He asked about the executions, and Kire pursed her lips, looking down at her feet. "I thought it would make me feel better. I'm no stranger to executions and bloodshed, but--I don't like what it brought out in me. I don't know." She tilted her head back for a moment as she sighed. "My first and second coronations are marked by blood. Somehow I feel that might be the problem. Starting off with ill omens, you know. And the thought that I defeated my enemy by practically eradicating almost all their prominent line--and that Gavin might be the last branch of that tree. It's..." 

She remembered when they had confronted Akuma. I am a part of you, she had said. "My forebears were bloodthirsty warlords who built an empire over the bones of their enemies. I thought I was better than that. I guess not by a lot."