"What's your connection to the Abyss?" Suyin asked, glancing back towards Alice.
She spent her life trying to combat the fact that she couldn't use Abyss energy. Her solution to that was to create machines and fuse it to her own body.
A desperate grasp at some crumb of control over her own life in this f*cked up world.
Naturally, these machines were created with herself in mind. To allow for even a civilian to gain access to what's deemed to be unique to Hunters. It takes outside sources of Abyss Energy to feed itself and activate.
Yet for Alice, this causes everything to short circuit with a single touch.
No matter how dense the Abyssal Energy there was in the surroundings or even within a Hunter, it wouldn't short circuit. She made sure of that by placing safety protocols and limitations.
If Alice could short circuit it with a single touch then. . .
She was essentially a walking reservoir of Abyss Energy or her connection to the Abyss ran far deeper than just Sigils.