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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[bloodweapon]

[Kirumi Tojo doesn't exist. All that they've been through, all that they've seen, were lies made up to give her a story, motivations, a reason to kill for... what? A show? A show that this girl wanted to be on so she could take center stage.

Maybe he doesn't have the full picture, but Fray has enough. It's enough to draw parallels to his own experiences and that... That isn't something he should be doing right now. This is about Kirumi. This is her story, her palace, her experiences, and yet Fray can't quite get out of his head for long enough to say or do anything to actually help.

(And privately, he wonders what this means for Sayaka, who has also been through something similar. Was she like this as well...?)

For the first time since he arrived here, he's completely consumed by... fear. Rage. Hatred, frustration, fury, disbelief, shock— so many other feelings that threaten to boil over into something, though hells if he knows what it is. Instead, he's left standing there silently, looking up at Kirumi without the words to express anything he's feeling.

It would be so much easier if this was simply a fight.

Fray remains silent, unable to react.]