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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

I'd normally expect Tendou to more forcefully confront a threat, or agitate a situation until an adversary shook to the top. (When he tries to find the Drunk Doctor Duplicate, he's trying all sorts of crazy tricks!) Here, he's just, like, stationing guards? Even his interactions with Keiko are minor, non-illuminative. There's a real sense of complacency in this plot, and that's not what I associate with Kabuto?

Maybe Tendou always said he wouldn't join organizations for a reason? The old him would've busted into that school and solved their Worm problem by the end of the day, in the process coaching a brand new baseball team to the top and only committing four or five felonies in the process. But now he's been in ZECT for a while, and his response to a problem is to... call in subordinates to help out? It's not totally tracking, is all.

Although I guess this could just be a newer, more mellow Tendou, after being broken down so hard in the last story. Like, yeah, he could do something daring and exciting to intervene in this situation, but hey, why not make a fun day with his friends out of it? Just chill on a rooftop making people noodle bread, and take it easy. A Worm is getting away? Eh, you can always get 'em later. One tells you not to use Hyper Clock Up? Sure, you're open to suggestions right now!

...I'm mostly joking here, but on the other hand, I think this head-canon might legitimately make the story work better. You really hit the nail on the head here; it doesn't much feel like a Kabuto plot in terms of structure.