationExpansion: The manga not only showcases scenes from the GreatOffscreenWar among the various sets of 128 Servants, but also fleshes out more of Seraphix's crew.
* AdaptationalCurves: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Manga adaptation of Passionlip is noticeably more busty than her in-game counterpart but it is actually accurate to her profile measurements. Game Passionlip is '''smaller''' than she should be.
* AnimationBump: The chapter's trailer features fully animated scenes of Meltryllis and Passionlip when they were originally only depicted as still frame images in CCC's opening.
* AscendedExtra: The manga adaptation makes Ishtar one of the sentinels when she originally was just a random enemy fought in the singularity.
* BaitAndSwitch: Nero, Tamamo-No-Mae and Nameless (EMIYA) were supposed to be the ones that accompany the Master of Chaldea to SERAPHIX, as a call back to ''Fate/Extra CCC,'' wherein they're the selectable servants of the protagonist. Here, it's Gawain, Tamamo Cat and Emiya Alter who accompany you on the main adventure, while those three get captured by BB/GO and turned into her own personal Sentinels for the Encore act.
** Even before that, during pre-release press for the event, it's presented as a light-hearted beach resort event called "BB Strikes Back. Let's meet in the digital sea!" Upon release the website changed so that the site appears to be "hacked" by BB, taunting visitors before revealing the real event. Even the game gets in on it, presenting the same fake logo as the event icon until after the intro. This very site even plays along, as you probably clicked on the false title in the Epic of Remnant Chapter list to reach this page.
** One of the early records you find narrates Zepar finding a human host, with the narrator desperate to be free of the connection. While you'd first assume that's the human begging to be free of Zepar, a flashback near the end shows the narrator is ''Zepar'' begging to be free from ''[[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Kiara]]'', who was a willing participant.
* BookEnds: As stated above, the event icon at first reads "BB Strikes Back: Let's Meet in the Digital Sea. The final quest of the epilogue is actually titled "Let's meet in the Digital Sea"
* BreakingTheFourthWall: BB does this from time to time.
* {{Crossover}}: While it is one to ''Fate/Extra CCC'', it also functions as a semi-sequel with FGO-verse Kiara Sesshouin gaining the powers of her ''CCC'' counterpart and BB being sent from the Moon Cell in the ''CCC'' timeline to counteract this.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In comparison to the other collabs, which tend to be LighterAndSofter than their source material, Seraphix is not only far more connected to the plot of ''Grand Order'' as a whole, but it also poses some uncomfortable questions about the morality of Chaldea under Director Marisbury.
* DebutQueue: This event marked a few additions to the summoning gacha.
** Suzuka Gozen was added to the permanent summoning pool.
** Passionlip, Meltryllis, and Kiara Sessyoin were added to the limited summoning pool, adding the Alter Ego class to the game.
** BB was the free SR servant that was given to participating players, adding the Moon Cancer class to the game.
** The rerun adds Kingprotea as a limited servant.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Meltryllis serves this role for the main story as the main Servant companion and ally of the Protagonist (particularly noticeable since Mash, who's otherwise been DemotedToExtra during ''Epic of Remnant'', doesn't even make an appearance for the bulk of the story outside of the beginning and ending due to the communication cut-off), as well as having significant story focus towards her relationship with Chaldea and her hidden plans to save them from Kiara.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Gawain is killed in the middle of the night by Kiara-as-Mable taking him by surprise.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** While the map of the chapter is supposedly modeled after BB's body, the proportions are just ever so slightly off, especially the hair, which looks nothing like her straight, uniform style.
** BB casually drops the fact that Chaldea can't Rayshift past 20XX. This would have further implications for Cosmos in the Lostbelt, the game's second act.
** Meltryllis at multiple points lets slip bits of information that she really shouldn't know about and always [[HesitationEqualsDishonesty clams up before giving an admittedly solid answer when noted]]. It's because she's drawing on her experiences from the first timeline where things went pear-shaped fighting Kiara.
** In the church, the protagonist notes something that looks like some sort of shattered porcelain off in a corner, with Meltryllis saying it's nothing. It's actually all that's left of the "current" Meltryllis, who allowed herself to die so that the Meltryllis from the future [[KillAndReplace could take her place]] without alerting Kiara.
