Bunta's warm confidence doesn't falter in the face of her response. It wasn't really a callout, because that would suggest Bunta had been making an effort to conceal what she had simply said in more blunt terms-- and shifted the focus more onto what she thought that said about her brother.

That was understandable. Lissa has been pretty sheltered so far to the inner workings of running a kingdom. Yukimura was an incredible person. He loved his friends and family, and he cared deeply about ensuring his kingdom's success and future. Those goals had price tags, sometimes in measure of human lives. Yukimura was a good king because he understood the gravity of that price, and didn't spend those lives meaninglessly.

But they did have to be spent sometimes. The burden of that responsibility probably isn't something Lissa has considered much before.

"You don't need to worry about that either," he says, and places his hand back on her shoulder, this time as a reassurance. "Being Lissa is enough."