Chapter Summaries

After Ash and Yayoi switched bodies, Ash went searching for the enemy while Yayoi struggled to control Ash’s strength and accidentally ruined her manga manuscript. Ash later found the ink-stained pages, read them, and realized how much the unfinished story meant to Yayoi.

• Yayoi panicked in Ash’s body, while Ash tested Yayoi’s weaker body and set out to find the attacker.
• Yayoi accidentally damaged her manga pages and stained them with ink while trying to pick them up.
• Candy sensed Tragedy Energy and dark energy like Ash’s near the riverbank, so Miyuki and the other Pretty Cures went to investigate.
• Ash, in Yayoi’s body, drank milk at Chiharu’s urging and beat up three students who mocked Yayoi’s manga ambitions.
• Ash found Yayoi’s ruined manuscript beside a trash can, read it, and asked the System for help after realizing how upset she must be.

After swapping bodies, Yayoi struggled with Ash’s ruined manuscript and fled from a police officer who had come to apologize for wrongfully pursuing him. Ash found her, and they reunited by the lake just as a new Joker monster attacked Pretty Cure.

• Ash used his system to consume the ink-stained manuscript pages, then went looking for Yayoi so she could finish the story.
• Yayoi, wearing Ash’s body, ran from a police officer who had come to bring him back, believing Ash had escaped from prison.
• The officer caught up with Yayoi, apologized after learning Reika had cleared up the misunderstanding, and offered her pork cutlet rice as an apology.
• Ash found Yayoi and took her away with the meal; Yayoi explained she had not used Ash’s strength because she wanted to protect him from harm.
• An explosion interrupted their reunion, and Miyuki called for them to transform and help fight a stitched-together Joker monster by the lake.
• Ash realized he was holding Yayoi’s Smile Pact instead of Dark Sword Tsukuyomi, then headed toward the battle and told Yayoi to leave it to him.

Ash used the Omni-Adapter to transform into Cure Peace through Kise Yayoi’s body and reveled in the Pretty Cure’s immense lightning power while fighting a stitched clown monster. When the monster revealed a stronger attack that seemed to combine Pierrot’s power with something else, Ash answered with a crimson thunderbeam of his own.

• Ash caught Miyuki and used the Smile Pact to transform into Cure Peace through Kise Yayoi’s body.
• Ash cut apart the clown monster’s dark orbs, then attacked it with lightning-powered hair beams, high-speed movement, and a barrage of punches and kicks.
• The other Pretty Cures watched in confusion as Ash laughed and electrocuted the monster, while Yayoi watched from behind a tree in Ash’s body.
• The clown monster repaired its damaged seams, transformed into a more savage form, and attacked Ash with sharp limbs.
• Ash pierced the monster with lightning spears and suspected it combined Pierrot’s power with another force.
• The monster fired a powerful mouth cannon, and Ash countered with Cure Peace’s Superconductive Wave: Thunderforce.

Ash and the Smile Precures defeated a clown monster, and Ash encouraged Yayoi to keep working on her manga. Meanwhile, a dangerous warrior named Gagu arrived in Nanairogaoka City seeking Ash, whose identity was also recognized by a mysterious man connected to the Tragedy Kingdom.

• Ash, controlling Yayoi's body, defeated the stitched clown monster with Cure Peace's Thunder Break and found a belt fragment among its remains.
• Ash and Yayoi returned to their own bodies, and Ash restored Yayoi's manga pages so she could continue working toward her deadline.
• Yayoi's friends praised her manga, and Ash urged her not to abandon the story before she finished it.
• A man in Tragedy Kingdom identified Ash as the Kamen Rider who had brought him to this world, then declared that he wanted to challenge Ash himself.
• Ash's system detected a spacetime fluctuation but froze before identifying the arrival, while Gagu recalled that a man resembling Ash had saved him and warned him about Ash.

Gagu joined forces with Darkness Emperor Pierrot and provoked Ash, while Rider Ash confronted Ultra Ash and Sentai Ash in the world where the Ashes gathered. Ash tracked Gagu down in the city, where he drew his sword at the stranger’s throat as pedestrians watched.

• Gagu agreed to help Pierrot defeat Ash, intending to take Great Darkness for himself and then kill Pierrot.
• Ash felt a murderous presence while working on the Smile Pact and left to investigate, promising Ikuyo he would bring Miyuki back.
• Rider Ash argued with Ultra Ash and Sentai Ash over interfering in Ash’s path, and the three transformed to fight.
• Ash warned Ayumi to leave the area, then accidentally left his Smile Pact and artificial Cure Decor with her.
• Ash confronted Gagu across a city street and held his sword to Gagu’s throat while ordering the nearby pedestrians to flee.

