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Orsted doesn’t know that at first that Rudeus’s kids are gonna help him which will cause Hito’s downfall, although he is a looper, he doesn’t know because Rudeus never existed in the previous loops.
Every time Orsted loses or certain time passes without beating Hitogami he loops back and the endless fight continues between those 2 autists. Although this time is basically Orsted’s final chance and there won’t be any next time. Leaving that aside.

When Orsted first meets Rudeus what he discovers is a dangerous potential apostle which he has to finish off. Because these apostles due to Hitogami’s precise guidance can affect major events that are beneficial to him in a devastating way for Orsted.
Btw Rudeus feels the same and decides to kill an innocent man later in the story(pic related and fails)

Btw Orsted is not actually wrong because Rudeus did so much stuff for Hito for example the arc with him saving Aisha and Lilia which ends with Pax and Zanoba getting exiled causes tremendous loss for Orsted(and Rudeus) later on. It’s directly connected to Pax getting mentally broken and killing himself which ends Shirone as a kingdom.


Returning to Orsted killing Rudy he doesn’t really think much about it because apostles like that with the help of Hitogami are an absolute menace. The only reason he doesn’t finish him off is because of Nanahoshi.
Orsted then asks Nanahoshi to monitor Rudeus in detail in the Magic academy and report his activities, he leaves Rudeus alone for a time because of that and how he wasn’t doing anything suspicious really.