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Originally Posted by Sunred

Yep, I expected the granute to show up but not guilt-ridden like this because the writing staff could've gone with the wolf in sheep's clothing approach with Saito and I wouldn't have been too disappointed.

I mean, he is still a wolf.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

I wonder what's the meaning of Hanto asking Hiroto about his age.

Journalist habit. You never know what kind of information you might need for an article, haha.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Regardless of Rakia having innocent blood on his hands or not, he's not better or worse either way (he was still a mass kidnapper who'd send his victims off to be murdered), where people can think if they've murdered someone they're irredeemable, but think they're not that bad if they haven't killed anyone, but the latter can happen due to external factor, like the heroes foiling their plan, not because of their own moral code.

Yeah, the important part is that Lakia is doing his best as a Rider to mitigate the ongoing damage caused by Nyelve's experimentation on him and hopefully shutdown Stomach once and for all. Unfortunately, he can't help how he feels about his culpability just by trying to rationalize it, similar to how Shouma used to blame himself for raising people's spice value.

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Originally Posted by DreadBringer

Saito can be potentially a karma houdini where he'd get away scot free after murdering Hanto's mom just because he said sorry.

What else can he do? Not like he's having the time of his life or anything, as his crimes have clearly been weighing heavily on his conscience for the past 18 years and now he's working hard to support an honest family confectionery company. And to be precise, he's an accomplice to murder, which was finished by Lango with his dissolving vat.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

It is also possible that Saito will die during another battle between the Riders and Stomatch, thus receiving both punishment and redemption at the same time.

Right, Kenji could meet the same fate as Comel and if Hanto does choose to spare him, then he could end up having to avenge him instead and protect Hiroto from the lonely path of revenge.