Ten minutes later.
Luigi finished playing.
Another three minutes passed before Angel and Laplace, outside the Instance, gradually emerged from the music's spell.
Such heavenly music left my ears ringing with wonder!
That was the first thought that came to Angel when he came back to himself.
He could not find the words to describe the piece he had just heard. Every turn of phrase seemed inadequate before music so beautiful.
The five minutes its echoes lingered afterward were proof enough of its power.
"Luigi's improved... this much?" Laplace asked.
Even Laplace was astonished. This piece was unlike anything Luigi had played before. It seemed to carry its listeners into Greenwild, into a realm of enchantment.
It was music from heaven itself.
Luigi had always been a skilled performer, but Laplace had long since grown tired of hearing him play.
Today, though, he had shaken Laplace with his music once again.
Angel pondered for a long time. Only when the lingering notes at his ears slowly faded did he speak. "...Perhaps it isn't Luigi's skill that improved."
"Perhaps it's the harp."
Angel believed in sudden breakthroughs, and he believed Luigi could grow as a performer. But improvement this dramatic, as though he had shot up on a rocket, was plainly suspicious.
Unless something unexpected was at play, the answer was the harp he had obtained from the easter egg quest.
Laplace also turned toward the emerald-green harp in Luigi's hands on the holographic broadcast.
"Luigi mentioned this harp before," Laplace said. "I think it was called... Wind's Grace, Flower's Language?"
Angel nodded. "That's right. This Wonderland item has two attached skills: Wind's Language and Flower's Language."
"Put simply, Wind's Language lets the wind carry music farther away."
"But it seems Wind's Language has another, hidden effect."
Angel said this because