Recaps

Nao confronted Ash about the pain of losing her friends and insisted that she would prove their bond was strong enough to endure. After she left to rejoin the Pretty Cure, Ash admitted that he still longed for battle but had changed because he did not want to betray the people who had tried to help him.

• Ash told Nao that the other Pretty Cure did not want to see her, though they remained determined to fight the clown monster.
• Nao insisted that she would not abandon her friendship with the others, and challenged Ash’s belief that everyone inevitably ended up alone.
• Nao argued that painful partings did not erase the value of shared memories, then vowed to prove she was still qualified to be Pretty Cure.
• Nao left the Incredible Library to fight alongside the Pretty Cure, telling Ash not to interfere.
• Ash told the system that he still wanted intense battles, but explained that Ai, Rei, and others’ efforts to help him made him reluctant to keep acting as he pleased.

Nao Midorikawa tried to overcome Joker’s reversal of her friends’ feelings by reminding them of their shared memories. After Joker secretly tripped her, Nao kept pleading with the girls, and Akane brought up the team’s painful defeat at the sports festival.

• Nao woke from a nightmare about her friends abandoning her and resolved not to let Joker’s scheme succeed.
• Nao lured the Pretty Cures to the grassy field with a false monster report and offered them natto dumpling candies to make peace.
• Miyuki, Reika, and Akane rejected Nao and told her they hated her, while Nao insisted their friendship had been real.
• Joker secretly knocked Nao down, scattering her belongings, and Reika refused to help her.
• Candy urged Nao to leave, but Nao showed the others their souvenirs, photograph, and relay baton to recall their shared memories.
• Akane hesitated as she reminded Nao that her fall during the relay had cost the team a place at the sports festival.

Nao defended her friendship with the other Pretty Cure despite Joker’s power reversing their feelings, but a Super Monster defeated the four transformed girls. Ash arrived and attacked Reika before destroying Nao’s friendship bracelet, demanding that she prove their bond was real.

• Nao recounted how her classmates had supported her during the sports festival, stirring their buried emotions despite Joker’s reversal of their affection.
• Joker unleashed a Super Monster made from two Cure Decors, and the four Pretty Cure could not perform their five-person purification technique and were badly beaten.
• Nao stood between the monster and her friends, rejecting Joker’s claim that they had abandoned her and insisting their shared feelings were real.
• Ash appeared and deflected the monster’s attack, then struck Reika and told Nao he had agreed not to intervene until she proved her friendship.
• Ash took Nao’s bracelet, smashed it under his boot, and challenged her to prove that her bond with the others mattered.

Ash destroyed the mementos Nao shared with the Pretty Cure to force the girls to confront their lost bonds, and their memories and feelings returned as they stopped him and apologized to Nao. Nao transformed into Cure March, completing the team as Ash prepared to begin the next phase, while she charged Super Pierrot and the ruined photograph remained beyond repair.

• Ash crushed Nao’s relay baton and destroyed the keepsakes and photograph while demanding that the Pretty Cure prove their friendship could overcome the reversed rules.
• Miyuki, Yayoi, Akane, Reika, and Candy stopped Ash, their emotions returning as they apologized to Nao and embraced her.
• A powerful gale swept Joker and the Pierrot away, and Nao sensed that she had regained what was missing.
• Nao used her Smile Pact to transform into Cure March, completing the five-member Pretty Cure team.
• Ash accepted that the first phase was over and prepared for the next, while Cure March charged Super Pierrot and the photograph crumbled into ash.

Nao and the other Pretty Cure defeated the Super Clown Monster, while Ash praised their strength and then chose to leave them. Three days later, Ash watched the city from a tree and told the system he planned to stay away from the girls so he would not turn their happy ending into a bad one.

• Nao reassured her friends that she had forgiven them and declared she would prove to Ash what kind of heroes Pretty Cure were.
• Cure March overwhelmed the Super Clown Monster with her speed and strength, then joined the others in purifying it with Precure Rainbow Healing.
• Ash said the girls had become strong enough to face the Tragedy Kingdom, but announced he would keep his distance and walked away.
• Nao grabbed Ash and Miyuki's hands and raised them together, declaring that they were friends, and Ash accepted the gesture by eating a piece of the broken candy.
• Three days later, Ash told the system he intended to stay away from the Pretty Cure because he feared his presence would turn their happy endings into bad ones.

