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Originally Posted by Kinematics
Sadly enough, yes. And that probably says all that needs to be said about this episode.
In fact, Motoyasu actually came off fairly respectably this episode. In the Wave where Glass showed up, he didn't want to fight together despite the gravity of the situation. Now the situation is reversed, where Motoyasu is calling for people to work together and Naofumi is the one who's refusing to cooperate, despite much stronger background reasons to do so, and even trying to put aside his grievances just last episode.
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How did he come across as the slightest bit respectable? He jumps at the possibility of a boss fight and poses like he always does, runs up and declares they'll all fight together as if all the abuse and hate and persecution had never happened, and refused to accept responsibility for the death and pain and suffering he'd caused to so many people. He just continues to act like he always does, only he decides that right now Naofumi's apparently a teammate. He's still the same bastard who thinks that he can just do whatever he wants and he's bound to be right because he's
obviously the hero, and any pain he'd previously caused should not matter at all. Yes, Naofumi has plenty of reason to try and get along, but that doesn't mean he needs to bow down and do whatever the idiots say. In order to work together properly he needs them to recognize the truth and stop thinking of only themselves. Otherwise they'll claim to be three or four great heroes fighting side by side while constantly interfering with and bickering with one another.
Also, as for claims that it's bull for him to just make plans with his party because Fitoria will kill everyone if even one of them dies, there's one fatal flaw in that logic: it assumes that he plans to work with his party only and PROTECT his party only. So far he's been protecting all of them even as he makes it clear he doesn't yet trust them and feels he'd fight better with just his direct party. Fitoria won't kill him because he didn't fight this one battle side by side with them, if they all survive and he tries to get them on the same page afterward. Besides, he's not trying to get them fighting amongst themselves, he's trying to get them to learn enough humility to be able to fight together properly.
And yes, Naofumi and his party have been training hard. Just the fact that at significantly lower levels and without a class up they're still able to fight on par with or better than Motoyasu's party shows that they're incredibly strong despite having not been allowed to level as much. And while they didn't train to use the combo technique, it could be said to be a result of their efforts that they're able to pull it off the moment they see it.
And as for the stuff about "it's not a game" being absurd just because the world has a ton of game tropes, though a slave daughter and rapid growth are things I've never seen in a game: fact is that while the world has game elements, it's also clearly not a game. At least not the sort of self-serving game that the others played where their actions weren't allowed to have negative consequences. People can die here; non-player characters are real people capable of anything from saintly altruism to the cruelest betrayal; actions have consequences beyond a simple "job complete" mark; harvesting all of a creature the size of a whale before it decays is a monumental task. At the very least it's not the games they played, and if they'd ever taken the time to think that maybe the others were telling the truth and knew what they were talking about they'd realize this.