Recaps

The exhausted Pretty Cure received help from Cure Flower, who joined them against the Desert Apostles and proposed taking the fight to Dune in space. As the group debated leaving her to defend Earth, Tsukikage Eimei arrived with Ash’s repaired Gear Closure Gun and announced there was another way.

• Erika, Yuri, Rei, and Itsuki defeated a giant Desertrian but worried that the endless attacks would exhaust them and leave Earth undefended.
• Cure Flower and Kopé arrived to reinforce the Pretty Cure, and Cure Flower explained how Christmas energy had let her transform again.
• Rei asked Cure Flower about Ash, and Cure Flower warned the girls to prepare for the worst while suspecting he was pursuing a plan alone.
• Cure Flower proposed that the Pretty Cure travel to space with Kopé and attack Dune directly while she stayed behind to protect Earth.
• Tsukikage Eimei arrived with Ash’s repaired Gear Closure Gun and said there was a way to protect Earth while confronting Dune.

The Pretty Cure stormed Planet Castle as their allies fought the Desert Apostles, while Eddie ventured into a hidden area to confront the monsters there. The chapter ended with Rei facing Scorpina Lina in a battle shaped by Rei’s growth since their first encounter.

• Tsukikage Eimei used the Closed Gear Gun to summon five giant Super Sentai robots, and the machines moved to defend Earth from the Desertrians.
• Erika and the other Pretty Cure headed into space with Kopp to attack Planet Castle, while Yuri promised her father she would protect Dark.
• The Pretty Cure fought through Planet Castle’s corridors until Spider Gagi, Cobra Saga, and Scorpina Lina blocked their way.
• Eddie used a dimensional travel device to reach a hidden area in Planet Castle and attacked the Desertrians he found there.
• Rei faced Scorpina Lina as the Pretty Cure and the Desert Apostles’ executives began their final battles.

Itsuki and Erika defeated Cobra Saga and Spider Gagi after their fairies helped them fight, while Dune watched his invasion of Earth falter. Giant robots and Gijera's incarnation defended the planet, leaving Dune furious and facing resistance he had not anticipated.

• Cobra Saga overwhelmed Itsuki until Popuri defended her, and Itsuki used Pretty Cure Gold Forte Burst to defeat him.
• Coffret shielded Erika from Spider Gagi, and Erika broke his sword, fought him at close range, and defeated him with Pretty Cure Blue Forte Wave.
• Silver Armor King, Flash King, Dekaranger Robot, and Five Robo attacked the Desertrians threatening Earth.
• Gijera's incarnation defended the Heart Tree with vines and pollen while Gosei Great repelled airborne Desertrians.
• Dune watched the defenders on Earth and, enraged by their unexpected reinforcements, stomped the person beneath his feet before kicking them toward the doorway.

Rei and Yuri reached Dune after learning the Desert Apostles had once been human, but Dark Precure betrayed them to restore Dune’s strength in exchange for Ash. When Dune showed them Ash’s ruined Driver, Rei and Yuri realized he was dead, and Yuri launched a furious attack on Dune.

• Scorpina Lina revealed that the Desert Apostles’ officers had been transformed from stolen Heart Flowers and directed Rei toward Dune before her flower returned to Earth.
• Rei reunited with Yuri and Cure Flower, then they followed the wounded Dark Precure to Dune’s throne room.
• Dark Precure knocked out Cure Flower, stole the necklace sealing Dune’s darkness, and handed it to Dune in exchange for Ash.
• Dune restored some of his strength, hurled Dark Precure away, and showed Rei and Yuri Ash’s damaged Destream Driver.
• Rei broke down after realizing Ash was likely dead, but Yuri gathered her resolve and attacked Dune, whose surprise at her power left him struggling to understand it.

Rei and Yuri defeated Dune before he could fully absorb his recovered power, but he offered to save Ash in exchange for being allowed to complete that process. Yuri nearly accepted out of desperation, and Rei stopped her as the girls faced the impossible choice between trusting Dune and risking Ash's life.

• Rei joined Yuri in a determined assault on Dune, and Rei's full-power punch knocked him down before he could complete his transformation.
• Yuri and Rei prepared to finish Dune, but he surrendered and claimed Kamen Rider was still alive and that he could heal Ash.
• Dune offered to reveal Ash's location and restore him if the girls let Dune digest his power and leave Earth; Yuri's hope overcame her distrust, and she ran toward where Dark Precure had flown.
• Rei grabbed Yuri from behind and pleaded with her not to make a dangerous choice driven by desperation, reminding her that Ash had fought for them and for the planet.

