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[SPOILERS, kinda]

I kinda understand your feeling, but I don't remember seeing it that way during my playthrough.

To me,  the MC was the child of a king (therefore, an incredibly privileged person) who, while wasn't close to their father and was aware that the people disliked him, was oblivious to how cruel their father's rule actually was. So only now MC is starting to realize how fucked up everything is because of the king, but that only came after the realization that their entire family was murdered during their brother's wedding, which is surely something that would shake someone's feelings and thoughts.

From that perspective, I can totally undestand that the MC's feelings are conflicted on the subject of their father's death, especially considering that it also came with their sister's death, which was the only family member they were close to. I'm quite sure also that you have an option at some point to say that your father basically had it coming or something like that (it's been a while since last I played it).

As for the other characters, the way I saw it was not that they were sympathizing with the king's death, but that they were sympathizing with the MC's pain of losing their entire family, including their father. Like when you think someone's pain is necessary (for whatever reason), but you can still feel bad for them.

However, as I said, I played a while ago and got back just because I thought ep 6 was out, so I might be forgetting something.