At the sight of this, Iver's eyes widened slightly.
When he saw the elven harp, the clues finally connected in Iver's mind.
"...So that's what happened."
Iver murmured under his breath.
In the original history, Yunus had never managed to contact Sherlock, so he handled the matter concerning Anastasia himself.
But clearly, he had ultimately botched it.
One piece of evidence was that when the players followed Yunus back here, they never saw Maxim and Grace. Perhaps they had left, or perhaps they had refused to open the door.
In any case, Yunus brought the players to a tree and told them the story of how he had seen the "Maiden Ghost" here. He showed them the "harp the ghost had given him," hoping they could see whether there was any ghostly reaction here. In the end, they found no traces of the undead having appeared, and what he had seen might indeed have been nothing more than an illusion or hallucination.
Thus, having failed to find an answer, Yunus played a nostalgic tune and sang a melancholy song.
After that quest ended, the players received a replica of this harp as an illusionary appearance for the main-hand weapon known as an "instrument." Just as the illusionary appearance of a melee weapon affected its attack sounds, an instrument's illusionary appearance changed the tones of its skills. The sound of this harp was exceptionally clear, like cool spring water flowing.
That harp, as it appeared now, had been made using Anastasia as its material.
...Clearly, Anastasia had not liked being placed in the Fairy Kingdom by her parents.
Although that had allowed her life to continue, surviving in such a forced manner had been unbearably painful. What meaning did a childhood spent merely "staying alive" and "holding on until adulthood" have