Is there anything noteworthy/memorable about Naofumi's adventures outside of Malty's antics ?

From what little I know of TROSH's story, it's basically : Naofumi gets framed by Malty, buys Raphtalia and Filo, meets Glass and clears his name --> Spirit Tortoise shit --> Malty manipulates Ren and Utsuki --> Malty gets sent to Faubley --> Tact saves Malty (either by reviving her or preventing her from being raped) --> Malty betrays Tact and then gets burned to the stake/tortured by Rino --> ??

Personally, I see it as a testament to the story's bad writing that I literally don't know and never heard of anything outside what Malty's doing (apparently Raphtalia is a princess from Q'Ten Lo and even that I had to look for on Wikipedia - it was mentioned in the summary of the last episode of the 3rd season)

Am I the only one who feels like this and is there anything not dull about Naofumi's adventures when Malty isn't there ?