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A Secret Messenger ...
Nope! Kusaka hadn't even been in that episode until towards the end; they cut to a scene of him hosing himself off in some warehouse (?) and Takuma approaches him. Cut to Takumi and his ordeal and Kaixa pulls up with the Accel thing. I guess we're supposed to assume he somehow got it off of Takuma...? Whatever, it all played like an entire scene or two was missing...which wasn't totally out of the ordinary for Faiz.
Doesn't Kusaka leave a few episodes before the Accel form appears? It's been a while since I've watched 555, so I could be wrong. I understood it as Kusaka left the city and did some unknown things. Somewhere in all of that, he obtained the Accel device and gave it to Takumi.
At least that's how I fit it together in my head, because yeah, it was handled pretty poorly in the show.
As for twenty forms or twenty Riders? I'll have to go with twenty forms. Most people consider Kuuga to have eleven forms total so we've actually been pretty close. :laugh: