Maid in Valentine

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**Maid in Valentine** is the 6th story event in *Goddess of Victory: Nikke*.

Maid in Valentine oversees the story of the Maid For You squad who are assigned by Mustang, the CEO of Tetra Line to create the ultimate "Valentine's Day chocolate" after numerous disastrous attempts to make one.

## Story

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and Maid for You is hard at work for their planned event. But when they're told their chocolates lack "sincerity", the maids venture to the surface in search of the method to making "heartfelt chocolate".

### Maids in Valentine's Day

At the Outpost maid café, Cocoa, Soda, and Ade are hard at work setting things up for their big Valentine's event, from décor to service to food. Cocoa is strangely high-tension despite the big day not being here yet, but that same energy is turned towards closing the shop for the day and making sure everything is ready.

### Master, Help!

   A loud "Noooooooooooooooooooo!" pierces the tranquility of the maid café, which turns out to be none other than Mustang, Tetra Line CEO. At first, he commends Maid For You on their work setting things up for Valentine's Day, but quickly points out what he sees as flaws in the chocolate, alleging that it is not "Valentine's Day chocolate". The maids are confused as to what he means until they deduce what the main point of Valentine's Day is; offering chocolate and other sweets as an expression of affectionate feelings, and Mustang can't find *any* of that in MFY's chocolate. He declares a cancellation of the Valentine's event, but offers to retract his decision *if* the maids can concoct the "ultimate Valentine's Day chocolate" before the day of the event and takes his leave. The maids find themselves at a loss, not quite knowing how to make "real" Valentine's chocolate.

Some time later, the protagonist visits the maid café, having heard about their Valentine's event, only to find Maid For You with troubled, even teary-eyed, expressions. He asks what's going on, and the three explain the circumstances.

The protagonist notes how much of a pickle the whole affair is, and when Soda pleads for his help, he seems uncertain about lending his assistance. Ade asks if he has a free moment, which he does, so she requests he sit for a trial run of Maid For You's service and provide feedback. His agreement makes Cocoa and Soda perk up, and the former leads him to a seat.

The protagonist is seated at a table as the maids go over what they want him to do for this trial run. Soda kicks things off with a special Valentine's greeting that he receives fairly positively.

Cocoa's next with the food, and what she brings is...a mysterious object dribbling with red. She shoots down the protagonist's guesses and explains it's a dish from the event menu; "Sweet & Sour Curry Rice of Love." With Ade assuring it's safe to eat, the protagonist takes an apprehensive bite and finds it...delicious? It turns out the red came from Cocoa applying a liberal amount of ketchup...laced with chocolate zest.

Ade is up with the dessert, wheeling in a cart of chocolate cake. On the very first bite, the protagonist is struck with ecstasy from how delicious it is, but unfortunately can't offer any substantial feedback for the cake. Ade herself is just about to carry on when the door rings open, a confusing development since the café isn't open yet. She excuses herself to see what's going on.

### Signal the Seducer

The unexpected guest was none other than Signal, carting around boxes and dressed like she's selling chocolates. Apparently, she came for the chocolate-making classes Maid For You was going to hold, but those have been postponed with the rest of the planned festivities. Ade assures they can still offer pointers, to which Signal pulls out a bunch of chocolate, all hand-made by her and, in Ade's opinion, very well-shaped and packaged. The protagonist takes note of the quality of the chocolates and praises Signal, who gets flustered when she notices him. She tries to backpedal but ends up falling over, spilling chocolates on the floor. The protagonist volunteers to help clean up, picking up the biggest and most eloquently wrapped of the chocolates when he notices a letter attached to it, the phrase "To my darling Commander" on its face...

30 minutes later, the protagonist is discussing Signal's reason for being here, though the Scout herself is a bit tongue-tied after that letter was discovered. The protagonist deduces her current attire is a masquerade so it would look more natural for her to be giving people, especially him, chocolate. Signal silently confirms it, to which the protagonist thanks her for the chocolate. Her comment of making the chocolate with her heart and soul catches Cocoa's attention, and Maid For You's leader asks to see the chocolates. After a moment's inspection and poking by Soda, Cocoa admits she can't find what makes these chocolates "heartfelt". At Signal's asking, Cocoa explains the current situation, to which Signal hands over some information on her phone. The information is for "Sweets & Cocoa", a pre-war confectionary company whose famous Valentine's chocolates she used as reference. With a new lead in hand, Cocoa declares her plan to go to the surface to find the company, but Ade reminds her that Nikkes are restricted in going up to the surface. As one, Maid For You turns their gazes to the protagonist, all but pleading him for assistance as Signal takes her leave.

### Weird Manager

The protagonist has joined Maid For You on a surface expedition, having tracked down the old factory where Sweets & Cocoa used to operate. With no detected Rapture presence and decoys set, the four venture inside the building.

