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?

Comments

[moonshaded]

Sick fuck.

[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?

[destage]

Those were never a part of our game. It seems this must have been exclusive to what Tojo-san went through, unfortunately.

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.