Memory of Chaos: Yuri Alpha

Memory of Chaos: Yuri Alpha was a character scenario released in Mass for the Dead, featuring the character Yuri Alpha.

Episode 1: Yuri's Melancholy
Yuri Alpha, the deputy leader of the Pleiades was at a chamber close to the surface of the dungeon. There, Yuri knocks on the chamber door to inform the occupant, Shalltear Bloodfallen that she will be joining her on a Chaos Beast subjugation mission. As she waits for the Floor Guardian to get ready, the maid notices the displaced tiles at the corner of a corridor. Last she heard the restoration for the 1st to 3rd Floors were already in progress, but looking at the debris the workers have yet to fully tidy up the debris. Looking about all around her, she cannot help but not ignore the dirt and cuff marks scattered on the floor and walls. Yuri wishes she brought a cleaning tool ahead of time to clean up the mess before her, but her thoughts are interrupted by Shalltear who appears in her armor, apologizing for the long wait. The Floor Guardian notices the maid's distress and asks what is she worried about. Yuri states that she was observing that the restoration for the Guardian's floors are progressing considerably. Shalltear confesses that that the speed of the repairs is due to the floor having very little damage. Likewise, the other Floor Guardians are busy repairing their floors from the damage, however there are still areas where they cannot fully get it to restore.

The two enter the Lemegeton on the 10th Floor. It is one of the examples of areas in the Great Tomb of Nazarick that suffered the most damage, ruining its majestic atmosphere. Shalltear wishes that the areas on the 10th Floor could be repaired first, however Yuri states all enemy attacks originate from the surface thus should be restored with the highest priority. Therefore, the restoration of this area, which has huge repair costs, has been postponed for the time being. Still the inability to repair the area makes Shalltear feels somewhat deeply ashamed on themselves that they failed the Supreme Beings. And most of all, Shalltear wishes that there was a possible way to effectively remove the abominable Cracks once and for all. Yuri agrees with Shalltear's opinion, though wishes that time would permit her to clean the areas, however with the threat of Chaos Beasts such ideas may seem profane and unimportant. Nonetheless, there is indeed a desire to restore Nazarick back to it's former greatness and glory if just by a little. The two then enter the Throne Room and approached the remains of the ruined Throne of Kings where a Crack now sits. The sight of the desecration of Nazarick's glorious symbol of power, brings emotional pain to Yuri. They are met by Lupusregina Beta who notes that they have arrived just in time for the upcoming battle with the Chaos Beasts. While Yuri's sister greets them, Yuri cannot help but turn her attention to a mountain of debris piled aside. Looking at the pile, she feels the urge to clean the monstrosity, but restrains herself as Yuri is on an important mission, but promises to take care of it later. Her mental musings are noticed by Lupusregina who asks if Yuri is alright as it looked like she was staring at something in the distance. Yuri tries to claim that it was nothing, but Lupusregina is concerned as Yuri had an intimidating face visibly seen by her sister. The deputy leader of the Pleiades assure Lupusregina she is fine, and with that Lupusregina accepts her colleague's words and leaves. The Crack soon after activates and Yuri and Shalltear then engage the monsters together. Once they are finished with battling the task, Shalltear found the battle to be stimulating but decides to retire until they're read to do the next mission following it. Left alone, Yuri decides to take the opportunity and clean up the area before her next mission. Though Yuri tries to clean the scattered pieces of stone, she is limited by time as her efforts now are still not enough. There is no choice but to clean it up little by little. Resolving to finish it next time when she returns to the area, Yuri heads over to her next assignment but her heart was afflicted by the awkwardness that she couldn't do things on her own.

On her next assignment, Yuri found herself monitoring the Crack on the 6th Floor. When she finished her duty, she noticed a mountain of discarded tiles in the Amphitheater much to her chagrin. Aura Bella Fiora standing next to her and seeing her discontent asks the maid what's wrong. Yuri asks Aura if the number of tiles have been increasing since the beginning of the Nazarick's damage. Aura tells her that they are damaged remains from the stadium caused by the Chaos Beasts. Since they were originally part of a sublime Nazarick, the materials can't be disposed of so easily. Since any part of the dungeon is considered to be a work of the Supreme Beings, and it's rarity makes it very difficult to replace. Hence, why Aura had chosen to stack up the tiles like that so to avoid it from becoming an obstacle when fighting invaders, but the pile has been growing in numbers ever since.

Yuri cannot help but draw it's appearance to something, but it is Aura who finishes it for her comparing the pile to a tombstone. Yuri sees that piles like this are appearing on all floors in Nazarick and something needs to be done to avoid Nazarick from looking like a dump. If these piles continue to be overlook, they could create blind spots. Yuri discusses this with Aura when the former has an idea on how to manage the these mountains of tiles. Yuri thanks Aura for the talks and leaves the 6th Floor to seek out the Overseer Guardian Albedo.

