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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[kandata]

[Avrae doesn't cooperate but I do because the sword extinguishes one by whiffing the attack, the bit of wind dispelling it.

The lone wisp, seeing all of its companions are now gone, would sweat if it wasn't a hot (and not in the sexy way for aaron) ember floating around. Instead, it glances at what's beyond the pool of blood -- the paper Aaron had seen earlier. The wisp looks at Aaron and then hurries to float over there, to try to reach it, planning to incinerate the one thing in this library that could be of any use to anyone.

It's such a spiteful move! There goes the wisp, to try to get there!]

[imperiosity]

[imagine if he just stood there and let that wisp burn that scrap of evidence away

anyways, he will of course go after it!! I assume rolls don’t matter much here but here’s a badly aimed garu (8) in the vicinity of the wisp to hopefully finish it off!!]

[kandata]

[I am so tempted to make it matter.

You know what, I'll make it matter. Aaron's misaimed garu spell makes a bunch of papers fly in the air, hitting Aaron in the face and smearing dust and ink across his face. He looks like instead of walking he crawled on his face all the way across the library. That, coupled with the scorch marks from the wisps attacking you from up-close, means Aaron is in a very sorry state right now!

But the wisp is dead. You're done!. The doors of the library open, and from above a t-shirt descends at Aaron. It has Monokuma giving a thumbs up. 'I KILLED ELI AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT']

[imperiosity]

[NICK

this is the worst loot he could have gotten!! is it even in his size………

he debates just leaving it there but as a jrpg character he’s compelled to pick it up even if he definitely doesn’t want it!! maybe he’ll light it up once he’s in a less flammable place.

anyways, there’s nothing stopping him from actually investigating unless you decide to jumpscare me with something else I guess!! so let’s take a look at that paper that was lying near/in the blood pool]

Danganronpa V3 Spoilers

[kandata]

[Yeah, at least it's his size. Silver linings!

When Aaron picks up the paper, he'll find it's a music score. When he picks up, he gets a fleeting vision.

Danganronpa V3 spoilers

A luminous place, full of cogs. A gigantic piano. Fourteen teenagers around her, all of them watching something that's currently at the keys of the piano.

It's a girl. A blonde girl, being suspended with a rope by the neck, while Monokuma, as an orchestra director, directs other more colorful stuffed bears to move the girl around, making her press keys.

It doesn't take much thought to know what that kind of damange that can do to anyone's neck.

A sensation of horror, utter revulsion, and strong grief fills Aaron -- feelings Kirumi probably felt at that time. She watched the execution, until the girl wasn't moving...and the keyboard of the piano snaps shut, squishing the girl.

On the back of the score, there's something written with Kirumi's neat handwriting.

'I will keep your piano in perfect condition until the day we escape this school.'

The vision proves one thing very clearly: even though Kirumi kept a strong, stoic face in front of adversity, she's just as vulnerable as any other person. She was...just a teenager in a place full of horror. Incredible maid or not, she was just a teenager, with the reactions of one]

[imperiosity]

[He can’t say he knows 100% what sort of relationship Kirumi had with the blonde, but he’s assuming they were friends, or something close to it. Either way, that sort of reaction feels perfectly natural, especially when the other girl’s death was turned into a macabre spectacle. It’s… well, not surprising per se but it is true that he never really thought all that much about what may lie behind that professional exterior.

…In any case, he will hold on to that sheet of paper. Is there anything else notable in the area? Otherwise he is still curious about the blood pool so he will poke around there anyway but I don’t know how relevant it will be!!]

[kandata]

[The blood is fresh. Still wet. If Aaron were to look around more carefully, he'd see things that seem off in the area. There's a shot put ball with some blood over there, in the shadows. There's remains of sticky tape on one of the shelves. Some books are positioned oddly.

Depending on how perceptive Aaron might be, he'll notice this place he's at is...a crime scene. The scene of a murder. That girl in the memory certainly didn't die here in a library, so knowing that, coupled with the explanation Sayaka gave...

...yeah, there's only one conclusion there. Is it relevant? Well, it's not vital, but it fills some blanks]

[imperiosity]

[Unfortunately or not, this isn't his first run-in with crime scenes, although the missing corpse is certainly conspicuous. But if this whole place is based on Kirumi's memories of being trapped in this fucked up killing game, then it's not difficult to draw the conclusion that this is a recreation of one of the murders that occurred. He'll commit some of the details to memory in case, but he will leave the scene alone, no crime scene souvenirs for him alas.

In any case, is there anything off about the other bookshelves or the books specifically?]

[kandata]

[Doesn't seem like there's anything off about the bookshelves or the books now. You're finished, yup -- you're free to keep checking around if you want, but in general, through defeating Eli and getting that piece of evidence you have all you needed from this library!]

[imperiosity]

[Great!! If that's done he'll head over to the washroom to wash up because wow he'd like to get all that ink off his face.]