Chapter Summaries

Ash agreed to help the fairies rescue Mana and the others, who had been trapped in Matthew’s memory world aboard a giant whale made from discarded objects. He infiltrated the whale and fought its self-reassembling scrap soldiers, but had not yet found the captured Pretty Cure.

• Matthew’s giant whale abducted people into a memory world, and Beruru explained to Ash that he sought to imprison humanity in the past and steal its future.
• Mana woke beside her deceased grandmother and her dog Malo, believing she had regained the happy past she lost.
• The fairies told Ash that the whale had taken Mana, Rikka, and their companions’ parents, and Ash agreed to help rescue them before settling his own score with the Pretty Cure.
• Ash jumped from Oogai Tower, landed inside the whale, and confronted Matthew, who ordered his soldiers to attack the intruder who had bullied Mana.
• Ash blasted and slashed through waves of scrap soldiers, then fled when their pieces began reassembling and searched the whale for the captured Pretty Cure.
• Ash found a warehouse filled with neatly arranged film reels and asked Beruru whether Matthew liked movies.

Ash and the fairies searched for the film reels containing the Pretty Cure’s memories, then confronted Matthew, who trapped the girls in idealized versions of their past. Ash sent the fairies into the memories so the girls could choose for themselves, but Matthew turned Ash into a reel and projected him into a memory.

• Ash and the fairies discovered that the reels held the memories of people trapped in happy dreams, and Beruru challenged Ash about how he treated Mana.
• Matthew confronted Ash and condemned him for making Mana suffer, then showed the girls happily reliving cherished moments from their pasts.
• Ash argued that only the girls could decide whether their memories were happiness or misfortune, and sent Sharuru and the other fairies into their partners’ memories.
• Matthew sent his subordinates after the fairies and blasted Ash, turning him into a film reel that Matthew placed on a projector.
• Ash’s consciousness was pulled into a memory as an unseen voice called his name.

Ash, a gifted but easily bored sixth grader, handled a classroom challenge and fought off older students who attacked him, then endured his parents’ anger after the school reported the incident. The chapter left him happily watching Kamen Rider and sketching plans for a real Kamen Rider project, though he decided to postpone the difficult parts.

• Ash woke in math class, solved the teacher’s advanced problems, and was kept after school to clean for talking back.
• Ash’s jealous classmate brought three middle school students to confront him, but Ash used improvised tactics to knock them down and sent the classmate to take out the garbage.
• Ash returned home to find his father scolding him over the school’s report, and his parents noticed the handprints left by the bullies.
• Ash told his parents what had happened, prompting his father to grow furious, then went to his room worried that his father might confront the school.
• Ash watched Kamen Rider, wrote ideas in his Kamen Rider Project notebook, and set aside his plans to develop transformation technology until he was older.

Ash remembered how his love of heroes began, rejected Matthew’s attempt to trap him in an idealized past, and broke out of his memory. He entered Makoto’s illusion to help her fight, leaving her and ACE facing the giant doll monster as familiar gunfire sounded.

• Ash recalled his lonely childhood and his longing for superheroes, then thanked Matthew for giving him the chance to travel through worlds of heroes.
• Ash addressed Matthew through the screen, revealed that he valued his present more than his past, and smashed his way out of the memory.
• Ash entered Makoto’s illusion, where Makoto rejected the fake Princess and fought the dolls as Cure Sword.
• Makoto and ACE fought the mannequin monster together, but it absorbed the dolls and transformed into a giant that overwhelmed them.
• As Makoto and ACE prepared to keep fighting, familiar gunfire struck the monster and Makoto called out Ash’s name.

Ash arrived during Makoto and Aguri’s battle and summoned Kamen Rider Blade, whose partnership with Makoto helped defeat the giant puppet. Elsewhere, Rikka and Arisu rejected their false memories and fought a fused monster, relying on lessons from Ash as the battle continued.

• Ash appeared at Makoto and Aguri’s fight, summoned Kamen Rider Blade, and urged Makoto to battle alongside him.
• Makoto and Blade transformed into their stronger forms and coordinated their attacks with Aguri to destroy the giant puppet.
• Aguri rejoiced that Ash was alive, and she and Makoto agreed to save the others before waking him.
• Ash watched Rikka and Arisu resist their past memories and fight a fused clock-and-unicycle monster.
• Rikka and Arisu recalled Ash’s combat lessons and attacked the monster together, but it prepared to strike both of them at once.

