Chapter Summaries

At Megumi’s birthday celebration, she struggled with her love for Ash and her fear that she had only caused him pain. After she ran from the party, Red God tempted her to reshape the world, but Phantom attacked before she could give in and set his sights on using her power to save Phantom Queen.

• Megumi learned that people from around the world had come to thank and celebrate her, but she remained heartbroken that Ash was absent.
• Iona and Yuko comforted Megumi, and she asked them and Kohime to go help Ash when Daizyujin appeared in the sky.
• Megumi tried to sing for the crowd but could not, realizing she only wanted to sing for Ash, and she ran away from the party.
• Red God tempted Megumi to use her freedom to remake the world and take what she wanted, but Phantom’s attack interrupted him.
• Phantom battered Megumi and declared that he would take her power and risk her life to defeat Kamen Rider and save Phantom Queen.

Megumi rejected Ash’s emergency signal, used a corrupted soul crystal to defeat Phantom, and became Unlovely. After Ash and the Pretty Cure defeated Toregier, Unlovely appeared before Ash, declared her love, and said she intended to kill him.

• Megumi threw Ash’s emergency device into the river and refused to let Phantom use her against him.
• Megumi drew out a soul crystal and merged it with Phantom’s shadow, overwhelming him with its power.
• Ash summoned Ultimate Great Beast God and drove Toregier into a mountain with its Dragon God Horn.
• Ash used J’s power and a giant Decade Driver to help finish Toregier with Grand Punish and a Rider Kick.
• Ash prepared to return to the red planet, but Aino Megumi appeared as Unlovely and declared that she loved him and would kill him.
• Unlovely told Ash she had accepted her own dark side and asked him the name of the panel-like thing he loved.

Ash fought Unlovely, the darkened Megumi, as she insisted that he loved her and wanted him to fight back. He chose to battle in hopes of freeing her, but Megumi overwhelmed him and ended the chapter embracing him.

• Megumi revealed herself as Unlovely, attacked Ash, and challenged him to a killing game.
• Ash recalled the forces that may have corrupted Megumi and decided he had to fight her to break her free.
• Ash disarmed Megumi, but she split into three shadows and ambushed him.
• Megumi shattered Ash’s attempted Ex-Aid Muteki transformation with a powerful punch and battered him.
• Megumi attacked Ash with a utility pole and accused him of loving someone else who had only brought him pain.
• Megumi charged through the dust and embraced Ash, promising to prove that she was the person he loved most.

Ash resisted Megumi’s attempt to draw him into darkness by violently attacking her, then questioned how their roles as hero and villain had become so confused. Megumi recovered and declared that she was still herself and still fighting for love, even after embracing darkness.

• Megumi used Ash’s resentment and memories of painful partings to persuade him to abandon his struggles and give her the final part needed to destroy the system.
• Ash broke free of the dark cocoon, struck Megumi to the ground, and angrily accused her of twisting love into hatred.
• Megumi welcomed Ash’s violence and called it his true love, while Ash stopped himself from delivering another blow and demanded that she stop smiling.
• Ash wondered where Megumi’s radiance had gone and said that she should be the hero while he should be the villain.
• Megumi explained that beings of light could fall into darkness and revealed that she had endured its malice while holding onto Ash as her support.
• Megumi healed, reached for Ash, and insisted that she was still Aino Megumi and would keep fighting for love.

Ash resisted Megumi’s attempt to draw him into her darkness and urged her to remember the people who loved her, but Snow White, Iona, and Yuko arrived and mistook the corrupted Megumi for an enemy. Ash left to confront the approaching red planet while the three Pretty Cure stayed behind to stop Megumi, who blamed them and insisted her possessive feelings for Ash came from love.

• Ash rejected Megumi’s invitation and reminded her of her parents, Kohime, Yuko, Iona, and the fairies who cared about her.
• Snow White struck Megumi with a purifying attack just as Megumi lowered her sword, and she, Iona, and Yuko arrived beside Ash.
• Megumi declared that she was still herself, claimed Ash as hers, and accused her friends of failing to protect her.
• Snow White, Iona, and Yuko transformed and restrained Megumi while telling Ash to stop the approaching red planet.
• Megumi blasted the three Pretty Cure away when Ash left, then faced them again as they vowed to correct her twisted love.

Ash confronted Red God as the red planet threatened Earth, rejected the god’s attempts to break him with taunts, and fought him using Decade’s new Complete Form. The battle left Red God badly wounded, while Ash struggled to endure the form’s growing power and its physical burden.

