I think it’s more out of a matter of respect instead of just listening to him they also rely on him to take care of duties as their leader and in return he’ll most likely get treated like a real leader since they know that they need someone to lead them if they want to stay working platoon(and none of them really want that duty most likely) but also since almost no one wants to take care of the “crazy” ones and our mc hasn’t really seemed to object to the idea knowing that someone weaker stepped up to take care of them probably put that respect needed for them to “listen” to him so to say(that probably seems like mushed of rambling sorryg
agreed with all of the above! that sort of mutual respect is super important especially since it's something very difficult to come by. not to mention our mc is quite special himself... it requires some real "craziness" to dedicate yourself and your entire life so wholly to his dream. crazies recognize crazies!
it’s pretty clear that his subordinates are way stronger than him, so why do they listen to him? they’re supposed to be crazy and out of control, right? why do they take commands from someone who is so much weaker than them..