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]

[Arven's wrist is grabbed, and the sandwich is destroyed by a flying knife and Kainé. What used to be good food is now mush at best. Look at what you have done, that was a perfectly good sandwich]

...all of you, stop that...!

[You know you're winning when you hear the enemy starting to plead a little!

You're almost done. Arven is vulnerable]

[prozaic]

[Time to finish this, perhaps.

Shalem continues to hang onto Arven's arm, but grabs the back of his neck to slam him against the wall. (16)]

Let's see who you really are. [He punctuates that with a hiss.]

[moonshaded]

[HE IS PINNED TO THE WALL AND SHE ROLLED A 4 THIS IS SO HUMILIATING.

Floor sandwich must have really hit the spot...Kainé is in a food coma.]

[kandata]

[Kainé missed the attack, but the Shadow was so panicked even that missed attack is enough to startle it into revealingits true form, only for Shalem to grab and slam it against the wall. Arven is no more. You all were merciless attacking Arven in this kitchen! Quite fearsome, honestly!

McGillis earlier had seen there was something at the back of the kitchen that seemed to be different from the rest. Anyone approaching there, will find…a konjac.

In front of everyone, Kirumi and Shuichi appear again. She really had a lot of conversations with this boy, didn’t she? Conversations that constantly shed a light on her as a person, funny thing. By now, it might be easy to see that Shuichi is someone Kirumi held in high esteem, not only because of the potential she saw in him, but also because he was a helpful person to her.

The conversation illustrates a bit more of Kirumi Tojo’s mind.

When Kirumi and Shuichi disappear, a calm falls all over the school. You have fulfilled all your mandatory goals.]