The emporer had no taste in those who betrayed him. Hated and loathed the males that were posed before him in bows of respect. His fingers twitched around the knife handle he was holding as he lifted the first brothers chin.<br/><br/>The voice that bled from Aiyoru's lips was soft, but more menacing than the growl of a lion. "Do you of my empire know what you have done?" he murmured, moving onto the second brother, inspecting each of them. "A treason so high that it warrants your lives as payment." he stopped in front of Taiga. "But..."<br/><br/>he turned his head, hair falling into his face. "I will only require one of you. I understand that your mother was a kitsune demon. Which of you inheirited her power?"