Chapter Summaries

Ash confronted Kaito Daiki while searching for clues about the kidnapped god, then returned to the Puppet Kingdom as Kozumu began a dance for the Pretty Cure. The chapter ended with Kozumu performing gracefully on the palace stage while the girls watched.

• Snow White stayed committed to her feelings for Ash despite Prince Sieg’s arrival and her friends’ surprise.
• Ash caught Kaito Daiki breaking into the Omori Residence and persuaded him to return the Pretty Cure’s stolen treasure by tricking him with a claim about a greater treasure behind it.
• Kaito told Ash that Narutaki and the Phantom Queen had defeated and abducted the Puppet Kingdom’s god.
• Kaito questioned why Ash continued traveling after finding people and a world he liked, and Ash said he had no place where he could return in peace.
• Megumi and the others attended the Puppet Kingdom celebration, and Kozumu began a ballet performance for the dolls and the Pretty Cure.

Tsumugi befriended the Pretty Cure before Black Fang reminded her that they were enemies and persuaded her to defend the Puppet Kingdom. Ash secretly overheard their conversation, while the Pretty Cure began investigating the kingdom's suspicious behavior and found themselves blocked by dolls.

• Tsumugi impressed the Pretty Cure with her dance, then bonded with them over dolls and other interests before a voice reminded her they were enemies.
• Black Fang told Tsumugi that the Pretty Cure's friendship was an act and urged her to protect the world he had created for her.
• Tsumugi left determined to defend the Puppet Kingdom, and Ash revealed that he had hidden nearby by turning into a puddle.
• Ash warned the Pretty Cure that something was wrong, and Iona and Yuko noticed that Tsumugi had known their preferences and arranged Earth food.
• Yuko and Iona decided to investigate, but dolls surrounded them and proved impossible for Iona to push aside; meanwhile, Prince Sieg approached Snow White.

Kozumu lured Megumi into a room filled with Bad Beasts and revealed that she meant to stop the Pretty Cure, while Ash arrived to help Megumi. Outside, Prince Sieg and the puppets blocked Iona and the others, explaining that they acted to protect Kozumu’s happiness.

• Kohime panicked when Prince Sieg asked her to dance, then realized she had become separated from her friends among the puppets.
• Kozumu told Megumi that not everyone could be made happy and fled into a room after voicing her despair.
• Toregier revealed to Phantom that Ash was in the Puppet Kingdom, and Phantom said his target was the traitor of the Phantom Empire.
• Kozumu trapped Megumi among Bad Beasts and used a loom that continually recreated them from threads of misfortune.
• Ash crashed into the room on his motorcycle, rescued Megumi from the encirclement, and photographed Kozumu.
• Prince Sieg and the puppets stopped Iona and the others, saying they would do anything to keep Kozumu dancing happily.

Ash rescued Megumi from a Bad Beast while Megumi tried to persuade Kozumu to leave the Phantom Empire, but Kozumu’s story of losing the ability to walk made Megumi doubt herself and lose her transformation. Ash then offered to heal Kozumu’s legs and challenged her to consider what she would do if he could give her a new life.

• Snow White dropped a curtain over the rag-doll Bad Beasts, and Ash transformed into Kamen Rider V3 to fight them.
• Megumi told Kozumu that she wanted to help because Kozumu’s dancing and smile had seemed genuine.
• Kozumu revealed that she had once loved dancing but had lost the ability to move her legs, and that the Phantom Empire had given her a kingdom where she could dance again.
• Kozumu challenged Megumi to defeat her for the sake of justice, and Megumi lost her resolve and detransformed after failing to answer whether she could restore Kozumu’s legs.
• Ash kicked away a Bad Beast about to attack Megumi and told Kozumu that he could heal her legs and give her a new life.

Ash challenged Tsumugi’s belief that she needed the Phantom Empire’s power, while Megumi insisted on helping her and Ash used the trolley problem to urge her to seek a way for everyone to be saved. Ash exposed Black Fang, then revealed that Tsumugi had been in a coma in the real world since arriving in the Puppet Kingdom, leaving her shocked about her worried parents.

• Ash told Tsumugi that he had no obligation to help her, while Megumi defended her and said she still wanted to help.
• Ash posed the trolley problem to Megumi, then explained that a Kamen Rider would stop the trolley and confront the kidnapper instead of choosing who died.
• Ash shot the hidden Black Fang and invited him to join the fight, while Megumi urged Tsumugi to look more carefully for a solution.
• Black Fang tried to draw Tsumugi to his side, but she hesitated after questioning whether his actions were right.
• Ash recited Tsumugi’s personal history and told her she had fallen into a coma three months earlier, when she arrived in the Puppet Kingdom.
• Tsumugi learned that her parents had been worrying over her in the hospital and wondered whether she had ever woken from her coma.

