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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[destage]

You've got that wrong, Monokuma! We are not just messing with her!

[Yeah, it wasn't said specifically to her, but she looks at Soujuurou anyway in worry--she'll include him in her Media this time, getting him, Argenti, and Shalem. Poor snake is taking a beating here...]

Do you really believe that? Do you really think we all just say that to get out of here, to try and just placate you? That we don't believe what we're trying to say to you?

[Shalem's been taking a beating, so if he doesn't mind--Sayaka will be stepping in front to protect him, and using her roll this time to talk (11).]

We care about you--we care about the you that's killed, the one that manipulated to try and get her way! We care about the you that despite it all, has worked so hard to care for us and take care of things--do you remember when we fought fiercely in Argenti's palace? You fought just as hard for his sake, even if you've seen what he was capable of, even after everything that happened in that fight...

Why are you not allowed that same consideration--that same kindness, Kirumi-san?! We're going to care for you regardless of what you've done!