Recaps

Ash and Gijera fought the Desertrian, and Ash destroyed it with his black hole cannon. After Dune declared their partnership over, Ash challenged Rei to face the threat ahead, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Gijera grew into a giant plant monster and battled the Desertrian, while Rei struck it and helped Gijera seize the advantage.
• Ash fired his Convergence Black Hole Cannon and destroyed the Desertrian before the Pretty Cures could attack.
• Dune appeared through a transmitter, taunted the Pretty Cures, and announced that his partnership with Ash had ended.
• Dark Precure tried to block Rei, but Ash told her not to interfere and let Rei approach him.
• Rei asked whether Ash's plans and their time together had been part of his scheme, and Ash said he acted for his own happiness.
• Ash warned Rei that the Desertrian was only a low-ranking enemy and asked whether the Pretty Cures could defeat countless foes of similar strength; Rei could not answer confidently.

Ash spread Gijera pollen across Hope Flower City to test whether humanity and the Pretty Cure could reject comforting dreams and choose painful reality. As the others succumbed, Rei resisted Ash’s harsh challenge, and Yuri stepped between them before confronting him.

• Ash revealed that Gijera’s pollen put people into blissful dreams, and Itsuki and Yuri discovered that Erika had fallen under its influence.
• Ash explained that he had modified Gijera to release pollen at night and challenged people to awaken by rejecting their happiest dreams.
• Yuri denounced Ash for tormenting the Pretty Cure and humanity, while Rei accused him of trampling their memories and refusing to trust their efforts.
• Ash admitted that he had approached Itsuki as Timons because he recognized her potential, and Itsuki succumbed to the pollen after calling him an idiot.
• Rei refused to accept Ash’s violent methods despite the pain of his claws cutting her arm, and Yuri pushed them apart before approaching Ash.

Ash confronted Yuri about using Rei, then encouraged Rei after Gijera’s pollen put the others to sleep. Kain used the Heartbreak Mirage Mirror to reveal Erika, Itsuki, and Yuri’s dreams, all of which featured Ash.

• Yuri accused Ash of dragging Rei into his plans, but Ash said his former kindness had been genuine and asked whether Yuri was jealous of Rei.
• Gijera’s pollen overcame Yuri and Dark Precure, leaving them asleep and dreaming while Rei and Ash remained awake.
• Rei broke down over feeling like the weakest Pretty Cure, and Ash encouraged her to believe in her potential.
• Kain used the Heartbreak Mirage Mirror and a special Heart Seed to reveal the sleeping girls’ dreams.
• Erika dreamed of becoming a celebrated supermodel, Itsuki dreamed of a global dojo and a cheerful Ash, and Yuri dreamed of Ash proposing to her.

Kain used the Mirage Mirror to turn the girls’ dreams into a trial where they faced shadow versions of themselves, while Ash took Rei on a date and challenged her to decide whether humanity should reject Gijera’s dream. They arrived at Private Meido Academy’s sleeping school festival, with Rei still weighing Ash’s warning and her own resolve.

• Kain completed the Mirage Mirror’s final rotation, and the girls found themselves facing shadows that shared their abilities and desires.
• Ash comforted Rei, then took her on the Sakura Hurricane to mark the day of Private Meido Academy’s school festival.
• Rei told Ash she would try to stop Gijera, but Ash warned that humanity might choose its dream over Pretty Cure and that human desire ran deeper than Gijera’s roots.
• Ash revealed that he came from another world and challenged Rei to decide whether people could overcome fate and reject Gijera’s paradise.
• Ash and Rei reached Private Meido Academy, where the festival stalls and decorations stood ready while the students and teachers slept under Gijera’s influence.

Ash took Rei on a chaotic school festival date, then led her through a private fashion show that helped her find confidence and imagine the joy of sharing a performance with others. Their moment ended when Ash suffered a severe pain from his failing body and tried to hide it from Rei.

• Ash found Pretty Cure cosplays and fan comics, took a comic without paying, and Rei left money for it beside its sleeping owner.
• Ash dragged Rei around the festival, paid for the things he took, and shared his apple candy with her, making her realize they had shared an indirect kiss.
• Ash brought Rei to the Fashion Club room, where they found the outfits Erika had designed and decided to hold a runway show for just the two of them.
• Ash and Rei dressed for the show and walked the empty runway as lights and music followed them, and Rei grew excited imagining an audience sharing her happiness.
• Ash suddenly collapsed from intense pain caused by his deteriorating body, then insisted to the alarmed Rei that he was fine.

