Chapter Summaries

Akane Hino found Reika being arrested in the Fairy Tale Kingdom, but Ash stopped her from intervening so they could investigate who was controlling the kingdom. As they reached Reika’s cell, Ash told Akane that he had fallen for her when she stood by him in the rain, leaving her delighted.

• Akane saw guards arrest Reika after Reika insisted that the real Candy would never seal off the Fairy Tale Kingdom.
• Ash silenced Akane when she tried to transform and rescue Reika, explaining that Reika’s arrest could help them uncover clues.
• Akane and Ash went openly through the prison entrance, where they found that Yayoi had already gone ahead to gather material.
• While they walked through the prison, Ash told Akane he liked her because she had stood by him during the rainy day when he was affected by Future Sight.
• Akane blushed and laughed happily after Ash hurried toward Reika’s cell, while Yayoi watched and called it another victory for Big Brother.

Ash entered Reika’s cell disguised as Kamen Rider and learned that Miyuki had been captured in the Fairy Tale Kingdom. After reassuring Reika that Miyuki was safe, he freed her and the group prepared to continue their rescue.

• Ash reached Reika in her cell, and she broke down in relief before telling him that Miyuki had been taken to a room behind the castle hall.
• Reika explained that the Fairy Tale Kingdom had been seized after Candy fell into a trap, and Ash recalled Miyuki’s childhood story and concluded she was not in danger.
• When guards returned, Ash and Reika pretended he was interrogating her until Akane and Yayoi distracted them again.
• Ash freed Reika, but she emerged limping and exhausted, prompting Akane to scold him and Yayoi to ask whether Reika was hurt.

Ash and the Pretty Cure fought their way through the throne hall, where Ash defeated two ogres alone with his Dragonic Knight form. The group reached Hoshizora Miyuki, but someone stepped between her and Ash before they could reunite.

• Two ogres guarding the throne hall attacked Ash and the Pretty Cure, but Ash transformed into Dragonic Knight and stopped Akane and Yayoi from transforming.
• Ash overpowered the ogres, melted their Kanabo, and burned them with his flames while the Pretty Cure watched.
• Ash defeated the ogres with his finishing move, and Reika and Akane praised his new form as Yayoi lamented being spoiled on future Kamen Rider episodes.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure entered the throne hall and found Hoshizora Miyuki dressed as a Princess; Miyuki and Ash called to each other before someone ordered them not to come closer.

Hoshizora Miyuki defended her love for Ash and refused to let Nicole’s anger drive them apart. After Miyuki restrained Nicole, she explained that she planned to help the two understand each other and asked Ash to do what he had done for the others before.

• Nicole accused Ash of causing Miyuki pain and tried to keep him away, while Miyuki insisted that loving Ash also meant accepting his flaws.
• Ash admitted that Miyuki had suffered because of him, but said he could not leave her because he loved her.
• Ash tore apart Nicole’s dark-energy cage as Miyuki explained that their shared memories included happiness as well as pain.
• Miyuki restrained Nicole and told her she was trying to save both her friend and Ash from their conflict.
• Miyuki promised Nicole that the outcome would make her happy and asked Ash to help her as he had helped the others before.

Ash and the Smile Pretty Cure defeated the Demon King, freed Sugar, and returned from the Fairy Tale Kingdom. There they found Nao unconscious and confronted the Sentai Killer, whose machinery-covered shell Ash cut away to reveal its true form.

• Miyuki reassured Nicole about Ash, but Nicole's black mist emerged and transformed into the Demon King.
• The Demon King revealed that it had manipulated Nicole and stolen power from the Fairy Tale Kingdom, then fought Ash and the Pretty Cure.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure joined forces to defeat and purify the Demon King, rescue Sugar, and open the barrier around the Fairy Tale Kingdom.
• Ash and the girls entrusted Nicole to Ashu and returned to Seven-Colored Hill, where they found Nao unconscious in a crater.
• The Sentai Killer admitted it had taken advantage of Nao, and Ash split its mechanical shell open with Kaenken Rekka, revealing a dark Ranger-like form.

Sentai Killer revealed that his ability had replaced the Pretty Cure with counterparts from other worlds, including Ash, and Ash joined forces with Yes! Pretty Cure 5 to fight him. The chapter ended with Ash realizing the replacements had also disrupted their positions in battle.

