[ If it is experience that lends her insight, then Arthur would most certainly say she's sharper. Arthur doesn't know pain or suffering or the need to hide what he is, so he has no idea what that even looks like. ]

Something like that. What I saw was– well, here.

[ There is a pause, as an image manifests it over their connection. Akechi's “Persona”, the one named Loki as Arthur remembers it, manifesting within the protective dome of Sacred Soil to cleave a giant wasp in two.

He allows that image to linger a moment, letting Terra take it in before he speaks again. ]

He claimed that twisted desires cause a more notable presence in this world – the Metaverse, he called it – and that confronting the manifestation of these desires in the Metaverse might convince their owner to change their ways in the real world.

But... mm. It was a rather deliberate inclusion. It almost felt as if he was daring me to question him about it.