[Kyousuke pauses for a long moment, his eye glassing over with a faraway look. He's far from proud of his plunge into extremism, but the way Belias stresses the word kill makes murder sound like such an unfathomable extreme, and he can barely even relate to such a viewpoint anymore. How many more steps beyond that had he gone, in the name of justice and Order? Where is he drawing his personal line now that he's reevaluating his approach?

But since he doesn't want to hide in shame, and since it's relevant to the conversation anyway, he sighs and tries to arrange his thoughts into a response.]

...Depending on your interpretation, I might be among those former criminals. I have no desire to punish people for their pasts.

I am no stranger to bloodying my hands in the name of order, but it is my hope that any disputes can be resolved through incapacitation and rehabilitation, or exile at worst, but not death. That blood on my hands brings me here to begin with.

[Well. In a really long circuitous complicated way.]