[Unexpected, yet reasonable.]
[Faced with your terrifying killing intent, which seemed powerful enough to tear apart the entire pure-white space, and those damning words that nailed her to history's pillar of shame, Tengen's phantom still stood there quietly.]
[She showed not the slightest anger at being offended. On that face like withered bark, not even a trace of surprise appeared.]
[Rather, to her, who silently observed you from an omniscient perspective and considered herself absolutely rational, the violent reaction erupting from you now fell entirely within her projections and expectations.]
[If anything had exceeded this thousand-year-old being's expectations, perhaps it was only the sharp, blunt, utterly disrespectful and biting words you had used in your extreme fury.]
[Although Tengen's barrier abilities were not mind reading that could directly peer into people's hearts, within the absolute domain of the Tombs of the Star Corridor, she could sense your ragged breathing, boiling blood, and utterly unadulterated rage.]
[Compared with the Higher-Ups of Jujutsu Society, swept along by greed, power, and selfish desires, their thoughts as dark and unfathomable as an abyss, you were actually more "understandable" to Tengen now than the vast majority of people.]
[Your anger stemmed from extreme empathy for the weak; your killing intent stemmed from your profound abhorrence of lives being treated as objects.]
[Tengen could easily analyze, on a logical level, this destructive urge born of pure "humanity."]
[Precisely because she understood, Tengen would never arrogantly assume that your earlier words, "I won't kill you today, but that absolutely doesn't mean I agree with you," were merely empty bluster born of impotent rage.]
[She knew better than anyone that you were not joking, and that you truly possessed the terrifying ability to turn that killing intent into reality.]
[Through the barrier network spread throughout Japan, she had