Ash exposed Black Fang’s deception and learned that Orihara Tsumugi’s dreams had created a world he planned to exploit for misery energy. After Black Fang attacked Tsumugi, Ash transformed into Wizard Infinity Style and defended Megumi from the Bad Beasts.

• Ash revealed that Black Fang had deceived Tsumugi, who had created a real world through her dreams and feelings.
• Black Fang bound Tsumugi in threads and admitted he had caused her misery to steal her power and gather misery energy.
• Megumi asked Ash to help, and Ash rejected Black Fang’s offer to share Tsumugi’s misery energy before cutting through the threads.
• Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Wizard Infinity Style and destroyed the Bad Beasts that attacked him.
• Ash shielded Megumi from the Bad Beasts’ reflected beams, then knocked the attackers into the air and summoned the Brilliant Sword Axe.

Ash and the Pretty Cure fought Black Fang in Tsumugi’s dream world, while Megumi urged Tsumugi to ask for help. Tsumugi finally pleaded to be saved, and Ash and the Pretty Cure joined forces to stop Black Fang as he tried to escape with her.

• Ash used his magic to defeat Black Fang’s Bad Beasts and protect Megumi in Tsumugi’s dream world.
• Megumi appealed to Tsumugi, and Snow White, Yuko, and Iona transformed into Pretty Cure to defend her from Black Fang’s threads.
• Black Fang seized the loom and flew away with Tsumugi, claiming he could use her misfortune energy and the dolls’ power to overcome his enemies.
• Megumi urged Tsumugi to speak up, and Tsumugi asked Ash and the Pretty Cure to save her.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure combined their light chains to block Black Fang while Ash prepared to strike with the Brilliant Sword Axe.

Ash defeated Black Fang, but Phantom escaped with Tsumugi before Ash could stop him. Toregier then appeared, unsettled Ash by revealing that someone had helped him interfere with the system, and provoked Megumi into attacking before he withdrew; Ash placed a hand on Megumi’s shoulder as the confrontation paused.

• Ash used the Brilliant Battle Axe to split the Puppet Kingdom and sever Black Fang’s connection to other worlds.
• Phantom killed Black Fang, took Tsumugi and the misfortune energy, and escaped through a mirror while Ash caught the puppetized Blue God.
• The system told Ash that someone had blocked its ability to trace Phantom’s teleportation, and Toregier emerged from a dark passage claiming someone had given him the needed parameters.
• Toregier told Ash he had come to disrupt his complacency, and Megumi attacked him with Heart Shoot to protect Ash.
• Toregier endured Megumi’s attack, addressed her by name, and withdrew after she threatened him again; Ash placed a hand on Megumi’s shoulder.

Megumi unleashed a powerful attack against Toregier, who revealed that he was targeting Ash and Pretty Cure before escaping. Red God then accused Ash of killing Blue God and destroying a world, turning Pretty Cures around the globe against him, while Ash’s allies continued to trust him.

• Megumi collapsed after unexpectedly unleashing a finishing move more powerful than the Pretty Cures’ combined attack, and she could not explain how she had done it.
• Ash confronted Toregier, who said he wanted to test other beings like light and had a personal grudge against Ash; Toregier escaped after Ash threw his Brilliant Sword Axe at him.
• Red God introduced himself to Pretty Cures around the world and claimed that Blue God had fallen and that Ash was responsible.
• Megumi, Snow White, and Iona believed Ash’s denial, but Red God showed footage of Ash destroying the Puppet Kingdom and past battles between Riders and Pretty Cures to condemn him as the Destroyer of Worlds.
• The Bomber Girl Precure in San Francisco accepted Red God’s accusations and renewed their anger toward Ash.

Red God restored Pretty Cure's powers while portraying Ash as a world-destroying enemy, prompting heroines around the world to pursue him. Ash refused to back down, and as Megumi resolved to protect both him and the other Pretty Cure, Ash faced another group of challengers.

