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*Warning* This video is a derivative work using characters from the Touhou Project. I feel like it contains depictions that would hurt the image of the original work, and once again there are relative many lines. Please beware.
I'm broken.
That's why they locked me up inside this room
I could have gotten out easily
but I felt like keeping quiet
It was too amusing to watch
how relieved they all were to have gotten rid of a trouble
BOOM
But I'm bored now I'm going outside
Poltergeists. I've never seen them before
That reminds me, I think the maids at the Mansion were saying they'd hold a live concert soon
...I have an idea. It's my first time outside in a while, and I'm in a really good mood
so I decided to destroy their treasures one at a time
First Lunasa Prismriver
Hm? What do I treasure?
I guess it has to be this violin... What? But isn't that...
Yeah, these people playing danmaku broke it a while back
I don't have enough money to repair it, though, so I'm using another instrument for now
It's important to you even though it's broken? I mean, it can't make any sounds anymore, right? Why don't you buy a new one?
They told me that'd be cheaper at the music store, too. Just repairing the neck could easily cost $1,000
But it's not something I can throw away so easily. I used it for a long time. It's my favorite
...I see [The thing she treasured was already broken]
Second Merlin Prismriver
What do I treasure? Well, music, obviously
What, are you going to break music? Don't even bother trying
Even if you chop up the sounds and play them at random, people will just think that that's the kind of song it is
Music was already completely deconstructed at the beginning of the twentieth century
People called it avant-garde, but even when chords, tempo, and every rule of music up until then was destroyed, it was still music
Of course, even silence was recognized as a piece
There are of course people who deny that that's music, but if there's even a single person who feels that it is,
then I think it definitely counts as one. For example...
[What she treasured was also somehow broken] ...how weird
Third Lyrica Prismriver
Hmm...what I treasure...
It's my little sister Layla
Little sister...? That's right.
Well, she's more like the one who created me, actually
She died a long time ago, but that doesn't change the fact that she's someone precious to me
It's partly for her that we hold concerts. So that she'll never be lonely
What she treasured
What she treasured was a little sister who was already broken
[Little sister...treasured...even though she's broken...] ...why?
I'm broken, too. But no one cares about me. No one treasures me
Isn't that how it usually is? Once you break, you get thrown away
and if they can't even be bothered to do that, they ignore you and lock you up
Once something breaks, it should be just like me, right? Hey, what's the difference?
I... I'm also...
...a long time ago, there was a psychologist named Ehrenfels
He had the idea that music wasn't just a collection of sounds--
that it contained some essence that allowed it to be recognized as a single song
This essense he proposed is Gestalt. You've heard of "Gestaltzerfall," right?
That phenomenon where if you look at a letter for a long time, you start having difficulty recognizing it as a letter
What's broken there is not the letter but recognition
Even if you feel that something has been so irreversibly destroyed
it may just be that you can't see the connection
There's a difference between breaking an object and breaking a relation
No matter how broken you yourself are
I'm sure...somewhere...
...you're connected
Flandre-sama has returned
...I see
So you could have broken through a seal like that at any time
And you have the gall to come back like nothing happened...how insulting
But this won't ever happen again. You'll be monitored even more closely from now on
I'm not going to wait until you cause trouble. I hope you know you'll never see the moonlight again
Oneesama hasn't changed. She won't even look at me, because I'm broken
But...if those poltergeists are right No, I'm sure they are
...Oneesama
Thanks for worrying about me
I'll go back to my room, then Good night
...Hey, Sakuya Yes Did I say anything considerate to her?
No ...but isn't it true that you were worried about her?
...of course not
A few days later
...hmm
I can't see her from the stage. Is she here? Who knows?
...oh, speak of the devil... Here she comes ♪
Let's get started, then Yeah!
Come to our next concert with the person you treasure
Hurry, Oneesama! They're starting! Hey!! Don't pull so much, you're hurting me!!
We'll play you the perfect song for you, broken girl An especially noisy tune
Music
Variations for Piano Op.27 Second movement Anton Webern 4:33 John Cage
Dear My Sister Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
Isn't Patchouli-sama here, by the way? ...she's sick
Thank you for watching