[DreadBringer]

Multiple "just forget" in this episode. One episode before Yearning Arc ends, different from the leaks.

Unlike Daichi, who wants to greedily eliminate multiple players at once and makes enemies for it, Keiwa, Neon, and Sara actually worked together to eliminate the common threat by uniting the ID Cores in Sara's hands, and that almost places her as the winner, if not for Michinaga's encounter with Archimedel that also elevates him in the same place. Keiwa and Sara's talk that is related to the DGP also finally happens to beat the invincible Michinaga that Sueru pits them, to have Sara also show her thoughts about the Heaven and Hell victims. Still not much thoughts from Sara regarding her brother's killer.

And for now, Neon still sticks to her decision to have her fans forget about her, despite at least Sara assuring her devotion to her before. The first one to have ignorance is bliss approach to others, despite her preferring to have her remember the tragedies in her life to Kyuun. Though she doesn't do atrocities to force her approach to others unlike the next ones, her self-loathing does have her take a misguided path. She better continue her chapter by going to the future to search for home (wondering if the future can connect to the present), if she's uncertain about it being the place where she belongs.

As he has now developed, now Kyuun is also just straightforward to report her that the DR won't grant any winner's wishes, to get her to stop fighting inside it, instead of likely insulting her to get her quit DR or something. It's blunt and maybe unpleasant for her to hear, but still shows that insulting isn't a part of being honest, and he's not anything wrong to tell a truth in ways like that. Though even with the DR being pointless, it won't be something that gets her immediately quitting being a Rider, at least to protect Sara. This is so far is just a setup for 3 of them for now, but I'd wonder what happens next after Neon actually got the worst outcome she'd get as the DezaStar before (which actually drove her desperate), being permanently retired as Rider per DR rules and no chance for her wish. Or about how Sara's stint as Hakubi following this, which already got a build up in her supporting the 2 people she mimicked her pose with.

Obviously, the outcome for invincible Buffa wouldn't be changed with the party getting nothing new. And for now, Na-Go and Hakubi are eliminated, with Tycoon inheriting their ID Cores. So Na-Go's move in protecting Sara is shielding her with her body, both times against Nadge-Sparrow and Buffa here, of which the latter has the attack hit both of them. It's more minor compared to Tycoon's following, but Buffa insisting the Riders to just live a normal life and forget everything about themselves as Riders and the DGP is met with objections from the girls, thus he'd still be imposing his belief to others without considering those who aren't in the same page as him. Buffa thinks the only "right" way to live must only be about being retired to normal life.... and that's something that made him hate Ace so much due to him telling Michinaga that back when he saw Toru died, actually becoming just like Ace himself.

Buffa claims that misery is brought by one's tenure as a Rider and the granted wishes, including Tycoon's. But as usual, he's ignorant that he himself is complicit in it, and actually has his wish granted unlike others here, while he also brought misery to others himself by joining the JGP, a game designed to maximize that. Him working out to deal with a problem doesn't mean that he's not another problem itself (and same goes for many other villains "having a point", they shouldn't be elevated and get double standard/free pass). Tycoon knows about the Goddess sacrificing others' happiness and lives, but he'd also think the only way to revert that is the same power, and like the other 2, he objects to forgetting, ignorance shouldn't be something encouraged. And now it's revealed that Buffa doesn't respect Keiwa's mindset, to think that his ideals are empty, so that'd be why he doesn't win Buffa over either.

Other than helping Ace, Win turns out to be a reliable ally overall here, with him being an informant regarding DGP's insides. Has extra information too with him looking up for DGP archives, compared to ep. 14. Also continuing his good terms with Tsumuri (at least since ep. 14). I wonder why those 2 can easily access the DGP archives without risks, so far, considering how secretive the DGP is, including Tsumuri's constant reminders, or that the higher-ups are overconfident their plan will succeed and everyone will forget thus they don't pay mind to them looking over it. Geats' take of Gaia Library of W or Zea's data in Zero-One (along with Izu and Tsumuri being there respectively), but now it doesn't take place in white void room.

New information revealed, both in and out of universe would be Mitsume's origins that she came from the future, got her powers from a prayer, and the prayer is why Ace was born, the power is just an extra. She's actually married to someone to give birth to Ace, but with special case following the established rule of past and future child being unable to give birth. As usual, there's still more questions on how Mitsume also got her powers from her prayer and what'd be the forbidden door talked about here. Otherwise, this just highlights the DGP's cruelty further by erasing Mitsume husband's existence, and capturing Mitsume to be used as a tool, and adding a rule to forbid romances between Desire God and Navigator. Now Keiwa has heard from Win that Mitsume is just a tool. He still walks away, but I hope that Keiwa would acknowledge that Mitsume is innocent, which is official now.

Another reveal is that, Sueru claims Goddess' power weaken over time, which'd be the real reason why he launched Grand End now. Though dunno about the reason why they have to move to different era to have a new Goddess replacement - likely Tsumuri. Good thing about Sueru is that he straight up tries to eliminate Ace on spot by wishing it himself, no-nonsense for him, but it fails as Sueru's claims of the Goddess not having her own will is proven wrong, and Ace's faith in his mom is right that she wouldn't forsake her son. Sueru would still continue to view anyone around him as tools to use until they ran out of use due to damage and dispose them with a new one, like Masamune discontinuing living beings. Unknown what happened for the unrevealed Beroba and Kekera's wishes though before, to decide if it's Mitsume weakening or Mitsume still having some will.

Ziin is also being helpful to Ace to actually learn a thing or two from him by setting up Niram to reveal Mitsume's fate right in front of Ace while handing the Vision Driver to him. Now with Win revealing the truth, like Neon and Michinaga above, Niram continues to insist that Ace should just forget all of the DGP and live his life as an Ukiyo son. Like the latter, Niram presents this as the best outcome Ace can get, but obviously this disregards Ace's individuality like how it's not his choice to reincarnate or inherit previous memories, and this is likely just done to have Ace stop getting in his way. Likely lip service in Niram acting baffled on why he chose this hard path. Though Ace himself also should realize that this isn't the best thing to tell others himself as well, to just forget everything and return to normal life, by this. Which also comes from Mitsume telling him that.

Geats LaserBoost and Gazer rematch happens, and it seems that LaserBoost isn't really much below Gazer to land some solid hits, though Gazer retains upper hand. Though if stats are to be considered, it says something about Niram's skill to put a fight against Geats in a form established as equal, compared to Buffa having a hard time against Geats Magnum with Command Twin. And Gazer's Dominionrays are consistently used as usual, which is good and one of higher points for Geats' fighting scenes. LaserBoost also suffers official defeat when he lost his composure, as Niram noted, getting bombarded by the Dominionrays. So it's official that Gazer > LaserBoost and Ace really needs something else to take it on, the Boost Mark III he awakened at the end. Though the form's looks is disappointing to me, at least so far the special effects surrounding it are great. It's power is also shown in 4th wall breaking way to alter the rules stated each end of the episode. Being a control freak, Niram will probably react like Ryoma and Kuroto (Gaim + Ex-Aid again) for Mark III here.