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Kirumi Tojo's Palace | The Ultimate Maid's Failures
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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[Yeah. No disagreement from her, essentially.]
...Especially if she was forced to live there longer.
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[ More inportantly, since as shitty as where he's from, he's never heard of a killing game and just assumes the worst. ]
If you are comfortable with doing so, can you explain the basics of how it was run?
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[With everyone's support, she can do it. She recalls it all.]
When we first arrived at the school, all of us woke up in different place like we'd been knocked out; when we all came to, we met near the school's entrance and gathered all of our thoughts and introduced ourselves. Once we were all awake and introduced, we were called into the gymnasium of the school, where Monokuma himself introduced himself to us, along with what would become our daily life. One that he was very proud to inform us would be indefinite, if we didn't try and graduate from the school by killing one another.
I should explain--there were certain rules about attacking things that Monokuma had set up, and he gave us one warning about attacking him or the security cameras total. And sleeping outside of the dormitories, as well. Oowada-kun had attempted to attack him, and in retaliation, he proceeded to blow up--it was...frightening, and he implied that he'd punish us if we did it again. And knowing him...that punishment was probably death. We were otherwise free to explore the school ourselves, with minimal restrictions on where we couldn't go--mostly just areas that had been locked off to us, but we were mostly allowed free reign. Though we ourselves decided on some rules to try and keep ourselves safe.
We had a few days to ourselves before Monokuma accosted us at the cafeteria and gave us what he called a "motive"--he made us go search for the place, but in one of the more advanced classrooms with computers in them, there was this box of DVDs, with each one labeled specifically for us. They were movies that Monokuma made, but...
...I didn't ask what any of the others saw. The one I saw horrified me to the core--and I can imagine it was likely the same for the others. It was a movie showing what happened to the other idols in my group, showing them knocked out and unconscious on a stage, with Monokuma's face plastered onto a monitor, implying he'd done this to them. The only way to find out what happened to them was to graduate.
[You know. By killing someone else.]
...I wasn't around for anything further than that, though McGillis-san seems to know that those who killed were faced from what he found in Tojo-san's dreamscape. McGillis-san, do you want to explain? I know you said that graduation or execution were the options...
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They went on to specify that once a murder was discovered, every student would be made to participate in a 'class trial'. Over the course of that trial, the participants would have to find the 'blackened' individual. Should they find them, the culprit would be executed.
Should the culprit get away with it, they'd graduate and reenter regular society... at the cost of everyone else. Punishment for a wrong decision at trial was execution for the whole class.
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Ah. Ahaha. Oh, oh this post palace is going to give Sayaka a lot to think about, what the fuck.]
...Thank you, McGillis-san. That sounds completely on brand for Monokuma.
[She never knew this. She never knew, she thought it'd just be Kuwata who--
She forces her emotions down. Save Tojo-san, and then you can beat yourself up for this. Keep it together..]
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[ It's as bad or worse as he expected. Okay, worse. These are high schoolers hello??? ]
Thank you both for the explanations.
[ MODS CAN WE GET RECARMS WITH OUR AC LEVEL UPS?
NO?
OKAY. ]
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[If Kirumi was stuck in a similar situation... she has to wonder exactly what kind of world she longed to join.]
So that bear is some kind of machine? I didn't think they were capable of feeling things like that. [But she also only knows them as monstrosities that attack and kill. Makes her feel kind of nauseous, the more she thinks about it.]
Glad you got your second chance. [Casually inserted, an approval she doesn't put too much of a point on.] What's up with the evaluation slips?
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But...I guess if it helps, when we originally got letters that scouted us for Hope's Peak, they each seemed to scout us for a specific talent that they claimed us to be the best in our field at. Maybe it's something similar? There definitely wasn't any sort of like...weird evaluations, though, not at all. They were the ones who came to us, rather than...it seems like, "us" [general us] coming to them.