"Ah, no, that's not quite how to put it. How should I say this? I... created a virtual version of myself within the Saint Mark Space?"
After thinking for a moment, Xu Yanwu described himself that way.
"What does that mean?"
Theresa asked Xu Yanwu, "A virtual you within the Saint Mark Space? But isn't that still you? Can't you enter directly yourself?"
"That's different."
Xu Yanwu denied what Theresa had said. "Right now, the main authority over Little Sakura's Saint Mark Space is still in Higu Maru's hands. It's only through your exploration, and Little Sakura's resistance, that I've gradually been able to seize some of that authority."
"Right now, I still can't interfere too heavily with this Saint Mark Space."
"But... the version of me that already existed there was different."
"For that, I even split off another Saint Mark Space. There was no Yae Sakura or Higu Maru in that space."
"But in that Saint Mark Space, this Xu Yanwu could accomplish what I had always failed to do."
Xu Yanwu briefly explained the matter to Theresa.
Within that Saint Mark Space, he had mixed the version of himself projected by the space with a portion of those resentments, creating the version of himself now standing before Theresa and Yae Sakura.
Had Xu Yanwu of that time harbored resentment and hatred toward Yae Village?
Only Xu Yanwu himself knew the answer to that question.
Of course he had.
Back then, Xu Yanwu had even wished that he himself had been the one to destroy Yae Village.
And this moment gave Xu Yanwu an opportunity to release that hatred.
He would leave that hatred alone in a Saint Mark Space and let it vent itself slowly.
Whenever the villagers of Yae Village encountered natural disasters or misfortunes, they