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]

...Kill, or be killed...

[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.

[kandata]

Sure, I guess you do, but it's not like I stocked food for you all, or toilet paper, so dilly-dally at your own risk.

[destage]

Duly noted. We'll make haste, then.

[And that'll be the end of that!]