Chapter Summaries

Ash captured the Suite Pretty Cure and planned to take them as trophies, while A and his allies prepared to hunt for Coins and ambush him. Ashu continued guarding the captured Fresh Pretty Cure and openly admitted that she was working with Ash, leaving them shocked by her choice.

• Ash bound the Suite Pretty Cure to crosses, rejected Hibiki's defiance, and said he would use the captured girls to display his strength and keep some as songstresses.
• Karen failed to reach Suite Pretty Cure by phone, and the other teams agreed to face Ash themselves as the girls who had encountered him asked to be left out of the fight.
• After the Pretty Cure teams set out to search for Ash, A explained that he would confront his other self while Regina and the others created an opening, despite giving himself poor odds of winning.
• A, Regina, Dark Precure, and Ayumi decided to hunt for Coins as a hidden third force, and A summoned the OOO Driver.
• Ashu fed doughnuts to the captured Fresh Pretty Cure, refused to release them, and confirmed to Setsuna that she was Pretty Cure but had chosen to side with evil.

Ash left Ashu to hold back the DokiDoki, HeartCatch, and Smile teams while he went to challenge the Pretty Cure girls. He stole the Yes! Pretty Cure 5 girls’ transformation devices, returned them so they could transform, and revealed a powerful six-medal OOO form.

• Ashu admitted that she had suggested tying up the Pretty Cure girls, while Ash added Hojo Hibiki, Kanade, Ellen, and Ako to his collection and drew power from them.
• Ash told Ashu to hold back the DokiDoki, HeartCatch, and Smile teams while he went to confront the other Pretty Cure girls.
• Nozomi Yumehara gave the Yes! Pretty Cure 5 girls bracelets for their transformation devices, hoping to prevent another theft.
• Ash secretly switched the girls’ devices for toys, then returned their real devices after Urara Kasugano asked to trade.
• Ash ordered Nozomi and the others to transform, then used six golden medals to transform into a new six-slot OOO form.

Ash fused with the dark histories of the Showa-era evil organizations and transformed into Shocker OOO, then battled Pretty Cure 5. He withstood the team's coordinated attacks, provoked Kurumi into exhausting herself, and ended the chapter holding her by the throat.

• Ash was swallowed by dark history and emerged as the monstrous Shocker OOO, frightening the girls with his grotesque transformation.
• Pretty Cure 5 attacked Ash together, but he repelled them and trapped Milky Rose, transformed from Kurumi Mimino, by biting her foot.
• Kurumi fought Ash and demanded to know where he had taken Setsuna and the other captured Pretty Cure, while Ash taunted her about being the team's extra member.
• The girls coordinated their attacks, with Cure Aqua, Cure Rouge, Cure Lemonade, Cure Mint, and Cure Dream striking Ash, but his bone armor quickly healed.
• Furious at Ash's taunt, Kurumi unleashed a devastating attack and exhausted her strength, allowing Ash to descend into the crater and seize her by the throat.

Ash defeated Pretty Cure 5 with the powers of his six Core Medals, then fought the arriving Pretty Cure teams. As the girls tried to stop him, Ash resisted their combined attacks and began explaining that their wishes had brought him back, ending with a reference to their encounter on the academy rooftop.

• Ash poisoned Kurumi and Karen, then defeated Nozomi, Rei, Rin, and Komachi with his powers.
• The first and second generations of Pretty Cure confronted Ash, and Cure Black and Cure White blasted him through several buildings.
• Hyuga Saki and Misho Mai struck Ash with Pretty Cure Spiral Star—Splash while Kujo Hikari tried to freeze him with Luminous Heartiel Action.
• Ash rose through the attacks, resisted Kujo Hikari's time stop, and said the girls had called him back with their wishes.
• Ash thanked Cure Black and Cure White and reminded them of what happened on the academy rooftop a few days earlier.

Ash confronted Nagisa and Honoka, revealing that their past actions had helped bring him into existence and shaking Honoka with guilt. Meanwhile, Ashu stopped the other Pretty Cure on Ash’s orders and claimed to be his girlfriend, leaving the girls in chaos and silencing Rei by exposing how she had fled before hearing Ash’s answer after their date.