Rikka and Arisu defeated the fused monster and reunited with Ash, who remained uncertain about his restored self and hurried toward Ai’s past. Ai found the strength to leave her memories behind, while Ash faced an apparent illusion at his house.

• Rikka and Arisu used their coordinated attacks to destroy the fused monster, then reunited with Ash and welcomed him back.
• Rikka asked Ash whether he would stop fighting, but he admitted he did not know who he was and ran toward Ai’s world; Arisu reminded him that they had not forgiven him.
• Matthew trapped Ai in a repeating past where Maro and her grandmother died whenever she tried to leave, and Ai began to doubt whether she wanted to return to the painful future.
• Ai’s grandmother explained the meaning of her name and urged her to carry their love forward, helping Ai decide to return to her friends.
• Ai transformed back into Pretty Cure, said goodbye to her grandmother and Maro, and set out to pass on the love she had inherited.
• Ash dismissed the memories confronting him at his house, but noticed that his reflection showed him as he looked at twenty years old.

Matthew trapped the Pretty Cure in a dream of their happy memories, but they broke free and saw Ash enjoying a surprise birthday party with heroes from across worlds. Beruru revealed Ash's painful childhood, and Matthew attacked the girls after Ai recognized him as Marlow, the forgotten boy represented by her pendant.

• Ash returned home expecting an empty house, but his parents and friends surprised him with a birthday party.
• Mana and the other Pretty Cure rejected Matthew's offer to live forever in their memories and broke free of his illusion.
• Matthew showed the girls Ash celebrating his eighteenth birthday with heroes from across worlds, and Beruru told them about his lonely, unhappy childhood.
• The girls realized they had never truly understood Ash, while Matthew grew jealous that Mana cared about him despite claiming not to need memories.
• Matthew transformed into a giant hound and attacked the girls, and Ai recognized the pendant on him and realized he was Marlow.

Ai admitted how she had hurt her friends and apologized to Marlo, whose anger faded as he returned to his small-dog form. Meanwhile, Ash remained trapped in a birthday dream until he suddenly used his Signal Axe to attack the people around him.

• Marlo wounded Ai, but she embraced him and admitted she understood his resentment over being forgotten.
• Ai apologized for taking her friends’ affection for granted and promised never to forget Marlo; her sincerity restored him to his small-dog form.
• The girls learned that Ash’s dream could not be stopped once it had begun, and Rikka saw the dream’s birthday celebration on the screen.
• Ash accepted gifts from his friends and believed he could finally stop fighting and live peacefully.
• Ash inserted his Signal Motorbike into the Signal Axe, then used its finisher to decapitate the nearest figure at the party.

Ash realized that the birthday celebration was an illusion and destroyed the mannequins and dolls around him, while Ai entered the scene to save him. Ash then recalled the Jikochu Progenitor inside him and listened as Ai confronted him about how it had twisted his choices.

• Ash recognized the happy birthday gathering as a false world and used his weapons to smash the figures celebrating him.
• Ash demanded that the heroes stop him, but no one responded, and he destroyed the remaining dolls with his combined weapons.
• Ai shook off Rikka’s attempt to hold her back and promised to bring Ash back before leaping into the screen.
• Ash’s rage faded when he imagined Ai and the others among his victims, and he asked the system what was inside him.
• The system explained that the Jikochu Progenitor had escaped inside Ash and influenced him through his Core Medal.
• Ai told Ash she had come to save him and confronted him about the Progenitor’s influence and his wager involving Rikka, Arisu, Makoto, and the others.

Aida Mana pulled Ash out of his despair, and he resolved to keep fighting before they escaped the collapsing memory world. Back in reality, Ash confronted Maro and then the speaking clarinet that had manipulated him, approaching it with murderous intent.

• Ash tried to kill himself, but Cure Heart knocked away the Soul Steel Sword and Aida Mana slapped him and challenged him to keep living.
• After remembering his promise to Him, Ash declared that his battle was not over and asked Mana to help him up.
• Ash and Mana broke through the barrier together and returned to the others, where Makoto slapped Ash and the group argued with him.
• Ash demanded to know who had manipulated Maro, and Maro admitted that he had been responsible.
• A battered speaking clarinet emerged from the whale's heart and accused Maro of being Matthew, but Maro insisted that he was Maro.
• Ash approached the clarinet with an iron pipe and threatened to kill it, frightening the entity.

