Recaps

Ash trained Snow White and became entangled in the Pretty Cures’ battles, while Iona faced Phantom and found the strength to wish for power to protect her friends. After helping the girls reconcile, Ash revealed he knew Phantom Queen had once been a Pretty Cure and confronted her directly.

• Ash agreed to train Snow White and pushed her through harsh combat exercises, while Megumi began to feel jealous of their closeness.
• When the Phantom Empire invaded Light Hill City, the Pretty Cures and Ash defeated its forces, but Phantom captured Iona and took her to a graveyard filled with sealed Pretty Cures.
• Ash arrived as Ark-One and defeated Phantom, then pretended to join Phantom Queen’s side as part of a plan that forced the girls to fight him.
• Snow White apologized to Iona and gave her collected Light Cards, allowing Iona to wish for the power to save her friends and awaken Cure Fortune’s strength.
• Iona defeated Ash in their staged battle, and she reconciled with Snow White and joined the other Pretty Cures at the embassy.
• Ash reassured Iona and Snow White, took them out to eat, and made them hold hands to resolve their misunderstandings during another Phantom Empire attack.
• Ash helped Iona and Kohime reconcile, then served the Phantom Queen and her executives a debilitating meal before defeating Oresuki in a duel.
• Ash told Phantom Queen he knew she had once been a Pretty Cure and offered to help her, but she attacked him, and Phantom sacrificed himself to shield her from Ash’s Rider Punch.

Ash and Megumi confronted their feelings while helping Tsumugi escape Black Fang’s dream world, but Toregier and Phantom disrupted the rescue. Red God then turned Pretty Cure around the world against Ash, leaving Megumi determined to protect him as Ash prepared to fight anyone who pursued him.

• The Phantom Queen accused Ash of treating people as pieces in a game, and Megumi later confronted him in a fight to win his acknowledgment.
• Ash and Megumi admitted their feelings and reconciled, while Megumi regained her transformation after affirming that she still wanted to help others.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure entered the Puppet Kingdom, where they discovered that Black Fang had deceived Tsumugi, a girl whose coma-born dream had created the world.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure freed Tsumugi from Black Fang, but Phantom killed Black Fang, seized Tsumugi and the misfortune energy, and escaped with the puppetized Blue God.
• Toregier confronted Ash, and Megumi unexpectedly unleashed a powerful attack before Toregier withdrew.
• Red God accused Ash of destroying worlds and being responsible for Blue God’s fall, then restored Pretty Cure’s powers and ordered them to defeat him.
• Megumi and the others decided to protect Ash without letting him hurt anyone, while Ash confronted the pursuing Pretty Cure and declared he would defeat anyone in his way.

Ash and the Pretty Cure defeated the Phantom Empire, but Red God’s schemes and Dust’s revelations brought Ash and Megumi into a painful conflict. After Megumi saved Ash by linking their lives, Ash pushed her away, leaving their reconciliation unresolved as he prepared to face Red God and Toregier.

• Ash freed Hikawa Maria from the mirror coffins, and she reunited with Iona before confessing her love to Ash and accepting that he could not return it.
• The Phantom Queen unleashed Bad Beasts across Earth, and Ash led the Pretty Cure into battle as Phantom Empire forces attacked around the world.
• Narutaki killed Kaito and used Another Decade’s power against Ash, while Megumi confronted the Phantom Queen and confessed her love to Ash through Orihara Tsumugi’s Heart Power.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure defeated the Phantom Queen’s officers and stopped the Queen, but Red God drove her to absorb misfortune energy until Ash halted the fusion with a kiss.
• Megumi sang to awaken the corrupted Pretty Cure, and afterward she promised Ash she would defeat the gods so he could stay with her.
• Dust revealed that the system had bound Ash to its mission, then pulled it into the real world, and Megumi attacked Dust, but Ash shielded the system and was gravely wounded.
• Megumi used the life-transfer device perfect to revive Ash, linking their lives, and Ash angrily told her to stay away while he tended to the damaged system.
• Ash refused to kill the Phantom Queen and prepared to confront Red God and Toregier, while Snow White urged him to attend Megumi’s birthday and reconcile with her.

Ash fought Red God and Megumi, then entered Megumi’s dark world and saved her by taking her darkness into himself. After facing Dast, Light, and Colour, Ash lost his memories and became King of the Black Night Kingdom, where he set out to conquer Earth and confronted Haruka, Minami, and Kirara.

• Ash battled Red God and Toregier, while Megumi’s jealousy and darkness turned her against him and the people who cared for her.
• Ash and Megumi fought in her shadow world, and Ash summoned Pretty Cure allies before using the Light Card to reach the frightened Megumi within.
• Ash severed Megumi’s resentment and absorbed her darkness, then gave her a birthday invitation and handmade comb before facing Dast, Light, and Colour.
• Ash absorbed the Dark Echo, protected the system fragment, and fell through a barrier between worlds, waking with no memories except his name.
• Ash explored the ruined Fairy Kingdom, became Dark Kiva, and founded the Black Night Kingdom with the fairies as his subjects.
• Haruno Haruka recalled a king who had encouraged her childhood dream, while Ash mistook a romance drama for an Earth custom and ordered an expedition to conquer the planet.
• Ash arrived before Haruka, Minami, and Kirara, declared his intent to conquer Earth, and transformed into Dark Kiva as the girls vowed to defeat him and rescue the fairies.