Part of his plan is to restore his name and show that "Justice" is on his side. So no, he can't simply go on a killing spree. The next chapter has the princess show up to move the masses to their side.
>This means that the imperials here were not just willing to kill all of the citizens of the town and the MC, but everyone in the audience as well.
>The MC just saved everyone in the town from their own government
This fucker is the most righteous character in this story completely because he's less fucked up than literally everyone else in the story and I love it. It's like Warhammer logic of "no matter how bad or despicable you are, if every other alternative is worse, you still look clean in comparison."
Holy cow, this went from 3/10 to 8/10 to 9/10 in this chapter to 10/10 by the next chapter. I'm getting some high aesthetic samurai fighting vibes from this manga now. I feel like I'm watching Darth Sideous' imperial guards duking it out with the yuuzhan vong, not watching some dude's adventures of rape and rage.