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Originally Posted by Omnikaiser

Considering he is part of the main trio I expect his old teacher to be somehow alive and evil or something for the sake of drama.
If Daichi was Touma old teacher and Hayato was kento's, it would be like the 3 old teachers being evil somehow.

Now that would be a cool plot twist! I'm not sure how that's possible though since Zooous seems pretty convinced he killed Kenshin and considering how he spared Rintarou as an insult, he doesn't kill just any swordsman, only those who earn his respect. It's interesting how the suit designs that use living thing books are least appealing to me compared to those that use legendary creature and story books and yet their corresponding characters, Rintarou and Zooous, are so far my favorite of their respective trios.

In Ryusoulger, the previous knight motif Tokusatsu, I was 99.9% sure that the Masters would revive somehow due to the pendant in Episode 9, their initial lack of characterization and the common trope of people miraculously coming back to life. But I was wrong! Only Master Black lived in the end. Green was an exception to the expectation since he only appeared as a silhouette in flashbacks and his backstory was told from a third person perspective.

Initial lack of characterization is also applicable to the mentors in Saber with justification that at least one of them was dead from the start but still appeared fully in flashbacks and spoke lines unlike Master Green. However, Saber derives a lot of themes and morals from faerie tales so even if Kenshin is dead, maybe him coming back to life is a possibility. I would really like to see him make a comeback possibly as a new Rider and his actor deserves to have a less posthumous role for once! This show is written by the same person who revives Takeru (wait, let me count) 5 times after all so I can hope.

Kento isn't a Calibur like his father was, so his mentor is probably someone else who used to be Espada unless Ikazuchi didn't exist 15 years ago and Kento only became Espada cause the Calibur Driver and Kurayami weren't available. I think the former is more likely and that all three Seiken Swords compatible with the Seiken SworDriver were made around the same time, after Kurayami, Gekido and Hayate and before Suzune.