Ash admitted that he was exhausted and joked with the system about being cared for by a wife, while privately rejecting the idea of marriage. Half a week later, Ayumi invited Miyuki and her friends to her sister’s wedding, where Reika recognized Ash performing at the movie studio.

• Ash told the system he wanted to rest instead of acting as a babysitter, and the system suggested he marry one or more of the girls so they would care for him.
• Ash laughed at the marriage suggestion but revealed that he hated marriage and believed he would never marry.
• Sakagami Ayumi transferred to Nanairogaoka Academy, became friends with Miyuki and the others, and invited them to her sister’s wedding.
• Ayumi showed the girls around the movie studio hosting the wedding, where they saw sets, props, and filming scenes from different genres.
• The girls discussed romance as they watched Ayumi’s sister arrive as the bride, and Reika recognized Ash on an Edo-style set after he performed a staged sword fight.

At a wedding, the bride abruptly rejected her groom after a mysterious thread pulled a pink heart from her, and the Pretty Cure girls traced the incident to the Tragedy Kingdom. Ayumi chased the thread into danger, and Reika pushed her out of the path of a speeding carriage before a blue-and-white figure leapt in with a drawn blade.

• Nao and the others mistook Reika's words about Ash for a confession, and Nao decided Reika was hiding her feelings like a tsundere.
• A mysterious thread pulled a pink heart from the bride, who rejected her groom and left the wedding, while black mist rose from the guests.
• Reika spotted the thread in Ayumi's photographs, and the Pretty Cure girls recognized it as a sign of the Tragedy Kingdom.
• Ayumi spotted the thread and chased it through the movie studio, with the Pretty Cure girls following her.
• Ayumi ran into the path of a runaway carriage, and Reika shoved her clear but was left in its path.
• A blue-and-white figure leapt from a rooftop and drew a blade as the carriage approached Reika.

Ash rescued Reika and Ayumi from a carriage on a movie set, then frightened Reika with a convincing display of murderous intent before revealing it was part of a scene. He brought the girls to an old-fashioned room on the set, where they learned he was filming as a Shinsengumi captain and resumed chatting with him.

• Ash split the oncoming carriage and saved Reika and Ayumi, while Ayumi fainted from shock.
• Ash threatened Reika with killing intent, leaving her terrified until the director called cut and revealed they were filming.
• Ash told Reika she had not been scared, then took her and Ayumi away from the set to give them a little education.
• Ash explained that he was playing the captain of the Shinsengumi's Third Division and showed the girls his prop sword.
• Ash chatted with the girls about the film, and Reika demanded that he put her down after he had carried her by the collar.

Ash joined the Pretty Cure as they investigated a series of wedding disruptions, but he rejected Ayumi’s request for help and unsettled her with his bleak claims about love and marriage. He eventually agreed to pursue the runaway bride, while Reika pressed him about the menace he had shown her and was left reaching after him.

• Ash learned that brides and grooms had been fleeing their weddings and the girls suspected the Tragedy Kingdom was targeting newlyweds as well as Ayumi’s sister.
• Ayumi asked Ash for help and showed him a photo, but he challenged her assumptions and argued that couples could suddenly fall out of love and separate.
• The girls rebuked Ash for confusing and frightening Ayumi, while Reika defended love and marriage; Ash said he had witnessed people separate that way.
• Ash redirected the group toward finding the runaway bride, and Ayumi contacted her missing sister while he waited by the room’s window.
• Reika asked Ash why he had released killing intent toward her, and he admitted he had wanted to show her what true evil was like before walking away.

Ash and the Pretty Cure investigated a bride who had lost interest in marriage and discovered that Akaoni planned to drain love from couples to collect Tragedy Energy. They chose to lure him out with a staged wedding, and the chapter ended as one girl drew the short lot to become Ash’s pretend bride.

• Ayumi’s sister rejected the group’s attempt to persuade her to marry, and Ash’s flirtation with her failed.
• Akaoni vowed to break up couples after watching a tragic romance and explained that the Tragedy Kingdom was targeting weddings to gather Tragedy Energy.
• Ash said the events matched Dark Sword Tsukuyomi’s prophecy and waited to see whether the predicted future would change.
• Yayoi suggested pretending to be newlyweds to lure out the enemy, and Ash offered to arrange a wedding set.
• Ash had the five girls draw lots to decide who would pretend to be his wife, and one girl drew the short stick.

Aoki Reika struggled with being chosen to play Ash’s bride and questioned how to find her own path. Ash challenged her ideas about right and wrong, then agreed to advise her as her “husband,” leaving her flustered as he began criticizing the overthinking habits of “Blues.”