Episode 2: Yuri's Suggestion
At the Round Table Room, Yuri has an audience with Momonga and Albedo. First, Yuri reports that she had returned from a successful monitoring duty of the Crack on the 6th Floor and that her replacement is CZ2128 Delta. So far, there has been no change whatsoever to the Crack situation. However, she mentions that the present restoration work for each floor is being carried out little by little in Nazarick. As for the 1st to 3rd floors, they have sustained suffered relatively little damage. While the work to restore Nazarick pleases her, Yuri finds the damage to the 10th Floor to be greater than any of the other floors, and states her distress every time she looks upon the ruination.

Albedo shares her anger at the destruction, and notes that there are pile of tiles on each floor. When Yuri states that they are like grave markers, Albedo somberly states that the comparison is sad but accurate. Yuri apologizes if she brought bitter feelings, but she cannot help stand to look at Nazarick's tragedy every day and wishes to restore its former grandeur even if by a little. The Overseer Guardian and Supreme Being listen to their words on the situation, and while understanding where she is coming from, Albedo states that Nazarick is in an emergency situation where they cannot delegate resources to cleaning. Momonga watching the discussion too aches at the damage to Nazarick, but also the pain his subordinates are feeling about it, but the situation has made Nazarick focus all its attention to devising countermeasures against monsters and Chaos Beasts. They are already still short-handed as the revivals of the other NPCs are not yet complete.

Yuri understands that resources have made it nearly impossible to clean the floors, but she tells her superiors that she may have a way to get rid of the tiles acclimating in piles. On the 6th Floor, especially it is dangerous to have that obstacle placed there as it is used for mock battles and create a hazard if they are accidentally knocked down. The other mountains also face the same issue as well. She then asks the two that she be given permission to organize the piles. Albedo asks if the tiles will be disposed of, but Yuri states that they cannot be disposed of since the tiles are planned to be used as repair material for future restoration work, and because they are material made by the Supreme Beings. All she wants is to organize them in an orderly fashion and clean the areas there of dust at the same time.

The ultimate decision falls on her master Momonga, who after carefully weighing the risks and gains sees Yuri's reasoning to clean the tiles to be deemed acceptable. While Nazarick was currently in a state of emergency and there are a lot of problems to deal with, cleaning Nazarick would strengthen the morale of the inhabitants overall. Momonga takes Yuri's side on her suggestion, though asks how the maid will be able to accomplish cleaning the tiles by herself, which Yuri states she would solicit the aid of the other Pleiades and would even forgo rest every now and then. Momonga bars the last option from happening seeing the need for his subordinates to be fully rested and gives her permission to proceed with the beautification plan proceed. However if their priority is focus mainly on the mission before resting, the plan will be put on hold until the matter is resolved. With the project in Yuri's hands, Momonga hopes to see a beautiful Nazarick again as soon as possible.

Episode 3: Beautification Plan Start
Yuri on the 6th Floor again recalled Momonga's words that he left the beautification plan in her hands. Not wanting to disappoint him, Yuri first readies for the Chaos Beast subjugation mission with an armored Shalltear Bloodfallen. Shalltear comments that the maid has been assigned with another subjugation mission, as she was expecting Entoma Vasilissa Zeta in this session with her. Yuri explains she is taking Entoma's place for this mission as she was given an important task of organizing the pile of tiles and cleaning it for the floor. The Floor Guardian, thinks that Yuri is overworking herself, but the maid claims that she is happiest when working for the benefit of Nazarick, which the former has no objections with about her duty.

The Crack erupts and Chaos Beasts begin to pour through, which the two then confront it in combat. After the battle, Shalltear is just about to depart when the women are joined by Aura. The dark elf get into a brief argument in which Aura comments on Shalltear's fake implants, causing the vampire to storm off in anger. Aura turns her attention to Yuri who she is surprised to see back on her floor again. As for the whereabouts of Mare, he is currently out on an assignment but Aura believes that he will be returning soon. Yuri explains her mission to Aura and asks the elf to be shown the tiles. At the Amphitheater before the debris, Aura asks how they will disperse the pile. Yuri asks perhaps they can move it into the forest. The two survey the forest which Aura comments that placing it there would create an obstacle and perhaps allows Chaos Beasts to escape detection. Yuri noticing that the shape of the forest has changed, asks Aura to clarify. The elf tells the maid it is the work of her brother Mare's druid magic. He had repositioned the trees to create dead ends to prevent them from escaping the area. Mare even used some damaged tiles to supplement the soil and create walls in the forest. Yuri notes that Mare's current mission is using [Earth Surge] to cover the walls of the dungeon to disguise it. Having an idea, Yuri asks Aura to call Mare back as soon as possible.

Once Mare returns to the 6th Floor, he is brought up to speed on Yuri's task. Yuri asks Mare if it is possible to clean up and restore the tiles for later usage in repairs. However, Mare states that his powers as a druid allows him to manipulate nature so its not convenient to erase or change an artificial object.

Yuri asks if Mare can weather the tiles in the pile as she wants to reduce the quantity so that they can be manageable to store in Nazarick for future use. Even still weathering like erosion will take some time to finish. Mare feels he did not provide any good advice, but on the contrary Yuri has a breakthrough, as she believes that turning the tiles into powder will be the most effective solution by crushing them with her strength. Since crushing is her specialty, and the fact that the powder will be saved for future purposes, the NPCs resolve that this would be an proper storage for the Supreme Beings' work. The twins leave after wishing Yuri luck. Now that Yuri has a plan, she still considers on what process she will do to effectively reduce the tiles.

