Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
But it was such a cool 5 minute fight! And like, there was blood and stuff!

The badly written character interactions of the main cast and the truly ancient Generic Shonen cliché of the "fateful" (read: random with zero build up) encounter with powerspike bad guy from the series billed as the "Grandfather of Isekai" doesn't matter.


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This episode was a significant step backward for a series that has otherwise actually lived up to its legend of quality.

And since it still isn't the actual first modern isekai (just in the shonen/seinen genres), I hold it to a significantly higher standard due to the reputation that its LN fans give it.
This was a pretty consistent event in Rudeus's life, and thus in the big picture of the whole series. He has found himself numerous times in a situation where he's no longer in control, where he's no longer the main character of the whole world. He just somehow had to get through them. Since you don't like how Orsted appeared out of nowhere to do significant things, I reckon you also don't like Ruijerd, who also super conveniently appeared out of nowhere to help Rudeus and Eris cross the demon continent. The emperor loli of the demon world also appeared out of nowhere and scooped an eye out of Rudeus head. In fact that encounter with Kishirika Kishirisu is quite similar to this with Orsted. In both Rudeus kind of had no control over the situation, yet it was he who started them, something very significant happened, but then it was all over very soon and the other party disappeared.

I don't know what exactly Ryll expected from this scene, but it was his expectations vs reality that failed, not the story. That's how I see it.