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Located somewhere completely hidden from everyone's sensor, Claire was currently locked up in a glass cell chamber which was strong enough to even tank a fired missile from an aircraft up above. Alongside it her is feet locked up individually in a cuff which restricts her movement and a collar on her neck which has capacity to seal her own power.
Based on what she recognized the collar and cuffs were quite similar to the objects which the scientist and researchers used back in California research institute to restrict the use of her chaos ability. Based on her experience such tools was especially made for her standard in order to control her usage of power between life and death.
Naturally since such tools were designed based to suppress her ability, such tool itself are also quite used to other users who have gone astray and are under custody of the government and sentenced to imprisonment. However since her standard was used, the suppression that the other user experienced were much more heavier in comparison to what she feels. This only dictate just how far above her power in terms of league and rankings of abilities.
Even though she doesn't know where the terrorist group got such tools or how they acquired it, once such tools are attached to her, she would naturally be suppressed to the point that she felt like an ordinary girl.
Thro0ughout the days of isolation in this room, she couldn't help but replay her memory of the people who helped her and protected her being beaten to death by people who just went in and plans to capture her. The last thing she remembers was Ryuuji being beaten to near death situation and her helplessly watching him without being able to provide any help.
In this scenario, Claire literally felt helpless as she couldn't do anything at all. Just like stated before, her power only activates upon touching her intended target, thus as long someone or something prevented her from touching her target, her chaos ability would literally be deemed worthless despite its league and rankings on the rarity and dangerousness of abilities.
Every ability has its own flaws. One primary example is Kanzaki's foresight ability, which only activates whenever a certain death scenario near his area took within his close proximity in the near future. The foresight could target his future and the future of anyone he cares about, and even any sign of the cause of his death and the deaths of the other people. In other words deat5h need to be present in order for him to activate his chaos ability.
For Ryuuji's chaos ability destructions, its flaws is his body being damage to a certain degree whenever he uses the destructive ability. It could be his throat or any part of his body. For Jinwoo his chaos ability strength enhancement, its flaw is its muscles being teared apart slowly the longer he uses his ability for a certain period of time due to the pressure inputted to enhance his strength. As for Alice chaos ability Accuracy, its only flaw is its strain on her mentality and eyes by further news.
Any ability which is related to eyes are bound to be broken and destroyed when abused. Such an example is Kanzaki's use on his foresight which relies on his eyes. All in all what this point is trying to say is that there is no perfect ability without any flaws, every ability itself has flaws and no user is exempted from it.
In this very moment Claire was simply sitting at the edge of the glass cell chamber as she stared at her toes with a pair of dead eyes. After all screaming for help or trying to get out of her cell was pretty much pointless if the people guarding the cell are the same people who stormed inside the organization's defenses.
The only thing that kept her sanity in this very mundane life of imprisonment and isolation was the presence of another person at the cell just right at the other side of the room. Coincidentally the person who was locked up inside the other room was none other than the person whom she first interacted the moment she got out of the research institute in California.
Argie Franklin, A.K.A undead. One of the most wanted person of the organization which has the crime of actually hunting down the field agents of the organization and killing them for an unknown cause. Based on the files inside the chaos breaker organization, Argie Franklin was presumed dead after the last confrontation against him back at the Philippines. Never did Claire expect that the person who got her out of hell was still alive for who knows how long in his cell.
Just like her Argie was strictly restricted by the cuffs on his feet and collar which caused his powers to be neutralized by the tool. However the restrictions didn't end there, he was also tied down in straps in the chair without any openings or chances to even make a single small move. After all in comparison to Claire's naivety in using her ability despite its posed danger, Argies ability can be considered a nuisance due to his mastery of after death and desecration of life.
Of course killing such a dangerous person was much more profitable than si9mply letting him leave, however that cannot be done. The only reason why he was kept alive was all because he can still serve his purpose.
Since he have prior knowledge on how to utilize Claire's ability, he was naturally kept alive due to his findings and research. Based on his research, Claire's ability could literally also enhance their capabilities to something beyond what an average human can do. If such a thing could be done to her ability, they then wondered what the other possibilities maybe if they are given a chance to experiment on her other abilities.
Due to that about every three days Claire would have a visitor from one of the terrorist group to extract some portions of her blood. After getting her blood, Argie would then be escorted out as he will be forced to further research the capabilities of her own power over life and death. From that Argie then mostly completed two hypothesis for a possible branch to her power aside from limit breaker of human capabilities.
One is the synthesized link to the power of death and two is literally immortality to the brink that nothing could kill the said person. If given more time to finish such hypothesis, the terrorist group would naturally be the first one to fully benefit from such output and never will fear death as their group keep getting hunted down by the organization. If such thing happens then the terrorist group would be an unstoppable force.
Claire really truly misses everyone from the polar dormitory. Even thought she haven't been with them for long, the warmth she felt when they interacted with her was something unreplaceable. No matter what she steeled herself and wish for the day a chance will be given to her for her to escape this hell hole.
However sadly to say she lost count on how long had she been in isolation as she continued to stare into the nothingness waiting for hope.