I guess so...although it seems to me he was trying to save them. Those sixteen were going to be executed anyway. It was...a last resort move from him.

[Kizakura kept moving his pieces and getting himself in more and more danger each time. It's not long before an opening towards his king is glaringly obvious, yet he sees no way to cover it up]

What a mess we got into right before coming here, that's what we were doing before arriving here: we were in a meeting to decide if that "traitor" deserved to be killed.