Tetsuya didn't move closer. "Whose memory?"
He lowered his gun. This was madness. But so was the silence of the apartment, the unlocked door, the woman who knew his name. -TOD 185 Chisa Kirishima avi 001-
"Because I've already watched the loop, Tetsuya. Seventy-three times." She stood up, and he saw she was trembling, just slightly. "Every time I destroy it, the consortium finds another way. Every time you succeed, the world just resets to a slightly different hell. The 'avi' in your file name isn't 'audio-video.' It's 'anomalous variable insertion.' I am the glitch." Tetsuya didn't move closer
She stepped back and sat down, picking up her brush. "We'll find out together. For the first time." But so was the silence of the apartment,
She was sitting at a low table, back perfectly straight, a brush in her hand. She didn't flinch. She didn't look up.