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I haven’t read DoJ in a while but I think I get the idea. Two other options come to mind:

(1) If you do not wish to give Kashti a more personal connection or investment with the traitor… well that just means he’s the historical equivalent of the keyboard warrior ranting and hating on Public Enemy No. 1 even though it has no real link to him because it’s the popular thing to do. Maybe he’s secretly insecure so that gives him a brief sense of moral superiority. To take it a step further, you can have it be such that he gains fame and fortune and rises up in society by being very charismatic and outspoken about it (like how people publish books and build internet followings in real life around their beliefs and ideas). Once that happens, he has to continue hating on them fiercely and cannot change because, well, it’ll be embarrassing and it will kill the golden goose.

In case you can’t tell, this sort of character is my kind of antagonist so I would love it if you wrote something like this. 😛 But I don’t think this is the direction you are taking Kashti so another suggestion…

(2) Maybe the reason why Kashti hates the traitor and by extension the MC has nothing to do with the betrayal at all. Maybe the traitor did some great wrong to Kashti before but nobody would believe him because of lack of evidence and the traitor had a good reputation at that time. So when the betrayal happens, Kashti feels vindicated rather than mad about the betrayal since the traitor’s true colours are finally revealed. However because he is still suffering from the effects of the wrong done to him, he cannot let go of the past and continues to hate. To make things worse, perhaps the rest of the society doesn’t really care or bother about what happened to Kashti, focusing on the great betrayal instead, so Kashti feels that justice has not truly been served since his own situation has been overshadowed and ignored. So he takes matters into his own hands and vents his frustration on our poor MC.