Chapter Summaries

Ash and the Pretty Cure were separated across the Phantom Empire castle and forced to fight their own enemies, while Ash faced Another Decade in a battle of summoned Riders. Ash broke free of Another Decade’s time stop with Tomorrow Energy, as Aino Megumi entered the throne room and sensed something wrong with the Phantom Queen.

• Ash sent Yuko away, transformed into Grand Zi-O, and learned that Narutaki had obtained the Another Decade Ridewatch from the version of Ash who defeated the Kamen Riders.
• Aurora Curtains scattered the girls around the castle, where Iona fought Oresuki, Snow White fought Namakeruda, and Yuko was intercepted by Hoshiwa.
• Megumi reached the throne-room doors alone and entered to confront the Phantom Queen despite Ash’s advice to wait for the others.
• Ash summoned Riders to battle Another Decade’s villains, then attacked Narutaki directly and pinned him with Rider weapons.
• Another Decade stopped time and prepared to kill Ash, but a girl’s voice and a burst of Tomorrow Energy let Ash move again.
• Megumi met the Phantom Queen among broken objects in the throne room and asked whether she was all right.

Megumi fought Phantom Queen alone and was overwhelmed by the Queen’s power and memories of misfortune. Meanwhile, Ash survived Another Decade’s finishing attack and vowed to keep fighting for someone waiting for him.

• Phantom Queen rejected Megumi’s appeal and told her to abandon her dreams, but Megumi answered with a punch and declared that her fight as Pretty Cure was reality.
• A miraculous light briefly appeared to Ash, who then moved despite the stopped time and layered his defenses to survive Another Decade’s finishing kick.
• Ash told Narutaki he would not give up because someone was waiting for him, then raised his fists and vowed he could fight all day.
• Phantom Queen transformed the throne hall into her battlefield, revealed four black wings, and attacked Megumi with her scepter and misfortune.
• Megumi challenged Phantom Queen over her choices and fought with twin swords, but the Queen shattered her weapons and wings, flooded her with tears, and left her floating limp in the lake.

Aino Megumi overcame Phantom Queen’s despair with her conviction that loving Ash was meaningful even without a response, then joined forces with Tsumugi to send her confession to him. The chapter left Ash fighting alongside the others as he shot another Decade for mocking Diend.

• Aino Megumi rejected Phantom Queen’s claims about Ash and declared that her love would make her happy even if he did not return it.
• Megumi transformed into a giant golden fist and struck Phantom Queen with Lovely Big Bang Punch, but Phantom pulled Megumi into a darkness-filled world to protect the Queen.
• Megumi found Orihara Tsumugi and promised to help her escape, while Tsumugi encouraged Megumi to voice her feelings to Ash.
• Megumi confessed her love to Ash, and Tsumugi used her Heart Power to help convey the confession to him.
• Another Decade mocked Diend, and Ash fired the Diend Driver at him.

Ash and the HappinessCharge Precure united their powers, transforming him into a pink Decade who fought the Phantom Empire’s strongest enemies. After defeating their allies, Ash faced Narutaki’s Another Decade in a final clash.

• Ash rejected Narutaki’s claim that his travels only caused tragedy and declared that his friends had changed him.
• Megumi emerged from the Cocoon of Misfortune with the Shining Make Dresser, and the HappinessCharge Precure transformed into Innocent Form.
• Ash used the Precure cards to become Decade Complete Form Pretty Cure Ver. and fought Gamedeus Cronus, Eternal, and Evolto.
• Ash and Mana defeated Eternal, then Ash and the HeartCatch Precure destroyed Evolto’s black hole and struck him into the earth’s core.
• Ash and the Smile Precure joined forces to defeat Gamedeus Cronus, leaving Narutaki as the last enemy.
• Narutaki refused to flee and launched a finishing kick at Ash, who charged forward to meet him.

Ash defeated Another Decade with Decade’s final attack as Aino Megumi became Super Happiness Lovely and fought the Phantom Queen. After overpowering her, Megumi unleashed Lovely Nova, and the saintly Pretty Cures overwhelmed the Phantom Empire’s executives.

• Ash used Decade’s Final AttackRide to defeat Another Decade.
• Orihara Tsumugi’s prayers strengthened Aino Megumi as she transformed into Super Happiness Lovely and destroyed the Bad Beasts threatening her.
• Megumi battled the Phantom Queen, broke her scepter, and tore off her wings while urging her to seek happiness.
• Megumi unleashed Lovely Nova into the sky above the Phantom Empire.
• The Saintly Mode Pretty Cures overpowered Namakeruda, Hoshiwa, and Oresuki.

