Chapter Summaries

Dust used [S] to warp the multiverse’s boundaries and fire devastating beams that struck worlds including the Land of Light, Sky Island, and the Fairy Kingdom, while Ash struggled against him. The Pretty Cure girls reached Dust’s clone instead of Ash, and the heroes’ attacks against [S] failed to slow it down.

• Dust’s revived [S] warped space-time around the multiverse, and its first beam pierced the Land of Light’s planetary shields.
• Dust fired more beams that destroyed or devastated Sky Island, the Criminal Base, the Fairy Kingdom, L77, and Helheim Forest as Ash fought to stop him.
• The Pretty Cure girls reaffirmed their promise to become Ash’s family and continued through a passage with no way back.
• The girls mistook Dust’s approaching clone for Ash until they recognized him, and Dust attacked them with a flaming meteor to keep them from reaching Ash.
• [S] shrugged off the heroes’ combined attacks, tossed aside Gaia SSV and Aguru SV’s beam, and kicked an approaching Kamen Rider away.

The Pretty Cure fought Kamen Rider Dust, recognized that his conflict with Ash stemmed from their shared memories and his refusal to accept being a copy, and failed to persuade him to let them pass. Dust separated them into groups and sent the DokiDoki Pretty Cure to face an Ash from their past, while Puka and Supreme Angel confronted him directly.

• Dust battled the Pretty Cure and lashed out when Miyuki recognized that he was using Ash’s movements and hurting himself.
• The Pretty Cure reached out to Dust, who struggled with memories shared with Ash but ultimately refused to let them meet the two sides.
• Dust sent five groups of Pretty Cure through separate windows to face enemies from their past.
• Aida Mana and the DokiDoki Pretty Cure encountered a returning Ash as he transformed into Kamen Riders.
• Puka and Supreme Angel shattered the barrier trapping them, then Supreme Angel redirected her destructive attack at Dust.

Ash and the Precure fought Dast and Dark Echo's Rider duplicates inside [S], while Dast revealed how he revived and why he resented being replaced. The battles continued across several fronts, with the girls confronting dark copies of past Riders and Megumi facing Decade again.

• Ash severed Dast's tentacles and heard him explain that System had created an earlier Ash, that Dast was later replaced by Light and Kalle, and that he survived by transferring his consciousness into the previous Ash's corpse.
• Ash struck Dast after he paused to receive memories from his duplicate, while the Precure struggled against a Dark Echo version of Dragon Fang and its black dragon.
• Itsuki, Little Dark, and the other girls coordinated their attacks against Timons, then faced his distorted Rider form.
• Miyuki, Reika, Akane, and Yayoi confronted the Jaaku Dragon Rider and resolved to fight as Precure for Ash's smile.
• Yuko, Snow White, Iona, and Megumi fought Decade, and Megumi renewed her determination to defeat him and move past her mistakes.

The Princess Pretty Cure fought Dark Kiva while Ash struggled against Dust, whose hatred and despair transformed him into Kamen Rider Dust: True Evolution. Ash rejected Histrum’s plan to reset everything and insisted that small, voluntary changes could eventually change the world; Ashu arrived with a device for Light and chose to reunite her heart with Histrum’s.

• Haruka, Minami, Towa, Twilight, and Kirara fought Dark Kiva, and Haruka’s Demon Emperor Sword clashed with his as their powers proved to share an origin.
• Ash and Dust battled inside [S], but Dust tore free of his restraints and used anger and hatred to strengthen Dark Echo.
• S grew stronger as the heroes outside fell, and Dust achieved True Evolution by merging completely with Dark Echo.
• Histrum asked Ash to follow their plan and reset everything, but Ash refused shortcuts and argued that change could spread through small acts and willing hearts.
• Cure Night Ashu struck Dust, gave Light a device made to work for anyone, and helped Histrum stand beside Ash.
• Ashu offered to return the heart she had received so she and Histrum could become one complete heart again.

Histrum merged with the space to help Ash, while the Pretty Cure teams fought Phantom copies of Kamen Riders across the battlefield. Ash drew strength from the girls’ memories and resolve as the battles continued.

• Histrum accepted Ash’s hand, merged with him, and urged him to keep his promises and protect everything he loved.
• Ash felt the Pretty Cures’ support and pushed back against Dast, declaring that he had what Dast lacked: connection with others.
• The Princess Team used teamwork and reckless attacks to defeat Dark Kiva, with Cure Flora striking him through the chest.
• The Happiness Charge Team attacked Decade together, and Megumi’s Eternal Unlovely Angel form destroyed him.
• The Smile Team embraced King Sword and unleashed Pretty Cure Royal Rainbow Burst despite his wounds.
• The HeartCatch Team overcame Empire Timons’s new form, and Rei used Pretty Cure Pink Powerful Sonic to purify him.

