Oni, Maids, and Chocolate Event Gallery

The coming of Setsubun stirs despair in the hearts of Suika Ibuki, Yuugi Hoshiguma, and Kasen Ibaraki, as they are the primary targets for their worst fear: bean-throwing. Remilia Scarlet and Sakuya Izayoi offer to help overcome their fear by consuming some bean sweets, but as always something had to go awry. A great invasion of fairies has taken over the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and so the three sweet-desirers must put on some part-time work as maids to resolve the pandemonium and claim their reward! Just like our last event visit to the mansion, there's some opponents to face with some unique names to reflect on the special occasion. Thanks to event points from clearing stages, there are also special items that can be found only during the event.

Each section of Beans(?) will list the opponents involved with each stage and the special titles each of them have on each difficulty level. Even special Friends have different names on Normal, though it usually just reflects on their event story significance. For contextualization, each section will also have a story summary to describe the events of the stages and a small synopsis on the reason each generic enemy is fighting you. At the end, the event-specific items will be shown off, as well as some additional commentary.

Summary: The to-be oni (and hermit) maids take a maid test to graduate to full maidhood. After getting equipped for the job (maids ALWAYS need a piledriver), Remilia joins the three of them as they clean the entrance of rubble and fairies alike.

Fairy: A mischievous spirit that has found their way into the Scarlet Devil Mansion to produce chaos. Teach them a lesson with a battle of bullets; the best way to pay for their crimes!
Fairy Maid: A maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion who has gone rogue during the fairy invasion. Or at least, the one today has. There's one tomorrow that seems to be doing their job...are we bothering them while they're working?

Summary: The party of maids reach the kitchen and discover that along with the beans, sugar, mysterious butter, and skimmed milk powder is missing for the bean sweets. An attack from the overconfident Cirno and fairy cohorts is repelled before Sakuya stays behind in the kitchen while the rest go to the maids' quarters. Daiyousei split up from Cirno after she told her it was time for the prankster festival back in autumn. While Daiyousei realizes it's only the middle of winter, the maids obtain the missing sugar and head back.

Summary: Youmu Konpaku joined the team as a Phantom-Human Maid for a(nother) Day, at least after another test from Sakuya (she must have a lot of energy in her!). They move to the library, where Patchouli Knowledge is currently stuck protecting her collection from stray phantoms. It turned out that were not with the fairies, but created by Koakuma to fight back only for her magic book to fail. At the very least, the butter she obtained wasn't stolen, so the maids were able to return it to Sakuya.

Phantom: Ghosts who were summoned by Koakuma to ward off the fairies from the library. Her spell backfired, making them just as a menace as the invaders...

Summary: A journey through the mansion's basement (with a quick run-in with a maid Flandre Scarlet) reveals another prankster caught in the act: Clownpiece. She was holding onto some sugar while wanting to test her new abilities from her Shichi-Go-San test, but ended up being terrified of the basement's environment. Before leaving she reveals that the Three Fairies of Light have taken the milk powder to Remilia's room while wanting to find sweets and were taught a lesson for trespassing.

Summary: The clock tower was the final place to clean up, in where the maids found a mixture of fairies, phantoms, and...bake-danuki? Even Aya Shameimaru, who was hiding with Nitori Kaweshiro's optical camouflage the entire time, seems to be in cahoots with them. The reporter escaped to the maids' quarters and revealed she was working with Mamizou Futatsuiwa to steal the beans. It turned out that the fairy invasion was due to a misunderstanding between the beans Mamizou purchased and a confusion over sweets...

Tanuki: Bake-danuki in tanuki form that are working with Mamizou to protect the mysterious beans. If they're against the fairies, then why are they attacking you?!

Summary: To apologize for before, Mamizou assists the maids in making the bean sweets by teaching them from a bullet battle to use your "heart." However, the recipe requires some ice to make the sweets, so the group attempts to convince Cirno to help. Still angry about her initial loss, she has brought her own beans along to use against the onis! With their sweet goal just within reach, they are able to overcome their fears and take down the fairies.

Summary: Even if their maid-for-a-day duties are done, Remilia helps the onis and hermit pass around the delicious bean sweets all over Gensokyo in hopes to downplay the bean-throwing and promote a new event based on the Outside World that Mamizou hinted toward before leaving. They stop by Misty Lake to give the fairies a small gift and the Human Village to interrupt a book club meeting (featuring some shikigami). Letty Whiterock even makes an appearance, wanting many bean sweets after hearing about them from Cirno. The story ends with the temporary maids getting rewarded with many bean sweets in hopes of the bean-throwing to be overruled by bean sweets in the future.

Normal Event P: Remilia used her new maid skills to create these Point Items with the hope that they would help increase her resistance to beans.
Rare Event P: Mysterious beans that the Scarlet Devil Mansion procured from a secret source. They are a key ingredient for tasty sweets.

4* Story Card: Demon Royalty
5* Story Card: Maid Sword Drawing Tech.
Music CDs: Extratrack (Musicarus Jackin' Remix) (Patchouli Knowledge), After the festival (Suika Ibuki), Sakazuki -- Theme of Yuugi (Yuugi Hoshiguma), Heavenly Red (Remilia Scarlet), HADES (Home BGM)

Calculating the most amount of character appearances this event would be a seven-way tie between the fairies, Aya, and Mamizou, so instead of stating the obvious, let's look at the names of everyone in the event and see who was the most creative! (Only in my opinion, of course.)

The Sun Tanuki in The One Behind the Beans has a rather cute arc to itself, starting off as a simple bake-danuki supporting Aya (Normal: Bake-Danuki Helping Aya) only to reveal their interest in reporting later on (Hard: (I'll get a scoop while I'm at it)). Unfortunately for her, the story ends rather grim as Aya's punishment from Remilia gets pushed onto the poor bake-danuki (Lunatic: Remilia's Editorial Supervision...). It's strange to see a bake-danuki so supportive of tengu reportive, especially with internal youkai conflicts, but this girl's story is still fun.

Koakuma's panic in Phantom Panic! stands out as one of the more entertaining opponents in the event. Her first one is rather generic, but so is everyone else's (Normal: Tiny Devil Summons Phantoms). The higher difficulties are what really win me over, showing her desperation over messing up the experiment (Hard: Act Fast to Protect the Library! and Lunatic: Act First, Thinking Later!). She wants to protect the library, but is still fighting with the phantoms...? Did Patchouli's statement to punish her make her go a bit too crazy?