User blog comment:B214/Chapter 497: The Winter Mage/@comment-24102956-20160809045451/@comment-4829046-20160809052612

The fact that they treat Meliodas the way they did despite his involvement in the sealing shows how pathetic they are. Sure, he may be the catalyst for the return of the demon king, and he did massacre a lot of their kind, but having zero concern for the man that allowed them to remain alive in vessels long after the great war is showing utter hypocrisy. This chapter cemented the fact that they are a barbaric(killing child prisoners was the last straw). More barbaric than even the warring Giant tribes because at least those have ignorance as an excuse.