[i just remembered they're having this discussion at the breakfast table just super casually]

Oh, dear... That's a different sort of brutality, but brutal nonetheless. [Like, at least none of them were compelled to fight each other?? It was either gruesome fairytale execution carried out by the gods, or one carried out by an actual executioner with full execution rights.]

...I'm glad to hear that it turned out as well as it could in the end, though. Or at least better than what could have been.