Recaps

Ash reunited with Erika, Itsuki, and the Den-O Imagin at Nasta Café, while the Pretty Cure learned who the Imagin were and how they had reached their world. Ash suspected their arrival was connected to larger forces, but his attempt to contact Eddie instead reached Ryutaros dancing in another city.

• Ash brought Erika, Itsuki, and Rei into Nasta Café, where the girls met Momotaros, Urataros, and Kintaros.
• Dark Precure sensed a significant change in Tsukikage Yuri and decided to investigate.
• Ash bribed Momotaros with pudding to keep him from telling the Pretty Cure about Ash’s plans.
• Ash showed the girls a Den-O movie and explained that the Imagin were heroes who traveled through time to fight monsters.
• Ash consulted the system, learned the Imagin’s arrival was not a coincidence, and called Eddie, only to discover Ryutaros had possessed him and was dancing.
• Momotaros questioned Ash about the café’s resemblance to Milk Dipper, then spat out Ash’s coffee after taking a sip.

Ash’s teasing of Momotaros led to a misunderstanding when Rei found a ring on Ash’s left ring finger, prompting Erika and Rei to think he was married. After Ash cleared things up and scolded the girls, he asked whether anyone had seen Yuri or a dangerous Imagin, leaving the group searching for the escaped enemy.

• Ash deliberately gave Momotaros bitter coffee, and the Imagin began arguing while Rei mistook them for hired suit actors.
• Rei found a ring on Ash’s left ring finger, and Erika and Rei assumed he was married before Urataros explained the ring’s supposed meaning.
• Ash denied being married and scolded Rei and Erika for jumping to conclusions about marriage.
• Ash asked Itsuki and the others whether they had seen Yuri, while Momotaros revealed that Kintaros had let a dangerous Imagin escape.

Ash led the Pretty Cure and Imagin on a search for Tsukikage Yuri after she left the shop, but they found her unconscious and shedding time sand after she made a contract with an Imagin. Dark Precure arrived to confront Yuri, and Ash boarded the Den-O Train with the Heart Seed to travel to the past and handle the crisis himself.

• Ash assembled the Pretty Cure and Den-O teams to search for Tsukikage Yuri and promised the girls barbecue if they found her.
• The searchers learned Yuri had left in distress, and Ash explained that she had cried after he gave her a ring and spoke insensitively to her.
• Shiffre found Yuri in a nearby park, where Ash discovered she was unconscious and disintegrating into time sand.
• Kintaros and Urataros suspected Yuri had made a contract with an Imagin, and the Rider Ticket revealed the event was connected to the time Yuri became Cure Moonlight.
• Dark Precure appeared and threatened Yuri, but Ash pulled the other half of the Heart Seed from Yuri and prepared to travel into the past.
• Ash boarded the Den-O Train with Yuri's glasses and told the others he would deal with the past himself.

Ash rejoined the Den-Liner and learned that using the Divine Pathway had drawn the Riders and other threats into the Pretty Cure world. After asking about Ryotaro and Hana, he left the train, where Eddie ran toward a battle between Itsuki and Little Dark.

• Ash boarded the Den-Liner with Momotaros, Kintaros, and the others, and reunited with Naomi, Ryutaros, and the Conductor.
• Ash questioned the Conductor about why the Riders had come to the Pretty Cure world, and learned that Ash's past self had seized the Administrator PASS and Infinite Ticket and that using the ticket had opened a point of divergence.
• Ash handed the Administrator PASS to Momotaros and learned that Ryotaro, Hana, and Sieg were fighting to protect the world while the other Riders were occupied.
• Ash asked where Ryotaro and Hana were, recalled part of his past with them, and knocked over the Conductor's flag in his fried rice.
• After Ryutaros's possession left him exhausted, Eddie heard an explosion and ran toward the danger, where he saw Itsuki clash with Little Dark.

Ash encountered Tsukikage Yuri in the past after she used an Imagin to return to the day she became Pretty Cure, and challenged her wish to change her fate. In the present, Eddie overcame his fear and charged into the battle against Dark Precure, while Ash’s argument with Yuri ended with her questioning why he cared about her.

• Rei and Erika struggled with Itsuki against Dark Precure while protecting the unconscious Yuri, and Eddie found courage in the signatures on his note and charged into battle.
• After being thrown off the Den-Liner, Ash met Kain, who spotted a younger Tsukikage Yuri following her past self.
• Ash confronted Yuri, learned she had wished to return to the day she became Pretty Cure, and warned her that the Imagin could cause trouble in the past.
• Yuri revealed she wanted Cologne to choose another girl as Pretty Cure so the tragedies of her past would not happen again.
• Ash rejected Yuri’s plan, accused her of running from her pain, and reminded her that her friends’ bonds had helped heal her.
• Yuri asked what right Ash had to be angry and said she believed he cared about her only because she had once been Pretty Cure.

