Chapter Summaries

After Ash’s identity as Time Fire and his romance with Nono Hana became public, Hana worried about the attention but agreed to go on a date with him. They attended Emiru’s concert, where Ash reassured Hana and encouraged her to let go of her gloomy past.

• Kotori showed Ash and Hana a news report featuring their kiss, and Hana fainted after discovering it had become famous worldwide.
• Ash comforted Hana about her identity and the public attention, and she agreed to go on a date with him.
• Ash disguised himself as a flamboyant punk, ran into Rumi E, and hurried after her when she rushed off to her concert without them.
• Ash carried Hana to Emiru’s concert, where Emiru dedicated her performance to the two heroes.
• Ash brushed aside Hana’s bangs and told her he thought she looked better when she was brighter and more cheerful.

Hana reflected on Emiru’s abandoned love of rock music, and Ash encouraged her to believe it was not too late to change. After Hana and Ash’s kiss made the news, their friends brought Emiru to Saya’s bar and helped her confront her buried dream, where the chapter ended with Emiru joining Ash and the others for their first amateur rock performance.

• Hana told Ash that Emiru had loved rock music and guitar but had followed her family’s wishes to become a pianist.
• Ash told Hana that changing her life was still possible if she had the determination.
• Hana was embarrassed when a photograph of her and Ash kissing appeared on the front page of the United Nations World News.
• Homare and Saya teased Hana and Ash about their popularity, while Hana hugged Ash jealously after Homare admitted he had made her heart flutter.
• Ash and the others brought Emiru to Saya’s bar, turned off her phone, and urged her to face her old dream of playing rock music.
• Ash gave Emiru an electric guitar, and she admitted she still loved rock before joining the others in their first band performance.

Ash and the girls performed his song “Dark Crow,” and Emiru discovered the freedom and passion she loved in rock music. Later, at the Aisaki residence’s pool, Ash and Hana flirted until a phone call interrupted them and Hana moved close to him.

• Ash surprised Emiru by starting “Dark Crow,” a song the band had never heard or practiced.
• Hana, Saya, Homare, and Emiru followed Ash’s performance, and Emiru embraced the song’s rebellious energy as the music reached its climax.
• At the private pool, Hana tried to pull Ash into the water, but he grabbed her hand and lifted her out instead.
• Ash and Hana teased each other while the others swam, and Ash stopped Hana from revealing that he had swum before by kissing her.
• After the others left, Hana rejected Ash’s incoming call and accused him of looking at the other girls before leaning close to him.

Hana found hope and happiness with Ash and her friends began pursuing goals of their own, but Ash later learned that rejecting his Mirai Crystal had drawn this world's Rampage Energy to him. Traum warned that the darkness intended to make Ash its human pillar and turn into his deepest nightmare.

• Hana told Ash that Homare planned to return to skating, Emiru wanted to form a band, and Saya intended to search for what she truly wanted.
• Ash reassured Hana that he would always love and protect her, though he privately feared the price fate might demand for their peace.
• Ash met Traum at a bar, rejected his warning that fate required a sacrifice, and vowed to take what he needed by force.
• Traum told Ash that Klein had returned to the ruined future and asked for the source code of Ash's dinosaur-shaped robot in exchange for information.
• Traum explained that Ash's Mirai Crystal had made him the Child of the World, and that shattering it had drawn Rampage Energy to make him its human pillar.
• Ash crushed his glass of milk as Traum warned that the darkness would turn into his deepest nightmare.

Ash tried to build a robotic version of himself to protect Hana after his expected death, but rejected the plan when he realized it could not give her true happiness. Hana then dreamed of Ash fighting until he was swallowed by the forces pursuing him and woke in terror, unsure whether the dream was a warning.

• Ash checked Hana's improving health, left her asleep, and went to work in his basement workshop.
• Ash used Traum's AI data and other technologies to build a powerful robot and began transferring his data into it as a way to keep protecting Hana after his death.
• When the robot was nearly complete, Ash kicked it away and admitted that a mechanical copy could not make Hana happy; Hana embraced him and told him she was happy simply to be with him.
• After speaking with Ash by phone, Hana fell asleep and dreamed of Ash struggling against the darkness behind him and a destructive fate ahead.
• Hana dreamed that Ash stopped fighting for survival to buy time for love, then was swallowed by the pursuing light and darkness.
• Hana woke drenched in sweat and panicked, wondering whether her dream was a prophecy despite telling herself it was only a dream.

