IZOU'S PALACE

[goei]

KYOTO BAKUMATSU PALACE
You find yourself in historical Kyoto at night. The city is shadowy and beautiful, elegant but hostile. It's a sophisticated city, but you don't belong there and it knows it. Everyone knows it. You are being watched.

Worst of all, a terrible demon haunts the streets of this powerful capital city.

Eli Walsh, Kirumi Tojo, Still Sunrise, Argenti, Yi Sang, Celeste, Mafuyu Asahina, and McGillis Fareed, do you dare journey into hell?

 

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Comments

[idealitas]

[ Hell follow the rest when he hears and sees the open door. Oh. This is rather unexpected.

But... this is also constructed from the depths of Izou's psyche. Yi Sang approaches with a soft voice with sympathy. ]

It's clear from this place that it matters very much how people saw you during these times.

Please... Izou. Unchain your heart from the regrets of your past. I am sure you can move forward and find your own worth, apart from the expectations you could not meet.

[goei]

Yeah? What th'hell makes you so sure I can? After I managed ta make this whole nonsense place from how much I fucked up.

[idealitas]

There are people here who would support you.

If I said... I have done something like this and it was more nonsensical? I too was trapped in my past.

[goei]

... And ya feel like you got past it without feelin like a total loser?

[idealitas]

[ A nod. ]

I was supported by understanding people. I think the same can describe those that came here.

[goei]

... Yeah. Here I was thinkin' my master was the exception, but it seems like there's actually a buncha people dumb enough ta march into hell fer someone like me.

[idealitas]

It was a worthwhile march.

[goei]

What, 'cause of the poem???

[IZOU WHAT KIND OF GUY DO YOU THINK YI SANG IS???]

[idealitas]

...It is nice to help others.

I also appreciate the care into aesthetics and presentation, even if it was an unconscious act.

[ There is a Yi Sang in a mirror world who becomes a crazy artist. So, a little bit of that must exist in the normal one to like it. ]

[goei]

[Oh. Izou is caught off guard a little by this.]

I mean. I may not be real educated or anything but I know some stuff. My family was technically samurai, after all.

[He seems pleased???]