Ash reassured Yuri after she confessed her fear of losing him, while Cologne arrived to recruit her as a Pretty Cure and discovered that her Heart Flower was beginning to bloom again. Meanwhile, the Bat Imagin found the Heart Tree, and Ash proposed letting Yuri and Cologne meet so history could still reach its proper outcome.

• Ash revealed that he was unmarried and explained that changing the past could erase Yuri’s memories and bonds with him and the others.
• Cologne arrived and asked Yuri to become a Pretty Cure, but he was surprised to learn Ash was a man and that Yuri’s Heart Flower had withered.
• Ash used Kain to examine Yuri’s heart and learned that her Heart Flower was beginning to bloom again.
• Yuri admitted she feared Ash would leave her like her father had, and Ash embraced her and offered to support her as himself.
• Urataros left Momotaros to search for the Imagin and noticed Ash and Yuri, while the Bat Imagin hid from the Den-Liner and located the Heart Tree.
• Ash reassured Yuri that time could tolerate a changed middle portion as long as she and Cologne still met, then placed Cologne in Yuri’s hands so they could reconnect.

Yuri reunited with Cologne and accepted Ash’s ring, which awakened Cologne to the Heart Tree’s danger. Ash brought Yuri to the Heart Tree on the Den-Liner, where they found the Sky Bat Imagin attacking; he drew its attention while Yuri prepared to reach the tree.

• Yuri embraced Cologne after Ash reassured her, then forgave Ash for frightening her with the ring.
• Urataros briefly possessed Ash and nudged him into giving Yuri his ring, which Cologne touched and recognized as connected to the Heart Tree.
• Cologne warned that the Heart Tree was under attack, and Ash summoned the Den-Liner to take Yuri and the others there.
• Yuri questioned Ash about his secrets aboard the Den-Liner before the train reached the Heart Tree.
• Ash and Yuri found the Sky Bat Imagin attacking the Heart Tree, and Ash stepped out to draw its attention while Yuri went to seek help.

Ash and the Imagin transformed into Den-O Climax Form to fight the Bat Imagin, while Ash rested inside his mental world as his life and mind were drained. A mysterious doll named Kain appeared beside Momotaros and helped him counter the Bat Imagin’s attacks.

• Yuri entered the Heart Tree, where Cologne merged with his future self and reunited with her.
• The Bat Imagin accused Ash of killing Kai and ruining its plan, but Ash claimed he could not remember the incident.
• As Ash suffered a painful drain on his life, he let Momotaros, Urataros, Kintaros, and Ryutaros possess him and transform him into Den-O Climax Form.
• Momotaros took control and attacked the Bat Imagin, while the conductor and Kazumi dismissed the transformation as no abnormality.
• The Bat Imagin knocked Den-O down and struck him with its wings, but an unseen voice warned Momotaros of its next attack, letting him counter.
• Momotaros discovered the voice belonged to a grayish-purple doll, which introduced itself as Kain, a demon belonging to Ash’s heart.

Ash transformed into Den-O Climax Form with Kain and defeated the Bat Imagin, but the exertion worsened his illness and left him collapsing. The Heart Tree appeared in Cure Flower’s form, explained how she had sent Ash a ring through time, and said she had welcomed him because he had helped her.

• Kain joined Den-O Climax Form, and Momotaros panicked at having a talking doll on his shoulder.
• Den-O used Voice Dozn Kick, while Kain added a flurry of punches that defeated the Bat Imagin.
• Ash’s weakened body collapsed after the transformation ended, and the Heart Tree caught him in Cure Flower’s form.
• The Heart Tree explained that a ring made from her body had carried information from the future through Cologne to the past.
• Ash asked why the Heart Tree had not defeated him, and she said she wanted to help him because he had helped her.
• The Heart Tree said Ash’s earlier gift of lights had restored some of her vitality, leaving him bewildered.

The Heart Tree revealed that she had secretly sustained Ash, whose guilt over accepting her kindness forced him to confront his emptiness and choose a clearer resolve. Yuri reconciled with Cologne and regained her determination to fight, while Dark Precure defeated Eddie.