Hana, shaken by a dream and afraid of losing Ash, visited him at the clinic and asked him to ease her pain; the two became intimate. The next morning, Nono Kotori arrived and recognized that Ash was wearing Hana’s pajamas, leaving her to piece together what had happened.

• Hana woke from a troubling dream, missed Ash, and went to see him at the clinic in the morning.
• Ash examined Hana and asked what she wanted from him, and she said she feared he would die and that being apart from him hurt.
• Hana undressed and climbed on top of Ash, telling him she would take responsibility for him and asking him to break her.
• Ash and Hana became intimate, and he later judged her first time more boldly than he had expected.
• Nono Kotori visited Ash the next day, recognized Hana’s flower-patterned pajamas on him, and connected the scene to what she had witnessed before.

Ash asked Kotori to bring Hana clothes after Hana arrived at his home early in the morning, and Kotori teased them before learning how close they had become. Hana revealed while half-asleep that she thought of Ash as her husband, and the chapter left Ash reminiscing about birthday pranks after Hana proposed celebrating his birthday with hers.

• Ash asked Kotori to bring Hana clothes because Hana had come over in her pajamas and fallen asleep.
• Kotori helped Ash dress Hana and called him her brother-in-law, leaving Ash surprised that her family had accepted their relationship.
• Kotori woke Hana, who sleepily called herself Ash's little puppy and referred to him as her husband, embarrassing them both.
• Hana learned what she had said and lamented losing her dignity in front of Kotori.
• Ash reminded Hana that her birthday was coming soon, and Hana suggested they celebrate it as his birthday too.
• Ash recalled pranking people at birthday parties and remembered that someone had once asked him about his birthday.

Ash struggled with the thought that he would eventually leave Hana, then celebrated their shared birthday with her and their friends. While worrying about the future dangers of Rampage Energy and his own Dark Echo, he realized they might be connected and began considering a path forward, ending as Hana asked what his goal was.

• Ash dropped his Beast Electric Gun and admitted to himself that he did not want to leave Hana’s side.
• Hana and their friends celebrated Hana and Ash’s birthdays at the Nono home, and Ash wished for Hana’s wish to come true.
• Ash brooded over Rampage Energy’s nature and feared it would return to threaten Hana and the world.
• Ash considered how his Dark Echo might connect to Rampage Energy and the beings it chose as vessels.
• Ash declared that he had a goal, and Hana asked him what it was.

At Ash’s birthday party, Hana comforted him and shared a private birthday toast, while their teasing helped lift his melancholy. Their celebration was interrupted when a blonde girl emerged from a time rift, carrying a bracelet that looked like Ash’s and asking whether she was late for Hana’s birthday.

• Ash told Hana that she was the only person who could easily stay by his side, and Hana admitted that she understood loneliness from the days she had endured hardship alone.
• Ash praised Hana as a hero, but she said she wanted an ordinary, warm life with the people she loved rather than the pain that came with being a hero.
• Hana admired Ash’s melancholy appearance, and the two teased each other about their relationship until they laughed together and Ash said he was happy.
• Hana and Ash toasted one another’s birthdays, then Hana sensed Tomorrow Energy as a time rift opened on the balcony.
• A blonde girl in an outfit resembling Hana’s transformed form emerged from the rift, asked what day it was, and regretted arriving late when Hana said it was her birthday.
• Hana noticed that the girl wore a black-and-red bracelet that looked like Ash’s.

Hana and Ash tried to save a mysterious blonde girl, but she vanished into a time vortex after telling them to believe in the future. As gray skies and endless shadows threatened Nursery City, Ash and Cure Yell transformed to fight them, though the creatures seemed unlike Doomsday Monsters.

• Hana and Ash caught the blonde girl as a vortex dragged her away, but she shrank into a baby and disappeared after asking them to believe in the future.
• Hana cried over the girl's disappearance, while Ash demanded answers from the system panel and roared in frustration when it vanished.
• Homare warned Ash and Hana that demonic shadows were threatening Nursery City and that only Pretty Cure and Time Fire could handle them.
• Ash and Hana transformed into Time Fire and Cure Yell, then rushed outside as the citizens cheered their arrival.
• Time Fire and Cure Yell fought together, blasting and cutting apart the shadows as they continuously reformed.
• Ash and Hana realized the creatures were not Doomsday Monsters and might not even qualify as them.

