"Grand Court Garden," "Ode to the Starry River."
These were the other two scores Uriel had recorded after "The Thirty-Two Variations of Wind."
He wrote with extreme fluency. Judging by his expression, it looked more like he was copying them out than composing an original score.
"Perhaps he really did obtain new music from his dreams?" Ms. Moon murmured.
Mr. Sun asked, "Should we hypnotize and interrogate him now?"
After giving it some thought, Ms. Moon shook her head. "There's nothing abnormal in sight yet. Let's wait."
After a pause, Ms. Moon looked at Juanjuan in her arms. "Go sense the underlying logic of these scores and see whether it has anything to do with the anomaly."
Juanjuan let out a sigh and nodded helplessly. "...All right."
It knew it. Once it had noticed that "Black Sheep Confession Song" carried the flavor of the Dream Realm, it was bound to be the one doing the work in analyzing the scores from here on out...
After all, Ms. Moon and Mr. Sun were far weaker than it in this regard.
With a light hop, Juanjuan landed on the table.
Uriel was less than a meter directly in front of it.
Yet Uriel did not notice Juanjuan. In his field of vision, the tabletop was completely empty. Clearly, Juanjuan had used a concealment technique.
Then again, even if Juanjuan abandoned its concealment, with how intently Uriel was focused on the score, he probably still would not notice it.
Juanjuan stretched out a black cat paw shaped like a plum blossom and placed it on the score for "The Thirty-Two Variations of Wind."
Then it slowly closed its eyes.
A minute later, it opened them. Not because its investigation was over, but because it had been startled awake by a burst of piano