Gorden was already seated before the golden piano. With a smooth flick of his slender index finger across the keys, the piano immediately produced a string of pleasant notes.
Gorden could not help but smile.
"You truly love music, Mr. Tesoro. Ordinary people could never make a piano like this out of gold."
He turned to look at Tesoro, who was adjusting his collar.
Tesoro turned back as well and smiled. "Für Elise. That's fine, right?"
"Of course."
King Gorden nodded with a smile.
Für Elise was a very famous love song throughout the world, roughly equivalent to Binks' Sake in the pirate world. Anyone with even a slight love for music would know it.
As the former king of the Elegia Kingdom and one of the country's foremost musicians, there was naturally no reason Gorden would not know how to play it.
Tesoro cleared his throat, while Gorden's hands were already resting on the keys.
The music was about to rise melodiously.
But at that moment, Bright's expression suddenly changed. He turned to look behind the stage, where the theater's backstage area lay.
Almost at the same instant.
"Bzzzt!!"
Strange music suddenly arose, echoing through the sky in an instant.
As the music began, ominous purple mist spread into the air from behind the stage.
"Th-this is!!"
Gorden froze for a moment. Then, in the next instant, the smile vanished completely from his face, replaced only by incredulous panic and helplessness.
He shot to his feet and stared upward at the purple mist gathering above the backstage area.
"Hey, hey, hey, what is this?!"
Tesoro no longer cared about his interrupted performance. His eyes widened.
The purple mist gathered, and an ominous giant gradually took shape.
"Bright, is this the unexpected situation you bastard said might happen?"
Tesoro gritted