The MC has an irritating habit of enabling and excusing his tormentors, especially if they are pretty. It was pathetic hearing him back track on getting back the people who did such horrible stuff too…. everyone? It was not enlightening or hard for him to do. And it was a pointless addition in many places. I wish the story was about a young Edward. It would have felt less like watching someone walked on while pretending to have had enough. But he does have good old plot armor. It was the only reason things worked out for him in a lot of places. What’s most annoying pathetic and removes most of the sympathy is that he treats nobles as people and commoners(especially commoner soldiers) as disposable when convenient. He will consider how human nobles are but can rationalize instantly killing guards/people who have less choice. He is as bad as them in that sense.