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 doesn’t seem fazed at first at the beeping. it’s annoying, but so is the alarm clock on his phone.

however, when shalem warns for the bomb, that sense of danger finally lights up in soujuurou. his experience with explosives is only when aoko blew up the house of mirrors, and he doesn’t know how much damage this can cause. but any damage is too much. he struggles to get himself off the floor and break into the best run that his broken body can do (7). ]

[finalmix]

[ joshua is a noodle but he is grabbing soujuurou and supporting him on the way out, and also casting a media on him for good measure just in case, even if Fray already hit him with a diarama. ]

Stay sharp, darling. Wouldn't want to lose you so near the end, hm?