"...All right."
Cosmo nodded and agreed.
Although special circumstances meant he had to remain in The Deepest Place for long periods, Moth to Fire would still assign him missions when needed. He could take the painting to Sakura then... But Griseo's painting had to be handled by Vill-V first and mounted in a special frame before it could be taken outside. Otherwise, Moth to Fire's higher-ups would get tense again.
Stepping forward to help Griseo remove the painting from the easel, Cosmo examined the picture in his arms.
The first thing that caught his eye was the broad expanse of deep blue, dotted with bits of white and pink. It was as though cherry blossom petals had fallen into the sea. Beneath the water was an unknown woman with wings on her back, holding a treasure in her arms and wearing a strange mask that looked somewhat like a fox's. However, the ears on either side of the mask were slender, and half the mask was shattered, revealing the woman's beautiful profile.
The woman had her eyes peacefully closed, tears quietly seeping from them, yet a smile rested on her lips. She held the shattered treasure in her arms. The wings that should have carried her soaring into the sky no longer moved, simply allowing her to sink into the depths of the sea, with only scattered pink petals falling alongside her.
"..."
Honestly, Cosmo did not really understand it. Ling had asked Griseo to paint a portrait of Sakura, but looking at it now... Griseo seemed to have added something else?
Perhaps it had been Griseo's own idea.
That was what Cosmo thought. After all, when he had studied the harmonica under Eden, he had learned a little about it. In the realm of "art," whether painting or music,