It’s possible that Ryner allows himself to be blackmailed because he doesn’t want to expend the effort that being a prodigy would entail. Sion eventually resolves this issue by blackmailing Ryner with this knowledge, as it seems the bearer of the Alpha Stigma is considered to be cursed or a monster or some such thing. Somehow, Sion has figured out that Ryner is the bearer of the Alpha Stigma, which gives him extraordinary magical abilities. Sion, however, thinks he has found an advantage in fellow student Ryner Lute, student always on the verge of flunking. The academy itself is described as a place where the unwanted are trained to be soldiers so the nobles don’t have to fight, so while the students do learn serious attack spells in classes, their training is just to make them effective cannon fodder. Having endured years of abuse at the hands of nobles and the sight of his peasant mother dying unaided by his father, it suffices to say that he is ready for a little revolution. If last episode was about introducing Ryner and Ferris in the middle of their quest, this episode is revealing the backstory for it all, particularly about King Sion’s early years, back when he was just an noble bastard (in the technical sense) consigned to a military academy and trying to avoid the occasional assassination. If not for the fact that they shared characters, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two episodes belonged to two different shows. The serious, dramatic, and political elements completely displaced the comedic in this episode. That, as it turns out, was not completely correct. In my initial review of Legendary Heroes (I’m not going to type out the full name each time), I said that the show had all the right elements for a adventuring farce in the vein of Slayers, but also had hints of a much more serious background and plot that could conflict with the original comedic tone.
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