Megumi purified the world and spared Phantom Queen, but Red God seized control of her and forced her to merge with a monster. Ash interrupted the transformation by kissing Phantom Queen, while Red God triggered hidden mind-control traps around the world, leaving Ash to face the anger of the girls he had collected.

• Megumi used Love Power to restore the ruined castle, cleanse the world's miasma, and free people trapped by dark power.
• Phantom Queen awakened beneath the rubble, but Red God burned away her sanity and drove her to absorb dark threads and misfortune energy into a growing monster.
• Snow White asked Ash to save Phantom Queen, and Ash climbed the monster before kissing her to throw her feelings into confusion and halt the fusion.
• Red God reacted to Ash's kiss by activating hidden traps that caused girls around the world to attack, while the Super Sentai subdued them.
• Ash restrained Phantom Queen with SPD silver handcuffs and prepared to leave, but the girls blocked his way with angry expressions.

Ash faced the Pretty Cures’ jealousy after kissing Phantom Queen, then joined them in fighting a giant Red Bad Beast as Precure worldwide went berserk. While flying aboard Jet Icarus, Megumi reassured Ash and kissed him, leaving them together in a quiet moment of happiness.

• Yuko, Iona, and Snow White confronted Ash for kissing Phantom Queen, while Megumi told him she was not angry and was glad he could pursue happiness.
• A giant Red Bad Beast burst out beneath the castle and attacked the group, but Ash sent Phantom Queen to Auto Vajin and summoned Jet Icarus to carry the others into the sky.
• Ash learned that Precure around the world had gone berserk and wondered how to awaken them, while Megumi suggested reaching their hearts.
• Megumi asked Ash whether he liked Phantom Queen and the other girls, then gently turned his face toward her.
• Megumi kissed Ash aboard Jet Icarus, and they held each other as they shared a moment of happiness.

Megumi sang “Interstellar Flight” from Jet Icarus’s palm, reaching the hearts of people around the world and breaking the darkness controlling the Pretty Cure. After the performance, Ash caught her as her legs gave way, and Megumi said she was happy her song had reached everyone.

• Fairy Ribbon gave Megumi a new Light Card while Ash and the others fought Red Bad Beasts attacking Jet Icarus.
• Megumi proposed singing to awaken everyone, and Ash broadcast her image worldwide using Jet Icarus’s speakers and public screens.
• Though frightened to perform, Megumi drew courage from her friends and began singing “Interstellar Flight” in a new idol outfit.
• Megumi’s song reached the Sentai Rangers, Pretty Cure, Kamen Riders, masterminds, and even the Bad Beasts, weakening the darkness controlling the Pretty Cure.
• Ash watched Megumi dance and sing, blushed at her wink, and admired her as the hero he had always sought.
• When Megumi finished, Ash caught her as her legs gave way, and she happily told him that her song had reached everyone.

After the Phantom Empire’s defeat, Ash and his friends celebrated the restored peace as Snow White reunited with her family and ? performed onstage. Megumi promised to protect Ash from the forces that could take his life, while Ash concealed his plan to eventually disappear and agreed to stay with her for now.

• Snow White reunited with her freed parents, thanked her friends, and cried in Ash’s arms as he praised her growth as a Princess.
• Ash and Megumi joined their friends at a performance, where Megumi spoke about her new fame and everyone watched ? dance.
• Megumi asked Ash about the other Pretty Cure connected to him, and he explained that he had died in those worlds before arriving in theirs.
• Megumi vowed to defeat the blue giant and the red god so Ash could remain with her, and Ash promised he would stay despite hiding his eventual plan to disappear.
• Megumi admitted she was afraid Ash would vanish, and Ash teased her before she called him awful for making her heart race.

After the Phantom Empire’s defeat, Megumi encountered a man who looked like Ash, and Ash confronted him in a battle between near-mirror opponents. The stranger revealed himself as Dust, a distinct being with Ash’s memories, and Ash struggled to understand what he was.

• Ash tore up Mr. God’s thank-you letter and explained that he had fought for Megumi and the others, while they complained about God’s failings.
• Megumi followed Ash into an alley and mistook Dust, who wore Ash’s face, for him until Dust revealed he was not Ash.
• Dust taunted Megumi about her relationship with Ash, then attacked as Ash arrived and ordered Megumi to leave their fight to him.
• Ash fought Dust, whose movements matched his own, and Dust transformed into Kamen Rider Dust using a golden Ziku-Driver.
• Dust called Ash’s story nauseating and addressed him as his brother, prompting Ash to ask whether Dust was his evil cloned twin.

