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]

[...

HEY WHOEVER VOLUNTEERS SAYAKA IS DOING HER BEST NOT TO SCREAM AND SHE IS HIDING BEHIND YOU IN ABJECT FUCKING TERROR, DON'T MIND HER!!!]

What--what are you doing here?!

[emptyself]

Sayaka?

[ .... ]

W-wait, why is that talking?

[kandata]

You don't even know that much? They really didn't teach you jack in your neck of the woods, huh.

[emptyself]

No, they don't usually teach us about talking toy bears.

[ he'll stretch his hand out just in case, to keep it away from sayaka. ]

Where's Tojo?

[kandata]

Aw, she's having a little meeting with the headmaster! That's me, by the way, the headmaster is me.

[As if the emphasis isn't enough, he pats his chest with a paw]

But I heard you all out here playing with the cameras, so I came to take a look at the fresh blood. Have I never seen a more sorry bunch for a game! Look, the evaluation ratings are abysmal! You all would flop just like a nighttime talk show hosted by a washed-up comedian!

So I decided to have you all do a little something. It's about that Maid-san girl, so you better wash up your ears and listen.

[Monokuma proceeds to be quiet, intentionally letting silence happen because he's sure that's bound to get under someone's skin]

[vogelfrei]

[ It's time for a silence contest with a strange bear, huh... This is just how the day is going. ]

[kandata]

[Monokuma notices McGillis staring after a moment, and with a shrug he just...makes an inanimate Monokuma appear from thin air, leaving it standing there to play staring games with McGillis]

[emptyself]

[ all of that flew so over his head that he's not even remotely insulted by it. like, okay, they don't fit in this murder school or whatever. who cares? ]

I'm listening. What about her?

[kandata]

I want you all to kill Kirumi Tojo.

[There!]

[idealitas]

[ Joins in the staring contest. ]

[destage]

Robotics, probably! Maybe someone with voice modification?! He did this all the time where I came from!

[SHE HATES IT HERE SHE HATES IT HERE SHE HATES IT HERE]

[emptyself]

Stay behind me Sayaka. It'll be fine.

[ maybe it's better if the stupid thing insults him instead of her, considering how his presence clearly does not do her any good. ]

[destage]

...I owe you once we get Tojo-san out of here. T-Thank you.

[listen. girlie wants to protect but she absolutely cannot in the presence of robot teddy bear beetlejuice.]

[emptyself]

[ he nods, giving her a small smile. ]

We'll figure out payment once we're done with this.

[kandata]

[Monokuma does a very exaggerated gasp]

Look who we got here! Sayaka Maizono! So famous where I'm from! Hey, mind giving me an autograph? Sign my white half, it's gonna make my value skyrocket!

[beautifulknight]

[ ... ]

You should keep your distance, you foul fiend.

[kandata]

Oh, still sore about the 4/10? I can bump it up to maybe 4.1. 4.2 if you 'appreciate my beauty', roseman.

[Monokuma proceeds not to keep his distance. If anything, he seems to relish being here a little too close to the group]

[beautifulknight]

You could not be any further from the truth.

...Besides, you have no Beauty to appreciate. I am fully content with that 4/10 by remaining true to myself rather than dressing myself up for an ugly being such as yourself.

[ This creatura is beary annoying right about now!! ]

[kandata]

Everybody's a critic.

[Monokuma constantly has that tone and cadence of someone who knows he's untouchable no matter what, the sort of casual confidence that's just grating to hear]

[destage]

[BEAR YOU ARE SO LUCKY THAT SHE IS GENRE SAVVY--]

I-I don't even have a pen to sign with-- [Sayaka shakes her head rapidly from where she's hiding behind Soujuurou.] That's not the point!

It's rude to avoid a question when someone asks you it, you know!

[kandata]

Manners are the law of the urban jungle and the urban jungle is no jungle of mine!

[Geez. Still, he seems to have decided he can answer that, and when he does, it's with the usual tone Sayaka knows so well]

I'm the god of this mindscape. That girl just can't get me out of her head!

[destage]

[please say psyche. please don't tell her mr. "MY GOAL IS TO BLOW UP AND ACT LIKE I DON'T KNOW NOBODY" is not a fucking boss fight here. she's already rightfully terrified of bringing out a sword against him, but--]

I-I can imagine. You...do have a way of leaving an impression, after all.

[So Tojo-san lives in rightful fear of him too, huh...]

If you'll permit me another question, where is Tojo-san right now?

[kandata]

Inside the school she was trapped in. I'm busy having a little chat with her, you see! So I better go back to that.

Thing is, I thought I should come here and tell you all what's what, so none of you get fancy fun ideas in your fancy fun little heads: Kirumi Tojo will die, and I will make sure of that.

[Monokuma addresses everyone while vanishing and popping into existence on top of one of the cameras that's still around here, beyond reach]

I have tailored it all to show you all exactly what kind of person she is. Who she is and what she has done. Think of it is a scavenger hunt! And at the end...either she dies, or all of you die.

Simple enough?

[moonshaded]

Get bent.

[Yeah, it's simple enough.]

[finalmix]

[ i think it's incredibly funny that he's saying this to a bunch of people who have died before because honestly, joshua is just

not impressed with that ultimatum. ]

Try harder. Some of us are already dead, what's dying again gonna do to us?