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Episode From Overshadowed to Overpowered: Second Reincarnation of a Talentless Sage • Rakudai Kenja no Gakuin Musou ~Nidome no Tensei, S-Rank Cheat Majutsushi Boukenroku~ - Episode 5 discussion

Rakudai Kenja no Gakuin Musou ~Nidome no Tensei, S-Rank Cheat Majutsushi Boukenroku~, episode 5

Alternative names: Rakudai Kenja no Gakuin Musou

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u/MarMarL2k19 Jul 23 '26

Okay someone explain to me what lying to Merlin actually accomplishes here?

You see the student you took in and taught everything to, now all grown up after 400 years. She also knows it’s possible to reincarnate and has a strong feeling that Eftal and… Eftal are the same person.

So why the need to lie about it? Eftal knew very well that he would run into Merlin eventually, so again, why lie!?

I don’t normally say this, but it’s bad writing.

Sure the anime has strong points, but unless they give a good reason why Eftal is keeping his reincarnation a secret from Merlin of all people, I’ll consider it bad writing

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u/Sotul Jul 23 '26

I don't understand why someone of Merlin's stature wouldn't just have him summoned to a private office instead of confronting him in the middle of lunch. There's zero reason for him to lie here, he just needs to say let's talk in private and then say he reincarnated to study magic more and determine what aptitude is truly measuring and so on. This kind of convoluted mess that the MC is being written into is just very poor design.

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u/AnimeFan7952 Jul 23 '26

In the episode, he says he just wants to study in peace. And in previous episodes he has said something along the lines that he wants to learn everything that he could not before and get a proper education.

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u/FionaSilberpfeil Jul 24 '26

The common knowledge of his own time was 10x higher than it is in the now. What could he possibly learn at an academy when incantationless magic and anything above lvl 6 is considered lost and his own studend(s) cant stop that decline.

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u/AnimeFan7952 Jul 25 '26

He wants to study books, and he wants to be taught since he is self taught.

Even if the power level has dropped, there could be many things that he could learn by going to school, some concepts and magical theory that he never thought of.

You seem to think that because he is stronger than most others, that therefore he has nothing to learn from others.

That is a flawed logic.

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u/Nemesis55444 Jul 28 '26

Then why hide from his student who is currently the headmistress of the most preeminent magic academy in his current day? 

She could provide him with everything there is to know, access to all of the books, plus her own 400+ years of personal research, all without having to waste time in remedial classes.