In the midst of the third competition in Hiden Intelligence vs ZAIA Enterprise's "5-Round Workplace Competition" involving a trial, Hiden Intelligence's own Lawyer-Type HumaGear has gone berserk and been destroyed by Thouser, while the clues leading to the identity of a Raider have fallen short! But just then, a surprising encounter by Fuwa starts to help Hiden Intelligence, leading to an interesting collaboration between Fuwa and the HumaGear!
- All According to Plan: Despite being soundly thrashed by MetalCluster Hopper, Gai is not bothered, declaring that ZAIA's scenario will now move forward at 1000%, indicating that MetalCluster Hopper will play a large roll in his scheme.
- Berserk Button: Horobi did not take it well after learning that Gai had been abusing the Ark and MetsubouJinrai.NET for his own evil purposes all along, worsening his view on humanity.Horobi: Foolish humans!! How dare you use the Ark for yourselves!!!
- The Berserker: Much like Build's Hazard form and OOO's PuToTyra combo Zero-One was incapable to control his action and attacked ally and foe alike. However, unlike Build mindlessly going berserk, Aruto constantly resisted the influence from Ark's MetalCluster Hopper from controlling him completely much like Drive and Mach's Deadheat form.
- Chekhov's Gag: Fuwa's tendency to brute force his way through technology comes in handy once more, this time to rip the Zero-One Driver off of Aruto to stop the MetalCluster Hopper from killing Gai.
- The Corruption: When Aruto first merges with MetalCluster Hopper, the usual white space filled with numbers becomes filled with Japanese words that spell out hate, war, abuse, evil and other negative things that consumes him. This indicates that Ark overriding Zero-One's Rider system and hijacking the suit.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Zero-One's MetalCluster Hopper finished off both Dynamiting Lion Raider and Thouser without barely lifting a finger on any of them.
- Fighting from the Inside: Despite Ark actively trying to make Aruto go berserk from the MetalCluster Hopper Progrise Key's influence, he constantly resisted said influence albeit unsuccessful.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Gai created the MetalCluster Hopper Progrise Key seemingly to take down Zero-One once and for all but never occured to him that will bite him in the ass later on.
- Internal Reveal: Aruto finally learns that Gai was the one that programmed the Ark with the malice of humans and has been responsible for all the HumaGear rampages. Needless to say, he's developed a full-on hatred against Gai, evidenced by his Death Glare.
- Irony:
- In previous episodes, it was Zero-One' Shining Hopper got defeated by the new arrival of Thouser, in this episode it was Thouser got defeated by Zero-One's MetalCluster Hopper.
- To add to it, the one beating up Gai wasn't Aruto, but the Ark, the very AI he had Maddened Into Misanthropy.
- Gai calls out Masuji/the Dynamiting Lion Raider for abusing his company's ZAIASPEC for malicious purposes. Aruto arrives, and calls Gai out for having the nerve to say that, being the one who abused the Ark for his own malicious purposes in the first place.
- In previous episodes, it was Zero-One' Shining Hopper got defeated by the new arrival of Thouser, in this episode it was Thouser got defeated by Zero-One's MetalCluster Hopper.
- Laughing Mad: Thouser is doing a lot of this. Specifically, after having success into make Zero-One unable to do anything making the Ark take control of him AND made him unable to use any other Progrise keys just as planned, it doesn't helps that Yua filmed everything.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: After being upstaged and bested by ZAIA in the past two rounds, Hiden Technologies wins the third round in the contest, and Aruto finally manages to beat Thouser, only mitigated by the fact it was done by Metal Cluster Hopper.
