So this is what they call, "moving a Yama's eyes to tears," huh? Stronger version of the more common idiom 鬼の目にも涙 (literally "moving even an oni's eyes to tears"), meaning "even the hardest of hearts can be moved to tears".

For a Yama to beg for ways to atone for a sin is to invite ridicule from oni.

I went a bit too far with my prank. I'm sorry.

It is true that, there were many who were dissatisfied at the time.

But it is different now. They, and we, are living our individual lives.