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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[emptyself]

[ soujuurou stares ahead, dumbfounded more by the memory that he saw rather than the monster that has taken control of kirumi tojo.

something about it feels horribly familiar and horribly sickening, but soujuurou has no time or energy to process his own feelings. if it’s a living thing, then it must have a weakness. and if it has a weakness, then it can be taken down. ]

I’m sorry, Tojo. But I know that you can continue living even with a false identity. It’s hard— but I think you can do it.

[ soujuurou poses, ready to strike, as he goes to strike the monster with a punch (19) ]