• Aoki Reika drew the lot naming her as the bride for the film’s wedding scene, and the girls erupted into chaos before settling in as guests.
• Akane and Ash teased each other about marriage while the girls toured the studio, and Reika tried to calm herself by practicing kyudo but repeatedly missed the target.
• Ash noticed Reika’s troubled aim and asked whether she disliked being his bride; she explained that her deeper worry was about herself and praised the beauty of his swordsmanship.
• Reika told Ash she had always followed expected rules but no longer knew what path was right, and she asked him to guide her.
• Ash questioned her assumptions about correctness and justice, then agreed to advise her as her “cute wife” for the day, making Reika blush.
• Ash described Reika and other “Blues” as meticulous overthinkers who trapped themselves in dead ends.

Ash helped Reika set aside her rigid pursuit of correctness and choose what she genuinely wanted, strengthening her resolve to help Ayumi. Reika and Ash prepared for a wedding scene, leaving Reika embarrassed by her feelings and Ash cheerfully unaware of wedding customs.

• Ash guided Reika in firing an arrow and urged her to decide her own future according to her feelings.
• Reika said she wanted to help Ayumi and defeat the enemy who had stolen the love and happiness between husband and wife.
• Reika and Ash fired a second arrow that split the first and struck the bullseye, and Ash promised to help her face any problems.
• Reika dressed in a white bridal kimono and attached Ash's Wonder Ride Book to her collar.
• Ash entered Reika's room before the wedding, and Reika reminded him that the couple were traditionally not supposed to see each other beforehand.

Ash and Reika’s staged wedding nearly reached its first kiss before Miyuki burst in wearing a black bridal gown and declared that Ash could not marry Reika. The ceremony remained interrupted, and Ash confronted Miyuki about breaking their agreement to draw lots.

• Ash tried to reassure Reika about their marriage, and she shyly agreed while they prepared for the staged wedding at the shrine.
• Ash and Reika performed the wedding ceremony as Yayoi, Akane, and Nao watched, but no enemy appeared.
• Ayumi arrived to stop the wedding, then hesitated when Nao pointed out that Reika seemed happy.
• Miyuki transformed into a bride in a black gown and interrupted Ash and Reika just before they kissed, pleading with Ash not to marry Reika.
• Ash asked Miyuki why she had interfered despite their agreement to draw lots, and Miyuki showed everyone that she had drawn a short lot.

Ash and the Pretty Cure were ambushed by the Tragedy Kingdom during the staged wedding, and Miyuki lost her heart while Ash was captured and cast into another world. The chapter left Ash burning free of his cocoon in a strange, non-Euclidean space as the Pretty Cure faced the villains without him.

• Ash discovered that his broken stick had caused Miyuki to draw the short stick, then pinned a spider clown monster's ambush thread to a pillar.
• Ash pulled a giant spider clown monster from the shadows, but another spider stole Miyuki's heart and left her unconscious.
• Ash handed Miyuki to Akane and attacked Wolfurun, but three spider monsters bound him while Wolfurun, Akaoni, and Witch Reina blocked the Pretty Cure.
• The spider monsters dragged Ash's cocoon through a web portal into another world, leaving his Wonder Ride Book behind as the villains confronted the Pretty Cure.
• Ash's cocoon began smoking and burst into flames, burning away its threads as it drifted through a strange world.

Ash remained trapped between worlds while the Tragedy Kingdom overwhelmed the Pretty Cure, forcing Reika to choose between rescuing her friends and trusting Ash. Reika chose to trust him, and Ash returned to fight beside her, transforming into the Evil King Swordsman as the battle continued.

• Ash gathered stolen hearts in the space between worlds and realized that Reika might have underestimated him.
• The Three Executives spread the Tragedy Barrier across the world, and Nao, Yayoi, Akane, and Reika were badly beaten in battle.
• Reika picked up the Wonder Ride Book but chose to throw it into the shrinking vortex and call Ash instead of immediately helping her fallen friends.
• Ash tore open a rift, returned to the shrine, and defeated Akaoni with a devastating sword strike.
• Reika and Ash opened the Jaaku Dragon book together, and Ash transformed into the Evil King Swordsman as the Pretty Cure watched.

Ash and Cure Beauty defeated Wolfurun and Witch Reina after Reika chose to fight beside him, and the darkness engulfing the film set receded. Ash returned to the Incredible Library with Reika and gave the Pretty Cure girls replica Book Gates to help them communicate.

