[ Futaba nods ]

For the most part, the Metaverse and the rest of reality are kept separate. But sometimes, there are people who are able to find a way to pass through.

[ As far as she knows at least. A lot of her mother's research is missing, so if there's anything there... Or anything else that the people who've stolen Wakaba's research were doing, she doesn't know. ]

My mom discovered that strong desires could become distorted in the Metaverse and take shape - like a teacher seeing a school as a castle where his students are slaves, a mob boss seeing a city as his own bank. At that point, the person would start behaving differently in reality, and usually not in a good way.

As Phantom Thieves, we could enter the Metaverse, find those places, and find the core of those worlds. When we steal the core, that whole world would fall apart, which in turn would affect them in reality. They'd lose those distorted desires, and the need to act on them, but the memory of what they did would still remain.

We called it a 'change of heart.'

[ Admittedly she's. Cautious here. This was the part of what they did that... had the greatest chance to not sit well with people. ]