Ash fought Dust, who used stolen Creation Power and revealed that Ash’s memories had begun returning and his progress collecting Dark Echoes had changed. Dust claimed the system had made him die and travel between worlds for its own plan, while Megumi overheard and became consumed by anger; Ash rejected Dust’s attempt to turn him against the system.

• Dust confronted Ash and transformed into Evol, but Ash used Decade and Pretty Cure powers to overpower him and knock the Evol watch away.
• Dust told Ash that his memories had stopped disappearing after the second world and that his Dark Echo collection was progressing differently than before.
• Dust shattered the system’s screen and claimed the system was his accomplice, while Ash demanded to know what he meant.
• Megumi returned and overheard Dust claim that the system had parasitized Ash and forced him to die and travel between worlds.
• Dust produced the collected Dark Echoes and said they were in his group’s hands, but Ash accused him of trying to drive a wedge between him and the system.

Ash and Dust fought over the system while Dust revealed that it had planned to share Dark Echo’s burden through Ash’s bonds with the Pretty Cure. Aino Megumi’s attack struck Ash as he shielded the system, but he survived and angrily confronted her for disrupting his plan.

• Dust revealed that the system had created the Ashes to help Ash carry Dark Echo, and planned to free him by sharing its karma through the love of the Pretty Cure.
• Dust used Dark Echo to pull the system into the real world and began tearing it away from Ash while accusing him of fearing death and attachment.
• Aino Megumi used the power of the Evil God Grimde Light Ring to fire a destructive attack at Dust and the system.
• Ash shielded the system from Megumi’s attack and was blasted away, leaving Megumi horrified at the blood on her hands.
• Ash recovered, kicked Megumi, and scolded her for nearly ruining his plan to take Kadoya Tsukasa’s Decade power and finish off the system.

After Dust gave Megumi a device that could transfer life force, Ash was left near death in the hospital, and Megumi used it to revive him. Ash woke, but his fragmented memories triggered a horrified outburst when he realized what she had done.

• Dust began turning to ash as the world expelled him, gave Megumi the life-transfer device called "perfect," and slipped a card into Ash's Card Case.
• Snow White and the others arrived to find Ash gravely wounded, and the Pretty Cure took him to Light Hill Central Hospital, where Yuko's healing could not restore him.
• Megumi blamed herself and confessed to the unconscious Ash how loving him had changed her, before his heartbeat monitor showed a flat line.
• Megumi used "perfect" to transfer her life force to Ash, collapsing beside him as his heartbeat returned.
• Ash woke to Megumi crying beside him, recognized her as Rei, and then screamed in horror after realizing what she had done.

Ash survived Megumi’s attack, but the system that had always accompanied him was left badly damaged. He drove Megumi away and then found that the system’s fragments were still alive, though it needed to rest while Ash turned to face his enemies.

• Ash awoke with his wounds healed, discovered the system was missing, and angrily confronted Megumi for attacking it while trying to save him.
• Megumi explained that she had acted to protect Ash, but he struck her after realizing their lives had become linked through the perfect.
• Ash pulled Megumi to the door and told her that his happiness meant keeping her as far away from him as possible.
• Ash summoned the damaged system panel and found its core fragments still alive, though the system could no longer respond normally.
• Ash decided to deal with Toregier and Dust first while the system rested, and it apologized before withdrawing.

Ash questioned Phantom Queen about the gods behind the invasion, urged her to live and atone, and reassured her that he had tried to save Pretty Cure rather than treat the world as a game. He planned to face Red God and Toregier, but told the girls he would stay for now, while Megumi remained missing and her birthday became a chance to reconcile.

• Ash found Snow White and the others outside his hospital room and discovered that Megumi had disappeared.
• Megumi cried outside the hospital and found that the Monster Light Ring on her finger would not come off.
• Ash questioned Phantom Queen, who explained that Red God had influenced her and that Blue God had later apologized to her.
• Ash refused Phantom Queen's request for death and told her to live and atone, then explained that he had tried to repay Pretty Cure for saving him.
• Ash told the girls he intended to confront Red God and Toregier, but reassured them that he would not leave them so soon.
• Snow White told Ash that Megumi's birthday was on Sunday and urged him to attend so they could help the two reconcile.