At the amusement park, Rei made Ash rest and confessed her feelings after he explained his choices and his life in other worlds. Meanwhile, Erika and Itsuki confronted their shadow selves in Gijera’s dream and accepted the parts of themselves they had tried to reject.

• Rei insisted that Ash rest, so he took her onto the Ferris wheel while Little Ball Watermelon restarted it.
• Ash told Rei that he chose his actions in different worlds and valued abilities he had earned through practice over effortless genius.
• Rei transformed into Pretty Cure, told Ash she liked him, and flew toward Gijera before he could answer.
• Erika embraced her shadow and accepted that her past self’s flaws were still part of her.
• Itsuki told her shadow that she wanted to accept all of herself, including her past, her loved ones, and the person whose heart lacked light.

Yuri and Rei faced their past selves in the Heart-Shaking Phantom Mirror and found the resolve to accept their pasts and keep moving forward. Rei chose to join with Gijera rather than destroy her, while Ash struggled to respond to Rei’s feelings as she entered the dream.

• Yuri defeated her shadow by accepting her grief and resolving to protect every heart, including the Naraku Flower, with the support of her friends.
• Hanazaki Kaoruko saw Cure Moonlight’s statue appear in Pretty Cure’s palace and reflected on Ash’s efforts to help the people he cared about.
• Rei touched Gijera and entered her dream, leaving Ash stunned by her answer as he transformed and pursued her.
• Gijera attacked Rei as the embodiment of her past, but Rei steadily blocked her and explained how Ash and her friends had helped her grow.
• Rei embraced Gijera and invited her to fight alongside them, resolving to create a miracle that would leave Ash speechless.

Ash watched humanity awaken from Gijera’s dream and faced the Pretty Cure girls, who refused his offer to fight and instead challenged him with their new power. As their attacks pushed him to unleash his full strength, Ash entered the Scarlet Timons Passionate State.

• Gijera turned into golden light that spread across the world, helping people wake from their dreams as children reminded their parents of what mattered most.
• The Pretty Cure girls reunited with Rei and told Ash they wanted him to join them, but he insisted they fight and challenged them to test their new power.
• Rei attacked Ash with her renewed Pretty Cure Pink Forte Wave, while Erika, Yuri, and Itsuki coordinated strikes that injured him despite his sand-form defense.
• Ash bombarded the girls with spider threads and guided beams, but they flew through the barrage and combined their attacks into a barrier and a four-person finishing move that clashed with his black hole cannon.
• Itsuki and Yuri joined their powers, and Erika and her sister launched paired Floral Power Fortissimo attacks at Ash.
• Ash decided to meet the girls’ full strength with his own, redirected his energy to offense, and transformed into the Scarlet Timons Passionate State.

Ash fought the four HeartCatch Precure girls after they used the Heartbreak Mirage Mirror to transform into Super Silhouette. As the battle continued, the girls confronted Ash with their feelings and memories, while he struggled to respond; the fight ended with Yuri’s attack driving him into the lake and Ash cutting her suit open.

• Ash cut through the girls’ combined finishing move, revealed his Passion State, and faced their Super Silhouette transformation.
• Ash charged the four girls and drove them out of Hope Flower City to battle over the lake.
• Erika confessed that she liked someone and did not want her feelings to disappear, while Ash admitted he was happy to be her manager but could not return her confession.
• Itsuki fought Ash with the techniques he had taught her, unleashed Sunshine Dynamite, and recalled him as Timons.
• Rei confronted Ash over leaving the girls and punched him with Blossom Screw Punch, while Yuri struck him with Moonlight Silver Impact.
• Ash crashed into the lakebed and counterattacked by cutting open Yuri’s battle suit, exposing part of her bra and skin.

The Pretty Cure unleashed their Heartcatch Orchestra, and Ash survived its blow, finding that it had eased his declining condition. As the girls confronted their feelings for him and Dark Precure defied Shaback to protect him, Shaback aimed a lethal attack at Ash, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Yuri declared her love for the memories she shared with the others, and the four girls summoned Heartthrob Symphony with their combined power.
• Ash met the goddess's punch with his Scarlet Destream Violent Finish, but Heartthrob Symphony repaired the damage and gently set him down alive.
• Ash discovered that the blow had improved his physical condition, while the system hinted cryptically that the world had come too late and then disappeared.
• Erika, Rei, Itsuki, and Yuri embraced Ash and confronted him about his trust in them, while Dark Precure demanded that he choose her alone and confessed how much he meant to her.
• Dr. Sabaku appeared and aimed dangerous energy at Ash, but Dark Precure defied her creator's order and stepped between them.
• Ash moved Dark Precure aside and faced Shaback, who pressed his charged palm against Ash's forehead as the Pretty Cure readied their transformation devices.

