Tsubaki’s progress is tracked via invisible or visible statistics, such as Pride, Obedience, Stress, and Skill Level. Balancing her stress levels while systematically lowering her pride is essential to unlocking different narrative paths.
Tsubaki heard both tribute and accusation in that sentence. She had not known she had been forming such a will—quiet, firm, purposeful. She had thought herself merely a vessel for service. Slowly she admitted to herself that learning to serve well had made her less brittle and, in a way that startled her, more whole.