• Ash used the O Scanner Ring to unleash six tentacles and scatter SplashStar’s finishing move.
• Honoka realized that she and Nagisa may have caused Ash and the girls great harm, and her distress left them open to Ash’s attack.
• Rikka, Rei, Miyuki, and the other Pretty Cure encountered Ashu blocking their route on Ash’s orders.
• Ashu claimed to be Ash’s girlfriend and called the girls his ex-girlfriends, provoking shocked and jealous reactions.
• Rei defended her bond with Ash by revealing that he had taken her on a date.
• Ashu pointed out that Rei had run away before hearing Ash’s answer after confessing, leaving Rei speechless.

Ashu mocked the Pretty Cures by exposing their insecurities, but Rei and Miyuki refused to give up on seeing Ash, and Mana ran to help him. Meanwhile, Ash defeated the exhausted Pretty Cures and fairies in the ruined clearing.

• Ashu taunted the Pretty Cures by revealing painful truths about their feelings for Ash and mocking their weaknesses.
• Yuri accused Ashu of bewitching Ash, and Ashu admitted to influencing him before humiliating Yuri and the other girls.
• Rei declared that the girls would never give up on seeing Ash and charged past Ashu, while Miyuki insisted that Ash belonged to them too.
• Mana ran barefoot to help Ash after deciding to face the real world and its regrets.
• Ash defeated his opponents in the abandoned clearing, leaving the Max Heart and SplashStar girls untransformed and exhausted.

Ash defeated several Pretty Cure and began taking them through a spatial rift, but Mana, Cure Blossom, and Cure Happy confronted him and urged him to stop. He let Mana go to see the others and declared that he had always loved the girls, while nineteen defeated Pretty Cure remained imprisoned in an underground base.

• Ash defeated Honoka and the other girls, then used his tentacles to capture them and declare that he would take them back to make them his.
• Hoshizora Miyuki, Hanasaki Rei, and Aida Mana transformed into Pretty Cure and faced Ash.
• Mana thanked Rei and Miyuki for helping and loving Ash, then asked him to release the other girls.
• Ash fought the three Pretty Cure with his tentacles and insisted that his hunger for power defined who he was.
• Ash asked Mana to come with him, but she refused, so he let her and the other girls leave and said he had always loved them.
• Nineteen defeated Pretty Cure hung from named crosses in an underground base.

Ash and Ashu created Bad End Precure from the Smile Precure combat data and empowered them with stolen energy from other Pretty Cure teams. The five new warriors pledged themselves to Ash, while Ashu secretly pursued her own plans.

• Ashu revealed Smile Precure cards containing Miyuki and the others' combat data, and Ash used the cards, Core Medals, and implanted memories to create Bad End Precure.
• Bad End Happy, Bad End Sunny, Bad End Peace, Bad End March, and Bad End Beauty awakened and pledged themselves to Lord Ash.
• Ashu transferred the Pretty Cure teams' powers into the five new warriors while the captive girls were too weak to resist.
• Ashu completed her collection of five Pretty Cure powers and declared her plan successful.
• The Bad End Precure looked at Ash with greedy, predatory desire that he failed to notice.

Ayumi and A hunted monsters for coins, but their search led them into the Bad End Precure’s base, where bad end Akane and bad end Nao captured Ayumi. The chapter ended with Ayumi calling for A to save her.

• Ayumi worried that A had not found more colored coins, then picked up a strange coin that fell from him and returned it to him.
• A thanked Ayumi for the coin and encouraged her not to put herself in danger by worrying about him.
• Ayumi and A gathered the monsters’ coins and discovered a hidden entrance to an underground base.
• Inside the base, bad end Akane and bad end Nao seized Ayumi and threatened to take her to Ash.
• Ayumi struggled to breathe and cried out for A to save her.

A rescued Ayumi from bad end Akane and bad end Nao, who mistook him for their Ash and agreed to bring him the silver-gray coins. Meanwhile, Mana and the Pretty Cure gathered at Nasta Café prepared to confront Ash, until a broadcast revealed their captured allies bound in a dark tower.

• A found bad end Akane and bad end Nao tormenting Ayumi, and they immediately pledged loyalty to him after mistaking him for Ash.
• A had bad end Akane and bad end Nao release Ayumi, then learned that another version of Ash had taken several Pretty Cure to launch a final challenge.
• Mana woke and resolved to confront Ash, while the Pretty Cure at Nasta Café agreed to stop him together.
• A and the two bad ends gathered silver-gray coins as the café group prepared to act against Ash.
• A broadcast showed a masked man in a newly appeared black tower declaring that he had captured the Pretty Cure and displaying them bound to crosses.

