[Endgame: rise or DROWN]

[warpweft]

[How long have you been exploring Nessa's palace now? You've met her family, viewed her memories, learned how to fight as a witch and tried to find the source of her power and the Treasure of her palace: the Voidheart. And along the way, you've tired your best, with mixed success, to avoid the incarnation of her eldest cousin and the representation of her trauma and fear, the Nightmare of Esmau.]

[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]

[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]

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[cosplayed_out]

[Just hearing the Junko-cosplay talk is a bit of a psychic cosplay weapon with how much emotion Tsumugi puts into it, and this right now is Junko in teacher mode.]

Ahem! Pay attention class. It is time for your next lesson. Repeat after me: Wherever there's hope... there's most definitely despair. And despair? It doesn't choose sides.

Now, individual study: practice your own despair! The despair of being reminded you're a loser who's already been defeated before!

[voidhearts]

.....e-even me?

[cosplayed_out]

Cuties like you are *totes* exempt!