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]

[Kirumi may have tried hard to keep a distance, but clearly she isn't capable of such things. She's a caring person, after all. She wouldn't be in her line of work, with such devotion, if she wasn't. She sees potential and can read people decently well.

That's why she can't tune out what she's hearing. Even now, in middle of fighting, they're trying to reach out to her. Kirumi still attacks, her magic going left and ight, but her moves are slower -- the physical attacks thrown at her make contact, throwing her back, until she's forced to hold onto one of the podiums to not collapse]

I--I...you all are...it cannot be...

[Kirumi's hands tremble. Without her axe or anything, and outmatched against twelve people, is it really any surprise she's struggling! McGillis then grabbing her with the Exisal forces her to sit tight, not move anymore, too. Yoink, she's up with the robot man!

Also hearing herself be called a valuable resource really appeals to her professional pride, that was really nice]