The Pretty Cures and Ash fought the Dark Riders, but the two Dusts deceived the girls into striking each other while Dark Echo overwhelmed Ash. The battle turned into a massacre as the Riders attacked the other heroines, leaving their allies wounded and dying.

• Aida Mana and the other Pretty Cures subdued Dark Dragreder, then followed Ash's guidance and used their Heart Arrows to destroy Phantom and his mirror.
• Supreme Angel and Puka joined forces against the Dark Riders, while Ash noticed Dust weakening and struck him with a decisive punch.
• Dark Echo surged through Ash as he absorbed the girls' light, and Dust explained that the future would be nothing at all.
• The two Dusts revealed they had evaded the finishing move and tricked Supreme Angel and Puka into impaling each other.
• Dark Kiva killed Kaito Minami and attacked Haruka and the other girls, while Decade and additional Dark Riders struck down the remaining heroines.

Dust and [S] erased the battlefield and overwhelmed Ash, while Aida Mana lay dying among shattered mirrors. As Ash reached the brink of defeat, memories of his last night with Mana revealed that he had prepared to propose to her.

• Another Ryuga sealed every Pretty Cure except Aida Mana inside the Mirror World, then shattered the mirror and left Mana pierced by its fragments.
• Dust and [S] gathered enough power to erase everything around them, then battered Ash and broke apart his armor.
• Ash kept fighting with the hopes of the Pretty Cure and other heroes, but Dark Echo swallowed his final light, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Ash heard Aida Mana confess her love as she lay dying, and he promised to find her after he finished fighting.
• Ash remembered the barbecue held before the final battle, when he and Aida Mana spoke privately beneath the moon.
• Ash knelt before Aida Mana and revealed a ring in his palm, beginning a proposal.

Ash proposed to Aida Mana, and they exchanged wedding rings and promised to stay together. In the collapsing battlefield, Ash returned to fight Dust, but a mysterious cosmic light and a song appeared beyond the chaos.

• Ash confessed his love to Aida Mana and asked her to marry him.
• Aida Mana accepted Ash’s proposal, and they exchanged rings and vowed to remain together.
• Dust noticed the ring on Ash’s hand as the worlds collapsed into chaos.
• Ash revived and prepared to sacrifice himself to defeat Dust, but Aida Mana stopped him and reminded him of their promise.
• Eddie reached Ash through the damaged communication line and told him to look outside.
• Ash and Dust saw pure light spreading through the chaos and heard someone singing.

The heroes regained hope as destroyed worlds began to reappear, restored by the wishes and song of people across the multiverse. The song revived the worlds and brought back three legendary heroes, while Ash realized how the plan to defeat Dark Echo would work.

• With Komom Ikki, Kamiyama Touma, and Goshikida Kaito urging everyone to keep fighting, the defeated heroes rose again despite their losses.
• Three figures emerged from the light, and the ruined multiverse began filling with newborn worlds as Ash understood that destruction had made rebirth possible.
• Light appeared alive with a glowing flashlight and confronted Dark Echo, while Hongo, Hayata, and Kaijo Tsuyoshi revealed themselves as the three returning heroes.
• Father of Ultra and the other heroes recognized their restored worlds, where Pretty Cure and the people of the multiverse sang together to encourage the warriors.
• Ashu’s assembled scientists revealed that they had created Miracle Lights to connect every world and intelligent lifeform, leaving the delivery and shared wish as the remaining challenges.

The heroes rallied against Dust and Dark Echo as Light sacrificed himself to restore the wounded and lend them his power. Ash confronted Dust, while heroes from many worlds joined the battle and the story left the battle still raging.

• Takeshi Hongo, Shin Hayata, Kaijo Tsuyoshi, and their fellow heroes charged at Dust’s army as Light’s song and light summoned more heroes to the battlefield.
• Light scattered his power among the injured, restoring their strength and even repairing damaged machines, while Gira and Kuwagata rejoined the fight.
• Ash blocked Dust’s attack on Light and began counterattacking with power drawn from the heroes and the light behind him.
• Light gave his entire self and tore away his Color Timer to pass his power to the people he had defeated, then disappeared after declaring his hope for a beautiful future.
• Ash faced Dust for another round as the resurrected armies of Riders, Sentai, Ultramen, and other heroes—including Moonlight Mask, Space Sheriffs, Golden Knights, and giant machines—attacked the enemy forces.

Heroes from many worlds joined forces against Dast, whose control over S began to falter when Ashu intervened. Dast then turned S’s power toward making the battlefield world crash into Ash’s Earth, leaving everyone facing an imminent catastrophe.

• Godzilla, Gamera, and heroes from many worlds arrived and fought together, drawing strength from the song and the Miracle Light.
• Gokai Red and Decade swapped transformation devices to defeat Another Rider Valdo, while Phantom reunited with Dan and Kotaro, and Andre Melos joined Zoffy.
• Kamen Rider G, the Akibarangers, and the Kizun Sentai joined the chaotic battle and attacked the enemy forces.
• Dast tried to unleash another world-destroying attack, but S resisted his command as Ashu revealed she had infiltrated S and was using it to repair everything.
• Ash restrained Dast while Ashu worked, but Dast redirected S’s power into gravitational waves aimed at the battlefield world, threatening to send it crashing into Ash’s Earth.

