Then the second Ruijerd got the two of them to Fittoa he just up and left. Eris, and Rudeus slept together on the same night. Because Eris found out that everyone in her family died. Her father, mother, and grandfather. Eris wanted Rudeus to be her family, hence why she slept with him. The subsequent chapters talked about how she felt like she was dead weight to Rudeus, she thought that Rudeus had a very hard time in the Demon Continent, because of her. Just before the trio arrived at Fittoa, they encountered Dragon God Orsted, who fatally wounded Rudeus, but healed him after his companian said it would be better if he lived. It was there she Eris started to spiral downards, into thinking that she was dead weight, and Rudeus nearly died because he tried to protect her.

Resolving to not be deadweight, she left with Ghislane in the morning after she slept with Rudeus. This is where Rudeus' perspective comes in. He thought he was being too clingy, and that's why Eris left him. He left Fittoa to search for Zenith, his mom. Because he didn't want to stay in Fittoa because it reminded Rudeus of Eris. This is how Rudeus was affected: A girl Sara was in love with him, and she offered herself to him. Rudeus was all for it, but then his little man wouldn't come up during the call to arms. He now has ED.

He tells lies to force rujierd to not kill, putting himself and the others at risk, for no other reason than that the little pansy boy is scwared of the fact that rujierd knows killing is the right choice in a lot of situations and him being willing to do so. He ends up on a years long journey with ED because eris left him after the first time (which was a s*upid misunderstanding), where he quite literally just walks around half-dead mentally, even contemplating su*cide, for real, not even joking.

He seems to refuse to think whenever he misunderstands something, needing others to tell him off when he should know it better himself. He breaks down every time something bad happens. He's specifically warned about the "death god's" abilities and how to fight him, only to somehow FORGET something he should've been reminding himself of every day when actually fighting him, almost dying and almost letting others die because of it, then finally remembering but despite that he just despairs, wants to flee with some excuses and he just keeps on hating himself for forgetting instead of just getting on with things. He also never fails, in almost every conflict, to get the rug pulled from under him because he never takes things seriously enough from the start and lets his guard down no matter how many times he gets taken advantage of. Even a monkey will learn from its mistakes... but not rudeus, no, rudeus claims in his inner monologue that he has learned but then goes on to pull the same crap again and again or just backpedaling because why not reduce hard earned character growth to almost nothing

Oh, and perhaps one of the most annoying parts is that no matter how powerful he is or becomes, he always ends up at the losing end. He almost never wins, at least not against anyone of importance, every single fight has him almost dying and you never get the feeling that he's powerful despite him clearly being one of the most OP people in the world, this often applies to those in his party as well. He either meets the few people who are more powerful than him or a bad match-up or he's tired for whatever reason and gets caught off guard. He never gets to show off properly and it's just frustrating when a clearly super OP protagonist seems to have the same power level as whatever chump out there, what's the point of being OP if you can never show it? For all intents and purposes, he's just half-decent and not powerful at all, the actual results runs contrary to the setting and the author's own words.

I also hate the idea of 26 volumes yet he never ended up doing anything much, instead leaving the final task/tasks to his descendants, he was a pathetic guy from start to finish, dull that he died too in a world of magic where so many others live for hundreds or thousands of years, this was just the story of an inferior guy with an inferiority complex and traumas who somehow got gifted great power by sheer dumb luck that doesn't even use his powers properly and the only thing he accomplished well was creating his family, it'd be more interesting if the man god had killed a wife or two and led him down a slightly darker path but not to the extent of the alternate future guy that traveled back in time to warn him of the man god wanting to do exactly that

It would be nice if Rudy would think about something else other than s*x.