*This is a warning.
The chapters of this volume does not support the first volume, meaning to say this is a completely different story compared to the main story.
Well not yet. But this proves the theory when Claire decides a different route in this storyline.
Everything that happens has its own reason, a purpose to further develop the plot and lore.
Please do understand and read this with caution.
There are different versions of Claire in each routes.
If you aren't patient, then proceed to the next volume, thank you for your consideration*
Claire's POV
In the current time today, there were no such things as fair in love and war, only those who only seek power and blood will lead to only ruin.
Two opponents battle to the death.
A cursed angel versus the perfect devil, an even battle between two foes who are out for bloodshed.
The battle of the last protagonist against one of the most powerful maids of Mr. Smiley continues to clash.
Hyperventilating from all the attacks of the SK maid known as Phillia, Claire quickly dodges all of the attacks.
With all their injuries sharing the same burden, Claire has no option but to burst all of her power to immediately subjugate her.
Both of them continued staring at each other, as if recovering from all their injuries.
They charged together and finally the results of their resolve will decide the conflict between them as leading to their own end.
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Claire wakes up in a dream and finally rises from her slumber.
She wonders what kind of a dream she had before and what did it mean.
Not that it matters, when she already forgot about it.
It was the 2nd day of the week and she needed to find the best shortcuts in order to escape before they finally capture her.
She has died many times as she desperately experienced most the routes she has to face based on what Data-kun gave and now it all leads to one life left.
*This is her routes she covered so far*
1. Disruptor Route
2. Researcher Route
3. Normal Girl Route
4. Killer Route
In doing so, she has only one concern, she needs to avoid death as efficiently as possible.
But there are ways to reach her wishes.
She can leave the city through land and seas transportation but there are no future that holds to a ruined world since only the City Alamus is an active place for humans to live.
So, she decides to face the adversaries of this city and find a way to not die.
She continues her observation of all the districts from the 10th district to the 7th district, filling all the blank fogs from her appraisal map in small round minimal that covers much the whole place of the city of Alamus.
It took 3 hours before she even had to discover the 4th district, she sees a bunch of student soldiers searching for someone like her.
So she hides herself from their reach and survive.
After that, she takes a break by staring at the rooftop of the 7th district, seeing the whole city in silence and isolation, only she can save the people who are still alive but it's truly hard.
Then, a strange thing happened, in her pocket sees an eerie mask that has a crimson hue glowing of the eyes from the mask and even sometimes heard it whispering in her ears as holding it.
She picks it up and has no recall of having one in her belongings.
But suddenly Data-kun notices a warning involving wearing this specified mask. As closely as observing the mask, it says,
"Wear me." Continuously.
She decides to wear it without much thought, and suddenly she feels a lot stronger and more wise in herself, and then her whole body, like the burning sensation of her presence, engulfing her soul like she wasn't just a human being anymore.
And with that she gained a new skill called Oracle, it simulates all the possibilities of her death and every action that could lead results in either a good ending or a bad ending during daydreaming or resting.
Her vision gives more information unlike what Data-kun suggested before. It's like the updated version of Data-kun but in a female voice.
She tries to call Data-kun but no one answered in her mind, though she didn't mind if it will make her strong. Suddenly, an ominous voice was heard,
"I am your new AI assistant. You can call me Project Candy, I'll be guiding you and eventually save you from all of the chaos and dangers of this world.
You just need to allow me to control you and we are all set."
A strange voice from the start, all voices mixed together that determines an unknown fellow was talking to Claire.
A. Allow
B. Disallow
Claire is in a desperate situation where she had to avoid all the dangers alone, died many times, and faced many adversaries.
So there will be no excuse to just let an AI control her.
"May I ask for more information about you controlling me?"
Claire responds to the new AI's services.
"Your consciousness will be exchanged and downloaded to me, the new AI software to your brain and that allows me to control your body and determine the best outcome for you to pick as efficiently as possible.
You'll become stronger the longer you survive, that is as long as you wear me. Isn't that a fair trade? Once you strip the mask, you can give control once more."
Claire finally makes her decision, which is to allow her full access to her mind, thus controlling her whole body.