• Red God gloated that the approaching red planet would destroy Earth and mocked Blue God, but Ash arrived after escaping Toregier.
• Red God blamed Ash for opening a crack in Megumi’s heart, and Ash shot him before declaring he had come to kill him.
• Red God regenerated and attacked Ash with overwhelming physical force, while Ash dodged and studied his abilities.
• Ash activated his new Complete Card and transformed into Final KamenRide Decade, then used the Blade King and Den-O Liner forms to strike Red God.
• Red God suffered deep wounds from Ash’s attack, but the accumulating Rider power weighed heavily on Ash as exhaustion threatened to overwhelm him.

Ash and Cure Mirage joined forces against Red God, combining their powers to defeat him and send him toward the planet. The chapter then shifted to Aino Megumi running across a dark, empty plain until her troubled heart forced her to stop.

• Cure Mirage protected the weakened Ash, explained that she had returned to protect Earth, and helped him stand again.
• Ash and Cure Mirage fought Red God together, using coordinated attacks and Ash’s Rider transformations to injure him and sever his arm.
• Cure Mirage insisted that Ash was an imperfect human like her, and they launched a combined Agito Shining kick that sent Red God toward the planet.
• Aino Megumi ran across a dark plain to escape her worries, but her disordered rhythm and troubled heart made her stop and catch her breath.

Megumi confronted her jealousy and selfish desires, then accepted them and transformed into Unlovely, defeating the other Pretty Cure. Meanwhile, Red God sent his planet hurtling toward Earth as Ash reached his physical and spiritual limit while trying to stop the collision.

• Megumi spoke with the manifestation of her inner self, Lovely Angel, and admitted she felt jealous and wanted a special place in Ash’s heart.
• Megumi’s friends tried to bring her back, but she rejected them, accepted her darker feelings, and became Unlovely.
• Unlovely defeated the Pretty Cure, including Angel of Fate, and vowed to become the cold north wind for Ash.
• Red God fused with his planet and sent it plunging toward Water Star after being defeated by a triple god-slaying flying kick.
• Ash collapsed as he reached his critical limit, while Mirage Angel warned him to stop and monsters began falling toward Earth.

Ash and the Pretty Cure shattered Red God's planet, but Megumi ambushed the injured Mirage Angel after the victory. Toregier exposed the forces driving Megumi toward darkness, and she stopped him from transforming by declaring that he was not Seiji.

• Mirage Angel encouraged Ash to stand back up, and Ash led thirty-five summoned Kamen Riders and the Pretty Cure in an attack that shattered Red God's planet.
• Megumi drained Red God's remaining power through their energy link, then ambushed Mirage Angel and gravely wounded her.
• Toregier arrived and claimed that Ash's attempt to distance himself from Megumi had helped create the tragic outcome he sought to prevent.
• Toregier explained that Megumi's Light Ring was dragging her soul toward darkness, while Megumi concluded that she had to give up her happiness to help Ash.
• Megumi grabbed Toregier's wrist before he could transform and told him, "You're not Seiji."

After Megumi destroyed Tregear and confessed that her cruelty came from the love she had learned from Ash, she created a world where they could be alone. Ash mourned the dying Mirror, accepted his friends’ power, and transformed to pursue Megumi into the dark world.

• Megumi purified Tregear’s shadow and told Ash that her actions had all been for him.
• Ash refused Megumi’s offerings and promised to take responsibility and save her.
• Megumi created a black-cloud world and invited Ash to meet her there.
• Mirage Angel revealed that her real name was Mirror, kissed Ash, and died in his arms.
• Snow White and the others arrived, and Ash accepted Iona’s Light Card before preparing to follow Megumi.
• Ash raised his damaged Rider Card, transformed, and entered Megumi’s dark world.

Ash confronted Megumi in the shadow world she had created and fought her, hoping to save her despite her refusal to leave. Their battle left both badly wounded, and Megumi continued to mistake their violence for love.

• Ash found Megumi in her shadow world and asked her to come home, but she insisted she wanted a world for just the two of them.
• Megumi explained that she hated the people Ash cared about and had hurt them to make him suffer; Ash declared he would save her, even if he had to defeat her.
• Ash and Megumi began fighting with their swords, using illusions and copies to trade attacks and wounds.
• Megumi broke Ash's Ride Booker Sword and attacked, but Ash shattered her crimson light sword with a powerful punch.
• Megumi drove the broken sword into Ash's waist as their fight continued, then gathered energy for another attack while insisting their pain was love.

