Counterattack Guardian Kakushigei Tournament

Counterattack Guardian Hidden Talent Competition (迎撃・守護者かくし芸大会) is a competition event hosted in the Great Tomb of Nazarick. It will appear in Mass for the Dead on January 1, 2022 to on January 14, 2022.

Background
"New Year" suddenly visits Nazarick. This time, in order to intercept the event that forcibly causes New Year's rest and play by mental control, Momonga worked with the guardians to prepare for the general cleaning――

Purpose
At the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Momonga convenes with Albedo, Demiurge, Slimeko, and the protagonist in his office to discuss Pandora's Actor report on the Treasury's inventory and management. In this meeting opinions are exchanged and information is shared for the future plans of Nazarick. Pandora' Actor presents his creator a document detailing the amount of ore resources stockpiled in the Treasury as well as foreign currency earnings and expenitures of the tomb. Demiurge skimming the report notes that ore acquisition is going well as is foreign currency and that Nazarick's spending is rather insignificant in comparison. All this grain and minimal loss is from Nazarick's investment in E-Rantel.

Due to Nazarick's repair and restoration projects, local agricultural projetcs, creation of employment through manufactuting special goods, preparations for E-Rantel's self-sufficiency are steadily progressing. And the Sorcerer Kingdom is the one to profit from these acts. Momonga agrees as now his nation's investment into the city has produced an intangible product called "trust". While lacking monetary value its importance in this world is still very high. The protagonist promises that the true harvest of their labors will be very large indeed which Momonga looks forward to. On another item, for the foreign currency stored in the treasury, he orders Pandora's Actor to create a section for organization. Pandora's Actor agrees but also has his own proposal he wishes to pass to Momonga. The report the Area Guardian had given his creator was for the whole end of year and indicated to be a good break, so he would like to take another inventory of the Treasury. The mention of the end of year makes Momonga realizes that it is near approaching to the "New Year".

The Overlord shares his concerns of the event. Everyone remembers or fails to remember the exact details of last year's New Year. In the previous New Year, those in Nazarick fell under some kind of mental control making them lose thie inhibitions and celebrate the New Year holiday like eating mandarin oranges, enjoying being warmed by a kotatsu and playing karuta. The protagonist and Slimeko recall the event clearly as he and a few others were outside the dungeon when the mental effect took over. While the action seemed unscrupulous, Slimeko still felt the New Year event was quite fun almost like a dream. Demurige disgrees on that assessment as it was more akin to a nightmare to those who were under the mental influence. But Demiurge is concerned that Momonga has brought this topic up now, as he sees Momonga fears that something like it will happen again. While still not understanding what transpired last year Momonga think that even though he used [True Death] on Shiro, who was the culprit behind the New Year event, he is not so certain the White Mochi King is truly gone as he was an existence that orginated beyond the Crack. In any case they should expect that he may return and prepare.

Albedo who is aware of the danger after Momonga informed her of the intruder from the Crack tells her master that she had personally investigated the issue from various angles but so far nothing came up from the Cracks or its occurences. Momonga is more troubled by the mental control of the phenomena and while Shiro had no intentions of being hostile, in any case it would be a problem if Nazarick's defense system was compromised. That being said he order Pandora's Actor to create the new section for the foreign currency and to also check on the situation in that area even though the New Year phenomena did not penetrate the Treasury as some precaution is necessary. The Area Guardian complies and returns to his area. After he left Albedo suggest that they also should confirm the repair status of each floor in the mean time whic Demiurge seconds as if they are going to experience another "New Year" then they need to investigate the state of the Crack since it is the primary cause. Since the timing of Chaos Beasts is near for the Crack in the Throne Room, Momonga tells Demourge and the protagonist to accompany him to check on the site. Next to make everyone aware of the situation he has Albedo gather all the Floor Guardians to the Round Table Room. Albedo complies, leaving Momonga to tell Shalltear Bloodfallen of the meeting since she is currently guarding the Throne Room.

At the Throne Room, Shalltear is astonished by the unexpected arrival of the group and wonders if anything is wrong. She is told by Momonga that they are just checking up on the anomaly. The Crack then begins to glow causing Momonga finds it a good opprtunity to examine if there are any oddities among the new batch of Chaos Beasts. Once the beasts are defeated the group finds that they is nothing unusual so far, not even signs of monsters associated with the "New Year" like the Mochi Type Beast or the Kadomatsu Type Beast. Upon examination of the Crack, Demiurge does report that anomaly is expelling a higher concentration of miasma. Though situation shows no abnormality, Momonga feels better to be prepareed which the protagonist concurs.

All Floor Guardians assemble in the Round Table Room where Momonga addresses an order to carry out a "general cleaning" of Nazarick.

Participants
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Aftermath
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