I have mixed feelings about this episode and am actually surprised you guys enjoy it so much.

I could accept him moping around for episode 1. The resolution felt a bit too quick at the end there, but it resolved nonetheless. This episode showed him initially in an improved state, but then he went back to being all depressed and shit. That felt off, and it seemed like Episode 1 was wasted. We could have started Season 2 with this exact episode and preface it with "It's been a few months since Eris left me, and I've started making a name for myself in this town. In particular I partner with this other team a lot".

The body building and panties shrine was funny, and the fanservice was on point.

I thoroughly enjoyed that Rudeous was capable of deleting a blizzard and murdering snow bisons. It looked like he struggled against the frost lizards at the beginning (which was strange) but I guess he was just sad when he thought he got left behind and he went into his shithole state of mind again.