Ash and the heroes drew strength from the hopes of countless worlds, then turned that support against Dust and his control of [S]. As the heroes fought to save the worlds and dismantle [S], Ash faced Dust again, while Puka and Primum revealed that they had faked their deaths to ambush the Dust Phantoms.

• The Mysterious Four Ultras and the other heroes pushed against the small world controlled by Dark Echo, while the Pretty Cure joined them and Ayumi broadcast a plea for the multiverse to support them.
• People across countless worlds answered Ayumi’s broadcast with cheers, giving the heroes and Ash the miraculous power of their hopes.
• Ash used the gathered light to disrupt Dust’s control of [S], and the system helped reverse the mechanical demon god’s direction as Ash challenged Dust’s hatred.
• The heroes outside stopped themselves from attacking [S] directly and instead began dismantling it piece by piece, trusting Ash to win inside.
• Ash and Dust resumed their fight, while Puka and Primum revealed that they had faked their deaths and struck the Dust Phantoms from behind.

Ash and the Pretty Cures fought Dust as he absorbed Dark Echo and gained near-limitless regeneration. With the multiverse restored by its inhabitants’ wishes and the others joining their thoughts to Ash, the final battle turned against Dust, though the fight continued.

• The Pretty Cures broke free of their restraints and attacked the enemy together, while Aida Mana returned from the Mirror World to Ash’s side.
• Dark Echo abandoned Dust and tried to seize Ash, but Ash, the system, and the Pretty Cures rejected it, and Dust absorbed it into himself.
• Dust overwhelmed Ash with his enhanced regeneration and summoned Dark Riders to attack the exhausted Pretty Cures.
• Ashu connected Ash’s thought-form with everyone’s and used the multiverse’s shared hopes to recreate the destroyed worlds.
• Ash stood with Rei, Primum, Miyuki, Megumi, Haruka, Mana, and Ashu, shed his mask, and challenged Dust to the final fight.
• Puka, Supreme, the four girls, and Aino Megumi struck Dust in succession, shattering his armor and tearing away the proliferations of malice from his body.

Ash and the Pretty Cure defeated Dust with the power of their combined love, hope, and life, ending their final Rider battle. As Dust disappeared, he asked Ash to protect the world where justice won.

• The Pretty Cure purified Dust’s defenses and helped Ash overcome his darkness with the light of their feelings.
• Dust unleashed endless malice, but the Pretty Cure confronted him, declared that he had already lost, and merged their power with Ash.
• Ash and Dust exchanged Rider punches and kicks, and Ash’s final strike shattered Dust’s armor and unleashed the Dark Echo within him.
• Ash kicked Dust’s Driver and explained that the ring of light in his chest came from the love and happiness he shared with the Pretty Cure.
• Dust asked why Ash had to win, accepted his answer that justice won in their world, and disappeared after asking him to protect it.

Ash rescued Mana and the others from the collapsing S, then found Ashu at its core and refused to accept her plan to sacrifice herself. Ashu stayed behind to contain the energy, but Ash returned to Earth alive, where the heroes welcomed him home and celebrated their victory.

• Ash sent Mana and the others toward Earth in the escape pod, then searched the collapsing S for Ashu.
• Ashu said she could not leave the core without unleashing its stored energy, but Ash urged her to face the consequences with him and find another way.
• Ashu kissed Ash goodbye and told him to return home as she completed her mission; the core exploded after he was gone.
• The Pretty Cure mourned Ash until he appeared on the shore, alive, and the heroes crowded around him in relief and joy.
• Ash reflected on the warmth and meaning of the bonds he had made, then greeted his friends as he came home.

Years after helping Amanogawa Kirara achieve her dream, Ash returned with her to the Black Night Kingdom and reunited with his queens and friends. After they affirmed that they were his dream, Ash announced that he still wanted to accomplish something now that they were all together.

• Amanogawa Kirara said she missed HaruHaru and the others, so she and Ash used a teleportation circle to return to the Black Night Kingdom.
• Towa Akagi welcomed Ash and Kirara, and she and Kirara teased each other about being queens.
• Ash took Kaito Minami's work documents from her and encouraged her to balance her duties with her interest in marine-life conservation.
• Ash found Nanase Yui sketching flowers with Haruno Haruka, praised Yui's painting, and teased Haruka about her height and her dream of being a princess.
• Haruka said she was happy when she could stay by Ash and everyone's side, and the queens asked Ash whether he had found his dream.
• Ash said the people who loved him and whom he loved were his dream, then sprang up and said he had something he still wanted to accomplish now that everyone was together.