Uniting her consciousness with an AI and they will become all for one.
"First problem: Felia Millers, the first threat from 3rd district, 6th district, and 9th district. Preparing a plan to eradicate her."
The AI resumes her information regarding all the deaths that Claire made during the 7th day of termination.
"Relocating... found.
She is in the 3rd district, near the orphanage."
And so she covertly walks from the crowd, as going to the 3rd district, to hunt the soldier.
It took an hour by foot to get to her destination. And so she has arrived, scouting the area to find Felia.
Claire asks about the SK defects such as the kids she saw before lying on the ground and feeling hopeless.
She asks one of the sick underaged children for information about the lone soldier known as Felia.
Some of them ran away due to the scary figure of Claire's mask but one child remains still, and ask, "If I tell you where she is, will you kill me?"
"Okay then, it's a deal."
And so the child snitches the lone soldier with details of her exact whereabouts in the 3rd district.
After that, she impales his heart with her left arm.
Finally, she was able to track her down, seeing the soldier at the top of the roof scoping to find the last protagonist.
It was a quick impulse, as the sole soldier was crouching near the window of the rooftop, she was starving and no longer has the capability to focus anymore.
Claire then is instantly behind her whispering in her ear saying,
"You let your guard down."
As she snaps the sole soldier's neck.
Moreover, after kidnapping Felia, Claire had so many updates regarding the sole soldier.
"Felia Millers is a defective cadet that almost failed at every training and performance excluding the exams she had due to her frail body and no candy drug intake.
Since she has fallen such a failure, she was recommended as an Intelligence Operative as her future career.
But despite her achievements, she utterly decided to be a soldier, and so her chase for her dream is in vain.
The AI known as Candy ends her explanation from the information gathered from Felia.
"I see, so she is a castaway."
After half an hour, Felia wakes up unfazed by her situation, she is tied up in the column of the orphanage, and seeing the last protagonist standing with the eerie mask she wore was a bit intimidating.
"You..." Her expression turned to hatred as trying to struggle from getting out of the ropes that is keeping her restricted from attacking her.
"Let's start with introductions.
My name is Claire Valentines, I was known as the last protagonist."
"Was? What do you mean?"
"I renounce my title as the last protagonist to live a different life in this world.
We both aren't so different in life. People all around us choose us to be something we are not.
So we choose the way we want and this is the result, just like how I choose to become just someone who doesn't involve death in my doorstep."
"What's your point?"
"I have a proposal for you, become my ally and I'll make sure to resolve any problems regarding your life."
"What if I don't want to? What happens?"
"I'll take your life as compensation.
Now Felia Millers, you might think that you have the upper hand, calling reinforcements by the power you wield from your superiors but I have prepared all the necessary plans to counter all your plans."
"How did you know that I have that ability to communicate via telepathy?"
"I've died and seen it myself, why do all soldiers immediately move so efficiently despite having no communicative devices?
It all comes to this, telepathy that is ingrained in your mind.
So choose quickly or else I'll have no choice but to take your life."
She then throws a scrap of paper at Claire's face.
"Do what you want, my life is already a mess anyways.
All I can do at this moment is to buy time for them to come."
"That's a poor choice."
Claire then strangles Felia so tight that she almost died out of suffocation.
But in time, Claire's roots such as her veins were connected to Felia's main body sending like a virus in her body to become something inhuman.
"Copying self-image to F-18's consciousness, copy complete, starting invasion through the mind... complete."
"Activate Colorful Humanity."
As it follows, all colors suddenly engulfed in Claire's hand passing on to Felia's body to cure all the sickness of the SK Virus, which means taking every bit of her abilities injected into her body will become Claire's possession.
Afterward, Felia fainted due to massive exhaustion from Claire's ability.
Her body couldn't adjust to the sickness known as the SK Virus.
After over half an hour has passed, reinforcements arrived but only saw Felia lying in the column, so they carried her and brought her to the SK Foundation to examine of what was wrong by Dr. Sneer.
Claire gained a new ability called 'weapon's arms' that summons any weapons as she pleases.
Also 'Telepathy' that could connect to her allies.
She has that ability due to the virus that she planted through Felia's body and status by the power of the mask.