• Red God used a misleading account of Ash's past to rally Pretty Cure worldwide, restored their powers with scarlet energy, and ordered them to defeat him.
• Ash admitted that he had destroyed worlds and mistreated Pretty Cure, rejected the idea that Blue God could clear things up, and accepted that the whole world might oppose him.
• Yuko, Iona, Megumi, and Snow White continued fighting Bad Beasts after regaining their powers, but worried about Ash's disappearance and the accusations against him.
• The girls discovered Ash had returned with other Pretty Cure nearby, and Megumi decided to protect him without letting him hurt anyone else.
• Ash investigated Red God and Phantom Ash but found no leads, then confronted the pursuing Pretty Cure and declared he would defeat anyone who stood in his way.

Ash fought the Pretty Cures from other countries, but Red God’s influence turned their defeat into renewed rage and they overwhelmed him. Megumi, Yuko, and the others broke through the fight to protect Ash and offered to help him, leaving him surrounded by friends who refused to let him face his troubles alone.

• Ash endured the Pretty Cures’ attacks and fought back until they were all knocked down, hoping to let them vent their frustration.
• The defeated Pretty Cures rose again with red-glowing eyes, and Ash realized Red God’s power had intensified their resentment.
• The Pretty Cures swarmed Ash and pinned him down as they cried about the ordinary lives and people they feared losing.
• Megumi, Yuko, and the others arrived, drove the Pretty Cures away, and Yuko used Honey Healing Rhythm to clear the unnatural red glow from their eyes.
• Megumi told Ash that everyone had decided to help him, and she offered him her hand.

Phantom tried to corrupt the sealed Pretty Cure to strengthen the Phantom Empire, but Ash interrupted him and began rescuing them as the Pretty Cure Graveyard collapsed.

• Phantom gathered misfortune energy and used it to corrupt Hikawa Maria, the sealed Cure Tender, planning to control her mind.
• Ash arrived at the Pretty Cure Graveyard and confronted Phantom, saying he had come to rescue the sealed Pretty Cure.
• Phantom fled after deliberately causing the small world to collapse, hoping Ash would be delayed.
• Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Kabuto, activated Clock Up, and began collecting the coffin lids before the ground fell away.

Ash rescued the girls sealed in mirror coffins and reunited Hikawa Maria with Iona. Maria reclaimed her strength as a fallen Cure Tender, and Ash reassured her that her power did not disqualify her from being Pretty Cure; the chapter ended with Ash bringing dumplings to Megumi and the others.

• Ash freed the girls trapped in mirror coffins, and Hikawa Maria recognized him as her rescuer.
• Ash brought Maria to Iona, and the sisters reunited with Sunglasses after years apart.
• Maria fought four Bad Beasts and defeated them with her newly strengthened fallen Cure Tender powers.
• Maria worried that wielding darkness meant she could no longer be Pretty Cure, but Ash told her that her choices defined her role.
• Maria blushed at Ash's words and wondered if she had fallen in love at first sight.
• Ash arrived at the Blue Sky Kingdom embassy with dumplings for Megumi and the others.

Hikawa Maria joined Ash and the HappinessCharge Pretty Cure, whose jealousy grew as she openly acted affectionate toward him. Later, Maria and Iona reunited at the dojo, where Maria admitted she liked Ash and teased Iona about her own feelings.

• Ash brought out dumplings he had cooked, and Yuko explained that he had insisted on helping in the kitchen.
• Maria asked Ash for dumplings and tea, prompting Iona to suspect that her sister had feelings for him.
• Iona struggled with insomnia over Maria’s closeness to Ash while the girls discussed the attention they received after revealing their identities.
• Ash answered the girls’ questions about why he chose them and pointed out that their team lacked Student Council members.
• Maria hugged Ash, then left with him as the other girls watched jealously.
• Iona challenged Maria to meet her at the dojo, where Maria admitted she liked Ash and teased Iona about her feelings.

Iona lost a karate match to Maria and joined Megumi and the others in trying to win Ash over. Their first attempts failed because Ash remained oblivious, and Yuko began her own seduction plan at her family’s restaurant.

• Maria told Iona she planned to move to America and declined to join the Pretty Cure team, so Iona challenged her to a karate match to persuade her to stay and keep away from Ash.
• Iona lost the match, and Snow White advised the girls to seduce Ash instead of letting Maria win him over.
• Megumi invited Ash to her home and staged an accidental encounter after bathing, but Ash simply helped dry her hair and told her not to do that around men who were not family.
• Yuko invited Ash to Omori Bento, then tripped in front of him while trying to begin her own seduction plan.

Ash realized the Pretty Cure were acting strangely because Snow White had encouraged them to tempt him, then turned her attempted seduction into an embarrassing toothbrushing lesson. The chapter ended with Ash effortlessly defeating Hikawa Maria in a sparring exchange and teaching her that real battle was nothing like a fair contest.

