Mole Your Way Through!
Was that currently happening a normal fight between fighters of opposing factions?
Definitely not, at least not for every Demon in the army, apart from the directly involved, Cukuw.
Distrust organically built through the reputation of being dumb as a brick, was the basic ingredient to the cake everyone could see.
Similarly to the folktale of the Naked Emperor, everyone had enough courage to comment and think about it privately, but not to bring the topic up to the public eye.
In fact in this case there was no pure unbridled honesty of a child, breaking the awkward balance of the previous week.
All the soldiers came to a conclusion about Cukuw's story and none of them was positive, as if influenced by the initial negative bias.
Objectively speaking most weren't in that position out of respect for the general Cukuw killed to get his position, but out of jealousy.