• The Heart Tree explained that she had helped Ash because she sensed his withered Heart Flower and had been restoring his depleted life force.
• Ash struggled with guilt over his past actions and the kindness he had accepted, then resolved to keep his plans while embracing a new goal and his pride.
• Yuri confessed to Cologne that she blamed herself for his death and asked him not to remain her partner, but Cologne reassured her and urged her to accept herself.
• Yuri drew strength from her companions and Cologne’s words, called on the Heart Tree, and transformed as her Heart Seed filled with light.
• Dark Precure destroyed Eddie’s Magibullet Dragon, caught his sword strike, and struck him down, ending his transformation.

Ash and Yuri returned to the battle, and the Heart Tree restored Yuri’s ability to transform into Cure Moonlight while Ash became Kamen Rider Den-O Liner Form. They joined forces against Dark Precure, with Ash shielding Yuri and helping her fight as a team.

• Eddie clung to Dark Precure’s ankle to stop her from attacking the others, and the Heart Tree’s light interrupted her strike.
• Ash and Yuri arrived on the Den-Liner, and Yuri received a restored Heart Pot while Ash prepared his Den-O belt and sword.
• Yuri transformed into Cure Moonlight, and Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Den-O Liner Form beside her.
• Cure Moonlight struck Dark Precure back, and Yuri explained that Cologne’s soul had returned to the Heart Tree and helped restore her Heart Seed.
• Ash blocked Dark Precure’s energy sphere and reminded Yuri to rely on her companions; Yuri accepted his guidance and fought alongside him.
• Ash switched his sword to Kin-AXE mode and charged Dark Precure, using the weapon to suppress her while Yuri prepared to attack.

Ash and Cure Moonlight fought the Desert Apostles alongside each other, while Dark Precure confronted Ash over his apparent betrayal and learned that Timons had never existed. Dark Precure then clashed with Yuri at full power and began overpowering her with the psychic force hidden in her golden eye.

• Dark Precure recognized Ash's fighting style and faltered, allowing Yuri to strike her with Moonlight Silver Impact.
• Ash and Cure Moonlight battled the Desert Apostles together, driving them back despite their numerical advantage.
• Dark Precure seized Ash and heard him confess that Timons had never existed, but Yuri soon knocked her away from him.
• Dark Precure and Yuri unleashed their Fortissimo attacks and fought in the sky as Dark Precure explained that she saw herself as Yuri's shadow and feared losing her only friend.
• Dark Precure opened her hidden golden eye and used its psychic force to overwhelm Yuri.

Yuri defeated Dark Precure with Ash’s help, while Ash fought off the Desert Apostles and then rescued the badly injured Dark Precure. The other enemies retreated, and Ash swung away with Dark Precure as Yuri returned to check on Itsuki and the others.

• Yuri caught Ash’s Electric Mask Holy Sword and defeated Dark Precure with a powerful crossed strike.
• Itsuki was unable to join the fight, while Kain explained that she liked Cure Sunshine and worried about Ash’s plan.
• Ash defeated Spider Gagi, Cobra Saga, and Scorpina Lina in succession, then threw the Electric Mask Holy Sword to Yuri and prepared to leave with Dark Precure.
• Yuri approached the defeated Dark Precure, who reached out in pain and wondered why no one would hold her hand.
• Ash arrived as Timons, lifted Dark Precure into his arms, and swung away with her on spider silk.
• Yuri returned to the others, learned that the Desert Apostle executives had retreated, and checked that Itsuki was all right.

Ash visited the Desert Apostles' base, where he uncovered the truth about Dark Precure's creation and helped her question her role as a weapon. The chapter ended with Dark Precure choosing to trust Ash as her friend.

• Yuri held the sleeping Rei and Erika while Ash reunited with the exhausted Pretty Cure members.
• Ash met Shaback at the Desert Apostles' base, and Dune allowed him to remain despite Shaback's suspicions.
• Ash revealed that he had discovered Shaback's unmasked face and used Shaback's identity drive to access the base's systems.
• Ash opened Dark Precure's tank and learned she was an artificially created life-form made to defeat Precure.
• Dark Precure broke out of the tank and confronted Ash, who revealed his identity and urged her to choose her own path.
• Dark Precure called Ash her friend and agreed to help him.

Ash secretly arranged for Itsuki to be pricked by the Sin Stamp, then let the Pretty Cure believe they had stolen it from him. At Nasta Café, the girls celebrated their victories and received gifts from Ash, but Yuri noticed his right hand was stiff as new visitors arrived.

