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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[beautifulknight]

[ Well, Argenti isn't going to be able to stop anyone from hitting the thing, but he does ask: ]

...Is it that we're trying to establish ourselves as morally superior?

Or is it that there's that desire in hoping that we must follow the same script instead? Indicating that in her situation there was no other choice at all?

[ Maybe McGillis is right. But there is the possibility that he isn't, either. This wretched creature seems intent on proving that they're all suitable for a killing game, Kirumi included. Wouldn't this be the very same thing in some sense? ]

[vogelfrei]

So by doing this, we'd be making excuses for her?

[ That line of reasoning does stick with McGillis more than all the hope talk. He doesn't super care to invalidate her choices. ]

[beautifulknight]

[ Indeed, it definitely feels like they're being "used" here for that purpose, and otherwise, which he does not like either.

Still, to answer the question he does nod his head. ]

Yes, I do think so.

[ ...He will wait and see what happens, though. No one can tell what the real answer to this is thus far, but this is Argenti's. ]