Chapter Summaries

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.

Ash faced Pierrot as the giant clown emperor revived, while the Smile Precure reached the Tragedy Kingdom determined to rescue him. After fighting through the Three Executives and Joker monsters, the girls split up so Miyuki could reach Ash while the others held back their enemies.

• Pierrot revived from the lava, and Ash prepared to fight the enormous clown emperor with a triple-flash attack.
• Pop guided the girls through the Fairy Tale Kingdom and into the Tragedy Kingdom, where the portal behind them was destroyed.
• The Three Executives ambushed the girls, but they reaffirmed their resolve to rescue Ash and transformed into Smile Precure.
• The girls defeated the charging Joker monsters and raced toward the darkness as the Three Executives blocked their way.
• Reika and Akane told Miyuki to go save Ash while they and the others held back the enemies.

Miyuki reached Ash as he hung wounded from a cross and tried to free him, but a hand from the abyss dragged her away. Ash awakened as his chains broke, while the Three Executives empowered themselves and cornered Yayoi with Witch Reina’s clones.

• Miyuki left the other Pretty Cure to find Ash, fighting through Joker monsters and using Happy Shower to propel herself across a ravine.
• Miyuki found Ash impaled by Dark Sword Tsukuyomi, climbed back onto the collapsing cliff, and tried to pull the sword from his chest.
• Miyuki confessed that she wanted to stay with Ash and kissed him, but a crimson hand seized her and pulled her into the abyss.
• Ash’s chains and the Tragedy Energy binding him cracked and shattered, and Ash opened his eyes.
• The Three Executives used black paint to enhance themselves, while Witch Reina multiplied into a swarm of clones that surrounded Yayoi.

Ash returned to life after Miyuki’s feelings awakened the Wonder Ride Book and rescued her from the darkness. As Pierrot overwhelmed the other Pretty Cure, Ash faced the Tragedy Energy beings and prepared to act.

• Yayoi, Akane, and Reika defeated Witch Reina’s clones, Wolfurun, and Akaoni, but Pierrot appeared and blasted the girls into a crater.
• Miyuki resisted the darkness that was trying to make her despair until Ash’s sword cut through it and freed her.
• Ash carried Miyuki out, and the Wonder Ride Book healed her wounds as he explained that it had awakened through her feelings and restored him to life.
• The four Pretty Cure combined their strength in Precure Rainbow Healing, but Pierrot swallowed their attack and knocked them down.
• The injured Pretty Cure repeatedly stood up to block Pierrot, while Ash recognized the darkness as activated Tragedy Energy connected to his power and prepared to intervene.

Ash forged the Wonder Ride Book of Omnipotence Power with the Precure girls’ strength, then returned to battle Pierrot in his new Kamen Rider Solomon form. He began a godlike clash with Pierrot as the girls recovered below.

• Ash defeated the nearby darkness and absorbed its Tragedy Energy into the Wonder Ride Book, but realized the book lacked the Precure girls’ power.
• Yayoi, Akane, Jun, and Reika stood together against Pierrot, and their shared rainbow power completed the book as Ash flew to their aid with Miyuki.
• Ash’s Caladbolg transformed into the giant robot King Solomon, and his strike injured Pierrot before he reunited with Miyuki and the girls.
• Ash used the Wonder Ride Book to heal the group, then transformed into Kamen Rider Solomon using the girls’ power and Tragedy Energy.
• Ash attacked Pierrot with Solomon Break, launching black-red meteors and meeting its giant arms head-on.

Ash and the Pretty Cures joined forces against Pierrot, whose control of the Tragedy Kingdom made it difficult to defeat. With the Queen’s power, the girls transformed into Princess Form and helped Ash land a combined finishing attack that appeared to destroy Pierrot, but the Omnipotence Power began crumbling into ash afterward.

• Ash fought Pierrot and admitted he sided with the Pretty Cures because he liked them more than the Tragedy Kingdom’s followers.
• Miyuki returned to the battle, but Ash rescued her from Pierrot’s attack and urged the girls to leave; they refused to abandon him.
• The Pretty Cures and Ash pushed back Pierrot’s hand together, and Ash created the Solomon Zone while Candy awakened the Royal Clock’s power.
• The girls received Princess Holy Candles and transformed into Princess Form, then joined Ash in a combined attack that overwhelmed Pierrot with purification light.
• Ash and the Pretty Cures struck Pierrot with their finishing moves, then stood together after the blast as Ash removed the Omnipotence Power from his belt.
• The Omnipotence Power began turning to ash while the Pretty Cures’ laughter abruptly stopped.

