When it came to toying with his enemies, Rino was a master second to none. Everybody was beneath him in his previous world, and he had to balance his mental health somehow. It was just cold efficiency when he vented his frustrations by messing his enemies up mentally while on an extermination job by the king's order. Humans were genuinely disgusting creatures, preferring to sell family out rather than finding a way to survive together.
He might not know how earth gnomes behaved, but Rino had a feeling they would not disappoint him like his enemies. If there were two kinds of idiots in this world, he had a feeling these earth gnomes would be the likeable kind. The other brand of idiot is reserved for a lifetime's worth of overtime work without rewards.
With steel in his eyes, the oldest earth gnome looked back at his comrades and placed a small hand on the youngest of the lot.