it's not like what he did was completely unjustified
@bassgs
uhhhh dude literally murdered children, like people who weren't even alive at the time when the execution happened 10 years ago or were literally toddlers who couldn't form opinions.
even if we tossed that aside, the notion that literally everybody agreed with it is dumb and there's no way you can give the same responsibility to peasants that hold no power and probably just went along because the king said it
I don't think the story tries to portray him as good.
which is why I'm asking how the author portrays its "villains", will they always be slightly more evil than the MC?
edit: and as I see it, depicting him as a "necessary" evil is just another way of saying that he's the good guy