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 looks at the girl crying and feels like his chest is being squeezed.

he’ll sit down next to her, as comfortable as he can be with whatever injuries he sustained. ]

You don’t have to continue being Kirumi Tojo if you don’t want to be. If you want to be, that’s fine too.

[ he’ll stretch out a hand to her. ]

But no matter what you choose, I still would like to be your friend.

[kandata]

I do not know what I will do...even thinking about my name is painful right now.

[Did they get around to giving her some well planned and justified name that would fit their plan somehow? Or did she really end up getting a random name someone thought up on the spot just to fill up a file? She's not sure which one would be the lesser evil here]

...but thanks. I am at a total loss right now, so I do not know how to respond, but I do appreciate you being here...

[She really sounds so uncertain. Not to the hesitant extent of that girl who wanted to join a killing game, but still, she's not sure of what to do now]