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This is one of my favorite episodes, too. What I love, beyond the character moments or plot developments, is just how un-Kamen Ridery the show's handling of this stuff is. Touma confronts Kento about the whole Calibur thing and demands to know what's happening. In pretty much any other Rider show, Kento's response would have been some kind of deflection: "You don't need to know," "You wouldn't understand," "A guy like you can't stop me," etc. Instead, Kento just explains exactly what's going on, what his end goal is, and why he's doing all of this. Regardless of the fact that it all makes perfect sense from his perspective, it is so refreshing to see this kind of open communication on a Kamen Rider series.

For some context, this episode originally aired about midway through the "Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Den-O" thread and we were somewhere in the part of the show after Zeronos had shown up. You could really see the contrast with how Saber was playing this out when compared to Sakurai "Do not answer any questions about the plot under any circumstances" Yuuto.