In vol 4, an assassin was sent behind him by an enemy nation. The second heroine, Shizuno, warned him to be careful and wary countless times. But his reply was always "We should extend hands of friendship towards them" and all other hypocritical bs. Even when Shizuno tried to ascertain the assassin's (which was, as always, a girl with a dark past. Typical.) true motives, she was scolded and forcibly shut up by the MC.

Now, you'd think that his pathetic-ness would go away when he declared war against the enemy nation in vol 4, but sadly, it doesn't. The author explains again and again how he is a cold heartless man and all that, and all the characters are scared of his cold side. Then things happen, and he is later attacked by the Lightning Empress, the main antagonist of the arc. I will mention that the villainess was someone who would mercilessly slaughter young boy and girls just for her pride, and she did so in front of our hero too. Her subordinates forced orphans to fight him, and the MC didn't want to kill them. He disarmed the orphans, but the villainess slaughtered the ones who ran away using her subordinates. Yet, our hero neither kills the subordinates, nor the villainess after the fight. The author uses up pages just to describe how merciless he was and all that, but then just... Forgave a tyrant who had killed hundreds of innocent people and orphans.

When the heroines come to help him in the final battle of volume five, our hero is surrounded by monsters and enemies. The thrill of battle is there, the mood is ready... And they start to flirt. In the amidst of the battle. People are dying, and he is flirting.

in volume five he can actually turn the ground of a entire city into water and control it with a snap of his fingers, and used it to rip apart a giant made of lightning.