After the Clarinet escaped into the future, Ash found a way to pursue it by using an Administrator PASS to summon the Gaoh Liner. The group boarded the time train and set off toward the future, while Ash's use of the pass drew the attention of beings beyond their world.

• The Clarinet vanished through a rainbow distortion, and Ash nearly fell to his death before Kenzaki Makoto caught him.
• Marlo explained that the Clarinet planned to destroy the future and thereby erase the present, so Ash searched his inventory for a way to follow it.
• Ash found an Administrator PASS, ignored a warning about attracting dangerous outsiders, and used it to summon the Gaoh Liner.
• The Gaoh Liner arrived from the sky, and Ash led the girls aboard for a journey to the future.
• The girls cleaned the dusty train cars and chatted as the Gaoh Liner traveled through time, until Ai winced and clutched her shoulder.

Ash treated Ai’s shoulder wound after Maro bit her, then traveled with the others to a church in the future, where they discovered Ai’s wedding. The chapter ended with Ai staring at her future self in a wedding dress, while the groom remained hidden.

• Ash examined Ai’s bite wound and treated it with medicine made from Gijera pollen, leaving Ai flustered by the strange sensations.
• Ash gave Ai a rabies vaccine, and the Gaoh Liner carried the group through a rainbow tunnel into the future.
• Ash and the girls arrived at a crowded church and recognized their friends and families among the wedding guests.
• Ai saw her future self emerge as the bride in a white wedding dress, while the crowd concealed the groom.
• Ai stared in shock at her future self in the wedding dress.

Ash and the Pretty Cure girls fought the time-stopping whale construct and destroyed the clarinet controlling it, freeing the people trapped in stolen memories. As everyone returned to their own timelines, Ai went to embrace Ash, but an unexpected impact struck her chest.

• Ash watched Ai’s wedding daydream with Cure Heart, Rikka, and Arisu before a gray ripple stopped time and revealed the whale construct.
• Ash summoned Another Dark Dragreder and joined Ai, Maro, and the other Cures in attacking the whale and entering its body.
• Ai and Ash fought side by side through waves of junk monsters, coordinating their attacks as they made their way to the construct’s heart.
• The Cures used the Crystal Mirror and Pretty Cure Lovely Straight Flush to weaken the clarinet, and Ash broke it in half, destroying the enemy.
• The stolen memories scattered and the people returned to their timelines; as Ai moved to embrace Ash, an unexpected impact struck her chest.

Ash transformed into Another Ryuga and challenged Ai to a final battle in the Mirror World, forcing her to confront his despair with her fists and words. After Maro and Beruru gave Ai their blessings, she renewed her resolve and transformed into a radiant bridal form, while Ash remained her opponent.

• Ash revealed the Another Ryuga Ridewatch and demanded that Ai fight him, then transformed and faced Cure Heart alone.
• Ai and Ash battled fiercely in the Mirror World as their friends watched helplessly from beyond the mirror.
• Ash urged Ai to abandon her principles and kill him, but Ai refused to give up on saving him.
• Maro told Ai he was fading away and asked her to carry his love with her; Beruru revealed her voice was Ai's grandmother's and encouraged Ai to do what she believed was right.
• Ai accepted Maro and her grandmother's blessings, renewed her resolve, and transformed into a white bridal outfit radiating rainbow light.

Aida Ai saved Ash from the darkness inside him by embracing him, and the two reconciled after the Mirror World shattered. Ash began telling Ai about his past as an Interdimensional Traveler and the repeated battles that had left him isolated and tormented.

• Aida Ai transformed her light bow into a cocoon and embraced Ash, calming the darkness inside him as they fell together.
• The sparking watch slipped from Ash and fell into the abyss, and Ash felt peace for the first time.
• Outside the Mirror World, Aguri summoned the Ride Shooter, and Arisu drove it inside with the others.
• Ash awoke among the ruins, and Aida Ai punched him before embracing him and saying she had needed to save him.
• Ash apologized and admitted he was not from their world, then told Ai he had endured repeated battles and deaths across other worlds.
• Ai cried as Ash described his pain, and she held him tightly.