• Ash drew on the dark Wonder power of his new book and transformed into Evil King Dragon, while Ayumi watched the battle in awe and unknowingly absorbed some of his energy.
• Ash and Reika fought together, with Reika asking whether he had let himself be captured to help her choose her path; Ash denied planning it and said they had written a new future themselves.
• Ash and Reika froze Wolfurun and Witch Reina, then unleashed their finishing attacks and defeated them.
• The darkness faded as Pretty Cure's light restored the damaged world, and Ash caught Reika before the two exchanged affectionate banter in front of the others.
• Ash opened a Book Gate to the Incredible Library, and the Pretty Cure girls received replica Book Gates that he had made for communication.

Ash returned Miyuki’s heart and reunited her with the girls, who teased her about her dream and what she had said while unconscious. As Ash acknowledged his growing attachment to them, Joker revived the defeated Three Executives and ordered them to keep serving the Tragedy Kingdom for Pierrot-sama.

• Ash and Reika teased each other about their pretend marriage, and Reika told him she wanted to see him smile and help protect everyone’s world.
• Ash put Miyuki’s heart back in her chest, and Miyuki woke up embarrassed after realizing she had pressed his hand against herself.
• Miyuki asked what she had said while unconscious, and Yayoi, Akane, Naoki, and the others teased her about declaring her feelings for Ash.
• The girls reassured Miyuki and embraced her, while Ash watched them and admitted that loving others might have made him weaker.
• Joker entered the collapsing pocket world, condemned the defeated Three Executives, and revived them with dark light to serve the Tragedy Kingdom until Pierrot-sama’s resurrection.

Candy announced that the Pretty Cure had collected all sixteen Cure Decor, but their attempt to revive the Fairy Tale Queen produced a Royal Clock instead. Miyuki’s mother recognized Ash and chatted warmly with him, leaving Miyuki bewildered as the chapter ended with Ikuyo asking whether Ash had contacted her recently.

• Candy revealed that the girls had gathered all sixteen Cure Decor and said they could now revive the Fairy Tale Queen.
• The girls placed the final Cure Decor in the case, which produced the Royal Clock instead of the Queen.
• Ash scanned the Royal Clock with his Dark Sword, activated its blazing fire power, and worried Miyuki when he played with fire in her room.
• Miyuki’s mother, Hoshizora Ikuyo, opened the door, and Ash greeted her while the girls tried to hide his presence.
• Ikuyo recognized Ash and explained that he had helped her before and later placed a large order with her.
• Ikuyo chatted warmly with Ash and asked whether he had contacted her recently.

After an afternoon with Ash, Miyuki found a picture book bearing his name and realized how little she knew about him. Worried that he had nowhere to live, she brought him dinner in a park, where he teased her and flicked her forehead after she apologized for the food going cold.

• Ikuyo mistook Ash’s no longer needing his materials and his habit of wandering for signs that his work had failed and he had lost his home.
• Miyuki found a picture book written by Ash, Kamiyama Touma, and decided to return it to him.
• Ikuyo teased Miyuki about liking Ash, then encouraged her to take him dinner after Miyuki realized he might be living outside.
• Miyuki searched for Ash in Seven Hills City Children's Park and panicked when he pretended to be a ghost.
• Ash revealed himself, mocked Miyuki for being scared, and asked why she had come looking for him.
• Miyuki offered Ash a lunchbox, realized it had gone cold, and apologized before Ash flicked her forehead.

Miyuki brought Ash a homemade bento and urged him to accept help with his lonely life, eventually inviting him to live at her home. The chapter ended as she shyly began to respond to Ash’s question about liking someone.

• Ash told Miyuki not to apologize for the ruined bento, then ate the meal and thanked her.
• Miyuki said she had come simply to see Ash and insisted that he needed help because he was alone outside of fighting.
• Ash denied needing company, but Miyuki declared that he liked the Pretty Cure and said she wanted to help him.
• Miyuki invited Ash to stay in her family’s empty guest room, leaving him stunned by her sudden proposal.
• Ash asked whether Miyuki wanted him to live with her because she liked him, and she admitted she did not know if her feelings were love.
• Miyuki began shyly explaining what she meant when Ash asked whether she wanted someone he liked.

