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

[vogelfrei]

[ McGillis doesn't think that assessment is wrong in itself, but... ]

How so?

[ More than anything, he wants to hear Soujuurou's logic once more. Sorry buddy, you're still a curiousity to some degree. ]

[emptyself]

Are you only asking me this because you want to know my answer?

[ he’s caught on to your scheme mcgillis.

except he doesn’t mind enough to not answer, so he’ll go ahead and satisfy mcgillis’ curiosity. ]

Maybe it’s because I don’t think you would see any point in wanting to help others for the sake of helping them. Or maybe you might think it’s inefficient? I’m not sure.

[vogelfrei]

[ Interesting. Soujuurou, with his strange lack of common sense, is always a fascinating mirror to see how one might be perceived. ]

More of the latter. I think the kinds of people who can be helped by a maid don't require the assistance the most.

[emptyself]

That's not always the case. But sometimes it is.

[ he's had his encounters with both kinds of people. ]