[ there's that little grunt that comes out of him again, but ok, he's gonna try here. ]

Back home, we have an ability called Persona. It happens when you accept your Shadow Self in the cognitive world. [ and he absolutely knows that's hard to wrap your head around, so he tries to keep it concise. it's hard trying to be Morgana and explain this stuff. ]

We used it to change the hearts of people who were abusing other people, to give those people their power back. My school counselor was a Persona user, too. He lost someone close to him. She had an accident, and after that, didn't remember him or what happened to her. He thought she was better that way.

...

So he wanted to do that to the whole world, to ease the pain of loss.

[ Maruki wasn't a bad person. he was misguided, wanting to exert a special kind of control that adults wielded when they got lost and couldn't see through their own problems. ]

My friends were all happy. Those people that hurt them—they never remembered that happening. They didn't have to struggle with that pain. Everyone's desires came true.

[ even his. ]