@pokefairy
It's not so much women are competent and male are useless in this era.
More, like the women here are witch means people who has unique skills mean they're among the one with a better brain. The rest well I guess they have slightly bad brains probably due to lack of nutrients. It had been shown that poverty does affect people's minds track.
@pokefairy In reality, men and women had a fair competence in the Middle ages: women did the administration parts (count money, light works, local administration,... ), men the physical job (defence, field work, hunting...). Without the helping of the modern tools this couldn't be deference.
The story that in the Middle Ages all the men were misogynist is a fantasy made up by Illuminati.
MC took a big gamble assuming they wouldn't just continue with the torture after retreating, which was the cause of him changing the plan to begin with.