• Ash admitted that guiding Dark Precure had exhausted him, then prepared the Sin Stamp for his next operation.
• Rei kicked the Sin Stamp from Timons's hand, and Itsuki caught it, unknowingly pricking her finger on its hidden needle.
• Yuri struck Timons and forced him and Dark Precure to retreat, while Ash pretended the Pretty Cure had foiled his plan.
• Ash checked that the stamp was working, praised the Pretty Cure, paid Yuri her salary, and gave the others gifts they wanted.
• Yuri savored the peaceful moment at Nasta Café but noticed Ash's right hand was unnaturally stiff.
• Kurumi Momoka and Eddie visited the café, where Ash approved of Eddie's recent efforts and teased him about his clothes.

At a barbecue celebrating their victory, Yuri reflected on how Nasta Café had become a second home, while Rei asked Ash to model for the Fashion Club’s school festival. After Yuri discovered Ash was secretly taking the Heart Seeds and suspected he was Kamen Rider Timons, he fled and she chased him beneath a bridge, where she struggled to decide how to face him.

• Yuri showed Momoka the wooden ring Ash had given her, and Momoka playfully mourned that Yuri had been taken away.
• Eddie explained why he refused to learn other worlds’ storylines, and Ash praised him before proposing a barbecue party.
• During the feast, Yuri told Ash that Nasta Café had become a home for her, and he welcomed her back; Rei then asked him to model at the school festival.
• After the others fell asleep, Ash took the Heart Seeds, but Yuri confronted him about his injured hand and questioned why he had asked Rei to bring them.
• Yuri accused Ash of being Kamen Rider Timons, and Ash fled the café with Yuri chasing him.
• Beneath a bridge, Ash caught his breath while Yuri wrestled with whether to hate him or plead with him.

Ash revealed himself as Kamen Rider Demons and fought Cure Moonlight, using the battle to test Yuri’s strength. After defeating her, he invited her to join him, but she refused, and Ash left after declaring his task complete.

• Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Demons in front of Yuri and provoked her into fighting.
• Ash used four Genomix armaments to battle Cure Moonlight, who overwhelmed him with her strength and grief.
• Ash ate two stolen Heart Seeds to restore his power, then exploited Yuri’s hesitation to paralyze and defeat her.
• Ash offered Yuri security if she joined his side, but Yuri refused to abandon her vow as a Pretty Cure.
• Ash praised Yuri, said his task at this stage was complete, and disappeared, leaving her devastated amid the wreckage.

Yuri persuaded the Pretty Cure to seek the Heartbreak Mirage Mirror so they could grow stronger and help Ash, and they passed the palace trials to obtain it. The Heart Tree urged them to use its power to save a dark heart, while Rei used the mirror to reveal her friends’ Heart Flowers.

• Yuri mistook Ash’s change in behavior for possible control by the Desert Apostles and proposed that the Pretty Cure gain greater power to help him.
• Yuri told the others about the Heartbreak Mirage Mirror, and Kaoruko explained its power, risks, and trials before sending them to the Pretty Cure Palace.
• Rei and the others passed the palace trials and received the Heartbreak Mirage Mirror from the Heart Tree.
• The Heart Tree asked the Pretty Cure to protect the world and use their love to save a dark heart walking toward desolation.
• Rei used the mirror to reveal the Heart Flowers of herself, Erika, and Itsuki.

Yuri confronted Ash with the Heartbreak Mirage Mirror, hoping to free him from the darkness, but learned that he had chosen to aid the Desert Apostles willingly. Ash's revelation that he had watched her earlier battle with Little Dark left Yuri facing a painful truth as their conflict continued.

• Yuri received Ash's call and asked Rei for the Heartbreak Mirage Mirror before rushing to meet him.
• Ash evaded Eddie's ambush, and Eddie transformed into Dragon Sword King to fight him over his betrayal of the girls who trusted him.
• Ash defeated Eddie with the Ohing Strike and encountered Yuri in the rain.
• Yuri used the Heartbreak Mirage Mirror on Ash, but it only purified unconverted Dark Echo and did not change his allegiance.
• Ash told Yuri he had watched her battle Little Dark six months earlier and had chosen not to intervene.

Ash revealed that he had deliberately approached Yuri and that his feelings for her and the others had been mixed with his original plan to make them stronger. After Yuri fought him, Rei gave Ash the Sin Stamp, allowing him to transform into Kamen Rider Scarlet Demons.

• Yuri saw Ash's lifeless Black Lily Heart Flower and confronted him about their relationship, while he admitted that some of his feelings had been genuine.
• Yuri transformed and attacked Ash, overpowering him as memories of their time together made her cry.
• Rei arrived with the Sin Stamp and was shocked to see Ash fighting Yuri as a Kamen Rider.
• Ash demanded the Sin Stamp, and Rei followed her heart and threw it to him.
• Ash used the Scarlet Spider Stamp and transformed into Kamen Rider Scarlet Demons.

