Everything in tinged in red through your helmet as you sneak through the Palace on the heels of the Thieves, clawed boots silent on metal grating. Perhaps to someone else, a Palace could be a fascinating place to spend time, to avoid the Shadows manifested within and simply bask in the outrageous setting. This one is a space station of all things, representative of its Ruler's desire to fly into utopia. His workers are nothing but robot slaves.

In a way, you can understand that. You're not worried about individual people except in how useful they are as you carve your path of chaotic, bloody vengeance. You've left enough bodies in your wake to know exactly what will happen as you point your gun at the man in the space suit cowering below you. Ren and his stupid friends had already beaten him, the Palace is collapsing around the both of you, so you don't hesitate. You lock eyes with the Shadow of Kunikazu Okumura, CEO of Okumura Foods, loyal customer of Shido's mental shutdown business -- you'd killed so many men on Okumura's behalf that it's almost a poetic justice that he'll die the same way so many of his rivals had -- and pull the trigger.

One shot, and his Shadow dissolves into nothingness. You turn and you run as the Palace shakes and starts to collapse even faster around you. With his Shadow dead, Okumura's days are numbered. He'll make it exactly as far as his appearance on television, and he'll die in front of the whole world. Pinning his death on the Phantom Thieves and removing them from the public's good graces, all so you can rise above them, is child's play at this point. The public will love you, and by extension, the man who was against the Thieves from the very beginning.

The higher one is, the harder they fall. And you will raise Shido up as high as humanly possible, just to bring him crashing to the ground before you kill him, too. Whatever god or demon gave you this power to access this world, you'll use it to inflict chaos as far as the eye can see.