Ash fought Queen Lovely after Megumi embraced the Tregear Eye and transformed, determined to make him forget everyone but her. As the battle escalated, she attacked the Heartbeat Team and trapped Ash in dreamlike scarlet curtains, leaving him and Megumi locked in a brutal close-range clash.

• Ash used the Precure Complete Card and restored Decade to his Complete form, then urged Megumi to stop hurting herself and others.
• Megumi put on the Tregear Eye, transformed into Queen Lovely, and declared that she would take away Ash's memories of anyone else's love.
• Ash summoned the five Heartbeat Team Pretty Cure, but Megumi attacked Mana and the others out of jealousy, and Ash fought back alongside them.
• Megumi surrounded Ash and the Pretty Cure with scarlet curtains, then used red threads to slice the team into fragments of light while Ash was left exposed to her attacks.
• Ash closed his eyes, sensed Megumi's movements through the dreamlike curtains, and caught and slammed her to the ground.
• Megumi kicked Ash away and attacked with a short blade, so Ash drew Blade's Awakening Sword and crossed weapons with her.

Ash confronted Megumi’s distorted love by summoning the Pretty Cure who had shared his past bonds, then brought forth Forever Lovely to face her. As Megumi fought her own brighter self, the darkness and hatred surrounding her began to weaken.

• Megumi overwhelmed the Heart Catch projections with Ash’s own fighting style, while Ash explained that he intended to destroy the darkness distorting her love and reconnect with Aino Megumi.
• Ash summoned Miyuki, Ayumi, and other Pretty Cure, whose feelings made Megumi falter as they stood beside him.
• Megumi attacked the projections and insisted her love for Ash surpassed his bonds with them, but Ash summoned the final power on his K-Touch: HappinessCharge CureRide Forever.
• Forever Lovely Angel joined Ash and matched Megumi’s attacks, revealing that Megumi’s kind heart and true power were fighting against her distortion.
• Ash and Forever Lovely Angel struck Megumi, and she realized that her hatred was gradually weakening.

Ash fought to reach Megumi as her love and hatred overwhelmed the dark world, while the Pretty Cure waited below and prayed for them. After striking her with the Light Card, Ash entered a white world and found Aino Megumi trembling alone.

• Megumi rejected Ash's offer to abandon her darkness and urged him to fight her, while Eternal Lovely Angel revealed that she was another version of Aino Megumi who had chosen love above all else.
• Eternal Lovely Angel asked Ash to defeat her and save the world, but Ash refused to act as a hero and said he wanted only to save Megumi.
• Iona and the other Pretty Cure watched the dark world, worried that the happiness they had offered Ash and Megumi had not been enough, and Iona prayed for them.
• Eternal Lovely Angel unleashed her final Precure Forever Happiness Shower as Ash charged through Megumi's black attacks and shattered her barrier with a card-lit punch.
• Ash pressed the Light Card against Megumi's chest, and light carried them into a white world where he found Aino Megumi curled up and trembling.

Ash confronted Megumi after she confessed her love and guilt, then fought her as Unlovely to draw the darkness she had gathered into himself. Megumi broke his transformation and caught him as he fell, while Ash began to speak of his journey and another promise.

• Megumi confessed her love and blamed herself for the harm she had caused, and Ash comforted her and affirmed that he still loved her.
• Megumi transformed into Queen Lovely and struck Ash, breaking his armor as their collapsing world brought them back to solid ground.
• Ash and Unlovely fought with their swords, and Ash used his blade to sever her resentment and absorb the darkness within her.
• Megumi attacked Ash's Driver with her light sword, ending his transformation, then caught him as he fell.
• Ash apologized to Megumi and urged her to make herself happy, while she questioned why he was sacrificing himself.
• Ash began to speak of his journey and said he had another promise to fulfill.

Ash reached Megumi in time to wish her a happy birthday, then awakened in the system’s afterlife world among three powerful versions of himself who had betrayed him and the system. As they prepared to defeat him, Ash called on the system’s hidden Grim Reaper and claimed the Dark Echoes as his own.

