[ Hm...how to explain it without overburdening the conversation with the technical jargon of cognitive psience? Even he himself had trouble understanding it at the time, but then again, he had only just awoken to his Persona. ]

Where I'm from, the will of the masses had coalesced into a...physical space in an alternate dimension, more or less. Not quite a different reality, but not quite our own. In essence, I was able to harness the willpower in my own heart to take control of that collective unconscious and enact a change of heart on those under its influence.

[ A shake of his head. ]

I know it doesn't excuse what I did, but I really only wanted to help people, in the end.