Ash revealed that Shaback was Yuri’s brainwashed father, Tsukikage Eimei, and that he had created Dark Precure to fight Yuri. The truth devastated the two girls, while Eimei began to recognize his grown daughter as Yuri transformed into Cure Moonlight before him.

• Shaback struggled with painful memories as Yuri prepared to attack him, but Ash blocked her blow and asked her to trust him.
• Ash shot Shaback’s mask off with the Stamp Breaker, revealing the face of Tsukikage Eimei, whom Yuri recognized as her father.
• Ash explained that Eimei had been brainwashed and made Dune’s agent, then revealed that Eimei had created Dark Precure to defeat Yuri and that the two girls were blood sisters.
• Yuri and Dark Precure reeled from the revelations, while Eimei recognized Yuri and asked whether she had become a Pretty Cure.
• Yuri transformed back from Cure Moonlight before her father and told him she had worked hard to protect her mother, everyone, and the world.

Yuri reunited with her father, Tsukikage Eimei, who remembered both his past as Dr. Sabaku and the atrocities he had committed, then fled in anguish. Ash restrained Dark Precure and reassured her that he would stay with her before beginning a story about Shadow Moon and Black Sun.

• Yuri told Tsukikage Eimei that Haruna had waited for him, and he remembered his past as Dr. Sabaku and his crimes as a Desert Apostle.
• Overwhelmed by the truth, Tsukikage Eimei ran away, and Yuri chased after him.
• Dark Precure tried to pursue Tsukikage Eimei, but Ash restrained her and teleported her back to the base.
• Dark Precure feared that Dr. Sabaku would abandon her, and Ash told her he would stay by her side and that Tsukikage Eimei would not shirk his responsibility.
• Dark Precure begged Ash not to leave and offered to escape with him, but Ash asked her to listen as he began telling her about Shadow Moon and Black Sun.

Ash told Dark Precure about clone warriors who died without anyone remembering them, then left her to decide what to do for herself. Dark Precure challenged Tsukikage Yuri to a decisive duel, and Yuri accepted, with Ash taking her to the meeting place as the battle approached.

• Ash recounted the fates of Shadow Moon and Black Beet, explained that Dark Precure was his friend, and urged her to make her own choice; she chose to fight Tsukikage Yuri.
• Tsukikage Yuri learned that Dark Precure had challenged her to a duel at dusk and struggled with the revelation that Dark Precure was her younger half-sister.
• Dark Precure resolved to defeat Yuri so she could become the one who belonged beside Ash and Dr. Sabaku.
• Yuri's friends warned her that the challenge was a trap, but she chose to face Dark Precure while they promised to protect the Earth and wait for her return.
• Ash arrived on his motorcycle, took Yuri aboard, and rode with her toward the island where the duel would take place.

Tsukikage Yuri and Dark Precure fought their final battle on a hidden island, each determined to prove her own existence. Dark Precure gained the upper hand and tried to kill Yuri, but the power of the Heart Tree suddenly erupted from Yuri’s finger.

• Tsukikage Yuri transformed into Cure Moonlight and faced Dark Precure alone while Ash watched from a cliff and the other girls prayed for Yuri.
• Cure Moonlight and Dark Precure traded fast attacks and magical wand strikes, injuring each other as their powers intensified.
• Cure Moonlight cut off Dark Precure’s wing, but Dark Precure revealed that she had used the injury as bait and slashed Yuri’s throat.
• Dark Precure broke Yuri’s arm, dragged her down, and tried to stab her with the Dark Tact as Yuri struggled to hold it back.
• The Heart Tree’s power burst from Cure Moonlight’s finger and forced Dark Precure away.

Dark Precure and Cure Moonlight fatally wounded each other in their final battle, then reconciled before both lost consciousness. Ash arrived on the island to find them lying together in their blood.