Ash fought En Gagu Ba through a destructive motorcycle duel that carried them from Nanairogaoka City to a rocky shore, where their bikes were destroyed and both riders were badly injured. After trading taunts and recovering from their wounds, they introduced themselves, and Gagu asked whether Ash was really his name.

• Gagu began his Gegel by triggering explosions that devastated a street, and Ash survived the blast before pursuing him on the Diaggo Speedy-go.
• Ash and Gagu raced through Nanairogaoka City, smashing through obstacles and battling at high speed as emergency vehicles headed toward the destruction.
• The motorcycle duel continued down a cliff and across a rocky shoreline, where Ash recognized Gagu as a Gurongi and learned that his Gegel targeted one person every seven days.
• Ash and Gagu charged into one another, destroying both motorcycles and crashing to the ground, then reset their dislocated bones and exchanged insults while their wounds healed.
• Gagu introduced himself as En Gagu Ba, and after Ash rejected his name, Gagu asked whether Ash was really called Ash.

Ash fought Gagu, who revealed that he had become a powerful Gurongi by fusing with an Aguru belt and demanded that Ash turn the Pretty Cure into toys. Their battle crashed into a passenger ship, where Gagu threatened the passengers to provoke Ash, leaving Ash facing the choice of how to stop him without letting the bystanders die.

• Gagu told Ash to torment the Pretty Cure, and Ash attacked him rather than accept his offer.
• Gagu transformed with an Aguru belt and revealed that he had fused it with his Kidaru Spirit Stone, gained power by devouring Spirit Stones, and taken the name Kamen Rider Kuuga.
• Ash rejected Gagu's claim that they were alike and fought him as the two exchanged powerful blows.
• Ash and Gagu crashed through a passenger ship's hull, frightening the passengers and leaving them trapped near the fighting.
• Ash blocked Gagu's strike to keep it from hitting the passengers, but Gagu deflected Ash's gunfire and aimed a makeshift crossbow at the fleeing crowd.
• Ash challenged Gagu as he prepared to shoot the passengers, insisting that he would not let Gagu make them die before his eyes.

Ash fought Gagu aboard the sinking ship but was defeated after Gagu used Ultimate Transformation and Supernatural Ignition, leaving Ash unconscious in the river. Back at school, Yayoi wrote about Ash in the group story as a scarred, rain-soaked figure walked toward the person he sought, while Yayoi asked Miyuki what she planned to write.

• Ash turned the battle against Gagu with his swordsmanship, but Gagu survived Ash’s attack and transformed into a stronger form.
• Gagu shattered Ash’s sword guard, burned him with Supernatural Ignition, and knocked him into the river before deciding to wait for Ash to recover.
• Yayoi’s male classmates apologized for criticizing her manga, and Akane praised her for standing up to them.
• Yayoi told her friends that her manga submission had been approved for the awards judging.
• Yayoi illustrated and wrote about her changing feelings toward Ash in the group story as Miyuki watched rain begin outside.
• A badly burned figure reached the shore and walked through the rain toward someone; Yayoi then asked Miyuki what she would write.

After a series of deadly accidents, the Pretty Cure helped the injured while Akane found Ash gravely wounded and saw a terrifying vision of a dark future. Ash returned carrying an unconscious Akane, and Reika stopped him from leaving to tend to his injuries.

• Miyuki wrote that Ash was adorable before Akane reported explosions, fires, and a ferry disaster in Nanairogaoka City.
• The Pretty Cure joined rescue efforts, but Nao, Reika, and the others learned that people had died and that witnesses had seen motorcycle riders and a purple swordsman fighting a monster.
• Akane searched for Ash and found him gravely wounded beside Dark Sword Tsukuyomi; when she touched the sword, Ash warned her not to touch it, and she experienced visions of the Pretty Cure and Ash falling to a doomed future.
• Ash arrived at the hospital carrying an unconscious Akane, and the other Pretty Cure laid her down while she clung to him and begged him not to leave.
• Reika pressed Ash back into his seat and forbade him from wandering while injured.

After recovering in the hospital, Ash insisted on facing Gagu alone and pushed Pretty Cure away to keep them from being caught in his fight. The girls left hurt and confused, while Ash baited Gagu into coming after him.

