Chapter Text
I. 「echo」
In a lightless world, the singing voice of a girl resounds.
She sings to someone who does not answer, to someone who cannot answer. She sings to no one and everyone, to anyone will listen.
Words become tied to her song with the “key of words,” changing into a message to convey her wishes and desires.
To whom will it reach?
She doesn’t know. She doesn’t know if it will ever reach someone. But, she hopes it will.
For that reason, she will keep on singing. Until her song reaches, changes, and returns to her.
–She will continue to weave these words into a song.
II. 「miniature garden」
The doll knows nothing of the outside world.
It never needed to. Its Father gave it all the love it needed and more. That was all it asked for.
(Why couldn't she have treasured it more before?)
The doll knows nothing of the outside world.
It couldn’t, even if it tried. It had been broken a long time ago. There was only one way to fix her, but...
(Was it even possible to fix what was broken from the start?)
The doll knows nothing of the outside world.
It doesn’t want to. It is content to sing for it and its Father’s sake alone. No one else matters.
(Not even man who has been standing beside her since the time she opened her eyes.)
And it is all its Father has asked of it.
(Her kind and virtuous Father who stains himself in the color of sin for the sake of the broken her)
For him, the doll will do anything. His will, his wishes, his desire–it will continue to carry them all out.
(She is the successor of the court.)
Even when the day comes that its Father breaks and fades under the weight of “sin”–it will continue to sing for his sake.
(Hoping in vain that her song will heal his broken soul.)
Even if the day comes that it begins to question its own existence.
(Searching for a truth that can't be found.)
–It will continue playing its “role”.
(Until then–)
III. 「purgatory」
–A boy in chains, locked in a cage.
He who doesn’t know even the meaning of his own existence.
All alone in the darkness, with nothing but the mocking voices in his head, he waits.
Looking at his chains, he sees the blue of tears, the red of blood–and he remembers.
The memories of “sin,” of “love,” of “lies” and of “dreams”–become the chains of words that bind him.
A single light falls, and with it a simple melody.
–The boy ties the words to the song for a long-overdue reply.
IV. 「gear」
The paradise that a lonely man built for his daughter and himself–
A clocktower that plays a clockwork lullaby, a proof of life. So long as the gears turn and the song plays, so will the man’s beloved daughter’s time continue.
Watching over his daughter in his place is a gear of blue, whose duty is to ensure the clock’s second hand doesn’t stop at any cost. If the gears should stop, then so would her time stop too.
–That man isn’t here anymore.
All alone in this paradise, she grows lonely. Even though he has always been standing by her side.
There are others too, but some sleep too deep for him to wake, while those who he has awakened to be her companions do nothing to ease the loneliness in her heart.
Her body is still marred by burns, while rust encrusts the tower’s gears–a sign that spells her end, the end.
If they continue on this path, it won't be long before her "heart" finally stops beating.
There is little left that the gear of blue can do, besides carrying out his duty to the end.
–Even if the cost is his own heart.
V. 「origin」
The wayward twins of god, and a sorceress of time–
–Cross paths in the millennium forest where a god and his kin sleep.
The place where everything began, the origin of sin and of punishment, executed by maddened twins.
Leaving behind her ruined home, there the immortal sorceress goes to meet a friend and waste her time.
–Everything unfolds from there.
VI. 「caricature」
A court of demons, puppets and fools meet in a farce of a trial.
Their goal–or perhaps simply the director’s–to avert the end of the world and unlock the gates to paradise.
Of the seven vessels, four have awakened, two are dormant, and one remains lost. To fill their roles, the puppet director assigns their two invaders.
Seven melodies born from one, changed over the years. Lacking the true sound of old, they only produce a cacophony when strung together now.
“One year until ta eschata” –someone’s passing note.
There is little time left.
–All that remains now is the farce of life.
VII. 「deadly sin」
The calamities brought about by sin unleashed.
The frivolous flowers that hides an unsightly face–
The seeds of death that bear fruits with deadly juice–
The precious stones that laid the foundations of evil’s reign–
The poisoned wind that circles the world in lament–
The red-stained spring that reflects the lost one’s image–
The fertile soil that falls from the foolsʼ remains–
The solitary moon that perpetuates the madness from the forest–
What sort of story do they tell? What sort of picture do they paint?
–Their songs resound with “lu-li-la, lu-li-la”.
VIII. 「sorceress」
The sinful girl becomes queen through deceit and betrayal.
Severing the strings of love and obtaining in turn a song of madness.
The melody had become distorted, twisting the future beyond recognition.
“Does the heart change too when the body changes?”
–The changed girl wonders what it is she should live for.
IX. 「salvation」
The whim of a rebellious sorceress.
Immortal and ageless, one of the last relics of a lost age.
She had long since lost her path with her love.
She acts on a whim to stave off the boredom of her days.
The meeting at that bridge had also been the result of such a whim.
Standing with a clumsy knight and a scary-eyed assassin around an eccentric king, the sorceress swears a vow upon a bridge connecting the land and the people’s hearts.
–The path forward is a little clearer now.
X. 「last supper」
The bottomless desire of the greatest noble gourmet.
Her pursuit of new foods persists past the loss of her body and beyond the destruction of the world.
For the sake of her wish, she refused the path prepared to the new world, choosing instead to embark on a journey to parallel worlds.
With her crew and restaurant in tow, the Evil Food Eater sets off on another tour.
This is HER concerto.
–The great journey is only just beginning.
XI. 「samsara」
The regrets and mistakes that have been made time and again.
With this rebirth, this return, everyone will have a chance to do it all over again.
–That was how it was supposed to go.
Another mistake, another regret.
It is too late. The gears have already been rewound.
There are no second chances. Only the curse of memory and foreknowledge, and the echoes of a song not yet sung.
Queen of the Glass, do it properly, this time.
–For time will repeat without end until nirvana is achieved.
XII. 「saga」
The mistakes that have been repeated these thousand years–
Let us learn from them, and move forward again.
The chronicle of evil is closed, the next chapter begins.
–The new world awaits you.