Either would be suitably suprising, but why would TOdium trust Cultivation with the duel when he can do it himself
Also it would be a thousand times more suprising if the man he thought dead came back as a Shard and started to kill him
But why would Dalinar sacrifice a child to that chance that Odium, the greatest evil he knows, will send someone that will refuse to kill a child?
Odiums side is vastly not honorable except for the shnayim which Odium won’t choose
Think about this, why would a singer not kill a child?
This kid is the only thing that stands between you and freedom, this kid represents all that you hate, Alethkar oppression and the evils of the Alethi who are willing to sacrifice a child
from a singers perspective it’s not their fault that the enemy chose a kid to be sent to their death that’s on them
A fused is by and large ruthless
Raboniel was willing to kill innocent people to just buy some time, what would she do to stop a war
Lezian would do the same thing he wanted to kill Oroden
I doubt any other Fused would hesitate except Lewshi who is a traitor now
And humans would do it for their life, for they would be tortured and killed if they refuse