Something about this feels really unsatisfying. He wasn't really an enemy with the kingdom, nor were they constraining him that much, and the the non-surviving princess was bratty but was becoming a likeable character; so the sudden shift of them all dying and being removed from that situation and having little rumination on it just makes the main character... Unlikable? But not in the cool anti-hero/villain kind of way, but just plain unlikable.
Like he "befriended" several people in this kingdom, but doesn't seem to care about them in the slightest at the same time. He doesn't care about the kingdom, but went out of his way to kill all the soldiers in this coupe. He seems to love fighting and getting stronger, but is scared of the idea of there being more heroes.
I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but he's character feels inconsistent or something.
like other's have said, he's very consistent, if you're careful about what you take literally and what you don't, because everything we see is filtered through
his interpretation.
If you assume he's a sociopath, incredibly self-centered, asocial, and acting entirely because "he finds it interesting," then everything he does is logical. He's not
meant to be likeable, he's a sociopath, and I don't know why so many manga readers are foreign to that concept, do people
need to self insert?
He doesn't actually give enough shits about the first princess to move, but then they target him so he wants to get out of dodge, and then when he realizes he wants to play with aaliyah for longer he decides he wants to clear out the troublesome pursuers first and nip the issue in the bud.
Him "befriending" people was a fucking ruse, if you read more closely it's pretty apparent he's doing it cuz he found it 'fun' for that little while. It's like sociopathic roleplay. So he doesn't give a fuck about the others, except aaliyah.
He likes fighting and getting stronger, but he also likes lazing around and screwing with people, and the thing is, heroes like to attack during the day and be troublesome which
really fucking annoys him. Heroes are also the most likely to figure out his ruse, because their thinking is more open, esp wrt politics.
He's wishy-washy, driven by impulse, asocial, and manipulative as fuck when pressed to
be social. In otherwords, full-on sociopathy. He's not
meant to be very likeable. And in that context, he's very consistent.