• Ash told Reika and the others that the attacker was a bandit pursuing him and arranged for them to take a week off school.
• Ash ordered the girls to stay home or in the Incredible Library while he hunted down and defeated the enemy alone.
• Reika and the others argued that the threat was their responsibility too, but Ash claimed he had a way to win and said they would only get in the way.
• Ash told the girls they had never been friends, then left the hospital to lure Gagu out by revealing that he had hidden Dark Echo at his grandfather's place.
• Akane, Yayoi, Reika, and the others left the hospital, while Miyuki watched them go in confusion.

Miyuki comforted Akane after Akane saw a future where Pierrot and Gagu destroyed the world, and promised they would change it together and save Ash. Gagu captured Miyuki after she used Ash’s Book Gate to bring him food, leaving her in his grasp as he explained that he wanted Ash’s darkness.

• Miyuki found Akane distraught in the hospital, and Akane told her she had seen a dark future in which Pierrot and Gagu won and Ash disappeared or died.
• Miyuki reminded Akane that Ash had once chosen to believe they could change the future, and Akane asked her to save Ash in every future.
• Gagu refused to attack Ash before Friday, threatened Pierrot into giving him more dark power, and decided to use someone close to Ash to draw out his darkness.
• Miyuki prepared food for Ash and used the Book Gate to visit him despite his warning that the girls should stay home.
• Gagu seized Miyuki as she arrived, carried her to the outskirts, and told her that Ash possessed the darkness he wanted.

Gagu transformed Miyuki into Another Kuuga to make Ash suffer, but the monster turned on Gagu and then rampaged through the city. Ash confronted Another Kuuga and identified openings in its attacks, preparing to exploit them.

• Gagu tortured Miyuki, explained his past and his desire to prove his devotion to Catherine, then dismissed her pleas for kindness.
• Gagu used a dark Ridewatch and an electric fragment to transform Miyuki into Another Kuuga, then burned her notebook.
• Another Kuuga attacked Gagu, pursued the notebook, and emerged over the city as terrified people fled.
• Kamen Rider King leaped into the air and slashed at Another Kuuga’s wing cases.
• Ash confronted Another Kuuga at a chemical warehouse, recognized its connection to Gagu, and studied its sluggish attacks and the object it held.
• Ash activated his Jaaku Dragon and Jaaku Hedgehog finishers and launched Mastered Second Flash.

Ash accidentally stabbed Miyuki while fighting Another Kuuga, leaving her critically injured and himself consumed by guilt. As Miyuki clung to Dark Sword Tsukuyomi and refused the Fairy Tale Queen’s offer to heal her in the Fairy Tale Kingdom, she chose to stay by Ash’s side.

• Ash pierced Another Kuuga’s chest, but its armor fell away to reveal Miyuki impaled on his sword.
• Ash admitted that he had wounded Miyuki, and the doctor reported that she had survived surgery but might never wake up.
• Nao confronted Ash, while Reika and Akane stayed with him briefly before leaving him alone beside Miyuki.
• Ash left his notebook and Dark Sword Tsukuyomi with Miyuki, and her unconscious hand later gripped the sword’s hilt.
• The Fairy Tale Queen offered to take Cure Happy to the Fairy Tale Kingdom for treatment, but Miyuki refused and said she needed to stay by Ash’s side.

Ash confessed to Miyuki’s mother that he had caused Miyuki’s injuries and offered her a gun, but she refused to let him escape through death. After Miyuki woke, she urged Ash not to seek revenge or become his former self again, and offered him her love and happiness; Ash promised her something as he bowed his head.

• Ash searched his inventory for Kuuga-related items and found a Colt Python loaded with Nerve Severing Bullets, then formed a plan.
• Ash found Hoshizora Ikuyo grieving outside Miyuki’s intensive care room and confessed that he had caused her daughter’s injuries, offering her the gun.
• Ikuyo struck Ash, called his attempt to die pathetic, and told him not to make Miyuki regret her choices; she then went into the room with her daughter.
• Ikuyo told Ash that Miyuki was awake and wanted to see him, and reassured him that Miyuki did not blame him.
• Miyuki rejected Ash’s plan to become strong again and take revenge, then told him about her childhood, her love for him, and her wish to share her happiness.
• Miyuki offered Ash her heart, and Ash bowed his head and promised her something.

Ash fought Gagu alone in the warehouse, using Dark Sword Tsukuyomi’s prophecy ability to anticipate the monster’s attacks and turn the battle in his favor. The fight continued with Ash overwhelming Gagu’s defenses, though neither the battle nor its outcome had ended.

