>>283671788
Not only that, but it really shouldn't have been a shock. Other than Kusunoki, the southern court was never portrayed as being particularly moral in the way that the Suwa/Hojo faction has been.
Kiyohara was Shokan levels of monstrous towards civilians but without the redemption, multiple times it was acknowledged that it was Nitta's forces that massacred Kamakura, Akiie was introduced being an elitist asshole, Nanbu was also a bit of a cunt, they had an even more psychotic Yuki, all the no name court nobles were retarded and selfish, and Go-Daigo himself spent most of his time in the manga as a pair of glowing ragetard eyes.
Even the Kanto Ashikaga have them beat in the morality department despite having a deadbeat dad mad scientist and rapeman on their squad.