After defeating Pierrot, Ash visited the Fairy Tale Kingdom, where the Queen thanked him for restoring part of her book and explained that she had spent her remaining power to help the Pretty Cure. Ash then teased the transformed girls, licked Reika, and followed her home, leaving their friendship awkwardly unsettled.

• Miyuki offered to have the Pretty Cure write a new story for Ash after his fantasy book vanished.
• A surviving fragment of Darkness Emperor Pierrot concluded that only another Kamen Rider could defeat Ash.
• Ash spoke with the Fairy Tale Queen, who thanked him for returning the part of his book that belonged to the light and said she hoped to see Candy again.
• Ash played with the girls in their fairy forms, licked Aoki Reika, and remarked that Pretty Cure tasted good.
• The girls fled to Reika's house, where Ash cut a small window in the door and startled her; the next section began with Reika waking up.

Ash comforted Reika over her chance to study abroad, suggesting she use the Book Gate to stay connected, while she wrote about her growing affection for him in the group’s story notebook. Reika passed the notebook to Nao, whose unresolved hurt over Ash’s actions complicated her decision to contribute.

• Reika told Ash that her approved study-abroad placement in Britain made her fear losing her ties to her friends and to him, and Ash encouraged her to follow her wish while using the Book Gate to visit.
• Reika asked how Ash had returned from exile, and he said he came back because his wife was in danger and answered her call.
• Reika wrote in the notebook that Ash’s strange guidance had drawn her to him and that she might be in love, then gave the notebook to Ash to deliver to Nao.
• Ash found Nao on her way home with ingredients for curry, and she took the notebook while struggling with the lingering hurt caused by his past actions.

Ash visited Nao Midorikawa’s home, where he teased her and met her five younger siblings. He joined the family for dinner and was about to try their rich curry.

• Ash gave Nao a Locust Can, and the mechanical locust frightened her into clinging to him as she tried to escape.
• Nao and Ash bickered while her younger siblings watched, then she cooked curry as Ash lounged in the living room.
• Nao’s younger brother asked whether Ash was her boyfriend, and Ash said he was a male friend who was not her boyfriend.
• Ash admitted he was Kamen Rider and offered to tell the children a Rider story, but Nao called them to dinner before he could begin.
• Ash sat down with the Midorikawa family and eagerly agreed to try Nao’s rich curry.

Nao welcomed Ash into her family and forgave him, then wrote about him in her notebook. Later, a misunderstanding led the police to arrest Ash while the Pretty Cure watched in disbelief.

• Nao served Ash curry with her family, and Ash reflected on how much he had forgotten about family and wondered whether siblings might have changed his past choice to leave his world.
• Nao tried to apologize for hurting Ash with her earlier actions, but he denied saying anything; she understood and decided she had forgiven him.
• Nao wrote about Ash in her notebook, describing his flaws, awkward kindness, and her intention to take care of him, then handed the notebook to Yayoi.
• Nao led the girls in soccer practice, encouraging Yayoi to join in, while Ash watched and made boastful remarks to their teacher about the girls being his women.
• The teacher misinterpreted Ash's comments as a confession of abuse and called the police, who arrested him as the girls stared in shock.

Kise Yayoi struggled to finish her manga before Ash visited, but a Tragedy Kingdom attack struck her house and swapped their souls. The two began figuring out what had happened while trapped in each other’s bodies.

• Kise Yayoi, stuck with a creative block and three days left before the newcomer award deadline, admitted she could not finish her manga.
• Ash escaped the police and kept his promise to visit Yayoi, encouraging her and learning why she called him her big brother.
• A Tragedy Kingdom beam hit the Kise house, and Ash shielded Yayoi from the attack.
• Ash and Yayoi realized their souls had switched bodies and struggled with the unfamiliar changes.
• Kise Chiharu entered the room, mistook Ash in Yayoi’s body for a friend of her daughter, and left to prepare snacks.
• Ash concluded that the beam’s soul-swapping effect had caused the change, while Dark Echo’s collection response stopped in Yayoi’s body.