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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storeroom recap

[destage]

[It's a little difficult to carry, but thankfully, Sayaka has some help from Fray to carry an axe to the catherd.]

Fray and I wound up investigating the storage room; we found it in that weird, featureless hallway. Fray said that he found some footsteps leading into there, so it seemed like someone else had the idea of going in first...

But it was packed to the brim with just about everything! Useful items, weird ones, traffic...cones, for some reason--but there was also a note that said Weapon on it that we found. They weren't on the most stable shelves in the world, but the side I looked at had a lot of different cleaning supplies on it...

We found what I assumed was Mafuyu-san in there, and it wound up attacking us by trying to tip over all of the unstable shelves--and when that didn't work, it brought out an axe! Fray did a great job of making sure it didn't hurt anyone else, and it turned into this weird little paper guy before it was finished off.

Once we did and went to check on the axe, Tojo-san and another boy appeared...it was like we were listening in on a conversation she had here, like some kind of memory.

[Sayaka will sum it up at least--it seemed like Kirumi was very used to taking jobs to protect people, and surprisingly well suited to combat. She even saved a president's daughter, before teaching the criminal himself how to run his own butler business with Kirumi as his advisor.]

...Tojo-san's thoughts are written on the axe--that she wants to fight for our sakes. I think that about sums it up, unless there's something I missed...

[beautifulknight]

[ Argenti immediately turns his attention towards the duo, looking thoughtful as he listens to Sayaka's words closely.

He isn't entirely what to say on the memories but he is just going to give those thoughts for later and mull on them. He does focus on other matters, though, particularly since Sayaka has something else important too! ]

...I believe there is a wooden lock that can be used by that axe to break it open.

[ There is a small pause. ]

And it is quite odd how there appears to be fake versions of our dear companions being used against us...