Yuri and Rei rejected Dune’s offer to spare Ash and defeated him with the help of Erika and Itsuki. They then watched the fragment carrying Ash fall toward Earth and grieved over his apparent death.

• Yuri wavered between saving Ash and protecting Earth until Rei reminded her of their six months together and urged her to keep fighting.
• Yuri and Rei transformed and attacked Dune, then Erika and Itsuki joined them in battle.
• The four Pretty Cure used their finishing attacks to defeat Dune and destroy Planet Castle.
• Rei saw the fragment carrying Ash break away and fall toward Earth, leaving the group unable to reach him.
• Erika and Rei mourned Ash, and Erika admitted she had liked him while blaming him for leaving them behind.

After Dune’s seal broke and he began to go berserk, Ash returned to the Heart Tree with Dark Precure and Eddie, despite his fatal injuries. Kain sacrificed himself to restore Ash’s life force, and Ash used the light stored in the Dark Evolver to transform himself into a beacon of hope.

• The Pretty Cure mourned Ash’s apparent death, then realized Dune’s cracked seal had broken and watched him grow larger in a crimson-powered frenzy.
• Eddie rescued Ash and the unconscious Dark Precure from the falling wreckage, and Magibullet Dragon awakened so they could ride Blizzard Shark back to Earth.
• Ash carried Dark Precure to the Heart Tree, where he met Kain, his demon, who returned the life force he had taken and vanished into black feathers.
• Ash placed Dark Precure beneath the Heart Tree to heal, then found light inside the purified Dark Evolver and remembered the bonds behind the miracles he had witnessed.
• Ash drove the Dark Evolver into his chest, and Tsukikage Eimei and Eddie watched him begin to radiate immense light.

Ash and the Pretty Cure joined forces to become Mugen Silhouette, a goddess with infinite power and love who could fight the rampaging, gigantic Dune. After Mugen Silhouette repelled Dune and struck him beyond the Solar System, he turned his attention toward destroying Earth.

• Dune grew to enormous size, emerged from Jupiter, and shattered the Moon with a punch, putting Earth’s survivors in further danger.
• Erika, Itsuki, Yuri, and Rei refused to give up and transformed to attack Dune, but their strikes failed to harm him.
• Ash and Dark Precure arrived, and Ash called on the girls and fairies to combine their Heart Seeds and strength.
• The group joined hands on the Heart-Shaking Phantom Mirror and created Mugen Silhouette, a giant goddess born from their united hearts.
• Mugen Silhouette deflected Dune’s beam, stopped his punch, and struck him with Precure Spark, sending him beyond the Solar System.
• Dune, overwhelmed by the attack, resolved to destroy Earth first.

Infinite Silhouette defeated Dune, purified the damage he had caused, and ended his hatred with a final act of love. On Earth, Ash returned briefly as a spirit to say goodbye to the girls before fading away, leaving them to mourn and remember him.

• Infinite Silhouette deflected Dune’s destruction and overcame his black-hole attack with Lightning Precure.
• Infinite Silhouette’s finishing light restored the damaged planets and defeated Dune, whose final attack could not reach her.
• Erika and the others found Ash’s cold body, but Ash appeared as a spirit and explained that the Heart Tree had temporarily preserved his soul.
• Ash comforted Dark Precure and shared his final thoughts with Itsuki, Erika, Yuri, and Rei, saying the girls and their hearts had become precious to him.
• Rei saw her Black Lily blooming in the Heart-Shaking Phantom Mirror, and Ash’s body dissolved into sand as his spirit said goodbye from the clouds.
• The girls watched Ash disappear and said their farewells beneath the Heart Tree.

After Ash's death, Dark Precure wandered the desert with Kain while Yuri, Rei, Itsuki, and Erika remembered him and tried to move forward. The girls celebrated their peaceful lives and shared their dreams, while Yuri held on to the key connected to Ash and Rei resolved to reach space and grow flowers among the stars.

• Dark Precure traveled alone through the Sahara, and Kain, reborn as a spirit, accompanied her as she said she did not belong with Yuri's family.
• Yuri returned to the closed Nasta Café in the rain, broke down at its door, and found the spare key Ash had hidden there.
• Rei and Erika visited Ash's memorial, where Rei spoke about their friends and regretted that she had not saved him; Erika urged her to live well.
• Itsuki sparred with Meidoin Kou, remembered Timons, and admitted she still missed him while refusing to remain trapped in grief.
• Months later, Erika, Yuri, Itsuki, and Rei visited Rei's newborn sister Futaba, reminisced about saving the world, and discussed their futures.
• Yuri kept Ash's key and set her sights on becoming a café proprietress, while Rei said she wanted to nurture flowers in space.

