Remedy continued without pause, her tone unchanged. "Although to make this, I had to experience this exact moment many more times than that. Enough to stabilize it. Enough to preserve it." She glanced ahead, toward the path she had mentioned earlier.
"It will be worth it in the end."
Adam studied her for a moment, then exhaled slowly, piecing things together. The battlefield. The preserved memory. The way everything had been set up. His thoughts aligned quickly, forming a conclusion he didn't particularly like.
"So this was planned?" he asked.
His voice was steady, but there was a clear edge beneath it.
Adam already knew how inconsistent her memories between regressions could be. She didn't always carry everything forward. That made it difficult to tell what was intentional and what wasn't. But this… this didn't feel random.
Not anymore.
