If you're worried about some "image", then you might as well just let me throw my dagger at anyone who makes a comment instead of asking to stand guard. [Since he figures the "image" being talked about here is going to be mainly his impression of being intimidating and standoffish. He can still pull that off while making flower crowns.

As he gets to the end of the next flowers woven in and starts to weave the ends of the crown together, he lets out a heavy hiss at the question.] They execute people who use them. I'd keep it around if it was just a threat to me, but I doubt they make a habit of leaving a god's shinki behind in those cases.

[So basically he's mainly looking out for his shinki in this case. With a slight shrug, he goes on.] I'm planning to decay it. It should get rid of it completely enough that anything left of it is going to be unidentifiable and useless.