** Despite BB claiming that SE.RA.PH is her body, the sinking woman in Mariana Trench looks more like Kiara. Turns out there's the third map after the main story is completed, and that one looks more like BB.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Zepar's attempt at using Kiara to regain his body went pear-shaped as she became too much for him to handle.
* LegacyBossBattle: Completing every single mission and quest unlocked a secret battle against Ryougi Shiki, homaging her original {{Superboss}} status in ''VideoGame/FateExtra''. This was only available during its limited time run as the Main Interlude version does not feature missions for unlocking her node.
* LossOfIdentity: This started to happen to Kiara when Zepar [[DemonicPossession possessed her]]...and then it was turned back around on ''Zepar'' when Kiara embraced the darker personality of her alternate selves. The ApocalypticLog detailing their despair gets a little muddled after a certain point of which one is lamenting their situation.
* ShaggyDogStory: In the end, the Protagonist's and allied Servants' attempts at finding and bringing back survivors are for naught, as EMIYA Alter kills the last human who isn't the Protagonist onboard Seraphix (the "other" one having been Kiara all along).
** By the end of the event, the existence of SE.RA.PH is classified as a Singularity paradox and just like any other Singularities, those who directly connected to it "get repaired" into the correct course of time and the memory of the Singularity disappears. Seraphix was dismantled ''before'' the Grand Order, the protagonist's recollection about everyone from SE.RA.PH dips in and out of the memory limbo until Ooku, and Melt, who went through a lot to save them, dies and the summonable version of her is a different one who has no idea why her Master makes sad faces when she acts aloof.
* ShoutOut: In the localization, Emiya expresses his envy of Emiya Alter's weapons with a moan of "[[WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged I want thaaat...]]"
* TakeOurWordForIt: While the player spent the epilogue beating up the true Nero, Tamamo, and Emiya, the cast assures us there was a huge plot just as good as the Kiara arc that they couldn't show due to time constraints.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: While averted now that it's been added to the Main Interlude, it was infamous as despite containing background lore and information that is ''crucial'' to understanding the overarching plot of ''Epic of Remnant'' and even ''Cosmos of the Lostbelt'', the chapter is treated in-gameplay as an event, meaning that its only available for a limited amount of time. That said the event was later rerun with new side content focusing on Kingprotea, who was added at the same time.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: {{Deconstructed}}. As a Demon God Pillar, Zepar [[BlueAndOrangeMorality has a warped and alien view on things]] that makes it incapable of understanding the concept of love, romance, and passion. As a result, when it possessed Kiara and began experiencing passion and desires, its alien view became unable to rationalize it and became addicted to it, which allowed Kiara to easily reverse his possession and gain control over it.
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* LegacyBossBattle: Completing every single mission and quest unlocked a secret battle against Ryougi Shiki, homaging her original {{Superboss}} status in ''VideoGame/FateExtra''. This was only available during its limited time run as the Main Interlude version does not feature missions for unlocking her node.



* TemporaryOnlineContent: While averted now that its been added to the Main Interlude, it was infamous as despite containing background lore and information that is ''crucial'' to understanding the overarching plot of ''Epic of Remnant'' and even ''Cosmos of the Lostbelt'', the chapter is treated in-gameplay as an event, meaning that its only available for a limited amount of time. That said the event was later rerun with new side content focusing on Kingprotea, who was added at the same time.

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* TemporaryOnlineContent: While averted now that its it's been added to the Main Interlude, it was infamous as despite containing background lore and information that is ''crucial'' to understanding the overarching plot of ''Epic of Remnant'' and even ''Cosmos of the Lostbelt'', the chapter is treated in-gameplay as an event, meaning that its only available for a limited amount of time. That said the event was later rerun with new side content focusing on Kingprotea, who was added at the same time.

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