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Spoiler for Episode 17:

Given that Joe can make Precure and had Ai's egg, it was a bit obvious that he was some important Trump Kingdom citizen and they've finally dumped that bit of info onto us. Knowing that, Ai could potentially either be the Queen's reincarnation (known possibility) or, in some weird case, might be Joe and the Queen's daughter. Unlikely, given he's willing to just put her in the care of a bunch of school girls at inconvenient times and she was born from an....egg...., but you never know.

On the Cure Ace, note, it feels a bit more ambiguous than before as to how this will unfold. This episode suggests Regina becomes Cure Ace but it's still hard to shake the fact that the leaked designs have a lot of similarity with the Queen. As we'll soon find out within the next 6-8 episodes or so, I'd rather not throw too many theories around.

As much as I hate how easy it is to convince the Precure to hang out with a villain who can make MotW just because she gets pissed off/possessed by the power of a Royal Crystal, Regina at least breaks up the monotony a bit.