[Zatyme]

so yeah you finally got to witness one of the more cathartic moments in the entire series Kusaka getting his neck snapped by Kiba.
http://i.imgur.com/1JDzI7n.gifv (can't seem to get the gif to properly appear)
Also a fun callback to this is that Takumi did tell Kusaka to "Be careful to not get kicked by a horse and die", and well it wasn't a kick he was killed by the Hose Orphnoch.

I think one of the things that actually works with Orphen Daddy is that unlike some other "chessmaster" shadowy figures he doesn't have all the cards in his hand and he's going off of old information and his own misconceptions such as being completely in the dark about Kiba abandoning his own ideals.

And this is what I mean by the Saeko killing Yuka option being more tragic that his abandoning of his ideals, murder spree of the cops, kidnapping Mai, Killing Kusaka to bet the Kaixa gear, and deciding to kill off all of humanity due to him blaming the wrong people for her death utterly unaware that he's now aligned with her true killer.

Also from my recent watch through of Faiz with my friend who's utterly new to Rider he was calling that Kusaka was going to die about half way through the show due to them abruptly dropping the whole "everyone who uses Kaixa dies" thing and just disliking the character in a Fate series Gilgamesh kind of way, leading me to "accidentally" let slip that Kaixa survives to the end of the show unfortunately letting me pull one over by always saying Kaixa and never once Kusaka leading to his actual shock when he turned into ash at the end of the episode.