linkingup | 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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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?

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]

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

[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]

[ 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?

I want you all to kill Kirumi Tojo.

[There!]

[ wow, look at all the rise that you're getting out of soujuurou!

it's none. you're getting none. ]

No.

Pretty pleeeeeease?

[He's taking some tone that's supposed to be beguiling but is anything but that]

Why do you sound like that?

[HEY UH. WHAT THE FUCK?]

You--you can't be serious. Tojo-san's been nothing but kind to us--we're here to rescue her! Why are you asking this of us?

This thing is made by Tojo's mind, isn't it? It's probably part of the experiences she went through.

[ he seems to be taking this really well, speaking in a calm voice. maybe he's just doing it to spite monokuma, though. ]

It's a bloodthirsty thing, so it wants to mess with us until we give it what it wants. And since it's Tojo's mind, it means it wants Tojo's blood. That's all.

...You're right. We've gotten pretty good at defying the so-called fates that these places have wanted, right?

[Sayaka steadies herself, stepping out a little bit from behind Soujuurou. Resolved, beside him.]

...Then we just need to find a way to defy it.

You were here for that? Sure had me fooled, since you were all so sidetracked talking to cameras.

[As if he had nothing to do with setting that up, the jerk]

And I wonder who's fault that was. Certainly not the fault of this place's so-called god.

[don't get smart with her, young man!!!]

[ ...His eyes narrow in Monobear's direction. ]

None of us shall give into your dark designs.

You must be delusional if you believe it so in the first case.

Oh, for the love of--do you all defiant people read from the same script or what?! I swear I heard something identical to that seventeen seasons ago!

[What is Monokuma even talking about, who knows]

Edited 2024-10-01 01:21 (UTC)