Naive people like each other
NO DEADASS like dude what? If you value everyone they shouldn’t you value your innocent citizens enough to kill the people that have literally sworn to come back? Tf at least cut off a limb or smth
Dude fr, if I was one of those citizens I would NOT want that man leading us. Brother gonna get us all killed 100%
Sadly, they changed quite a lot of stuff in this arc vis-a-vis the novel. Originally, the two bad guys were kicked out of the village with their few followers and the transmigrated guy slaughtered the lot after they'd left the boundaries of the village. And the prince both knows and supports the action as a necessary evil.
See, THAT makes complete sense!! Unsure why they would cut that in the manga? It's just one small scene, maybe 2 pages long. What an odd choice
Of course MC likes the prince, they both make 0 IQ plays and are lucky plot armor protects them. Yeah go release the dudes who just said, to your face, that they were gonna take revenge. That's awesome and definitely doesn't put any of your subjects who can't fight in danger at all!