Ash provoked Red God and Toregier into abandoning their plan to trap Earth, but the ensuing attacks left him questioning whether his love had brought the Pretty Cure pain. After Miyuki’s Phantom comforted him, Ash met Megumi, who apologized and asked about his plans.

• Ash sent Red God and Toregier a video insulting them alongside Kaito Daiki dressed as Taro Ultraman, and the pair grew furious enough to abandon their original plan.
• Red Bad Beasts attacked Ash for nearly six days, and he fought them alongside Miyuki’s Ultimate Happy Angel.
• Ash recoiled when Miyuki’s Phantom reached for him, blamed himself for the pain she had suffered, and put away the Pretty Cure Complete Card.
• Megumi emerged after Ash defeated a Bad Beast, apologized for her actions, and asked whether he was angry with her and what he planned to do next.

Ash and Megumi confronted each other over their broken relationship and the system Ash believed Megumi had killed. Ash explained that he had willingly made an agreement with the system and began to tell Megumi about his past, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Megumi accused Ash of hiding his true feelings and resenting her for damaging the system he cherished.
• Ash admitted that he hated Megumi because he believed she had killed the system, which had become like family to him.
• Megumi urged Ash to kill her in revenge, but he refused and said he could no longer take another person's life easily.
• Ash told Megumi that he had willingly agreed to die and collect dark energy with the system.
• Ash began explaining that Daste and his clone companions were enemies who needed to be defeated.

Ash told Megumi he intended to die so he could return to the people waiting for him, urged her to stop fighting and use her singing to bring happiness, and gave her a handmade birthday gift. He left alone in Victory Swallow One to confront Red God and Toregier, while Megumi attended a crowded birthday party feeling miserable despite her new admirers.

• Ash returned Megumi’s transformation device and told her he planned to die so he could see the people waiting for him again.
• Ash reminded Megumi of her wish to spread happiness and urged her to stop fighting and bring people joy through her songs.
• Snow White admitted she had sent Megumi a dress in Ash’s name, and Ash explained that Megumi had killed someone important to him.
• Ash carved Megumi a wooden comb for her birthday and asked Snow White and Iona to stay with her while he went to fight.
• Ash boarded Victory Swallow One and flew toward the approaching enemies despite Snow White and Iona pleading with him to stay.
• Megumi celebrated her birthday at the embassy with friends, fans, and prominent guests, but felt increasingly depressed beneath her smile.

Ash flew to Red God’s ruined planet to stop its monster army from reaching Earth, where Toregier confronted him over their personal grudge. Though Ash’s fighter crashed and he faced Toregier alone, he summoned a Super Sentai robot army and entered Daizyujin to fight back.

• Megumi’s friends gathered to comfort her because Ash was absent, but Megumi insisted she was all right.
• Ash piloted the Victory Swallow to Red God’s lifeless planet and evaded attacks from its enormous monster army until an electromagnetic pulse disabled his fighter and forced him to crash.
• Toregier revealed that he had possessed a boy and helped turn the planet into a monster paradise, then transformed into a dark giant and challenged Ash over their grudge.
• Ash used his Closed Gear Gun and a Sentai Gear to summon giant Super Sentai machines, which confronted Toregier and the monsters.
• Ash entered the Guardian Beast Daizyujin, activated it with the Dino Crystal, and cut down Bemular before facing Toregier.

Ash and Daizyujin fought Toregier while the super robots battled the monster legion, and Ash rejected Toregier’s darkness before being driven into space. Pretty Cure helped him hold off Toregier and urged him to trust Megumi’s feelings, as the Beast Music Sword summoned a powerful ally; back on Earth, the birthday party continued unaware of the battle.

• The super robots fought Toregier’s rampaging monsters while Ash and Daizyujin battled Toregier, who tried to tempt Ash with his dark worldview.
• Ash transformed Daizyujin into Dino Tank Mode, then joined four super robots in striking Toregier with the Ultra Legend Lightning Slash.
• Toregier survived the attack and blasted Daizyujin toward Earth, but Kohime, Yuko, and Iona caught and supported the machine in Saintly Mode.
• The Pretty Cure urged Ash to trust Megumi’s feelings, and Ash agreed to follow his own feelings and accept their help.
• Ash played the Beast Music Sword, summoning a giant emerald dragon-man beast and a serpentine dragon god to fight beside him.
• Elsewhere, the birthday party continued while its guests remained unaware of Ash’s battle.