Why the hell people keep saying he's dense. he's not, he's in denial because of his low self esteem. There's a difference between not knowing anything and knowing but refusing to believe in it.
the head is ambiguous and could simply be used as agitating that one knight but warming up with the girls can simply be explained as him wanting to learn how the elite of this world fights before he fights the captain nothing irrational about that
they are given a chance because there are people that like this type of stuff
like those that are tired of the empty husks of the copy paste "good" heroes that are selfless to the point of it being a mental illness