• Ash arrived at the warehouse alone and declared that he would turn the already hellish place into hell.
• Ash transformed and let Gagu batter him, enduring severe injuries while using Dark Sword Tsukuyomi to accelerate its prophecy ability.
• Ash saw Gagu’s next attack, broke the evil sword on Gagu’s forehead, and severed his hand.
• Ash began reading Gagu’s attacks through repeated visions of possible deaths and countered them with increasingly precise strikes.
• Ash fought as a living storm, cutting through Gagu and the warehouse as their battle continued.

Ash used complete foresight to bait Gagu into reaching for the Dark Sword, then attacked him with a revolver loaded with Nerve Severing Bullets. Gagu was left convulsing and badly injured, but Ash drove forward to finish the fight with his own battered body.

• Ash taunted Gagu into lunging onto the Dark Sword and transformed part of his body to seize control of it.
• Ash cancelled his transformation and aimed a Colt Python at Gagu’s Aguru Stone, then fired as Gagu tried to counterattack.
• Gagu deflected the first bullet, but Ash’s subsequent shots destroyed his right arm and struck his Aguru Stone and Pegasus eye.
• Gagu lost control of his body and collapsed in spasms, while Ash rose from the mud and advanced to kill him.
• Gagu raised his arm blade at Ash’s throat and blamed him for refusing to hand over the power that he claimed would have prevented harm.

Ash defeated Gagu but nearly killed Reika when a vision of her attacking him took over his senses. As Ash demanded that everyone stay away, new visions showed him being killed by people he trusted.

• Ash overwhelmed Gagu with a brutal assault and destroyed his Aguru belt with an enhanced Rider Kick.
• Reika, Yayoi, and Jun found the badly injured Ash, but Ash saw a vision of Reika attacking him and slashed her neck.
• Gagu escaped with a shattered body, lost the spirit stone, and fell into the water as his strength faded.
• Pierrot used the Dark Emperor’s power to end Gagu, who saw Catherine abandon him before darkness took him.
• Ash returned to reality and warned Reika, Yayoi, and Jun to stay away, then sent Yayoi and Jun flying as he struggled against new visions.

Ash lost control under the Sacred Sword Prophecy and attacked anyone who approached, but Akane intervened to protect him and vowed to awaken his heart. In Miyuki’s hospital room, Akane learned they had both seen Ash’s death in the future, and Miyuki gave her a notebook to write a different ending.

• The sacred sword overwhelmed Ash with visions of possible deaths, and he attacked Yayoi when she tried to take it from him.
• Reika charged at Ash, but Akane arrived and blocked her, declaring that she would protect Ash’s heart even if she had to fight Reika.
• Ash struck Akane from behind, then raised his sword over her, but her promise to protect him made him stop before the blow landed.
• Akane visited Miyuki in the hospital and admitted that she had seen a future in which Ash died in the final battle.
• Miyuki handed Akane her notebook and told her to write her story with Ash, urging her to help decide a different ending.

Miyuki remembered her childhood promise to give Nicole’s story a happy ending, then discovered a book describing Ash’s love of heroes and the pain behind his choices. At the quarry, Akane, Yayoi, and Nao restrained Ash as Reika faltered, and Miyuki’s arrival stopped his rampage and brought him back to himself.

• Miyuki entered the Mysterious Picture Book Library, found “Smiling Nicole,” and wrote a happy ending in which Nicole befriended the Demon Dragon, who became a Rider.
• Miyuki read an untitled novel in Ash’s handwriting that described his efforts to change a future where heroes lost and his secret hope that they would defeat him.
• At the quarry, Reika attacked Ash while Akane clung to him and pleaded for others to believe he could still be saved.
• Yayoi grabbed Ash from behind, and Nao joined her and Akane in holding him back while Reika dropped her ice sword.
• Miyuki arrived and called Ash’s name, causing his rampage to stop; he took her hand and asked what she had seen.

Miyuki reunited with her mother and returned home with Ash after recovering from her injuries. Alone in her room, she reassured him about his fight and teased him, while Ash privately worried about the scars from the surgery that saved her life.

• Miyuki reunited with Ikuyo, who embraced her and was relieved to see her healthy and smiling.
• Miyuki introduced Ash to Ikuyo and thanked him for saving her, while Ash said he had been the one saved in the end.
• Miyuki brought Ash to her room and said she was glad he had taken her shopping after leaving the hospital.
• Miyuki asked Ash about the enemy, and he assured her that he had won and kept his promise.
• Miyuki playfully scolded Ash for staring at her chest, while he privately recalled the scars he had left on her during the surgery.