The steel doors reveal a room blanketed in dust, sending Soda into a cleaning spree. Just as the protagonist and the others are about to allocate tasks, machinery in the factory begins whirring to life.

Turns out Soda hit a random button while she was cleaning, and a nearby projector boots up. A hologram appears and introduces itself as the factory manager, Sweet Johnny. The manager's boisterous welcome turns the atmosphere a complete 180 degrees. Sweet Johnny quickly deduces that the squad is here to make chocolate, to which Cocoa and Soda ask for lessons on how to make the ultimate Valentine's chocolate. Sweet Johnny directs the maids to the cacao beans and ingredients in cryogenic storage, since the factory hasn't had a delivery in decades. His exposition on how the chocolate will be made gives an impression that he's a bit of a chatterbox, something Cocoa and Soda are quick to point out. With a cut to the chatter, Sweet Johnny sends everyone to gather ingredients, and despite some reservations, Ade and the protagonist agree to play along.

### Collecting Ingredients

The factory's cryogenic storage contains a number of frozen, but genuine, ingredients like cacao beans and cocoa butter. As the ingredients are gathered and carried back, the maids can't help but feel excited at the prospect of making real chocolate from real ingredients, rather than the usual Splendamin. Even Ade, the most composed of the squad, can't help herself, and thanks the protagonist for bringing them outside the Ark and giving them this opportunity. The only thing they're thinking about other than making the chocolate is what they plan to make the protagonist to repay this favor.

### The Maids and the Chocolate Factory

The maids hand the ingredients to Sweet Johnny for defrosting, and he asks them to set the work area while the process goes. Soon enough, defrosted ingredients are arrayed on the counter, and the cooking begins.

Sweet Johnny's instructions are somewhat vague, leading to shenanigans like Cocoa putting ketchup *inside* her chocolate mix. Ade is uncertain this will turn out well, given what Cocoa and Soda's chocolates look like already, but Sweet Johnny tables questions for afterwards.

The chocolate is complete, and the results are...lackluster, to say the least. The protagonist questions whether this can be considered "Valentine's chocolate", and Ade herself is annoyed that Sweet Johnny's instruction were so vague given how chocolate needs a precise process to be of any quality. In response, Sweet Johnny asks the maids what they were thinking as they made the chocolate. None of the answers they give seem right, so Sweet Johnny reminds them that when they entered, they asked for the secret to "the ultimate Valentine's Day chocolate".

He elaborates that for genuine Valentine's chocolate, the maker needs to have the recipient in their mind throughout the process, whether it's their preferences, their personality, and even how they'd react to such a gift. Ade remembers that Mustang told them something similar, but she'd forgotten amidst the hustle and bustle earlier. Sweet Johnny then chides that making Valentine's chocolate without thinking about the receiver is like trying to make chocolate without cacao beans.

Sweet Johnny's attention then turns to the protagonist, asking how he feels about the maids. Whether or not he answers, Sweet Johnny can tell he likes the maids very much, and tells MFY to think about the protagonist as they bake, keeping in mind his preferences, personality, and how he would react.

### True Valentine's Chocolate

Everyone gathers around the table, with Cocoa and Soda massaging the protagonist's hands. It's pleasant at first, but then the two maids make motions that cause discomforting sounds to come from his joints, and he declares an end to the massage. The girls hold on to his hands while he converses with Ade. She has a few questions to narrow down his preferences to help their chocolate-making. The questions start off innocuous, but quickly veer into intrusive territory. Ade apologizes for acting out of line, but the protagonist elaborates that he's not mad about the questions. Rather, he wants the maids to be themselves as they make the chocolate, and not try to twist anything just so that it fits him perfectly. Still hand-in-hand with Cocoa and Soda, the protagonist declares that the maids have treated him with sincerity this whole time, and assures them the chocolate will come out fine. His words do the trick of reassuring Ade, who tells him the maids will act as they always do.

The new chocolates are complete, and at Ade's prompting, the protagonist takes a bite. The chocolate is good, but only about the same level as what the café normally sells. And yet, there's something about these chocolates, and the gazes of the maids as they watch him eat, that smooths over any flaws in the flavor. The protagonist declares his preference for this chocolate, and Sweet Johnny proclaims that *this* is how one makes true Valentine's chocolate. The AI manager brushes off any thanks, claiming he didn't do this for praise or repayment. The squads keep prodding at Sweet Johnny's behavior, leading him to compare them to the kids that used to horse around the factory.

The manager seems to enter a reminiscence as he thinks back to those children, so eagerly lining up for chocolate, their smiles and joy something he made his mission to spread. Soda and the protagonist understand what he means, and Ade asks if Sweet Johnny will continue to watch over the factory. Cocoa is concerned about the manager getting lonely, and while he brushes off the tiny maid's concern, he admits that having visitors is a nice change of pace.

