See, a Returner’s Magic Should be Special had a corpulent and repugnant professor. However, unlike most in the genre, he actually had a reason, became indebted to the MC, and even thanked him, growing as a person.
But how smooth-brained do you have to be to read this far and still be complaining about cliché and what not? They say don't judge a book by its cover, but you cannot have seriously read the title and expected anything more than you're receiving.
It's well-drawn, stupid, power fantasy; an infant could ascertain that from the title and cover.
In the examiners defense, if I saw something impossible, I'd think he would be cheating too. I don't know why the examiners are always the bad guys for using common sense when they realize that what the student did should be impossible, and asking the student for a re-examination to make sure they aren't cheating.
Just once I wanna see these stories trying to pretend like the MC is a cold killer have the MC actually out here snapping fingers and disappearing people trying to step on his heels.
And yes, the tester was in the right, if I or you were the tester we'd also expect to see a magic circle if 99% of the world relies on them for basic magic and we'd suspect cheating from a no name off the street.
I'm dying at the idea that this noble on the last page would act that cocky after seeing an explosion that large. Like, even if you think the MC was somehow faking it, if you don't know how he's faking it then what's preventing you from getting exploded too? There's gotta be a limit to how ridiculous cocky nobles can get in power-fantasy fantasy manga.