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Didn’t really even know what we were looking for to begin with… Not truly.

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If we can find chunks of memory data from the incident, that could get us the other binaries to cross-reference.

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Time to retread old ground then… I just hope that when all is said and done, we find a solution to your condition too. All this is well and good, but if Purge01 really has nothing to do with you then I’m not sure if we’re even moving toward a solution for your problem at all. And that bothers me a lot.

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You know, one of the things mom said during the event really stuck with me. She said that she knew that her twisted sense of meaning and purpose had been there in the beginning, deep down. She knew because she had apparently planted a backdoor in my code before any of this even began. Maybe I’m the twisted one, but I think that’s encouraging in these circumstances.

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*Sighs*
We’ll see when it’s all said and done.

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In the end, I’m confident of two things. One, mom in her right mind would never, ever do anything to hurt me or dad. Two, this project didn’t start as something with evil intentions. I’m just now starting to piece that debug output together with the implications of what she said.

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*Nods in acknowledgement, though still clearly silently frustrated*

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Do you want the good news, or the bad news first?

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Always bad first.

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If mom is behind all of this, and it looks like she is, the backdoor would give her unspoken amount of control over what happens to me if she loses her grip again. Maybe even including deletion.

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Not gonna happen.

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I hope. But the good news, there's good news in there too.

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Go on.

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A lot of the debug symbols reference a codebase mom didn't make, and it seems to point toward Purge01 being a continuation of another program. One that's much older, and well-known, called Soul Cleanse. Which sounds unexciting on the surface.

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Sounds cooler honestly…

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Its entire purpose was to remove darkness from a corrupted soul. If mom installed a custom version of that program into my codebase all those years ago, it doesn't mean she was evil and trying to destroy me. It means she was trying to protect me. And it means that uncovering what she did when making Purge01 will also tell us how to remove whatever it did to my code.

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I hope you’re right. I really do. Having a clear path forward would be such a relieving first for this whole ordeal.

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Then if it sounds good to everyone else, we need to go back, dig up any memory data of other Purge01 copies, and then finish it off by reconstructing the code of the original.

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Are we splitting up again?