• Sentai Killer survived the Pretty Cure Rainbow Burst, and Naoki awoke and warned everyone about his ability.
• Sentai Killer’s flash ability replaced the Smile Pretty Cure with Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and Ash with Cyclone Angel, scattering the other Pretty Cure teams across different worlds.
• Sentai Killer explained that he could replace anyone within a category he selected, and Nozomi Yumehara and the others agreed to help Ash defeat him.
• Ash transformed into Dragon Arthur form and attacked alongside Yes! Pretty Cure 5.
• Sentai Killer swung his Red Whip, causing Nozomi to dodge into Ash, and Ash realized the replacement ability had affected their positions too.

Sentai Killer separated Ash from the Pretty Cures by trapping them in a labyrinth, leaving Ash alone to face him. Sentai Killer claimed that Ash’s bonds had made him powerful but had also taught him to rely on others.

• Sentai Killer outmaneuvered the five members of Yes Precure 5 with practiced weapon attacks and disrupted Dream Angel’s finisher, while Ash’s attack was thrown off when she crashed into him.
• Ash and Nozomi argued about their failed coordination, and Sentai Killer used a roll-call pose to trigger explosions that blasted the Pretty Cures away.
• Ash realized Sentai Killer had exploited his separation from Miyuki and the others, while the five Pretty Cures attacked with Pretty Cure Colorful Rose Explosion.
• Sentai Killer’s buckle absorbed the five Pretty Cures and imprisoned them in a labyrinth filled with clones, where they became lost and exhausted.
• Sentai Killer told Ash that his bonds had given him strength but had also made him reliant on others, leaving him alone as the Pretty Cures remained trapped.

Ash used Emotion Dragon to fight the Sentai Killer, whose labyrinth powers let him absorb and wield the abilities of captured Pretty Cures. After Emotion Dragon absorbed the attacks and awakened Ash’s strength, Ash heard Bad Miyuki’s voice and charged toward the Sentai Killer to deliver a finishing move.

• Ash transformed with the Emotion Dragon Wonder Ride Book and attacked the Sentai Killer.
• The Sentai Killer revealed that his labyrinth absorbed victims’ skills and powers, then fought Ash with Pretty Cure weapons and techniques.
• Ash pressed forward under the barrage, and Emotion Dragon began absorbing the purification attacks and filling him with power.
• Ash deflected the Sentai Killer’s Spin Vulcan attack and heard Bad Miyuki call to him from within the labyrinth.
• Ash invoked Emotion Dragon’s courage, honor, and love, overwhelmed the Sentai Killer, and prepared a finishing kick.

Ash freed the captured Precure by destroying Sentai Killer’s hidden labyrinth, but the Bad End Precure’s attack caused his replacement ability to bring every other Precure to the battlefield. Sentai Killer recovered and challenged Ash to prove he could defeat his power.

• Ash redirected his Love Dragon God Strike into Sentai Killer’s shoulder ornament, breaking the labyrinth and releasing the captured Precure.
• The rescued Precure fell from the sky, and Regina, Twilight, Mirror, Maria, and Bad End reunited with Ash.
• The Bad End Precure fired a rainbow-and-darkness attack at Sentai Killer, cracking his visor and sending replacement rays across the area.
• Sentai Killer’s uncontrolled power replaced objects with the other Precure, bringing them all together and prompting Ash to scold Bad End Miyuki.
• The Precure urged Sentai Killer to surrender, but he defended Hyakukai’s cause and asked Ash whether he could defeat his power.

Sentai Killer used Emotion Conversion to raise the Pretty Cure’s favorability toward Ash, hoping their affection would make him hesitate. The dial spun out of control to 1000%, and the enamored Pretty Cure surrounded Ash while Sentai Killer escaped.

• Sentai Killer activated the heart-shaped brooch and raised the Pretty Cure’s favorability toward Ash to 100%.
• The affected Pretty Cure flushed and struggled with their sudden feelings, but Nono Hana and the others continued fighting because of their mission.
• A Pretty Cure’s attack struck the brooch’s needle, making it spin past its limit and climb to 1000%.
• Sentai Killer fled, and Ash turned toward the Pretty Cure as they gathered around him with unnerving affection.
• Chocolate Angel, Macaron Angel, and Hoshizora Angel each tried to claim Ash’s attention as he struggled to escape their advances.