Ash revealed that he had become Kamen Rider Scarlet Timons by combining Dune’s power with the Pretty Cure’s purity, then attacked Rei and Yuri. After defeating Yuri and breaking Rei’s wand, he left Rei shaken and demanded that she understand weakness while Itsuki and Erika rushed to help.

• Ash revealed his Scarlet Timons identity and admitted that he had used Rei and Yuri to complete his transformation.
• Yuri charged Ash, but his crimson sand form let him evade her and overpower her in a clash of fists.
• Ash blasted Yuri through buildings and embedded her in a rooftop water tank, badly injuring her arm.
• Rei attacked Ash with Pretty Cure Pink Forte Wave, but he vanished, then struck her wand apart with a powerful heel kick.
• Ash helped Rei stand and challenged her to understand weakness, while Itsuki and Erika carried the injured Yuri toward them.

Ash revealed that he was the Desert Apostles’ Scarlet Timons and fought the HeartCatch Pretty Cure, defeating all four with his Rider powers. As the girls lay powerless, Yuri broke down over the betrayal and said she could not fight the person who had once saved her.

• Erika and Itsuki joined the battle against the crimson Rider, who restrained them and revealed his face as Ash.
• Ash told the girls he had chosen to become their enemy and defended his decision as a realistic choice.
• Ash used his FANG weapons and sand abilities to overwhelm the four Pretty Cure, draining their power and leaving them unable to rise.
• Ash confronted Yuri and demanded that she not disappoint him, while Yuri recalled how he had helped her recover and said she could not fight him.

Ash defeated the Pretty Cure and left them to rely on themselves, while his worsening condition and pact with Kain revealed the cost of his reckless plan. Later, Dark Precure celebrated Ash’s betrayal and declared that she wanted to erase Moonlight.

• Ash taunted the defeated Pretty Cure until Rei attacked his chest and declared that she would never abandon her responsibility as a Pretty Cure.
• Rei stood firm and vowed to defeat Ash, but he praised her resolve, said goodbye, and left the four girls stranded in the rain.
• Ash removed his transformation belt, coughed blood, and admitted to Kain that he was nearing his limit while continuing to pursue the collection of Dark Echo.
• Kain told Ash he did not regret their plan and affirmed that he was Ash’s demon.
• Ash revealed his truth to the Desert Apostles, and Dark Precure celebrated the Pretty Cure’s betrayal before declaring Moonlight her enemy and saying she wanted to erase her.

Rei and the other Pretty Cures renewed their resolve to fight after Ash’s betrayal, while Yuri vowed to protect everyone and oppose the Desert Apostles. Ash and Dark Precure challenged the girls, and the battle ended with Ash asking Yuri what purpose now drove her to fight.

• Yuri and the others reopened the café, but Rei broke down over Ash’s betrayal and her grandmother, Kaoruko, comforted her.
• When a dark ripple signaled trouble, Yuri declared that she would protect everyone’s Heart Flowers and fight the Desert Apostles for Cologne and her stolen heart.
• Ash arrived with Dark Precure and taunted the Pretty Cures to prove their resolve; the girls transformed and charged into battle.
• Itsuki and Erika surprised Dark Precure with a combined Pretty Cure Double Shoot that drove her backward.
• Rei and Yuri attacked Ash together, adapting to his fighting rhythm before he grabbed Yuri’s wrist and asked what new goal had replaced him.

Ash tested Yuri, Rei, and Erika in battle, but Rei’s tearful resolve made him question his plan before he recommitted to it. He then began a new stage: a huge vine grew from the Nasta Café, yellow flowers spread pollen that lulled Hope Flower City’s residents into blissful sleep, and a monstrous Desert Seed creature landed as Dark Precure wondered whether Dune was near Earth.

• Yuri attacked Ash, declaring that she would defeat Timons for killing Ash, but Ash blocked her point-blank Moonlight Silver Impact and praised her resolve.
• Ash used his sandifying cape to outmaneuver Yuri and Rei, then fought Rei and Erika with his wire-guided Fangs after Dark Precure switched opponents with him.
• Ash noticed Rei’s tear-filled but courageous gaze and felt guilt and regret, but he removed his helmet, insisted his goal still mattered, and ordered his new stage to begin.
• A gigantic vine burst from the Nasta Café and reached toward a flaming meteor, while Ash told Itsuki that emotions did not have to be entrusted to dead objects.
• Small yellow flowers released pollen that filled people across Hope Flower City with happy visions and lulled them to sleep.
• The meteor unfolded into a huge black, horned monster; Dark Precure recognized it as a Desert Seed creature from Dune’s base and asked Ash whether it was part of his game.