Happy fathers' day!

Yup it was the Hydra last ditch plan to try and kill Rudy because it thought he was the biggest threat.

So basically an orsted situation

Yes this exactly. People forget that Rudy is unable to use battle aura to increase speed or strength like most others can in the MT world. There is only so much a human body can do and a limit to how fast they can do it. Battle aura overcomes those limitations, and since Rudy can’t use it, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time so his dad willingly exchanged places with him.

@@dbuy3 It's not that anime-viewers"forgot", it was just never delved into by the anime for some reason I can't think of. I was looking forward to it being explained during one of Rudeus's daily morning training with Badigadi before finding Sylphie's identity, but never happened. It was one of the most important reasons as to why 8:42 happened, and now some viewers are blaming Rudeus because of this lacking information.

@@knockknackk318I’m hoping they’ll go into the whole existence of Battle Aura in an Eros OVA

Comes in clutch later

Sort of, the harder the substance it is cutting, the shaper it is. It can't cut butter, but it can cut the heads off of a hydra.

Ya the manga is Mid af anyway the LN is the only way to experience this story if you can't wait for the Anime 2 return.

Thanks for the info

​​@@LegionzAnime the novel it self is absolute peak, the anime got to cut off so much scene, cause the story to be rushed so fast to this episode. Rudy suposed to have more time with sylphy before he going to save zenith, and they skip the whole part when rudy and eli in desert. But I glab that they didn't fked up any moment of this episode, that is the only thing I want, Paul's death got the respect as the way it should, Bind studio cooked so hard man. This is no doubt the best anime episode of the year

@@baovirus2004 yeah a bit messed up they cut out the part where Rudy takes his first life. I’m not done with it yet I’m on vol 20

not one shot it but it whold have been much easyer to slay that hydra and paul wouldn't have died

That's not what happened tho the Hydra used all of it's necks at the same to attack everyone so it could focus and kill Rudy with its last head because it thought he was the biggest threat and it ended the way it did as a result.

Rudy did not "space out". What the fcking hydra did was unexpected, it deemed Rudy to be the most threat among them, used its dead neck stumps just to take out Rudy by using it to attack everynone. And we all know Rudy got the foresight, but his body is not capable actually follow through that movement.

I think that’s because he’s a reincarnator. He has experienced a world that is unrelated to fighting monsters. There is a difference between him and the others who have only experienced one life, which naturally progresses from the cradle to the grave. And simply he has less experience fighting menaces because he is strong; in fact, He's the first threat since the matchup with Olstead.Therefore, they can’t change that habit, especially if it’s intuitive, and he was formerly a shut-in.

@@user-zv5ez5fv6w nope don’t forget he spent most of his years after the Teleport disaster as a Adventurer so he’s use to stuff like this. What I said above is 100% what happened it’s in the LN the Anime just skipped over it as usual to save time.

@@user-zv5ez5fv6w There's a certain weakness Rudeus has that's been made clear in the Novel that had nothing to do with his mental state or habit anymore during this time. I just can't understand why the anime skipped over "Battle Aura" or "Toki". This was further looked into during Rudy's daily morning training with Badigadi in the academy in the novel, but not in the anime for some reason. Simply put, it's a physical enhancement using mana that is commonly used by almost everyone, but Rudeus seems to have a hard time grasping and applying it to himself. So if you're wondering why Rudeus seem a lot slower or defenseless compared to everyone in this party despite training his body everyday, this is one critical reason. Also the Hydra can strategically think like @The_CodFish69 mentioned, disorganizing the formation and targeting Rudeus specifically.

Well, they at least put all the really dark things that happened when Rudy went to save his mom in a different season. This is happy fun times with friends next to that. So you have that to look forward to if you are anime only.

It isn't a fate worse than death. If she didn't have a loving home surrounded by her children and grandchildren, it might have been.

@@iceberg54321 sure she'll be surrounded by family but she can't function or be with them in their lives. She'll never be able to directly talk or express emotions. She's a prisoner in her own body for the rest of her life. And the only plus is eventually roxies and Rudies one kid will have the ability to directly talk to her. It's like my aunt that just slipped away mentally for 3 years before all the health problems killed her. Her mind was already gone. My aunt was already dead. And her husband had to watch powerless as he lost her. Paul being alive and functional would have been better for the family.

@@squirlking2 Well, none of that about Zenith is entirely true, but I don't want to give away spoilers for people who haven't read the books.

@@squirlking2 Plus there were some other options that they never explored, such as bringing her to Migurdia where she could have communicated with everyone and been normal.

@@iceberg54321 normal around roxies people that communicate via telepathy. But not normal around her own people/family. At this point we may as well consider both parents dead.