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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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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!
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[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!
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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?
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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?
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[Yeah, it's simple enough.]
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not impressed with that ultimatum. ]
Try harder. Some of us are already dead, what's dying again gonna do to us?
END OF PHASE 0.5
[Monokuma takes from behind his back a flashlight as well -- but this one is square instead of round]
Enough of this. This prologue has taken way too many hours and I don't have the whole week to get you all with the program! Chop chop!
[From the flashlight, a bright light erupts, filling everything. Everyone won't feel anything strange other than the blinding light, except for one final shout from Monokuma before the gray surroundings turn into light]
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE KILLING GAME, BASTARDS!
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[Oh, isn't that familiar. Monokuma disappears before Sayaka can despair further at the thought of it all, at the ultimatum before them. The very one that spurred Sayaka to act, so long ago.
Thankfully, Sayaka's composure is at least a little bit restored once Monokuma's just on the camera itself.]
I assume we have the same amount of free reign in exploring as we did before, correct? Once we get to that school.
What we do once we get there will be our own choice, though, thank you.
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[And that'll be the end of that!]