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]

[ All of these revelations...

...They are unpleasant. One, right after the other, witnessing and hearing them makes Argenti's stomach churn, and his expression darken.

The fact that there was some kind of show involving a "killing game".

That she, as a person, wished to be a part of that world.

Yes, Argenti is staring down the core of this young lady's twisted desires in the face - he feels that much.

But, it does not end there. No, the rabbit hole grows even deeper, with her own identity essentially being placed into question. That she was never really "Kirumi" at all, it was just something gifted to her, without even consideration for her desires at all.

...To be honest, Argenti can't really understand why she would wish to be on such a stage like that. Not at all.

But, that doesn't matter.

He understands that she still wanted to be her own person throughout that, and he feels that was stolen away, when she was slotted into a role she never wished for. In the end, Argenti will endeavor to rescue her, to show her that she can still walk along a new path.

And be her own individual while she's at it. ]

I see a wretched fiend like you only has room to be conceited and full of nothing but wretched evil. We will take Miss Kirumi back, and she will have the chance to embrace that opportunity of a second chance as herself! And you?

[ Unfortunately Argenti doesn't know what else to call her, but Kirumi is his friend. That hasn't changed, even in the face of these startling, troubling revelations. ]

You shall fall!

[ Argenti shouts this, rushing ahead, and he just flat out misses (6) with his swing, but he isn't embarrassed in the slightest. ]