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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[vogelfrei]

[ This explains the gaps in Kirumi's memory, the matters that don't add up, the unrealistic career... McGillis had been fairly certain that there was something off about her past that they had not yet discovered, but he could not have foreseen this.

Kirumi is nothing. Not a name, not a past, not anything at all. She's nothing, because she allowed who she used to be to be ground into dust for the mere chance of relevance.

At the same time, this means she is something. Kirumi is tenacity. Not to be sidelined, she'd been given the most sidelined role of all, and yet-- Kirumi's always wanted to shine, to keep going and reach something higher.

McGillis Fareed-- No, McGillis Montag understands that desire.

He'd related to Mafuyu and her masks, to Sayaka and the whittling down of who she might once have been... With Kirumi, he's confronted with the abandonment of self in pursuit of something else coming to its absolute final form.

And it makes him want to reach out his hand, for once.

But he can't, not yet. First he has to hit the monster with a Garudyne and get Kirumi free (11). ]