Imprisonment

Approximately 800,000 energy points.

In a pitch-black cell in Tokyo, invisible to any satellite, Shoko leisurely reviewed her harvest of the past year.

Compared to the Honkai-verse, 800,000 energy points was not a huge haul. Still, Shoko had no complaints.

She was just starting. She hadn't fully exploited Denji. It was only one time of being cut up in front of him. This was a good start.

The store had also refreshed its stock. Shoko had added some items to her cart but hadn't bought anything. With time to burn, and no plans to leave the story yet, she could slowly grow stronger, without spending energy.

Name: Shoko (Desire Devil)

Traits: Rapid Regeneration, Fast Action, Agile Reflexes, Self-Regeneration (Devil)

Skills: Advanced Martial Arts, One-Inch Punch, Precognition, Average Person Aura, Devil Power: Wish Trade

Important Items: Modified Holy Stick

Energy: 802851

Compared to her previous state, many skills and traits were gone. Those were specific to Lihua or Li Bei. Shoko only had what she'd purchased from the system store.

But... the Holy Stick can come here?

Shoko wondered. What if, during the Gun Devil attack, she pulled out the Holy Stick, transformed, and shifted Chainsaw Man into a comedy?

No, too valuable to waste. Let Makima handle the Gun Devil. Though it will kill a lot of people but none of them are important.

As a competent clone, earning energy was her priority.

Sadly, her current situation prevented any energy farming.

She was trapped in a box.

Her stomach churned. She'd underestimated Public Safety's ruthlessness.

Despite surrendering, they'd dismembered her.

They said Devils survived as long as their hearts were intact, and to ensure she caused no trouble, they'd severed her limbs, then tossed her core torso in a secure box in the Public Safety dungeon.

Poor Denji. His only family was gone, dismembered, and her head had rolled to his feet...

Even I, a heartless energy farmer, think that's excessive! They could have delivered her corpse to his doorstep as a "birthday present"!

The emotional fallout would have been delicious!

So wasteful.

But, to maintain the canon, she had used 10,000 points for a memory interference device. Denji would remember her death but not who was responsible. Otherwise, he might be on a suicide mission against Public Safety, ruining everything.

The interference only worked while she was alive. When she was gone, his memories would return. All things come with the opportunity for future farming.

Frankly, her situation was worse than Denji's.

She thought she could get out of the box. But all they'd done was move her into a bigger one!

She'd regenerated. But she was trapped in this confined space, unable to move. A narrow opening at the front allowed her to see and breathe, but it was like being buried alive.

This solitary confinement was torture. The claustrophobia, unchanging position, and darkness were enough to drive a person mad.

They were too cautious. Other incarcerated Devils were far more dangerous, yet they weren't so heavily guarded.

The box itself was made of top-tier materials. Even using her Devil powers to manifest weapons couldn't break through.

The box was inside a cage, and the cage was inside a prison cell. Shoko was like the innermost doll of a Russian nesting doll.

Since her capture, nobody had approached her. Public Safety had simply dumped her here. She'd been there five days, judging by her regeneration.

They want to play Stockholm syndrome, right? Confine me long enough, and I'll crack? That plan worked on humans. But pain was not a weakness for a devil. Denji could force the Eternity Devil to give up, she was tougher.

Public Safety wanted her cooperation. If she refused, they had no other recourse.

*They'll try to break me and force me to make a deal. They want her to be their battery. *

They think they can make me crack. But they have no power here

Knowing no one would visit, she opened the system's game module.

You can imprison me, I'll play my game.

By manipulating the flow of time within the game, she could easily endure a thousand years.

No need to rush. She'd wait for the plot and Public Safety to approach her.

The 50,000 points she'd spent on the module were well worth it.

She'd been a Pokémon Master in the Honkai-verse. This time, she'd go save a princess in Hyrule.

Zelda, activate!