Ash realized the Rampage Energy was drawn to the darkness within him and that breaking the Mirai Crystal had left him without Tomorrow Energy’s protection. As the monsters grew stronger from his despair, Hana asked whether his sacrifices for her were truly okay, and Ash chose to keep fighting beside her.

• Ash concluded that concentrated Rampage Energy was being drawn to him, and Hana shielded him as the shadows shifted their attacks toward him.
• Ash traced the danger to the Mirai Crystal he had shattered while saving Hana, realizing that he had given up the future and exposed himself to Rampage Energy.
• Ash’s despair fed the darkness, causing the shadows to solidify into increasingly powerful Doomsday Monsters that overwhelmed him and Hana.
• Hana asked Ash whether he was truly willing to give so much for her and this world, and Ash answered that he had chosen to do so willingly.
• Ash and Hana charged back into the battle, and Ash confirmed that the Rampage Energy was targeting him more than Hana.

Ash absorbed the Rampage Energy to stop a cycle of tragedy that would bring Hana and her descendants despair, even though it meant his death and eventual departure from her world. As Hana tried to save him, Ash revealed the truth about his mission and identity, leaving her grieving beside him.

• Ash plunged into the enemy horde and absorbed the Rampage Energy, forcing it into his body while Hana tried to stop him.
• Ash saw a future in which Hana’s grief would begin another cycle of despair, and he decided to become the world’s new source of darkness so the system would take the energy away when he died.
• Hana reached Ash and used Tomorrow Energy to heal him, but his Dark Echo caused his body to disperse in its light.
• Ash told Hana that he was an Interdimensional Traveler who had collected Dark Echo for a mission and would eventually leave, and he explained that he had avoided her marriage proposal for that reason.
• Hana clung to Ash and mourned the system that had made him sacrifice himself for her.

Ash and Hana fought through monsters created from Ash’s memories, and Hana refused to let him surrender or die. After Ash woke in a hospital, he and Hana reflected on their choices as V rex battled outside, until new monsters threatened the patients and Hana ran to draw them away.

• Ash realized Rampage Energy and Dark Echo were creating enemies from his memories, while Hana fought the Jenits and carried him through the monsters.
• Hana called Ash back to the fight, and he used the DV Defender to help them escape before collapsing on her shoulder.
• Ash woke in a hospital and learned Hana had brought him there while V rex fought the growing monster horde outside.
• Ash and Hana discussed what they had sacrificed and said they did not regret their choices, while the people in the hospital drew hope from the heroes’ battle.
• When smaller monsters threatened to break through V rex’s defenses, Hana ran to lure them away from the hospital.

Ash tried to change by helping a little girl find her bird, but a Zenit soldier shot him. As Hana mourned him and faced overwhelming enemies, Ash revealed that she was pregnant, sent her to safety, and transformed into Time Fire to fight for their future.

• Ash climbed to the hospital rooftop to catch the little girl's bird, but it escaped when he tore the cage, and a damaged Zenit soldier shot him.
• V rex shielded Hana from the Monster Heavy Machines until its systems failed, while Hana fought the monsters blocking her path.
• Hana found Ash alive but surrounded by powerful enemies and resolved to fight beside him, but Ash told her she was carrying their child.
• Ash took Hana's Light Heart and ordered V rex to carry her to safety despite her pleas to stay with him.
• Ash transformed into Time Fire and charged the enemies, vowing to defeat them, survive, and reunite with Hana.

After Hana found Ash’s body beneath the rubble, his recorded farewell left her grieving over his broken promise. In the abyss of death, Ash remembered his love for Hana and fought to escape so he could see her again.

• Hana played Ash’s recording, heard his birthday wishes and promise to return, and found the Heart’s Light beneath the rubble.
• Hana searched the crater and pulled Ash from the ruins, but his hand was cold and he was dead.
• Hana held Ash’s hand and called him a liar for promising to come back.
• Ash reflected on his endless journeys and realized that he loved Nono Hana.
• As the darkness threatened to erase his memories, Ash crawled out of the abyss and said he wanted to see Hana again.