• Before Ash died, he gave Megumi the invitation and handmade comb and wished her a happy birthday.
• Ash listened as Dast, Light, and Colour argued over their betrayal and their plan to use the Dark Echoes to create worlds of their own.
• Ash resisted Dast’s attempt to capture him and learned that Light and Colour had stolen the powers of Ultraman and Super Sentai heroes.
• Dast, Light, and Colour transformed and surrounded Ash, intending to beat him and take the final piece they needed.
• Ash summoned the system’s Grim Reaper, learned it had been created to send his soul into reincarnation, and demanded that it let him claim the Dark Echoes.
• An ominous light shot toward Ash as he called for the curtain of night to envelop him.

Ash absorbed the world’s Dark Echo, transformed into a furious dragon-like being, and fought Dust, Lyte, and Kaler to reclaim the system fragment containing what he had lost. After crashing through a world barrier with it in his arms, he awoke in a shattered realm with his memories gone except for his name.

• Ash absorbed the world’s Dark Echo, nearly losing control, but used his memories and rage to retain a clear purpose and transform into a dragon-like monster.
• Dust revealed the system fragment fused with Dark Echo and warned Ash that destroying it would make his friend disappear forever, then attacked him with a Rider kick.
• Ash defeated Dust’s attack and struck down Lyte and Kaler’s beam attacks, forcing all three enemies to regroup against him.
• A month after Ash’s departure, Aino Megumi joined the pink-haired girl’s journey to save him, and Snow White leaped aboard the departing pumpkin carriage.
• Ash fought the gathered enemies, protected the recovered fragment, and fell through a barrier between worlds as the battlefield broke apart.
• Ash woke amid floating ruins with his memories erased except for his name.

Ash arrived in the ruined Fairy Kingdom, transformed into Dark Kiva, and convinced the fairy souls to make him their new King and establish the Black Night Kingdom. In the present, Haruno Haruka woke from a dream about a mysterious king who encouraged her Princess dream and told her friends she would share what she remembered if they promised not to laugh.

• Ash explored the devastated Fairy Kingdom, buried some dead animals, and learned from their souls that a disaster had destroyed their world and killed its inhabitants.
• Ash asked the black-and-white ball of light for power and transformed into Kamen Rider Dark Kiva.
• Ash promised to restore the fairies and lead them to a new land in exchange for their loyalty, and they accepted him as their King and founded the Black Night Kingdom.
• Haruno Haruka dreamed of meeting a music-playing king as a child, who told her that her dream of becoming a Princess was still shining and gave her a whistle.
• Haruka woke in the Second Student Council Room, where Kaito Minami, Amanogawa Kirara, and the fairies asked about her dream, and she began to tell them after asking them not to laugh.

Haruka’s friends questioned whether the King from her childhood memory was real or merely a chuunibyou fantasy, while Ash mistook an Earth romance-drama line for a ruler’s custom and prepared to conquer Earth. When Kurozu attacked Noble Academy with a spider-like Fortress of Despair, Ash’s entourage arrived during the Pretty Cure’s struggle, and Ash stepped down from a giant sedan chair.

• Puff, Aroma, Minami, and Kirara reacted to Haruka’s story about a King who had encouraged her dream, and Kirara suggested the memory resembled a scene from a romance drama.
• Ash watched a video of that drama, decided its domineering line might be an Earth custom, and ordered his minions to prepare an expedition to conquer the planet.
• Kurozu created a spider-like Fortress of Despair from a student’s dream and challenged Pretty Cure to fight.
• Haruka, Minami, and Kirara transformed into Princess Pretty Cure but struggled against the spider monster and their fear of it.
• A flying door struck Kurozu, and a crowd of strange fairies emerged to announce Ash’s arrival.
• Ash appeared in a giant sedan chair, stepped on his exhausted carriers, and leapt down.

Ash arrived on Earth with the fairies of the Black Night Kingdom and declared that the world would fall under his conquest. After his contempt for his people enraged the Princess Pretty Cure girls, Ash transformed into Dark Kiva and appeared behind them, ready to fight.

• Ash emerged from the gate with his fairies, introduced himself as the King of the Black Night Kingdom, and announced his intent to conquer Earth.
• The fairies staged an extravagant procession for Ash while Kurozu, the Pretty Cure girls, Puff, and Aroma watched in shock.
• Haruka confronted Ash for making his people carry him, but Ash declared that he was the kingdom and that its people were merely his gears and tools.
• Haruka, Minami, and Kirara vowed to defeat Ash and rescue the fairies, and Ash challenged them, saying they would become his if he won.
• Ash summoned his bat-like partner, transformed into Dark Kiva, and appeared behind the girls, taunting them for challenging him.