Prison Demon

"Sea Calendar March 3rd... it should be March 3rd, right? I've run into some trouble..."

Faced with the current situation, Sig, confused, began to pretend he was writing in his diary.

Recalling the past, Sig remembered it was the night after he returned from the "Ghost Ship." After finishing his training, he was resting in a hammock on the deck.

When he woke up, Sig found himself in a... prison?

It looked like a dungeon. It was cold and damp, with water dripping everywhere. The smell of rot flooded his nostrils. It could have been a sewer, but he immediately thought "prison" because he had just gained the abilities of the "Prison-Prison Fruit"!

If he had encountered this scene right after transmigrating, Sig would have definitely thought he had become Naruto Uzumaki!

Sig gathered his courage and continued walking. As expected, there were cells on both sides...

Walking deeper, Sig saw a huge chair. The figure sitting on it seemed much smaller—the chair looked like it was for a giant, while the figure was just ordinarily burly.

At this moment, the figure rested his elbows on his knees, fingers interlaced, propping up his chin. Relying on his long legs, he struck the classic "Commander Ikari" pose on his knees.

Because the light was too dim, Sig couldn't see the figure's face clearly, only vaguely feeling a sense of familiarity.

"Who's there!" Sig immediately shouted, striking a Fish-Man Karate stance.

"Heh."

The figure let out a cold laugh, dropped the Commander Ikari pose, and slightly lifted his face...

When Sig saw clearly, his heart tightened. His back foot shifted forward, and he took half a step back.

Sig had spent a long time preparing himself mentally. At this point, even if he saw a face covered in barnacles with flesh buds growing out of it, he wouldn't have reacted this strongly.

However...

Sig saw a handsome face—at least, Sig thought so himself. After all... it was his own face!

"You... are what?" Sig's mind was in chaos. His Mind Reader's micro-expression analysis ability was completely useless at this moment.

"Me? I am you, and I am the Prison-Prison Fruit." The figure on the prison throne leaned back, crossed his arms, and crossed his legs, striking a powerful pose.

"A Devil Fruit ability... a product of it combining with a part of my personality?" Sig asked tentatively.

"Part of your personality? You're quite confident..." the figure on the prison throne said sarcastically. After a pause, he added, "You could say it's the real you, finally revealed under the power of the devil... I am you, but you are not me!"

"So, what is your purpose?" Sig asked cautiously.

At the same time, Sig's mind raced—he hadn't expected absorbing the Devil Fruit's power to lead to so many complications!

He hadn't seen anyone lose control of their Devil Fruit powers in the original story. The current anomaly likely had two possible explanations.

One possibility was that Sig's method of obtaining the ability wasn't the normal way of directly consuming it, leading to some deviation that other users didn't experience. The other possibility was that this was a normal phenomenon, but other users hadn't noticed it. Sig, perhaps due to his Listener or Mind Reader abilities, had retrieved what was reflected in his own mind, thus witnessing this scene.

"What is your purpose?" the figure on the prison throne retorted.

"Huh?" Sig was confused. Wasn't it the "him" before him who had brought him here? Why was he being asked?

"It feels good not to have that damnable power restriction... You want to control the Prison Demon's power? Then are you prepared to become a Prisoner?" The figure on the prison throne looked at his palm, as if feeling the power, and then asked Sig with a cold smile.

"No, I don't have the Divine Path of The Bound..." Sig said, half-jokingly, half-tentatively.

The Sequence Nine of The Bound path was "Prisoner," but that had nothing to do with Sig.

Sig didn't know how much this "thing," which seemed so closely related to him, knew about him!

Did it have his memories from before transmigration? Did it have... the Divine Path?

"Path? You seem to have grasped many interesting things. You even pierced through that power's barrier before and heard my whisper? Then let me see what exactly you have grasped..."

The figure on the prison throne spoke and extended a hand towards Sig. Instantly, countless fence-like iron bars emerged from his palm and rapidly shot towards Sig.

Sig quickly rolled to dodge. The spot where he had been standing was already pierced with several holes. The iron bars converged, and if he hadn't dodged, he would have been captured!

Sig's heart stirred slightly at the sight—this felt somewhat like the "Cage-Cage Fruit" from the original story, but logically speaking, this should indeed be part of the Prison-Prison Fruit's abilities?

He had initially thought the Prison-Prison Fruit was nothing special, but from another perspective, it at least felt like a superior fruit to the Cage-Cage Fruit!

In a way, Devil Fruit abilities were similar to the "Sequences" of the Divine Path—both were powers that relied heavily on "symbolic meaning."

Just like how the "Listener" wasn't just about good hearing, but extended the symbolic meaning of "listening."

And when Devil Fruit abilities—especially Paramecia and Logia types, which were special ability-based—were developed to their extreme, it undoubtedly involved extending the "symbolic meaning" of the fruit's power.

For example, Bartholomew Kuma's Paw-Paw Fruit completely developed "paws" into the concept of "repulsion," even being able to repel abstract concepts like pain. Crocodile's Sand-Sand Fruit was developed in the direction of dryness and wilting.

Another discovery Sig made was...

This guy wasn't that strong!

Initially, Sig thought this would be an extremely terrifying opponent, especially since this was the other party's home turf. He expected to be crushed like the Nine-Tails against a developing Naruto.

However... after actually fighting, Sig found that the opponent's abilities were just so-so!

Although he was a bit stronger than Sig, his strength was limited.

Here, Sig naturally couldn't use the power of the Prison-Prison Fruit. However, his agile movements allowed him to dodge the opponent's long-range, wide-area attacks, and he even dared to gradually approach the figure!

The figure on the prison throne... the Prison Demon—let's call him that for now.

At this moment, the Prison Demon was also helpless. Normally, he should possess all the power of his host, plus the "fully developed Devil Fruit ability." The host here only had his own strength and couldn't mobilize the fruit's power. It should indeed be a crushing situation.

But...

However, Sig also possessed the God's Sequence ability!

This meant that the two were using the same attribute panel, but Sig's main body had five types of God's Sequence, while the Prison Demon had the Prison-Prison Fruit ability...

Because he only had Sequence Eight, even with five types, he would definitely be stretched thin against a "fruit ability developed to its extreme."

However, he was by no means powerless. After all... if the bonuses from the five types of God's Sequence were stripped away, Sig's attributes were actually very low, greatly limiting the fruit ability's effectiveness.

Although he didn't have the Mind Reader's ability, the Prison Demon seemed to see through Sig's thoughts and angrily retorted, "Bastard! You're the weak one, aren't you? You're really... too weak!"