• Dark Precure struck the advancing Super Silhouette Cure Moonlight with a broken half of her magic rod and pierced Yuri's abdomen.
• Dark Precure pulled the rod from Yuri, but her own chest wound began draining her life force, leaving both girls near death.
• Yuri recognized Dark Precure's desperate attack as her own act of will and promised that she would be remembered by Yuri, Shaback, and Ash.
• Dark Precure died after telling Yuri that she would grieve for killing her, and Yuri clasped her hand before losing consciousness beside her.
• Ash stepped onto the island and found Yuri and Dark Precure lying together in the blood from their wounds.

Ash saved the critically wounded Yuri and Little Dark, using Heart Seeds and then taking them to a hospital where he began an operation to keep them alive. Yuri later woke beneath a surgical lamp, while Little Dark’s fate remained unknown.

• Kain questioned Ash about the battle as Ash pulled the unconscious Yuri away from Dark Precure and treated her with Heart Seeds.
• Little Dark began crumbling into black dust, and Ash begged her to stay alive before feeding her blood and asking the system for help.
• Ash carried Yuri and Little Dark on the Beast King Water Shark toward a hospital, while Kain seized an operating room and drove away its staff.
• Ash and Kain prepared to operate on both girls, and Ash began the Pretty Cure and Dark Precure repair operation.
• Yuri regained consciousness beneath the surgical lamp and heard steady breathing nearby.

Yuri woke in the ruins of Nasta Café and confronted Ash over his betrayals and the person she once admired. Ash explained that Dark Precure had given blood to save Yuri, then insisted that both his good and bad sides were simply himself.

• Yuri woke beside Dark Precure in the operating room, while Ash and Kain kept her quiet.
• Police stormed the operating room after two in the morning but found it empty, along with all the surgical equipment.
• Ash brought Yuri and the others to the remains of Nasta Café, where Yuri asked whether everything had been part of his plan.
• Yuri accused Ash of treating Pretty Cure and Dark Precure as tools, then slapped him and wept over the manager she had admired.
• Ash stopped Yuri from striking him again when she tugged at her medical tubing, and explained that Dark Precure had donated blood to save her.
• Ash told Yuri that she and Dark Precure shared the same blood, then said his good and bad sides were both part of who he was.

Ash fled from Yuri after she asked him to trust her and return to their side, but she pursued him and confronted him in the rain. Their conversation ended with Yuri kissing him, while Erika, Itsuki, and Rei waited anxiously for Yuri at Rei’s house.

• Yuri hugged Ash and urged him to trust her and come back, but Ash said he could not return and walked away.
• Yuri transformed into Cure Moonlight and chased Ash through the rain, catching his webbing in the alley where they had first met.
• Ash removed part of his helmet, and Yuri confronted him about hiding behind his Kamen Rider identity and asked whether the Ash beneath the armor deserved love.
• Ash told Yuri to defeat him or let him go and warned that Duune would soon come to Earth, but Yuri refused to choose either option and kissed him.
• Erika, Itsuki, and Rei waited through the storm at Rei’s house, worrying that Yuri had been defeated or had not returned because of Ash.

Yuri returned with Dark Precure defeated and told Rei that Ash had chosen her, leaving Rei unable to sleep. Ash photographed places tied to his time in Hope City, then learned that Momotaros and the others had taken a mysterious Great Darkness to the Den-O world and turned his suspicion toward Eddie, ending with their weapons drawn.

• Yuri came back to Rei, Erika, and Itsuki carrying Dark Precure, confirmed she had won, and said the Desert Apostles could be handled without her.
• Yuri asked Rei about her confession to Ash, then apologized and told her that Ash had chosen Yuri despite Rei having confessed first.
• Ash rode through Hope City, photographing places connected to his past, and fled after Spider Gagi tried to question him about Shaback and Dark Precure.
• Eddie told Ash that Momotaros and the others had taken the Great Darkness away on the Den-Liner, and Ash suspected it had gone to the 2007 world of Kamen Rider Den-O.
• Ash threatened Eddie, and they drew the camera cannon and Dragon Strike Sword before Ash gained the advantage and prepared to fire.

Ash reunited with Rei after rushing her to the hospital when she feared her mother had collapsed; the family learned that her mother was pregnant, and Rei celebrated becoming a big sister. Ash and Rei spent a quiet afternoon together at a patisserie, while Ash reflected on their ordinary days and the time he had left.

• Eddie confronted Ash about collecting dark negative energy, but Ash refused to stop, and Eddie let him go after deleting his navigation records.
• Ash realized he had stolen Eddie’s Beast King Magical Bullet Key, then noticed blood in his palm and fading photographs.
• Rei told Ash her mother had been taken to the hospital, and he drove her there on his motorcycle.
• Rei learned that her mother was pregnant and returned delighted, excited to become a big sister.
• Ash and Rei went to a patisserie, where they shared desserts and talked about their happy ordinary days.

