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In accordance with Rei's plan for the Setsubun Festival, the school will play tag in which they will throw beans at the "ogres." Will there be any "ogres" who survive to become the winner!?

Setsubun Festival (節分祭, setsubunmatsuri) is an event story released on Jan 31st 2017. It could be obtained through point rewards during Shoufuku*The Ogres and Brothers' Setsubun Festival event and is free to read on Basic in ! mode. The song Play "Tag" is associated with this story.

It features Hinata, Yuta, Ritsu, Mao, Keito, Rei, Sora, and Natsume.

CGs

Episodes

Prologue
1 Episode 1 Winter
Suspicion and Fears
2 Episode 1 Winter
3 Episode 2 Winter
4 Episode 3 Winter
5 Episode 4 Winter
6 Episode 5 Winter
7 Episode 6 Winter
Fumbling in the Dark
8 Episode 1 Winter
9 Episode 2 Winter
10 Episode 3 Winter
11 Episode 4 Winter
12 Episode 5 Winter
13 Episode 6 Winter
Deep Love
14 Episode 1 Winter
15 Episode 2 Winter
16 Episode 3 Winter
17 Episode 4 Winter
18 Episode 5 Winter
Epilogue
19 Episode 1 Winter
20 Episode 2 Winter
21 Episode 3 Winter
22 Episode 4 Winter

Author's Comment

"I was in charge of the scenario for Setsubun Festival. Even though it's clear-cut that Keito-san is on the side against the oni (being a son of a temple priest) it's incredibly amusing that he there are so many people with the kanji for "oni" in their names he can drive away with beans." [1]

Trivia

  • Setsubun was originally a term used to mark the days when the seasons changed from one to the next; now, the term is only used to describe the day before "Spring" in Japan. Setsubun usually falls on the 3rd or 4th of February.
  • About the chapter title "Deep Love": Hiyoku Renri (比翼連理, Hiyoku Renri?) is also a four-character idiom, used to describe a couple deeply in love. This title becomes more meaningful in context when you understand the idiom. Hiyoku describes a mythical creature, hiyoku no tori, where two birds (one male, one female) have one eye (or head) and one wing each, and constantly fly as "one". Renri refers to two trees (with different roots) growing close and merging.

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