Why didn’t Astaroth just tell samurai man that Sabnock is a bastard who likes torturing slaves, better than samurai man just accepting that Astaroth is a thief and swallowing his dignity for serving a thieving master (samurais will never serve a dishonorable lord unless bribed)
So now, in plus of copying the setting of Dungeon Defense, the author is now trying to copy Dantalian's mad facial expressions from some of the Dungeon Defense novel illustrations?
Okay.
he's risking himself to reduce his army's casualties (emotionally too)
if sabnock took him seriously from the beginning, he'd had no chance to stall for time
he'd be dead long before hijikata arrive