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Akane had been a brilliant mind in her own right, and her untimely death at the hands of the very guild she and Kazumi once called home had ignited a fire of vengeance within him. The guild, it turned out, had been experimenting with the fusion of clockwork and human flesh, pushing the boundaries of science and morality. Akane's project, codenamed "Freeze," was meant to revolutionize the field of cryogenics, but it ended in disaster, leaving her frozen in a state of suspended animation, her mind trapped in a digital realm projected from a clockwork device. Her breath turned to ice in her throat
