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]

[Ascend again you will! Onto the third leg! This one and one more ahead.

Luckily for Argenti, he seems to have gone unnoticed, compared to others who are getting accosted by cannonballs and spikes. Perhaps it's this bad luck what makes Monokuma strike preemptively.

Six stories above water, Argenti is. The very top of this pit is visible...there are two Exisals there: McGillis', having landed safely at whatever's up there, and another one]

Timber!

[With that shout, Monokuma pushes the Exisal to begin sliding down the thread, to try to bowl Argenti over, and hope to crush him not only with the fall but with the weight of the mecha]

[beautifulknight]

[ Argenti handles rescuing his boyfriend and also climbing up to this leg of the journey admirably well. As it is, it pretty much does seem like incredibly bad luck, especially since there are two mechas awaiting for him.

...Yet, the Knight of Beauty has his training to thank, perhaps, managing to swing on the spider thread completely out of the way (14)

After that, he will attempt to ascend once more. ]

[kandata]

[Woah, failure to ascend. Bad roll!

Below Argenti, he'll hear the loud scream of Fray. It's the scream of a man plummeting! Given their relationship, Argenti probably will look down, won't he?

When he does, he'll see Fray isn't plummeting to his death. Instead, Monokuma is staring at Argenti from a hole down at the second leg]

Made you look.

[And with a wave of his paw, an Agilao goes towards Argenti. Monokuma can use attacks!]

[beautifulknight]

[ Argenti would indeed fall for it, what can I say? Argenti's worrywart tendencies can be used against him in a heartbeat.

Regardless, that sure is an Agilao heading towards him, and he not only avoids it, but Argenti also sends a strong Psio straight back at Monokuma (20) in retaliation!

Eat shit (hopefully), mechanical bear.

He will also try to ascend once more. ]