• Ash helped Yuko up after she fell and pulled her pants back into place, then warned her to dress properly.
• Iona tried to prepare a seductive karate sparring session, but Ash entered the changing room and saw her in her underclothes before she chased him out.
• Ash discovered Snow White’s plan to use a dress and a date to win his attention, agreed to go out with her, and made her brush her teeth while teasing her.
• Ash explained to Maria that the girls should value themselves more, and Maria praised his kindness.
• Maria asked Ash to test the gap between them in the dojo, but he moved too quickly for her to see and touched her neck, showing her how dangerous a real battle could be.

Maria confessed her love to Ash, but he rejected her, and the girls teased her afterward. The Phantom Empire launched its final attack across Earth, prompting Ash to gather the Cures and reveal that they needed to learn more before facing the Phantom Queen.

• Maria finally threw Ash to the ground during their training, then confessed that she loved him because he had saved and encouraged her; Ash said he could not return her feelings.
• Maria accepted Ash’s answer but vowed not to give up, and she chased Iona and the other girls around the dojo after they teased her.
• Kaito searched Yuko’s room for treasure, and Yuko gave him rice balls; when the Phantom Empire attacked Light Hill and sealed her parents, Kaito sent Yuko through an Aurora Curtain and transformed to fight.
• Yuko arrived at the embassy, where Ash and the girls watched reports of Phantom Empire attacks worldwide and recognized that the empire had begun its full offensive.
• Ash led the girls toward the embassy’s depths to tell them what they needed to know, then questioned the newly awakened Blue God about the Phantom Queen and placed the Aksia box on the table.

Blue God revealed that the Phantom Queen had once been a Pretty Cure he loved but rejected, and Ash helped Megumi accept that they still had to fight her. Corrupted by Red God, the Phantom Queen embraced destruction and launched a worldwide attack, setting the stage for a final battle.

• Blue God explained that Aksia could strengthen Pretty Cure and recounted how the Phantom Queen had once been a shrine maiden and his close ally before he rejected her confession.
• Blue God bowed before the heroes and begged them to defeat the Phantom Queen and end the tragedy.
• Megumi struggled to fight the Phantom Queen out of pity, but Ash reminded her of the harm she had caused and promised to find a way to end the conflict.
• Red God manipulated the despairing Phantom Queen into seeing love as a calamity, and she resolved to destroy everything.
• The Phantom Queen unleashed an ability that created Bad Beasts across Earth, then ordered her officers and Narutaki to prepare for the approaching Pretty Cure and Kamen Rider.

Phantom Queen prepared to use Orihara as a misfortune-energy generator while Ash and the HappinessCharge Pretty Cure fought through the Phantom Empire toward her. Narutaki’s Aurora Curtain separated Ash from the others, and Ash discovered Pretty Cure around the world were losing their transformations, so he prepared to use a charged Dark Sentai Gear to help them.

• Phantom Queen ordered Phantom to guard Orihara’s cocoon and declared that the cocoon’s misfortune energy might be their final chance.
• Ash transformed into Drive Type Formula and helped the Pretty Cure defeat the Phantom Empire’s hordes with high-speed attacks and finishing moves.
• Hikawa Maria stayed behind to hold off the enemies as Ash and the Pretty Cure headed for the castle, but Narutaki’s Aurora Curtain scattered the group.
• Ash found Yuko nearby and discovered that Pretty Cure around the world had lost the ability to transform while Bad Beasts attacked them.
• Ash revealed that he had prepared forty-five charged Dark Sentai Gears and combined them into a rainbow-lit All-Rider Sentai Gear.

Ash’s worldwide Sentai forces protected people while he and Yuko watched, but Narutaki’s ambush led Kaito to sacrifice himself defending Yuko. Kaito died after giving Ash the K-Touch, leaving Ash and Yuko to face the Phantom Queen’s forces.

• Ash showed Yuko Sentai teams fighting the Phantom Empire’s forces around the world, then Narutaki attacked him from behind.
• Yuko shielded Ash, and Kaito arrived to block Narutaki’s strike before battling him alone.
• Narutaki transformed into Another Decade and gravely wounded Kaito, who refused Yuko’s healing and said he had found the world’s most precious treasure.
• The three officers prepared to confront the Pretty Cure girls in the castle as their final battle for the Queen.
• Kaito gave Ash his K-Touch and died, leaving Ash grieving beside him.