Say what you want about the goal of this story being humiliating him, seems like next chapter he will finally be fighting back and I'll be able to enjoy it properly.
As bad as he had been, he did not yet cross the threshold where I'd enjoy an humiliating one-sided curbstomp, unlike that guy from "A Warrior Exiled by the Hero and his Lover".
So this guy being beaten so clearly with no way of fighting back ends up giving me a weird feeling of... not sympathy but "that's enough already".
It is a similar feeling that I get from bashing fics, where people take the smallest issues of the character and expanded them until they are worthy of torture. But all on the perception of the original work, or a "show don't tell" that is more of an excuse, nothing in the story itself that makes it so heinous.
But NOW that he started fighting back, things may change.