Khaled is atoning.
But Khaled doesn't think he was wrong.
Until one day, the mentor at the monastery told him he no longer needed to confess for his past sins, his atonement ritual was over. Although he had not regained the power of the Paladin, he had acquired a new power.
Dark power.
Khaled embraced the darkness and did not repent; if given another chance, he would still kill all those scumbags, because the strict dogma followed by the Paladins could not punish those people.
Those who truly hold power.
Not all idealists can persevere to the end, just like Batman in Gotham who doesn't kill. It's an impossible thing. In this country, there is a profession called 'former Paladin,' more numerous than Paladins. Most of them are idealists who violated the dogma; when reason became ineffective, they chose physical means to solve problems.
For a long time.
