(Part 1) Heart Pounding★Nazarick Academy

(Part 1) Heart Pounding★Nazarick Academy (【前編】ドキドキ★ナザリック学園) is a game event in Mass for the Dead that was released on August 15, 2022 to September 1, 2022. The event was continued in (Part 2) Heart Pounding★Nazarick Academy.

Background
An emergency has occurred. After receiving the news, Narberal and CZ hurried back to Nazarick. On the surface of the earth, they see a strange sight. What was spread out before their eyes was not a chalky mausoleum, but a school building and its grounds. It was a symbol of the incident called "Nazarick Academy".

Incident
One day, Ashurbanipal received an unusual visit from Shalltear Bloodfallen. At Shalltear's request, Slimeko and the protagonist brings her a stack of books that have a description of the topic she is searching for. The vampire accepts the material and thanks the redeem slime and homunculus for taking the time to assist her.

It was no trouble, though the homunculus diplomat is curious as why Shalltear asked for the specific theme of the books, as he does not see the topic come up very often. The Floor Guardian states that her interest was sparked yesterday when she was sorting out and checking the costumes Peroroncino left behind for her. Recently she had many opportunities to loan them out and wear them. Among the costumes, there was one with ambiguous origins, although she recalls vaguely the words Peroroncino said about it, but didn't know the exact meaning, hence her query at the library.

She quickly notices the time and apologizes to the librarians as she must leave in order to meet the appointed time for her Chaos Beast subjugation. The protagonist hands her a slip detailing in the necessary procedure for borrowing the books from the library and sees Shalltear off. Once she departs, the protagonist notices that Slimeko has a questioning look on her face. The slime confesses that she wanted to know the meaning of the words that Shalltear was researching, before Shalltear took the stack of books she borrowed. She thinks that the protagonist might know, but sadly he himself does not know the exact meaning and only has some guesses, causing the slime to think that the words Shalltear had overheard the Supreme Being say were very esoteric or advanced, which the homunculus believes is possible. Slimeko cannot help but get worried and utters the words of interest: "campus love comedy."

After leaving Ashurpanipal, Shall tear joins her two Vampire Brides on the Throne Room. The Floor Guardian apologizes for making her servants wait. When asked by her servants if she is ready, Shalltear states that she is and will be able to reach her goal once she is back in her quarters.

The vampire quickly switches into her armor, and orders her subordinates to concentrate of killing the Chaos Beasts that will spring from the Crack.

The session takes only a little while, until no Chaos Beasts are seen. The vampires confirm that the Crack has been sedated for now. Despite the monsters from the Crcak being weak, Shalltear doesn’t like letting her guard down. Twice she has already made fatal mistakes from being unable to prevent Nazarick’s collapse as well as the incident of when she was mind controlled. Momentarily she becomes wreathed in a dark aura of anger but calms down and decides to have the Death Knights assume guard in the site so she can retire to her room.

The Vampire Brides agree, and one asks how her trip to the library went. Shalltear is about to tell them what she found about “campus romance comedy” when the Crack begins to glow again. This alarms the wardens as the next activation session  for it to spawn Chaos Beasts should be awhile. An abnormal situation, Shalltear orders the Death Knights to get out in front. The Floor Guardian has been waiting for a scenario like this and is determined to prove herself once again in Momonga’s eyes. Strangely the Crack begins blinking until it explodes and engulfs the Throne Room is a brilliant luminescence.

Almost at the same time as the incident that occurred in the Throne Room, Momonga was moving through the corridors of the ninth floor. He had just tested out the teleportation ability of his

Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown to confirm that it is not affected by the teleportation disruption when moving between floors. He mused that it must be inconvenient for the protagonist who must return to Nazarick without the means of teleportation. While walking through the corridor, admiring the work of the cleaning done by the general maids, he wonders perhaps he should increase the number of NPCs who can have access to the rings.

There is a sound of running footsteps, and someone calling out that they are late. The individual collides into Momonga, leaving both sprawled on the ground from the impact. Momonga unhurt is shocked by the blow, and his mind races to what type of scenario he is facing and thinks it may be an enemy attack or emergency situation.

The person who ran in to him manages to get up first, complaining how he should look where he is going. To his shock the person who is berating him is Albedo who acts more concerned on being late than hurting her master. To Momonga while he is relieved it wasn’t an enemy attack, Albedo’s odd behavior worries him that this might be another situation where the NPCs are under a mental spell similar to on New Year’s.

Albedo looking more closely on who she crashed into sincerely apologizes. She monologues to Momonga on how she tried to create a "casual encounter on the way to school, but a fateful encounter that will have an important meaning later in the love story.”

Momonga is speechless what what she just said. As he gets up he wonders if her behavior is being influence by some kind of literature. Lately, maybe out of concern for Shalltear, who was depressed since the incident, Albedo had been somewhat restrained in her emotions towards him at least for a while, but now recently she’s been starting to approach him again which he laments to be his fault for being indecisive. Still he has no idea as to why she is using school themes or frantic about being late, and talking about sudden conflicts leading to love. However her words make Momonga feel like he heard them from Peroroncino.

Aftermath
TBA