Ash obtained the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi and reflected on its power before heading somewhere, while Hoshizora Miyuki and her friends continued their Pretty Cure lives. Miyuki realized that a mysterious black figure had been stalking her, and the chapter ended with the watcher still following her.

• Hanasaki Futaba opened an envelope in her sister's room and found a photograph of her sister with three café girls and a black-haired man.
• Eddie learned that the Bureau's records of his adventure had been erased, then told Catherine about the darkness he had encountered and his wish to become a hero.
• Catherine secretly discussed collecting darkness from different worlds so she could obtain freedom.
• Momotaros and the other Imagin discovered that Ash had returned aboard the Den-Liner, but he transformed into Kamen Rider Gaoh and challenged Den-O for a ride.
• Ash examined the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi, understood more about its power, and set off in a certain direction.
• Hoshizora Miyuki walked home with her Pretty Cure friends, noticed a black figure watching her, and realized the stalking was not her imagination.

Ash watched Miyuki and the other Smile Precure before the Tragedy Kingdom attacked, then drew the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi and decided to intervene after witnessing their clumsy fight. As Wolfurun mocked the girls, Ash appeared behind him and announced his arrival.

• Miyuki sensed someone watching the girls, panicked, and accidentally confessed to stealing Candy’s snacks, while Ash observed them from behind a wall.
• Ash reflected on his ties to heroes and grew frustrated by the girls’ fighting skills, while Reika suggested calling the police about a possible stalker.
• Wolfurun spread a despairing barrier over the world and sent the Assassin Matter to attack as the Tragedy Kingdom harvested Black Tragedy Energy.
• The five girls transformed into Smile Precure and fought the clown monster, but Miyuki’s fear distracted her and caused her teammates to stumble and get struck.
• Ash drew the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi and walked toward the battle, while Wolfurun mocked the girls until Ash spoke from behind him.

Ash entered the BAD END barrier, defeated Wolfurun without killing him, and transformed into the dark Rider using Jaaku Dragon. He attacked the Pretty Cure and absorbed the barrier’s Tragedy Energy, then confronted the darkness and blood within his mind while questioning whether he could overcome a BAD END.

• Ash appeared inside the BAD END barrier, ignored its effects, and stopped Wolfurun’s attack by placing his sword at the werewolf’s neck.
• Ash mocked Wolfurun, spared him, and walked toward the battlefield as the Pretty Cure watched in alarm.
• Ash used Jaaku Dragon and Dark Sword Tsukuyomi to transform into a dark Rider, declaring himself the strongest and most wicked villain.
• Ash’s attack knocked the Pretty Cure and Candy to the ground, while Candy sensed Tragedy Energy flowing toward him.
• Ash absorbed the Tragedy Energy and saw a vision of darkness and blood before asking whether he had the resolve to overcome a BAD END.

Ash defeated Smile Precure and, disappointed by their performance, used the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi to seal the power in their Smile Pacts. The girls were left powerless as Ash challenged them to overcome him and reclaim their qualifications as Pretty Cure.

• Ash wounded Miyuki when she tried to persuade him to stop fighting, and Reika stood between them to defend her.
• Miyuki endured her injured wrist and launched Precure Happy Shower, but her pain made the attack veer aside and Ash's Learnéd Flash defeated all five girls and Candy.
• Ash rebuked the defeated girls, declaring them too weak to change the world's Bad end, while Yayoi cowered in terror before him.
• Ash knocked the Smile Pacts away and told the girls he would seal their power unless they could stop or surpass him.
• Ash poured Dark Echo into the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi and stabbed the Smile Pacts, draining their color and cutting off the girls' transformation power.

Ash used the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi to foresee terrible futures, defeated the Pretty Cure, and then cut down a Joker monster before declaring that he would rule the world. Miyuki returned home with a head wound and tried to hide her grief from her mother, but she ended the chapter vowing not to sulk alone.

• Ash explained that the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi showed its wielder likely bad endings, then questioned whether Candy could reverse despair and returned her to Miyuki.
• Wolfurun ordered the Joker monster to attack the weakened Pretty Cure, and Ash cut the monster in half with the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi.
• Ash took the Cure Decor from the defeated monster, declared that he would rule the world, and walked away after Miyuki asked who he was.
• Miyuki hid the truth about her injury from Hoshizora Ikuyo, who comforted her and promised to share her troubles.
• Miyuki cried over the stolen Cure Decor and her friends’ sealed transformation devices, then decided that sulking alone was not her style.

