[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]

...All right. You know what? Real talk. I'm not getting the due I deserve.

[she strikes a pose]

I am a Goddess of Despair! Not getting to watch you suffer enough under my attacks is an obscenity!

[Tsumugi is going to do a rule change... Tsumugi deals additional damage. The peasant Minato Arisato can just absorb the punishment and hope. ...Or despair, as it were.

And for her next attack, a more traditional monokuma springs forth as a cosplay weapon.]

[voidhearts]

[The Monokuma strikes Esmau twice - the additional damage from Rule Changes makes its claws hit heavier than they almost should, for 10 damage each.

Then K1-B0 strafes by Esmau for one more shot and locks onto her. While Esmau is busy fending off the Monokuma, a laser blast blasts her in the side and knocks her over for 20 damage!]