Chapter Summaries

Dark Precure defeated Tsukikage Yuri, but Ash stopped her from killing Yuri and convinced her to leave after reminding her she had already won. Ash then used the Sin Stamp to return Kain from Yuri’s body, giving him a physical form that Yuri recognized as Koron.

• Dark Precure overcame Yuri’s resistance, shattered her armor, and declared that she fought by her own will.
• Yuri challenged Dark Precure to think for herself, but Dark Precure raised her wand to kill Yuri.
• Ash grabbed Dark Precure’s wrist and persuaded her that defeating the now-human Yuri was unnecessary; Dark Precure left.
• Kain emerged from Yuri’s body with a physical form, and Yuri recognized him as Koron.
• Ash questioned the system about why Kain’s new body resembled a recolored fairy.

After Kain’s resemblance to Cologne reopened Tsukikage Yuri’s grief, Ash took her and the others back to Nasta Café and encouraged Rei to recover from their defeat. Rei left determined to grow stronger, while Yuri remained withdrawn behind the counter.

• Yuri recognized Kain’s resemblance to her deceased partner Cologne and begged Ash not to take her away.
• Kain told Yuri she was a demon, not Cologne, leaving Yuri devastated as Rei and Erika helped her.
• At Nasta Café, Rei and Erika lamented their defeat and questioned whether they were capable Pretty Cure.
• Ash returned and admitted the loss had been embarrassing, then encouraged Rei to work through her doubts and keep growing stronger.
• Rei regained her resolve, while Ash teased Erika and told her to do her best too.

Ash treated Tsukikage Yuri’s injuries and helped her face the grief and isolation left by her past as Cure Moonlight. Yuri finally broke down in Ash’s arms, while he comforted her despite knowing their time together would end.

• Ash gently coaxed the silent, injured Tsukikage Yuri to raise her head and treated the cuts and bruises she had suffered.
• Ash explained to Rei and Erika that Yuri had lost her ability to transform after protecting the world and the Heart Tree, and had kept her identity and condition secret to spare them worry.
• When Rei asked about the fairy who resembled Shiffre, Ash refused to reveal anything and left the decision to Yuri.
• Ash arranged paid leave for Yuri and promised to explain her injuries to her mother, then told Yuri he wanted to support Pretty Cure without needing a reason.
• Yuri asked why Ash was so kind to her, then embraced him and sobbed as she thanked him for comforting her.
• Ash held Yuri and reassured her, while privately recognizing how completely she trusted him and remembering that they would eventually part.

Rei accepted that Ash could help Yuri while deciding to pursue her own feelings for him, and she asked Erika to help her change her appearance. Later, Ash agreed to fight the Desert Apostles’ Timons in the Pretty Cures’ place and encountered Itsuki Meidoin at school, where her courage caught his interest.

• Rei told Erika she was glad Ash was comforting Yuri, then asked Erika to help her make a more noticeable change to her style.
• Ash and Spider Gagi settled their long-running challenge with a video game, and Ash won before agreeing to handle the next battle against the Pretty Cures.
• Timons used a grasshopper stamp to mutate his legs, then chased Rei and Erika across the school grounds and sent them flying with a kick.
• Rei and Erika recovered and fled to draw Timons away from the school, while Ash recognized their plan and followed along.
• Itsuki Meidoin encountered Ash at school and stood her ground despite her fear, prompting Ash to become interested in her martial arts training.

Timons tested Itsuki Meidoin in a martial arts match and exposed her doubts about why she trained, then restrained her with a joint lock. Rei and Erika realized they had left Itsuki alone at school with him and rushed to fear the worst.

• Timons praised Itsuki for standing up to him, removed his belt, and challenged her to a sparring match while limiting his strength.
• Itsuki fought with the precise techniques of Meidoin-ryu, but Timons used his Beast-Fist Style to outmaneuver her and point out that her fists lacked her own spirit.
• Timons asked whose sake Itsuki trained for, and her hesitation let him seize and pin her.
• Rei and Erika noticed Timons had not followed them and realized Itsuki was still at school with him.
• At the school, Itsuki struggled against Timons's joint lock as her strength drained.

Ash defeated Itsuki in a sparring match and challenged her to question whether she truly loved Meidoin-ryu. After discovering that Itsuki was a girl, he touched her chest to confirm it, and she angrily punched him before fleeing in tears.

