Yes, he is doing his best. In this one scene, the protagonist is about to be kidnapped, and Souma was in charge of protecting her, and he got his ass handed to him.
Really bad.
He was covered and coughing up blood.
And so the dude trying to kidnap her was like, "Oh wow how pathetic lets go now"
Souma got up and just used himself as a human shield and was like
"No! I wont allow you to take or harm Yukimura-senpai in any way! I was tasked to protect him, (he had to pretend to be a boy becuase a girl living in a compund with men would be too s c a n d o l u s) and I wont let you harm him!"