The Precure entered Ash’s tower, where taunts from hostile versions of their voices preceded a spatial trap that divided them into separate battlefields. The HeartCatch and Smile teams fought powerful Giff Messengers and Megid commanders as their enemies advanced.

• Arisu brought the girls to the Black Tower, where speakers broadcast taunts imitating Miyuki, Yayoi, and Reika before Yuri destroyed one.
• Yuri encouraged the younger Precure to keep fighting, and the group stepped toward the tower before space separated them.
• The HeartCatch Precure found themselves in a sealed underground dimension and fought Transformed Dragon, Queen Bee, and Wolf Giff Messengers.
• Erika was chased by bizarre criminals while Nao and Akane battled Rakel and Zuohs, and Yayoi and Miyuki faced Strelius with Reika’s help.
• The Smile Pretty Cure regrouped and charged the three Megid commanders again as the enemies responsible for the separation advanced toward the girls.

The Pretty Cure teams fought Ash’s Bad End Precure and other enemies across the tower and valley. Bad End Miyuki appeared before the Smile Team, setting up a clash between the two Miyukis.

• Cure Diamond stopped and destroyed a charging Metal Horned Rhino while Ai and the others faced a swarm of Mirror Monsters.
• Bad End Sunny and Bad End March arrived and revealed themselves as Bad End Precure, while Bad End Peace tried and failed to harm Rei with a purification attack.
• Bad End Beauty overwhelmed Yuri and Itsuki, blaming Yuri for stealing Ash’s first kiss and declaring herself the only beautiful person worthy of him.
• Miyuki and her companions defeated the Three Executives with Precure Rainbow Burst, but a dark figure then knocked them away.
• Bad End Miyuki introduced herself to the Smile Team and threatened not to spare them unless Ash ordered her to stop.

Miyuki fought her evil counterpart, Bad End Happy, and drew on her bonds with Ash and her friends to overcome the destructive power overwhelming her. Ash sent help through the Wonder Ride Book, and Calibur and the injured Cures joined Miyuki as her Happy Shower purified Bad End Happy.

• Bad End Miyuki attacked Miyuki and the other four Cures, overwhelming them with stolen and copied powers.
• Miyuki resisted Bad End Miyuki’s assault, declared she would not give up on Ash, and struck back.
• As Miyuki and Bad End Miyuki’s finishing attacks clashed, Ash awakened the Wonder Ride Book and sent Regina and Dark Precure to help.
• Ash used the Wonder Ride Book to summon a black dragon, a crimson spider, and Dragon Be Here toward Miyuki.
• Calibur braced Miyuki from behind, and the injured Cures poured their energy into her attack.
• Miyuki pushed her Happy Shower through Bad End Miyuki’s Bad End Shower and engulfed her in purifying light.

The Pretty Cures received help from Regina, Dark Dragreder, Ryuga, Dark Precure, and Timons as they fought the Bad End Precures. Ash’s allies faced their opponents with renewed strength, and Timons prepared to defend Yuri and Itsuki from bad end Reika.

• Bad end Akane and bad end Nao overwhelmed the Pretty Cures with fire and sound attacks, but Dark Dragreder protected the fallen girls and Regina struck the attackers.
• Ryuga emerged from a mirror and transformed into Survive Ryuga, joining the Pretty Cures as they prepared to fight back.
• Dark Precure rescued Rei and Erika from bad end Yayoi, rejected Yayoi’s claim that they were allies, and defeated her.
• Timons reunited with Yuri and Itsuki, who defended him when bad end Reika accused him of not being Ash.
• Bad end Reika charged at Timons with an ice sword, and he activated the Giant Spider stamp to protect Yuri and Itsuki.

Miyuki and the others defeated Bad End Precure, while Ash gathered their Medals and prepared for another fight. A and Ayumi confronted him in the Core room, but their struggle left A badly wounded as Ayumi fought to hold Ash back.

• Itsuki, Yuri, and Timons defeated bad end Reika, and the shattered worlds revealed the Black Tower’s interior.
• Miyuki recovered from her battle and celebrated defeating Ash, while the Shocker Core Medal rolled back toward Ash and he gathered the other Medals.
• A and Ayumi entered the Core room and challenged Ash, who transformed into Shocker OOO while A transformed with Ayumi’s three Medals.
• Ash overwhelmed A, but Ayumi intervened and held back Ash’s sickle as white light emerged from her damaged suit.
• A and Ayumi pinned Ash down together, and A taunted him about acting like a selfish child while Ash struggled to use his full strength.
• Ash stabbed A in the chest with a sickle-tipped tentacle, making A cough blood and release his grip.