• Ash defeated Itsuki and explained that her polished technique lacked real combat experience and personal feeling.
• Ash questioned whether Itsuki truly loved Meidoin-ryu, prompting her to remember her private fashion designs and reconsider her sense of duty.
• Ash found Itsuki's student ID, realized she was female, and reached toward her chest to confirm it.
• Itsuki punched Ash with a powerful rising dragon punch, then struck him again when he tried to apologize.
• Itsuki grabbed her backpack and ran away in tears as Rei and Erika arrived and watched in shock.

Ash considered apologizing to the woman who had beaten him and asked Erika and Rei what girls liked. At the Meidoin dojo, Rei and Erika helped Itsuki discover how much she enjoyed cute clothes, but Itsuki fled after her brother encouraged her to embrace that side of herself, and she tried to bury her feelings in training.

• Ash told Yuri that a woman had injured him, and Yuri urged him to apologize sincerely.
• Erika and Rei visited Itsuki, who wondered whether the dolls and cute things she liked would interfere with her martial arts training.
• Rei and Erika showed Itsuki her old dress sketches and helped her put on the yellow dress, which made her feel happy and adorable.
• Meidoin Kou told Itsuki that the dress reflected her true self, but Itsuki protested and ran away.
• Kou explained to Rei and Erika that Itsuki had lost a dojo challenge after losing focus and likely blamed herself for bringing shame on Meidoin-ryu.
• Itsuki changed into her training uniform and fought alone, insisting that she would set aside her own heart to help her brother and Meidoin-ryu.

Ash confronted Itsuki about her doubts over martial arts and sparred with her to expose how her need to meet others’ expectations weakened her fighting. Itsuki began to recognize that she had never trained or thrown a punch for herself.

• Itsuki struggled to fight an imaginary opponent while dwelling on Ash’s question about whether she truly loved martial arts.
• Ash surprised Itsuki, apologized for his earlier rudeness, and lent her Kain, whom she eagerly cuddled.
• Ash criticized Itsuki’s loss at the dojo and told her to stop overthinking his question, then challenged her to spar.
• Itsuki attacked Ash with increasing speed, but he caught her arm and threw her to the floor.
• Ash explained that Itsuki’s resolve, strength, and technique were sound, but she fought to satisfy her grandfather and everyone else instead of herself.

Ash helped Itsuki reconsider why she practiced Meidoin-ryu and guided her through a training exercise that let her reconnect with her own feelings. Meanwhile, Spider Gagi stole a dojo youth’s Heart Flower and sent a Desertrian after Pretty Cure, and Itsuki ran toward the battle.

• Ash challenged Itsuki to consider whether she practiced martial arts for herself or only for her family, and Kou told her to follow her heart.
• The dojo challenger brooded over his defeat until Spider Gagi stole his Heart Flower and transformed it into a Desertrian.
• Erika and Rei encountered the Desertrian, and Spider Gagi appeared to fight Pretty Cure himself.
• Itsuki asked Ash to help her rediscover a martial artist’s original heart, and he guided her through Meidoin-ryu while telling her to forget the moves and follow her feelings.
• A distant explosion interrupted Itsuki’s training, and she joined Ash as they headed toward the battle, where the Desertrian voiced the youth’s love for Meidoin-ryu.

Rei and Erika fought Spider Gagi while Itsuki discovered her own love of martial arts and defeated him with Ash’s training. Later, Rei tried to invite Ash to her grandmother’s botanical garden, but Yuri got there first, and the group ended up meeting Hanasaki Kaoruko together.

• Rei and Erika defeated the Desertrian’s attacks, while Spider Gagi used his Dragon Big Bang Special to split the ground and send them clinging to a cliff above lava.
• Itsuki defeated the Snatchers and then fought Spider Gagi, using his momentum to throw him and prove that she loved martial arts for herself.
• The Pretty Cures purified the Desertrian, and Ash praised Itsuki’s growth before leaving with Kain.
• Rei tried to invite Ash to see the Maiden Lily at her grandmother’s botanical garden, but Yuri asked him to go first, so Rei invited Erika instead.
• Rei and Erika arrived at the botanical garden and found Ash and Yuri already there with Hanasaki Kaoruko.

Ash met Rei’s grandmother, Hanasaki Kaoruko, who revealed that she had once been a Pretty Cure and spoke with him about his feelings and the girls. Meanwhile, Yuri distanced herself from Erika and Rei, and the chapter ended with Ash meeting Kaoruko’s enormous fairy partner, Kopé.

