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]

[Looks like the decision is to not split that head of wax like a pumpkin.

A minute later the screen disappeared up into the ceiling of the cave. Slowly, Kirumi appears, fading in. In her hands she holds a piece of lumber. Standing right behind the boy, Kirumi raises the lumber, holding it high, about to swing it down...

...her hands tremble.

Slowly, she lowers the lumber to a side, trembling. Something unexpected happens: the wax boy stands up. The opportunity for murder has passed.

'I could not do it.

I could not betray everyone.

They entrusted their wellbeing to me. I mean my peers, not everyone outside. I didn't have to deal with this alone. These students are citizens of this country too. I must take care of them.'

The boy seemed to accept he had been spared. He invited her to come along. Kirumi didn't even need to come clean to everyone about what she had been about to do.

'Nobody else seemed to me like they considered killing for their motive. If I didn't make a move, nobody would. Monokuma's motive is terrifying, yet we would hold strong together...face that ghastly bear and refuse to play along.

We could have...'

Kirumi walks behind the boy, her head down.

'We could have been fine.

I could have rejected the motive despite my fears. If I hadn't been beside me with worry...

It could...' Kirumi looks up, teary. '...I could have endured...?'

Yes. Yes she could have----]

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