He also was not there for the kajiu fight and just "happens" to get safeguard last moment when he was gonna be sliced up, but really, no main character will diebecause then the series ends. so really every main character has god luck.
Actually he does quite well in the school, thanks to it's encouragement of teamwork. He only did bad in "Path of the Diamond", also due to encouragement of teamwork.
You can't have the best of two worlds, I'm guessing he'll either have an annoying rival or he'll just keep failing stuff. Annoying rival is what I'm betting on.
I mean a new rival, since I remember Runt mentioning that there were more tryhards at the Academy that were worse than Pebble at his worst or something.
U know whats interesting, NK6 came out before Toa8BK2 Came out so basically whoever read that wont be suprised what happens In Toa8BK2 cuz its the same thing!