I'm not sure. Seemed like it, at first - felt like being electrocuted. But sometimes I wonder, y'know?

[ a vague, contemplative hum. ]

The man who made this used an energy called Stride Force. Everyone has it, but just a little, usually. It's what's made when you visualise something. To use it the way he did - to force those images into reality - it cut his lifespan. It's not supposed to be used like that. [ ... ] The damage done to me might be similar, since this whole stupid place is pure Stride Force, and I'd used it the same way before even coming here.