The protagonist offers to transfer Sweet Johnny to the Ark, but the AI declines, preferring to keep his vigil over the factory. But he does request the squad visit next Valentine's Day, promising to tune up his speech algorithms.

After bidding goodbye to Sweet Johnny, Maid For You is getting ready to leave. Cocoa and Soda are confident they have "true Valentine's chocolate" nailed down, and even Ade admits it after some prodding from the protagonist. Soda seems to realize that they'll need to think of the customers as they make each chocolate, but Cocoa proclaims that so long as they keep to their sincerity, their chocolates will always be genuine.

### MAID IN VALENTINE

Returning to the Ark, Maid For You displays their newly-made chocolates to Mustang, who takes a brief taste and cries out in elation that he can feel the emotions in the chocolate. With the maids having mastered the art of "heartfelt Valentine's chocolate", Mustang feels confident in recommencing the maid cafe's event. As the CEO takes his leave, the maids celebrate their success and thank the protagonist for his assistance, but they stop him before he leaves, asking him to help them refine their chocolates until Valentine's Day. Everyone is more than happy when he agrees to assist.

Cut to much later, after the Valentine's event and its crowds have subsided. The maids and the protagonist give themselves a pat on the back for their hard work, only for Ade to realize they didn't set any chocolate aside for the latter. Just as Maid For You is about to step into the kitchen, they realize they've burned through all their ingredients making chocolate to serve to customers. The protagonist is about to politely decline and accept their sentiments alone when Cocoa whips out a bowl of failed chocolates. Ade is about to step out and buy ingredients, but the protagonist quickly jumps on the reject chocolate as a gift, asserting that even these "failures" have the maids' heart and soul poured into them.

At those words, Ade brings a chocolate to the protagonist's mouth, intent on handfeeding him. Soda and Cocoa follow suit, and the protagonist offers to do some handfeeding himself to let the maids enjoy the chocolate as well. Like that, the four of them feed each other chocolate for a while, the heartfelt emotions of the chocolate's makers more than making up for the comparatively plain flavor.

### Hard Mode Epilogue - After Valentine

The time is after Valentine's Day. Back at the Sweets and Cocoa factory, Sweet Johnny ponders on how Maid For You handled their Valentine's event before asserting that as passing students of his chocolate classes, they'll do just fine. The door creaks open just as the manager is about to prepare for next year, with Privaty, Milk, Signal, and even the protagonist stepping inside the factory. Turns out Privaty dragged the protagonist here with an improvised squad to ensure that none of the factory's food was smuggled into the Ark.

The squad splits up to check the factory, only for Milk to accidentally hit the switch that activates Sweet Johnny, who can barely get through his introduction before the Cafe Sweety Nikke opens fire, startling everyone. Privaty and Milk get into an argument over whether the latter was really a good fit for this mission, their squabbling so intense Sweet Johnny can't even get a word in. Said squabbling also reveals that Privaty just wanted an excuse to make real chocolate to give the protagonist.

The two argue on for what feels like ages, as the protagonist sheepishly apologizes to Sweet Johnny for causing a ruckus in the factory. The AI accepts the apology, and assumes the protagonist brought these ladies here to learn how to make chocolate. After briefly reminiscing again on past visitors looking for chocolate, Sweet Johnny reintroduces the factory and edges in on Privaty's arguing, disregarding all protests to begin another course on chocolates. As the Triangle Nikke notices the protagonist overheard her talk, Sweet Johnny can only ponder to himself about how much of a task this class will be...

## Gameplay

The event uses tokens (Chocolate Making Kits) to play event stages and earn currency (Limited Edition Chocolate) which is then spent in the shop for rewards including Recruitment Tickets and skill materials. As with previous events, more tokens can be purchased for Gems, and excess currency will be converted into Credits after the event ends.

Completing at least 12 event missions will earn a special Lobby wallpaper

## List of Bonus Nikkes

Complete event stages using the following Nikkes for a chance to get 50 extra Limited Edition Chocolate upon stage clear. Total bonus caps at 100%.

## Recruitment Updates

As of Maid in Valentine's update, the following characters have been added or will be added to the Recruitment selection

### Modernia

Now available in the Normal and Pilgrim Mold Recruit pool (does not include New Player 10-roll or Tutorial Roll)

### Cocoa

On rate-up in Special Recruit and for sale in Gold Mileage exchange from beginning of event until 5 AM February 15th (UTC+9)

### Soda

On rate-up in Special Recruit and for sale in Gold Mileage exchange from 5 AM February 8th to 12 AM February 22 (UTC+9)

## February Mission Pass Update

A new Mission Pass is available for the month of February. Completing mission earns points towards rewards. Purchasing the premium track offers more rewards and the "Dramatic Chocolate" cosmetic for Signal.