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- Actor Allusion: During the "The 9 Drunkards" side story, Jing Ke ends up singing Elisabeth Bathroy's "Love is Dracul" with such similaritites that Mash described the assassin as a grown-up Elisabeth. Jing Ke is voiced by Atsuko Tanaka, who also voiced Carmilla, Elisabeth's older self.
- The Battle Didn't Count: The curse left behind by Musashi in the hot springs will only accept defeat by the hands of a Dual Wielding Saber and will refuse to be dispelled by anything else, outright declaring that the opposition only won thanks to "class affinity". In-gameplay, Diarmuid Saber is a Required Party Member who is the only one that can disperse the otherwise-permanent One-Hit-Point Wonder Guts buff the Shadow Servant Musashi gets while on her second health bar. In other words, if he dies before that happens, the fight becomes unwinnable and you'll either have to reset or tough it out in order to perform a full revive on the party.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Chief Snake detaches himself from the Nue during the final battle because Goredolf not only didn't blame him for his part in opening the offering box, but covered for him so that he wouldn't be thrown out of the inn. Magistrate Tiger, similarly, rebels because over the centuries as a guest he grew to genuinely care for Beni-Enma.
- Beyond the Impossible: While they don't quite manage to genuinely get all of them (although the approximations they gather are rather close), the protagonists manage to attain three of the infamous five dowry treasures of Kaguya: the stone begging bowl of Buddha, a swallow's cowry shell, and a jeweled branch from the island of Hourai. The only ones they didn't legitimately obtain were the fire rat pelt (thanks to Elisabeth they got a good substitute though) and the colored jewels from a dragon's neck (they technically created and defeated another Kiyohime's dragon form for those).
- Bland-Name Product: The Japanese version explicitly refers to Hell's Kitchen (you can still hear it in Beni-Enma's voiced lines), but the English version de-translates it to Jigoku Kitchen.
- Brick Joke: Moneyed Monkey angrily claims he has nothing to do with the "exhibitionist" monkeys of the "see no evil, say no evil, hear no evil" proverb. The Challenge Quest for the event has three monkeys that are explicitly named See No Evil, Say No Evil, and Hear No Evil.
- Call-Back: Elisabeth returns wearing her Elisa J getup and head of the band Great Oni Vermillion Dragon from the ONILAND event. She's quite pleasantly surprised to see the sparrows are quite eager to enjoy her heavy metal music.
- Chubby Chaser: Chief Snake has a thing for "Gordy-Poo", and even looks at him longingly in his final moments to Goredolf's confusion.
- Continuity Nod: Tamamo Cat mentions in the prologue that she heard there's now an evil Tamamo running around, which was a pivotal reveal in the main story chapter that preceded this event's release in the timeline.
- A Day in the Limelight: After spending most of his other event appearances Played for Laughs, Fionn gets a chance to shine as a major ally and show off his positive qualities as both a warrior and intelligent worker. He reveals he already figured out the bamboo cutter is in fact trying to con Beni-Enma out of the inn and had everyone both restore the Enma-tei to its full glory along with collecting the five treasures so that he could engineer the necessary scenario to confront and force the bamboo cutter to admit his guilt.
- Debut Queue: Beni-Enma and the elderly Li Shuwen become playable.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Old Man Li appears throughout the event in various roles, such as a masseuse and a security guard.
- Even the Girls Want Her: When Scathach-Skadi starts showing off the "sugar" part of her Sugar-and-Ice Personality, the adorableness of her actions and words charm Fergus and Medb at the same time.
- Evil Knockoff: In order to obtain the Dragon's Head Gems, Tomoe decided the swiftest solution would be to create another Kiyohime and defeat it. So she enacted a plan to create a Shadow Servant of her via recreating her legend with Anchin. It worked, and the result was a Kiyohime that embodied all of her negative traits and ran around abducting other snake-related Servants (Medusa, Medusa Lily, and Chiyome) by eating them in her dragon form. Chiyome outright states that Kiyohime's snake form is appropriate for a "horror film" compared to Gorgon's for an action film.
- Freudian Excuse Denial: Beni-Enma asks if the Nue was lashing out as a result of being pigeonholed into a story role; it scoffs and replies that it defrauded her for five hundred years solely For the Evulz.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Magistrate Tiger and Chief Snake rebelled against the Moneyed Monkey and chose to end their existence rather than let the Nue destroy the Inn.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
- Jing Ke, at one point, asks the protagonist if they saw each other recently. Clearing Lostbelt 3, where she is a Main Ally, is a requirement to play the event.