Miyuki explained that Ash was living with her, and her friends teased her about their relationship. Ash settled into life with the Hoshizora family, learned Miyuki had arranged to cover his expenses, and promised Ikuyo he would protect Miyuki; he ended the chapter accepting their promise to keep him from feeling lonely.

• Miyuki told her friends that Ash was living with her, prompting them to speculate about their relationship.
• Ash relaxed at the Hoshizora home while Ikuyo prepared dinner and welcomed him as part of the household.
• Ash offered Ikuyo money for his expenses, but she explained that Miyuki had arranged to repay the costs from her future salary.
• Ikuyo asked Ash to protect Miyuki until she was ready to reveal what she was doing, and Ash agreed.
• Miyuki returned home, and she and Ash bickered and watched anime together before she reminded him of their promise to keep him from feeling lonely.
• Ash admitted that the promise was not bad and smiled.

Miyuki endured teasing at school after Ash moved into her home, then Ash’s dramatic pickup made their living arrangement public. On the weekend, he woke her for Tanabata, and she met her friends at the Mysterious Library, where his unusual outfit became the center of attention.

• Akane, Nao, and Reika questioned Miyuki about living with Ash, while Miyuki complained about his disruptive habits at home.
• Ash arrived at the school gate on a heavily armed trike to pick Miyuki up, and his announcement that he lived at her house stunned the gathered students.
• Ash woke Miyuki by threatening to record her sleeping and sent a mechanical bat to film her room; Miyuki complained that the school now knew about him.
• Ash reminded Miyuki that she had asked him to wake her early for Tanabata, and they went to meet her friends.
• Miyuki joined the other Pretty Cure girls at the Mysterious Library, where Ash arrived in a retro slicked-back style and Akane laughed at his appearance.

Ash joined the Pretty Cure team for Tanabata, accepted their wishes and invitations to visit their homes, and shared a moment of loneliness with Miyuki before she promised to make him smile. Meanwhile, Joker devised a plan to separate Kamen Rider from Pretty Cure, and Ash thanked Miss Ikuyo as he prepared to leave the Hoshizora home from time to time.

• Ash shot Pop’s flying book by mistake, then convinced Pop that he had saved him from a Tragedy Kingdom attack.
• Pop learned that the Queen had not awakened despite the collection of all sixteen Cure Decors, and the group celebrated Tanabata by writing wishes.
• Reika invited Ash to meet her family, and Ash suggested visiting all the Pretty Cure families together, prompting Miyuki to accuse him of cheating on the Hoshizora family.
• Ash admitted to Miyuki that he stayed in the park because being alone was boring, and she promised to make him smile.
• Joker planned to create a rift between Kamen Rider and Pretty Cure so the Tragedy Kingdom could seize an opening and complete its energy collection.
• At the back-mountain stargazing gathering, Ash thanked Miss Ikuyo for caring for him and enjoying his stay with the Hoshizora family.

Ash was transported to the Tragedy Kingdom after Joker attacked during the Pretty Cure’s battle, while Nao failed to stop Ash from being taken. Ash trusted the girls to defeat Emperor Pierrot and faced Joker alone, provoking him into a furious sword fight.

• Ash teased Miyuki for not knowing how to cook, then made taiyaki for her and the others.
• Darkness fell over the sky, and the Pretty Cure defeated the monster that appeared while Ash searched for Joker.
• Joker attacked Candy, but Ash rescued her and crossed swords with Joker as cards began surrounding them.
• Nao reached out to Ash as Joker’s cards transported him, but Ash knocked her hand away and disappeared with Joker.
• Ash arrived in the Tragedy Kingdom and told Joker he trusted the Pretty Cure to defeat Emperor Pierrot.
• Joker grew enraged by Ash’s confidence and attacked him, but Ash blocked the rapier with purple flames.

Ash fought Joker Card in the Tragedy Kingdom, using its Tragedy Energy and the terrain to overpower the enemy. He defeated Joker Card by shooting it into the magma, while the Pretty Cures prepared to rescue him.

• Ash transformed into Jaaku Dragon and battled Joker Card, drawing on Tragedy Energy in the Tragedy Kingdom.
• Miyuki rallied the Pretty Cures, who agreed to go rescue Ash.
• Ash exploited his home-ground advantage and used a feint to turn aside Joker Card’s killing strike and knock it away.
• Ash shattered the battlefield and gained the high ground as Joker Card became trapped on a sinking ledge above magma.
• Ash fired his Closed Gear Gun at Joker Card’s foothold, sending it falling into the magma, where it cursed him before disappearing.