Ash revealed that he had fought through loneliness and despair by his own choice, and Ai and the others urged him not to face everything alone. After collapsing and appearing dead, Ash learned that the Pretty Cure had healed his body and decided he wanted to live.

• Ash told Ai that he had lost hope after reaching for dreams that kept turning to dust, and Ai held him as she apologized.
• Ash said the Jikochu Progenitor had fled but admitted his selfish actions were his own, then declared DokiDoki! Pretty Cure had defeated him.
• Ai, Arisu, Aguri, Rikka, and Makoto each confronted Ash, and he apologized to Makoto before accepting Ai’s offer of friendship.
• Ash collapsed just as he reached for Ai’s hand, and the others panicked, believing he was dead.
• Ash woke up after the system rebooted him and explained that the Dark Echo had retreated and his body had been healed.
• Ash clenched his hand and declared that he wanted to live.

After waking in Oink Tail Tei, Ash reassured Regina and the girls and considered whether he could change his life of endless fighting. Aida Mana’s parents then questioned Ash about his relationship with Mana and the other girls, and the chapter ended with Ash misunderstanding their concern as a question about marriage.

• Regina rushed into Ash’s arms after he woke, and he promised not to scare her by collapsing again.
• Ash discussed his uncertain future with Ai, who urged him to change gradually, then ate her family’s spicy rice.
• Aida Kentaro and Aida Ayumi asked Ash what Mana and the other girls meant to him, and he said that Mana was important to him and that he liked her.
• Ash told Mana’s parents that he was a traveler and an amateur scientist, then misunderstood Kentaro’s question about dating as a question about marriage.

After realizing Mana’s feelings for Ash, the girls moved his belongings into Oink Tail Tei so he could live with them. Ash accepted the arrangement and settled in, ending the chapter as he defended his love of toys to Ai.

• Rikka asked Mana how she felt about Ash, and Mana admitted without hesitation that she liked him.
• Ash realized the Aida couple might have mistaken his closeness with Mana for plans to marry her, then began reconsidering his own feelings.
• Ai and the other girls brought Ash’s belongings to Oink Tail Tei and declared that he would live there, despite his objections.
• The girls teased Ai about using her Student Council President authority for personal gain, and Ash joined in the laughter before accepting his new home.
• After helping Ash unpack, Ai tried one of his toys and called him childish, while Ash insisted he still liked toys and would not abandon them for the sake of maturity.

Ash and the Pretty Cure fought Levi’s invasion of Oogai City as Jikochu monsters ravaged the streets. While the girls confronted Levi, Ash saw citizens helping one another and began rescuing them, but an elderly man then tried to return to find his missing granddaughter.

• Ash and Mana shared a tender conversation about wedding dresses before an explosion revealed a massive Jikochu attack on Oogai City.
• Regina identified Levi as the likely commander, and Ash rode off alone to confront him while the girls transformed to defend the city.
• The Pretty Cure fought the Jikochu, rescued citizens, and guided them toward underground shelters established by Arisu’s family.
• Ash expected the frightened crowd to turn selfish, but he found citizens supporting one another and encouraging each other to trust Pretty Cure.
• Ash defeated a Jikochu threatening the crowd and escorted people to a shelter, where an elderly man tried to leave to search for his granddaughter.

Ash saved a girl from the Jikochu and was rescued by the Pretty Cure and Regina. He rejected Levi’s claim that he could only ever be a villain, joined the team against the world-ending plan, and transformed into Survival Ryuga as the final battle began.

• Ash rushed into the Jikochu-infested area, rescued a girl, and shielded her from the monsters despite being unable to fight back without his card deck.
• Cure Heart and Regina arrived in time to protect Ash, while Rikka carried the girl to safety and the others thanked him for saving her.
• Levi accused Ash of being an irredeemable villain, but Ai and the others defended their trust in him.
• Ash declared that he would define himself and live for himself and the things he loved, then Aguri returned his black card deck.
• Ash and the Pretty Cure introduced themselves together and declared war on their enemies.
• Ash inserted the Survival Card into the Dark Dragon Visor and transformed into Survival Ryuga.