A year after Ash disappeared, Hana raised their daughter alone until he returned home, wounded but alive. Ash then died again and transferred to a new world, where he encountered Ai-chan and helped reunite her with Mana and Rikka.

• Hana cared for her daughter Homi while insisting that Ash would return, then found him injured at her door and welcomed him home.
• Ash recalled his apparent death in the Kamen Rider Build world, dismissed the system's settlement panels, and began transferring to another world.
• At Daibei First Middle School, Mana and Rikka searched for Ai-chan after her powers caused supernatural chaos around the school.
• Ash found Ai-chan by the athletic field and held her until Mana and Rikka arrived.
• Ai-chan flew back into Mana's arms, and Mana and Rikka thanked Ash for helping them find her.

Ash met Ai and Rikka, discovered they were Pretty Cure, and watched them transform to fight two Jikochu attacking their school. He recognized the world and received a system mission, which he agreed to complete as the battle left the girls struggling against the monsters.

• Ash met Ai and Rikka and learned that Ai was caring for Ai-chan, though his teasing about her being the baby's mother embarrassed Rikka.
• Two Jikochu rampaged across the school sports field while Ira ordered them to gather Evil Thought Energy for King of Jikochu.
• Ai and Rikka transformed into Cure Heart and Cure Diamond after Ash refused to leave and Ai handed him Ai-chan.
• Ash recognized that he was in a Pretty Cure world and dismissed a system panel after saying he would complete its mission.
• Cure Heart and Cure Diamond fought the two Jikochu but struggled against their powerful attacks.

Ash transformed into Kamen Rider Ryuga and fought the Jikochu while the Pretty Cures watched. After Ai recognized him as Kamen Rider, Ash continued battling the monsters as his identity became clear to the girls.

• Ash used the Steel Tank Full Bottle to block a Jikochu’s soccer ball and protect Ai-chan.
• Ash drew a Ryuga Card Deck, transformed into Kamen Rider Ryuga, and knocked the baseball Jikochu away with a punch.
• Ash used the Mirror World to evade the Jikochu’s pincer attack and emerged from a reflective puddle beside Rikka.
• Ash charged Ira and the two Jikochu, then used close-range attacks and the monsters’ selfishness to make them fight each other.
• Cure Rosetta and Cure Sword arrived, and Ai recognized Ash as Kamen Rider from a television show.

Ash refused to let Ai purify a Jikochu, then investigated the world and tracked the Selfish Organization to its bowling-alley base. There, Mammo discovered the darkness within Ash and moved to extract his Ling Shen Xin.

• Ash continued beating the defeated Jikochu to absorb Dark Echo, despite Ai warning that destroying its Ling Shen Xin would harm its owner.
• Ai shielded the Jikochu from Ash, and he stopped his punch before her face, canceled his transformation, and rode away on Diaggo Speedy.
• Ash rented an apartment, researched the world online, and used a signal on his phone to locate the Selfish Organization.
• Ira complained to Mammo and Bel about Ash interfering with his battle, but Ash arrived at their base after tracking Ira's transmitter.
• Ash bowled a strike while Mammo saw that his heart was completely dark and decided to extract his Ling Shen Xin.

Ash held Mammo at gunpoint while negotiating a possible alliance with Bel and the Selfish Organization. Meanwhile, the Pretty Cure investigated Ash’s mysterious past and discovered a Jikochu’s apparent signal led them to an empty warehouse.

• Ash interrupted Mammo’s spell with the Closed Gear Gun and frightened her into silence.
• Bel asked Ash what he wanted, and Ash proposed cooperating with the Selfish Organization because he was interested in Evil Thought Energy.
• Bel challenged Ash to defeat the Pretty Cure, hoping to make him their enemy.
• Mana, Rikka, Arisu, and Makoto reviewed Sebastian’s investigation, which found no records of Ash’s past beyond his recent arrival in Oogai City.
• Ai recognized Ash’s transformation as a Kamen Rider Ryuki form, while the girls remained unable to explain his power or the item he had left with Ai-chan.
• Sharuru sensed a pulse of darkness, but the girls found no Jikochu when they reached the warehouse.