Reasons

Davis's eyes quivered. He didn't know how to reply as he heard the Starlight Jade Wolf King's passionate response.

Of course, he felt the same, but this was the other party's clansmen they were talking out. Those were individual lives in his eyes, not something that could be glossed over. Even now, he was still aware of his deeds in the Western Fire Phoenix Prefecture, not having forgotten the cries of the helpless but still choosing to bear those misdeeds as his sins.

He didn't feel justified at all despite his claims that they were not innocent because they grew and progressed along with the Fire Phoenix Clan, nor did he want to justify it as he knew that killing those who had little idea about him could not be justified.