Kirumi Tojo's Palace | The Ultimate Maid's Failures

[kandata]

By now everyone may be used to find themselves in bizarre locations, between going into palaces and visiting Nekyia. It might not come as a surprise that it has happened again.

What might come as a surprise, though...is how empty this place is.

All around you there's nothing more than a large, gray, featureless expanse. In the distance there seem to be bars, curving upwards to gather so, so high above you, possibly hundreds of miles above, so high it’s hard to distinguish.

It’s a cage. So unfathomably large. You could escape, were you to get to the edges of the cage, but...it would take forever. No matter how you look at it, you're trapped. The atmosphere is so...hopeless. Devoid of anything even remotely positive.

Not that you want to hang around for long, do you? After all, this is someone's palace. Not a place to stick around at. What to do, though?

It’s all so...empty. Silent. Featureless. A flat expanse of hard gray tiles.

Gather together, everyone. Gather and choose a direction. North, East, West, South. All directions look completely identical, but could it affect your time in this place, somehow? Probably not. But all treks start with the first step. Perhaps, if you get moving, you'll progress?

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[destage]

[Ohhhh, Sayaka does not like this. Her composure is already cracking to an extent that is not good. One of her hands goes into her hair, and she sees the cameras around and it feels like she's on the spot. It's not the first time, but she had certainly hoped that it'd be the last after...

...

Sayaka forces her own nervous ticks down. Plasters a smile that the people here will definitely realize is a little too practiced, a little too TV ready. She's done interviews. She's done TV commercials.

It's all the same. Keep calm, smile, and be polite. She bows politely to them.]

My name is Sayaka Maizono; a pleasure. If you do not mind my asking...

What is it that you intend for us?

[This place has at least heavily leaned into some suspicions she has about who this could be, and connected some dots; at least, Sayaka is hoping she's right. This is...very different than she expected, but she may as well used some long forgotten skills]

[kandata]

[.............

There's no questions. There's no response. Instead, the feedback appears, the paper falling in front of her]

'Candidate: "SAYAKA MAIZONO". Copycat.

Rating: N/A'

[I wholeheartedly apologize to Sayaka for the immense rudeness I have inflicted on her]

[destage]

--Excuse me?!

[WOW, SHE DIDN'T EVEN WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS AND SHE FEELS SO DAMN ATTACKED RIGHT NOW???

Like. Sayaka sounds more flabberghasted than anything at the moment, but what the fuck! Sayaka's next words are a little less spirited, but...]

...This only just confirms my suspicions. Tojo-san, you were the one who also got trapped, weren't you...