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>when the group is in danger, everyone gives running to Aoi for help and she's the one who issues commands to protect everyone.
It's THAT one time he just came back and still not in the known of the current situation and it was for protecting the base/defensive battle so it's pretty much the definition of the "back". After that he was explicitly the one who move the group forward with his info and when shit hit the fan in any routes in chapter 9 he was the one who got his partner evolved and cleared the situation.
In harmony he was also explicitly the one who calmed Aoi down when everyone went schizo and she was much less prominent in handling the Kaito's schizo situation than him/defer mostly to him and outright admitted that she didn't know what to do with him. In wrathful he pretty much took back all the command immediately after she broke down.
Only in moral I feel that they focus more on Aoi's leadership outside chapter 9 and probably because they want to show the surviving kids as the best version of themselves in that route. If you play that route first you *may* feel that particular way I guess.