• Kaoruko welcomed Ash and the fairies to her botanical garden, then kept Ash behind to talk with him while Yuri, Rei, and Erika went to buy snacks.
• Kaoruko asked Ash which of the girls he liked, and he said he liked all of them before she warned him about being greedy.
• Kaoruko revealed that she had once been a Pretty Cure, surprising Ash.
• Erika teased Rei about being a romantic rival to Yuri, then she and Rei asked Yuri for advice about being Pretty Cure.
• Yuri said she had no advice and claimed she was no longer a Pretty Cure, leaving Erika and Rei upset as a distorted streak of light crossed the sky unnoticed.
• Kaoruko showed Ash her former fairy partner, Kopé, and Ash recognized that the enormous creature was far more formidable than it appeared.

Ash explained his support for Yuri and the Pretty Cure to Kaoruko, while the SCSO identified an abnormal dark reaction in the Pretty Cure universe. Eddie bypassed protocol and chose a world to teleport to, leaving her destination uncertain.

• Kaoruko told Ash that Coffret had watched him and explained that his support had helped Yuri recover, then questioned whether he truly loved the Pretty Cure.
• Kaoruko described the Heart Tree, Heart Seeds, and Timons’s thefts, and Ash said he wanted the girls to grow strong enough to defeat their enemies.
• Rei and Erika discussed Yuri’s high standards, and Erika resolved to impress her by defeating the Desert Apostles stylishly.
• The system warned Ash that someone had tracked the spacetime reaction from his Infinite Ticket and recommended eliminating the pursuer, but Ash rejected the advice and discarded the system panel.
• The SCSO commander ordered an investigation into abnormal dark reactions in the Pretty Cure universe, and Eddie rushed to the teleportation device despite lacking authorization.
• Eddie found reactions in worlds NO·8 and NO·5, randomly chose one, and activated the teleportation procedure.

Rei learned more about her grandmother’s past as a Pretty Cure and resolved to protect her loved ones, while Eddie arrived in Hope Flower City and was mistaken for a streaker. Ash learned that Eddie was the wanted newcomer and rode out to find him, leaving the two on course for a confrontation.

• Rei woke from a prophetic dream and asked Hanasaki Kaoruko why the Desert Apostles had returned despite her victory; Kaoruko explained her history as a Pretty Cure and urged Rei to trust Ash if she chose to.
• Rei resolved to protect her family, friends, and the world as a streak of light crossed the night sky.
• Eddie arrived in Hope Flower City through a portal without clothes, startled a woman in a parking lot, and fled from the police.
• A police officer warned Ash, Rei, Erika, and Yuri about the fugitive streaker, then passed out after drinking Ash’s bitter Mars Power coffee.
• Ash’s screen identified the wanted man as Eddie, so Ash masked up, rode out on the Machine Creator, and began searching for him.

Ash was ambushed by Eddie, a newly arrived SCSO recruit who transformed into the Madan Warrior Dragon Sword King and challenged him to prove himself a hero. Ash outmaneuvered and battered Eddie, but Eddie forced himself back to his feet and insisted that Ash’s age gave him no advantage.

• Dark Precure answered Ash’s call, then rushed outside after hearing him crash and calling his name.
• Eddie confronted Ash, mistaking him for a villain, and transformed with the GekiRyu Ken into Ryukendo, the Madan Warrior Dragon Sword King.
• Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Timons, threw Eddie to the ground, and taunted his poor fighting skills.
• Eddie attacked with his greatsword, but Ash dodged his swings, struck him with the Stamp Breaker, and used a car and Stamp Warhammer to knock him into a garbage pile.
• Eddie rose despite his injuries, pointed his sword at Ash, and declared that their age difference was more than twenty thousand years.

Eddie attacked Ash to prove himself worthy of becoming a hero, but Ash and Dark Precure defeated him and Ash claimed the Shark Key. Meanwhile, Rei and Erika wondered where Ash had gone, and Rei imagined riding on his motorcycle.

• Eddie fired a barrage of magical bullets at Ash, but Ash used the Mogura Genomix drill to deflect the attack and strike Eddie from behind.
• Ash criticized Eddie's desire for recognition and refused to kill him, while Dark Precure arrived to check on Ash.
• Dark Precure defeated Eddie with Dark Forte Wave, and Ash collected the scattered Magibullet Keys, including the Shark Key.
• Ash used the Gokai Cellular to summon and control Aqua God Great Shark, surprising Eddie.
• Rei and Erika discussed Ash's habit of leaving the shop to ride his motorcycle, and Rei admitted she wanted to ride with him.

Erika and Rei found the unconscious, naked Eddie and recognized him as the wanted exhibitionist, while Ash acquired a Beast King, discovered his Closed Gear Gun was broken, and left Kain with Dark Precure. Eddie’s nightmare ended with Catherine abandoning him, leaving his despair unresolved.

• Coffret sensed an evil presence, and Erika and Rei found Eddie lying unconscious in an alley among scattered toys.
• Rei recognized Eddie from a wanted poster, and Erika and Rei debated whether they should leave him there.
• Ash surfed through the sand on Aqua God Great Shark and decided to keep the Beast King after testing its speed and power.
• Ash discovered that the core crystal in his Closed Gear Gun had shattered and asked Dr. Sabaku to repair it.
• Ash summoned Kain and left him in Dark Precure’s arms, asking her to comfort his weak side.
• Eddie dreamed that his comrades mocked him, his commander walked away, and Catherine left him as useless.

Ash’s group questioned Eddie, who revealed that he was an SCSO Interdimensional Traveler investigating a darkness affecting multiple worlds and accused Kamen Rider Timons of bringing it to theirs. After learning Eddie had stolen high-level authorization to come alone, Ash realized the authorization might help him return to worlds he had visited before, but Eddie broke free before they could decide what to do with him.

• Ash brought the naked Eddie, bound in chains and dressed in floral underwear, to his café, where Erika, Rei, Yuri, and the others questioned him.
• Eddie insisted he was not a flasher and asked Ash to contact the Precure heroes, then explained that Earth had been targeted.
• Eddie identified himself as an Interdimensional Traveler from SCSO and said signs of darkness had appeared in multiple worlds.
• Eddie accused Kamen Rider Timons of bringing the darkness to their world and revealed that he had stolen high-level authorization after the SCSO dismissed his suspicions.
• Ash’s system suggested that the stolen authorization could provide routes back to worlds Ash had visited, and Ash left to get Eddie clothes while struggling with the possibility.
• Eddie loosened his chains, spotted his GekiRyu Ken, broke free, and ordered the others to move aside.

Ash challenged Eddie’s motives for becoming a hero, leaving him to confront his recklessness and doubt himself. After Eddie decided he could not become a hero, Scorpina Lina captured him and prepared to use his withered Heart Flower to create a Desertrian.

• Yuri threw Eddie to the ground when he tried to retrieve his Dragon Strike Sword, and Ash gave him clothes before questioning why he wanted to become a hero.
• Ash mocked Eddie’s desire for fame and forced him to consider the consequences of his actions and what a hero should be.
• Eddie left Ash’s café in turmoil, while Ash reassured Yuri that he would handle whatever happened to them.
• Erika reminded Rei that Rei had saved her and was already her hero, while Eddie wandered past them in despair.
• Eddie concluded that he could not become a hero and sat by the river, where Scorpina Lina captured him and took his Heart Flower.

Ash transformed into Timons and challenged Rei and Erika to fight him and Eddie’s powerful dragon Desertrian for the Heart Seeds he had stolen from them. After Erika turned the Desertrian’s water and lightning against it, Ash prepared to face Rei himself, determined to test Kain’s abilities.

• Scorpina Lina summoned a dragon-shaped Desertrian from Eddie’s Heart Flower, and Cure Blossom and Cure Marine saved nearby residents from its attack.
• Rei and Erika fought off Scorpina Lina’s Snatch minions, but the Desertrian struck Erika with lightning and forced the girls to flee.
• Ash appeared as Timons, offered to return the stolen Heart Seeds if the girls won a two-on-two fight, and threatened to take their remaining seeds if they lost.
• Rei and Erika accepted the challenge because they wanted to save Eddie as well as protect the world.
• Erika used steam to obscure the Desertrian’s vision, then maneuvered its lightning through water to electrocute it with its own attack.
• Ash pressed Scorpion and Batta Sin Stamps into his Driver and called on Kain to show his true abilities against Rei.

Ash and the Pretty Cure fought over Eddie’s Heart Flower as Rei used a Heart Seed to gain the speed needed to strike back. After Rei and Erika reached Eddie with their words, his Desertrian broke free of Scorpina Lina’s control, and the chapter ended with Timons canceling his attack on Yuri’s barrier.

• Ash transformed into a dual-Genomix form and attacked Rei with jumping kicks and a scorpion tail.
• Rei used a red Heart Seed to boost her speed, then struck Ash with Blossom Buttock Punch as Erika caught her.
• Scorpina Lina empowered Eddie’s Desertrian, which drove Rei and Erika back with a barrage of elemental attacks.
• Rei and Erika urged Eddie to keep pursuing his wish to help others, and the Desertrian stopped obeying Scorpina Lina.
• Ash launched a Rider Kick at Rei and Erika, but Yuri blocked it with a barrier and vowed that Pretty Cure would defeat Timons.
• Timons canceled Genomix and landed without explaining why he had stopped attacking Yuri.