A and Ayumi confronted Shocker OOO, the desire-driven part of Ash, but he overwhelmed them until the Pretty Cure arrived. Shocker OOO revealed the bound seniors and forced the girls to face evidence of Ash’s betrayal.

• Shocker OOO attacked A and Ayumi with a destructive beam, but Ayumi’s new barrier helped them survive the blast.
• A admitted he was losing control and told Ayumi he was destined to disappear, but Shocker OOO reappeared and defeated him.
• Shocker OOO grabbed Ayumi by the throat until Cure Heart shot his hand with a Heart Arrow and the Pretty Cure arrived.
• The Pretty Cure attacked Shocker OOO, who fought them off and teleported the bound seniors and crosses into view.
• Yuri rejected the idea that Ash could have done this and declared Shocker OOO a fake.

Ash revealed that he had returned as the girls’ collective desire, leaving the Pretty Cure grieving and unwilling to fight. Mana chose to save both Ash and A, and the chapter ended with the Bad End Precure awakening in Ash’s belt as he prepared to attack A.

• Ash explained his resurrection to the Pretty Cure and exposed the truth behind his existence, breaking their morale.
• A held the unconscious Ayumi and nearly attacked Ash, but Ayumi’s touch sent light into him.
• Ash told Mana that her longing had helped bring him back, and Mana resolved to save him rather than accept his cruelty.
• Mana comforted A, affirmed that both he and the other Ash were real parts of Ash, and urged him to keep walking his own path.
• Ash realized Mana had chosen A and ordered the Bad End Precure in his belt to bring the coins to him so he could attack A.

Shocker OOO realized that the Bad End Precure cared for A, not him, and broke down as Mana and A rejected his version of their shared past. He abandoned all pretense of reason and attacked A to reclaim Mana.

• Shocker OOO crushed the coins and relived the moment the Bad End Precure chose A, then collapsed into grief and howled in anguish.
• Ashu watched from a rooftop, laughed at Shocker OOO's humiliation, and weighed whether to pursue the fairies on another rooftop.
• Mana told Shocker OOO that he loved only an imagined version of her, while A reminded him that Ash's original wish had been to befriend heroes.
• Shocker OOO insisted his desire and love for Mana had never changed, then declared he would recreate their time together from the beginning.
• Shocker OOO accused A of binding Mana, vowed to destroy him and take her back, and lunged at A with drill-like fingertips.

A transformed into PuToTyranno Combo and cracked Shocker OOO’s Core Medal, weakening him enough to fight on more equal terms while the Pretty Cure rescued the captured girls. Elsewhere, Ashu stole the fairies’ Miracle Lights, and Itsuki ran toward the two Riders as their battle continued.

• Mana tried to shield A from Shocker OOO’s attack, but A pulled her down and transformed into PuToTyranno Combo.
• A struck Shocker OOO’s Driver, cracking his Core Medal and weakening his power as monsters began closing in on the Pretty Cure.
• A froze and swept aside the monsters while Mana and the others freed their captured allies and escorted them toward safety.
• Ashu demanded the fairies’ Miracle Lights, claimed she was a Pretty Cure, and then stole the lights when they refused.
• Itsuki threw aside a monster and ran toward A and Shocker OOO as the two Riders fought.

A and Shocker OOO fought over their shared past and what Ash should become, ending their Rider battle in a devastating mutual blast. Both then rose as monsters and resumed their savage fight while the Pretty Cures defeated the remaining enemies.

• Itsuki tried to intervene in the duel, but A and Shocker OOO ordered her to stay out of their battle.
• A resisted the Dinosaur Combo’s destructive urge by remembering the people whose voices urged him on, while Regina and Dark Precure stopped the Bad End Precure from interfering.
• A and Shocker OOO argued over their shared origins and fought over whether Ash could possess everything, then exchanged final attacks that shattered their Drivers and Medals.
• Mana and the other Pretty Cures combined their powers and defeated the Gene Extinguisher, Mirror Monsters, outlaws, and Megid with their strongest attacks.
• A and Shocker OOO recovered in monstrous forms, charged at each other, and began tearing into one another with brutal blows.