Ash spent a farewell day with Rei and the others, sharing a meal and leaving them gifts while keeping his feelings guarded. After everyone parted, he found himself alone in a desolate desert and prepared to deal with his real business.

• Rei admitted that she had cried over Ash's deception, and Ash apologized before they shared a date and discussed their feelings.
• Rei asked Ash for his final answer, and he refused her while saying he might change his mind if she could make the flower in his heart bloom again.
• Ash gave Rei a preserved cherry blossom and an unopened Christmas gift for the girls, then walked away without promising to attend the celebration.
• Ash encountered Erika and Momoka, helped Itsuki's brother, visited Itsuki's home, and shared sukiyaki with the girls.
• Ash said goodbye to Yuri and the others, then stood alone beneath the moon as the street became a barren desert wasteland.

Ash confronted Dune, the returned Desert King, and transformed into Kamen Rider Scarlet Demons to fight him. After their powers resonated, Ash gained the defensive Scarlet Demons Full Cloth form and battled Dune’s summoned Desertrians, while Dune began gathering power below.

• Ash met Dune in the desert, and Dune attacked him with a beam.
• Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Scarlet Demons and struck Dune, but Dune caught his fist and repelled his attacks.
• Ash and Dune’s powers resonated during their close-range fight, allowing Ash to use Dune’s energy.
• Ash activated Right Control and revealed Scarlet Demons Full Cloth, whose cloaks blocked Dune’s energy attack.
• Dune summoned an army of Desertrians, and Ash charged into the sky to destroy them with his Revice Sawblade and other attacks.
• Dune watched Ash fight the Desertrians and began accumulating power.

Ash fought Dune alone, badly wounded and pushed to the brink, but landed a devastating finishing attack with help from Kain and the power of Scarlet Timons. The chapter ended with Rei waking on Christmas Eve, expecting to find Ash the next day, while his fate remained uncertain.

• Ash revealed that he had baited Dune to protect Rei and the others, and said Dune's soldiers had already been defeated.
• Dune adapted to Ash's power, overwhelmed him, and severed Ash's right arm before nearly killing him.
• Ash heard a woman's voice urging him to dodge, then used webbing and his severed arm to slash Dune across the head.
• Kain activated Ash's stamp, and Ash unleashed Scarlet Demons Full Nova in a powerful flying kick against Dune.
• Rei realized that the next day was Christmas and planned to find Ash, but she woke restlessly before dawn.

Rei and the Heart Catch Precure searched through the night for Ash but could not find him, leaving them worried as Christmas arrived. Dark Precure returned to Yuri and Itsuki’s shop, where her provocative remarks reignited tensions.

• Rei followed her unease through Hope Flower City and met Erika, Itsuki, and Yuri at the park, but the group searched until sunrise without finding Ash.
• On Christmas, Rei remained sad about Ash’s absence while Erika dragged her off to join the others, and Eddie sensed something that delayed his return.
• Itsuki and Yuri helped sell Christmas cakes at Yuri’s mother’s shop and discussed the Desert King Dune’s eventual arrival and their determination to face him together.
• Dark Precure appeared at the shop, challenged Yuri’s right to question her return, and provoked her by claiming Ash thought more highly of her.
• Yuri threatened to fight Dark Precure again, and Itsuki stepped between them to stop the confrontation from escalating.

Dark Precure reunited with her family and made a temporary truce with Yuri, while Dune launched a global meteor assault of Desertrians. The Pretty Cure fought to protect people but were overwhelmed by the enemy’s numbers, and Erika wondered when Ash would return.

• Dark Precure told Yuri and Itsuki that she had come to check on Dr. Sabaku, and she said she would find Ash herself.
• Tsukikage Eimei welcomed Dark Precure into his family, and she tearfully embraced him as Itsuki watched.
• Dark Precure gave Eimei Ash’s purple gears, while Yuri offered her a cake as a sign of a temporary truce.
• Dune used his remaining power to send countless Desertrians toward Earth, and the creatures began destroying cities and attacking people.
• The Pretty Cure and their fairy partners fought the Desertrians, and Rei defeated one while protecting students at her school.
• Itsuki urged Erika not to use the Heart-Shaking Phantom Mirror before they found the enemy commander, but Erika feared the Pretty Cure could not stop the assault without Ash.