@givemersspls
That's not what I meant. I get how a false sense of responsibility is the REASON they feel like its their fault. I just don't understand how they get to that point of taking on that responsibility. They literally went to his village and kidnapped EVERYONE, whether they had anything to do with him or not. Why should he feel responsible when an evil person does evil? Defending himself from torture, rape, mind control through drugs, more rape, and more torture is never going to justify the bad guys attacking people he may never have even spoken to. I live in an apartment complex and my building has seven other people living in it. I've spoken to ONE, and very rarely. I don't count my roommate in the seven. If one of them is hurt, I'm apathetic about it. I only care about people important to me. Not John Smith from apt 32.
I own a gun. If my roommate is being attacked by one of the crazy bimbos (I'm not being sexist. I've seen some of the most hilariously stereotyped girls come from his room for breakfast) he 'dates' and gets stabbed, are you saying that because it happened at my home I should feel responsible for his stupid mistakes getting him hurt? Hell no. I've picked him up from the hospital after being stabbed TWICE now in the five years he's been my roommate (no, that's not a joke). I was even there for one of them. His mistakes aren't ever going to be my responsibility.
Back to the point. The main character is not at fault for evil being evil. They were going to do it anyways, especially in this series where everyone he wants vengeance on is insanely high on the scale of one to 10.