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]

It was, yes.

[Sayaka nods her head at Aaron, firmly.]

For us, at least? It was because we were scouted by this so-called prestigious school as geniuses in our field, and that the bear in question wanted to watch us all kill each other and give into despair.

...The bear was very happy upon confirming that for us. I'm not sure if there was any deeper point, given how little I was around for it.

[imperiosity]

[That's... well. There's never really a good reason to coerce people into killing each other, but to him, this sounds like the dumbest and most senseless reason.]

Are you freakin' serious? I've never even met this thing and it already pisses me off. At least the assholes I knew were dicking around for specific reasons.

[destage]

Trust me, many of us thought it was a joke too. But unfortunately...

[It's real. It's very much real.]

[imperiosity]

[Well, he doesn't doubt her on that, but it annoys him to know that apparently this sort of thing may have happened at least twice. Either way, the heat in his voice settles down soon enough, ]

So if we're assuming it's the same bear that dragged the super maid into this game for the same reasons, then what, is this place so damn empty because of that despair?

[That's mostly a rhetorical question because he doesn't expect Sayaka to have the answer, but any alternate interpretations he could make of this landscape aren't all that positive either, so.]