[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

While Ryuji is a cool professional, he's still a big bro as well, so of course he'd have a problem with Kurorin treating Hiromu as expendable like that. It's also a sign of Ryuji having a passionate side when he feels like something is morally wrong. Hiromu shows good leadership here by intercepting his punch though, he understands that it's not like Kurorin is the only one using them to get what he wants, as the Gobusters are using him to get what they want as well, so he makes it clear in a determined way that they're going to use each other. This is another unconventional thing about Gobusters, that they're not best buds with their mentor like you'd often see in other Sentai.

Sure, but I guess my confusion was that Ryuji literally just learned this lesson with Hiromu -- the parallel between Hiromu and the Commander is sort of the entire point of the end of the episode. Ryuji and Yoko had this epiphany midway through the episode that conviction can be conveyed in different ways through different people, and the Commander is basically just telling them that he's fine going to great lengths to defeat the Vargas and get back the people they lost, just like Hiromu. It feels a little hypocritical for Ryuji to draw a line here?