Golden Dance Festival of the Fallen

Fallen Golden Ball Festival (至高のハロウィン) is a game event in Mass for the Dead that was released on March 1, 2023 to March 15, 2023.

Background
Renner fulfills her long-cherished desire to join Nazarick. The reward for her resourcefulness, which she showed, was her rare seed of transformation, and a feast of hospitality. Together with the festival of revival in E-Rantel, which is held at the same time, two banquets that do not overlap celebrate each departures.

Incident
A certain place under the control of the Sorcerer Kingdom, Princess Renner looks calmly at the sleeping figure of her resurrected loyal retainer in bed. The princess contemplates to herself aloud of what kind of dream her bodyguard is having, whether it is a good dream or a nightmare? Regardless she is really looking forward to when he wakes up, and the surprise in his face of his new surroundings and her position.

Renner remarks there was no distinction between the strong and the weak, when the "Calamity of Cracks" occurred, that everyone was cut down one after another by invisible attackers. To her it was frightening and was glad Climb wasn’t involved in that.

To her unconscious Warrior she tells him some good news, that the protagonists miraculously survived to her surprise and relief. It was quite amusing to her, as initially the hero was reported missing and assisted Nazarick in proposing some of the measures for the restoration of E-Rantel on behalf of the protagonist. Her benefactors apparently were in need of someone with good ideas like their beloved protagonist, which Renner was able to temporarily substitute for awhile.

Although it was short-lived, she was glad that she was able to fulfill that role safely and help. Just as she is telling Climb she eagerly waits for him to wake soon, Pestonya enters the room with a meal. The princess thanks the Head Maid for services, especially for so far from Nazarick. Pestonya states that it is part of her duties to check on the hostages regularly. For Climb she inquires his condition, who Renner assures is already sound and healthy, owing it to Pestonya for reviving her young man, which the maid acknowledges her gratitude.

The Head a maid still has concern for the human boy as he is an outsider. Following Renner’s suggestion the maid put Climb to sleep, considering the possibility of harming or escaping the general maids in charge of taking care of him. To avoid such events, Pestonya asks that the princess train him well. Renner promises to make her servant into a loyal retainer of the Sorcerer Kingdom.

Pestonya politely suggests Renner eat her eat before it gets cold and informs her that Albedo will show up later. After Renner thanks the Head Maid and the general maids for their generosity. Pestonya, before leaving, comments that she hopes the princess will "change" soon.

Once the Head Maid leaves, Renner affirms that she will change, adding that her love for Climb is the only thing that will never change forever, and asks that he continues to dream and be nice for her.

In the Great Forest of Tob, Hamsuke, Kyuko and the Death Knight assemble before Aura to give her their report on the status of the forest. Kyuko provides that the forests hasn't changed in any particular way, with Hamsuke and the Death Knighg adding that any new Chaos Beast that come out of the Cracks are immediately exterminated.

Aura is glad to hear that, as after the "disaster" that happened in E-Rantel, she wanted to do some research on the Tob Forest to see if it had any effect. So far the good news is that no new Cracks have formed. Hamsuke having heard for the trouble in E-Rantel because of the cracks is also glad to hear that the protagonist has returned safely.

Kyuko feels rather felt proud when she heard that the homunculus had taken advantage of that adversity to show the majesty of the Sorcerer Kingdom. The fox girl is of course talking about his idea of using undead to guard the Cracks in the fortress city. However Kyuko wonders if this is safe. Aura states that it is fine as the undead are tireless and and be efficiently used for cheap labor. And while the fear and ill feelings toward the undead will still remain, but the people in the city will get used to the convenience.

Kyuko is amazed by this, though one thing puzzles her, in that the undead corps was instituted before the protagonist returned. Aura confesses that the plan was not totally the protagonists, hence right now they are making preparations to reward the one responsible.

The dark elf announces that they are going to Carne Village. This brings a question from Hamsuke as to purpose would the village hold for their next task.

Aura answers that for the time being, they will be "cleaning" it in accordance to a celebration in the past. The group then accompanied her to the frontier village, that had long since been abandoned by the villagers due to the Chaos Beasts.

To Kyuko the place is nostalgic. In the past, everyone in Nazarick held festivals and such at the spot. The Death Knight soon alerts the group of Contaminated Beasts lurking in the shadows of the ruined buildings, along with some Chaos Beasts.

Kyuko finds it incomprehensible that there are Chaos Beasts mixed in with polluted beasts, and a bit disappointed in herself as she was sure she slaughtered all the those who went escaped out of the Great Forest of Tob. Her superior Aura though thinks the monsters are from out of the area, probably having sprung up from the Cracks in E-Rantel and escape to the village. And adds that it also made a certain woman’s alibi credible.

Kyuko seeing the monsters requests permission to finish them. The dark elf states that she may, as it is precisely why she brought them to the village to quickly remove any monster hiding in the ruins.

The trio happily comply eager to please their superior, who adds that they will be helped by summons.

In the fortress city of E-Rantel. Upon receiving an urgent report, Marquis Raeven rushed to Prince Zantac’s office, having heard that Princess Renner had contacted her older brother.

To be more precise, a soldier who testified that he was accompanying Renner at one point had a letter that seems to have been written by Renner. The prince shows the marquis the letter, who upon reading accounts that the princess, along with a small number of soldiers, was hiding in the Great Tob Forest claiming. The letter claims that after Renner realized she lost Climb, she got desperate and ran out of E-Rantel.

The few soldiers who followed her were apparently some of those who disappeared in the chaos of ‘that disaster’.

Zanac questions if all of those soldiers who accompanied the heartbroken princess did so out of sheer loyalty. But thinks it's just a coincidence that they've been able to live in such a forest for the past few months and have been safe in so many ways.

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Aftermath
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