User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 926: Hungry Hungry Hippo/@comment-2001:8003:104E:3A00:CD68:8C6E:3D90:D1DD-20181201064342/@comment-2600:1702:3C50:A6E0:12A:F78A:57B:E7DA-20181202153612

I think that level six was about sheer boredom. Imagine spending day after day after day sitting and doing nothing, unable to influence the world, unable to know what time it is, unable to escape the growing realization of how utterly insignificant you are. Surrounded by personalities as twisted and vile as each other forever. Knowing that you will sit there until you finally die and eventually lose of track of whether or not your experiences outside the prison were real or a dream. Those who had power have nothing, those who were important are nobody, those who once struck terror into the hearts of millions are forgotten. Such things can be worse then any physical torture imaginable. Through this torture even the mightiest will know how hopeless it is to defy the world government. I still agree that compared to Impel Down this is a joke. The prisoners are not tortured unless they do not get out of the way and are fed depending on how well they do. The wardens cannot deny Luffy and Kid food and they cannot torture them very well so any attempts to break their will seem to be inevitable to end in failure.