Category:Shrift

Shrift is one of the game involved in the Collaboration Scenario. Several characters from the game are present in Paradox and serves as enemies and allies, while characters from Paradox makes an appearance in one of Shrift's Scenarios.

The game itself uses RPGMaker. The player has the control of the hero Kazuya who wakes up from an artificially-induced coma after an accident to find out that the world has been invaded by demons, creatures with female humanoid features that are attacking humans and corrupting their mind to devour their soul through sex. He must escape the place and join up with his friend Yuuma while foiling the nefarious monsters and M.O.W.'s artificial creations.

The game is often compared to Undertale as the player is acknowledged as an entity and has the choice to spare/kill demons, leading to different endings depending on his/her choices. The route considered canon is the True Mercy one, where Kazuya goes out of his way to befriend every single demon.

In Paradox
The following characters make an appearance in Paradox:

-Kazuya, the main protagonist in chapter 2 and 6. He's been thrown into a chaotic loop, and while he's kind-hearted, he's also pragmatic and won't hesitate to defend himself with guns or magic skills. Latent powers gifted by a friend allow him to gain a part of a demon's power either by developing a bond with them or killing them.

-Lampas, alraunes who serve the Demon King Hecate and who aim to trap humans through sex to turn on their light, using their souls as a fuel.

-Mukuro, a doll created by Dr Yui and then possessed by a grudge-filled spirit, but who calmed down after Kazuya made her realize the truth of her death. She's been mass-copied by Kagetsumugi.

-Daji, a debauched and devious kitsune who enjoys ruining lives by making people dependant on her pampering.

Shrift's Collaboration Scenario (EX4)
The collaboration arc is set up in a three-way collaboration between Monster Girl Quest: Paradox, Super Monsters'n Girls as the scenario EX4.

The story introduces The Twins as the main antagonist, known better as the incarnation of Abaddon, a fallen angel whose initial task was devouring dead worlds and is now threatening to devour everything existing. Behind him is the 'Old One' as the hidden antagonist, as he is the ringleader behind Abaddon's madness, an 'Evil God' of eldritch properties who was trying to materialize in the real world using Kazuya as its vessel. Several other minor antagonists powered up by Abaddon make an appearance: Black Hound, Vasilica and High Lamia from Super Monsters'n Girls, and Chimera Beast, High Slug and Beelzebubs from Monster Girl Quest: Paradox.

Kazuya isn't the only protagonist as he's supported by a Luka pulled from a world still under invasion from the Queen of Dreams, and also Marion, the hero from Super Monsters 'n Girls. The team is supported by Yami and Mizuki, original characters from Shrift, the Archangel Nakamura from Super Monsters'n Girls, and Alice from Monster Girl Quest. They all act as supporting characters in a way reminescent to Alice in the original game's part 3.

Kazuya is invited by the White Rabbit to a tea party organized by the Mad Hatter/Cheshire, one of Kazuya's acquaintances. As the duo wait for more guests, they're attacked by a monster the White Rabbit identifies as a High Slug. Kazuya starts losing as the unusual monster got empowered by Abaddon, but they are saved by Yami. The characters regroup as they're chased from one world to another by Abaddon's assassins while the creature itself annihilates the worlds again and again, even facing the Beelzebubs and Chimera Beasts who're wrecking havoc in a middle school. After finally regrouping in a hidden dimension created by the Mad Hatter, the strange being explains them that Abaddon became mad in part because of an the Twins Dolls created by M.O.W. and the old one attempting to incarnate through the numerous versions of Kazuya who comitted genocide under the guidance of the player. Those versions of Kazuya are hollow guilt-wracked shells, and Mad Hatter reveals himself as a version of Kazuya having a change of heart and getting pardonned at the last second.

To everyone's surprise, Abaddon manages to reach the dimension and almost erase it, with the heroes being saved at the last moment while the Mad Hatter get critically weakened to his Cheshire persona. Kazuya and his party find themselves in a place between dimensions created by Lucifer, another guest of the Mad Hatter's tea party, and face Abaddon's assassins again before dealing with the world-devouring locust. In spite of everyone's support, Kazuya ends up trapped in an illusion created by Abaddon based on his old desire to see his family whole, and even loses his connection with the player while Cheshire gets absorbed as well. Kazuya is almost saved by the joined efforts of the White Rabbit and Hyakki, but the two gets threatened by Abaddon as well. He's ultimately saved by Hecate, a demon lord who hates his guts, and he manages to take down Abaddon for good with the joined effort of Luka, Marion, and his latent angelic powers given from his past girlfriend.

However, once Abaddon falls, Octuael, an angel that betrayed Mario and the archangel Nakumara spawns while possessed by the Old One. The party's attacks are uneffective, and even a shot from a Linear Cannon gets stopped. However, Luka's arm suddenly transform in the AΩ as the hero got repeatedly exposed to chaos. The arm casts the Logos Magia spell which critically weakens the Old One, and Marion finishes him by throwing the oversized weapon first used. Luka doesn't remember what happened, and Alice remains silent on the matter while Cheshire is dumbfounded by this turn of event.

After the heroes' ultimate victory, the different groups return to their respective world, leaving Cheshire alone with Hyakki. The latter calls out the White Rabbit, and reveals that she knew she was Daji all along as the real White Rabbit is dead. While the two are concerned by the fact that the ambitious kitsune has such power, they have other concern as well.

As Cheshire finds herself alone, Runaway Luka appears to the monster's surprise. It is clear the strange being as the intent to get her, but before he can reach her he gets skewered by Cleo Adra who tells that her task is to plunge the world into chaos. As the apoptosis leaves, Cheshire muses on the fact that the hero's world is out of time and how he has to "search for the third way", echoing to the words of Apiros Lagos at the end of Paradox's own Collaboration Scenario.