"In an unknown land far away, beneath endless blue skies and not a cloud in sight."
"Everything began with that insignificant childhood dream."
"Dream a dream of freedom, and ride this wind—the sky is waiting for me!"
Before Linsey, Wala Wala sang at the top of her lungs.
He saw the girl hold the Poetry Lyre in her left hand while plucking its strings with her right.
Though it was her first time using the instrument, she mastered it at an astonishing speed, progressing from two clumsy opening notes to a flowing melody.
In less than a breath, Wala Wala had become completely at ease with the instrument.
Then she closed her eyes.
The girl poured every emotion into her song. Even Linsey, standing so close by, could not sense the slightest fluctuation of source essence.
"Ridiculous!"
"Meaningless resistance!"
The charging residents of the City of Law were right upon them, lunging toward the pair.
But Wala Wala showed no reaction at all.
She sang a soaring, impassioned song filled with emotion, and the stirring waves of sound immediately burst outward in every direction!
Rumble—
In an instant, lightning flashed and thunder roared through the sky.
Storm's Breath transformed the power within the music into a sweeping downpour, shrouding the entire city beneath a curtain of rain in an instant!
"Hm?"
Linsey, whom the rain deliberately avoided, twitched his ear.
The weather brought by this deep-blue Poetry Lyre was no mere natural phenomenon.
Every thunderclap and every raindrop echoed the girl's song, playing its passionate melody throughout the city!
Rumble—
Blinding lightning tore through the city, illuminating the faces of the charging residents.
Girls, mothers, shopkeepers, old men... everyone froze in place as though someone had pressed pause.
Yet the expressions shifting across their faces were richer than before.
Rage,