Miyuki and the other girls gathered at the Incredible Library to discuss Ash’s attack, but Ash tracked Miyuki’s dropped device and tore his way into their secret base. He hinted that the girls themselves would decide what happened to the library and warned that fairy-tale heroes might not be able to defeat an evil dragon.

• Miyuki used a Strawberry Cure Decor to feed Candy, then remembered the meeting at the Incredible Library and opened the Book Gate.
• Ash trained in his cave and noticed his signal had reached Miyuki’s location before she and Candy arrived at the library, accidentally dropping a device as they entered.
• Miyuki, Akane, Nao, and Reika discussed Yayoi’s distress and their sealed powers, while Pop confirmed that Ash and dragons did not belong to the Fairy Tale Kingdom.
• Ash followed Miyuki’s device, slashed open a rift into the library, and entered the tree house despite the girls’ protests.
• Ash told the girls that they would decide the library’s fate, then challenged Miyuki’s belief in happy fairy tales and suggested that their heroes could not defeat an evil dragon.

Ash challenged the Pretty Cure to a future duel and left them wondering about the sadness behind his smile. In the Tragedy Kingdom, Joker learned about Ash and planned to meet him, while Ash struggled with the future he had foreseen and prepared to test the Pretty Cure again.

• Akane confronted Ash, and Ash offered to return Candy's Cure Decor if the Pretty Cure fought him in a duel over the world's fate.
• Reika accepted Ash's challenge, and Ash left after promising to return through the front door next time.
• Miyuki told Reika that Ash's smile had hidden sadness, and she wanted to understand what was troubling him.
• Wolfurun fled to the Tragedy Kingdom and told Joker that Ash had defeated the Joker monster and sealed three Pretty Cure transformation devices.
• Joker discovered a tracker hidden in Wolfurun's fur and decided to personally invite Ash to meet him.
• Ash abandoned his brooding over prophecies and resolved to test whether the Pretty Cure could grow stronger when faced with despair.

Ash fought off Joker’s attempt to recruit him into the Tragedy Kingdom, learning that the Pretty Cure girls’ victories and Cure Decor were part of Emperor Pierrot’s revival plan. Though Joker offered to spare the girls if Ash joined, Ash refused and destroyed the prophecy in Joker’s hand.

• Joker infiltrated Ash’s cave, and Ash attacked him after comparing him unfavorably to a friend named Joker.
• Joker revealed that Ash’s tracker had led him to the cave and offered him a place in the Tragedy Kingdom.
• Joker explained that the Tragedy Kingdom planned to turn the girls’ growing hope into despair and use the resulting Tragedy Energy to revive Emperor Pierrot.
• Joker promised Ash that the girls would survive if he joined, and Ash considered the offer after seeing a possible bad-end route.
• Ash refused Joker’s proposal and shredded the prophecy paper with Dark Sword Tsukuyomi.

Ash outwitted Joker’s ambush, wounded him, and escaped before destroying his secret base, but his injuries left him sleeping in a park. Kise Yayoi found him there and cautiously approached, wondering whether the sleeping enemy was truly Kamen Rider.

• Ash baited Joker into lowering his guard, struck him with the Dark Sword, and forced him to flee.
• Ash recognized that Joker could bleed, then limped toward an exit as he planned to force Joker into a desperate confrontation later.
• Ash activated the Rider Fall Plan, escaped the collapsing base, and fell asleep on a park bench while the system watched over him.
• Kise Yayoi discovered Ash asleep and struggled with her fear, anger, and conscience over whether to approach him.
• Yayoi moved close to Ash with her drawing board and tried to identify the device connected to his Kamen Rider powers.

Yayoi tried to take Ash’s Dark Sword Tsukuyomi after the system urged her to help him, but Ash caught and punished her. Later, Ash faced Cure Happy and Cure Beauty in a decisive battle, which began with an overwhelming clash of strength.

• Yayoi approached Ash’s Dark Sword while he slept, and the system warned her not to be afraid and asked her to help him.
• Yayoi rejected the system’s claim that Ash’s cruelty was kindness, then touched the sword and was seized and hurt by Ash.
• Ash blamed the system for provoking Yayoi, insisted that correcting the ending was his responsibility alone, and found her drawing of him sleeping.
• Ash waited in the park for Cure Happy and Cure Beauty, who arrived determined to fight for their friends and the world.
• Ash and the two Pretty Cure transformed and began fighting, and they managed to push back his first sword strike.
• Ash warned the girls that he would not go easy on them, while Reika’s anger stirred the falling snow around them.

