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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[moodwrecker]

[The defense boost was a great idea, it turns out, because she's pretty much unscathed after covering her face from the glass. While she does take a moment to check on the others, it doesn't take her long at all to come find the girl once known as Kirumi.]

Ki-

[...No. That's not her name. Not really.]

...Hey.

[kandata]

...hello. I-I am very sorry you had to see such insightly things today.

[She's extremely ashamed, really. While at the time she had been extremely intent in surviving and used very low methods to try to achieve that, she's not some heartless, hardened criminal. She wasn't written to be one, after all! Because the writers behind her characterization probably were planning for her to die instead of having any chance of survival.

So since then, well...she has had a lot of time to mull those events and feel guilty over those. Guilty enough she's very ashamed and dreaded what everyone would find out in her palace. Even right now, after the destruction of her ego, she still feels profoundly regretful]

[moodwrecker]

...It's not like it's your fault the god of conflict decided to be a jerk.

[Because boy, been there done that.]

...How are you feeling? After all that.

[kandata]

Tired. Embarrassed. At a loss of what to do or say. I cannot say I am glad or feel relieved.

[....]

But that might be because it is all too fresh right now. I have to sleep on it.

[More like it's going to take her several days, not just one night. This was heavy to deal with! And even though she won't mention it, Monokuma sure left her aching after, you know, using her as a flail. It'd be worse if they hadn't healed her during battle, but still!]

[moodwrecker]

It does feel like ripping open a lot of old wounds... Or at least, that's how it was for me.

I slept for a couple days after mine. [Just. For the record. Sleep for a whole week if you need it, girl.]