oh trust me, I wanna get my grubby hands in the main plot as much as Tama does, he just...lacks a bit in what it takes to get there. I guess connections to people endeared by him is one way to do it

honestly even just from rubbernecking hes gonna be suspicious and confused by the dogging (dog, wolf, close enough) of his daughter and then an "unrelated" third party's involvement, so he'd agree that something was up...he'll gladly pull the sutoku strings he has to try and get the word up the chain, especially given ryouma nearly got murked and that heavily implies these goons are willing to hurt people