Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari

[KrayZ33]

But I don't understand how capturing them would do him any good then.
Wouldn't that just make him look even more evil?

And he'd have extra baggage too.

I'd honestly not have done that either.
I mean - what do I care about what they think about me, I'm about to leave that shithole of a country anyway
And it seems like a real hassle to have them around me and take them hostage when they are running away on their own, which is exactly what I want them to do anyway. I wouldn't even consider it logical to capture them *all*, because that thought didn't even occur to me when it happened in the show.

If it were me, I'd hurt them real bad of course, because I'm more of an evil man than Naofumi is (basically playing right into their hands). After questioning them - "wut yuo doin?" - however , I would've left them to rot though, which seems to be what Naofumi did to that one dude too.