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Kirumi Tojo's Palace | The Ultimate Maid's Failures
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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Sayaka feels her cheeks puff out indignantly. She bared her soul for a second and all she got was unintelligible whisper ASMR in return? The audacity! The nerve!
Is this more likely to do damage to her than it is to the bowl in question? Almost certainly. But Sayaka will give the bowl a swift kick (14) in indignant rage.
...And probably wince after, but hey!
She will go and investigate the bowl further like a good little dangan romper after that, though. Is there anything else that can be seen on the bowl, or is she gonna have to climb inside? Or maybe try another approach?]
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That kick seems to have gotten something louder from that voice tht sounds like Kirumi:
'Be careful, please do not hurt yourself...!'
It must have been something Kirumi felt pretty strongly about, if that overcame the general limitations of being unintelligible.
The bowl was very unmoved by her kick, though. Geez]
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Even so, Kirumi's voice does seem to startle as she comes in a little clearer, and if anything Sayaka feels even more embarrassed doing this and having her realize it--]
S-Sorry, Tojo-san. I imagine the last thing you need is to worry over us.
[Something clearly needs to be done about this bowl, though Sayaka isn't quite sure what can be done...
...Still, it's about the size of a Jacuzzi. Will anything happen if she tries to climb in it? Maybe there's something further on the inside, or maybe some sort of mechanism. Maybe?
...Or maybe it's dirty and Sayaka can try to clean it--]
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Okay, no. It does fill with fire, and it does seem like it'd incinerate anything that got placed on it, but it's not affecting Sayaka at all. To her it's nothing above lukewarm.
When the flames disappear, she and everything on her are intact]
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It takes all of Sayaka's willpower not to scream (19), but considering the fact that she scrambles out of the bowl shortly after and just. Checks herself over for singes and marks and just. Okay! Sure! This is happening!!!]
Okay! Never doing that again.
[...Does this need to be answered with proper sacrifices. Where the fuck does one get those--should she leave the bowl for now and consult the others, maybe?
...Though, if no one has gotten the third bowl, Sayaka's curious about the question there too--]
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The inscription is the bigger one of all three:
How many people would you be willing to sacrifice to save 127000000 persons?
Golly]
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It hits, after a moment--are...these questions that Kirumi has had to ask of herself? Before she killed, before she acted in her own killing game? Are these bowls meant to symbolize that?
Well, the weight of that hits like a brick to the head. Is there anything else about the bowls to check over, or should Sayaka go and consult the others?]
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She's gonna go to the machine Argenti was at and print out some people over there. What happens if she puts one into the bowl? She'll do the first bowl first.]
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'You're Sayaka Maizono. You would sacrifice one person to save one person. Is this your final answer?'
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I--I gave my answer earlier, that's not what I'd--!
[...Maybe this is what's needed to proceed, though. And it's...one person...listen if she just thinks of it as doing it for someone she cares about it's fine.]
...Y-Yes. Um. Final answer.
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From nowhere, Kirumi's voice:]
...were you honest? May I ask why that was your answer?
[Doesn't sound like she's judging, but she's interested in hearing what led to such an answer.
The most important thing to remark, whether it's in meta or in-character, is if Sayaka was honest.]
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he's also heading over to the machine to print more people - except that it's taking too long to print that many people so he's wandering over to the dumbwaiter. ]
Hey, can I have like, 250 thousand of those paper people?
[ surely this is fine ]
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When Joshua gets the cube out, it'll automatically unfold into a paper doll as big as the Exisal McGillis pilots. It's marked with '250000' on a side of it. How will this fit into the bowl?
Palace logic is how. Thank goodness something like this is paper and therefore carrying it isn't a total pain, although Joshua may need some assistance on that regard anyway due to the size, haha]
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Urgh.
[ anyway. struggling! why is the stupid bowl so far from the dumbwaiter someone help ]
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Two heads are better than one, right? ]
Here, let me assist you.
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joshua had to ask himself this question, a long time ago.
(not so long ago, but it feels like forever.)
so without a word, he holds out an arm to stop argenti from getting too close lest he gets caught up in joshua's answer, and palace logic somehow dictates that the giant paper fits into the tiny bowl. ]
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...What kind of question is that?
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[ don't trust him, you saw what happened in Atem's palace ]
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Hell no.
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Smart.
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I'll pass on a second chance.
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