[The... entirety of her reaction is what startles him, and he involuntarily takes a step back. The other part of Hiryuu, the warrior-king, is clear in her now.

He doesn't speak for a moment, taking her words and using them to backtrack across what he said.]

Ouryuu's distaste for bloodshed isn't... necessarily a bad thing. [He says finally, thinking that's a safe thing.] It takes its own kind of courage not to go back on it, much as I disagree with it.