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]

[ It infuriates him, what Monokuma says.

Just to try to intercede. And the words that she says are borne of true worry, he knows. It makes Argenti want to defy that, even so, because even though he has seen the worst of her. He also has seen the best of her too.

Which has given him time to think on some other matters as well, but regardless, his stance to Kirumi is unwavering; committed, and determined. He will never let it be unclear as much as he can help it! Even after this. So, Argenti begins to speak. ]

...No, it is good that you have attempted to bridge that gap.

Though it may be first out of perhaps necessity or maybe even obligation...or a feeling of duty for you or some others, I feel that over time it has had its benefits.

Each day we began to spend with you opened your heart up more to that of what is beautiful, to take hold of that warmth that can only be brought to life when each one's wonderful, shimmering soul encounters another in the same situation.

After that dark situation you were in, you were allowed the second chance to reach out again - to have your splendid soul connect with others. Some who were like you, some who were different, and some who still remain unknown to you. But, undoubtedly, you experienced moments that could only be encapsulated within the word "Beauty", and you had a chance to make your own path. To make your own way.

Even with those sins you committed with your own hands, even with the guilt that must have been weighing down in your heart.

[ Argenti seems to make a swipe at her, but he intentionally misses (6), because he wants to mostly focus on talking.

So now everyone gets to hear this ridiculous Beauty speech, sorry. ]

I am not here only out of obligation or duty, Miss Kirumi. I am here because I cherish deeply our friendship from the bottom of my heart, and I remember what you have done for me. Your actions there in the past do not deserve praise, but do you expect me to ignore all the good you have done in protecting others? And those that you care about?

Do you expect me to throw that away? If you do, I shall happily declare that your expectations are wrong! No matter what happens, the beautiful nature of our friendship shall never die, even through conflict, even through these ugly revelations!

[ He then throws a defiant gaze towards Monokuma who interceded against one of their own, burning with passion and the utmost of stubbornness. Eat shit. ]