A 1000% affection boost overwhelmed the Pretty Cure, who crowded around Ash with obsessive declarations of love. After Hug-tan knocked away his transformation item, Ash was left unmasked and surrounded as the girls began proposing that they share him.

• The Sentai Killer fled, leaving Ash alone with the affection-struck Pretty Cure, whose attempts to resist the boost failed.
• Galaxy Angel mistook her feelings for a desire to join with Ash, giving the other girls a way to interpret their overwhelming affection.
• Nono Hana and the other Pretty Cure confessed their love and pressed closer, while Hana claimed Hug-tan was the child she had with Ash.
• Hug-tan struck Ash’s Seiken Swordriver, sending the Emotion Dragon Wonder Ride Book flying and ending his transformation.
• The unmasked Ash drew even more attention, and the Pretty Cure began discussing sharing him as they surrounded him.

Ash escaped the Pretty Cure by transforming into a twelve-year-old boy, but Asahina Mirai summoned him back and the girls overwhelmed him with affection. After he transformed into Primitive Dragon to break free, the Pretty Cure purified the form, leaving Ash trapped again and crying out for help.

• Ash used Golden Cicada Sheds its Shell to become a twelve-year-old boy and flee from the Pretty Cure.
• Asahina Mirai summoned Ash back, and she, Izayoi Riko, Hana-dera Nodoka, and the others crowded around him.
• Neko Angel and Inukai Komugi joined the group, while Ash protested their claims and advances.
• Ash transformed into Primitive Dragon and tried to leap away from the crowd.
• The Pretty Cure struck Primitive Dragon with purification attacks, causing the form to vanish and leaving Ash in their arms.
• Ash begged Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman, or any hero to save him as the girls pulled at his clothes.

Ashu transformed the Pretty Cure into babies to stop them from overwhelming Ash, leaving him to carry and comfort them as he headed toward the descending castle. Elsewhere, Sougo Tokiwa and Captain Marvelous defeated a group of enemies and spotted a strange Pretty Cure mishmash form.

• Ashu used a camera and her power to turn the Pretty Cure into crying babies, then explained that they still clung to Ash because of their intense affection for him.
• Ash picked up Hug-tan and let the baby Pretty Cure climb all over him, then carried them toward the descending castle.
• Sougo Tokiwa, as Zi-O, and Captain Marvelous, as Gokai Red, defeated the enemies in their area and discussed their elaborate forms covered in symbols and portraits.
• Sougo and Marvelous saw an approaching figure in a Pretty Cure mishmash form and remarked on the dolls of Pretty Cure attached to it.

Ash used the baby Pretty Cure clinging to him to overpower the Sentai Killer’s forces, then brought in the Smile Pretty Cure team to face him. He prepared to hand the fight over to them while Miyuki reassured him that he could become a good father.

• Ash summoned Sougo and Marvelous for help, and they laughed at his appearance beneath the baby Pretty Cure covering him.
• The Sentai Killer fled, but Ash chased him down while carrying the babies as armor.
• The Sentai Killer summoned foot soldiers and monsters, but the babies’ instinctive shields and attacks let Ash destroy them.
• Ash explained that he would not fight the Sentai Killer himself and summoned the five Smile Pretty Cure members.
• The others laughed at Ash’s appearance, while Miyuki comforted him and encouraged him to believe he could become a good father.

Smile Precure used Gokaiger Ranger Keys to defeat the Sentai Killer, and Ash learned that Mugen had been captured and forced to serve Hundred Worlds. The reunions turned chaotic when the Precure babies began crying and then transformed back into their older selves, leaving Ash pinned beneath them as Megumi became Eternal Unlovely Angel.

• Ash gave Smile Precure Gokai Cellulars and Ranger Keys, and the girls transformed into Sentai versions of themselves.
• Smile Precure defeated the Sentai Killer with the Gokai Galleon Buster and absorbed his Dark Echo.
• Ash removed the defeated fighter’s helmet and learned from Mugen that Hundred Worlds had predicted the heroes’ moves, detonated a Dimensional Vibration Bomb, and captured him.
• Mugen left to reunite with the surviving heroes and told Ash to cherish his companions and never betray them.
• The Precure babies began crying and tugging at Ash before smoke and explosions changed them back into their older selves.
• Ash ended up pinned beneath the disheveled Precure, and Megumi became Eternal Unlovely Angel as she clenched her fist.