Ash fought Miyuki and Reika while secretly using their battle to charge a Rider Book, and Miyuki challenged his bleak view of fairy tales before vowing to prove the Pretty Cure’s strength. As the fight continued, Yayoi arrived and joined the others in watching Miyuki and Reika struggle against Ash.

• Ash dropped a blank Rider Book in the plaza, where it absorbed the light and darkness released by the battle.
• Reika questioned Ash about his aims, and he wounded Miyuki and mocked the girls with his argument that the mermaid Princess would have survived if she had never met the Prince.
• Reika fought Ash with renewed precision, but he overpowered her and urged her to fight with a more straightforward purpose.
• Miyuki returned from the crater with the nearly charged Rider Book, introduced herself to Ash, and defended the value of fairy tales and the mermaid Princess’s devotion.
• Miyuki declared that she would prove the Pretty Cure’s strength, while Yayoi arrived and watched the battered group face Ash.

Miyuki and Reika fought Ash, but Reika’s finishing move failed and Ash’s uncontrolled dark power nearly killed Miyuki. Miyuki survived by stopping his sword and declared that Pretty Cure would change the tragic future, as Ash attacked her again.

• Miyuki fought Ash with stubborn courage, but he wounded her and knocked her down while arguing that hope could not overcome tragedy.
• Reika froze Ash with Beauty Blizzard, but he broke free using the Jaaku Dragon and defeated her.
• Ash urged the injured Miyuki to give up, but she rose again and continued fighting as power gathered in his Rider Book.
• Ash unleashed a deadly strike with the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi, and Candy released a brilliant light as it swallowed Miyuki.
• Miyuki stopped Ash’s blade with her bloodied hands, then declared that Pretty Cure’s wish to change the ending could never be wrong.
• Ash, overwhelmed by darkness and confusion, attacked Miyuki again as she prepared to change the tragic future.

Miyuki and the other Pretty Cure defeated Ash after joining their powers, and Miyuki asked him what he had seen. Ash revealed that he had foreseen the Pretty Cure team's tragic future and planned to seize power to change it, leaving the girls shaken by his explanation.

• Miyuki attacked Ash with Precure Happy Shower, and the system urged him to accept its help, which he angrily refused.
• Ash received power from the Rider Book and Jaaku Dragon, but the girls combined their strength to defeat him with Precure Rainbow Healing.
• After Ash admitted defeat, Miyuki asked what he had seen, and he revealed that he had witnessed a future in which Pretty Cure failed and met a tragic end.
• Ash explained that he had fought the girls to take their powers and obtain the strength to change the future, because he could not tolerate the Tragedy Kingdom's plans.
• Yayoi questioned why Ash could not use gentler methods, and he told her that she was naive about how the world worked.

After Ash refused Miyuki’s offer to join them, she revealed embarrassing secrets in an earnest attempt to become his friend, and his resistance began to soften. Ash recognized that Miyuki and her companions could change the future, then asked what they had seen in the darkness.

• Akane confronted Ash about his extreme methods, and he insisted that he had acted out of resolve to save the world.
• Miyuki invited Ash to change the ending with her and her companions, but Ash rejected her offer and dismissed it as a child’s fantasy.
• Miyuki shared her secrets about sleeping with a teddy bear, secretly eating candy, and writing Peter Pan stories, leaving her friends and Ash stunned.
• Ash realized Miyuki sincerely wanted to be friends with him, accepted her goodwill, and told her he liked idiots.
• Ash saw the future images in the Dark Sword change and asked the girls what they had seen in the darkness; Miyuki answered that she had seen everyone smiling together.

Ash joined the Pretty Cures after Hoshizora Miyuki’s sincerity moved him, then tried to act as an ally of justice by using villainous tactics to help them defeat a Joker monster. The girls remained uneasy about his methods as Ash boasted about his strength, leaving their trust in him unresolved.

• Ash admitted his mistakes, introduced himself to Hoshizora Miyuki and the other Pretty Cures, and agreed to fight alongside them.
• Ash watched Miyuki and Reika battle a Joker monster while Wolfurun taunted them and the other Pretty Cures could not transform.
• Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Calibur, crept behind Wolfurun, and threatened him with the Dark Sword Tsukuyomi to force the Joker monster to surrender.
• Miyuki and Reika objected to Ash using Wolfurun as a hostage, but Ash insisted that his tactics served justice, and the Joker monster was purified.
• Wolfurun escaped, Ash returned the Cure Decor, and Miyuki pleaded with him not to fight that way again.
• The other Pretty Cures reunited with Miyuki and Reika, while Ash bragged that he could match an entire Sentai team or group of Pretty Cures.