[DreadBringer]

So Beroba's just desserts is done by 2 of the most likely candidates, Neon and Michinaga, though the former does it more.

Guess Neon's lack of understanding of love directed to her still applies in her not understanding how her parents, if only taking so long for them to properly do their job, show actual care for her in Gya-Go Fantasy risking his life to protect her by shielding her from Premium Beroba's shot, as well as Irumi talking about her worry regarding her kidnapping. Both reasons are about her fake status, which makes her feel that she's not worth being loved by anyone, either her fans or the couple who birthed Akari. This'd also emphasized that she helped Kousei without expecting to be rewarded or owing into them only because of their parent position, just simply because he's someone in need of help, physically and emotionally, regardless if her parents are inspired by her to make a change and repaid her or not.

Overall her parents' redemption are meant so that Neon's suffering end and she can finally move forward, and have Beroba unable to break her, by correcting her warped view due to her upbringing by having her parents display what true love is, like Kousei being ready to throw his life for her, after their failure of giving her one, regardless of what Irumi feels. Then her getting to be Kamen Rider again from those wishes. So she finally got her closure, and live up to her claim of now being happy, by being bubbly again in her interactions with Ace, by having things work out on her favor, but this seems to be an unreliable way to get happiness, what if her parents are really irredeemable scums without self-awareness, or what if she can't ever become Rider again. She'd be forever miserable of never knowing true love while still giving one to others, or watching people around her die while being unable to find ways to mitigate that.

It's brought up more than once, but Neon's reason to protect others here is about duty as a Kurama family, if still self-imposed for their role as DGP sponsors. So it's still not said regarding her reason to help others before the recent reveals of Kousei's involvement or Mitsume's wish, guess it was what she explains to Sae? And Neon and Beroba's match isn't about Neon hunting her for revenge, but her reacting to Beroba's further attack to kill Kousei. Yet perhaps despite revenge being not something right as shown in Keiwa that Ace stopped him, this'd be likely also considered just getting revenge to Beroba when this is about protecting the hospital and preventing her causing misery. Her henshin has her seemingly showing Creator-like abilities of shielding herself with 9 tail pillars like Geats IX, due to her belief, which misleads the viewer with her being like other Goddess due to being Mitsume's creation.

The Fantasy's abilities so far is weapon creation like claw, intangibility, and weapon summoning. Her intangibility may be also her accepting herself about her fake and not existing status and embracing it... I expected said Fantasy's ability to be Revice's final form before, with Vice being intangible, but incorporating that in battle. With Neon's skill in comparison of Kousei to beat Premium Beroba, a skilled fighter, really she could've defended herself against Kazuo... talking about how Fantasy still incorporates hand-to-hand combat, not only magical abilities. Her beatdown also shows that Beroba, who finally bleeds, can't take her own despair like she inflicts to others, which Michinaga rubs, thus no redeeming her, with her also insisting that she does what she does cuz no one wants a happy ending, just Neon reaffirming that what she does is wrong that the world isn't fodder for entertainment.

I guess I'd be relieved that Buffa Zombie is still easily beaten by Tycoon, though he manages to score some hits by catching him off-guard with Revolve On. While it's a good showing from him, it's overrated to have him being considered as almost beating Tycoon or such, or wanking him of thinking that he'd trounce everyone easily on even grounds. Rival characters with rude personality can really get overrated like this, when the show already displays that even grounds with Keiwa and Michinaga fighting as human before, or him not being the only case of punching above his weight like, Na-Go keeping up with other veterans (like Buffa) with Armed Buckles in first DGP, or, regardless of him being a scum, Brali keeping up with Gya-Go Fantasy, and actually looking equal (Buffa scoring some hits isn't), before his eventual defeat, and it's actually separate from Premium Beroba's participation. Overall though, this shows that final form Riders aren't immune to base form Riders' attacks for both cases.

About Michinaga's talk with Keiwa, I guess he still keeps his stubborn nature, which probably how he fails, that he still pins the blame on Keiwa for his wish, and act like he suddenly cares by that blame where he insists that otherwise Sara can be saved, and that Keiwa won't ruin Ace's work. I hope this failure isn't used to only paint Keiwa as in the wrong, but is used to emphasize that Michinaga needs to work harder to earn his redemption, with his callous actions before may be more remembered (unlike ep. 36), other than how Michinaga brought up Ace's question in ep. 8 again about only Keiwa getting to be happy with his family, which now Keiwa sees as nothing wrong, showing his lack of regard to others without them keeping him on check. Michinaga's talk about Daichi's tree of knowledge may be clearer in next episode based on the screenshots, but I hope Daichi remains a despicable scum, as him being tight-lipped is interpreted in kinda a positive light by the characters.

Keiwa seems to have a bit of soft spot for Neon with his reaction to her kidnapping, still addressing her with '-chan' suffix, albeit at the end he addresses her as Na-Go. And without Michinaga, there are still people who tries to get through him like Tsumuri, who thankfully retains some of her will as long as Ace is alive, to use this to point out that Keiwa's still miserable despite asking her for another, prompting him to likely stop altering the world to his liking until he gets what he wants. Tsumuri too now has a noble goal of wanting everyone to be happy, when Jit taunts her of Ace and her upcoming fate. This is power of friendship thing to have Ace being strong by having more allies on his side, and I'd think Neon's W against Beroba is also that, of Ace intervening to change Gya-Go's ID Core with Na-Go, despite his lies of not expecting that, but Neon being able to see through it.