- Fionn, in The Summation, is satisfied that the case was tied up neatly and that his reputation in Chaldea has improved. This is in line with his 3rd Buff released in the same month of the event. If a player has unlocked all of Fionn's buffs at that point, he has transformed him from a very poor Lancer to a solid, even great, Arts farmer.
- The Mole: The long-term guests Moneyed Monkey, Chief Snake, and Magistrate Tiger turn out to be separate components of the Nue.
- Moving the Goalposts: Fionn notes after confirming he suspects the bamboo cutter has been conning Beni-Enma that even if they provide the five treasures, he will simply use the logic of "well, they're certainly the same types, but they're not MY five treasures, so they're not worth what I lost" to weasel out of freeing Beni-Enma of her "debt". As such, Chaldea will need to show Beni-Enma without a shadow of a doubt that he has been lying to her, which consists of tricking him into inadvertently revealing he lied his ass off.
- Noodle Incident: Musashi once visited the inn, got drunk and started going after handsome men and beautiful women, and got into a fight with Beni-Enma that wrecked the hot springs before being driven off. And she left behind a curse that refuses to fall unless beaten by another Dual Wielding Saber, or else she'll act like a Sore Loser and claim you cheated.
- Not Me This Time: The antics of the Shadow Kiyohime. The real Kiyohime's denial of clearly witnessed attacks is taken by Beni-Enma as a feat of self-delusion until Tomoe explains what's up.
- Obviously Evil: While the Big Bad from the event is a Nue, out of all its parts it is Moneyed Monkey that's suspicious from the start. Chief among them being the Demonic Monkeys being the main antagonists Chaldea encounters throughout the event.
- Oh, Crap!: Beni-Enma's expression of silent horror when Kiyohime announces she'll do a magic trick with fire.
- Saying Too Much: Fionn and team trick the bamboo cutter into admitting, while he thinks he's calling them out on faking a Stable Time Loop, that the treasures he found in the pouch can't be his because there wasn't anything in the pouch to begin with. While Beni-Enma is right there to hear his confession.
- Shout-Out:
- The five treasures the bamboo cutter lost at the inn are the same treasures Kaguyahime demanded her suitors find in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, though as pointed out by Kojiro (who gives the protagonist the final treasure in the swallow's cowry), none of the suitors succeeded in finding one of them, which makes it odd that the bamboo cutter would just so happen to have all of them. As it turns out, he never had them and simply lied to Beni-Enma about it (which she couldn't prove otherwise since she never saw inside the pouch they supposedly were in), collaborating with the monkey, snake, and tiger who were in on the scam.
- The Nero fought in the women's bath free quest is called the Thermae Emperor. Thermae Romae is a series about a time-traveling Ancient Roman architect who takes inspiration from modern Japanese hot springs.
- Something We Forgot:
- The GUDAGUDA group learn only late after their pillow fight that Izo didn't come with them to the inn because Oryou and Ryouma failed to invite him when Ryouma mistakenly thought that Oryou already did so and vice versa.
- The protagonist gets this feeling after their hurried return to Chaldea. Back at the inn, Beni-Enma and the sparrows have their hands (?) full dealing with the fresh influx of customers, especially as the Chaldeans are no longer working there. As they consider the problem, they finally find out what was up with the Demonic Monkeys.
- What You Are in the Dark: Goredolf, despite bumbling now and then, refused to namedrop Chief Snake as a co-culprit in the introductory chapter, showing strong moral fiber.
- Work Off the Debt:
- After Goredolf is manipulated into opening the gratitude box in the Tribute Hall, the Chaldean team have two weeks to restore it or else they'll all be turned into pigs by a curse, which they choose to do by working as staff for the inn.
- As it turns out, Beni-Enma herself is suffering from this due to having to yearly pay off the interest to a bamboo cutter that lost five priceless family heirlooms while staying at the inn five hundred years ago and blames her for possibly stealing them. As noted by several characters, however, there's no way she will ever be able to work off said debt short of somehow replacing the heirlooms. And Fionn suspects that the bamboo cutter would simply commit to Moving the Goalposts if they do offer the replacement heirlooms, and he actually wants to take the inn from her.