Episode 4: Day Of Mission Execution
Yuri decides to start from the 6th Floor, which is the most dangerous area, and looks up at the mountain of tiles, vowing to complete the work in a short period of time. To assist her, Entoma and CZ2128 Delta have showed up as it seems Albedo was able to reassign while forgoing a conventional mission. Though Shizu admits that she was already on the 6th Floor, chasing for any fluffy animals to play with which Entoma teases on acting childish. The two almost get into a argument on who is the elder sister between the two before Yuri steps in and guides them back to the task at hand: destroying the tiles in front of them. The task draws questions, as the two originally believed they were just cleaning up. However, Yuri explains to them the reason for crushing the tiles was to save space and to store up the powder for future use. Entoma and Shizu finds the idea of destroying a piece of Nazarick distasteful, but see the need to remove the tiles in order to make Nazarick neat and clean again. The women asks the objects for their forgiveness and proceed to smash and cut the materials thereafter in front of them. Together, three women successfully reduce the pile of tile into powder. Shizu notes that another side effect of their effort has resulted her in feeling much more stronger to which the other two also agree the same with their sister. About half of the tiles have been reduced to dust which have been packed in bags. The rest of the tiles will be rearranged to avoid a hazard. So far, the maids were only able to do the 6th Floor, which disappointed Shizu and Entoma. However, Yuri, who started cleaning up process, had a satisfying expression on her face.

Episode 5: Cleanup Completed, And...
Back at the Round Table, Yuri visited Momonga and Albedo with Entoma and Shizu to report on the 6th Floor beautification work. The maid declares it to be a success which Albedo is pleased to hear, planning on checking the area later to confirm, but asks if Yuri can share more details on the beautification plan, like how she arranged the piles of tiles. When Yuri mentions that they crushed the tiles, Albedo not pleased by the result turns to look in utter horror as she finds the revelation that the maids intentionally destroyed a piece of Nazarick to be disrespectful. Before she can berate the maids, Momonga stops the Overseer in her tracks wanting to have the Floor Guardian fully hear out Yuri's process and to learn how an NPC was able to destroy a piece of a dungeon.

Yuri explained that her original intention was to clean up the tiles, but she realized that it would be a little difficult to re-store the mountain of tiles in an orderly manner. After consulting with Mare and Aura, she learned they could be reduced to powder to be store for later repairs. Albedo is reluctant to admit the worth of carrying out such a strategy, but Momonga sees this as an example of an NPC's growth, but still wonders how she was able to crush the tile despite the restrictions and feels it must be investigated.

Albedo looking for a fault notices that Yuri was only able to accomplish half of the tiles. Yuri then begins to openly reveal her true thoughts from her heart, admitting that what she wanted to get from doing this task was to have Nazarick regain its former beautiful appearance like before the Crack had happened. But even though she is cleaning and organizing between missions, it's still a traumatic disaster for her. She found inspiration when visiting the 6th Floor from Mare and Aura who restore their floor in a way that makes the most of the current situation. Momonga confused on what she meant by that statement, Yuri explains how Mare changed the shape of the forest on the floor so that the Chaos Beasts would not be hidden, made walls with natural materials, and created a mechanism to guide the into kill zone to subdue them more easily. Following their example, Yuri had half of the tiles crushed for storage, and the rest were placed aside for later use and out of the way. She hopes to use them to create obstacles for the Chaos Beasts in the future.

Entoma also add that after crushing the tiles, she felt herself getting stronger through following this procedure. Momonga believes what she is describing is leveling up. He clarifies the term to the NPCs as a method of gaining experience and getting stronger over the course of time. Normally the act of recovering fighting power was through mock combat, but it seems their little project yielded some unexpected results. Momonga finds that their work deserve a reward. Yuri disagrees stating that credit goes to Mare and Aura since she came up with the idea from them. Momonga finds the idea of the NPCs collaborating with one another to be stimulating and wonders if Yamaiko would be proud of Yuri's achievements. Albedo asks if the Amphitheater has been restored to its former glory. Yuri states that it still requires some more work to do, but there is something of the original appearance and the maids suggest she look at it herself.

Momonga seeing that there are still tiles on other levels asks Yuri to continue her beautification plan which Yuri is happy to fulfill. Albedo silent at this causes the Overlord to think she has finally been impressed by Yuri's skill, however the demon's mind deludes herself thinking that Momonga had planned this from the start that he intentionally caused the maids to clean the tiles so that they can level and grow in strength. As the maid was already been given orders to resume cleaning the floors once again, Momonga was convinced of the best results made by her hard-work.

Trivia

 * This character scenario was released after the end of the campaign for Nazarick Revitalization Plan -Start-.
 * This character scenario was released alongside the Memory of Chaos: Narberal Gamma, Memory of Chaos: Lupusregina Beta, Memory of Chaos: CZ2128 Delta, Memory of Chaos: Solution Epsilon and Memory of Chaos: Entoma Vasilissa Zeta.