After Ash returned from saving the Pretty Cure, they comforted him and thanked him instead of blaming him, and he asked them to lend him their hearts’ strength against the Hundred Worlds. He resumed gathering Dark Echo and reunited with Akane, who cooked for him as he embraced her in the kitchen.

• Ash reassured the Pretty Cure that their behavior under the favorability ability had been a dream, then asked them to become his strength against the Hundred Worlds.
• Hana and the others said goodbye, and Ash returned to Megumi, Miyuki, Haruka, and the rest, who showed concern for him and gave him back his white coat.
• Ash and the others boarded Castle Dragon to return, and he later reflected that he had recovered only part of the Dark Echo and would need to defeat the remaining Hundred Worlds members to gather the rest.
• Ash put the sleeping Puka beside Miyuki, woke up, and followed the smell of grilled meat to the castle kitchen.
• Akane Hino cooked Ash a meal, and Ash hugged her from behind despite her protests.

Ash and Akane confessed their love and began a relationship, then Reika and Nao arrived to invite him to meet their families. Ash recognized that the Nao with them was actually Bad Nao, who had planned to replace her.

• Ash teased Akane while she cooked, and she confessed that she loved him and wanted to protect him.
• Akane transformed into Sunny Angel Princess Mode and became intimate with Ash, while Ashu stopped Nao from entering the kitchen.
• Akane promised to cook breakfast for Ash again, and Reika and Nao arrived to speak with him.
• Nao invited Ash to meet their families and tell them about their relationship.
• Ash exposed Nao as Bad Nao, who admitted she had hoped to take Nao's place.

Ash supported Reika through a nervous meeting with her family, who approved their relationship, and reassured her that he would love her even if they had objected. Nao woke from a dream about Reika and Ash eloping and was dragged into meeting her own parents as Reika urged her to stop hiding her feelings.

• Ash asked Reika's family to entrust her to him, and Reika's grandfather accepted their relationship after Ash promised to make her happy.
• Reika admitted she had been frightened during the family meeting, and Ash comforted her and vowed he would have married her even if her family had objected.
• Nao woke from a dream in which Reika and Ash eloped, only to find them beside her bed and learn that she was expected to meet her parents.
• Nao reflected that she had fallen for Ash at first sight but had never found the courage to act on her feelings.
• Reika urged Nao not to keep hesitating and reminded her that she had a chance to join the others in Ash's heart.

Ash visited Nao Midorikawa's family, where her siblings exposed her secret crush and helped push the two together. After Ash comforted Nao and returned her feelings, he rewarded Keita for his part in the matchmaking, but the chapter ended with others noticing marks on Ash's neck and wondering whether he had become involved with another woman.

• Ash visited the Midorikawa Family and was warmly welcomed by Nao's parents and siblings.
• Keita and Reika plotted to help Nao confess, and Keita announced her secret feelings and private confession practice to the neighbors.
• Nao chased Keita upstairs, then Ash embraced her and praised her until she asked him to continue.
• Ash promised Keita expensive tokusatsu toys, while Nao pursued her brother again after he asked when Ash would marry her.
• Ash's companions noticed marks on his neck and began to suspect that he had become involved with another woman.

The girls failed to learn Homi’s parentage, while Miyuki trusted that Homi would reveal the truth in time. Nao confronted Ash over the marks left by other girls, and Reika helped the couple work through their jealousy as Nao watched them together.

• Snow White and the others questioned Homi about her mother, but Homi gave an answer too vague to identify anyone.
• Miyuki told Yayoi she was content to wait until the children were born to learn the truth about Homi.
• Nao spotted marks on Ash’s body and accused him of cheating, while Ash explained that the other girls had been affected by an enemy’s ability.
• Nao and Ash argued their way to a hotel, where Nao admitted she did not know what to do.
• Reika kissed Ash and told Nao to learn from her as she covered the marks, while Nao listened and reflected on loving them both.