That was too short, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that this is just a genderbent version of
fushigi yuugi. with the shield hero playing out what happened with yui in that series
I don't believe that this guy would've suddenly changed his character right after that accusation. We can take the in series explanation that he's following the story of the shield hero character from the book he found, but that's a bit of a stretch for me.
It's interesting enough for me I guess, picked up for now
