Witches' Costume Party

Witches' Costume Party (魔女たちの仮装パーティー) is a game event that will occur in Mass for the Dead. It was released on October 15, 2021 to November 8, 2021.

Background
A good harvest is brought to Nazarick's experimental farm. Albedo's desire for the Halloween Festival comes again from the idea of tricks or treats, develops into a "dress-up" party that involves the surroundings. Take a look at the witches' trick or treat!

Purpose of Event
On the 6th Floor of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, where the experimental site is located to cultivate various food crops, Aura Bella Fiora and Mare Bello Fiore happily present the rewards of the harvest of pumpkins to Albedo. The twins feel proud at the great lengths they took to make the harvest as they learned from their mistakes from the previous batch of contaminated pumpkins. Albedo tells them that they did a good job and will leave the decision for Momonga to appraise the crop before they are sent to the Head Chef to be cooked as dishes.

Besides the pumpkins, Albedo notes that the food from the fields have successfully been distributed as rations to E-Rantel thus the work of the two elves have been vital for Nazarick's future plans. This pleases the dark elves as they really want to make up for their blunder previously. The incident in mind has Albedo ask if they wish to do a Halloween Festival. While the incident could be considered a Halloween, it was ad hoc and created at the spur of the moment to be considered as a formal event. Aura is not sure as there are still bitter memories of that time, especially for Foire as a Pumpkin Monster used her body to attack her own friends.

Albedo though thinks that the failure served as a lesson and while it did not lead to a good harvest then, it improved their safety. Aura considers this and states that she is right, before she and Mare head to the Crack to cull the Chaos Beasts promising to meet up again to give their report to Momonga later. After they leave, Albedo is left with some concerns stating that she needs to fix this. However she is unaware that the twin Floor Guardians are watching from beyond the forest seeing that their superior cares for their well being on the Halloween incident.

Later at the Round Table Room, Momonga receives the report from Aura, Mare and Albedo. Momonga is glad to hear of their success and plans to head to the 6th Floor to see the results himself. Taking the opportunity, Albedo suggests to Momonga that the should hold a Halloween Festival to celebrate to occasion. Momonga is aware of the previous incident concerning Halloween and is hesitant believing they should avoid the old wound. However Albedo argues that leaving it unattended will affect the morale of Nazraick, stating that the festival should be held again to honor their achievements. Momonga still recalls how mutant Pumpkin Monsters at the time invaded Nazarick and also took control of Foire forcing her to fight her own, but is interested in overwriting this image with Albedo's idea of creating a fun event during the harvest season.

He then relents with Albedo's idea as the work they put into the crop fields on the 6th Floor are indeed vital for their relief supplies to the Tripartite Alliance. His approval is met with praise by the other Floor Guardians. Though this time Momonga wishes to have an original Halloween Festival. Albedo has already planned for that, with a costume for the event. Shalltear at the meeting asks to be excused from the festivities as it would be inappropriate for her to attend. Albedo inquires why and receives an answer from the vampire that she does not wish to celebrate given her disgrace. Since she was under mental control and attacked her colleagues, forcing them to kill her and later waste Nazarick's resources to bring her back, Shalltear feels that celebrating is something she does not deserve.

Many of her colleagues though feel that she is being too hard on herself. Momonga also adds that there was no other way and that reviving her was worth the trouble and loss of resources. Instead he shifts the blame for her predicament to himself for not taking into account of mental control measures for his servants. And points out it was his failure to predict that there were World Items in the world. Demiurge seeing his motivational speech realizes his master is telling them to not shut themselves down but to rejoice their achievements with their friends and colleagues. The NPCs hail the plan by Momonga who then proclaims that their Halloween Festival will be a joyous time. Momonga then directs Albedo to make the preparations for the event.

Later at the cantina on the 9th Floor, the Homunculus Maids are seen eating their breakfast. Among them are Cixous and Foire. While Cixous is enjoying her meal, she notices that Foire strangely is lacking an appetite. She guesses that her friend is still troubled by her experience from last Halloween. Foire admits that even though she was a victim, she can't really remember what happened to her and yet it nags at her. The two maids are soon joined by CZ2128 Delta and Lupusregina Beta, the latter who heard the somber words of Foire jokingly muses that Foire helped out by improving Nazarick's defense. Foire feeling a little better at the mirth by her two idols and regains her appetite and plans to devote all her energy to Nazarick. They are joined by Pestonya Shortcake Wanko happy to see the homunculus at her usual self. Now feeling empowered, Foire hopes to be useful in the upcoming event such as helping with the sweets for Halloween.

At Ashurbanipal, Shalltear and Albedo are searching for any knowledge on Halloween. Their research yield results on Halloween's various origins and purposes. From it being a time when demons roam and costumes used to scare them away or hide from them. Shalltear reading through the material becomes confused as to how demons were driven away by the disguises to stoop to begging out for sweets with the chant "Trick or Treat". Albedo reasons it could be differences depending on the region or era. A phrase from a book stating that "Evil spirits come to this world through the gate." causes Shalltear to wonder if this is a "transfer gate" and if someone like a magic caster is necessary. Albedo takes the chance to ask if Shalltear should be at the Crack to subdue the Chaos Beast, by Shalltear states that it's still too early for her shift and is taking the time to learn all she can about Halloween. Albedo doesn't mind the extra help, though reminds her not to let her guard down as it will reduce Nazarick's defenses and affect the morale of everyone. She also asks if Shalltear is giving up on the Queen War, as Shalltear isn't quite herself lately.

The vampire though has no intention of giving but feels ashamed as she has been neglecting her love to Momonga, still guilty of consuming Nazarick's resources. Albedo is relieved to hear that her rival has not lost her spark of competition. Albedo then goes over the activities for the Halloween Festival as she intends to have the upper echelons of the tomb participate. It will be a time where those within Nazarick will experience what it is like to dress up in disguise like those in the field. The Overseer Guardian adds that this will give Shalltear the opportunity to don her "Shall" identity for the festival. At this time Shalltear asks ALbedo not to pull any stunts in wearing something to draw Momonga's eyes especially if she intends to lend her outfits from her closet.

The two are interrupted when Slimeko and the protagonist return to the library surprised at the duo there. Shalltear seeing that she needs to hurry to her next shift bids trio goodbye and leaves. Albedo now alone with the two field agents then asks the protagonist how was his report to Momonga? The protagonist was brought up to speed on the development in Nazarick and approves of the idea to host a formal Halloween Festival. Slimeko notes that the material Albedo has researched is on Halloween, which the demoness elaborates focused on stage costumes to create a wonderful atmosphere for the party.

When the question on whether there will be sweet prepared, Albedo did not take that into account, though recalls that the maids will be handling that part. However she asks what is the protagonist interest in sweets which the latter prepares to explain what is occurring in E-Rantel that relates to the issue. At the Throne Room, Shalltear secretly admires Albedo's skill as Overseer Guardian, as her time with her made Shalltear feel motivated and recognize what she must do as her job as the strongest of the Floor Guardians. Momentarily, ignoring the looming threat of the approaching Chaos Beasts, Shalltear declares to show her resolve and prepares to subdue her opponents.

Aftermath
TBA